Writing and revision stages

Guest speakers

Elena Pierazzo (University of Grenoble 3 "Stendhal")

Elena Pierazzo is Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Grenoble 3 "Stendhal", part of the Grenoble "Alpes" COMUE. She is specialist in Italian Renaissance and text encoding, having published and presented papers at international conferences in the area of Renaissance literature, digital critical editions, text encoding theory, and Italian linguistics. Previously, she was a lecturer in Digital Humanities at King's College London and the lead analyst of a dozen research projects, including Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition, CHARM: The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, and LangScape - The Language of the Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside. She is currently the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and the TEI Manuscripts SIG, an elected member of the TEI Board, and one of the members of the MS-SIG task force that proposed a new TEI module for documentary and genetic editing.

Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp)

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp. He directs the Centre for Manuscript Genetics and was President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship from 2009 to 2013, principal investigator of the ERC project "Creative Undoing and Textual Scholarship" (CUTS), full partner of the DiXiT Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editing, and trustee of the James Joyce Foundation. He is the editor of the new Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015). With Mark Nixon, he is co-editor of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, series editor of the Cambridge UP series "Elements in Beckett Studies", and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (2004), Manuscript Genetics (2008), Samuel Beckett’s Library (with Mark Nixon; Cambridge UP, 2013), Modern Manuscripts (Bloomsbury, 2014), James Joyce's Work in Progress (Routledge, 2016), and several genetic editions in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, including the Beckett Digital Library. He (co-)authored seven volumes in the Bloomsbury "The Making of" series, including The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone meurt / Malone Dies, L’Innommable / The Unnamable, Krapp’s Last Tape / La Dernière Bande, En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot and Fin de partie / Endgame.