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2 May 2014

MoEML at SAA in St Louis

St Louis Gateway Arch
St Louis Gateway Arch
The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) held its 42nd annual meeting in St Louis, Missouri from April 9-12th this year, and MoEML participated in a number of different ways.
MoEML Director Janelle Jenstad and Assistant Director Kim McLean-Fiander showcased the project alongside an array of other interesting digital early modern projects, including UVic’s Internet Shakespeare Editions, in the first ever SAA Digital Room.
SAA participants learn more about MoEML from
                        Janelle in the Digital Room
SAA participants learn more about MoEML from Janelle in the Digital Room
Conference participants also had the opportunity to learn about the ISE and MoEML and the interoperability between these two projects during the three-day Book Fair. We were delighted to discover just how many Shakespeareans and early modernists already use MoEML in the classroom and to learn that many of them are keen to participate in our Pedagogical Partnership when they teach their next Shakespeare class. (Thanks to all those who staffed the Book Fair table and spread the good word about both projects!)
Janelle also had the chance to talk about the place of playhouses in MoEML and about our new Gazetteer during a Saturday afternoon panel session entitled Theater and Neighborhood in Early Modern London.
It was not all work, though. Kim and Janelle managed to squeeze in an hour to ride in one of the tiny pod cars to the top of the famous St Louis Gateway Arch, where they got spectacular views of the city and the great Mississippi River.
Kim and Janelle at the top of the Gateway Arch
Kim and Janelle at the top of the Gateway Arch
St Louis Gateway Arch
St Louis Gateway Arch