On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Matthew K. Gold and Douglas Armato will discuss “Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project.” A reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.
Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project
How can we integrate today’s sprawling landscape of scholarly communication, stretching as it does from print monographs to ebooks to online journals to digital humanities projects to social media posts? How can scholarly communication reflect the way scholars increasingly work: collaborating on projects, sharing texts as they evolve, and creating digital archives of related resources? Focusing on such challenges, the Co-PI’s of the Mellon Foundation-funded Manifold Scholarship project will discuss the concept, development, and upcoming launch of their networked, iterative publishing platform, which seeks to “transform scholarly publications into living digital works.”
Related events on March 1:
Gold will also discuss “Digital Humanities Pedagogy” at the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. His presentation will begin at 2 p.m. and will cover the philosophy and praxis of digital teaching in the humanities and related social sciences. Please see the Sheridan Center’s website to learn more or register to attend the talk.
Additionally, Armato will discuss “How to Pitch Your Book” with graduate students at
4 p.m. in the new Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room at the Rockefeller Library. The informal and informative conversation will take place in the seminar space (Room 219) and will cover when to approach a press, what you should have for the pitch, and what you should NEVER EVER do. Space is limited, so register for the conversation today.
Matthew K. Gold
Matthew K. Gold is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he holds teaching appointments in the Ph.D. Program in English, the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, and the doctoral certificate programs in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and American Studies. He serves as Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, and Director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. He edited Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2012) and, with Lauren F. Klein (with whom he is co- editor of the Debates in the Digital Humanities book series), recently co-edited Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016.
His collaborative digital humanities projects include Manifold Scholarship, Commons In A Box, Looking for Whitman, DH Box, and Social Paper. He is Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Douglas Armato
Douglas Armato is Director of the University of Minnesota Press, where he also acquires books in philosophy, social theory, and digital media and culture. In a thirty-six year career in scholarly publishing, he has also worked at Columbia University Press, Basic Books, Louisiana State University Press, the University of Georgia Press, and the Johns Hopkins University Press. He served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses and was also that organization’s President in 2005-2006. He was also a member of the steering committees of University Press Content Consortium and the Books at JSTOR initiative. In 2005, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, he formulated the Mellon Foundation-funded Quadrant Initiative for collaborative scholarly research and publication. He is currently co-PI (with Matthew K. Gold) on a Mellon Foundation Grant to develop Manifold Scholarship, an online platform for networked, iterative scholarship. He has spoken widely on issues of scholarly communication and is often quoted in local and national media stories on scholarly publishing.
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Time: 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library; Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Sciences Library; Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room, Second Floor, Rockefeller Library