arco Manuscript Workshop - Call For Proposals
“Unruly Letters & Unbound Texts"
The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
Last year's workshop focused on "textual trauma" -- instances of violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the boundaries scholars have tried to place around them, that do not fit neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading. These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric and metri- prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email to rliuzza@utk.edu.
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to present work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. More information will be available by contacting Roy Liuzza.
Workshop Resources
Contact Information
Dr. Roy M. Liuzza
Department of English
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996
Email: rliuzza@utk.edu