Researching at the Folger Shakespeare Library — Last Wednesday, Jen Munroe participated in the first annual EMROC transcribathon (Early Modern Recipes Online Collective, for which she is on the Steering Committee and a founding member). The event was held in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library and took place at their site. Jen coordinated the event with the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Curator of Manuscripts, Heather Wolfe, and Paul Dingman, Project Manager for EMMO (Early Modern Manuscripts Online). A total of 89 transcribers, including some of our MA students (Taryn Dollings, Robin Kello, Kailan Sindelar, and Breanne Weber), worked on site or remotely from Berlin to California over twelve hours to transcribe the manuscript recipe book of Rebeckah Winche (1666) from the Folger’s holdings. Over the course of the day, the participants collectively finished transcribing the entire book (over 200 pages). The transcribed manuscript will be housed in the Folger’s EMMO database (which will be public access).
The EMROC transcribathon was covered by the BBC, who also interviewed Jen and the Folger’s Curator of Manuscripts about the event. Those interviews and story should be out soon. The following is a link to the blog post from the EMROC website that recaps the day and includes a wonderfully strange set of recipes transcribed by our own Breanne Weber (who, by the way, won both of the transcribathon sprints last Wednesday): http://emroc.hypotheses.org/714
Shakespeare in Action Presents… Garret Sullivan from Penn State University will deliver a presentation titled “A Pair So Famous: Memory, Sexuality, and Selfhood in Antony and Cleopatra” on Wednesday, October 14, at 4:00 pm in Fretwell 290B. Sullivan is the author of several books, including The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage, Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton.
Upcoming Events and Deadlines— Here are some dates to keep in mind:
October 16 — The English Department Meeting will take place on October 16 from 11:00 to 12:30 in Barnard 244.
October 19 — The deadline to apply for a Faculty Research Grant is October 19. For more information, click on the following link: http://research.uncc.edu/proposal-development/locating-funding
Quirky Quiz Question — The Folger Shakespeare Library was founded by Henry Clay Folger and Emily Jordan Folger. It opened in 1932 and is known today as the premier center for Shakespeare studies outside of Great Britain. In what American city is the Folger Shakespeare Library located?
Last week’s answer: Rootabaga
Carl Sandburg is most famous for his poetry and his biography of Abraham Lincoln, but he also wrote original fairy tales for children. His collection of children’s tales has the name of a vegetable in its title. What is this vegetable?