Information and Resources on Humanities

Voice of the Shuttle - Portal maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Features a history of the project, news and offers visitors the opportunity to participate by becoming volunteer editors.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Honorary society that recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and conducts a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs of society. Features publications in PDF format, news, events calendar, as well as lists of members and fellows.
American Council of Learned Societies - Private non-profit federation of sixty-six national scholarly organizations. Provides information on ACLS fellowships and grants in all fields of the humanities, publications, and the latest ACLS news.
Arts and Humanities Data Service - A catalogue organized to collect, preserve and promote re-use of the electronic resources which result from research in the arts and humanities.
Arts and Letters Daily - Daily report of news in art and literature. Includes reviews of new books, essays and articles.
Australian Humanities Review - Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal of the humanities published quarterly. Features full-text articles, contact details for the editorial board, as well as information for authors.
Bouzou - News and links on the arts and society.
California Council For The Humanities - Nonprofit organization devoted to strengthening communities by creating, sponsoring and promoting change.
Center for the Humanities - Supports individual teaching and research projects as well as serves as a communications resource for school programs and activities at Wesleyan University. Information on lecture series and the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.
CTI Centre for Textual Studies - Features links to resources in Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Classics, Film Studies, and Theater Arts. Also offers a calendar of events and publications. Hosted by the Humanities Computing Unit at the University of Oxford.
Emily's Page for the Humanities - A collection of annotated links to general resources. Contains sections devoted to texts online, journals and Medieval and Renaissance links.
The EServer - Serves as a broad resource for a wide variety of literature-related materials, including text archives of both prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as and other types of literature resources.
ETD - A clearing-house for information related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) hosted by Matthew Kirschenbaum of the University of Virginia Library. Directory is broken down by discipline and features links to completed and works in progress.
Event Horizon: A Journal of the Sciences and Humanities - Studies in the sciences and humanities from the Department of English at Rutgers University.
Humanities - Collections by subject--provided by Stanford University.
Humanities and Social Sciences Internet Resources - A directory of links hosted by the Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto. Features a selection of general resources, as well as links to journals and information on scholarly publishing.
Humanities Interactive - Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Center presents interactive exhibits, games, and lessons.
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities - Site features basic glossaries, quotations, and bibliographies per discipline.
Interdisciplines - A website for interdisciplinary research in the humanities. The site allows for the organization of interdisciplinary symposiums whose quality is guaranteed by an international scientific committee.
Irish Resources in the Humanities - Directory of humanities sites of Irish interest. Categories include Irish Archaeology, Architecture, Archives and Libraries, Art, Geography, History, Irish Language, Literature and Theatre.
Medical Humanities - NYU School of Medicine resources on literature, the arts and medicine.
Mental Stirrings - Portal features articles and links for philosophy, literature, religion, history and art. Offers categories devoted to education, publications, as well as museums and specialty bookstores.
Modern Humanities Research Association - Promotes advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, especially modern European languages and literatures (including English).
National Humanities Institute - Promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the humanities, with emphasis on the ethical preconditions and purposes of culture and society.
Penn Humanities Forum - University of Pennsylvania hosted program that provides a common ground for interdisciplinary exchange through cultural programs, fellowships and seminars. Features information on the program, calendar of events and links to related resources.
Photoinsight - Offers images, papers and oral histories from artists and academics. The focus is on the area of identity, ethnicity, race and cultural difference. Features essays on theory, information on the project and contact details.
The Stanford Electronic Humanities Review - Online version of the semi-annual interdisciplinary journal. Includes full contents of recent issues.
Stanford Humanities Laboratory - Cultivates new ways of producing and presenting knowledge in the humanities. Provides an overview of current research, news, staff profiles, and student opportunities.
Utah Humanities Council - Promotes lifelong learning using the humanities as a process of reflection, conversation and action. Features a description of the organization and activities. Also offers a calendar of events and contact details.
Virgin Islands Humanities Council - Nonprofit organization supporting research, education and public projects in the humanities.
Washington Commission For The Humanities - Dedicated to improving individual and community life through public programs that interpret culture and provide a forum for civic dialogue.
Wayne State University Humanities Program - Features information for current and prospective students. Provides an overview of courses offered, faculty profiles and contact information.
World-Wide Web Resources - Humanities - A catalog of annotated Internet resources maintained by the University of Kentucky Libraries. Offers sections devoted to English and American Literature, popular culture, Classical Studies, creative writing information for authors, Film, and Fine Arts.
The WWW Virtual Library: Humanities - A directory of resources maintained by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Göteborg University, Sweden. Features categories devoted to Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Religion, and academic departments, as well as general resources.

Great Book Indices

Great Books Index - Portal offering categories devoted to individual authors and titles. Also features a message board for literary criticism and discussion.
Great Books Lists - Lists of Western, Eastern, and contemporary classics, indexed by author and by period and culture.
Literature Webliography - A directory of links sponsored by the Louisiana State University Libraries. Features descriptions of holdings, related Internet sites and style guides, as well as research tips.
Top 100 Books Club - Dedicated to helping members explore literature in a structured format. Offers recommendations, reading lists and syllabi.

Literature in Art

Annamarieferguson.com - Anna-Marie Fergusun's illustrations of the works of Le Morte D'Arthur. Features interviews, reviews and a biography, as well as an image gallery.
A Tale from Decameron - J. W. Waterhouse: c.1916, oil on canvas, Lady Lever Art Gallery at Birkenhead.
Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane - 1858 John Quidor (from the National Museum of American Art)
Johnny Appleseed - William Gropper (from the national Museum of American Art)
Paul Bunyan - William Gropper (from the National Museum of American Art)
Rip Van Winkle - William Gropper (from the National Museum of American Art)

Abbey's Boston Murals - The fifteen-panel mural for the Book Delivery Room at the new Boston Public Library. The subject is "The Quest for the Holy Grail."
Arthurian images - Medieval to 20th century artistic depictions.
Arthur's Tomb - Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - CGFA
The Beguiling of Merlin - Edward Burne-Jones: 1874, oil, Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Elaine's Funeral - George Wooliscroft & Louis Rhead, from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere." New York: R. H. Russell, 1898. Black and white.
How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur - Kappes, Alfred (1850-1894) from Lanier, Sidney. The Boy's King Arthur. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. Arthur reaches eagerly for the sword in the Lake of Avalon. Black and white.
How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way - Watercolor by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
It Is Indeed the Cup - Evelyn Paul from: Claire de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances. London: G. G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1913.
King Arthur - Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (detail)1881-98. 98KB
La Belle Dame Sans Merci - J. W. Waterhouse: c.1893, Hessisches Landesmuseum at Darmstadt, Germany. 107KB
The Lady of Shallot - John William Waterhouse: c.1888, Tate Gallery at London. 166KB
The Lady of Shallot - J. W. Waterhouse: c.1894, oil on canvas, City Art Gallery at Leeds. 95KB
The Lady of Shalott - Hunt, William Holman - 1889-92 - CGFA - 179KB
Morte D'Arthur - Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) (J. Thompson, engraver)from: Tennyson, Alfred. Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. London: Edward Moxon, 1857.
The Tristan Stained Glass Windows - for Harden Grange. William Morris chose the subject, based upon Malory's Tristan retellings in Morte Darthur.
Tristram and Isolde - J. W. Waterhouse: c.1916, oil on canvas. 125KB
Vivien and Merlin - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) from: Illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Other Poems. London: Henry S. King and Company, 1875.
The Wedding of Sir Tristram - 1862, stained glass designed by Burne-Jones for the music room at Harden Grange, Bingley.
Arthur Receives Excalibur - Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) (J. Thompson engraver)(Illustration to "Morte D'Arthur") from: Tennyson, Alfred. Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. (April 11, 1999)
Arthur's Vision of the Wheel of Fortune - Albert Herter (1871-1950) from :Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. (April 11, 1999)
Alex Fantalov - 150 Mythological Pictures - Artwork inspired by mythology from many parts of Eurasia.
Myths from Central Asia and Anatolia - Can Göknil's artistic interpretation of Central Asian and Anatolian myths with Turkish and English texts. Offers essays and image galleries.
ThinkQuest: Mythology - Overview of different mythologies, from Babylonian to Norse. Also includes a quiz, bibliography, and picture citations.
Hare Krishna - Krishna Art Gallery - Hare Krishna - Art gallery of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Hindu Gods Image Gallery - made by Maulesh Trivedi
Hinduism Pictures Gallery - Featuring categorized pictures of Gods, Goddesses and devotees of Hinduism.
HinduSaktha Site - Offers images of deities of various Devi temples from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
Images of Temples and Deities - Here are a few images of some of the well-known Temples of India, commonly worshipped Hindu Deities, and some Achaaryaas

Scholarship and Technology

Early Modern Literary Studies - The January 1998 edition of Early Modern Literary Studies, available online, is devoted to Shakespeare internet scholarship.
Electronic Imprint - University of Virginia Press - Publishes digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; site contains discussions and resources for electronic scholarly projects as well as publication listings.
Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography - Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
Electronic Texts, File Formats, and Copyright - Perry Willett cites Biblical scholar's early use of electronic texts, databases, and file formats.
The English Server: Cyber Folder - Essays on the intersection between technology, culture and human nature.
Film and Television - Collection of papers re: the influence and effect media has on culture from The English Server
Flinders University - Counterpoints - Multidisciplinary postgraduate conference for postgraduate students to present their research in Humanities and Social Sciences.
From Book to Screen: A Window on Renaissance Electronic Texts - Michael Best's article on electronic editions of Renaissance texts.
H-AHC: Association for History and Computing - H-Net discussion group that exists to encourage and maintain interest in the use of computers in all types of historical studies. Features subject overview, archive, links to related lists, and subscription information.
Humanitas - Interdisciplinary journal that explores the relationships between social philosophy, epistemology and art. Features current and archived issues, as well as information for prospective authors.
Humanities Connection - A publication of the Illinois Humanities Council Central Illinois Regional Planning Committee.
Ilex Foundation - Promotes the study of humanistic traditions that derive from the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East.
Institute for the Humanities - Offering fellowships and public programs in the humanities and the arts, including art exhibitions, lecture series, conferences, and an annual Humanities Spring Seminar.
International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship - Conference focusing on the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities; 2005, University of Victoria, Canada.
The Lady of May: a Case Study in the Rhetoric of Electronic Text - Richard Bear's 1996 paper on preparing electronic texts for the internet, uses Sidney's The Lady of May as a case study
Literary Terms / Rhetorical Devices - "A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices including an Introduction and a Self Test."
The Perdita Project - Describes the Perdita Project, by Nottingham Trent University and Oxford University's Centre for Humanities Computing, to create a database guide to over 400 early modern and 17th c. manuscripts by women.
Related Readings from IATH - "In this section, we collect pointers to resources on the internet that are broadly related to the projects underway at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Univ. Of Va., or to the general topic of computing in the humanities."
Review of English Verse Drama: The Full-Text Database. - Creating a CD-ROM literature database by David L. Gants, University of Virginia.
Southwest Regional Humanities Center - Promotes and facilitates the exchange of knowledge among individuals, communities, and institutions that focus on regional humanities issues.
Teaching European Literature and Culture with Communication and Information Technologies - "The papers outline a rich range of approaches to the teaching of analytical and critical skills in literary and cultural studies." An Oxford University study.
Thomas L. Long - Humanities/Technology/Postmodernity - Paper given at the 1993 Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference. Discusses the connections between community college education, technology, and business.