Virtual talk by Professor Martha Rust March 11, 2021 5:30pm.
Martha Rust is an associate professor of English at New York University, specializing in late-medieval English literature and manuscript culture. Her first book Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (Palgrave, 2007) envisioned the confines of a medieval manuscript as the potential territory of a virtual world; her current book project, Item: Lists and the Poetics of Reckoning in Late-Medieval England theorizes the list as a device that functions within three signifying domains; the domains of words, of pictures, and of things. She is also a founding editor of the blog Listology; exploring lists in all their possibilities.
