Reading from Home: Book History in Pandemic Times
Leah Price will deliver the 35th Annual Louis Faugeres Bishop III Lecture "Reading from Home: Book History in Pandemic Times."
Price is the Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the founding director of the Initiative for the Book.
Price’s books include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019; Christian Gauss Prize), How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012; (2012; Patten Prize, Channing Prize), and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000). She edited Further Reading (with Matthew Rubery, 2020), Unpacking my Library, and (with Pam Thurschwell) Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture. She writes for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Public Books, and New York Review of Books, and is a section editor for Public Books.