'Teaching the History of the Book: A Roundtable'. Five College Seminar in Book History with Matteo Pangallo (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Emily Todd (Eastern Connecticut State University)

With panelists:

Frederick Nesta (University College London), “The Book in the World: Teaching a Global History of the Book”

Ryan Cordell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Programmable Type: The Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code”

Allison Fagan (James Madison University), “‘Race and Publishing in the United States’: An Advanced Undergraduate Seminar”

Clare Mullaney (Clemson University), “Accessibility and Teaching Book History"

Melissa Homestead (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), “Teaching American Women’s Authorship in the American Literature Survey through the History of the Book"

Karen Attar (Senate House Library, University of London), “The London Rare Books School”

Leah Price (Rutgers University), “Book Learning”

Matteo Pangallo, PhD is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, early modern literature, and the history of the book. His monograph, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), considers plays by early modern playgoers as a form of fan fiction. He has published in journals such as Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Early Theatre, English Literary Renaissance, and Review of English Studies,and in the collections Early British Drama in Manuscript (2019), A New Companion to Renaissance Drama (2017), and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (2012). He is coeditor of Shakespeare’s Audiences (2021) and None a Stranger There: England in/and Europe on the Early Modern Stage (forthcoming, 2024), and is completing his second monograph, Strange Company: Foreign Performers in Medieval and Early Modern England.

Emily B. Todd, PhD is the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University. Previously, she was professor of English, department chair, and dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Westfield State University. She has published in The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, Book History, American Literary History, SHARP News, among other publications; and coedited, with Denise Kohn and Sarah Meer, Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture (2006). She served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) and was ADE President in 2017.

This seminar is free of charge and open to the public

More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistpangallotodd2023