Department of English
Material Texts
Formerly "History of the Book"
The Workshop in the History of Material Texts will celebrate its 25th year in 2017-18. Participants (including faculty, librarians, graduate students, booksellers and anyone else interested) come from a wide range of disciplines; all are welcome to attend. The usual format of the workshop is a presentation of approximately thirty minutes, followed by discussion, based if possible on handouts or other visual materials. Unless noted otherwise, meetings will be 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. For more information, please contact Alex Ponsen, the 2017-18 Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts, at ponsen at sas dot upenn dot edu.
Upcoming Events
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Marissa Nicosia (English, Penn State-Abington): "'Chronicled at home': Perkin Warbeck and the Popularity of English History Plays"
September 25, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Mary Channen Caldwell (Music, Penn): “Inscribing Performance: Cueing Repetition in Medieval Song”
October 2, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
David Stern (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard): “The Topography of the Talmud Page”
October 9, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Anuradha Mathu (Landscape Architecture, Penn) and Dilip da Cunha (Graduate School of Design, Harvard): “Designing the Place of Water through Archival Work, Field Work, and Studio Work”
October 16, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Joseph Farrell (Classical Studies, Penn): “Ancient and Modern Materialities”
October 23, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Deven Patel (South Asian Studies, Penn) and Nachiket Chanchani (History of Art and Asian Languages and Cultures, Michigan): “Of Spring Songs and Scrolls: Orality and Visuality in the Vasanta Vilasa”
November 6, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Aden Kumler (Art History, and Romance Languages & Literatures, Chicago): “Lyric vessels”
November 13, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Steffi Dippold (English, Kansas State): “A Prince Went Up a Tree and Climbed into Colonial Typography”
November 20, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
David Loewenstein (English, Penn State): “The New Oxford Edition of Paradise Lost and Early Publishing History”
November 27, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Jessica Linker (LITS, Bryn Mawr): “Franklin & Hall's Printing Blocks: Anti-Counterfeiting Techniques on Mid-Atlantic Colonial Paper Currency”
December 4, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Rachel Sagner Buurma (English, Swarthmore) and Laura Heffernan (English, University of North Florida): “The Materiality of Syllabi and the History of Literary Study”
December 11, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm
Past Events
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Kathy Peiss, "Book Purges and Restitution in the U.S. Occupation of Postwar Germany"
February 1, 2016 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Unlocking St. Frideswide's Chest: Medieval Student Loans and the Value of Books."
December 7, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
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 -
Eva Mroczek, "Shapes of Scriptures: Native 'Book Histories' and the Non-Biblical Library of Early Judaism"
September 21, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania, “When Women Ruled Fashion: How Material Are Material Texts?”
September 14, 2015 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Laura Aydelotte
April 27, 2015 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm