The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cordially invites you to attend the second lecture of our 2020-2021 lecture series, which will also serve as the keynote lecture for this year's CMRS symposium, Virtual/Digital Archaeology: Places, Buildings, and Environments.
**This event, as with all the lectures in our annual series, is free and open to the public! Registration is requested.**
Abstract: MoEML’s current project, a versioned digital edition of John Stow’s Survey of London, is a textual walk through time. Stow’s Survey, inspired by The Perambulation of Kent, beats the bounds of each ward, treads each street and alley in words, and digs down through layers of history and platial change. In describing places across time, this text offers extraordinary topographical, toponymical, and prosopographical riches. While Stow’s 1603 Survey is often treated as a source of historical information about the city, the posthumous editions prepared by his literary successors are given little attention. The 1633 Survey continues the history of London, tracks changes to buildings and organizations, and adds layers of commentary to a text already temporally and historically layered. Janelle Jenstad will take MoEML’s work on the Survey as a starting point for a discussion of the ways in which digital editing, the digital geohumanities, and linked open data are revitalizing historical and literary understandings of the early modern and providing new teaching and research opportunities.
Bio: Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice with Stephen Wittek and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE.
With Mark Kaethler, she is coordinating the world’s first anthology of mayoral shows (MoMS). Recent articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, and Renaissance and Reformation. Recent chapters appear in Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); and Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota). For a full list, see janellejenstad.com.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact cmrs@osu.edu. Requests made by about 10 days before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
