CBCP Visiting Research Fellowship programme 2025-6 We are pleased to announce that CBCP Visiting Research Fellowships are now available to scholars and researchers looking to conduct research and shape a…Read More >
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Julie Cohen
PhD Project: Together: A Case Study in Differing Views of Genre in Writing and Publishing Commercial Fiction Supervisors: Prof Peter Robinson (Reading) and Prof Nicola Wilson (Reading) Julie is undertaking…Read More >
Printing Historical Society AGM and Lecture, 26 July 2025
The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Printing Historical Society (PHS) will be taking place on Saturday 26th July from 14.00–15.00 at the St Bride Foundation and online via…Read More >
Constructing Eve: A Materials Investigation of the Iconic Woman
by Jennifer Davis Taylor, Short-Term Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2025), University of Reading How is femininity made—not just socially, but textually, visually, ideologically? In 1697, Charles Perrault—best known today for fairy…Read More >
Sharla Attala
PhD project: Made Up: Memoirs and Clothes – a creative and critical exploration of working-class women’s writing and identity in contemporary Britain. Supervisors: Dr Nicola Wilson (Reading) and Dr Hatty…Read More >
Buxi Duan – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Buxi Duan completed his doctoral research on D. H. Lawrence’s late journalistic writing at the University of Birmingham. His academic interests primarily lie in modernist publishing culture, archival studies, and…Read More >
Pritha Mukherjee – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Pritha Mukherjee is an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Reading. Her doctoral research focusses on pirated books networks in the contemporary Indian book market. Her current research project examines…Read More >
Jennifer Taylor – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Jennifer Taylor holds a PhD in Art and Intellectual History from The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. An exhibited fine artist, she earned her MFA…Read More >
Helena de Barros – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Helena de Barros is an Assistant Professor at Rio de Janeiro State University. She holds a PhD in design and is a researcher and collector of historical and contemporary prints….Read More >
CBCP Fellow: Tracing The Genealogy of the Kenyan Novel in the Heinemann Educational Books archive
by Billy Kahora, Visiting CBCP Research Fellow 2024, University of Bristol In the months of May and June 2024 I spent two weeks at the University of Reading’s CBCP as…Read More >