Visiting Scholars Series Public Lecture, Department of English
“Editing Willa Cather’s Letters for Digital Publication”
Professor Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska
Monday, Oct. 16, from 6–7 p.m.
Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall 111, WSU Pullman
Description
What makes a digital edition of an author’s letters different from a print one? What editorial and technical work goes on behind the scenes to produce one? And what can users of a digital edition of letters learn? Melissa Homestead will answer these questions by giving a guided tour of “The Complete Letters of Willa Cather” and explaining the principles and practices behind it.
Speaker Bio
Melissa J. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Cather Project. In addition to being co-editor of “The Complete Letters of Willa Cather,” co-director of A Digital Library of Willa Cather’s Literary Manuscripts, and author of “The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis” (Oxford University Press 2021), she has published widely on nineteenth-century American women’s writing and authorship and is co-editing “The Minister’s Wooing” for the Oxford Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
