Centre for Textual Studies

Description

The Centre for Textual Studies is devoted to scholarly research in the fields of textual studies and history of the book, as well as the emerging technologies that support them.

These fields include bibliographies, textual criticism, scholarly editing, genetic criticism, computational stylistics, the sociology of bibliography and texts, and book history.

The Center undertakes research that strengthens the ties among these related fields and that draws on advanced electronic technologies for investigation and presentation.

The historical range of texts in which the Centre has expertise starts with medieval manuscripts (for example poems by Geoffrey Chaucer), continues through the early printed book period (incunabula by William Caxton, the quartos and Folios of Shakespeare) into the steam press and hot-metal periods (the 18th-20th centuries) and ends with the latest digital editions. The Centre provides technical, methodological, theoretical, practical and administrative support for projects that it undertakes. It assists researchers seeking funding for such projects and supplies instruction in technical information related to the design and implementation of electronic scholarly research sites in literary and historical disciplines.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2006

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University affiliation(s)

De Montfort University
Leicester

Partner Infrastructures

Institute for Textual Studies and Electronic Editing (ITSEE)

The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) is founded on the premise that computer methods are now fundamental to every stage of the editorial process. ITSEE uses digital too… read more about Institute for Textual Studies and Electronic Editing (ITSEE)

Birmingham

Additional Partnerships

The Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) at the University of Newcastle in Australia The Australian Scholarly Editions Centre (ASEC) at the University of New South Wales The Centre for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (CTSDH) at Loyola University in Chicago