Meet VCU Authors: Matteo Pangallo | Teaching the History of the Book 

Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. With contributions from a diverse range of teachers, scholars, and practitioners in literature, language studies, history, book arts, library science, and archives, the collection presents a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other subjects. Each of the 39 chapters describes lessons, courses, and programs centered on the latest and best ways of teaching undergraduate and graduate students both about and with book history.
Beginning with chapters that apply particular pedagogical and critical theories to the book history classroom, the book then covers effective ways to organize courses devoted to book history, classroom activities that draw upon book history in other courses, and an overview of selected print and digital tools for book history classes. Contributors draw on their own experiences in the classroom to bring to life some of the rich possibilities for teaching book history in the twenty-first century.
This roundtable features the volume’s editors (Matteo Pangallo, VCU, and Emily B. Todd, Eastern Connecticut State University) and seven of its contributors who will discuss their chapters and their work as teachers of book history:
Kate Ozment (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), “Teaching a Feminist Book History”
Ryan Cordell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Programmable Type: The Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code”
Lisa Maruca (Wayne State University), “Mediating the Student Body: Labor, Literacy, and Experiential Learning in the Book History Classroom”
Joshua Eckhardt (Virginia Commonwealth University), “‘Brit. Lit. I’ from Only One Library”
Amy Gore (North Dakota State University), “Teaching Indigenous and Multiethnic Literature through Book History”
Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University), “Teaching Children’s Literature through the History of the Book”
Jonathan Senchyne (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Teaching Black Book History: Beginning Outside the Book”
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