The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies: Iter at 25

A collection of essays considering developing models and new research possibilities in early modern digital studies.
 
Early modern digital studies is a thriving field that draws in strands from publishing, textual studies, digital humanities, and more. Yet it is also rapidly changing. This volume shows that early modern digital studies must be reconsidered from different perspectives as new projects and tools emerge, change, or disappear, and as we make advances into better understanding the past. The chapters in this volume explore how and what we publish (digitally and otherwise), how we value, evaluate, and sustain those publications and digital projects, and how these projects enable us to ask new research questions about early modern literature and culture. This collection does not seek to be a definitive or final state-of-the-field, but rather, a celebration of existing scholarship and an invitation to further scholarship about our ever-evolving practices.
 

Laura Estill is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Dramatic Ex­tracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Chang­ing Plays. 

Raymond G. Siemens is distinguished professor of English and computer science at the University of Victoria.