Penn Press at the
2022 Rosenbach Lectures

Material Texts

Our Material Texts series explores cultural technologies of communication—books, manuscripts, scrolls, films, graffiti, the actor’s voice—with particular attention to the ways specific material forms affect meaning.


Series Editors:

Roger Chartier
Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Joseph Farrell
Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania

Anthony Grafton
Professor of History, Princeton University

Leah Price
Professor of English, Harvard University

Peter Stallybrass
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
Associate Professor of English, Fordham University

Penn Press editorial contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
[email protected]