2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Digital Studies in Early Modern Drama and Digital Outreach
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20K00449
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
DABBS T.W. 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (00263640)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Shakespeare / Digital Humanities / Open Access / Shakespeare performance / Shakespeare education / Shakespeare First Folio / Rare books / Shakespeare in Japan |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
At the core of this research proposal was the plan to host symposia with international and national scholars in digital humanities and in Shakespeare and early modern cultural in England. The pandemic forced a pivot to an online broadcast platform. Specifically, I established an open access speaker series on YouTube that hosts speakers for long-form broadcasts that focus on Shakespearean research, education, and performance. The broadcast is entitled 'Speaking of Shakespeare'. In FY 2020, 7 talks were recorded and are currently available for viewing in English with English subtitles and have received a substantial number of views. 5 of these speakers were internationally known scholars, digital directors at major libraries, or performance specialists. 2 were highly accomplished Japanese Shakespeare scholars. I published a short article, a progress report, for the 'Journal for the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities' (JJADH) as the Editor-in-Chief of this peer-review journal. This year I published an article, a peer-reviewed progress report, for the 'Journal for the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities' (JJADH) as the Editor-in-Chief of this peer-review journal. I also presented a report to the Executive Committee of the JADH during its November 2020 online conference and worked with the JJADH editorial staff to produce two volumes in digital humanities research.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The pandemic prevented me from having the international symposium promised in my grant application. However, I did introduce Shakespearean scholars and performers and digital access experts to a wide Japanese audience through Zoom video talks that were published on a dedicated YouTube channel. Links to these videos were distributed to the general public on social media and also directly through email lists to literary scholars and students throughout Japan and abroad. I was also able to promote the research of Japanese Shakespeare scholars to the general public in Japan and also internationally through these video talks. So far this effort has been well-received and successful.
Because I was unable to travel to conferences in Japan and abroad, I instead focused on future publication and on the editorial work required to issue 2 volumes of digital humanities research from the JJADH.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I intend to increase the rate of video talks in number and also include major figures in Shakespeare and in the Digital Humanities. The current goal is to complete 2 per month for a total of 24. I recently received the approval from the peer reviewers for the publication of an article on Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. This article will require final editing before it goes into print. It will be publish in early 2022, in a book-length collection entitled 'Spaces of Making, Spaces of Thinking' that will be issued by the prestigious Bard Graduate Center press. In a collaboration with two Japanese scholars, we are completing an article on recent adaptations of Shakespeare and Shakespearean innovations in Japan and will submit it for consideration for a forthcoming edition on cultural adaptations in East Asia. I plan to continue with a book-length project that I am doing on the 16th-century history of Paul's Cross Churchyard beside St. Paul's Cathedral and the influence of that space on Shakespearean drama. I also intend to finish and submit for publication an article on Paul's Cross for digital publication. As Editor-in-Chief of the 'Journal for the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, I will also oversee the publication of the next volume of the journal, which will be released in October, 2021.
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| Causes of Carryover |
I will need funds for the editing of online research talks that have been recorded. I will also in some cases pay an honorarium to the speaker. There may be charges for items under 50,000 yen, including software and books.
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| Remarks |
Two more similar workshops were held within Japan, the first with Igarashi Hirohisa Sensei of Toyo University and the second with Matsuyama Kyoko Sensei of Komazawa University.
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