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Professor David McKitterick FBA

History of the Book (English) Bibliography (English)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=176&conid=76

Current post

Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography, Trinity College, Cambridge

Past appointments

Trinity College University of Cambridge Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography

2015 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Vice-Master

2013 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography, Trinity College, Cambridge

2006 - 2015

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow and Librarian

1986 -

Publications

Old books, new technologies; the representation, conservation and transformation of books since 1700 2013

Cambridge University Library: a history. The 18th and 19th centuries 1986

A history of Cambridge University Press (3 vols) 1992, 1998, 2004

Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830 2003

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain, vol 6, 1830-1914 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David McCallam

Environmental humanities in early modern Europe, particularly in France; the French Revolution; 18th century French literature; translation studies.

David McCallam FBA

Professor Neil Kenny FBA

Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.

Neil Kenny FBA

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

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