Due to the impending retirement of Beth le Roux, we are seeking a new editor to join the team to take responsibility for scholarship from and about Australasia, Africa, and areas of the world beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Immediately after being chosen, the newly hired editor will start work with Greg Barnhisel, Ph.D. (duq.edu) and Yuri Cowan (Yuri Cowan – NTNU), shadowing Beth for issue 27.2 (Nov. 2024) before taking full responsibility for their remit.
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ALT-Text Guide in the Works!
With the help of SHARP member Ellen Forget, SHARP News is putting together an alt text guide for book historians. We need your support to make this happen: send us you bookish images! Click to read more about the kinds of images and content we’re hoping to receive.
Call for Organizers: SHARP 2024
The annual SHARP conference for 2024 is looking for organizers and a host institution. Click to learn more about how to submit a proposal. Deadline March 13, 2023.
Call for Applicants: SHARP in the Classroom Editor
SHARP News is the open access newsletter for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. SHARP in…
Job Opportunity: Professorship in Media Change with a focus on Book Culture and Digital Publications, Leipzig University
The professorship researches and teaches at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies on the transformation of the book as a medium and comparable writing and reading media in the digital age. The focus is on the cultural and economic significance of the book in conjunction with other media of social communication as well as innovations in production, design and distribution and change in reception and appropriation (e.g. open access, participatory forms of production, digital literacy) from a communication and media studies perspective.