Kristen 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
For the SHARP conference in July 2013, I partnered with Jim Green and Paul Erickson on a panel exploring the physical and social spaces of 18th and 19th century American bookstores. Michael Winship chaired the panel, which was also sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America. The panel description and