Daniel Traister

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Daniel Traister earned degrees in English literature from Colby College and New York University, and a degree in Library Service from Columbia University. He has published essays on the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney, Renaissance publishing practices, the history of books and printing, and -- most frequently -- rare book librarianship and library collection development. He also publishes occasionally on topics in twentieth-century American literature. He co-edited Bibliography Newsletter and was both book review editor and a reviewer-columnist for American Book Collector. Current projects include a revision, for a new venue, of an exhibition catalogue dealing with Emma Hamilton, Sir William Hamilton, and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson; and a number of related essays that concern geographically or otherwise marginalized, non-canonical, disregarded, and unread writers.

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Courses Taught

fall 2008

ENGL 256.301 Confronting Deity: Religious Dramas

spring 2007

ENGL 016.601 Reading War canceled

fall 2006

ENGL 026.001 Drama to 1660

fall 2004

ENGL 079.401 Jewish-American Literature

spring 2004

ENGL 020.601 Major British Writers 1350-1660

fall 2003

ENGL 341.301 The Perfectibility of Man in the Late 18th & Early 19th Century Writing

fall 2002

ENGL 231.301 Renaissance Poetry

spring 2002

ENGL 016.302 The Idea of a University

ENGL 393.601 Imagining Scotland

fall 2001

ENGL 493.601 Topics in Science and Literature

spring 2001

ENGL 438.601 Topics in Milton and Spenser

fall 2000

ENGL 016.302 Topics in Literature

spring 2000

ENGL 393.601 Topics in Literature & Society: Nuclear Fictions

ENGL 497.601 History of the Book

fall 1999

ENGL 331.301 17th-Century Poetry

fall 1998

ENGL 233.301 Renaissance Drama

spring 1998

ENGL 036.601 Shakespeare Tragedies

fall 1997

ENGL 393.401 Nuclear Fictions

spring 1997

ENGL 298.401 History of the Book, 19th Century

ENGL 586.601 Popular Fictions

fall 1996

ENGL 297.401 Manuscript and Handpress

ENGL 553.601 Jane Austen and the Political Novel

summer 1996

ENGL 235.900 Topics in Shakespeare: Old Shakespeare and New

fall 1995

ENGL 489.601 Writing the American West

ENGL 590.401 Historiography of Books

spring 1995

ENGL 298.401 History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950