Contributors
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Keri A. Berg is Assistant Professor of French at Indiana State University. Her research focuses on book illustration in France and the rise of popular visual culture. Currently, she is working on the advent of photographic illustration.
Cynthia Brokaw, Professor of History at the Ohio State University, specializes in late-imperial Chinese book culture. She has edited, with Kai-wing Chow, a collection of essays on late-imperial book history, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005). She is the author of a study of a south China rural publishing industry, Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).
Laura Cruz received her Ph.D. in European history from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and the President of the Society for Netherlandic History (SNH). Her research and publications deal with Dutch bookselling, political mythologies, economic networks, and teaching methods.
Matthew Fishburn is a bookseller with Hordern House Rare Books in Sydney, Australia. His study of the cultural history of book burning in the twentieth century, Burning Books, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008.
Jeffrey Glover is a graduate student at Yale University. He is currently completing a dissertation on transatlantic print culture and evangelism to Algonquian Indians.
Matt Miller is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, Senior Assistant Editor at the Walt Whitman Archive, and adjunct instructor at Mount Mercy College. He also holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His recent articles, poems, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Verse, the AWP Writers’ Chronicle, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly [End Page 317] Review. This essay is a condensed version of the first chapter of his dissertation.
Christopher A. Reed is an associate professor in the History Department at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937 (Vancouver / Honolulu: University of British Colombia Press / University of Hawai’i Press, 2004), which won Honorable Mention in SHARP’s 2005 DeLong Book Prize competition and was awarded the 2003–5 International Conference of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Humanities Book Prize. He is currently researching Chinese print communism.
Solveig C. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing and Printing Arts program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is the editor of A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press, 2003) and the author of several articles on Victorian editors. She is also Managing Editor of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and Book Review Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review.
Erin A. Smith is Associate Professor of American Studies and Literature and associate director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her first book is Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines (Temple University Press, 2000). This article is part of a book project on twentieth-century American popular religious books and their readers tentatively entitled Souls and Commodities: Liberal Religion and Print Culture in Twentieth-Century America.
Shafquat Towheed is a Lecturer in Book History at the Open University. He is the editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901–1930 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, September 2007) and of the forthcoming Broadview Literary edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four, of New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780–1947 (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2007). He is co-editor (with Mary Hammond) of Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is currently working on the intersections between international copyright law and literature in Anglo-American writing, c.1880–1930, and is editing a collection of essays on Edith Wharton and the material cultures of the book. He is the 2006 Grolier Club Library Research Fellow.
Richard Yeo is an Australian Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Faculty of Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane. He is a [End Page 318...
