Initiative for the Book

Andrew Stauffer of the UVA Department of English guides a scavenger hunt for annotated 19th-century books in the PS and PR sections of the Alexander stacks, as a session of the Book Traces project on the afternoon of April 19th. Participants will convene at the start of the session in the JetStream (Room 404) for a debriefing before dispersing to levels 2B and … Read More

Matthew Rubery is a professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Harvard University Press, 2016) and the coeditor of Further Reading (Oxford University Press, 2020), part of the series Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. April 26 at 6:00pm Podcasts, Audiobooks, … Read More

Corinna Zeltsman , "Mexico's Workers of Thought: Rethinking Press Freedom & Political Culture through Printing." Response by Marcy Schwartz (Professor of Spanish, Rutgers.) Wednesday, Oct 12. 4pm - 6pm, Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051. Corinna Zeltsman is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing … Read More

Panel discussion of Denise Gigante’s BOOK MADNESS : A Story of Book Collectors in America. Wednesday, Nov 16. 5pm - 7pm With Jesse Erickson (Morgan Library), Melina Moe (Columbia University) and Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Books). Location: HYBRID Online: REGISTER In person: CCA, Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051 Book Madness: A Story of … Read More

Independent Publishing Perspectives from the Hispanophone World April 12-15, 2023 This conference convenes editors, publishers, and writers from Latin America and Spain to participate in a multi-day, multi-university conversation on the state of independent book publishing in the Spanish-speaking world. Events will take place at Rutgers, Columbia, CUNY, and NYU, and will include a series … Read More