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LIZ ADAMS
University of Nottingham
aexea1@nottingham.ac.uk
School of English.
ABDULLAH ALGER
University of Manchester, England
abdullah.alger-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Latin palaeography, medieval rhetoric, humanities computing, Old English and Latin literature.
NATALIE ALDRED
University of Birmingham
nca654@bham.ac.uk
Working on a critical edition of William Haughton's play "English-men for my Money", written and likely first performed in 1598. The study focuses more on the creation and dissemination side of book history; for example I shall soon be working on a compositorial study of the three surviving editions of the play -- thus ascertaining which sections of the texts each compositor was responsible for -- with the intention of linking this to other research in this area (or, perhaps, publishing a larger study as a monograph after the Ph.D.) Working title for the thesis is 'A critical, Hyper-text Editon of "English-men for my Money", with Supplementary Essays.'
BEN ANNIS
University of Sussex, England
B.E.Annis@sussex.ac.uk
'The City printer and the development of the London printing industry during the mid-seventeenth century. Commercial opportunities and partisanship'.
A study of the economic and social position of printers (both master and journeymen) within the book trade and their local communities. One of the areas that I am interested in is kinship and marital ties between printers and possible links between printers bound to the same master during apprenticeship. I am also hoping to study representations of printers and printing found in both elite and popular forms of literature during the middle of the seventeenth century.
JOHANNA ARCHBOLD, BHRN Co-Ordinator
Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
archboj@tcd.ie
Print culture; magazines and periodicals in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; Atlantic book trade.
CATHERINE ARMSTRONG
University of Warwick, England
C.M.Armstrong@warwick.ac.uk
Representations of America in seventeenth-century English print culture, including books, pamphlets, sermons, ballads, poems etc. Exploring both the influence of the printers and publishers themselves and their relationships with the colonial companies as well as the networks of distribution of information and opinion about the New World, which covers the London book trade, provincial book shops and chapmen and pedlars. PhD awarded 2004.
RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW
Osaka University, Japan, and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England
rbarthy@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp
Popular religious publishing, past and present. PhD thesis (London, SOAS, 2004): 'Community and Consumerism: The Case of Christian Publishing'. (Copies are available on disk as a PDF - email Richard to request a copy.) Forthcoming article: 'Religious Mission and Business Reality: Trends in the Contemporary British Christian Book Industry', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2005.
NOURDIN BEJJIT
Department of Literature, Open University, England
n.b.bejjit@open.ac.uk
Colonial and Postcolonial History of the Book, Postcolonial Literature and criticism, North African Studies and Orientalism, especially Heinemann African Writers series and the famous Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his involvement with Heinemann.
GILES BERGEL
Queen Mary, University of London, England
g.e.bergel@qmul.ac.uk
Eighteenth-century print culture, including ballads, chapbooks, copy books and sermons; distribution and marketing of print; the firm of William Dicey.
Dr DEIRDRE BOLEYN
Independent Scholar
deirdreboleyn@yahoo.co.uk
Early modern English literature, manuscript poetry and manuscript culture, history of the book, women's writing.
BARBARA BORDALEJO
De Montfort University, Leicester, England
bbordalejo@dmu.ac.uk
Theoretical aspects of textual criticism, especially computerised methods applied to the study of texts; and scholarly editing, particularly the possibilities offered by electronic editions.
CATHY BROAD
Assistant Librarian, Linnean Society, Natural History Museum, London, England
c.broad@nhm.ac.uk
Natural history books, especially illustrated books and the works of Carl Linnaeus.
BRIDGET CARRINGTON
Roehampton University, England
bridget@primex.co.uk
Undertaking PhD research on the Early History of Fiction for Young Adults, 1700-1914, examining the publishing history and ideology behind the writing and publication of fiction intended for adolescent female readers aged between 12 and 21. Using publishers' archives, contemporary newspaper reviews and advice on suitable reading, diaries, auto- biographies. Seeking information on catalogue records and buying policies of subscription, working men's and public libraries in the UK. MA dissertation (Roehampton 2003) on the novels for children by nineteenth century author and journalist Flora Louisa Shaw (Lady Lugard).
EDDIE CASS
Research Fellow, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen
eddie.cass@btinternet.com
Research Interests: the history of chapbook printing and – especially – of those chapbooks which contain traditional drama texts.
PADMINI RAY CHAUDHURY
Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
s0199935@sms.ed.ac.uk
Final year of PhD on Byron and his relationship with the literary marketplace, received notions of Romanticism and pedagogy, and the impact of the book history. Also writing sections on the newspaper; educational publishing; religious and missionary publishing; encyclopedias and reference books; antiquarianism and the book for the third volume of the History of the Book in Scotland, (1800-1880) to be published by Edinburgh University Press.
KAREN CHESTER
Independent Scholar, London, England
karenchester@hotmail.co.uk
Early modern English newsbooks, pamphlets and courtesy books; Restoration London coffee-houses as agencies of public media; 17th-century collectors and virtuosi; cabinets of curiosities.
REBECCA COOMBES
Liaison Librarian,
Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds
R.Coombes@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Newcastle booktrade 1750-1850. Booktrade in Otley.
MARGARET COOPER
University of Birmingham, England
coopers@britishlibrary.net
Currently working on (a) the libraries of the Mechanics' Institutes: access and management style and (b) women's manuscript diaries/accounts books up to 1850.
Completed research: John Mountfort (Worcester, bookseller and his customers), Septimus Prowett (London, publisher & picture dealer) and Benjamin Maund (Bromsgrove, bookseller, botanist).
MA thesis: the eighteenth-century book trade in the city of Worcester (published by the Worcester Historical Society).
ORIETTA DA ROLD
Dept of English, University of Birmingham, England
o.darold@bham.ac.uk
Medieval manuscripts, material philology. Book production and dissemination. In particular paper manuscripts - medieval paper documents.
TOM DAVIS
Lecturer, Dept of English, University of Birmingham, England
tomdavis@unask.com
Handwriting; history of printing; textual bibliography; new media.
DIANA DIXON
University College, London, England
diana.dixon@cilip.org.uk
PhD topic: Access to the English provincial newspaper: past and present’
Although not concerned with the history of the newspaper as such, it examines the sources that historians of the press require to study the history of provincial newspapers, locate copies and discover what indexes exist. The project is also concerned with initiatives to microfilm and digitise historic provincial newspapers. PhD awarded 2004.
VIVIENNE DUNSTAN
Department of History, University of Dundee, Scotland
v.s.dunstan@dundee.ac.uk
PhD topic: 'Reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820' studying sources which directly link named readers with what they were reading, across Scotland, c1750 to 1820, with the aim of building a picture of reading habits in Scotland at this time, and compare the Scottish findings with elsewhere in Europe and North America.
CATHERINE FEELY
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, England
catherine.feely@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD thesis: 'What Marx Really Meant': print culture and the diffusion of the
work of Karl Marx in Britain, c.1880-1940.
Website: http://cathfeely.googlepages.com/home
Broader research interests include the relationship between intellectual history
and media/book history; paratextual features; abridgment and extraction;
editorial theory and practice; C19th and early C20th periodicals and
journalism.
JOHN FLOOD
JLF@JohnLFlood.fsnet.co.uk
History of the book in Germany, esp. 1450-1600.
ALEXANDRA FRANKLIN
Project Coordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX 1 3BG
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb
ANDREW FRAYN
University of Manchester
andrew.frayn@manchester.ac.uk
Final year PhD researching the reception of the 'Disenchanted' response to the First
World War, from 1918-1930; also interested in reception more generally too.
AILEEN FYFE
Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
aileen.fyfe@nuigalway.ie
Previous research was on the publishing activities of the Religious Tract Society (f. 1799), particularly their very cheap, high circulation popular science works of the 1840s and 1850s. For more details, see my PhD thesis (Cambridge, 2000), or Science and Salvation: evangelicals and popular science publishing in Victorian Britain (2004). Current research is on non-fiction publishing in mid-nineteenth century Britain, and particularly the impact of new technologies (steam printing, railways and steamships) upon the availability, genres and presentation of information and knowledge. As well as popular science works, I'm looking at travel handbooks and railway libraries, and am hoping to bring in a transatlantic perspective. Central publishers are W&R Chambers, Charles Knight, Routledge, Murray, and Longman (and Lippincott in USA).
VICTORIA E M GARDNER
St John's College, University of Oxford, England
victoria.gardner@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Provincial newspaper printers between 1760 and 1820. Mapping the social status of printers within their newspapers' sphere of influence, and comparing this with corresponding financial evidence as to their economic status.
ROGER GASKELL
Independent scholar - Warboys, Cambridgeshire, England
roger@rogergaskell.com
Interested in the bibliography of science and medicine, scientific illustration, and copperplate printing.
KATHERINE GILLIESON
Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, England
k.e.gillieson@reading.ac.uk
Currently researching recently published non-fiction in the UK.
JULIE GREGORY
Independent scholar - London, England
julieannegregory@yahoo.com
Interested in book Illustration.
TANYA HAGEN
Jesus College, University of Oxford, England
tanya.hagen@jesus.ox.ac.uk
English printed drama before 1660. Book history and print culture: 1660-1780.
AMY HALEY
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
amyhaley@princeton.edu
Commonplace books; eighteenth-century reading and writing practices.
ROELAND HARMS
Roeland.Harms@let.uu.nl
PhD Research Focus: The distribution of printed news in the early modern Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, in comparison to the English cities of London and Exeter, 1615-1800. Central questions of research are: Where did the people get their news and how up-to-date was this information? In which media was the public opinion recorded? Who were involved in producing and distributing the news?
JOHN HINKS
Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, England
jh241@le.ac.uk
Researching communities and networks in the English book trade from 1695 to 1850. For details see www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/staff/hinks.html
Completed research: ‘The History of the Book Trade in Leicester to c1850’
(PhD, Loughborough University, 2002) and postdoctoral research on the British Book Trade Index, see www.bbti.bham.ac.uk
LESLIE HOWSAM
University of Windsor, Canada
lhowsam@uwindsor.ca
British 19th and 20th century publishing history, especially history books. Theory and practice of the study of book culture(s).
ANN HURLEY
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, USA
ahurley@wagner.edu
Early Restoration drama, manuscript to print practices, especially British female playwrights, c. 1660 - 1700.
MAURA IVES
Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
m-ives@tamu.edu
Textual studies, especially scholarly editing and descriptive bibliography; 19th century literary publishing, periodicals, religious publications, and music.
ELAINE JACKSON
Department of English, University of Birmingham, England
mj012a4202@blueyonder.co.uk
Romance writers of the inter-war period. Dust-jackets relating to romance novels.
SIMON J JAMES
Department of English, University of Durham, England
s.j.james@durham.ac.uk
Book as commodity; Victorian publishing.
INES JERELE
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
ines.jerele@guest.arnes.si
PhD student interested in manuscripts, early prints, book illustration and decoration; Book History and librarianship.
PATRICIA MAY JURILLA
Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines (Diliman)
PhD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
143500@soas.ac.uk
History of the Book in the Philippines, 20th-century book publishing, Literary publishing.
INNES M KEIGHREN
Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
innes.keighren@ed.ac.uk
The historical geographies of authorship, publishing and reading, particularly in relation to work by American geographer Ellen Churchill Semple.
ANDREW KING
Department of Media, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, England
ak42@canterbury.ac.uk
Nineteenth century publishing history and mass-market periodicals.
KATALIN EGRI KU-MESU
Independent scholar - Glenrothes, Scotland
egrikumesu@yahoo.co.uk
Postcolonial literatures and theory; the African literary ecosystem; reading for pleasure in Africa; the position of elite Europhone literature in African societies; the interface between language and literature; censorship and publishing in Africa.
BARBARA LAURIAT
Oxford University
barbara.lauriat@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Copyright History
CHRISTINE LEES
Birkbeck College, University of London
chrissie_lees@hotmail.com
Research interests include twentieth-century literary manuscripts, particularly the sources, notebooks and draft manuscripts for James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake".
LUCY LEWIS
Independent scholar - Cambridge, England
thelucylewis@yahoo.com
Incunabula and early printing history (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries); editions of Chaucer and Middle English literature; cultural materialism/New Historicism.
YONG LIU
University of Political Science and Law, China
classicalliberalism@gmail.com
Art censorship. Legal classics.
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LOUBET
Independent scholar - Paris, France
jcldb@typographie.org
Popularisation of the history of writing and printing via my websites: 'Typographie et Civilisation' www.typographie.org and 'Typographia Historia' www.typographia.org
KATIE LORD
University College London, London, England
katie_daisy_lord@yahoo.co.uk
Library history
ELIZABETH DYRUD LYMAN
English Department, Harvard University, USA
edl2c@virginia.edu
Performance texts and visually expressive works (illustrated books, experimental typography, artists' books, avant garde notation, etc.)
ROBERTA MAGNANI
Cardiff University, Wales
magnanir@cf.ac.uk
Researching the history of the editions of Chaucer's works.
BONNIE MAK
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Bonnie.Mak.1@nd.edu
Manuscript and print culture in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation pays particular attention to the page space as it travels across different media, from manuscript to print to screen. PhD completed 2004. Dissertation title: '(Re)defining the page for a digital world'. Current position: postdoctoral fellow: InterPARES Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems).
HAMISH MATHISON
Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield, England
h.mathison@shef.ac.uk
Eighteenth-century Scottish newspapers.
KYLE McCASKILL
University of Maine, USA
kmccaskill@umext.maine.edu
In researching book history I meld my dual background in English and History. I approach the history of reading and writing as a historical continuum, the study of which may shed light on the current changes in publishing resulting from computer technology.
BARRY McKAY
Independent scholar, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, England
barry.mckay@britishlibrary.net
Chapbooks. History of the book and book trade in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the Sands.
JENNIFER MOORE
Department of History,
Foundation Building,
University of Limerick
jennifer.moore@ul.ie
Print Culture in Limerick
YOLANDA MORATO
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University, USA
ymorato@fas.harvard.edu
Currently working on editing and translating Time and Western Man (1927) by Wyndham Lewis, my research is on a) avant-garde publications (mainly early20th-century magazines and journals) and b) building up the bridge among modernist artists from English, French and Spanish backgrounds. An example of this work is "Words of Art: Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-garde Texts (1914-1916)", a paper presented at the Book History Postgraduate Conference in Edinburgh (April 2002).
BENJAMIN MORRIS
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
benjamin.morris@duke.edu
Philosophy and literature, translation, errata, ephemera, marginalia and 'pretty much anything that gets lost in the cracks'.
SHARON MURPHY
School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College
shamurphy@eircom.net
Currently working on a study on Fiction and the East India Company Soldiers, 1757-1857. Author of Maria Edgeworth and Romance (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004).
FREDERICK N NESTA
Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
fnn01@aber.ac.uk
The Commerce of Literature: George Gissing and His Victorian Publishers, 1880-1903.
My PhD thesis uses the case of George Gissing, author of New Grub Street and other well-regarded but not best-selling novels, to examine the economics of late 19th century British publishing from the perspective of the author.
ANNA NYBURG
Humanities Programme, Imperial College, University of London, England
a.nyburg@imperial.ac.uk
PhD topic: Exile Studies: refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria who worked in art book publishing and design, e.g. for Phaidon and Thames & Hudson.
PHILIPPE NYS
University of Paris 8, France
philippe.nys@laposte.net Theory of literature, space and architecture: relations between texts and images connected with architecture, landscape and garden. General hermeneutics.
MAROUSSIA OAKLEY
Independent scholar - Birmingham, England
maroussia@btinternet.com
Completed MA dissertation (Birmingham) on John Clare's 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery'. Currently working on 19th-century book illustration, especially Pre-Raphaelites; artist/author relations; methods of reproduction of illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
IRINI PAPADAKI
University of Crete, Greece
canderella@yahoo.com
Research interests : Printing, selling and reading of Greek books in the Meditteranean during the second half of the sixteenth century.
CHARLOTTE PANOFRE
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
cap58@cam.ac.uk
Protestant exiles’ propaganda output under Mary Tudor, 1553-1558 (English and Latin propaganda); relationships between authors; printers and authors.
LISA PETERS
Department of Information & Library Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
l.peters@chester.ac.uk
"Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914" - Lisa's Ph.D. examines the growth of the English-language press in Wrexham, and throughout north Wales from 1848-1914 to ascertain to what extent Wrexham newspapers could claim a regional (that is, north Wales, Cheshire, and Shropshire) circulation. Aspects of the Wrexham press analysed include: distribution networks, content, local news content, advertising, and local rivals.
MARK PHILLIMORE
Independent scholar - Southampton, England
markphillimore@btconnect.com
Currently cataloguing and recording an 18th/19th-century library which is going to be sold with the sale of my parents' country house. Hoping to create a web site so that although the collection is broken up, it lives on in virtual form. Classical, naval, French, Italian and Spanish literature are just some of the themes. Family was strongly naval and legal. I am learning as I go along but would be interested to hear of catalogues of 18th and 19th century minor country house libraries to compare.
IZABELA POTAPOWICZ
izabela.potapowicz@umontreal.ca
Contemporary reading practices; book promotion and distribution; promotion of reading and literacy through audio-visual media.
BARRY POTYONDI
Independent Scholar
contextinc@shaw.ca
History of the English Bookstore
SUSAN PICKFORD
University of Toulouse, France
susan.pickford@wanadoo.fr
Currently working on typographical innovations in early Romantic travel writing.
SUSANNAH RANDALL
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
sjr54@cam.ac.uk
Early modern book trade and late seventeenth-century English newspapers.
RATHNA RAMANATHAN
Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, England
r.ramanathan@rdg.ac.uk
‘The Gaberbocchus Press & Book Design in a Small Publishing House’
Researching the role of the designer and the process of book design in small publishing houses with specific relevance to The Gaberbocchus Press (1948-1979) with the aim of developing an alternative, conceptual framework for professional book design practice. What is the relationship between the author/publisher/editor/designer in a small publishing house? How does their interaction contribute to the process of making books? What contributions can small publishing houses make to book design?
Proposed completion date: September 2005.
HADRIEN RAMBACH
Council member of the Royal Numismatic Society, and member of many French or English societies
hadrien2000@hotmail.com
Numismatic literature, and in particular the works of Louis Savot, Joseph Addison and T.E. Dumersan, as well as the antiquarian inscribed books. & Occasionally books about engraved gems.
NIGEL RAMSAY
Research Fellow, History Department, University College, London, England
ucranlr@ucl.ac.uk
I am researching with a view to writing a book on Seymour de Ricci (1881-1942). He was active in England, France and the US, from 1900 to 1940, specialising in the history of the ownership of medieval and early modern manuscripts, bookbindings and works of art. The new DNB has my preliminary account of him.
ALAN RANCH
Director of Graduate Liberal Studies,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
arauch@uncc.edu
18th and 19th Compendia of Knowledge (Encyclopaedias: Children’s
books; conduct books); Libraries; the dissemination of knowledge
transport & print; the popularization of science.
JUAN ESCOBEDO ROMERO
El Colegio de San Luis, A.C., Mexico
jescobedo@colsan.edu.mx
Libraries in 19th-century Mexico. Local and regional history of the Mexican book.
DAWN SANDERS
Centre for Informal Learning and Schools,
King's College, London, England
dawn.sanders@kcl.ac.uk
Victorian and Edwardian natural history publications vis a vis past and current natural history pedagogies.
ROGER C SCHONFIELD
Independent scholar, New York, USA.
rcs@ithaka.org
The history of preservation and archiving; the effects of digital technologies. Author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton, 2003), which documents the development of JSTOR as an archive of academic journals and a self-sustaining organization; relevant to preservation and archiving in the digital age, management and organizational development of not-for-profit organizations, the role of foundations/trusts, and general problems of digitization.
BRENDA SCRAGG
John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, England
brenda.scragg@ntlworld.com
Nineteenth-century Manchester.
KRISTEN SIPPER
University of Nottingham
aexkis@nottingham.ac.uk
School of English.
JENNIFER DAWN SMITH
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
j.smith1@nuigalway.ei
The history and applications of artefact books (artists' books). Reading and the effect of the material form of the book.
PAUL SMITH
Department of Folklore, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X8.
fpsmith@mun.ca
Folklore; print culture; chapbooks
MARJA SMOLENAARS
Sir Thomas Browne Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands
m.smolenaars@wanadoo.nl
Current research project: Samuel Smith, bookseller/publisher in London from 1682-1707 as part of the broader issue of Anglo-Dutch book trade relations around 1700. The research involves a reconstruction of his publications, with an emphasis on those where an involvement from abroad can be established or even the foreign origin of the book. Another source for reconstructing Smith's contacts abroad is the Smith Correspondence (Bodleian: Rawlinson MS Letters 114), a collection of letters received by Smith from colleagues on the Continent. As very little evidence of the day-to-day business dealings in the cross-Channel book trade of the period still exists, I hope that a close examination of Smith, his correspondence and his business activities will enable me to draw more general conclusions about the wider book trade relations of the period.
BRIAN SOUTHAM
Independent scholar, London, England
brian_southam@hotmail.com
Currently researching the detailed, step-by-step route that literary manuscripts followed, from the time that they arrived at the publishers, through to their eventual appearance at the other end as finished copies, and the processes they went through en route, over the years 1800-1820. I am seeking detailed accounts of the working practice of individual publishers and printers. For any reference to these sources, or suggestions where they might be found I would be most grateful.
BOB SNAPE
Department of Sport, Leisure and Tourism Management, University of Bolton, England
r.snape@bolton.ac.uk
The provision of fiction in British public libraries 1850-1914. The National Home Reading Union (1889-1930). Radical and 'underground' publishing in Britain 1960-1985.
JOHN SPIERS
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, England
Visiting Professor, University of Glamorgan, Wales
jr.spiers@virgin.net
Popular fiction publishing, 1850-1918, especially the firm of Richard Edward King, publisher of Books for the Million.
MARTYN THOMAS
Independent scholar, Bath, England
martyn@hollylawn.org
UK private press and other fine letterpress printing from 1867 to the present day. Co-author (with Martyn Ould) of The Fell Revival (Old School Press, 2000) and, with John A. Lane and Anne Rogers, of a biography and bibliography of Harry Carter, Typographer (Old School Press, 2005). Currently researching the contact networks that underpinned the development and spread of fine printing in the UK in the 20th century, and welcomes suggestions for individuals to be included in any resulting book.
JEF TOMBEUR
Paris-VII-Denis-Diderot, Paris, France
jtombeur@noos.fr
Typography. Women in the printing trade.
GEMMA TOWLE
Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, England
gemma.towle@northampton.ac.uk
'Breaking the chain? A study of portable electronic formats and their effects on the UK book trade'. Electronic publishing has brought many challenges and problems to the book trade and has changed the traditional publishing model. Authors can now self publish, editors need new skills and booksellers and libraries are uncertain how to provide the new electronic material to their customers and users. There are many different types of hardware with which the portable electronic formats can be read from; these include Gemstars’s generic, Rocket eBook and the hybrid, Palm Pilot. These different devices tend to use different software with what I believe the forerunners as being: Microsoft Reader, Palm Reader and Adobe Acrobat E-book Reader. To make it even more complicated, each different software program tends uses a different format, for example, Microsoft Reader uses LIT and Adobe Acrobat E-book Reader uses PDF. These different formats are causing problems for publishers as they are unsure whichformat to invest their material in. Four areas have been chosen for investigation, these are: Authors, publishers, libraries and readers.
Web site: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~lsglt3/index.html
Proposed completion date: Autumn 2004.
ESTHER MARIA VILLEGAS DE LA TORRE
University of Nottingham
asxemv@nottingham.ac.uk
Currently undertaking final year of doctoral studies. Thesis title: Women and
the Republic of Letters in the Iberian World, 1447-1700: A Multidisciplinary
Approach. It investigates reading and writing as social practices in the early
modern period, with special reference to women as authors in Iberia -whether
writing in Spanish, Portuguese or Catalan. By adopting a multidisciplinary
approach, which considers historical, literary and pragmatic issues, it is
possible to see that, from the latter half of the fifteenth century, the number
of women authors increased significantly, some reaching professional status in
the seventeenth century. Proposed completion date: November 2007.
WIM VAN MIERLO
Institute of English Studies, University of London, England
Wim.Van-Mierlo@sas.ac.uk
Genetic Criticism--Composition of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake--20th Century Manuscripts and notebooks. Reception History. Reading Notes. History of Scholarship and Textual Editing.
DAN WALL
Aberdeen University, Scotland
d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk
Print culture of the Romantic period, early 19th-century Edinburgh periodicals (especially Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine). PhD focuses on formulation and theorization of national literary identity through the work of the novelist, critic and biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, whose contributions to Blackwood's constitute a significant portion of this study.
PAUL WATT
Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia
paul.watt@arts.monash.edu.au
Book history PhD student. Music book publishing (especially music biography) 1880-1950. Publishing interests of Bertram Dobell, Ernest Newman, Watford University Press. Autodidact texts, and hymnals and song-books associated with the Victorian freethought movement.
KATE WILSON
City University of New York, New York, USA
katecwilson@yahoo.com
Cultural history of the theatre play-script: the history of its format; its handling by theatre artists; printing, publication and copyright; reading practices (or lack of them); semiotics, especially of ‘stage directions’. Current research focuses on 19th-century USA – industrial capitalism – and certain melodramas.
MATTHEW YEO
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester
mattyeo@gmail.com
PhD thesis, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Scheme in conjunction with
Chetham's Library, Manchester'The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library 1655 - 1685: A Case Study in the Distribution and Reception of Texts in the English Provinces in the Seventeenth Century.'
DAISUKE YONEMURA
Department of English, University of Birmingham, England
yonemuradaisuke@aol.com
Student: MA Text & Book