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 … 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 … 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) … 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 … Read More
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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
