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This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the basis of my (and Jonathan Hope's) call to return to overlooked collections as a way to incorporate new disciplinary investments in the fields of bibliography and book history including premodern critical race studies, trans* studies, gender studies as they intersect with bibliographic practice and book history.
Brandi Adams is an assistant professor in the Department of English and member of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her interests include book history, history of reading, early modern English drama, and premodern critical race and gender studies. Having formerly served as an undergraduate program manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she also researches the early history of artificial intelligence, early modern automata and how studying literature can have a significant and positive impact on computing. In addition to articles and reviews published in the journal Shakespeare, Shakespeare Survey, The Cahiers Élisabéthains, and Early Theatre, and in volumes including Shakespeare/Text, she is researching and writing her first monograph entitled Representations of Books and Readers in Early Modern English drama (1580-1640).
- Speaker
- Dr Brandi Adams
- Hosted by
- CEMS
- Venue
- Taylor A36 and online