by Dr Rachel Stenner
So, BTC’s catnap lasted a little longer than planned, and this is a tiny note to update you on what is happening in Mouseslayer’s world at the moment.
The wonderful Professor Frances Babbage and I are working on a special edition of Textual Practice, which we hope will be out later this year. Not only does it have a host of essays around the themes of ‘Animality, Performance, and Voice’, but it will publish the full performance script of Beware the Cat. The script will be accompanied by Penny McCarthy’s evocative drawings, and performance photos.
I’m delighted to say that this summer I will also start working on The Collected Literary Works of William Baldwin with Professor Scott Lucas, of the Citadel. This will be a newly edited and fully annotated modern-spelling edition of Baldwin’s works, and is planned to come out with Boydell & Brewer in 2023. We’ve been lucky with the money so far, and have received a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to fund all our lovely archive visits. Though these are a bit tricky at the moment for obvious reasons! Still, I am looking forward to getting into the nitty gritty of Baldwin’s text. This will be my first textual editing project, and it is a real privilege to work with Scott on Baldwin.
Beware the Cat 