I founded and direct the Initiative for the Book. When I’m not setting type at the Scarlet Letterpress, I teach courses on the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, and
I teach the literature and culture of the British Restoration and eighteenth century. Related interests include complex systems, the history of science, the origins of the museum, cognitive studies, and
Novella Frasier is a Ph.D. student studying medieval literature. She most often runs the press and teaches students about book history and medieval manuscript culture.
Javiera Barrientos is a book historian and book binder interested in the intersections between material cultures, literary genres and gender, particularly but not restricted to the Global Early Modern period.
Mitchell Edwards is a PhD student interested in the history of books and reading—especially of the print and political cultures of the twentieth-century United States—and the influence of surveillance and
Emmett is an English PhD student; his (developing) research specialties include theories of textual spatiality, narrative theory, and book history. Prior to joining the Rutgers English Department, Emmett worked as
Casey is an undergraduate of the Rutgers English department and the RIB’s undergraduate fellow. She is working on her honor’s thesis on women’s writing. She often runs the printing press
Allie is an undergraduate intern at the Scarlet Letterpress. Allie joined the SL while still a senior in high school, and we are happy that she has joined us in
Mizha Kyla Bulahan (She/They) is an undergraduate of the Rutgers English department and an intern at the Scarlet Letterpress. She is very excited to learn more about the press and print
Meredith L McGill is a Professor of English. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1837-1853 (2003) a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tight control