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Personal Profile For Dr Ian Gadd
Lecturer: English Literature. School of Humanities and Cultural Industries.
MA [Edinburgh], M.St. [Oxford], D.Phil. [Oxford].
Personal Statement:
Ian specialises in the literature and history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is particularly interested in the ways in which texts were produced and circulated, which involves examining topics as diverse as guilds, gunpowder, printing presses and censorship. He also has broader research interests in the cultural history of early modern London. He has published articles on London history and the English book trade, and has co-edited a collection of essays on the important sixteenth-century London figure, John Stow; he has also co-edited two collections of essays on guilds in the early modern period. He co-edited Jonathan Swift's _English Political writings, 1711-14_ (Cambridge University Press, 2008) as part of a new critical edition of Swift's complete works; in 2007, he was made Textual Advisor to this project, and in 2009, General Editor. In 2006, he was appointed as volume editor for a new multi-volume History of Oxford University Press, under the general editorship of Professor Simon Eliot. In 2008, he and Dr Gabriel Egan began collaboration on a project to create a Virtual Printing Press. In 2009, he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the New Oxford Shakespeare.
As part of the Book, Text and Place 1500-1750 research group at Bath Spa, Ian has co-organised two international conferences, spoken at the Renaissance Society of America, and is currently supervising a PhD student working on orality, literacy and the early modern stage. He has also established links with ProQuest, Bath Central Library, Bath University Library, the Bodleian Library and the British Library in order to draw on their collections for research-related teaching.
Ian completed his D.Phil. at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1999. He was Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge for 1999-2000 and was a Research Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at the University of Oxford between 2000 and 2002. He was appointed lecturer at Bath Spa University in 2002. Since 1996, he has edited HoBo (a website dedicated to the 'history of the book' as a field of study), hosted by the University of Oxford: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/hobo
Professional Qualifications:
2005 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education certification, Bath Spa
2005 'Rising Star' Teaching Fellow, Bath Spa
2006 Professional Development Certificate in E-Learning, Netskills, Univesity of Newcastle
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
I am an active contributor to the following learned societies and professional bodies:--
The SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING AND PUBLISHING (SHARP) is an international organisation supporting the study of the 'history of the book' with over 1000 members:
* Recording Secretary and member of SHARP's Executive Council since 2003
* Member of programme committee, SHARP Annual Conference 2007, University of Minnesota, USA
* Member of organising committee, SHARP Annual Conference 2008, Oxford Brookes University
* European Reviews Editor for SHARP News, its quarterly newsletter, 2000-2006
* Speaker at 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 annual conference
* Panel organisers at 2004 annual conference
* Member since 1999
The OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, founded in 1922, supports those interested in manuscripts, printed books and the arts and trades connected with them, through lectures, visits and publications:
* Council member 2000-2003
* Webmaster since 2001
* Member since 1995
ENGLISH SUBJECT CENTRE is part of the Higher Education Academy:
* Co-organiser of international conference, sponsored by ESC, JISC and ProQuest, on important academic online resource, Early English Books Online
MODERN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATION is the primary American learned society for literary scholars:
* Presented paper at 2005 conference, Washington DC
* Member since 1997
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA is the primary American learned society for literary scholars working in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:
* Panel organiser and speaker at 2007 conference, Miami
* Member since 2006
LONDON BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY:
* Member since 1996
CAMBRIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY:
* Invited speaker 2000
* Member since 1999
Teaching Specialism:
Early modern English Literature, including Shakespeare
History of the book
Use of e-learning in HE
Currently supervising PhD on orality and print on the early modern English stage.
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
==RESEARCH AWARDS==
Oct 2008-Jan 2009: Katharine F. Pantzer Jr Research Fellowship in the History of the Book, London Bibliographical Society. Project: The Stationers' Company and the Universities, 1580s-1780s
Jan-Jun 2005: AHRB Research Leave Award. Project: A Critical Edition of Jonathan Swift's Political Writings 1711-14
2003, 2007: British Academy Overseas Conference Grants
==AWAITING PUBLICATION==
'The use and misuse of Early English Books Online', Literature Compass (forthcoming)
Sixteen entries for the Oxford Companion to the Book, edited by Michael Suarez and Henry Wouhuysen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Nine entries (including a long composite entry on members of the booktrade) for the Milton Encyclopedia, edited by Professor Tom Corns (Yale University Press, forthcoming)
==2008==
Co-editor (with Professor Bertrand Goldgar, Lawrence University, USA): Jonathan Swift, English Political Writings 1711-14 (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Co-author (with Dr Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics), 'The politics of regulation: from local to national guilds in England', in Guilds and economy in Europe 1400-1800, edited by S.R. Epstein and M. Prak, (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
'[Review of] D.F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell, A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)', Journal of the Printing Historical Society, new series, 11 (2008), pp. 97-100.
==2007==
Co-editor (with Dr Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics), Guilds and Associations in Europe (Centre for Metropolitan History, 2007)
==2006==
'From Printing Type to Blackboard: Teaching History of the Book to Literary Undergraduates in a "New" UK University', in Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History, ed. Ann S. Hawkins (Pickering and Chatto, 2006)
==2004==
Biographical entries on a dozen members of the English book trade, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Co-editor (with Dr Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto), John Stow (1525-1605) and the making of the English past: essays in early modern culture and the history of the book (British Library, 2004)
Co-author (with Dr Meraud Grant Ferguson, Oxford University Press), 'Stow and the Stationers' in John Stow (1525-1605) and the making of the English past: essays in early modern culture and the history of the book (British Library, 2004)
'Were books different? Locating the Stationers' Company in Civil War London, 1640-1645' in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Europe, edited by Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost (Brill, 2004)
==2002==
'Hunting down John Wolfe for the New DNB', in R. Myers, M. Harris and G. Mandelbrote, eds., Lives in print: biography and the book trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st century (British Library, 2002)
Co-editor (with Dr Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics), Guilds, society and economy in London, 1450-1800 (Centre for Metropolitan History, 2002)
'Early printed histories of the London livery companies' in Guilds, society and economy in London, 1450-1800 (2002)
==2001==
'Members of the Pewterers' Company in 1641 and 1650-1', Journal of the Pewter Society 15 (2001), 17-28
Current Scholarship:
CURRENT ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND PROJECTS
* Essay on the London book trade, 1553-8, for essay collection, 1556-57: the Crucible of English Confessional Conflict (Ashgate), ed. Elizabeth Evenden, University of Cambridge
* Volume editor, History of the Book in the West 1455-1700 (Ashgate)
* How to read an early printed book (Cambridge University Press)
* Co-editor (with Bertrand Goldgar) of Jonathan Swift, Political Writings 1709-11 (Cambridge University Press)
* Editor, volume 1 (1478-1780) History of Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press; general editor Professor Simon Eliot)
* Co-editor (with Dr Peter Blayney) of Liber A, a key record of the London book trade, to be published by the London Bibliographical Society
* Monograph on the Stationers' Company in the seventeenth century
* Virtual Printing Press, with Dr Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University)
PAPERS PRESENTED (Since 2007 only)
* January 2007: Invited speaker, Cardiff Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, University of Cardiff
* February 2007: Invited speaker, Edinburgh Book History Seminar, University of Edinburgh
* March 2007: Presenter, Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Miami, USA
* July 2007: Presenter, SHARP annual conference, Minneapolis, USA
* November 2007: Invited speaker, South-West Early Modernist Network, University of the West of England
* February 2008: Invited speaker, Cambridge History of the Book seminar, University of Cambridge
* May 2008: Invited speaker, Centre for Computing in the Humanities seminar, King's College Londo
* June 2008: Invited speaker, Models of Partnership in Digital Research colloquium, Sheffield University
* June 2008: Invited speaker, History of Oxford University Press panel, SHARP conference, Oxford Brookes University
* September 2008: Speaker, Published Words, Public Pages, SHARP conference, University of Copenhagen
* October 2008: Invited speaker, Jonathan Swift Symposium, Dublin
* November 2008: Invited speaker, King's College London
* January 2009: Speaker, BSECS conference, Oxford
* February 2009: Invited speaker, Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford
External Examiners:
Other External Roles:
==CURRENT==
* Member of Peer Review College, AHRC (from January 2009)
* General Editor, Cambridge Complete Works of Jonathan Swift, Cambridge University Press (from July 2007)
* Member of Advisory Board, New Oxford Shakespeare (from November 2009)
* Associate Editor (pre-1640 book trade), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2000-)
* Web-editor, HoBo website, a UK 'history of the book' website supported and hosted by the University of Oxford, http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/hobo/ (1996-)
* Tutor, The Stationers' Company (week-long course), Rare Book School, University of Virginia (2006-) - the Rare Book School is an internationally recognised educational institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects
==RECENT==
* June 2008: Annual SHARP conference (5 days), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford - with Dr Claire Squires and Dr Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University) and Kate Longworth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
* December 2007: Teaching Book History to Undergraduates, 1-day symposium, Institute of English Studies, London - with Professor Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies, London), Dr Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield), Dr John Hinks (Loughborough University), Dr Aileen Fyfe (University of Galway)
* September 2007: London in Text and History, 3-day conference, Jesus College, Oxford - organiser with Dr Tracey Hill, Dr Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford), Dr Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford), and Dr Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan History, London)
* March 2007: EEBO and Early Modern Studies, panel, Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Miami, USA - panel organiser and speaker, with Dr Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University)
* November 2006: Invited speaker, conference on the English Short-Title Catalogue, British Library
* July 2005: Invited speaker, conference on the History of Parliament, Institute for Historical Research, London
Recent Professional Updating:
September 2005: EEBO in research and teaching conference, Bath Spa University (co-organiser)
December 2005: Modern Languages Association conference, Washington DC, USA (presenting paper on e-learning panel)
April 2006: Text Matters conference, University of Copenhagen
May 2006: English Subject Centre, Online Discussion in Teaching and Learning, University of Wolverhampton
July 2006: SHARP conference, The Hague and Leiden, The Netherlands (presenting paper)
October 2006: Conference on the English Short-Title Catalogue, British Library (presenting paper)
March 2007: Renaissance Society of America conference, Miami, USA (presenting paper)
July 2007: SHARP conference, Minneapolis, USA (presenting paper)
September 2007: London in Text and History conference, Jesus College, Oxford (co-organiser)
June 2008: Annual SHARP conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (co-organiser)
September 2008: Published Words, Public Pages, SHARP conference, University of Copenhagen (presenting paper)
January 2009: BSECS conference, Oxford (presenting paper)
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