Archival Methods and Ethics for Recovering Missing Texts

Time: Sept. 26, 2018, 2:15 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.

Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Roslyn Knutson (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

Knutson's work focuses on ethical and practical aspects of recovering lost textual artifacts through archival research. Her primary research focuses the repertory of Shakespeare’s playing company with particular emphasis on Shakespeare’s lost plays. This sort of recovery work is familiar to many scholars across the humanities whose research entails creating fresh readings of existing texts, discovering new documents, and working to trace and recover the full body of work produced by an author or a people. While this sort of work is most often associated with Literature and Writing scholars, it is also frequently undertaken by scholars from Women’s and Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Ethnic Studies, and other Humanities disciplines.

Additional supporters:

• English & Textual Studies
• Medieval Renaissance Studies
• Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition

Krista Kennedy, Writing Studies