Propose an Anthology

Relationship Between LEMDO, Anthologies, and Editions/Editors

LEMDO’s key strategy is to focus on technology and training so that anthology projects can focus on editing plays and nurturing new editors. The LEMDO team supports anthology leads as they in turn support their editors. Taking Digital Renaissance Editions and Eleanor Lowe’s edition of An Humourous Day’s Mirth as an example, the following table sets out these roles:
Who Role
University of Victoria Digital Publisher and Host
University of Victoria ePublishing Print Publisher
LEMDO Encoding and publishing platform, created by the SSHRC-funded LEMDO Team
Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE) Anthology
Brett Greatley-Hirsch, DRE Co-Coordinating Editor Anthology Lead
Eleanor Lowe Editor of An Humourous Day’s Mirth for DRE

Before You Write a Proposal

Before you write a formal proposal, read through the page describing what LEMDO will and will not do as a publisher to support anthologies. Please book a meeting with LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad for a preliminary conversation to begin shaping your proposal. In that meeting, we will talk through the following issues:
Scope: What is the scope of your project? I.e., how many plays, how many texts of those plays, how many digital surrogates (facsimiles), how many critical paratexts and About pages?
Fit: How is your project a good fit for LEMDO, given its general mission to expand the number of teachable and performance early modern plays?
Team: Who is on your team? Have you convened editorial and/or advisory boards yet? How many editors/contributors do you anticipate having?
Technical Knowledge: How much do you and your team know about text encoding in general and about TEI in particular? Do you know how to work in the command line? Do you and your team have any web design expertise?
Release Structure: What are the logical milestones for your project? How will you divide up the work for project releases (i.e., one edition at a time, all semi-diplomatic texts in the first release)?
Timeline: When do you hope to release the first edition of your anthology? When do you hope to release the final edition of your anthology? Are there any target dates that will guide your release schedule (e.g., SAA annual meeting, tenure and promotion years)?

Write Your Proposal

Your proposal will be read by LEMDOʼs Advisory Board (to assess scholarly viability and fit), the LEMDO Group (to assess linking potential and possible overlaps with other anthologies), at least one representative from the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at UVic (to assess technical fit and resource implications), and at least one representative from UVic Libraries and/or UVic ePublishing (to assess implications for distribution and long-term archiving).
Your proposal:
Project
Indicate the title and acronym of your proposed anthology.
Describe the scope of your proposed anthology.
Explain how it supplies a gap in the field.
Explain how this project is a good fit for LEMDO.
Team
Describe your project leadership (names, institutional affiliations) and give a brief statement of your collective expertise, including expertise in TEI-XML, text encoding in general, programming, and work in digital environments.
Explain how UVic personnel are involved in this project (if any).
Resources and Cost
Estimate the number of XML files and media files your project will comprise by its endpoint.
Explain how will you intend to cover the cost of customizing your LEMDO anthology, encoding texts (if you want the LEMDO Team to do the encoding for you), adding new features to the LEMDO platform (if necessary), and paying for the release techniciansʼ time. (Confer with the LEMDO Director about potential costs.)

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Nicole Vatcher

Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.) in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs writing in the modernist period.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

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