[Libs-Or] Sherrer Memorial Lecture at Lewis & Clark 10/4

Elaine Hirsch elaineghirsch at lclark.edu
Tue Sep 17 13:52:07 PDT 2019


Please join us at Lewis & Clark College on Friday, October 4 at 3 PM for
the 20th annual Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service
<https://library.lclark.edu/events/sherrer-lecture> in Gregg Pavilion.

*Heather Wolfe*, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library,
will present "*Special Collections as Humanities and Science Lab:  Getting
Students Excited about Primary Sources*"

Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
She received an MLIS from UCLA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
She is currently principal investigator of Early Modern Manuscripts Online (
emmo.folger.edu), co-principal investigator of Shakespeare’s World (
shakespearesworld.org), curator of Shakespeare Documented (
shakespearedocumented.org) and is co-director of the multi-year, $1.5
million research project *Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and
Cultures*, a Mellon initiative in collaborative research at the Folger
Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her first book, *Elizabeth
Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters* (2000) received the Josephine
Roberts Scholarly Edition Award from the Society for the Study of Early
Modern Women. She has written widely on the intersections between
manuscript and print culture in early modern England, and also edited *The
Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 *(2007), *The Literary Career and Legacy of
Elizabeth Cary *(2007), and, with Alan Stewart, *Letterwriting in
Renaissance England *(2004). Her most recent research explores the social
circulation of writing paper and blank books. Her essay “The Material
Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England,” co-written with Peter
Stallybrass, received the 2019 Archival History Article Award from the
Society of American Archivists.

A reception will follow the lecture.  For parking and transportation
information, please see https://www.lclark.edu/visit/directions/

Sincerely,
Elaine Hirsch
Associate Director
Watzek Library
Lewis & Clark
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