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From: Ray Siemens <siemens@uvic.ca>
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:21 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Women Writers Project seeking collaborators for
Intertextual Networks grant
To: DHSI List <Institute@lists.uvic.ca>
On 2016-08-15, 5:48 AM, “Flanders, Julia” <j.flanders@northeastern.edu>
wrote:
>
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>Women Writers Project seeking collaborators for Intertextual Networks
>grant
>
>The Women Writers Project at Northeastern University is seeking
>collaborators for Intertextual Networks, a three-year, $290,000 project,
>funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/)
>and focusing on intertextuality in early women¹s writing. Starting in
>October 2016, the WWP will begin work on this collaborative research
>initiative that will examine the citation and quotation practices of the
>authors represented in Women Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize
>the representation of intertextuality.
>
>For this project, the WWP will assemble a team that includes faculty,
>graduate students, and members of the WWP staff, representing a diverse
>set of perspectives and expertise. Each member of the collaborative group
>will pursue a personal research project engaging with materials from WWO,
>to be published in Women Writers in Context
>(http://wwp.neu.edu/context/), the WWP¹s open-access publication series.
>Collaborators might develop research articles, short exhibits,
>visualizations, experimental encodings, and other explorations of
>intertextuality. We will also be developing interface tools for exploring
>intertextual connections and patterns.
>
>As part of this work, we will be undertaking a broad encoding of
>quotations and citations across the entire WWO collection, linking
>textual references to a comprehensive bibliography of sources, which we
>will make openly available at the WWO Lab (http://wwp.neu.edu/wwo/lab/).
>We will also make a deeper exploration of subtler kinds of intertextual
>reference (such as allusion and parody) in a subset of the collection, to
>reveal the many ways in which the textual space reverberates with echoes
>and referential gestures. This deeper exploration will be strongly
>informed by the research of our scholarly collaborators and the
>particular projects they undertake.
>
>For more details and to submit a proposal, see:
>http://wwp.neu.edu/research/projects/intertextuality/index.html
>
>Please circulate to interested colleagues!
>
>Best wishes and thanks, Julia
>
>Julia Flanders
>Director, Women Writers Project
>Director, Digital Scholarship Group
>Professor of Practice
>Northeastern University
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