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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Tiffany Stern (Birmingham): "Clown Images in and Beyond the Early Modern Playhouse"
March 27, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Christy Pottroff (Boston College): "Postal Hackers: Reading the Earliest Letterbooks of the U.S. Postmaster General (1789–1805) for the Extraordinary"
April 3, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 10, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 11, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 13, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Jessica Linker (Northeastern): "Reimagining Women's Roles in 19th-Century American Scientific Illustration"
April 17, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Roger Chartier (Penn): "Who Died on April 23? Three Textual Connected Histories between Peru, Spain and London"
April 24, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton): "The Book Reads You: William Melvin Kelley's Typographic Imagination."
April 4, 2017 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Tiffany Stern (Oxford), "‘Playing Songs and Singing Plays: Ballads and Plays in the Time of Shakespeare"
April 3, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Zachary Lesser, "Million Dollar Xeroxes: Early Modern Bibliography between UMI and EEBO"
March 27, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages
March 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 21, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 23, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages
March 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 21, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 23, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Mary Carruthers (NYU), 2017 Rosenbach Lectures Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages
March 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 21, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 23, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Alejandro Ribeiro
March 13, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Georgianna Ziegler (Folger), "Greatness in Small Things: the Miniature Books of Esther Inglis"
February 27, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Rita Copeland, "An Emotional Anthology of Style: Glasgow Hunterian MS V.8.14."
February 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Witmore (Folger)
Departmental Lecture SeriesFebruary 13, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm