Contributors
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Kay Amert is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa.
Roger Chartier, born in 1945 in Lyon, is currently Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Annenberg Visiting Professor in History at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Inscrire et effacer. Culture Écrite et littérature, XIe-XVIIIe siècles has been published in the collection "Hautes Études" (Gallimard/Seuil) and will be translated into English by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Caroline Davis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. She teaches in the undergraduate and Master of Arts publishing programs, specializing in British publishing history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the co-editor of Computers and Language (1992) and Politics of the Electronic Text (1993). Her recent research focuses on postcolonial publishing in Africa.
Richard Gassan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the spring of 2002. His dissertation, "The Birth of American [End Page 321] Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835," is in the process of becoming a book of the same name and is under consideration by Fordham University Press. Currently he is a lecturer at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and a senior lecturer at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Christine Haynes is Assistant Professor of modern European history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She completed her dissertation, "Lost Illusions: The Rise of the Book Publisher and the Construction of a Literary Marketplace in Nineteenth-Century France," at the University of Chicago in 2001. During the spring of 2005, she held a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University, where she undertook additional research on author-publisher relations for a forthcoming book manuscript on the politics of publishing in nineteenth-century France.
Valerie Holman is Leverhulme Research Fellow in Book History at the University of Reading, where her research focuses on English publishing from 1938 to 1949. She has recently contributed to Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain (Henry Moore Institute, 2003), The Rise of the Image (Ashgate, 2003), and Publishing History (2004).
Patricia May B. Jurilla is pursuing a doctoral degree in the History of the Book in the Philippines at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has Master of Arts degrees in English from Boston College and in the History of the Book from the University of London. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines (Diliman).
Joanne E. Passet is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University East in Richmond, Indiana. She formerly taught in the graduate programs of library and information science at Indiana University Bloomington, Dominican University, and University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality (2003) and Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-17 (1994) and the coauthor with Mary Niles Maack of Aspirations and Mentoring: Women in an Academic Environment (1994), she is interested in gender, reading, and the uses of print culture in late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American social movements.
Paul J. Patterson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation is a critical edition of the Mirror to Devout People (Speculum [End Page 322] Devotorum), an anonymous fifteenth-century Carthusian devotional text written for female readers. He is interested in the transition from manuscript to print culture and late medieval and early modern religious history. This year he will hold a short-term fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
Joseph Ripp is the Special Collections Cataloger at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he primarily works with collections of Irish literature and history, British and American expatriate writers, and materials pertaining to First Amendment freedoms. His current work involves the ambivalent response of Christian readers to fantasy literature, an outgrowth of his general interest in the interaction of books with their audiences and with other media...
