Notes from the Field

The year 2011 has been a busy one for modern periodical studies. Several noteworthy volumes of scholarship appeared (see the Reviews section), and two key conferences explored a number of dimensions of modern magazine culture: "Scientific Poetics in European Modernist and Avant-Garde Magazines of the 1900s to the 1940s," hosted in June by the Institut de recherche en langues et littératures européennes, at Mulhouse University in France, and "Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1880-1940," in September at the University of Delaware. Noëlle Cuny has contributed a note on the Mulhouse conference to this issue of JMPS. The "Mediamorphosis" conference featured approximately thirty papers on topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century print culture, with a particular focus on magazines and newspapers ranging from the Crisis and the Illustrated London News to smaller newspapers that circulated among transatlantic audiences. The conference was perhaps most remarkable for its range and interdisciplinarity, gathering art historians, media critics, and feminist scholars together with literary and cultural critics. A beautiful special exhibit from the Mark Samuel Lasner Collection entitled "Periodicals Across the Pond" was mounted in conjunction with the event and has been made available online. Since the URL is lengthy, we invite you instead to do a Web search for its title. A full report on the conference will appear in the next issue of JMPS.

The Modernist Journals Project has completed NEH-funded digital editions of six journals, which are now available on the site: The Crisis (for the years 1910-22), The Freewoman (1911-12), The New Freewoman (1913), The Egoist (1914-19), The Little Review (for the years 1914-22), and Others (1915-19). Take a look at the MJP at www.modjourn.org to see its expanding resources for modernist periodical studies. In other MJP news, Jeff Drouin, newly appointed Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the University of Tulsa, has joined the MJP as its new Associate Director.

We are also delighted to notice the arrival of two new digital initiatives in periodical studies. The first is the Pulp Magazines Project (www.pulpmags. org), which has been created by David Earle and Patrick Belk. In some ways a sister site to the MJP, this is a growing open-source archive of all-fiction magazines from the early part of the twentieth century. It features a beautiful cover gallery as well as a growing collection of sample issues available in PDF. The site is expanding rapidly and will fill a major hole in our archives of the period. The second project of note taking shape is the Modernist Versions Project (www.modernistversions.org), directed by Stephen Ross, Jentery Sayers, James Gifford, and Matthew Huculak. Although still in its infancy, this project has secured partnership agreements with the MJP, NINES, Juxta, and other projects. Eventually, it plans to create an integrated digital environment for comparing modernist texts that exist in multiple variants. The partnership with the MJP means that the magazine versions of many works will be included in this promising and innovative undertaking. Other digital projects are developing around periodical studies as well and we hope to announce more of them in the journal's next issue.

Among the events on the horizon that might be of interest to magazine scholars is the twentieth-annual SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) conference, to be held 26-29 June 2012 at Trinity College, Dublin. This year's theme is "The Battle of the Books," and the organizers welcome four-hundred-word paper proposals on any topic in the organization's purview by 30 November. More information is available at www.sharpweb.org. In addition, those interested in the digital intersection between magazines and archives might also want to consider making a trip to this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which runs from 4-8 June 2012 at the University of Victoria. Weeklong workshops on a diverse array of digital humanities topics such as visualization and text-encoding are featured, and fellowships are available. For more information visit www.dhsi.org.

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