Following\na successful initial phase, a second grant allows the University to consolidate\nits Initiative while continuing to advance the role of digital scholarship in\nthe academy. From\nemploying interactive simulations to nonlinear reading opportunities, these publications\ndemonstrate how the digital environment is necessary for articulating and\nadvancing scholarly argument beyond the capabilities of print. With oversight from Allison Levy, Brown\u2019s Digital\nScholarship Editor, projects that are selected by the Initiative\u2019s faculty\nadvisory board are developed as digital works that draw upon the capabilities\nof the Library\u2019s Center for Digital Scholarship. These digital scholarly works are\nthen submitted to leading university presses that have corresponding academic\ninterests and the infrastructure for peer review and digital publication.
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\n\u201cWhen\nDean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin, former University Librarian Harriette\nHemmasi, and I were developing the initial proposal for Mellon, we were sailing\ninto uncharted waters,\u201d said Joukowsky Family University Librarian Joseph S.\nMeisel, co-principal investigator for the Initiative. \u201cBut the Initiative has\nsucceeded even beyond what we hoped for at the time. Mellon\u2019s commitment to\ncontinued funding to help us consolidate these early successes and make the\nInitiative sustainable is a significant recognition of what we have managed to\nachieve. Our guiding principles have been to focus on scholarly excellence and to\nput the faculty\u2019s vision for their work first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To date, five faculty\npublication projects in a range of humanities fields have been selected and are\nunder development for the Initiative\u2019s first phase, with a sixth project yet to\nbe chosen from the most recent round of proposals. The first two projects are\nnearing publication. Over the next six years, with support from the new Mellon\ngrant, the Initiative plans to add 4-5 new projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first of the Initiative\u2019s two pilot projects, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier\u2019s <\/em>Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary<\/em>, will be published by the University of Virginia Press. Co-authored by Tara Nummedal, Professor of History, and independent scholar Donna Bilak, Furnace and Fugue <\/em>revolves around a seventeenth-century German alchemical book. The second pilot project, Italian Shadows: A Journey into the New World and Other Tales of Imaginary and Forgotten Media<\/em> by Massimo Riva, Professor and Chair of Italian Studies, takes as its focus the genealogy of virtual reality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A part of the Initiative from the earliest stages, Riva expresses the significance of working on Italian Shadows<\/em> in the digital realm: \u201cMy project involves a rich and diverse set of visual and multimedia sources, as well as interactive models and simulations of historical artifacts, and could only have been conceived and implemented in a digital environment. Working with this exceptionally talented team of designers, editors, and librarians has opened new horizons to my scholarship and inspired me to explore new ways to share it with my peers, my students, and the public at large.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third project, The Sensory Monastery: Saint-Jean-des-Vignes <\/em>by Sheila Bonde, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, and Clark\nMaines, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Wesleyan, explores\nthe sensory experience of monasticism in medieval and early modern France.\nThe fourth, Islamic\nPasts and Futures: Gazing at Horizons of Time <\/em>by Shahzad Bashir, Aga\nKhan Professor of Islamic Humanities and Director of Brown\u2019s Middle East\nStudies program, rethinks the conjunction between\nIslam and temporality, spanning the centuries and regions where Islam has been a\nsignificant presence. The fifth, Nicholas Brown\nand the Roman Revolution of 1848\u20131849<\/em>,\nby David Kertzer, Paul R. Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social\nScience, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies, re-examines the politics\nof nineteenth-century Italy via a trove of recently rediscovered\ncorrespondence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Having\narrived at a model of developing long-form digital scholarship, seeing growing\ninterest in this effort on campus, and finding that leading academic publishers\nare receptive to the Initiative\u2019s projects and approach, Brown is on a path to\nfacilitating the creation and validation of new scholarly forms and helping to\nbroker their dissemination through the most suitable venues for digital\npublication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith this renewed support from The Mellon Foundation, Brown will\nbe able to continue to produce innovative digital publications that open new\npossibilities for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship by our\nfaculty that is of the highest quality,\u201d said Dean of the Faculty Kevin\nMcLaughlin, co-principal investigator for the Initiative. \u201cEach one of these\ndigital publications creates new conditions for the production and circulation\nof humanist scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With $775,000 from The Mellon Foundation, the Brown University Library, together with the Dean of the Faculty, extends its work with born-digital scholarly monographs. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University has received a $775,000 grant from The Andrew W. 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