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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Carlos Spoerhase, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, "Burn Before Reading: On the Inevitability of Posthumous Papers in Modern Literature (Goethe, Dilthey, Kafka)"
November 30, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania, "Reconstructing French Kerouac: One Holograph Notebook at a Time"
November 23, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Thomas Ward, US Naval Academy, "Astrophil's Trembling Voice: Between the Pages of The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1598)."
November 16, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, “Violence and the Archive: Richard of Bury’s Philobiblon"
November 9, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Peter Stallybrass, TBA
November 2, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Jerry Singerman, University of Pennsylvania Press, "Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: or, How Do We Move Forward Without Getting Run Over?"
October 26, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Alice Austin, Library Company of Philadelphia and Alice Austin Books, “Exploring Medieval Structures: Methods for a Book Artist”
October 19, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University, "’Delightful to the Senses’: Color Woodblock Printing in Early Modern China”
October 12, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Ulrich von Bülow, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, "The Handiwork of Thinking – On the „Nachlass” of Martin Heidegger"
October 5, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University, “El Greco: Pictor Doctus or Artist-Philosopher?”
September 28, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm