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.
Upcoming Events
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Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation"
March 24, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation"
March 25, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation"
March 27, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Peter Emanuel Diamond (University of Pennsylvania) "'Inscriptions of Sundry Sorts': Literacy, Populism, and Early American Epigraphic Culture"
March 31, 2025 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington) "Characters, Epistolary Novels, and the Analog History of A.I."
April 7, 2025 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Jana Dambrogio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter"
April 14, 2025 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Roundtable "Inscribing Indigeneity in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to the History of the Book"
April 21, 2025 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Roger Chartier (Collège de France/University of Pennsylvania) "Enlightened Quipus: Françoise de Graffigny's Lettre d'une Péruvienne and Eighteenth-century French Incas"
April 28, 2025 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm
Past Events
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Jeffrey Kallberg (Music, Penn): “Chopin’s Chaise longue: Sociability and Homosocial Exchange”
September 11, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (Virginia), "The Museum Florentinum (1731ff) and the Material Texts of Antiquity"
April 24, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Roger Chartier, "Sganarelle's Wages"
April 17, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Peter Kornicki (Cambridge), "The Secret worlds of Manuscripts in Japan and Korea"
April 10, 2017 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
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