Print Culture program
The aim of the Print Culture specialization is to provide graduate students with a focused MA degree in a growing theoretical and interdisciplinary research field. Students study and work alongside a group of faculty and other graduate students with shared critical and research interests.
Speakers & Events
For more than a decade, the Print Culture Speakers Series has been a venue for the dissemination of innovative work by a veritable who’s who of scholars. Bringing these scholars together with local faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students, the series is a vital forum for discussion of the issues that challenge and define the study of print culture, writ large, helping make Simon Fraser University an international centre for new thinking about media and theory.
Upcoming Events
To be announced
Past speakers
- Publishing as an Environmental Process
Presenter: James Sherry
September 15, 2023
- Loud and Clear: Amplifying Historically Marginalized Voices in Library Collections
Presenter: Mar González Palacios, SFU Library’s Associate Dean, Collections and Content Strategy
March 17, 2023
- Indigenizing Book History
Presenters: Dr. Carole Gerson, Dr. Sophie McCall, Dr. Deanna Reder, & Dr. Alix Shield
October 7, 2021 - Novel Mediations: Negotiating Print and Manuscript in the Long Eighteenth Century
Professor Marta Kvande, Texas Tech University
September 20, 2019 - Obscenity & Censorship in Modernist Literature
Professor Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa
February 1, 2019 - Local Heroes: Mapping Memoirs in Early Modern England
Professor Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia
November 30, 2018 - Affect in the Margins: Marking Readers in Elegiac Sonnets
Professor Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
October 19, 2018 - Chaucer and his Books
Professor Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
April 6, 2018 - Was There a Scottish Novel After Scott?
Professor Juliet Shields, University of Washington
March 9, 2018 - Canadian Magazines & the Emergence of Contemporary Cultures of Celebrity in English Canada
Dr. Katja Lee, University of Western Australia
January 26, 2018 - The Silence of the Leaves: Title-Page Design and the Marketing of the Romantic-Era Novel
Kandice Sharren, Simon Fraser University (English)
November 17, 2017