Many of our alumni and students have gone on to produce publications, exhibitions, conference presentations, seminars, lectures, and/or receive achievements (e.g., funding/grants for research projects, awards) that directly arose from their coursework in the BHPC program. The following list showcases the work of such individuals, demonstrating how they have contributed to the academic community through their studies in BHPC.
If you are an alumnus/alumna or current student, consider sharing your work by following the guidelines in the Call for Contributions. Contributions are accepted on a rolling basis.
| Chana Algarvio Graduated 2022, MI |
“Re-examining ‘the Book’ through Ancient Egyptian Tomb Walls.” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 60, no.1 (2023): 1–40.
“Divine Power of the Written Word: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Stone.” Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Conference, online, July 2022. “Imagining the Underworld: Stone, Wood, and Papyrus as Carriers of Ancient Egyptian Guidebooks to the Afterlife.” Paper presented at the 2022 Book History and Print Culture Student Colloquium, online, March 2022. |
Stemmed from BKS1001 and BKS1002 |
| Miriam Borden Current student, PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures |
2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize | Stemmed from BKS1001, BKS2000, and 2024 BHPC Colloquium presentation |
| Heidi Craig Graduated 2017, PhD in English |
Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts | Stemmed from BKS2001 |
| Risa de Rege Braga Current student, MI |
“The 19th Century Medieval: The Inserted Illuminations of the Fisher Antiphonarium.” Paper presented at the Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, University of Saint Louis, June 2023.
“Intended Vice: Reframing Damage in the Study of the Book.” Paper presented at the Annual Bibliographical and Book Studies in Canada Conference, York University, May 2023. “Books and the Body: Creating an Artist’s Book.” In Book Arts/arts du livre Canada 13, no. 1 (summer 2022). |
Stemmed from BKS1002, elective courses, and Bib Room volunteering |
| Aaron Donachuk Graduated 2018, PhD in English |
“After the Letter: Typographical Distraction and the Surface of Morris’s Kelmscott Romances.” Victorian Studies 59, no. 2 (winter 2017): 260–287. | Stemmed from BKS2001 |
| Gregory Fewster Graduated 2019, PhD in the Study of Religion |
“Finding Your Place: Developing Cross-reference Systems in Late Antique Biblical Codices.” In The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship, edited by Garrick E. Allen, 153–177. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. | Stemmed from BKS1001 and BKS2001 |
| Chelsea Humphries Graduated 2020, MI |
“Off the Rails: The Influence of the British Railway on Nineteenth-Century Publishing.” The IJournal: Student Journal of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information 5, no.1 (2020): 41–56. | Stemmed from BKS1001 and BKS1002 |
| Dana Lew Current student, PhD in English |
“Introduction: Ewan Clark’s Miscellaneous Poems.” Sterne Digital Library, 2022.
“Yorick’s Regional Jargon: Sentimentality, Sterne, and the Cumberland Book Trade.” The Shandean 32, no.1 (2021): 92–126. |
Stemmed from BKS2001 |
| Austin Long Current student, PhD in English |
“Grubstreet Icarus: Staples Steare, Book-Trade Opportunism, and Sterne.” The Shandean 31, (2020): 43–66. | Stemmed from BKS2001 |
| Margaret E. Schotte Graduated 2007, MA in History |
“‘Books for the Use of the Learned and Studious’: William London’s Catalogue of Most Vendible Books.” Book History 11, no.1 (2008): 33–57. | Stemmed from BKS1000 (currently BKS1001) |
| Alejandro Soifer Graduated 2022, PhD in Latin American Literature |
“Under the Shadow of Catastrophe: New Millennium Argentinian Science-Fiction.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 32, no.3 (2021): 325–348. | Stemmed from BKS2001 |
| Bard Swallow Current student, PhD in Medieval Studies |
“High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book.” Games and Culture (2023): 1–12. | Stemmed from BKS2000 |
| Philip Trotter Current student, PhD in English |
“Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne.” Sterne Digital Library, 2021.
“‘Wearing Presumption’s Garb’: Isaac Brandon’s Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne.” The Shandean 32, no.1 (2021): 127–155. |
Stemmed from BKS2001 |