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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Lodovica Braida (L’Università degli Studi di Milano), “‘Dangerous Books’. Italian Epistolary Collections in the Sixteenth Century: Censorship and Self-Censorship”
April 9, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
André Dombrowski (Penn), “How Multimedial was the 19th Century? The Case of Photo-Sculpture”
April 2, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Eyal Poleg (Queen Mary, University of London), “The Limits of Book Technologies: The Messy Implementation of Novel Features in English Bibles, 1200-1600”
March 26, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marshall), “America’s Cargo Cult: How Joseph Smith Discovered Printing Plates and Founded Mormonism”
March 19, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Peter Stallybrass (Penn), “Whitman: Manuscript in Print”
March 12, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University), “‘Entered for his copy’: Creating Stationers’ Register Online”
February 26, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Alex Ponsen (Penn), “Visions of Global Empire in the Early Modern Iberian World”
February 19, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Wendy Wall (Northwestern), “What’s the Matter with Hester Pulter? Or, Salvation, Materiality, Poetics, and Cosmology in a 17th-Century Manuscript”
February 12, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Meredith McGill (Rutgers), “The Materiality of the Poem and the History of the Book”
February 5, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Juliet Fleming (NYU), “Of Grammatology as a Local Science”
January 29, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm