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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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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Meg Leja (Binghamton): "Mending Bodies by (A)mending Texts: Medical Manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages"
February 21, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Aylin Malcolm (Penn): "Revolutionary Science: Movable Books and the Medieval Universe"
February 14, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Dahye Kim (Northwestern University): "The Hangul Typewriter: Failing Communication and the Korean Writing System"
February 7, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Carlos Spoerhase (Bielefeld): "Failed Formats: Goethe’s Literary Anthology for the German People"
January 31, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Pamela H. Smith (Columbia): "Making and Knowing in Early Modern How-To Texts"
January 24, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University): "Unstable Access to the Print Record: The Case of Back Number Budd and Nineteenth-Century Newspapers"
December 6, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews) & Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews): "Materializing the Immaterial: Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe"
November 29, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Material Texts Roadshow (Virtual event): Brian Cassidy (Type Punch Matrix), Michelle Warren (Dartmouth College), Jessica Linker (Northeastern University): "Copy Technologies"
November 22, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Sarah Wasserman (University of Delaware): "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"
November 15, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass Amherst): "Documenting the Body of State: Paper and the Matter of the US Constitution"
November 8, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm