Books, texts, films and other cultural artifacts are often viewed as objects without any inherent agency other than as representations of human action or authorial intention. New opportunities for engaging book history are arising from new materialist, more-than-human, and postcolonial theories, and this year’s colloquium seeks to foster some of this burgeoning research. Recent scholarship, […]

Texts inhabit many material forms: they can be passed down orally, marked on papyrus scrolls, handwritten into spiral-bound notebooks, and typed into digital blogs. Scholars of book history, information sciences, media studies, and digital humanities have long maintained that form is inseparable from content. Whether physically recorded or orally transmitted, texts codify human experience as […]