The Washington Area Group for Print Culture
Studies (WAGPCS) aims to provide a regular, monthly forum for those interested
in book history and print culture studies and welcomes the participation of
everyone interested in print culture (of any period or place).
Unless otherwise
noted, WAGPCS meets the first Friday of every month from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in the
Woodrow Wilson Room (LJ-113), in the Jefferson Building of the Library of
Congress. (The Wilson Room is on the 1st floor, off the Great Hall (map). The Library is located between
First and Second Streets, SE in the District of Columbia. Nearest Metro Station
for the Blue and Orange Line is Capitol South and for the Red Line is Union
Station.
Past presenters include Carol Armbruster,
Sabrina Baron, Marilyn Barth, Douglas Boyce, Paul Boyer, John Buchtel, Martha
Carothers, Roger Chartier, Anne Coldiron, Bernard Cooperman, Lynn Cothern, Mark Dimunation,
Michael Dirda, Rachel Doggett, Elizabeth Driver, Don-John Dugas, Elizabeth L.
Eisenstein, Donald Farren, Catharine Field, Oz Frankel, Lisa Gitelman, Albert
N. Greco, Stephen Greenberg, Robert A. Gross, Ann Kelly, Matt Kirschenbaum,
Christopher Kyle, Kendall Larson, Eric N. Lindquist, Kathleen Lynch, Douglas
McElrath, Nancy M. Mace, Steven W. May, Steve Mentz, Kate Narvesson, Stan Nelson, Leslie Overstreet,
Catherine Parisian, Jason Peacey, Elise Pugh, Daniel Raff, Jonathan Rose, Anne
Sarah Rubin, Lydia Schurman, Stuart Sherman, William H. Sherman, Martha Nell
Smith, Jacob Soll, Peter Stallybrass, Bart Thurber, James Tierney, James L. W.
West III, Wayne Wiegand, David Whitesell, George Williams, Mary Saracino
Zboray, Ronald J. Zboray, Georgianna Ziegler, and Steven N. Zwicker.
For their
encouragement and support, the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies
would like to thank Dr. Carolyn T. Brown, Kluge Center Director, and Robert
Saladini, Office of Scholarly Programs, Kluge Center, Library of Congress as
well as John Y. Cole, director of the Center for the Book in the Library of
Congress.
For further information, contact Sabrina
Baron and Eleanor Shevlin at washagpcs@umd.edu.
Last updated February 9, 2008.