Department of English
Material Texts
For a schedule of current events and a searchable archive of past presentations, please visit the website for the Workshop in the History of Material Texts.
The Workshop in the History of Material Texts has been meeting weekly since its founding in 1993. Participants (including faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, booksellers and anyone else interested) come from a wide range of disciplines.
All are welcome to attend; ongoing attendance is not required, and many people come only to the occasional meeting. Meetings are held on Mondays at 5:15 in the Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
If you would like to receive announcements about upcoming meetings, please sign up for our listserv using this link. More information can be found on the website.
Upcoming Events
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Shannon Mattern (Penn): "First, Remove Screws: A Cultural History of the Repair Manual"
December 4, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Juliet Fleming (NYU), “Of Grammatology as a Local Science”
January 29, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), “Making Sense of the Surviving Manuscript Depictions of Shakespeare’s Coat of Arms”
January 22, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Rachel Sagner Buurma (English, Swarthmore) and Laura Heffernan (English, University of North Florida): “The Materiality of Syllabi and the History of Literary Study”
December 11, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Jessica Linker (LITS, Bryn Mawr): “Franklin & Hall's Printing Blocks: Anti-Counterfeiting Techniques on Mid-Atlantic Colonial Paper Currency”
December 4, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
David Loewenstein (English, Penn State): “The New Oxford Edition of Paradise Lost and Early Publishing History”
November 27, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Steffi Dippold (English, Kansas State): “A Prince Went Up a Tree and Climbed into Colonial Typography”
November 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Aden Kumler (Art History, and Romance Languages & Literatures, Chicago): “Lyric vessels”
November 13, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Deven Patel (South Asian Studies, Penn) and Nachiket Chanchani (History of Art and Asian Languages and Cultures, Michigan)
“Of Spring Songs and Scrolls: Orality and Visuality in the Vasanta Vilasa”November 6, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Larry Silver (History of Art, Penn): “Size Matters: Big City Prints of the Early Modern Period”
October 30, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Joseph Farrell (Classical Studies, Penn): “Ancient and Modern Materialities”
October 23, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm