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“Engaging Students and Empowering Research with the Digital NVS” Workshop at The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from Wednesday, 29 March to Saturday, 1 April 2023. Dr. Katayoun Torabi will host a workshop titled “Engaging Students and Empowering Research with the Digital NVS” at SAA on April 1st, which will feature teaching modules developed for a Shakespeare course that utilizes the NVS. These modules, which were created as part of the research needed by Dr. Anne Burdick (NVS Designer) and Dr. Bryan Tarpley (NVS Developer) to design and program the NVS, are also featured in a book chapter that Drs. Mandell, Burdick, Tarpley, and Torabi authored, titled “Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online” in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (available for purchase in hardcover and ebook formats Here). Please join us for the workshop if you are attending SAA this year! The full conference program can be accessed Here.

DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity

Katayoun Torabi will present a short paper on the front- and backend features of the Digital NVS at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, to be held in Graz, Austria from July 10th through the 14th. The annual Digital Humanities conference is the largest event of the international DH community “and unites scholars from across the globe, presenting them with a unique opportunity for the exchange of their work and ideas and the fostering of future collaborations.” This year’s conference focuses on transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration and will feature papers, roundtables, and poster sessions from around the world.

DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity

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Dr. Katayoun Torabi will present a short paper on the front- and backend features of the Digital NVS at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, to be held in Graz, Austria from July 10th through the 14th. The annual Digital Humanities conference is the largest event of the international DH community “and unites scholars from across the globe, presenting them with a unique opportunity for the exchange of their work and ideas and the fostering of future collaborations.” This year’s conference focuses on transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration and will feature papers, roundtables, and poster sessions from around the world.

Team Member Update

The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes a new student researcher to the team for this academic semester, Mounika Balivada (CS, Graduate), and welcomes back Jade Gooden (Anthropology, Undergraduate).

Lena Cowen Orlin’s The Private Life of William Shakespeare wins the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature

The Private Life of William Shakespeare, by Lena Cowen Orlin, was awarded the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. The book, which “sets a new standard for literary biography,” presents a new understanding of Shakespeare underpinned by detailed archival research into Warwickshire life and offers a rich account of everyday life in early modern Stratford. The book is available Here in hardcover and ebook formats.

Eminent Scholar Lecture: The Private Life of William Shakespeare

Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin, Professor of English at Georgetown University and NVS Board Chair, will give a talk on “The Private Life of William Shakespeare,” as part of the 2022 Eminent Scholar Lecture series hosted by The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M. Dr. Orlin is one of ten Hagler Fellows selected from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments or significant recognition. Her lecture will take place at the MSC Bethancourt Ballroom on Monday, November 7th at 4:30 pm.

Speaking with Shakespeare interviews CoDHR's Dr. Laura Mandell

Thomas Dabbs, host of “Speaking with Shakespeare,” interviews Dr. Laura Mandell, Director of Texas A&M University’s Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) and PI for the New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) project. Watch the full interview here.