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! Saturday March 28th | 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Piscataway Public Library
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 will include two printing workshops at the Scarlet Letterpress and a panel presentation by a Book Initiative graduate fellow, Mitchell Edwards. Please register here if … 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 and hear live readings of Old and Middle English literature! The Scarlet Letterpress will demonstrate how to make medieval inks: black, blue, and red (and … 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 April 25th | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm English Department Tent | College Avenue, New Brunswick
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, or to be made victims of the one-day regicidal celebration. To mark the event, the Scarlet Letterpress will be printing and distributing hand-made playbills, and … 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 and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center Respondent: Javiera Barrientos, Rutgers University Aaron T. Pratt is Carl and Lily Pforzheimer … Read More