- $218,315
Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare 2010 Institute
Recipient: Young, Robert G (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library
Goal: A four-week school teacher institute for twenty-five participants to examine Shakespeare's plays.
Description: Folger Shakespeare Library proposes Teaching Shakespeare 2010, a four-week summer institute for secondary school teachers. A group of 25 participants, working with a faculty of resident and visiting scholars, resident actors, and curriculum consultants, will undertake an intensive examination of I Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and Macbeth from the mutually illuminating perspectives of reading the texts closely, examining primary sources to reconstruct historical and cultural contexts, exploring the filmed versions and performance histories of the plays, and exploring performance possibilities. Participants will collaborate on new teaching strategies incorporating technology to be disseminated in classrooms and through the Folger website.
Grant: 197463 / ES-50295-09, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $210,000
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Recipient: Sorensen, David R (Durham, NC 27701 USA) in affiliation with Duke University (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: Preparation for print publication of volumes 37, 38, and 39 and online publication of volumes 36, 37, and 38 of the Collected Letters. (36 months)
Description: Begun in 1970, the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle is regarded by biographers, historians, critics, students, and general readers as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Thirty-six volumes have been published to date in book form by Duke University Press, and the first thirty-two volumes of the project were published in September 2007 as The Carlyle Letters Online (http://carlyleletters.org). This culmination of a nine-year effort to bring the Carlyles to the digital world has increased the global accessibility of the edition, with the online version registering an average of approximately 160,000 hits per week in thirty-five to forty different countries. With its impending aggregation into the NINES consortium, the CLO has established itself as a leader in the now essential venture of digital humanities.
Grant: 196545 / RQ-50376-09, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2009 - $200,000
Middle English Texts Series
Recipient: Peck, Russell A (Rochester, NY 14627 USA) in affiliation with University of Rochester
Goal: Preparation for publication of 12-16 volumes of medieval texts from the 13th through the 16th centuries. All texts will be made available online through the University of Rochester. (36 months)
Description: The goal of this grant is to produce, over the next three years, approximately sixteen volumes of medieval texts intended for classroom and electronic use. Most will be texts of Middle English literature, although a few will be French or Welsh texts that have strong bearing on the study of English culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Grant: 196448 / RZ-51030-09, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2009 - $124,498
The Aesthetics of British Romanticism, Then and Today
Recipient: Behrendt, Stephen C (Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 USA) in affiliation with University of Nebraska, Board of Regents (Lincoln, NE 68588-0430 USA)
Goal: A five-week college and university teacher seminar for sixteen participants to explore the relations among art, culture, class, and socio-political rhetoric through historical and modern perspectives.
Description: This 5-week Summer Seminar for College Teachers combines a common set of readings and directed discussions with individual research projects to help participants examine extra-literary social, political, economic,moral, gender and class factors involved in literary judgments in Romantic-era Britain (c. 1780-1835) that led to marginalizing or excluding women, laboring-class writers and others and sanctioning a limited and unrepresentative "canon" of writers. Reading primary works of poetry and prose along with contemporary reviews of them, participants will also consider how to revise modern aesthetic criteria in light of the broader and more representative range of Romantic-era authors that recent literary and cultural recovery projects have revealed. The seminar explores the complex relations among art, culture, class, and socio-political rhetoric through historical and modern perspectives that consider "art" as a negotiated ground among its producers, consumers and commentators.
Grant: 197349 / FS-50215-09, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $350,000
Roxburghe Ballad Archive
Recipient: Fumerton, M. Patricia (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA)
Goal: Digitizing images of 1,500 17th-century English ballads held by the British Library, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads, and incorporating them into an electronic archive.
Description: The University of California-Santa Barbara is requesting critical NEH funding to launch an important second stage of its electronic English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and mount online the Roxburghe collection of mostly 17th century ballads?all 1,500 of them. The British Library has granted UCSB unprecedented permission to add its ballad collection to EBBA. The Roxburghe Ballad Archive (RBA) will provide high-quality digital facsimiles of the ballads as well as ?facsimile transcriptions,? which preserve the ballads? original ?look,? with all their ornament, while transcribing the black-letter font into easily readable roman type. In addition, we offer deep cataloguing according to strict TEI/XML standards, song recordings, informative essays, and flexible search functions. The RBA will come close to doubling the size and value of EBBA and will open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music as well as the great collectors of the time.
Grant: 189707 / PW-50005-08, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $350,000
Picturing Shakespeare: A Digital Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Recipient: Enniss, Stephen C (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library
Goal: Creation of a searchable database and digital facsimiles for 10,000 items from the library's collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeare era images.
Description: Picturing Shakespeare is a two-year project to create a searchable, browseable, and expandable database of 10,000 high-resolution digital images of prints, drawings, and photographs relating to Shakespeare and Shakespeare's era. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds the world?s largest collection of Shakespeare-related visual resources. Humanities scholars have drawn on this collection in person for decades using a card catalog. In today?s scholarly environment, however, users require off-site access to digitial surrogates and enhanced subject indexing. Picturing Shakespeare is designed for scholars, and also for teachers using images in the classroom and general users needing a picture library. Users will be able to access the database at no charge, download low-resolution images for free, or purchase high resolution images for reproduction. Users of the advanced features will additionally be able to save search results online as personal ?portfolios.?
Grant: 189802 / PW-50100-08, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $200,000
Completion of The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Five-Volume Scholarly Edition, with Web Enhancements
Recipient: Donaldson, Sandra (Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209 USA) in affiliation with University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND 58201 USA)
Goal: Completion of a scholarly print edition of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and continued work on materials designated for electronic presentation. (36 months)
Description: We are preparing a new edition of the works of the influential Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in a scholarly edition with web enhancements. Our aim is to present EBB's works in accurate, accessible texts, annotated with information about context, composition, and publication. The last complete edition of her works was published in 1900. Moreover, we are developing TEI-encoded materials for the UND Digital Humanities Collections featuring materials by and about EBB, notably a collection of significantly revised poems and also difficult to transcribe unpublished poems and prose. When our edition is published, people will for the first time be able to read in one place accurate texts of all of EBB's literary works (we've identified more than 475 separate items). Scholars will have a reliable foundation to enable them to better analyze and interpret her works. All interested readers will thus meet a thoughtful, passionate writer who exemplifies the engaged intellectual.
Grant: 191464 / RQ-50346-08, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2008 - $200,000
A Critical Edition of John Donne's 'Songs and Sonnets' and an Expansion of the DigitalDonne Website
Recipient: Stringer, Gary (College Station, TX 77843-4227 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M University, Main Campus (College Station, TX 77843 USA)
Goal: Work on the Variorum Edition of John Donne's poetry and continued development of the DigitalDonne electronic archive. (36 months)
Description: This project represents a major phase of work on /The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne/ (Indiana UP, 1995--), an 11-vol. research tool that combines a newly edited critical text of Donne's poems with a comprehensive variorum commentary. Further development of the electronic archive DigitalDonne (http://DigitalDonne.tamu.edu <http://digitaldonne.tamu.edu/>), which supports the /Variorum/, will also be carried out under the auspices of this grant.
Grant: 191466 / RQ-50348-08, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2008 - $138,315
Shakespeare: Enacting the Text
Recipient: Reidel, Leslie (Newark, DE 19716 USA) in affiliation with University of Delaware
Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on Shakespeare and performance, to be conducted at the University of Delaware and in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Description: The seminar will focus upon the ways that literary and theatrical analysis of Shakespeare's plays can most usefully be combined. While The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet will be the primary texts studied in weeks 2-3, the first week will be spent on "Finding the Text," i.e. studying early printed versions of Shakespeare's plays, promptbooks, "subtext," and related topics, including sources and historical backgrounds. Videotapes of productions will be shown and analyzed and the last two weeks will be held in Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K., studying Royal Shakespeare Company productions, meeting with actors and other RSC personnel as well as members of the Shakespeare Centre staff and fellows of the Shakespeare Institute. A trip to London to see performances at the Globe Theatre and a visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. will also be included in the seminar.
Grant: 191940 / FV-50181-08, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2008 - $136,830
The Decadent 1890s: English Literary Culture and the Fin de Siecle
Recipient: Bristow, Joseph E (USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)
Goal: A five-week seminar on the "decadent" literary culture of England that breaks with its Victorian antecedents, giving fifteen college and university faculty access to an extensive turn-of-the-century archive in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Description: The five-week summer seminar will bring together fifteen college-level instructors with the aim of deepening their knowledge of a comparatively brief but creatively dynamic period of literary history that bridges the Victorian and Modernist eras. The chief intellectual objective of the seminar is to show that the 1890 fin-de-siecle literary culture in England deserves serious critical attention for the ways in which it tried and succeeded in breaking with its Victorian antecedents. The seminar will take place at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, which contains not only the world's largest archive of materials related to Oscar Wilde and his fin-de-siecle circle but also extensive collections of books and manuscripts connected with different aspects of English literary history during the proverbially "Naughty" or "Yellow" 1890s. These holdings comprise a significant part of the Clark Library's principal collections.
Grant: 191925 / FS-50202-08, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2008 - $119,598
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Recipient: Enniss, Stephen C (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library
Goal: The creation of a digital archive of pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays with a prototype for an interactive interface, toolset, and enhanced functionality.
Description: The University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library propose a transatlantic digital collaboration to create the Shakespeare Quartos Archive. The one-year project will reunite all seventy-five pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays into a single online collection with contributions from the world's leading repositories in the United Kingdom and United States. The initiative includes development of a user interface and sophisticated digital toolset with research and teaching functions. The prototype for full functionality will embrace all thirty-two pre-1641 copies of "Hamlet" held by the participating libraries and result in a technologically advanced interface facilitating close examination and comparison of these internationally significant treasures. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive will be freely available to scholars, teachers, students, and actors across the globe.
Grant: 191624 / PX-50010-08, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $200,000
Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare 2008 Institute
Recipient: Young, Robert G (Cranford, NJ 07016 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC 20003 USA)
Goal: A four-week institute for twenty-five secondary school teachers to examine Shakespeare's plays.
Description: The Folger Shakespeare Library proposes Teaching Shakespeare 2008, a four-week summer institute for secondary school teachers. A group of 25 participants, working with a faculty of resident and visiting scholars, resident actors, and curriculum consultants, will undertake an intensive examination of The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard III, and King Lear from the mutually illuminating perspectives of reading the texts closely, examining primary sources to reconstruct historical and cultural contexts, exploring the filmed versions and performance histories of the plays, and exploring performance possibilities. Participants will collaborate on new teaching strategies to be disseminated in classrooms and through the Folger website.
Grant: 187096 / ES-50190-07, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - $180,000
Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Recipient: Fraistat, Neil R (College Park, MD 20742 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Goal: Preparation of a critical edition of the poetry of British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. (36 months)
Description: We are preparing an eight-volume edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which will be the first complete critical edition of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley since the 1920s and the first edited in America since 1892. Shelley is universally acknowledged to be one of the six major poets of the English Romantic period and is regarded by many as the poet of that era whose writings are most helpful for understanding and coping with the problems of Western Society today.
Grant: 186275 / RQ-50270-07, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2007 - $175,693
W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment
Recipient: O'Shea, Edward J (Oswego, NY 13126 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Oswego (Albany, NY 12207 USA)
Goal: A four-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university teachers on William Butler Yeats' life and work, to be held in Ireland.
Description: ?W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment? proposes an NEH Institute for twenty-five college and university teachers to be held in Galway and Sligo, Ireland, in the July and August, 2008. It will convene a faculty of Yeats scholars from Ireland, the U.S. and the U.K. to consider how Yeats?s life and work can be resituated drawing on new resources available only in the last twenty years, specifically new biographies of Yeats and his family, the publication of the source documents for Yeats?s A Vision, and new editions of his poems, plays, critical and occasional writing, and letters. The Institute will make extensive use of material and cultural sites in Ireland, including the collections at the National Library of Ireland (Dublin) and a major exhibition there entitled W.B. Yeats, Works and Days. A last week at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will give participants access to diverse critical perspectives on Yeats?s work.
Grant: 187140 / EH-50137-07, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - $150,000
The Spenser Project
Recipient: Loewenstein, Joseph F (St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA) in affiliation with Washington University (St. Louis, MO 63130 USA)
Goal: Preparation, annotation, and digitization of Volumes 1 and 2 of the collected works of early modern British author Edmund Spenser. (36 months)
Description: The Spenser Project has two main components: 1) Oxford University Press will publish "The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser," prose and verse, in three volumes, re-edited from the earliest extant sources in manuscript and print; 2) the editors will construct a digital archive containing our fully edited text, which will be marked up to enable readers to examine textual features and scholarly materials in ways not possible with a print edition. The archive will also contain facsimiles of original materials, including scans of each textual variant. It will serve as a fully searchable research tool and as a teaching tool that presents a wide range of engaging possibilities to the novice user. Taken separately, either part of this project would be a substantial contribution to teaching and research in the humanities; taken together, they address the challenges of editing early modern texts and make the scarce resources of research libraries and archives available to readers everywhere.
Grant: 186298 / RQ-50293-07, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2007 - $30,000
Records of Early English Drama: Digital Innovations for Enhanced Access
Recipient: Nelson, Alan H (Berkeley, CA 94708-1930 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Goal: Development of an electronic publishing framework and supporting tools for Records of Early English Drama (REED), focusing on a pilot publication of documents on drama and secular entertainment performed between 1401 and 1642 in London's Inns of Court.
Description: Volumes in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series contain complex texts which qualify technically as data-sets. In the world of electronic publication, new means become available to access such data-sets. The proposed project will develop the framework, textual processing techniques, and editorial tools to enable single-source digital and print publication of future volumes in the REED series, beginning with the pilot collection of dramatic records for London: Inns of Court, edited by Alan H. Nelson. The code and documentation developed in this project will be made freely available for scholarly use under a standard open-source license such as the GPL.
Grant: 187393 / HD-50173-07, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2007 - $325,000
Creating the Pepys Ballad Archive
Recipient: Fumerton, M. Patricia (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA)
Goal: The completion of an online archive of all 1,857 broadside ballads collected by the English diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), accompanied by transcriptions, sung versions of the ballads, and background essays.
Grant: 179614 / PA-52089-06, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2006 - $175,000
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Recipient: Sorensen, David R (Durham, NC 27701 USA) in affiliation with Duke University (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: Publication of volumes 34-36 of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. (36 months)
Description: Begun in 1970, the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle is regarded by biographers, historians, critics, students, and general readers as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Thirty-three volumes have been published in book form by Duke University Press, and the edition continues to make a decisive impact on Victorian and nineteenth-century studies. An internet edition will be made available in 2006.
Grant: 181619 / RQ-50203-06, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2006 - $160,409
THE CANTERBURY TALES and Medieval Culture
Recipient: Patterson, Lee W (North Haven, CT 06473 USA) in affiliation with Yale University (New Haven, CT 06520 USA)
Goal: A six-week summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES and its cultural context.
Description: The application is for funding for a six-weeek seminar for school teachers, to be held at Yale University from June 26 through August 4, 2007, on The "Canterbury Tales" and Medieval Culture. Most schools teach some medieval literature, and especially Chaucer, and yet this is the area of English literature and history about which teachers generally know the least and abou which they are least secure. The seminar is designed to enable teachers to feel fully comfortable teaching both Chaucer and other medieval literary texts. The ultimate goal is to increase the teaching of medieval culture in the schools, and to bring the latest research, and especially research tools, within the grasp of school teachers so that they can expand their own range of available materials.
Grant: 182142 / FV-50101-06, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2006 - $154,912
Shakespeare: Enacting the Text
Recipient: Reidel, Leslie (Newark, DE 19716 USA) in affiliation with University of Delaware
Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on Shakespeare and performance, to be conducted at the University of Delaware and in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Description: The seminar will focus upon the ways that literary and theatrical analysis of Shakespeare’s plays can most usefully be combined. While The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet will be the primary texts studied in weeks 2-3, the first week will be spent on “Finding the Text,” i.e. studying early printed versions of Shakespeare’s plays, promptbooks, “subtext,” and related topics, including sources and historical backgrounds. Videotapes of productions will be shown and analyzed and the last two weeks will be held in Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K., studying Royal Shakespeare Company productions, meeting with actors and other RSC personnel as well as members of the Shakespeare Centre staff and fellows of the Shakespeare Institute. A trip to London to see performances at the Globe Theatre and a visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. will also be included in the seminar.
Grant: 182148 / FV-50107-06, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2006 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category British Literature; items 1-21 of 605 with a total funding of $3,798,570.