Department of English
Material Texts
The Material Texts Workshop is an affiliated working group. Affiliated working groups are coordinated and funded outside of the Department of English.
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.
Past Events
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Alan Farmer (Ohio State University), “Lost Literature in the Early Modern English Book Trade, 1557–1640: Poetry, Plays, and Prose Fiction”
October 28, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Dorothy Berry (National Museum of African American History and Culture), “Reading a Digital Collection: The Johnson Publishing Company Archive in Process”
October 21, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Lucie Doležalová, Jakub Kozák, Karel Pacovský, Ondřej Fúsik, Martin Roček (Charles University, Prague), “Inertia of Medieval Scribes”
October 14, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), “Storage: How Paper Does the Work of Paperwork”
October 7, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), "Paper Predilections in Early Modern England"
September 30, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Julie Mellby (Princeton University), “What Did Muybridge and Darwin Have in Common? The Heliotype”
September 23, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Randall McLeod (University of Toronto), “The Librarynth”
September 16, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge), "Engineered for Action: Movable Books in Early Nineteenth-Century Japan"
September 9, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Roger Chartier (Penn): “Books as Portfolio”
April 29, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Marina Garona Gravier (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): "Printed Books in the Indigenous Languages of Latin America During the Colonial Period: An Approach from History, Editorial Studies, and Materiality”
April 22, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm