Virginia's McGann to address digital scholarship and publishing March 3

Jerome McGann, the John Stewart Bryan university professor at the University of Virginia, will deliver this year's Knoll Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

McGann will present "Culture and Technology: The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done," at 7:30 p.m. on March 3 at the Bailey Library, 229 Andrews Hall, 14th and T streets (extended) on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The talk will address digital scholarship and the future of publishing. The talk is free and open to the public.

In his scholarship, McGann displays a remarkable range of talents. He has been at the forefront of developments in critical, textual, theoretical and digital work. He has written numerous books on 19th and 20th century British and American literature. Some of his recent titles include "Byron and Romanticism," "Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web," "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost," and "Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism." Some of his writings are now classics in the field. For example, his "A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism" has had a transformative impact on the field of scholarly editing.

McGann is editor of "The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive," one of the earliest and most influential examples of a digital archive. He was given the Lyman Award for distinguished work in humanities computing and an achievement award from the Mellon Foundation.

Recently, McGann has turned his attention to the crisis in scholarly publishing. He developed NINES (Networked Interface for 19th-Century Electronic Scholarship). NINES serves as a scholar's advocacy group striving to found a publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in 19th century studies, British and American.

The Knoll lecture is an annual lecture on literature in English established in honor of Robert E. Knoll, Paula and D. B. Varner professor emeritus of English at UNL.

CONTACT: Kenneth Price, Hillegass Professor, English, (402) 472-0293