Letters from Devastation is both a scholarly and a pedagogical effort. It involved a team of students in a junior-level honors seminar working collaboratively with their instructor on a project that involved a combination of theoretical, practical, and technical literacies spanning archival, textual, editorial, and historical disciplines. In line with the ethos of open and accessible resources that underwrites much of the digital humanities, the following list of course readings is provided both to better contextualize the production of the edition and to provide ideas for instructors who may be planning a similar course or student research experience. Hover over the authors and titles to link to the original sources.
Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker, "Whipping Boys Explained: Literary Annotation and Digital Humanities." In Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, edited by Kenneth Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, and Elizabeth Lorang. Published by the Modern Language Association, 2015.
Lou Burnard, What is the Text Encoding Initiative?: How to add intelligent markup to digital resources. Published by OpenEdition Press, 2014.
Camille Desenclos, "Early Modern Correspondence: A New Challenge for Digital Editions" In Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, edited by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo. Published by OpenBook Publishers, 2016.
Julia Flanders, "The Literary, the Humanistic, the Digital: Toward a Research Agenda for Digital Literary Studies." In Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, edited by Kenneth Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, and Elizabeth Lorang. Published by the Modern Language Association, 2013.
Gabriel Hankins, "Correspondence: Theory, Practice, and Horizons." In Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, edited by Kenneth Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, and Elizabeth Lorang. Published by the Modern Language Association, 2015.
Claus Huitfeldt, "Markup Technology and Textual Scholarship." In Digital Critical Editions, edited by Daniel Apollon, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier. Published by the University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Randall Jimerson, Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice. Published by the Society of American Archivists, 2009.
Matthew Kirschenbaum, "Hello Worlds." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 January 2009.
Julianne Nyhan, "It is time to address the Public Communication of DH." Digital Humanities Quarterly volume 10, number 3, 2016.
Alois Pichler and Tone Merete Bruvik, "Separating Encoding from Presentation." In Digital Critical Editions, edited by Daniel Apollon, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier. Published by the University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Patrick Sahle, "What is a Digital Scholarly Edition?" In Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, edited by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo. Published by OpenBook Publishers, 2016.
Susan Schreibman, "Digital Scholarly Editing." In Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, edited by Kenneth Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, and Elizabeth Lorang. Published by the Modern Language Association, 2013.
Peter Stadler, Marcel Illetschko, and Sabine Seifert, "Towards a Model for Encoding Correspondence in the TEI: Developing and Implementing <correspDesc>." Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative issue 9, September 2016 to December 2017.
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, "The Battle We Forgot to Fight: Should We Make a Case for Digital Editions?" In Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, edited by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo. Published by OpenBook Publishers, 2016.
William Proctor Williams and Craig Abbott, An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 4th edition. Published by the Modern Language Association, 2009.