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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Vance Byrd (Penn): "Adalbert Stifter and Pantheon Illustrated Editions"
February 13, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
David Bell (Princeton): "Talking Back to the Philosophes: The Case of Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray"
February 20, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Talya Fishman (Penn): "A Scripture-Centered Practice of Jewish Material Devotion in Medieval Spain and Its Cultural Setting”
February 27, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (Penn): "Metaphors, Conjectures, and Opinions: Talking About Books in Early Modern Ottoman Texts"
March 13, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado Boulder): "Folding the Lyric"
March 20, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
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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Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak (History, NYU): “Printed Matter in the Pre-Modern West (7th-13th century)”
November 28, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Glenda Goodman (Music, Penn): “Copying Music: The Politics of Amateur Music-Making in 18th-Century America”
November 21, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Hwisang Cho (History, Xavier University): “The Epistolary Brush: Letter Writing and Power in Early Modern Korea”
November 14, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Steve Dolph (Spanish & Portuguese, Penn): “Divergent Arcadias: Madrid, 1605"
November 7, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Rachel Hall (Math, St. Joseph's University): "What is an Oblong Tunebook?"
October 31, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Joe Rezek (English, Boston University / LCP): “The Lost Sermon of David Margrett (1775), Black Moses”
October 24, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Bibliography and Culture: The Story of the Pavier Quartos with Zack Lesser
October 19, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Shane Butler (Classics, Johns Hopkins): “Dante’s Mask”
October 17, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton): “The Cairo Geniza and the Lost Medieval Arabic Archive”
October 10, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
David Scott Kastan (English, Yale): “The Complete Works of Shakespeare? How Complete Should They Be?”
October 3, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm