October 1st, 2010
3:30-5:30pm
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, NE

Sponsored by:
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

A panel moderated by Kay Walter featuring the nationally recognized speakers below:

Dr. Fotis Jannidis

Dr. Jannidis is Professor of German Literature and Literary Computing at the University of Würzburg. His areas of expertise include literary theory, narratology, and digital editions. He is co-editor of an online journal on digital humanities, Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, and co-editor of a bilingual journal on literary theory, Journal of Literary Theory. At the moment he is involved in the TextGrid project (http://www.textgrid.de) and a new edition of Goethe's Faust.

Dr. Stefan Tanaka

Stefan Tanaka is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. This year he is the Terauchi Chair in US-Japan Relations at UCLA. He began as a specialist on the history of modern Japan and is author of New Times in Modern Japan (2004), an examination of the social constitution of time in Meiji (1868-1912) Japan, and of Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (1993). This work on history, writing, and nation has led him to issues of narratives, relation of past and present, and digital media. His current work inquires into whether the past is changing and how those pasts are being used in the new medias.

Dr. Amanda Gailey

Amanda Gailey is Assistant Professor of English at UNL and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. She specializes in digital editing and nineteenth-century American literature. Currently she is creating an archive of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature that explores how materials marketed to juvenile audiences shaped notions of racial difference. Her publications include articles on digital editorial theory and editing Whitman and Dickinson.