Workshop in the History of Material Texts
<https://www.english.upenn.edu/graduate/working-groups/materialtexts>
5:15pm in the Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
*SPRING 2019 SCHEDULE*
Feb. 11: Kate van Orden (Harvard): ?Cutting Class: Music in Renaissance
Schoolbooks?
Feb. 18: Shira Brisman (Penn): ?How Light is Spent?
Feb. 25: Jeremy Dell (Dartmouth): ?Dying for History: The Materiality
of *Ta'rikh
*in the Niger Bend?
Mar. 11: David McKnight (Penn): ?Headquarters of the Avant-Garde?: The
Gotham Book Mart
and the Making and Marketing of Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century?
Mar. 18: Megan Robb (Penn): ?Printing the Urdu Public: *Madinah* Newspaper,
Muslims, and Urban Life in South Asia, 1900-1947?
Mar. 25: Matthew Brown (Iowa): ?A Poetics of Colportage: Pamphlets and
Chapbooks in Revolutionary-Era British America?
Apr. 1: Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins): John Milton in the Printing
House (1644)
Apr. 8: Sarah Horowitz (Haverford): ?Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and
the Illustrators of the Wig and Powder School: British Gift Books of the
1890s?
Apr. 15: Roger Chartier (Penn): ?The Book as Body, the Life as Editions:
>From Quevedo to Machado (de Assis)?
Apr. 22: Michael Suarez (Virginia): ?Annotation, Editing, and the Material
Text: The Case of Alexander Pope and His Contemporaries?
