Master Classes

Seminars for Yale Graduate Students

May 2013

Beinecke Master Classes are non-credit seminars offered without fee to Yale graduate students. Under the direction of distinguished visiting scholars, these intensive seminars explore research methods and skills utilizing primary materials from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Five full-day sessions are scheduled for each class, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The classes will be conducted at the Beinecke Library. Enrollment is limited.

To apply for admission, submit a brief statement in which you describe your background (including department and year of study) and reason for interest in the class.

Email submissions should be addressed to the course coordinator noted below. Please include your phone number and e-mail address. To be assured of consideration, your statement must be received no later than April 19.

May 2013 Classes
Past Classes

May 6-10, 2013

The Physical Structure of Prints

Richard Benson

Professor, Yale School of Art

This class will study the physical makeup of prints by examining a wide variety of examples, ranging from traditional ink prints through photographs and digitally generated prints. Historical examples, created by methods no longer in use, as well as contemporary prints will be studied. The goal of the class is to familiarize the participants with print types through understanding their manufacture, to assist in the identification of prints made by different techniques. It is also the intention that the history of printmaking be seen by the students as a single centuries-old practice that has adapted itself to a wide variety of needs and methods of execution.

Richard “Chip” Benson has spent his life as a photographer, printer, and teacher. The recipient of NEH, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, Mr. Benson has photographs in many permanent collections including MoMA, the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has pioneered techniques to make fine prints of vintage and contemporary photographs, reproducing the work of Atget, Steiglitz, Strand and Friedlander among others. In The Printed Picture (2008) he traces the changing technology of making and distributing pictures from the Renaissance to the present.

The coordinator for The Physical Structure of Prints is George Miles, Curator: george.miles@yale.edu

May 13-17, 2013

Editing Middle English Manuscripts

Tony Edwards

Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury

This course will examine various aspects of Middle English editing. The primary focus will be on aspects of editorial procedure including various editorial methodologies: best text editing, recension, so-called ‘deep’ editing and the emergence of ‘social’ editing and seek to assess their validity. In addition, it will examine aspects editorial-related activity: manuscript description, transcription and the nature of annotation and commentary.

Tony Edwards is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He has held numerous fellowships, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author or editor of Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres (1984), The Complete Works of Thomas More, Volume 1: The English Poems, The Life of Pico the Last Things (1997), English Regional Manuscripts, 1200-1700 (2008), and with Julia Boffey, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005).

The coordinator for Editing Middle English Manuscripts is Ray Clemens, Curator: raymond.clemens@yale.edu

2010 - Present

DATE	CLASS	INSTRUCTOR
May 2012	Working from the Archive: Pictures as Primary Sources	Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and George Miles, Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana
May 2011	Working with Alternative Media: Documenting Counter-Culture	Johan Kugelberg, author and curator based in New York
May 2011	Approaches to Biography in the James Weldon Johnson Collection	Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA U. S. Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont
May 2010	Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing	G. Thomas Tanselle, retired from the vice presidency of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2000 - 2009

DATE	CLASS	INSTRUCTOR
May 2009	English Paleography and Archival Sources, 16th-18th Century	Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary History
January 2009	English Paleography and Archival Sources (16th-18th Century)	Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary History
May 2008	Humanistic Script in Italy	Stefano Zamponi, Professor of Latin Palaeography, Director of the "Dipartimento di Studi sul Medioevo e il Rinascimento," and Director of the School of Doctoral Studies in Philology and Textual Transmission at the University of Florence
May 2008	Pictures as Primary Sources	Martha Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College
May 2007	Late Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing	G. Thomas Tanselle, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Professor of Bibliographic Studies at Columbia University.
May 2007	English Paleography and Archival Sources (16th-18th Century)	Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary History
May 2007	The Industrial Book in America, 1830-1914	Michael Winship, Iris Howard Regents Professor II of English at the University of Texas at Austin
May 2006	Late Medieval Latin Script	Albert Derolez, Curator Emeritus of Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibiotheek Gent; Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
May 2006	Shakespeare and the Book	Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
May 2005	Late Medieval Latin Script	Albert Derolez, Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; President of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine
May 2005	Milton and the Book	Stephen B. Dobranski, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the Georgia State University
May 2004	The Italian Book and Renaissance Drama	Louise George Clubb, Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley
May 2004	Editing Debussy	Denis Herlin, CNRS in Paris
May 2004	Pictures as Primary Sources for American History	Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College
May 2004	Interpretive Acts: Theory and Practice in the Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts	Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Oxford University & Fordham University
May 2003	Composing Italian Opera	Philip Gossett, University of Chicago
May 2003	Manuscripts and Meaning: Reading the Primary Sources of Tudor and Stuart England	David Scott, History of Parliament Trust
May 2003	Maps as Historical Tools	Barbara McCorkle, former curator of the Yale University map collection
May 2003	History of the Book	John Barnard, retired Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds
March / May 2002	Reading Prints and Graphic Images, 1740-1840	Brian E. Maidment, University of Salford
March / May 2002	Pictures as Primary Sources for American History	Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College
March / May 2002	Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing	G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation
March / May 2001	Approaches to Biography	Hermione Lee, University of Oxford
March / May 2001	The Material Culture of American Photography	Peter Palmquist, David Plowden, Richard Benson
March / May 2001	Interrogating Manuscript Sources of Tudor and Stuart Britain	David Scott
March / May 2000	Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts	Adam Gacek, McGill University
March / May 2000	Late Medieval Latin Scripts	Albert Delorez, Université Libre de Bruxelles
March / May 2000	Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing	G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation
March / May 2000	Scribal Culture: Scribal Treason	Harold Love, Monash University
March / May 2000	Introduction to Greek Manuscripts	Mervin Dilts, New York University
March / May 2000	Italian Family Archives: The Spinelli Collection	Carol Bresnahan Menning, University of Toledo

Pre 2000

Date	Class	Instructor
May 10-21, 1999	Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts	Adam Gacek, McGill University
May 10-21, 1999	Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing	G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation
May 10-21, 1999	Pictures as Primary Sources for American History	Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College
May 10-21, 1999	Late Medieval Latin Scripts	Albert Delorez, université libre de Bruxelles
May 1998	Introduction to Greek Papyri	Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University
May 1998	Pictures as Primary Sources for American History	Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College
Spring 1997	Coptic Documentary Papyri	Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan & Sarah Clackson, Cambridge University
March 1994	Renaissance Italian Documents	Gino Corti

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