Contributors
- Contributors
Thomas Augst is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He received an undergraduate degree in literature and history from Yale University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University. He is the author of a number of articles and reviews and a book entitled The Business of Living: Character, Manhood, and Literary Practices in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. He coedited, with Wayne Wiegand, a special issue of American Studies 42, no. 3 (fall 2001), “Proceedings of the Rhetoric Society of America.” Areas of special interest focus on American literature and culture in the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries and the history and theory of reading.
Kenneth Carpenter, currently retired, held a number of positions at the Harvard University Library from 1959 through 2000. His contributions to book history and, more specifically, to library history include the organization of the 1980 conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the papers of which were published as Books and Society in History (Bowker, 1983); The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library (Harvard University Library, 1986); and Harvard University Library: A Documentary History (University Publications of America, 1990), a microfiche publication with printed guide. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from Bowdoin College and an M.S. in library science from Simmons College. He is the author of the recently published The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776-1843 (Bibliographical Society of America, 2002). Current research focuses on the development of learned library collections in the United States.
Gregory Frohnsdorff is Catalog Librarian at Charleston County Public Library in Charleston, South Carolina. He earned a bachelor of arts in ancient studies from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an M.L.S. from Kent State University. He has written about cataloging issues for Library Resources & Technical Services. His primary area of research is West Indian printing history. [End Page 72]
Lisa Lindell is a catalog librarian and associate professor at Hilton B. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, in Brookings, South Dakota. She holds an undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two master’s degrees, one in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and another in English from South Dakota State University. She has published several articles in history journals, and current research interests include the literature of the Great Plains as well as regional, local, and family history.
Jonathan Rose is a professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University and a master’s and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor, with Ezra Greenspan, of the journal Book History, and his recent publications include The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale University Press, 2001), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), and The Oxford Companion to the Book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2005. Special interests in research and writing focus on the history of reading and publishing in modern Britain.
