Contributors
- Contributors
Susanna Ashton is an assistant professor of American literature at Clemson University. She holds an undergraduate degree in English from Vassar College and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She has published articles about nineteenth-century book culture and authorship and is the author of a forthcoming book from Palgrave Press, In Partnership, Literary Collaborators in America 1870-1920. She is currently working on a book titled Black Men as Book Men: Studies in Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles Chesnutt, and William Stanley Braithwaite for Pennsylvania State University Press’s History of the Book series.
Matthew Loving has served for the past three years as reference librarian at the American Library in Paris. A specialist in French language and culture, he holds an advanced magistère degree from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, where he specialized in French literature. He is also a graduate of the University of South Florida’s School of Library and Information Science. He is currently working on research concerning the historical monetary value of books and information within the context of cultural developments in Western civilization.
G. K. Peatling is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He holds an undergraduate degree in modern history and a master’s degree in economic and social history from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in modern history from the same institution. He is the author of a number of articles on British and Irish political history and nineteenth- and twentieth-century library history as well as a book, British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth. Research interests in library and information science focus on the “problem patron” question, British public library historiography, libraries and national identity, British-Irish relations, and national identity in the North Atlantic archipelago.
Marek Sroka is head of cataloging at the Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He holds a master’s degree in English language and literature from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and an M.S. in library [End Page 186] and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recent publications include articles in Library History, Slavic & East European Information Resources, and the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. His primary research interests focus on Polish libraries and librarianship, both past and present, Polish publications, and the development of the Internet in Central and Eastern Europe.
