Forwarded from the Humanist list. Perry Willett University of Michigan [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- The NINES steering committee is pleased to announce a new informational website: http://www.nines.org/ NINES is a group of distinguished scholars and humanities computing experts engaged in building a "networked interface for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship." This interface is to be an online research and publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed editorial and critical work in nineteenth-century studies, both British and American. NINES aims to address the crisis in humanities publishing and to move the rethinking of literary and cultural studies -- in method as well as theory -- by establishing an institutionalized mechanism for new kinds of digital-based analytic and interpretive practices. The website (at http://www.nines.org/ ) lists scholars serving on our Romantic, Victorian, and Americanist editorial boards, describes exciting analytical and pedagogical tools under construction, and offers a reading list and full description of the NINES project. The site also contains information about our planned summer workshops in electronic editing (for which successful applicants will receive fellowship funding) and presents guidelines for potential NINES contributors. We invite conversation and participation, and hope you will join us in our grassroots effort to shape humanities publication and computer-assisted scholarship. On behalf of the NINES steering committee, Bethany Nowviskie http://www.speculativecomputing.org/~bpn2f