| Burr, Christina |
| Howsam, Leslie |
| Huffaker, Shauna |
| Kulisek, Larry |
| Lazure, Guy |
| McCrone, Kathleen |
| Mohamed, Mohamed |
Nelson, Robert
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| Palmer, Steven |
| Pole, Adam |
| Simmons, Christina |
| Way, Peter |
| Wright, Miriam |
History
University of Windsor
Room 2164 CHN, 401 Sunset
Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4
email: history@uwindsor.ca
telephone: 519-253-3000
ext. 2318 |  | Faculty Information Sheet
Howsam, Leslie
Office location: 2180 CHN
Office Ext: 253-3000 ext. 2330
Email address: lhowsam@uwindsor.ca
Author of
Old Books & New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book & Print Culture (2006)
Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Oxford University, 2006: “Historical Knowledge and British Publishers, 1850-1950: Discipline and Narrative”
History
Author of
Kegan Paul a Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History (1998)
Foreign Bible Society.
Author of
Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society (1991)
Degree and Research Interest:
Ph.D., History
Position: Professor, Graduate Faculty,
Personal Statement and Research
Dr Leslie Howsam is a historian of the book and of print culture, with research interests focusing on Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Her PhD in History was conferred at York University (Toronto) in 1989, and she taught at the University of Toronto before coming to Windsor in 1993. She teaches courses in British history, in historical method, and in the history of the book and print culture. She has worked on the publishing of bibles, on a general literary publisher, and on both scientific books and cookbooks. Her current project (which was SSHRC-funded in 1999) concerns the publishing history of history books in Britain, between 1850 and 1950.
She is one of the leading scholars in Canada in this field, and currently serves as President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre. http://casbc-acehl.dal.ca/
and Vice-President of the international Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. www.sharpweb.org
Research in Progress: Academic discipline / popular genre: British historians and the book 1850-1950, funded by a Standard Research Grant from SSHRC for 1999-2002.
Some Memberships and Related Websites
General Editor, University of Toronto Press Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture
www.utpress.utoronto.ca
Trustee of the Cambridge Project for the Book www.cambridgebook.demon.co.uk
Member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, www.sharpweb.org
Member of the Editorial Committee of the History of the Book in Canada project www.library.utoronto.ca/hbic/
Teaching and Courses Taught:
Depending on annual scheduling, my teaching includes the survey courses on “Europe in the Modern World,” the survey courses on British history as well as a senior seminar on “Culture and Society in Victorian Britain” and a course on women in European History (“Becoming Visible”). I have developed a 300-level course called “Culture, Literacy and the Printed Word in Modern Europe and North America." My graduate courses are (1) Research Methods and (2) Studies in the History of the Book and the Culture of the Written Word.
Publications...
Old Books & New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book & Print Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)
“Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916,” History of Intellectual Culture 5:2 (2005). Published online: www.ucalgary.ca/hic
“Academic discipline or literary genre?: The establishment of boundaries in historical writing.” Victorian Literature & Culture (2004), 413-33.
“Food For Thought” (Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management) Rare Book Review xxxi no 3 (April 2004), 32-36.
“Sex, religion, scholarship and politics : CIHM, Victorian historians, and the middle ages,” Facsimile (special issue on the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions) 2004. Published online at: http://www.canadiana.org/cihm/publications/articles/howsam_e.pdf
“Book History Unbound: Transactions of the Written Word Made Public.” Canadian Journal of History XXXVIII, April 2003, 69-81.
“An Experiment with Science for the Nineteenth-century book trade: the International Scientific Series.” British Journal for the History of Science 33, July 2000, 187-207.
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