Gender, Textual Scholarship, and Digital Humanities
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This document summarizes data on gender representation among editors of scholarly editions from 1860-2016. It finds that 84% of all editors were men, while only 16% were women. For individual publishing organizations, the Early English Text Society had 273 male editors and 91 female, Oxford editions had 1024 male and 191 female, and MLA seal editions had 697 male and 121 female. The document highlights some prominent male editors to note they were typically white and from privileged educational backgrounds. It concludes that the field of textual scholarship has been dominated by white men, with few women and no black scholars represented.
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Gender, Textual Scholarship, and Digital Humanities
- 1. Gender, Textual Scholarship, and Digital Humanities KU Leuven 15 September 2016 Peter Robinson peter.robinson@usask.ca @scholdigeds
- 8. The editions • Early English Text Society (1860-): 344 editions, 364 editors • Oxford editions (1880-): 880 editions, 1215 editors • MLA seal approved editions (1960-): 402 editions, 818 editors • TOTAL: 1626 editions, 2397 editors
- 10. 84% 16% Men Women Male: 1994 (84%) Women: 403 (16%)
- 11. All editions, 1860- 1994 men, 403 women
- 12. All editors, percentages by decade
- 13. Early English Text Society 344 editions, 273 men, 91 women Oxford editions 880 editions, 1024 men, 191 women MLA seal editions 402 editions, 697 men, 121 women
- 14. Early English Text Society 344 editions, 273 men, 91 women
- 15. MLA seal editions 402 editions, 697 men, 121 women
- 16. Oxford editions 880 editions, 1024 men, 191 women
- 17. Oxford: Why the red names? Charles Harold Herford and Percy Simpson Peter Barker Howard May Robert Seymour Conway and Charles Flamstead Walters Albert Neilson Hornby George Birkbeck Norman Hill and Lawrence F. Powell Charles Aubrey Smith John Percival Postgate Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower Leonard Cyril Martin John William Henry Tyler Douglas
- 18. Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors Editor of Vergil, Bede, Catullus etc Education: Summerfields (Oxford), Eton, Oxford Married daughter of the headmaster of Eton Brother: deputy governor of the Bank of England Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge; Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford
- 19. MLA: Why the red names? William Charvat, Claude M. Simpson, Roy Harvey Pearce, and Thomas Woodson Lawrence H. Summers Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle Neil L. Rudenstine Norman Hostetler and Robert Bergstrom Nathan Marsh Pusey Albert J. von Frank James Bryant Conant John K. Moore, Jr. Charles William Eliot Greg W. Zacharias and Pierre A. Walker Mark L. Kamrath
- 21. 1991, New York
- 23. David Greetham, Textual Transgressions (1998)
- 24. Marta Werner