EMC - The Early Modern Center

Faculty at the EMC

Giles Bergel
(Ph.D., Queen Mary, University of London, 2004)
Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 679-3812
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: bergel@english.ucsb.edu

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Areas of Interest

Textual studies and book history, particularly issues around textual materiality, ephemerality and historicism
Editing and electronic publishing
Early-modern and eighteenth-century historiography
British provincial and metropolitan identities in the eighteenth-century

Publications

Full List of Research Activities

"The Chicago Nineties: The Chap-Book (Chicago) 1894-98", Chapter 15 of The Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (forthcoming)
"William Dicey and the Networks and Places of Print Culture", in John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (eds.), Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade (British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2006)

Current Projects

I am currently producing a digital archive of the ballad The Wandering Jew's Chronicle in collaboration with the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) based in the Early Modern Center.

Recent Courses Taught

English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789, English 102, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)

Introduction to Literary Study, English 10, Winter 2008 (Undergrad)

Cultural Representations: Robin Hood, English 122RH, Fall 2007 (Undergrad)

Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: Editing the Archive, Archiving the Edition, English 236, Fall 2008 (Grad)

Transcriptions Colloquium, English 592, Fall 2007 (Grad)

Cultural Representations: Robin Hood, English 122RH, Spring 2007 (Undergrad)

Introduction to Literary Study: Introduction to Early Modern Print Culture, English 10, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)

Seminar in Special Topics, English 265, Winter 2007 (Grad)

Introduction to Literary Study: Introduction to Early Modern Print Culture, English 10, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)

Seminar in Special Topics: New Approaches to Media History and Criticism: Editing the Wandering Jew's Chronicle, English 265, Fall 2006 (Grad)