Documenting Moore

Abstract

This memoir rehearses briefly Miller’s initial interests in Moore and the development of her scholarly and editorial interests in her work, in relation to the growth of Moore studies from the early 1980s through the present. In part because of changes in textual and editorial theory, she has become convinced that the work of contributing to the cultural record through historically and critically informed textual editions—especially those making transcribed manuscripts or other fragile and unpublished materials publicly accessible on digital platforms—is crucial to the future of the Humanities. For this and other reasons, she is now devoting her focus in modernist scholarship to the direction of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (MMDA, https://moorearchive.org/).