Silva, Andrea

Associate Professor
English

Phone: 718-262-2486
Office Location: AC-2A09
ASilva@york.cuny.edu

Office Hours
Wednesdays	3:00pm-4:30pm (virtual)

Areas of Expertise

16th-17th Century British Literature
History of the Book
Digital Humanities

Books in Field Of Expertise

Silva, Andie. The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 260+ double-spaced.

Articles in Field Of Expertise

Inayatulla, Shereen and Andie Silva. "A conversation rewound: Queer and racialized temporalities in Hamilton." Studies in Musical Theatre. 12.2 2018: 265-273.

Silva, Andie and Shereen Inayatulla. "Who Tells Our Story: Intersectional Temporalities in Hamilton: An American Musical." Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education. 24.2 2017: 190-201.

Silva, Andie. "Corrections." Archbook: Architectures of the Book. 2017: .

Silva, Andie. "Mediated Technologies: Locating Non-Authorial Agency in Printed and Digital Texts." History of European Ideas. 42.5 2016: 607-617.

Silva, Andie. ""Counterfeit Letters and Fictional Trials: Thomas More’s Utopia as Cultural Brand.”." Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture.. 9 2016: .

Silva, Andie. "Digital Literacies and Visual Rhetoric: Scaffolding a Meme-Based Assignment Sequence for Introductory Composition Classes." Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. 2016: .

Chapters in Field Of Expertise

Silva, Andie. "Framed and clothed with variety’: Print Culture, Multimodality, and Visual Design in John Derricke’s Image of Ireland." John Derricke's Image of Ireland: Essays on Text and Contexts. 2021: 135-150.

Silva, Andie. "Remixing the Canon: Shakespeare, Popular Culture, and the Undergraduate Editor." New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies III. 2021: 257-278.

Estill, Laura and Andie Silva. "Storing and Accessing Knowledge: Digital Tools for the Study of Early Modern Drama." Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools. 2018: 131-144.

Reviews in Field Of Expertise

""Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments," in Early Modern Digital Review 3.1" 2020: 4 pgs.

""Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn," in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America" 2018: 3 pgs.

""Lukas Erne's Shakespeare and the Book Trade," in Sixteenth Century Journal XLV.4" Winter 2015: 2 pgs.

"Play Review, “Cymbeline,” Cahiers Élisabéthains 89.1" April 2016: 3 pgs.

""Tamburlaine the Great I and II, presented the Theater for a New Audience," in Early Modern Literary Studies" 2015: 5 pgs.

 

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances

" A Roundtable on Teaching Digital Book History " July 30, 2021: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

" “Editing as Remix: Encouraging Experimentation and Play with Early Modern Texts.” " April 21, 2021: Renaissance Society of America (virtual).

" "The Efficiency Curse" in Punch Out, Don’t “Lean In”: Problematizing and Rewriting CUNY’s Vexed “Diversity” Narratives (Roundtable) " March 29, 2019: CUNY Diversity Conference.

" Invited Speaker, Marketing the Margins: Early Modern Paratexts in Print and Digital Technologies " Marh 22, 2019: St. Francis Xavier University.

" Playful and Disruptive Editing of John Derricke’s Image of Ireland (1581) " March 18, 2019: Renaissance Society of America.

" Invited Speaker, The Virtual Ties that Bind Us: Early Modern Studies and Book History in the Digital Age " February 15, 2019: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

" Productive Disruptions: Using Commonplace Books to Resist Eurocentrism " May 10, 2018: International Congress on Medieval Studies.

" Digital Derricke: An Online Edition of John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581) " March 22, 2018: Renaissance Society of America.

" Making Critics: Small-Scale and Small-Budget DH as Feminist Practice " January 7, 2018: Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association.

" Using Databases in Humanities Research " June 10, 2017: Society for History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP).

" “Enfranchis’d Soules”: Religious and Emotional Capital in Early Modern Devotional Epistles.” " March 29-April 2, 2017: Renaissance Society of America.

" “Before you read this book": Visual Design and Multimodality in Early Modern Printed Books " December 8, 2016: ork College Provost Lecture Series.

" Growing Up DH: Encouraging Graduate Students to Become Digital Humanists " November 9, 2016: Digital Humanities: Public Humanities in New Media. Wayne State University.

" A Roundtable on Renaissance Studies and Digital Humanities " October 14, 2016: CUNY Graduate Center.

" “Planely and Truely Expounded": Navigational Paratexts and the Language of Mediation " July 18-22, 2015: Society for History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP).

" “Framed and clothed with variety": Narrative, Navigation, and Visual Design in John Derricke’s Image of Irelande " May 17-18, 2016: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581) and Early Modern Ireland: A Symposium.

" Back to the Future: Studying Periodization and Literature in an Early Modern Card Game " January 22, 2016: CUNY Games Festival.

" Remixing the Canon: Building Digital Editions in the Undergraduate Classroom " March 31-April 2, 2016: Renaissance Society of America.

" Cataloguing Paratexts for the Early Modern Book Trade: Digital Approaches " October 16-19, 2014: Sixteenth-Century Society Conference.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships

CUNY Book Completion Award: 2017-2018.

Travel Grant, William Stewart Travel Award: 2018 (for Renaissance Society of America, March 22-24, 2018).

Fellowship, CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program: Spring 2017.

Fellowship, CUNY Academic Commons Faculty Fellowship: Spring 2017.

Travel Grant, William Stewart Travel Award: 2016 (for Shakespeare Association of America Convention, April 2017).

PSC-CUNY Research Award: 2015-2016.

Scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI): 2013-2015;2017.

Judith Siegel Pearson Award: Academic Essay, Wayne State University: 2014.

Graduate Student Travel Grant, Shakespeare Association of America: 2014.

Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Center, Wayne State University: 2013.

Scholarship, Andrew W. Mellon Funded Residential Summer Workshop: “Reading Publics in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Europe,” University of Warwick, UK: 2012.

Grants-In-Aid

PSC-CUNY, Teaching Commonplace Books to Enhance Medieval and Renaissance Classrooms. 2021-2022: 3499.33.

PSC-CUNY, Phase II: Printed Paratexts Online. 2019-2020: 3445.99.

PSC-CUNY, Digital Pedagogy and Book History. 2017-2018: 3500.00.

PSC-CUNY, Printed Paratexts Online. 07/01/2015-07/31/2016: 3495.00.

Offices Held In Professional Societies

Associate Organization Representative between Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) and Renaissance Society of America (RSA): Fall 2016-present.

Iter Society Conference Committee: Summer 2020-present.

NYCDH Steering Committee: Fall 2016-present.

NYCDH Week Organizing Comittee: Fall 2016-present.

NYCH Graduate Student Awards Comittee: Spring 2018-present.

Other Professional Activities and Public Service

Editor in Chief, SHARP News: 2020-2026.

Facilitator, "Teaching in the Age of Covid," Renaissance Society of America Webinar: August 15, 2020.

Presenter, "Research and Collaboration in the Age of COVID," Renaissance Society of America Webinar: July 30, 2020.

Workshop Leader, "Digital Pedagogy with Scalar," Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria: June 9, 2019.

Panel Organizer, “Creative Pedagogies: Approaches to the Commonplace Book.” International Congress on Medieval Studies.: May 10, 2018.

Chair, "The Bard's Bookshelf: Shakespeare’s Engagement with Sources." Renaissance Society of America.: March 23, 2018.

Respondent, “Insecure Ephemera: Reading Lessons from Shakespeare to Twitter.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association.: January 6, 2018.

Chair, "Code and Codex, Text and Metatext: Seeing Print and Digital Entanglement," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP): June 12, 2017.

Session Organizer, “To the Reader”: Early Modern Print’s Epistolary Relationships.” Renaissance Society of America.: March 31-April 2, 2017.

Chair, “John Derrick’s Image of Ireland: Texts, Paratexts, and Contexts.” Renaissance Society of America.: March 31-April 2, 2017.

Session Leader, “Access and Inclusivity” and “Intro to DH Syllabus,” THATCamp Digital Pedagogy, University of Texas: January 4, 2016.

Trending Ideas: Strategies and Solutions for Implementing Twitter in the Classroom.” Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL): November 19, 2015.

Presenter, “Intro to Shakespeare Course with Scalar.” CUNY DHI: Building a Digital Humanities Community at The City University of New York. With Afolami Fasanya.: November 10, 2015.

Session Organizer, “Reading Publics.” Renaissance Society of America. New York, NY. March 27-29, 2014: March 27-29, 2014.