New Directions in Digital Textual Studies

Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Kristen Schuster (they/them) is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK.

• Introduction: This is Not a BookChristopher Ohge (University of London, UK) & Kristen Schuster (University of Southampton, UK)Section I. Methods and Case Studies1. Cataloguing the Enlightenment: Legacy Practices of Organised KnowledgeZoe Screti (University of Oxford, UK)2. Editing Authenticity in the Manuscript Text: Prefaces, Diplomatic Transcriptions, and PhotographsGeoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington, USA)3. The Printing Surface in the Age of Digital ReproductionGiles Bergel (University of Oxford, UK)4. From Bookshelves to Bytes: Navigating the Digital Transformation of Writers’ Libraries Anke Jaspers (University of Graz, Austria) & Martina Schönbächler (Independent Scholar) 5. A Graph Database Approach to Editing and Publishing Infinitely Recombinant Digital TextsMiller C. Prosser (University of Chicago, USA)6. Pragmatic Digital Editing, Data Analysis, and Creative-Critical Practices: The Case of the Anti-Slavery Anthology The Bow in the Cloud (1834)Christopher Ohge (University of London, UK)7. Extracting for Experience: Material Annotation and its Affordances in Textual StudiesMary Erica Zimmer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)8. Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth centuryPeter Webster (University of Southampton, UK)Section II. Interdisciplinary Reflections9. Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosities to Digital Story-TellingWim Van Mierlo (Loughborough University, UK)10. Folklore Archives in the Digital AgeKaroline Strittmater (Independent Scholar)11. Teaching Truman with Hypertext Methods: Project Whistlestop over Two DecadesAshney V. Randle (University of Missouri, USA), Logan F. Thompson (University of Missouri, USA), Renee M. Jones (University of Missouri, USA), & Sarah A. Buchanan (University of Missouri, USA)12. Digital Publishing Practices in Museums: Old Habits, New PlatformsEllen Charlesworth (Durham University, UK) & Claire Warwick (Durham University, UK)13. Describing New Media: Strategies and Recommendations for Teaching Structured Data in Multi-Disciplinary Humanities ContextsKristen Schuster (University of Southampton, UK)14. Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive: Artificial Intelligence as Compression AlgorithmJon Ippolito (University of Maine, USA)15. Book History for the Future: Connecting Communications MediaLeah Henrickson (University of Queensland, Australia)Afterword: On Textual Editing and Digital Scholarly CurationDirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford, UK)

In this exemplary collection, Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster issue a powerful reminder of the foundational role of textual scholarship within the study of digital technologies in the humanities. But even more importantly, they demonstrate that textual studies represents the future as well as the past of digital humanities, acting as a fruitful lingua franca between disciplines as apparently disparate as literary studies, book history, new media, museum curation, library studies, theology and data science, to open up new possibilities for researchers and curators.