The Present, the Past, and the Material Object

  • October 14, 2015
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 CST
  • Multipurpose Room North
  • Brenda Jervier, bjervie@luc.edu
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    The Present, the Past, and the Material Object: Digital editions and digital archives
    Reflections on how we deal with the past, especially as engaged by its material forms; buildings, art, and literary works.

    Paul Eggert is an editorial theorist, scholarly editor, and book historian. Earlier this year he moved from the University of New South Wales in Australia to the English Department at Loyola University Chicago to take up the Martin J. Svaglic Endowed Chair in Textual Studies.
    An elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1998, Eggert served as the general editor of its Academy Editions of Australian Literature (1996¿2007) and received the Centenary Medal of the Commonwealth of Australia for services to the study of literature in 2003.