Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
International Seminar   May 7-8, 2004

ABSTRACT: Hitting the Write Note: Six Memos for The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies.

Calvino suggests the cut and the headings for this paper. As in Calvino¹s Memos, the cut given may sound somewhat prescriptive (and the headings read, as they must, Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Multiplicity, Visibility, Consistency). Yet this only goes as far as the current work-in-progress of the Edinburgh Gadda Journal and the plans for its further growth and development. The conviction behind the paper is that general ideas about e-journals – e.g., shape and evolution, role in academic research and accreditation, hybridised publication formats and site-specific projects – are best put to other practitioners through a practice, or, as on this occasion, through a reflection on one¹s own practice, as the future of e-journals in humanities computing – our next millennium as it were – is, luckily, unprescribable. A persuasion Calvino could have quite agreed with.

Biographical note

Federica Pedriali is Reader of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature in the School of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include literary theory, comparative studies, translation theory and humanities computing. In 2000 she founded The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies (EJGS). As journal editor-in-chief, she has launched several major Gadda projects, such as the Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia and Supplement n + 1, Antinomie gaddiane: dissensi d¹autore. She has published extensively on 20th century Italian literature, and is the author of Altre carceri d'invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2004, forthcoming). Among her edited volumes: Montale Readings (2000), A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia (2002, 2004) and the 2003 EJGS conference proceedings, co-edited with Emilio Manzotti (2004, forthcoming). She is currently working on a new volume project titled La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino.

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