We are pleased to announce that the fifth annual History of the Book Lecture, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 29th, at 5:30PM, in 165 Thompson Library, will feature Randall McLeod. McLeod will discuss the work of Venetian Aldo Manuzio (1449-1515), a printer of many first Greek editions and the first to print in italics. McLeod will also lead a workshop for graduate students during his visit to campus. The History of the Book Lecture is free and open to the public.
McLeod is Professor Emeritus of English at University of Toronto. He is known widely for inventing the McLeod Portable Collator, a stereoscopic device for comparing texts as images. For more information about McLeod and this event, visit go.osu.edu/BH5x.
The History of the Book working group was formed in 2005. The group's interests include the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, book art, book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, translation studies and multiculturalism, reading habits, and reader response. For more information, contact English Professor Alan Farmer at farmer.109@osu.edu.
This event is sponsored by LiteracyStudies@OhioState, the Department of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the University Libraries.
