Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries – Fall 2014 Speaker Series: Hot Reads (of the 19th Century)

Tuesday, September 23, 4:10pm, Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200) - Profiting from Learning: Selling Reference Books in Nineteenth-Century America How Noah Webster and the Merriam brothers turned dictionaries into best sellers.

Annie Johnson (Ph.D. in History, University of Southern California, 2014) is the new LTS CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, focused on digital humanities.

Monday, October 27, 4:10pm, Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200) - Digitization and the Nineteenth-Century Book: Traces in the Stacks How 19th century books are faring in the wake of Google. Through search and visualization, digitized archives reveal wonders. But 19th century reader behavior is revealed by notes and other "traces" in the physical book, now imperiled in the new media ecosystem.

Andrew Stauffer is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he also directs NINES (http://nines.org), a digital scholarly organization focused on nineteenth century studies. Lehigh’s The Vault at Pfaff’s is a NINES Scholarly Project.

Wednesday, November 12, 12:10pm, Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200) - The Depths of Astonishment: Nineteenth-Century Underground Literature explores the earliest literature of these undergrounds: the lurid "city mysteries" that took the urban underworld as their subject.

Lara Langer Cohen is assistant professor of English at Swarthmore College, and the author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (2011).

Questions about these events? Contact Christy Roysdon at cmr0@lehigh.edu.