Early Modern Marginalia Research Network (EMMRN)

The Early Modern Marginalia Research Network (EMMRN) hosts a peer-to-peer research tool designed to connect people who need photographs of pieces of marginalia with people who can take those photographs. The site also hosts a blog about marginalia and facilitates a network of researchers who use marginalia in their research. The development of the site and the tool is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The project is led by Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo), in collaboration with Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University), Leah Knight (Brock University), Cayley MacArthur (University of Waterloo), Rosalind Smith (Australia National University), and Micheline White (Carleton University), and with the support of PhD student Blaze Welling (University of Waterloo).

To use the site, you need to register. Once you have signed up, you will gain access to the site’s two main features. The first is the peer-to-peer research tool for marginalia scholarship, which we call BookMark. The second is the blog, called Signature, which features interviews with marginalia scholars (including Heather Jackson, Bill Sherman, Renske Hoff, Anne Thell, and Christoph Sander, to date) and reports about interesting bits of marginalia (by Paul Salzman, Blaze Welling, and Katherine Acheson, to date).

If you have questions or suggestions, if you have an idea for a blog post about marginalia, or if you are willing to be interviewed about your interest in marginalia studies, please let us know at [email protected].