Textual Scholarship in the Situation

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Matt Cohen

Abstract

This essay, a version of which was presented as the 2022 Society for Textual Scholarship Presidential Address, considers the state of textual scholarship in light of converging disasters of our moment — human-induced climate change, resurgent xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, territorial warfare, violent racism, and a humanistic academy under attack from both without and within. After surveying important recent textual scholarly work in queer studies, African American literature, Native American studies, and archival studies, the essay gestures to emerging domains of theoretical and practical work on which textual scholars might draw to encourage the development of survival-oriented philology in the present.


 


 

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Presidential Address
Author Biography

Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Matt Cohen teaches English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is affiliate faculty in Native American Studies there. President of the Society for Textual Scholarship from 2021-2023, he is the author or editor of seven books, including most recently The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized  (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Cohen is also a co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and of the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive