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2020 Program Sessions

114. Weird Books

3:30 PM–4:45 PM Jan 9, 2020 (US - Pacific)

Sheraton - Willow A

Session Information

Description: Let us think critically about the role of weirdness in studying the material text. How do seemingly idiosyncratic features or ways of printing challenge the histories we tell about the book in the present? Scholars and practitioners from all career stages excavate the history and materiality of a weird book.

Speakers

Tia Blassingame, Scripps C

Amaranth Borsuk, U of Washington, Bothell

Kari M. Kraus, U of Maryland, College Park

Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Presider

Élika Ortega, U of Colorado, Boulder

Whitney Trettien, U of Pennsylvania

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