This document summarizes data on gender representation among editors of scholarly editions from 1860-2016. It finds that 84% of all editors were men, while only 16% were women. For individual publishing organizations, the Early English Text Society had 273 male editors and 91 female, Oxford editions had 1024 male and 191 female, and MLA seal editions had 697 male and 121 female. The document highlights some prominent male editors to note they were typically white and from privileged educational backgrounds. It concludes that the field of textual scholarship has been dominated by white men, with few women and no black scholars represented.
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KU Leuven
15 September 2016
Peter Robinson
peter.robinson@usask.ca
@scholdigeds
13. Early English Text Society
344 editions, 273 men, 91 women
Oxford editions
880 editions, 1024 men, 191 women
MLA seal editions
402 editions, 697 men, 121 women
17. Oxford: Why the red names?
Charles Harold Herford and Percy Simpson
Peter Barker Howard May
Robert Seymour Conway and Charles Flamstead Walters
Albert Neilson Hornby
George Birkbeck Norman Hill and Lawrence F. Powell
Charles Aubrey Smith
John Percival Postgate
Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower
Leonard Cyril Martin
John William Henry Tyler Douglas
18. Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors
Editor of Vergil, Bede, Catullus etc
Education: Summerfields (Oxford), Eton, Oxford
Married daughter of the headmaster of Eton
Brother: deputy governor of the Bank of England
Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge; Corpus Christi Professor of
Latin, Oxford
19. MLA: Why the red names?
William Charvat, Claude M. Simpson, Roy Harvey Pearce, and Thomas
Woodson
Lawrence H. Summers
Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle
Neil L. Rudenstine
Norman Hostetler and Robert Bergstrom
Nathan Marsh Pusey
Albert J. von Frank
James Bryant Conant
John K. Moore, Jr.
Charles William Eliot
Greg W. Zacharias and Pierre A. Walker
Mark L. Kamrath