The May 2017 Faculty Spotlight features Dr. Joel Davis, Professor of English, who will speak on Restoring Sidney’s Arcadia: The digital pastoral heroic imagination and the details that matter.
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2017
Time: 11:30 pm- 1:00 pm (lunch served at 11:30)
Location: duPont-Ball Library (25 L)
All are welcome!
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Restoring Sidney’s Arcadia: The digital pastoral heroic imagination and the details that matter
My partner Charlie Ross and I began our project as a straightforward digital edition of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia whose goal was to make the work — in all its complicated textual forms — more accessible and easier to study for scholars, students, and even the occasional adventurous reader. That’s still true and still worthwhile, but the project has become partly a testing-ground for technologies developed elsewhere and partly a potential model for curating and structuring data. We want humanists to be able to search and sort through and invent new ways of reading the texts of the Arcadia, but we also want the texts of the Arcadia to be a well-structured node in the vastly larger Early Modern Manuscripts Online network of digitized texts, and we want it to become an ideal dataset for training computer programs to read. “Restoring Sidney’s Arcadia” presents a progress report on the work .
Dr. Joel Davis, Professor of English, holds an Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and an M.A. from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Davis has published numerous works on Philip Sidney, “the paragon of the Elizabethan Age”. Most recently, he authored Political Theory and the Prose Works of the Tudor Sidneys, in The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700.
Faculty Spotlight Series
The Faculty Spotlight Series at Stetson University is a monthly showcase of faculty research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement to the campus community. Presenters are recipients of grant awards through the Stetson Summer Grant Program.
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