Initiative for the Book

A photo of Isabel Duarte-Gray before she gave her talk.

Lunchtime talk by University of Delaware Professor, Derrick Spires. Dr. Spires, whose most recent book, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States was published in 2019, will be giving a talk called “Serial Blackness and William Still’s Underground Rail Road” about his current project.

Photo of the four graduate students in front of a stretched goat skin.   On March 20th, 2024, four graduate students from the Rutgers English Deparment were sponsored by the Rutgers Book Initiative and the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium to attend a five-hour tour and workshop at Pergamena: Handmade Parchments and Leathers. This event was … Read More

The Rutgers Book Initiative invites you to this symposium with speakers Karl Berglund and Justin Tackett.

Self-Publishing Workshop Come learn abotu the world of spirit duplication. Bookseller and historian of radical publishing Brian Cassidy will provide an overview of these technologies and their use in early zines. Then try your hand at making your own ditto and hectography copies! All are welcome! Wednesday April 17 | 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm … Read More

The Second Colloquium on Independent Publishing Come hear Dante Gonzalez present his "Edición, Literatura y Pensamiento en Lenguas Originarias" (event in Spanish) and the subsequent conversation "Independent Publishing and the Sociology of Literature" with John Thompson, Ana Cecillia Calle, and Gustavo Guerrero, with a response by Marcy Schwartz. Thursday April 18 | 1:00 pm and … Read More