New Pub Alert: “Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive” in Criticism 64.3-4

I co-authored this article with Catherine Koehler and Doran Larson, a project that began in 2021. Our collaboration grew out of our shared relationship to teaching with and editing the American Prison Writing Archive, which Doran founded and directs. Here is the link to our essay, and here is a link to the full special issue “New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text,” edited by Lisa Maruca and Kate Ozment. Myself, Catherine, and Doran were really excited to see this project published yesterday!

Slides: Stainforth Project conversation hosted by Keats-Shelley Association of America, 9 Sept. 2022, Zoom

Thank you to Kate Singer, Mariam Wassif, and the Keats-Shelley Association of America for inviting us to present in an inaugural virtual event, and to Michelle Levy for being our moderator and interlocutor. I’ve included my slides here, which is just one half of the program, as Deborah Hollis (CU-Boulder) gave a presentation following mine on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing from a collections and librarian’s research perspective. We were thrilled to have almost 60 registered attendees and a great discussion in Q&A. Helpful links: Slides: For links to many of the projects in my last slide, see https://stainforth.scu.edu/related-projects/.

SHARP 2021 talk “Moving Textual Histories: Students Editing Women’s Writing in the American Prison Writing Archive”

Leuner, SHARP 2021, talk draft Panel “Rejecting “Big Dick Data”: Data Intimacy in Large-Scale Book History Projects”, with Kate Ozment and Kandice Sharren, moderated by Michelle Levy. Moving Textual Histories: Students Editing Women’s Writing in the American Prison Writing Archive http://apw.dhinitiative.org/ Trigger warning: this talk includes discussion of imprisonment, trauma, and bodily and emotional harm suffered within the prison system. [Slide 1: Title] Authors writing in prison have made significant contributions to textual histories, but for those without publishers, digital projects that aggregate and share their stories play vital roles in advancing justice for incarcerated people and the prison abolition movement. However, personal accounts have…

New pub alert: “Locating Women’s Book History in The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing” in SEL 60.4 (Autumn 2020)

Leuner, Kirstyn J. “Locating Women’s Book History in The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 60 no. 4, 2020, p. 651-671. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/sel.2020.0026.

Developing Dartmouth’s First “Intro. to Digital Humanities” Course: Syllabi and Resources

This winter, I was selected to develop and teach Dartmouth College’s first undergraduate “Introduction to Digital Humanities” course, to be called “The Humanist in the Computer: Literature, Art, and Technology” (the course name was pre-selected). It will be offered by the Comparative Literature Department in 2016-17. I have been teaching English literature courses steeped in DH methodologies and practices since 2009, but this is my first opportunity to build and teach a DH course as such, and it will also be a milestone course for the college. I polled a number of DH colleagues on social media (Facebook and Twitter) who I know have…

The Digital Humanities for Lunch, with the Stainforth Team – 11/16, noon, M210 Norlin Library, CU-Boulder

Please join us! The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project team will be holding a brown-bag lunch on Monday, November 16th, at noon, in Norlin M210. We are a digital humanities group building an electronic edition of Francis Stainforth’s 19th-century private library–the largest private library of women’s writing in the 19th century. This is a great time to chat and ask questions about the digital humanities in general as well specifics about how this very large-scale textual digitization project is progressing. We will also discuss our progress thanks to the Innovative Seed Grant funding that we won for 2015-16. The Stainforth project…

Stainforth Project Introductory Presentation, Neukom Institute Event, 20 October 2014

[Reblogged from http://libpress.colorado.edu/stainforth, a short invited talk on 20 October 2014, delivered at the Hanover Inn, Dartmouth College, for the 2014 Neukom Institute dinner. ] My Neukom postdoctoral project here at Dartmouth creates a digital model of Francis John Stainforth’s library, which was an actual private library in London collected in the 19th century that contains only books by women who were writing poetry and plays – some of the most popular genres of the day. What makes this library special is that it was the largest library of books by women writers that we have a record of from…

Digital Crucible Presentation, Oct. 6-7 (Dartmouth College)

I recently presented a talk at the Digital Crucible conference at Dartmouth College, Oct 6-7, 2014. Here is my original abstract as a placeholder. In the near future, I will post a revised and updated version of the talk I delivered, along with my slides. I am in the process of making revisions to account from some very helpful feedback I received from conference participants. Special thanks to Amanda French, Kelli Towers Jasper, Dan Shore, Ivy Schweitzer, and Tom Luxon for your responses and questions. Original title: 19th-c. Library Catalogs & Stainforth’s Feminist Archive of Women’s Writing Abstract: My talk…

The Stainforth Database: Re-Collecting a 19th-Century Library of Women’s Writing

[Presented by invitation on the CU faculty panel, dh+CU Symposium, CU-Boulder, August 22, 2013] In his keynote this morning, Trevor Muñoz mentioned the importance of Digital Humanists working in teams. Today, I am presenting on behalf of Team Stainforth, which includes: Deborah Hollis in Special Collections, Holley Long of CU Libraries, myself in the English Department, Elizabeth Newsom with CU Libraries, and the support and enthusiasm of Special Collections colleagues Amanda Brown, Susan Guinn-Chipman, Chris Levine, Greg Robl, and past and present students who have helped us with scanning and transcribing. We really are an excited team. Specifically, we’re passionate…