Directors & Board

Directors

Dr Nicola Wilson
Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies
Department of English Literature

 

 

Dr Sophie Heywood
Associate Professor
Department of Languages and Cultures

 

 

Prof Daniela La Penna
Professor of Modern Italian Culture

 

 

Prof Sue Walker
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

 

 

 

 Advisory Board

Emeritus Professor Paul Luna
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

 

 

 

David Sutton
Visiting Research Fellow

 

 

 

 

Guy Baxter
Associate Director, Archive Services

 

 

 

Dr Rhi Smith
Director of Academic Learning and Engagement for the University’s Museums & Special Collections

 

 

 

Bea Fitzgerald
The Blair Partnership

 

 

 

Emma Shercliff
Laxfield Literary Associates

 

 

 

Dr Elisa Bolchi
Marie Curie Research Fellow

 

 

 

 

Jill Shefrin
Historian of Children’s Books & Printed Pastimes & Education, teetotum.ca

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Liz West
ECR Fellow

 

 

 

 

Dr D-M Withers
Lecturer in Publishing, University of Exeter

 

 

 

 

 

Prof Anthony Glinoer
University or Sherbrooke

 

 

 

 

Andrea Romanzi
PhD Representative
Department of Languages and Cultures

 

 

Anne Nolan
Publisher, Two Rivers Press

Kate Arnold-Foster
Director, Archive Services

 

Management Group

Dr Ruth Blacksell
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

 

 

Prof Michelle O’Callaghan
Department of English Literature

 

 

Dr Marrisa Joseph
Henley Business School

 

 

Dr Vaibhav Singh
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

 

 

Dr Ellen Pilsworth
Lecturer in German and Translation Studies
Department of Languages and Cultures

 

 

 

Dr Borna Izadpanah
Lecturer in Typography & Graphic Communication
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

 

Caroline Gould
Principal Archivist, Archive Services

 

 

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PhD Representative
Department of English Literature

 

 

Cristina De Luca
PhD Representative
Department of Languages and Cultures

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Emma Minns
Assistant Curator
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

Partners

We are pleased to work with national and international organisations including Penguin Random House and Hachette UK, Alberto and Arnoldo Monadori Foundation, Benedetto Croce Foundation, DLA Marbach, InTRu at University of Tours, the British Museum, the British Library, and two local-to-Reading independent publishers, Two Rivers Press and Holland House.