Master classes and symposium in textual studies

19-20 March 2010
Woolley Building University of Sydney

See http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/conferences/book_logic.html

Conveners: Paul Eggert and Robert Dixon

The master classes and symposium are intended to be accessible to non-experts. Honours year and postgraduate students, as well as academics and others wishing to get up to scratch with current thinking and practice in textual studies, scholarly editing and the editing of student editions of literary works will benefit from this event.

An open meeting to discuss the state of textual studies in Australia and New Zealand, and the development and funding of electronically-based editions will also be held.

Topics covered: the editing of works from the early modern period to the present, including works of Australian literature; editorial theory, book history and print culture, editorial practice, manuscript study and online editions.

Master Class Speakers

Peter Shillingsburg, Martin J. Svaglic Professor of Textual Studies, Loyola University, Chicago

John Gouws, Emeritus Professor, North-West and Rhodes Universities, South Africa

Master Class Respondent

Paul Eggert, ARC Professorial Fellow, UNSW at ADFA

Other speakers will include: Mark Byron, Tim Dolin, Roger Osborne, Dirk van Hulle, Graham Tulloch, Margaret Sankey, Yvonne Smith, Desmond Schmidt, Simon Gatrell, Christine Alexander,Paul Salzman, Bryan Coleborne, Clive Probyn, Lawrence Warner and Dan Anlezark.