On Friday, March 13 at 4:00pm, Kim McLean-Fiander will be leading a public “Nuts and Bolts of DH” discussion on digital remediation processes remedying past archival practices that have concealed women from history. The details are below.
Finding Women in the Archives: Digital Remedying & Remediation
Kim McLean-Fiander
Abstract
Through a case study of Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO), Kim McLean-Fiander calls attention to how, in the process of re-mediation, digital projects must not miss the opportunity also to remedy the deficiencies of past archival practices that have effectively hidden women from history. The traditional definition of “remediation” is the “act or process of remedying something that is undesirable or deficient.” For media critics, “re-mediation” is the “incorporation or representation of one medium in another medium” (Bolter and Grusin). This discussion will explore the challenges and possibilities emerging from the re-mediation, in both senses of the word, of a print finding aid into a digital one.
by caitlinelizabethmullen
Bio
Kim McLean-Fiander is Co-investigator (with Professor James Daybell at The University of Plymouth) of Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO), a British Academy-funded project that will produce a freely available digital finding aid and editorial interface for women’s correspondence from the early modern period. WEMLO was conceived during her previous post as Editor of Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO), the union catalogue of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth century correspondence produced by the Cultures of Knowledge project at the University of Oxford. Kim completed her doctorate at Oxford on early modern women’s paratext. She was also an intern with the Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Senior Library Assistant at the Bodleian Libraries, and a freelance editor for a number of years. She is currently a lecturer in English at the University of Victoria and Associate Director and Managing Editor of The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML).
Time and Location
Friday, 13 March 2015
University Club
University of Victoria
4:00-5:00pm
Sponsored by the The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) and organized by Matthew Hiebert, this is the third of four entries in the Nuts and Bolts of Digital Humanities discussion series for this academic year.