Peter Shillingsburg

	Title:	Martin J. Svaglic Professor of Textual Studies
	E-mail:	pshillingsburg@luc.edu

Personal Information

Current Interests:
The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities http://ctsdh.luc.edu/

Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools https://sites.google.com/a/ctsdh.luc.edu/hrit-intranet/

Woolf's To the Lighthouse Online http://ctsdh.luc.edu/?q=research_projects/woolf-online

The Thomas Hardy Archive

Education:
Ph.D., English Literature, 1970, University of South Carolina; M.A., American Literature, 1967, University of South Carolina; B.A., Secondary Education, English, 1966, University of South Carolina

Recent Publications:

“How Literary Works Exist:  Implied, Represented, and Interpreted,” pp. 163-180, in Willard McCarty, ed., Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions.  Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010.

"The Printing, Proof-Reading, And Publishing Of Thackeray's Vanity Fair," Reprinted from Studies In Bibliography, 34, 1980, pp. 118-45  in The History of the Book in the West: 1800–1914. Edited by Stephen Colclough and Alexis Weedon. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

With Paul Eggert, Le paysage éditorial anglo-américain de 1980 à 2005, Genesis (Frenchtranslation of the introduction to the Ecdotica volume.)

Anglo-American Textual Studies Reader, Co-Edited With Paul Eggert, published as a  special issue of Ecdotica, an Italian and Spanish journal of textual studies (2010; dated 2009).

“How Literary Works Exist: Convenient Scholarly Editions,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, 3 (Summer 2009), Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future ed. Maura Ives.  http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000054.html#

Editing Lectures as Performance or Publication: Thackeray's The Four Georges", in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, Script & Print Special Issue, vol. 33, nos. 1-4, 2009 pp. 161-75. Published by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, November 2009.

“The dank cellar of electronic texts”Literary and Linguistic Computing 2008; doi: 10.1093/llc/fqn031 (2008)

"Reflections on editing and the web" Ecdotica pp. 191-95. (2008)

"Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee"  English Studies in Africa (2007) 49:2.
           
"The First Five English Editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species" Variants  5, 2007."

Books:
Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning. U Michigan Press, 1998.
           
William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2001.
           
From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Offices Held:
Modern Language Association, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Coordinator (NYC) 1976‑77; Consultant, 1977, 1997; Member, 1979‑81; 1985; 1992‑95; Chair, 1982‑84