‘New Frontiers in the History of Reading’ book launch Event

Following the publication of Mary Hammond’s collection The Edinburgh History of Reading (4 volumes), co-edited with Jonathan Rose, in May 2020, we are delighted to announce that Edinburgh University Press has teamed up with the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing to do an international book-launch and colloquium.

We have a great line-up of speakers drawn from across the four volumes of the collection; they will each introduce their chapter and explain its significance, and then we will be taking questions from the audience.

• Martha Driver - Pace University:  "Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, c. 1100 - c. 1500".
• Murat Umut Inan - University of Ankara:  "Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700"
• Cait Coker - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "The Other Digital Divide: Gendering Science Fiction Fan Reading in Print and Online, 1930 to the Present"
• Michael Wheeler - University of Southampton:  "William Gladstone Reads His Contemporaries"
• Joan Judge - York University: In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media"
• Joanna Pearce - York University: "The 'tactile Ba[b]ble under which the blind have hitherto groaned': Dots, Lines and Literacy for the Blind in Nineteenth-Century North America"
• Jessica Brandt - Montclair State University: "Just Send Zhivago: Reading Over, Under and Through the Iron Curtain"
• Pramod Nayar - University of Hyderabad: "Moral Readership and Political Apprenticeship: Commentaries on English Education in India, 1875-1930"

The link to the Eventbrite page is here.