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\"University<\/a>The University of Reading houses the Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts & Letters<\/a>, the Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders<\/a> database (in collaboration with University of Texas), and is the leading repository of publishers’ archives in the UK, with holdings of major literary firms, including Longman, Chatto & Windus and Jonathan Cape. The study of modern literary manuscripts and twentieth-century book and publishing history is an international research strength across the institution. The university holds the world\u2019s largest Samuel Beckett archive and significant papers of Italian writer Luigi Meneghello.<\/p>\n

David Sutton<\/h2>\n

\"DavidDr David Sutton has been Director of Research Projects in\u00a0the University of Reading\u00a0Library since 1982, having previously worked at Trinity College Dublin Library, the British Library, the Universit\u00e9 de Paris VIII-Vincennes and the University of Warwick Library. He is editor of the\u00a0Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts & Letters<\/a> and UK editor of the WATCH<\/a> copyright project (Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders). He has been awarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature for distinguished services to literature (2002), and the Archivist of the Year award (Scone Foundation, New York, 2006). He is an active member of the International Council on Archives (ICA), as Chair of ICA\u2019s Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) and of ICA\u2019s Working Group on Intellectual Property.\u00a0 He has published extensively on literary manuscripts and on ways of tracing copyright holders, and his other interests include food history (contributor to the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2009-2014); local politics (Leader of Reading Council 1995-2008); and urban sustainability (keynote speaker at Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan; Chair of the Board of Reading Buses, 2010- ).<\/p>\n

Alison Donnell<\/h2>\n

\"Alison<\/a>Alison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures in English.\u00a0 She has published widely on Caribbean, diasporic and black British writings, including a book-length revision of literary history: Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History<\/em> (Routledge, 2006). She has been involved in a number of collaborative projects and publications with academics based in the West Indies, most recently co-editing The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature<\/em> (Routledge, 2011) with Michael A. Bucknor, A Founding Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies<\/em>, she is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of West Indian Literature and MaComere. She directed the Research Theme, ‘Minority Identities: Rights and Representations’<\/a> at in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Reading. From September 2017 Alison will be\u00a0Head of School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\n

Sophie Heywood<\/h2>\n

\"SophieDr Sophie Heywood is lecturer in French at the University of Reading. She specialises in the history of children\u2019s literature and publishing in modern France. She has spoken on this subject in Britain, France, and the USA, and published in both English and French. She has received prestigious grants from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Institute for Historical Research. Her monograph Catholicism and Children\u2019s Literature in France: La comtesse de S\u00e9gur (1799-1874)<\/em> has recently been published in the new series Studies in Modern French History by Manchester University Press (2011).<\/p>\n

Daniela La Penna<\/h2>\n

\"Dr<\/p>\n

Dr Daniela La Penna specialises in modern Italian culture, translation and Italian publishing history.\u00a0 She is the author of a book on diasporic and multilingual poet Amelia Rosselli (Carocci, 2013), the editor of\u00a0<\/span>Twentieth-Century Poetic Translation:\u00a0 Literary Cultures in Italian and English\u00a0<\/em>(Continuum, 2008) and \u2018Meneghello:\u00a0 Fiction, Scholarship, Passione civile<\/span>\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(Special issue of\u00a0<\/span>The Italianist<\/em>, 2012). She is also co-editor of the international journal\u00a0<\/span>The Italianist<\/a>. She has organised several international conferences and workshops and has presented her work in Britain, Italy, France and the US. Her current research explores the connection between literary journals and publishing houses and their role in disseminating foreign culture in translation in post-war Italy.\u00a0This research has attracted an AHRC early career grant (\u00a3192K, 2012-2015) and draws extensively on archives held in Reading, Pavia, Rome, Naples, and Florence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Nash<\/h2>\n

\"AndrewDr Andrew Nash is Associate Professor in English Literature. He has written widely on various aspects of book and publishing history of the nineteenth and is currently co-editing the final volume of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, covering the period 1914 to the present. He works closely with the University of Reading’s Special Collections and Manuscripts<\/a> department, advising on the collection of publishers\u2019 archives.\u00a0 His books include: Kailyard and Scottish Literature (2007) and the edited volumes The Culture of Collected Editions (2003) and Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007), as well as numerous editions of nineteenth-century Scottish novels. He is an editor of the Review of English Studies<\/a>. In January 2016 Andrew joined the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, as a\u00a0Reader in Book History and Communications.<\/p>\n

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