Contributors and Acknowledgments
Daniel G. Tracy
Editor
Daniel G. Tracy is an associate professor at the University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as Head, Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Scholarly Communication and Publishing Librarian. He holds a PhD in English with a specialization in twentieth-century American literature from the University of Illinois and an MS in library and information science. His current research interests include user behavior with digital publications, digital publishing workflows, and digital humanities pedagogy.
Dani Palatin
Research and Production Assistant (Primary Source Research, Digital Maps, OCR Correction, Textual Variants Tracking, Image Processing, Metadata Creation for Historical Media), and Chapter Co-author of “The Geography of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
Dani Palatin worked on this project while completing an MA in English at the University of Illinois. Their research interests include twentieth-century literature, queer studies, and fashion studies. They have taught rhetoric and composition and introduction to fiction courses, including courses on American women writers and queer literature.
Mallory E. Untch
Research and Production Assistant (Primary and Secondary Source Research, OCR Correction, Image Processing, Process Documentation)
Mallory Unch was a graduate (MS in library and information science) of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in anthropology from the University of Illinois in 2017, where she first became interested in working in the digital humanities. Working as a graduate assistant in the Scholarly Commons, Mallory worked with digital methodologies and tools that have continued to foster her interest in digital projects and the field of scholarly communication.
Meli Taylor
Research and Production Assistant (Transcription of Reviews, Citation Verification)Meli Taylor is a recent graduate from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she received her MS in library and information science. She also holds an MA in East Asian studies from McGill University and a BA in English from Kenyon College. While attending the University of Illinois, Meli worked as the technology specialist pre-professional graduate assistant at the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library and helped develop the University Library’s video game and board game collections.
Acknowledgments
Perhaps more so even in a digital project than other major research endeavors, there are many contributions that are essential even if they are not specific project roles. These might easily go on a separate acknowledgments page, but I think it is better to include acknowledgments here and admit that to be “acknowledged” is to be a contributor under a different name.Angela Waarala and her team in Digitization Services at the University of Illinois Library did the essential, foundational work of digitizing the 1925 issues of Harper’s Bazar and the Boni & Liveright first edition.
Lynne M. Thomas at the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) provided permission to use the library’s copies of the first printing of the Boni & Liveright edition for digitization. Ana Rodriguez from the RBML consulted on the selection of the copy used and facilitated the digitization.
Mary Ton provided essential feedback that improved the digital edition’s approach to the markup of variants. She, Alex Dryden, and Angela Watters continued to provide important feedback in the beta phase of the project as it prepared for final publication.
Ryan Weberling and Caitlyn Georgiou developed an approach to displaying variants in a separate digital edition being produced under the same initiative that inspired a revision of my own approach, improving its readability.
Peer review of this project was supported by ModNets, the Modernist Networks initiative supporting peer review of digital humanities projects in the field of modernist literary studies. ModNets uses a single-blind review process that includes two subject specialist reviewers and a technical reviewer. Feedback from the reviewers helped in identifying some corrections and updates prior to the final publication, and I am grateful for their time and their reading of the project.
Funding Statement: This project has been made possible by a University of Illinois Library Strategic Initiatives Program award. The funding supported the creation of this particular edition but also process documentation and technical solutions for use in future publications of the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN).
Thank you to everyone for the efforts that helped make this edition possible.