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Leah Price

Director of RIB and Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English

Leah Price is the founder and director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. She teach the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and occasionally French culture, and book history. Her


Javiera Barrientos

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

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


Novella Frasier

Novella Frasier is a Ph.D. student studying medieval literature. She most often runs the press and is teaches students about book history and medieval manuscript culture.


Alastair Bellany

Professor of History

Research Interests: My research focuses primarily on the political culture of early modern England, in particular the histories of media, popular politics and the image of the early Stuart court.


Marija Dalbello

Professor of Library and Information Science

Marija Dalbello’s teaching and publications focus on the history of knowledge and history of the book applied to liminal phenomena and visuality. She has published on digital mediation, visual epistemology


Tajah Ebram

Black Studies Librarian

Dr. Ebram received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in 20th-century Black literary and cultural studies, with a focus on Black radicalisms. Her dissertation was an


Thomas Fulton

Professor of English

Professor Fulton writes about the cultural intersections of politics and religion, about problems in rhetoric and generic form, and on the history of reading and media history. His work on Erasmus,


Andrew Goldstone

Associate Professor of English

Andrew Goldstone specializes in twentieth-century literature in English. His research and teaching interests span modernist and non-modernist writing of the last century, literary theory, the sociology of literature, and the


Meredith L. McGill

Professor of English

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