Initiative for the Book

Our second annual Valentine's Day printing event! Join us in printing handmade cards and memorabilia to celebrate the festivities! Friday February 13th | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Room 309 … Read More

The Translation Studies Initiative and the Scarlet Letterpress welcome all Rutgers translators to set type and print a translation. Please join Professor Sean Silver and friends, who will help translators … Read More

The Letterpress is going mobile! Join us at the Piscataway Public Library, introducing some not-yet-obsolete technology at their annual Makers' Day celebration.  Visit and print a poem or a postcard! … Read More

The Black Bibliography Project, a digital humanities initiative that aims to revitalize descriptive bibliography for African American literary studies, is hosting a conference at Rutgers from April 9-10. The proceedings … Read More

Join the Rutgers Book Initiative, the Early English Reading Group, and the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium for our Second Annual Medieval Materiality Event! Come learn how to make medieval ink … Read More

Visit our Rutgers Day table at Voorhees Mall, and take home a bookmark or postcard! Join us in printing historical materials associated with Bram Stoker's 1894 Gothic novel Dracula. Sunday … Read More

Puppets!  Playbills!  And Plenty of Performative Pandemonium! Professor Talley Murphy and the Murray-Hall Players will be performing Macbeth in and around Murray Hall.  All are welcome– to perform, to witness, … Read More

I. Hands-on bookbinding workshop taught by Javiera Barrientos (3:30–4:30) RSVP to book@cca.rutgers.edu II. Lecture: Who Bound Books in Early Modern England? (5pm) Aaron Pratt, University of Texas at Austin Carl … Read More