This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers. These pioneers crafted interdisciplinary partnerships as they modeled and advocated for cooperative alliances at every level of their work and in all their academic relationships. Their extensive network of intellectual partnerships made possible groundbreaking projects, from the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940) to the deciphering of the Waberski Cipher, yet, except for their Chaucer work, their many other accomplishments have received little attention. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy not only surveys the rich range of their work but also emphasizes the transformative intellectual and pedagogical benefits of collaboration.
Marvelous Equipment: The Collaborations and Networks of Manly and
Rickert, Katherine Ellison, Illinois State University and Susan Kim, Illinois
State University.
Chapter 1 Edith Rickert and the New Woman, Sylvia Tomasch,
Hunter College and Sealy Gilles, Long Island University.
Chapter 2 Rickerts
Network of Women Editors, Molly Yarn, Cambridge University.
Chapter 3 From
Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and the
Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology, Henry Veggian, University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Chapter 4 Rich People Never Pay Their Bills:
Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and Cryptological Collaborations with the
Riverbank Laboratory, Katherine Ellison, Illinois State University.
Chapter
5 John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert: Cryptographers, John Dooley, Knox
College.
Chapter 6 Do You Like to Write? Probably Not: Epistemology,
Formalism, and Self-Expression in the Composition Pedagogy of Manly and
Rickert, Michael Matto, Adelphi University.
Chapter 7Since Significant
Contributions to Knowledge Are Not Expected in School Texts: The Manuals and
Textbooks of John Matthews Manly, Eliza R. Bailey, John A. Powell, and Edith
Rickert, Susan Kim, Illinois State University.
Chapter 8 Modernist Folk
Tales: Edith Rickerts Childrens Books, Beth Pearce, University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga.
Chapter 9 Chaucer Laboratory or Vaudeville House? Manly and
Rickerts Canterbury Tales and Their University of Chicago Assistants,
Christina Von Nolcken, University of Chicago.
Chapter 10 Deciphering
Modernist Sentences, Suzanne Bellamy, University of Sydney.
Katherine Ellison is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is author of A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals (2017) and Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (2014),and co-editor of A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers (2020) and Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Defoe (2017). Ellison has published widely on cryptology and its intersections with the humanities.
Susan M. Kim is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is co-editor of A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers (2020) and co-author of This Language, A River: A History of English (2017) and Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (2013), winner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists biennial Best Book award (2015). Kim has published widely on Old English literature and the history of English.
