{"id":16389,"date":"2025-04-11T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:27:37","slug":"eleni-sikelianos-budp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/eleni-sikelianos-budp\/","title":{"rendered":"New Project with Eleni Sikelianos Selected for Brown University Digital Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next scholarly work to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Eleni Sikelianos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Rehearsal Is at Dawn<\/em> by Professor of Literary Arts Eleni Sikelianos is a multivalent, multimodal ancestral encounter that reaches into realms of Sapphic translation, activism, performance of antiquity, queer histories, and utopian politics. In 1901, Sikelianos\u2019s great grandmother, Eva Palmer, moved from New York to Paris with her lover, the writer, instigator, and socialite Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances that reimagined Sappho\u2019s work and life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They and their circle of friends saw in the ancient past the possibility for sexual and artistic emancipation, especially for lesbian women. Eva became obsessed with draping, first using her hair, then fabricating cloth that mimicked the dresses she saw on ancient pottery, performing the past on her own body. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The second Delphic Festival, Greece, 1930. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In her second act, Eva moved to Greece and, with the poet Angelos Sikelianos, staged two boundary-shattering festivals in 1927 and 1930 \u2014 site-specific installations that revived the Delphic theater and changed the shape of Modern Greek culture. At the juncture between two world wars, the couple believed that the Delphic Idea would bring nations and people together, with artistic practices providing the tools to resist not only mechanized economies but, later, fascism. Their activities were sacred rehearsals for utopia. As a media-rich born-digital publication, Rehearsal Is at Dawn<\/em>, with its dynamic weave of artefacts, archives, and artists, entangles past, present, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown University Digital Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A collaboration between the University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation and further supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Brown University Digital Publications<\/a> creates exciting new conditions for the production and sharing of knowledge. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown\u2019s novel, university-based approach to digital content development is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enhanced Digital Works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projects that are selected by the program\u2019s Faculty Advisory Committee are developed as enhanced digital works that draw on the capabilities of the Library\u2019s Center for Digital Scholarship. These scholarly works are then submitted to leading university presses that have corresponding academic interests and the infrastructure for peer review and digital publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published Works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previously published born-digital scholarly works developed by Brown University Digital Publications are <\/p>\n\n\n\n