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Abdullaeva, Firuza
Oriental Institute
firuza.abdullaeva@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Persian illustrated and
illuminated manuscripts
Alessandrini, Jan Luigi
St Edmund Hall
janluigi.alessandrini@seh.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Didacticism in early
medieval German and Italian literatures.
Ambrose, James M
Keble College
james.ambrose@keble.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research Staff
Research Interests: Early modern French theatre; classical reception; editions, translations and adaptations of Seneca the dramatist.
Atherton, Mark
Regent's Park College
mark.atherton@regents.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Late Old English literature
and its manuscripts, especially eleventh and
twelfth centuries
Aubertin-Potter, Norma
All Souls College
codrington.library@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: Book trade in Oxford 1650
– 1900
Baird, Liz Taylor Institution Library
liz.baird@taylib.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research interests: Italian
16th-century books, particularly their bindings, and also their illustrations
Baloch, Tariq
Corpus Christi, Oxford
tariq.baloch@law.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Law book trade history
and general legal history.
Bangert, Susanne Ashmolean Museum
susanne.bangert@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: John Evans's book
collection
Bangha, Imre
Oriental Institute
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Transmission of Pre-
modern Hindi literary texts from the time of
emergence of manuscript culture in the 16th c till
the 19th c. when printing took over. I work on the
transmission of the textual legacy of Brajbhasha
and other poets such as Tulsidas, Labhanand,
Anandghan, Vajid and Thakur.
Barnard, John
john_barnard@hotmail.com
Research interests: British book history, 17th century onwards
Barnard, Toby
Hertford College
toby.barnard@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: cultures of print in Ireland,
c.1650-1800
Bate, Claudia
Somerville College
claudia.bate@some.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Paleography as
applied to study of Medieval Italian lyric poetry
Benaissa, Amin
Wolfson College
amin.benaissa@classics.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research Staff (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Research Interests: Greek literary
and documentary papyrology
Bennett, Sara Drake
University of Oxford
sara.bennett@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Graduate, D Phil. Candidate
Research Interests: 16th c., 17th c. booktrade and reading. Popular medico-sexual and
erotic works from both England and France in the 17th century. Part of this project has involved cataloguing some of the most popular medico-sexual works of the era; particularly British pseudo-Aristotelian texts.
Binbas, Ilker Evrim
University of Chicago / Sackler Library
iebinbas@uchicago.edu
Library staff
Research Interests: Historiography,
Genealogy and genealogical trees
Bonomi, Bianca
Merton College
biancabonomi@merton.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Anti-
Catholicism in the Early Modern period, particularly
in Spenser.
Bowie, Ewen
Corpus Christi College
ewen.bowie@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: illustrated
editions of ancient Greek novels
Bowman, Alan
Brasenose College
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Hellenistic and
Roman Egypt, Greek and Latin Papyri, Vindolanda
Writing-tablets
Brigden, Susan
Lincoln College
susan.brigden@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Sir Thomas
Wyatt (c.1503-1542) and his circle
Brockliss, Laurence Magdalen College
laurence.brockliss@magd.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Private libraries
and knowledge transmission and creation in France
1600-1830
Bruckner, Undine
Modern Languages Faculty
undine.bruckner@seh.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: women's writing
and education in the MA; mystics, nuns and lay
people in popular piety and contemporary theology
of the MA; body issues, didactic texts, marriage,
virginity, widowhood; clothing and cloth-related
Bullard, Paddy
St Catherine's College
paddy.bullard@ell.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Criticism
(specifically texts by Jonathan Swift); Printing of
parliamentary speeches; Editing and reprinting of
C17th-century texts during C18th; C18th
antiquarianism and Library collecting
Burton, Daniel
Oriental Institute
daniel.burton@oriental-
institute.oxford.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Coptic
Manuscripts (Writings of Shenoute and the Coptic
Bible)
Cavill, Paul
Merton College
paul.cavill@merton.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: I work on the English
Parliament in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
I am therefore interested in the ways in which
people find out about and engage with legislation
through manuscript and printed texts (such as
statute-books and proclamations).
Coates, Alan
Rare Books, Bodleian Library alan.coates@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: Incunabula;
history of libraries and collections, especially
printed books in Bodleian Library
Condon, Liam
Exeter College
liam.condon@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The life and
publications of John Dunton (1659-1732).
Cram, David
Centre for Linguistics / Jesus
College
david.cram@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: General
Research interests in the history of linguistic
ideas, with special reference to the 17th century.
Previous work includes an edition of the published
and unpublished works of George Dalgarno (OUP
2001), and of the MS Book of Games of Francis
Willughby (Ashgate 2003). Currently working on
editions of the non-mathematical works of John
Wallis (Grammar, Logic and Tracts on music).
Crassus, Laura
St Hugh's College
laura.crassus@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: History of the
book and reading in Europe.
Dai, Lianbin University College
lianbin.dai@univ.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research interests: Reading practices and society in
sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China
de Bellaigue, Christina
Exeter College
christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: History of
reading in relation to history of education and
literacy; dissemination of English pedagogical
literature in France and French pedagogical
literature in England.
De Visscher, Eva Oriel College
eva.devisscher@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: intellectual
Jewish-Christian relations; Hebrew learning among
Christian scholars; Christian use of Hebrew texts
De Weerdt, Hilde Dr. Stanley Ho University Lecturer in Chinese History and fellow of Pembroke College
hilde.deweerdt@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Chinese intellectual history and political culture;
the circulation of gazettes, maps, archival compilations, letters and notebooks;
the history of reading; the geography of book production; the multifarious uses of
print technology in Chinese society
Desmouliere, Paule
Merton College
paule.desmouliere@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Consolatio
mortis : funerary poetry / prose sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Devereaux, Johanna
Merton College
johanna,devereaux@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Women's writing
1550-1780, print culture and patronage,
dissemination and readership of women's texts
Donadoni, Eugenio Maria
Brasenose College
eugenio.donadoni@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Classical
influences in early sixteenth century French
literature. Illustrated manuscripts. The
transmission of images from the 15th to 16th
century France.
Dotson, Brandon
Oriental Institute
brandon.dotson@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: I work with Old Tibetan
documents, mostly from Dunhuang. Most of these
are mss., but there are wooden slips and inscribed
stone edicts. I read this mainly for the purposes of
social history.
Duncan-Jones, Katherine
English Faculty
independent scholar
Research Interests: Literature and
cultural history of the Elizabethan and early
Jacobean periods
Eagan, Jane
Oxford Conservation
Consortium/Magdalen College
jane.eagan@magd.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: History of papermaking
and bookbodcat
Faulkner, Mark
St John's College
mark.faulkner@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Use of pre-
Conquest manuscripts after 1066; broader
reception history. Textual dissemination. Literacy.
Ferguson Hand, Meraud
meraudgf@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Commercial
control of printed texts in England before 1547;
King's Printers up to the same date; history of intellectual property in general.
Fisher, Tyler Magdalen College
tyler.fisher@magd.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: My doctoral
studies involve the History of the Book insofar as
they examine the evolution of metaphors for
representing texts and textual production in the
16th and 17th centuries in Spain.
Fitzherbert, Teresa
Oriental Institute
teresa.fitzherbert@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: The art of the
Islamic book, especially illustrated Persian
manuscripts
Galligan, Francesca
Bodleian Library
Library staff
Research Interests: Library of
Samuel Harsnett; epic poetry (Latin/Italian) in
manuscript and print.
Gillespie, Vincent
English Faculty vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: history of
medieval libraries; production, transmission and
reception history of medeival texts; palaeography
and codicology; early printed books.
Granucci, Melati
melatigranucci@gmail.com
Graduate
Research Interests: Mostly Persian
and Arabic manuscripts, historical, theological,
poetical, etc. from the medieval period.
Griffin, Clive Trinity College
clive.griffin@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Printing, printing-workers, and the book trade in 16th-century Spain and Spanish America
Griffin, Michael Oriel College
michael.griffin@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Textual
traditions of philosophical manuscripts in Greek,
including commentators and later scholia
Gunn, Steven
Merton College
steven.gunn@merton.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Production and
reception of government publications, news and
historical works in England and the Netherlands
c.1470-1570.
Haidar, Otared
Oriental Institute
otared.haidar@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Arabic and comparative literature, literary theory and journalism, print culture 19 to 21 century.
Halkias, Georgios
Oriental Institute
georgios.halkias@gmail.com
independent scholar
Research Interests: Tibetan
Buddhism and Tibetan textual studies
Hannah, Ralph
Keble College
Teaching/Research staff
Hardwick, Louise
Trinity College
louise.hardwick@tri.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The History of
the Book in the Caribbean
Harris, Jose
St Catherine's College
jose.harris@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Nineteenth and
twentieth century archives intellectual and social
history, and relations between the two
Hebbert, Benjamin
St Cross College
benjamin.hebbert@gmail.com
Graduate
Research Interests: London Music
Trade c.1640-1725. Transition of music publishing
and the musical instrument trade from a patronage
based to a commercial industry after the English
Civil War, and the development of this trade in the
late seventeenth century
Hotson, Howard
St Anne's College
howard.hotson@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: intellectual
history of early modern Europe, including
philosophical textbooks, encyclopaedias, and their
role in the educational and intellectual
transformations of the period
Hurst, Clive
Bodleian Library
ch@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: history of the
book in general, historic children's books,
nineteenth century english literature
Jenkinson, Matthew
Merton College
mtjenkinson@yahoo.co.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The politics of
seventeenth century literature, especially sermons.
The relationship between the royal court, scribal
transmission, and the print trade.
Johnson, Scott
Keble College
scott.johnson@keble.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Late Antique and
Byzantine manuscripts. Early Greek and middle-
eastern language printing.
Johnson, Jeri
Exeter College
jeri.johnson@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Anglo-American
/ British Modernism especially James Joyce,
Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound
Johnson, Daniel
Corpus Christi College
daniel.johnson@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Education,
Humanism, and Religion in 16th Century England
Joubert, Estelle
Somerville College
estelle.joubert@some.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Chant
transmission and dissemination, printed and
manuscript music sources, late medieval and early
Renaissance music notation.
Kaufmann Miranda
Christ Church miranda.kaufmann@chch.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Tudor
Perceptions of Africa; Travel Literature (e.g Hakluyt)
Kelley, Caroline
eruditeblond@hotmail.com
Graduate
Research Interests: Interested
especially in counter-culture small presses and
publications (France/Canada); Algerian books in
French (1900-1970); "grrl zines"
Kiss, Mr Csaba
Oriental Institute
csaba.kiss@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Saiva Sanskrit
MSS
Kominko, Maja
Institute of Archaeology
Research Interests: Byzantine
manuscript illumination. I am writing my doctorate
thesis on the sources of the miniatures in the
byzantine codices of the Christian Topography
Kraus, Helen
Harris Manchester College
helen.kraus@hmc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Early modern
printed bible translations
Kurtz, Donna
Faculty of Classics
donna.kurtz@beazley.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: digitisation of
antiquarian books 1450-1850 with catalogues
and/or illustrations of classical art. digitised books
to be on web, records for objects to be created and
linked to scholarly databases. See
www.beazley.o9x.ac.uk and www.clarosnet.org
Larminie, Vivienne
History of Parliament; associate, Oxford DNB
vivienne.larminie@history.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: (1) Reading and its impact among English gentry and others late 16th-early 18th centuries;
(2) Books, reading and the transmission of ideas in the Pays de Vaud, Switzerland, 1536-1798
Law, Timothy Michael
Oriental Institute
timothy.law@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Early textual
history of Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament),
which includes the translations into Greek, Syriac,
Armenian, Latin, etc. Along with Biblical texts in
manuscripts and printed books.
Lewis, James
Oriental Institute
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Korean and
Japanese book production, trade, and conservation.
Lewis, Gillian
St Anne's College
gillian.lewis@history.ox.ac.uk
retired
Research Interests: Book trade in
16thc/17thc Europe especially France; within
France especially Lyon; also Geneva. Medical mss
and printed books of that period; natural
philosophy mss and printed books of that period.
Inventories and catalogues of personal book
collections and libraries of that period.
Lloyd, Daniel
Merton College
daniel.lloyd@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: German courtly
literature around the twelfth Century, also Anglo-
German (Imperial) cultural relations in that period.
Longworth, Kate Magdalen College
kate.longworth@magd.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Nineteenth and
twentieth century book history.
Lund, Mary Ann
Mansfield College
mary.lund@mansfield.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: The history of
reading in early modern England
MacLean, Aaron
Balliol College
aaron.maclean@gmail.com
Research Interests: Medieval
Islamicate texts, principally in Arabic but also
Hebrew and Persian, in all subjects (but, as life is
short, principally theology, philosophy and those
which concern 'intellectual history' in some form).
Maclean, Ian
All Souls (History Faculty; Modern
Languages Faculty)
ian.maclean@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: The trade in
printed books in Europe in the early modern
period; the Frankfurt Book Fair
MacRobert, Catherine Mary
Lady Margaret Hall
catherine.macrobert@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Aspects of
Cyrillic and Glagolitic Palaeography, especially in
the South Slav area.
Magee, David S K J
Exeter College
david.magee@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: 'Popular' and
cheap periodical publishing in early nineteenth-
century London; individual and communal reading
practices; and the status of printed 'knowledge' in
metropolitan popular culture, c.1815-c.1840.
Malouta, Myrto
Faculty of Classics
myrto.malouta@classics.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Greek
Papyrology, mainly documentary.
Martin, Joanna
Lincoln College
joanna.martin@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Scottish Literary
Manuscripts and the history of printing in Scotland
Mathias, Manon
Trinity College
manon.mathias@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The history of
the book, focusing on the works of George Sand
McAuley, Denis
Oriental Institute
denis.mcauley@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Ibn Arabi's
poetry; Sufi thought and Arabo-Persian literature
McClune, Kate
St Hilda's College
katherine.mcclune@st-
hildas.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Early Scottish
printed books and manuscripts; the relationship
between
MSS and prints
Meredith-Goymour, Hallie
Lincoln College
hallie.meredith-
goymour@lincoln.oxon.org
Graduate
Research Interests: Palaeography
and inscriptions on late antique movable material
culture; early Christian to early Byzantine
illuminated manuscripts.
Miller, Brandon
Christ Church brandon.miller@chch.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Early Chinese
bamboo manuscripts discovered in recent tomb
excavations;the production, transmission, and
editing of pre-Imperial and Han dynasty texts, and
their relation to received texts; the textual
consequences of the materials used in pre-Han
and Han "books"
Milsom, Dr John
Library of Christ Church
j.milsom@lineone.net
independent scholar
Research Interests: History of the
Music collections at Christ Church, Oxford. History
of music transmission in 16th-century England.
Minkowski, Christopher
Oriental Institute
christopher.minkowski@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Sanskrit
intellectual history and the history of institutions
that supported Sanskritic textuality in India in the
early modern and late medieval period: scribes,
circulation networks, patrons, libraries, collectors,
the economic market in manuscript trade, and so
on.
Morgan, Gaye
All Souls College
gaye.morgan@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: History of bookbinding
and related trades in late Medieval and early modern
periods; provenance research and library history.
Mossman, Stephen
St John's College
stephen.mossman@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Manuscript
transmission of primarily
theological/philosophical/spiritual works of
German/Dutch/central European origin in central
and later Middle Ages, in Latin and in vernacular
Murray, Sophie
Merton College
sophie.murray@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Reformation
history, particularly the use of humour in C16th
texts and the production of satirical woodcuts.
Nash, Paul W
paul.w.nash@virgin.net
Independent scholar
Research Interests: Printing history,
techniques and technology; architectural books
and publishing; typography and book-design;
wood-engraving and other illustration techniques;
amateur printing and the private presses
Neagu, Cristina, Christ Church
cristina.neagu@chch.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, approaches to decoration
and preferred techniques in manuscript vs print during the 15th and 16th centuries, the separation of image from script, textual theory and criticism.
Nicholls, Matthew
The Queen's College
matthew.nicholls@queens.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Public libraries
in the Roman empire
Norbrook, David
Merton College
david.norbrook@ell.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Lucy
Hutchinson, manuscript circulation of early
modern women writers, 17c print culture/public
sphere
see: Centre for Early Modern Studies
Oledzka, Eva Bodleian Library
eva.oledzka@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research interests: Illuminated manuscripts (Western: medieval and later), History of libraries, History of collecting, Museology, Antiquaries, Material culture (including aspects of early printed books and bindings), Architectural history & Archaeology (especially medieval and later representations of western architecture and interiors).
Ovenden, Richard Bodleian Library
richard.ovenden@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff; Director, Centre for the Study of the Book
Research interests: History of collecting, bookbinding, and the book trade, c. 1500-1800; History of libraries, History of photography; Antiquarianism
Parkinson, Stephen
Modern Languages
Faculty
stephen.parkinson@mod-
langs.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Manuscripts of
the Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th-c. Spain) and
their European contemporaries and counterparts;
the editorial implications of the layout of text and
music and the juxtaposition of text and music
Parpulov, Georgi R.
History Faculty
georgi.parpulov@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research Staff
Research Interests: Greek and Cyrillic palaeography; Byzantine manuscript illumination; Psalters
Poole, William
New College
william.poole@new.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Manuscript
transmission in printed culture in the seventeenth
century; sixteenth- to eighteenth-century
provenance
Research; the history of the
Bodleian Library; the history of the Royal Society
Library and archives; book trade and collection in
later seventeenth-century London; Hans Sloane.
Prag, Jonathan
Merton College
jonathan.prag@merton.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Indirectly
interested in matters of textual transmission
concerning classical texts; interested in the early
development of study of classical inscriptions and
their recording and publication; in what can be
printed about literacy from the development of
printing; and in aspects of 18th century classical
reception.
Puk, Alexander
Somerville College
alexander.puk@classics.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Papyrology;
Early Latin Texts
Ratcliffe, Donald J
University of Oxford donald.ratcliffe@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: reading
Razzi, Wade
Merton College
Anthony.Razzi@Merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Currently I am
Researching the career and writings of Robert
Crowley, a poet and printer active during the reign
of Edward VI. I am also interested in the 15th and
16th century print trade in England and have a
particular interest in the careers of John Day and
Richard Grafton. The circulation of "Piers Plowman"
manuscripts has recently become part of my
Research.
Reuter, Victoria
St Cross College
victoria.reuter@stx.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Ancient (Greek)
Myths in Modern Literature, mostly in a
Comparative Context. Including Feminist re-
workings, and cross-cultural comparisons.
Ritter, Robert
St Anne's College
rmr@ritter.org.uk
Graduate
Research interests: editorial process in
printing and publishing, particularly the history and influence of house rules and house style.
Robson, Peter Simon
Corpus Christi College
peter.robson@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Old English MSS
and libraries
Rosenberg, Stanley P
Wycliffe Hall
stan.rosenberg@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Reading,
literacy, textuality and orality in Late Antiquity;
Patristic Preaching & Pedagogy; Augustine and Late
Antique North Africa; Early Christian Cosmology
Sargent, Clare
Radley College
& Vice-Chair CILIP
Rare Books Group
cds@radley.org.uk
independent scholar
Research Interests: History of
Library buildings and the development of
College
collections
Saville, Amanda
The Queen's College
amanda.saville@queens.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: The collections
of the Queen's College
Library Oxford
Schaeper, Silke St John's College
silke.schaeper@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research interests: History of the Hebrew book, Hebraica & Judaica bibliography, Hebrew incunables, Hebrew typography & typeface design, Cooperative cataloguing of early printed Hebrew books in Oxford (Bodleian Library & College libraries), German-Jewish history, Jewish library history
Sharpe, Richard
History Faculty
richard.sharpe@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Libraries from
late antiquity to the early renaissance; publication
and dissemination of new texts, circulation of and
access to texts; changing bibliographical
perceptions of texts; relationship between text and
book.
Siebert, Matthew
University of Oxford
Graduate
Research Interests: Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy - Aristotle, Proclus, Anselm,
Aquinas, Suarez.
Simelidis, Christos Lincoln College
christos.simelidis@classics.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Greek palaeography and textual criticism;
the poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus; Byzantine scholarship.
Smith, Lesley
Harris Manchester College
lesley.smith@hmc.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Interface
between intellectual change and technological
change in book making, distribution and use. I'm
just finishing a book on the Glossa Ordinaria.
Solopova, Elizabeth
Bodleian Library
es@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: Old and Middle
English manuscripts, psalters
Southcombe, George
Independent scholar and tutor george.southcombe@history.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Restoration
nonconformist culture. Shrews.
Springford, John
Merton College
john.springford@history.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: My D.Phil. is on
the public sphere in New England, 1630-1700;
particularly the impact of the rise of print in the
colonies on Puritan cultural and social life.
Stainsby, Jon
Merton College
jonathan.stainsby@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: C17th Literature
and Political Thought
Strange, Mark
Merton College
mark.strange@merton.oxford.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Chinese
historical narrative between 4th and 11th centuries
A.D. Textual transmission, editing, and reception
in China between 4th and 11th centuries A.D.
Strohm, Reinhard
Music Faculty
reinhard.strohm@music.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Music history,
especially social and textual
Suarez, S.J., Michael F
michael.suarez@campion.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: British book history 1660-1830; analytic and enumerative bibliography;
electronic texts and modern editing; the synergies between book history and bibliography.
Sutherland, Kathryn
English Faculty kathryn.sutherland@st-
annes.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: currently
developing a digital archive of Jane Austen's Fiction
Manuscripts. This work is funded by the AHRC.
Also interested in: textual theory and criticism;
modern working manuscript studies; the
intermediation of print and electronic technologies
Sytsema, Johanneke
Taylor Institution Library
johanneke.sytsema@taylib.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: I'm preparing a
text edition of Codex Unia (Ms. Junius 49 and 109),
a 17th century direct copy of a 15th century Old-
Frisian ms. Codex Unia is of special interest for its
archaic Old-Frisian from the region west of the
river Lauwers. It is the most linguistically archaic
ms. from this region and hence of interest to the
further study of Old-Frisian.
Tam, Ka Chai
Institute for Chinese Studies, University
of Oxford
ka.tam@sant.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The reasons and
effects of the publication of judicial casebooks in
China in the early 17th century
Taylor, David G K
Oriental Institute
david.taylor@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: I specialise in
Syriac and Aramaic manuscripts, their
palaeography and codicology (as well as textual
contents!), of all periods and regions, and have
catalogued or am cataloguing major collections in
the UK and India. I also have a strong interest in
the history of Syriac printing and typography in
Europe, the Middle East, and India, and have just
published an annotated handlist of printed Syriac
lexica.
Thompson, Peter
History Faculty
peter.thompson@history.oxford.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: See [Thompson]
"William Bullock's 'Strange Adventure': A Plan to
Transform Seventeenth-Century Virginia", William
and Mary Quarterly LXI (2004),107-128.
Tomlin, R.S.O. Wolfson College
roger.tomlin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Latin
manuscripts of the Roman imperial period
including papyri, but especially written with ink on
wood, or stilus on wood and metal.
Tourlamain, Guy
History Faculty
guy.tourlamain@sant.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Books and
intellectual history in Germany from 1870, with a
particular emphasis on nationalist writing and
publishing
Turner, Kate
St Hugh's College
kate.turner@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: Seventeenth
century Spanish
Tytler, Izumi Bodleian Library
izumi.tytler@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: history of Japanese books, printing and production.
van Lint, Prof. Theo Maarten
Oriental Institute
theo.vanlint@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Medieval
Armenian manuscripts and early printed works
Volkmer, Jeffrey A
Oriental Institute
jeffrey.volkmer@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: My primary
interest is in Old Testament text criticism with a
particular focus on Syriac Old Testament versions
as regards their syntax, translation technique,
reading tradition, and quality as a version of the
Hebrew Proto-Masoretic Text.
Walworth, Julia Merton College
julia.walworth@merton.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: the compilation of indexes in medieval academic books;
the function of illustration and decoration in medieval
university manuscript books and in early modern printed
books; and the history of libraries and of book collecting.
Waller, Philip
Merton College
philip.waller@merton.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Authors and the
reading public, c.1870-1918; particularly, stage
adaptations, impact of foreign writers in Britain,
and explorations in unorthodox religion
Ward, Benedicta
Theology faculty benedicta.ward@theology.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Anglo-Saxons
esp Bede's works; anselm of canterbury; miracles,
relics, saints lives
Warren, Christopher
Merton College
Graduate
Booktrade; reading; textual transmission
Research Interests: Liberalism and
the Book, Discourses of Imprisonment
Wells, Andrew
Merton College
andrew.wells@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: My
Research focuses on licit and illicit texts in
eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain,
specifically looking at erotica/pornography in an
intellectual/cultural history linking sexuality and
race.
Wheale, Sarah
Bodleian Library
sarah.wheale@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Library staff
Research Interests: Library history,
reading, ESTC.
Whitworth, Michael
Merton College
michael.whitworth@merton.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Popular science
and philosophy books; literary anthologies; literary
periodicals (both "little magazines" and
conservative formats); descriptive bibliography of
Sir Herbert Read; art books.
Wilkinson, Claire
Merton College
claire.wilkinson@merton.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: A commentary
on the fragments of Ibycus
Willoughby, James
History Faculty
james.willoughby@history.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Library history,
1100 to 1600; early modern collectors
Wrightson, Nick
Jesus College
nicholas.wrightson@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Graduate
Research Interests: The
transatlantic transmission of information and
ideas; the development of Anglo-American print
culture and the book trade; print and science. The
relationship between print, manuscript and oral
culture in the development of transatlantic social
networks and literary communities.
Wu, Duncan
St Catherine's College
duncan.wu@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Teaching/Research staff
Research Interests: Wordsworth,
Hazlitt, the Romantics
  
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