Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post‐canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.
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78. A Companion to American Literary Studies
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80. A Companion to the American Novel
81. A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation
82. A Companion to George Eliot
83. A Companion to Creative Writing
84. A Companion to British Literature, 4 volumes
85. A Companion to American Gothic
86. A Companion to Translation Studies
87. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture
88. A Companion to Modernist Poetry
89. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
90. A Companion to the English Novel
91. A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
92. A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
93. A New Companion to Digital Humanities
94. A Companion to Virginia Woolf
95. A New Companion to Milton
96. A Companion to the Brontës
97. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Second Edition
98. A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
99. A Companion to Literary Theory
100. A Companion to Literary Biography
101. A New Companion to Chaucer
102. A Companion to the History of the Book, Second Edition
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Notes on Contributors
Caroline Archer‐Parré is Professor of Typography, Co‐director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University (bcu), and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. With a particular interest in Birmingham’s printing history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, she has published widely. She is a contributing author to numerous journals, a regular contributor to the trade and academic press, co‐editor of John Baskerville: Art and Industry in the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press) and the author of The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House (British Library), Tart Cards: London’s Illicit Advertising Art (Mark Batty Publisher), and Paris Underground (Mark Batty Publisher).
Rob Banham is Associate Professor in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading where he teaches design practice and the history of printing and design. He has three main research interests: the design of printed ephemera, the influence of technology on design, and the history of color printing. He also writes and speaks about contemporary design. In addition to his teaching and research, Rob works as a freelance designer, specializing in designing books and journals. From 2003 to 2017 he edited and designed The Ephemerist (journal of the Ephemera Society), and from 2001 to 2010 he was Chairman of the Friends of St. Bride Library.
Peter Barber is a graduate of Sussex University and the London School of Economics. He was a curator at the British Library from 1975 to 2015 and Head of Maps and Topography from 2001 to 2015. He is a trustee of the Hereford Mappa Mundi.
Michelle P. Brown, FSA, is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is also a visiting professor at University College London and at Baylor University and is a Lay Canon of Truro Cathedral. She was the Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library (BL). She has curated a number of major exhibitions including ones at the BL and the Smithsonian. Her books include A Guide to Western Historical Scripts, The Lindisfarne Gospels, The Luttrell Psalter, The Holkham Bible, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts, Manuscripts from the Anglo‐Saxon Age, Art of the Islands, and The Book and the Transformation of Britain, ad 550–1050
Marie‐Françoise Cachin, Professor Emerita at the Université Paris Diderot, is a specialist of British publishing history (nineteenth to twentieth centuries) and of the transnational circulation of books through translation. She was for several years in charge of a research group on book publishing in English‐speaking countries (Le livre et l’édition dans le monde anglophone). She has published numerous articles on book publishing and reading and recently a book entitled Une nation de lecteurs? La lecture en Angleterre (1815–1945) (Presses de l’enssib, 2010).
Hortensia Calvo has a PhD in Spanish from Yale University and is currently Doris Stone Director of the Latin American Library at Tulane University. She has published essays on sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century book history and Spanish‐American literature. She is co‐author, with Beatriz Colombi, of Cartas de Lysi: La mecenas de sor Juana en correspondencia inédita (Madrid: Iberoamericana‐Vervuert; Mexico: Bonilla Editores, 2015), a critical edition of unpublished correspondence (1682–1689) by María Luisa Manrique de Lara y Gonzaga, Vicereine of New Spain, and mentor of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Michael Clanchy is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is the author of From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307 (2nd edn., 1993) and Abelard: A Medieval Life (1997). He is writing a book on the role of mothers in the teaching of reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Matt Cohen is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and the co‐editor, with Jeffrey Glover, of Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). He teaches in the Department of English at the University of NebraskaLincoln and is a contributing editor at the online Walt Whitman Archive
Stephen Colclough was a lecturer in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century literature at the School of English, University of Wales, Bangor. He published widely on the
history of reading and text dissemination and was the author of Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695–1870, which was published in 2007. He was a quiet, modest, approachable man who inspired great affection in students and colleagues alike. He died long before his time in 2015.
Patricia Crain teaches in the English Department of New York University and is the author of Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth‐century America (2016) and The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter (2000).
Catherine Delano‐Smith, FSA, earned her degrees in geography from the University of Oxford, taught in the universities of Durham, Nottingham, and London, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London, and editor of Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. She is lead researcher in the Gough Map Project. Her publications on map history include essays on maps in biblical exegesis (Nicholas of Lyra, Richard of St. Victor), Maps in Bibles, 1500–1600 (Droz, 1991, with E. M. Ingram) and English Maps: A History (British Library, 1999, with Roger J. P. Kain). She has written on prehistoric maps and on map signs for The History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press, volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1987 ff).
J. S. Edgren received his PhD in Sinology from the University of Stockholm. He has worked at the Royal Library (National Library of Sweden) in Stockholm and was active in the antiquarian book trade. From 1991 to 2011, he served as editorial director of the Chinese Rare Books Project, an online international union catalogue. He teaches the History of the Book in China at the Rare Book School (University of Virginia) and as a graduate seminar at Princeton University.
A. S. G. Edwards, FSA, FEA, has taught at various universities in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom and is Honorary Professor in the School of English, University of Kent. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of The Book Collector, Florilegium, and Middle English Texts (Heidelberg) and a member of the Council of the Scottish Text Society and editor of the series British Manuscripts (Brepols).
Simon Eliot is Professor Emeritus of the History of the Book at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and was the founding director of the London Rare Books School. He was responsible for devising the web-based Reading Experience Database (RED), which collects documentary evidence of reading in the British Isles 1450–1945. He has published on quantitative book history, publishing history, history of lighting, and library history. He is general editor of the four‐volume History of Oxford University Press (2013–17). He has recently directed a project on the communication history of the Ministry of Information 1939–46.
Donna M. T. Cr. Farina is a professor in the Department of Multicultural Education at New Jersey City University. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her research focuses on dictionaries, particularly on historical lexicography. She has examined topics as diverse as censorship in a twentieth‐century Russian dictionary and the philosophy of working lexicographers. A recent publication (with co‐authors) is Objectivity, Prescription, Harmlessness, and Drudgery: Reflections of Lexicographers in Slovenia (Lexikos, vol. 28, 2018).
John Feather is Emeritus Professor in the School of Arts English and Drama at Loughborough University. He has published extensively in the field of book history for more than thirty years including many books and papers on the history of copyright. His books include A History of British Publishing (2nd edn., 2006).
David Finkelstein is a cultural historian specializing in media history, Victorian print culture, and book history studies. His most recent book was Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World (2018). Other publications include An Introduction to Book History, the co‐edited The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3, 1880–2000, and the edited essay collection Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, which was awarded the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its advancement of the understanding of the nineteenth‐century periodical press.
Aileen Fyfe is Professor in Modern History at the University of St. Andrews. Her research interests lie in the communication and popularization of the sciences. She is author of Science and Salvation (2004) and Steam‐Powered Knowledge (2012), and co‐editor of Science in the Marketplace (2007). She leads a research project on “Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: The Economic, Social and Cultural History of a Learned Journal 1665–2015.”
Maureen Green is a museum exhibition designer and independent paper historian who received her PhD from the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She is the author of Papermaking at Hayle Mill (The Janus Press, 2008) and The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill (The Legacy Press, 2018) and is a contributing author of Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth‐century Britain: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (Yale University Press, 2006) and The History of the Oxford University Press, Volume II: 1780–1896 (Oxford University Press, 2013). She has also written numerous articles for the journal Hand Papermaking on papermaking history, materials, and techniques.
Robert J. Griffin teaches English at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Wordsworth’s Pope (Cambridge, 1995) and the editor of The Faces of Anonymity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and ELH Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson (2005). A monograph on anonymity and authorship is under contract.
Robert A. Gross is Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. A social and cultural historian focusing on eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century America, he is the author of Books and Libraries in Thoreau’s Concord (1988) and The Minutemen and Their World (25th anniversary edition, 2001). With Mary Kelley, he co‐edited An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1840 (2010), volume 2 of A History of the Book in America. He served as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Rare Book School from 2008 to 2016 and is a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society. A resident of Concord, Massachusetts, he is currently completing The Transcendentalists and Their World, a social and cultural history of the community in which Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote.
Deana Heath has published widely on colonialism, censorship, and obscenity. She is the author of Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia (Cambridge, 2010). She is a Senior Lecturer in Indian and Colonial History at the University of Liverpool.
Lotte Hellinga, FBA, was Deputy Keeper at the British Library until 1995 and Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries until 2005. She co‐edited with J. B. Trapp volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999). Upon retirement, she completed the volume “England” of the Catalogue of books printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library (“BMC xi,” 2007); William Caxton and Early Printing in England (2010); Texts in Transit: From Manuscript to Proof and Print (2014); and Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade (2018).
Eric J. Holzenberg is Director of the Grolier Club of New York, America’s oldest and largest bibliophile society. A former chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ALA/ACRL and past president of the American Printing History Association, Mr. Holzenberg holds an MA in Library Science from the University of Chicago and an MA in History from Loyola University Chicago. Among other books for the Grolier Club, he is the author of The Middle Hill Press (1997) and co‐author of For Jean Grolier & his Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions & Publications, 1884–2009. His course “The Printed Book in the West Since 1800” has been taught annually at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School program since 1998, and he is also an adjunct faculty member of the Rare Books Program of the Palmer Library School of Long Island University. Mr. Holzenberg is a collector of books on architecture and design, particularly the English Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement in Europe and America.
Edmund G. C. King is a Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University, where he works on the Reading Experience Database. He is also Co‐Director of the OU’s History of Books and Reading Research Collaboration (HOBAR). His
research on the history of reading has appeared in a number of journals, including Book History and The Journal of British Studies. With Shaf Towheed, he is co‐editor of Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Peter Kornicki is Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century (1998) and co‐editor of The Female as Subject: Women and the Book in Japan (2010) and The History of the Book in East Asia (2013). He is currently completing a study of vernacularization and the book in East Asia.
Elizabeth le Roux lectures in Publishing Studies in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is co‐editor of Book History and researches the publishing history of South Africa and Africa more broadly. Her most recent work is A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa (Brill).
Beth Luey is the founding director emerita of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University and a past president of the Association for Documentary Editing and of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. She is the author of several books, including Handbook for Academic Authors and Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge. She lives on the South Coast of Massachusetts and is working on two books about historical houses and the meanings of home.
Paul Luna researches and designs complex texts and is the author of Typography: A Very Short Introduction (2018). He designed the last two editions of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and has written on the relationship between typography and lexicography, including a study of the typography of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary. He has recently co‐edited Information Design: Research and Practice and contributed to the History of Oxford University Press. Paul is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading and co‐editor of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication’s publication Typography Papers
Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor in History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (Palgrave UK, 2001) and The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c. 1860–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Russell L. Martin III is the director of the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. He had previously served as the curator of newspapers at the American Antiquarian Society and as a research assistant at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. He has published numerous essays and reviews on book collecting,
American print culture, and library history. He is currently at work on A Checklist of Texas Imprints, 1877–1900
Jean‐Yves Mollier is Professor Emeritus in contemporary history at the University of Versailles Saint‐Quentin‐en‐Yvelines. Co‐founder and former director of the Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines between 1998 and 2005, he was also Head of the Doctorate School of Humanities and Social Sciences in his university (2005–14). He has published numerous books, among which his latest titles are Edition, presse et pouvoir en France au XXe siècle (Fayard, 2008), La mise au pas des écrivains. L’impossible pari de l’abbé Bethléem au XXe siècle (Fayard, 2014), Une autre histoire de l’édition française (La fabrique éditions, 2015), and Hachette, le géant aux ailes brisées (L’Atelier, 2015).
Angus Phillips is Head of the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. He is a leading academician in the area of publishing studies and formerly worked as a trade editor at Oxford University Press. He is the author and editor of a number of books including Turning the Page (2014) and Inside Book Publishing (5th edn. 2014, with Giles Clark), both published by Routledge. He is the editor of Logos, and in 2015 he published a book with Brill of selected articles from the journal’s 25‐year history: The Cottage by the Highway and Other Essays on Publishing. With Bill Cope, he is the editor of The Future of the Book in the Digital Age (Chandos, 2006) and The Future of the Academic Journal (Chandos, 2nd edn. 2014). He is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the Book and has written two chapters for Volume IV of the History of Oxford University Press
Nicholas Pickwoad trained in bookbinding and book conservation with Roger Powell and ran his own workshop from 1977 to 1989 and has been adviser on book conservation to the National Trust since 1978. He was Chief Conservator in the Harvard University Library from 1992 to 1995 and is now project leader of the St. Catherine’s Monastery Library Project based at the University of the Arts London, where he was Director of the Ligatus Research Centre, which is dedicated to the history of bookbinding. He has written, taught, and lectured extensively on the history of bookbinding.
Elena Pierazzo is Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Grenoble Alpes and affiliated to the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours. Formerly she was lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College. She has a PhD in Italian Philology; her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital edition of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Digital Scholarly
Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (2015). She has been the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. She was the co‐chair of the Programme Committee of the DH2019 conference and the working group on digital editions of the European network NeDiMAH and was one of the scientists‐in‐chief for the ITN DiXiT.
Henry Raine is Director of Digital Projects and Library Technical Services at the New‐York Historical Society, where he has planned and overseen large‐scale cataloguing, archival processing, and digitization projects involving ephemera and other collections since 1997. He teaches a class on the management of ephemera collections at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University. He previously worked at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Library of New Zealand, and the Library of Congress. He holds an MA in the History of Design from the Cooper‐Hewitt National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design and an MS in Library Science from the Catholic University of America. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Ephemera Society of America and is a former chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Rupert Ridgewell is the Curator of Printed Music at the British Library. His research interests encompass the history of music printing and publishing, Mozart biography and reception, and musical life in eighteenth‐century Vienna.
Dagmar A. Riedel is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. She is one of the associate editors of the Encyclopaedia Iranica Her research explores how books in Arabic script contributed to the transmission of knowledge across Eurasia.
Jane Roberts is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London. Her publications include Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London, 2005; Liverpool, 2015). She is joint author of A Thesaurus of Old English with Christian Kay (London, 1995; Amsterdam, 2000) and of TOE online with Christian Kay, Flora Edmonds, and Irené Wotherspoon (2005), superseded by A Thesaurus of Old English at http://oldenglishthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/ (2015), and one of the four editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 2009).
Pamela Robinson is Reader Emerita in Paleography and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies. She is author of Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.737–1600 in Cambridge Libraries (Cambridge, 1988) and Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888–1600 in London Libraries (British Library, 2003).
Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. Her research has three main focal points: the social and political contexts of knowledge production in the cuneiform culture of ancient Iraq, five to two thousand years ago; the construction of knowledge about ancient Iraq in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East over the past two centuries; and use of open, standards‐based online resources for democratizing access to knowledge about the ancient Middle East. She has published extensively on these subjects and is on the editorial board of the journal Iraq.
Cornelia Römer studied Classics and History of Art at the Universities of Cologne and Florence. She was Head of the papyrus collection in the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Cologne until 2000, when she was appointed Reader and then Professor of Papyrology at University College London. From 2005 she was Director of the Papyrus Collection and Papyrus Museum in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Now she is a long‐term lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service at Ain Shams University, as well as freelance collaborator of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo.
Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia is Lead Curator of East European Collections at the British Library. She has published widely on early Russian literature, Russian émigré literature, and the history of the British Library Russian and Slavonic collections.
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and a founding co‐editor of the SHARP journal Book History. He is also general editor (with Shafquat Towheed) of the monograph series New Directions in Book History (Palgrave Macmillan). His books include The Edwardian Temperament 1895–1919; British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820–1965 (2 vols., with Patricia Anderson); The Revised Orwell; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor; and (most recently) Readers’ Liberation
Jae Jennifer Rossman is the Associate Director of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University. Publications related to the book arts include “The Book and the Body” in Central Booking Magazine and “The Aura of Veracity in Artists’ Books” in Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop.
Alison Rukavina is an assistant professor in English at Texas Tech University and specializes in nineteenth‐century British and colonial literature and book history. She published The Development of the International Book Trade, 1870–1895: Tangled Networks in 2010 and is working on her second book on Sam Steele’s memoir.
Emile G. L. Schrijver is General Director of the Jewish Historical Museum and the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, as well as Professor of the “History of Jewish Cultural Heritage, in particular of the Jewish Book” at the University of Amsterdam. Schrijver is also curator of the private Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books in Zurich. He served as curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam from 1986 and 2015. In 2015 he was the Sigi Feigel guest professor of Jewish Studies at the universities of Zurich and Basle. He is the executive editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures, which is scheduled to be published by Brill Publishers of Leiden in 2021, and he serves on boards and advisory committees of numerous Jewish cultural organizations in and outside the Netherlands. He is the chair of the board of the Association of European Jewish Museums.
David J. Shaw is a former president of the Bibliographical Society and writes particularly on the history of the book in France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and previously taught French at the University of Kent at Canterbury where he is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow in History.
Graham Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, having retired as Head of the British Library’s Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections in 2010. He has published widely on the history of printing and publishing in South Asia.
Claire Squires is the Director of the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her research interests include late twentieth‐ and twenty‐first‐century publishing, literary prizes, and book festivals, with her publications including Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (2007) and, with Padmini Ray Murray, “The Digital Publishing Communications Circuit” (2013). She is one of the volume editors for the forthcoming The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. She has worked as a judge for the Saltire Society Literary Awards and Publisher of the Year Award and in 2015 was the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.
Iain Stevenson was Emeritus Professor of Publishing at University College London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Before that he had been Professor of Publishing Studies at City University (now City University of London). Previously he had enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a senior executive in the publishing industry, working for Longman, Macmillan, Pinter, Wiley, and the Stationery Office. He founded the pioneering environmental
publisher Belhaven Press in 1986. He was a council member of the Publishers Association and Chair of the Academic and Professional Publishers Association. His main research interests were the history of publishing, communications history, publishing in Canada, and intellectual property. His book, Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century, was published by the British Library in 2010. Despite retirement, he was still leading a highly productive life, and still fully engaged with a wide network of friends and colleagues, when he was killed in a road traffic accident in 2017.
Peter Stokes is directeur d’études (approximately research professor) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL, where his specialism in research and teaching is digital humanities particularly as applied to paleography and codicology. Major publications include English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut, circa 990 – circa 1035 (2014) and the collaborative works DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic (2014), Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100–1250 (2017), and Exon: The Domesday Survey of South‐West England (2018).
Sarah Tyacke is a former Keeper of Public Records (Chief Executive, UK National Archives). Previously she was a Map Specialist and later Director of Special Collections in the British Library. Among other publications in map history, she has contributed to The History of Cartography, Volume 3, Cartography in the European Renaissance, edited by David Woodward (2007), and assisted with the editing of the forthcoming Volume 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment.
Adriaan van der Weel is Bohn Extraordinary Professor of Book Studies, teaching Book and Digital Media Studies at the University of Leiden. His research interests in Book Studies concentrate on the digitization of textual transmission and reading, publishing studies, and scholarly communication. He is editor of a number of book series on these subjects and editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly. His latest books are Changing our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order of Knowledge (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2011) and The Unbound Book (Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2013), a collection of essays edited jointly with Joost Kircz. He is currently writing a book about reading.
Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp and Director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics. With Mark Nixon, he is co‐director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org), series editor of the Cambridge UP series Elements in Beckett Studies, and editor‐in‐chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (2004), Modern Manuscripts (2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (2013, with Mark Nixon), The New Cambridge Companion
to Samuel Beckett (2015), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (2016), several volumes in the Making of series (Bloomsbury), and genetic editions in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, including the Beckett Digital Library.
Rietje van Vliet has a PhD in History from Leiden University and is an independent researcher. She investigates various aspects of the book trade history of the early modern age in the Netherlands. She is general editor of the Digital Encyclopedia of the Dutch Periodical Press in long eighteenth century (online since 2018). In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Dutch Menno Hertzberger Prize for her biography of the Leiden bookseller and publisher Elie Luzac (1721–1796).
James Wald is Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College, where he directs the Center for the Book. He is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Treasurer of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His research interests focus on German authorship, publishing, and literary life from the Enlightenment through World War II.
Rowan Watson was Senior Curator in the Word and Image Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he was responsible for Special Collections in the National Art Library. His catalogue of the library’s illuminated manuscripts, from the eleventh to the early twentieth century, appeared in 2011. He teaches on the MA in the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies of the University of London, and on the London Rare Books School.
Alexis Weedon is a research professor in publishing at the University of Bedfordshire and holder of the UNESCO chair in new media forms of the book. She is the author of Victorian Publishing: The Economics of Book Production for the Mass Market (Ashgate, 2003) and co‐author of Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman (Ashgate, 2014), editor of History of the Book in the West, 5 vols. (Ashgate, 2010) and was co‐editor of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies between 1993 and 2017. She is currently working on a book on the origins of transmedia storytelling for Palgrave Macmillan.
Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. He is author of “An Active Instrument for Propaganda”: American Public Libraries During World War I (1988); Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (1996); Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland (2007, with Shirley Wiegand); Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (2011); Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition (2012, with Sarah Wadsworth); and Part of our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library
(2015). With Pamela Spence Richards and Marija Dalbello, he also co‐edited A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures (2015).
Elizabeth Yale teaches book history and the history of science at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is the author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). She is currently working on a project tracing the afterlives of early modern scientific papers, including their archiving, posthumous publication, and destruction.
