Digital Editing: Medieval Mary Magdalene

The Exploring Medieval Mary Magdalene project is an online collection of digital editions containing the legend of Mary Magdalene’s conversion. The project began as the focus of a year-long graduate student seminar held in Harvard’s German Department and conducted by Prof. Racha Kirakosian. Together, this team of philologists and digital humanists has striven to make available the linguistically diverse manuscripts containing this little-known legend in an interactive and fully-searchable format that surpasses the limitations of traditional printed critical editions.

I was the primary technical contact for the project; I developed the custom manuscript viewer, customized and developed the TEI editing platform, created the Wordpress site, and maintain the IIIF / website infrastructure. The project is migrating with Dr. Kirakosian to Freiburg in 2021.