Contributors
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Sebouh D. Aslanian holds the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History and is Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. He specializes in early modern world and Armenian history and is the author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Historical Review, Journal of World History, Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient, Journal of Global History, and Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. He is the author of From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (University of California Press, 2011) and is currently working on a second book project, provisionally titled The Voyage of the Santa Catharina: A Global Microhistory of the Indian Ocean.
Jose Bellido is a Senior lecturer in law at Kent Law School, Canterbury. He is the Spanish national editor of the digital archive Primary Sources of Copyright (www.copyrighthistory.org), edited by Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow). He has recently published a book on Evidence and Artistic Copyright, which was awarded the 6th Annual Prize of the Fundación Arte y Derecho (Madrid). He is interested in the history of international copyright and its interaction with local narratives.
Meaghan J. Brown is a visiting lecturer in English at Florida State University. Her current work examines the development of the rhetorical presentation of printing and printers within early modern texts. Her research interests include bibliography, early modern English printing, and narratives of the English nation. Her research has benefited from a Bibliographical Society of America short-term fellowship and a CLIR-Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in Original Sources.
Lianbin Dai is a Harvard College Fellow (2013–2014). He studies reading practices in relation to knowledge acquisition and innovation in twelfth-to-eighteenth-century China. He is also interested in bibliography and textual scholarship. Dai received his BA from Nankai University (Tianjin, [End Page 459] China), his MA from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), and his DPhil from Oxford University.
John L. Dwiggins is a lecturer in history at the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching and research interests include early American political thought, democratization, and popular political culture. He is currently working on a book about the growth of the military establishment and democratic conflicts over military expertise in the early national United States.
Simon Frost, formerly external lecturer with the University of Southern Denmark, is now a senior lecturer in English at Bournemouth University. He is author of The Business of a Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch (Pickering and Chatto, 2012) and of numerous articles on the material text, and co-editor of Moveable Type, Mobile Nations: Interactions in Transnational Book History (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010). This article emerges from his contributions to an international joint research project headed by Prof. Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén (Uppsala University), Dynamic Interactions between Science and Culture; its findings were aired at the conference What is a Scientific Author: Cultures of Scientific Publishing in May 2013, at Harvard University. He is currently an Executive Board member of SHARP.
Molly O’Hagan Hardy is the Digital Humanities Curator and the American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, where she is managing the construction of The Database of the Early American Book Trade and the Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads online resource. This article is part of her larger research project, which examines debates around literary property and race in the eighteenth-century Anglophone transatlantic world.
Rachael Scarborough King is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at New York University, where she is completing a dissertation on the role of letters and letter writing in the rise of print in the long eighteenth century.
Matthew Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland; he is also a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. He is currently [End Page 460] completing a book entitled Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, under contract to Harvard University Press.
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