On Tuesday, March 25, 2014, I presented a talk entitled “Mapping the Bookstore in Nineteenth-Century New York City” at Columbia University’s wonderful Book History Colloquium. See the announcement and upcoming talks here. Here is the abstract of the talk, followed by my presentation slides (view on SlideShare here): The romanticization of the
What follows is the announcement for my talk on nineteenth-century NYC bookstores at NYU’s Bobst Library’s unCOMMON Salon Series at the Research Commons. The series hosts excellent interdisciplinary talks from scholars at NYU–see announcements here! Announcement and RSVP here. Map Credit: K. Highland The Bookstore in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Ed Whitley (Lehigh U) and Ryan Cordell (Northeastern U) organized a roundtable on “Networks and the Commons: A Roundtable on Digital, Archival, and Theoretical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture” as part of the C19 conference in Chapel Hill in March 2014, and invited me to speak on the bookstores project. The abstract and an excerpt of my
NewYorkScapes, a research and working group on NYC spaces and cultural productions, hosted an event, “Urban Humanities: A Symposium on research development, digital archives, and documentary practices” on April 11th, 2014 at NYU’s Humanities Initiative. Colleague Blevin Shelnutt and I organized a graduate student roundtable on cultural geography and digital methods. The
I had the pleasure of presenting on David Wrisley’s (American U of Beirut) “Geospatial Literary Studies” panel (#782) at MLA this past January. Along with co-presenters Anupam Basu (Washington U, St. Louis), Anne Stachura (U of Texas, Pan-American), and Rachael Scarborough King (UC, Santa Barbara), we traveled through the streets