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PEC—The Consortium of Scholarly Editions

 

The teaching faculty of IUPUI’s three resident scholarly editions and the hands-on editing experience that students will gain through study with these projects represents a significant core resource for the graduate certificate in Professional Editing. The consortium consists of:

 

• the Peirce Edition Project, responsible for preparing a chronological edition of the nineteenth century American philosopher and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce
• the Santayana Edition, responsible for a similar critical edition of the works of the philosopher and cultural critic George Santayana
• the editors of the Papers of Frederick Douglass, now completing the autobiographical series of his writings

 

The editors, teaching faculty, and technical staff of the Peirce and Santayana editions also maintain significant archival holdings and centralized documentary resources on their subject authors.

The growing need to recover the history of texts has led to several kinds of scholarly editing. Some academic editors work to recover a damaged text from decades or even centuries of publishing corruption; others work to publish and annotate a neglected manuscript that never made it to press in the author’s lifetime. In general, scholarly editing involves identifying, collecting, recovering, annotating, and presenting an author’s work in a new and reliable version. IUPUI’s Consortium of Scholarly Editions represents a unique concentration of scholarly editing in higher education; it provides most of the expertise, and, through the editing laboratories of the Peirce and Santayana editions, the core learning environment for the graduate certificate in Professional Editing.

The specialized work of scholarly editing leads the way for the technologies that corporate and government editors apply in the general editing community. Because editing is essentially a recursive activity that is integral to all stages of document production, many of the challenges facing scholarly editors of historical authors (text mark-up, archiving, and the management of documents) also concern technical and corporate editors dealing with today’s writers. Areas of concentration offered under the certificate include Technical Editing and Journalism, thus extending the academic program even further into the professional editing community.

 

 

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