Lisa Maruca

Faculty Profile

Associate Professor
aa2850@wayne.edu

Department

English

Office

5057 Woodward Ave, Suite 9408

Selected publications

  • The Work of Print: Authorship and the English Text Trades, 1660-1760 (University of Washington Press: 2007)
  • ““Vive La Plume!”: The Pleasures and Problems of Handwriting Pedagogy in the Long Eighteenth Century,” A History of the Futures of Handwriting in Early America. Ed. Mark Alan Mattes. University of Massachusetts Press: 2023.
  • "What Is Critical Bibliography?" Special Issue on “New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text,” (edited with Kate Ozment), Criticism 64: 3-4 (2023)
  • “Mediating the Student Body: Labor, Literacy, and Experiential Learning in the Book History Classroom," Teaching the History of the Book. Eds. Emily Todd and Matteo Pangallo. University of Massachusetts Press: 2023.
    Fielding and the Pamela Media Event,” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding. Eds. Elizabeth Kraft and Jennifer Wilson. New York: Modern Language Association of America: 2015
  • “Afterword,” Print Culture, Agency, and Regional Identity in the Hand Press Period. Eds. Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, and Adam James Smith. London, Palgrave Macmillan: 2022. (5000 words)
  • “The Plagiarism Panic: Digital Policing in the New Intellectual Property Regime.” New Directions in Copyright Law. Vol. 2. Ed. Fiona Macmillan. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006
  • “Plagiarism and its (Disciplinary) Discontents: Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory and Pedagogy.” Issues in Integrative Studies 21 (2004): 74-97
  • “Bodies of Type: The Work of Textual Production in English Printers’ Manuals.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36:3 (spring 2003): 321-343.
  • “Political Propriety and Feminine Property: Women in the Eighteenth-Century Text Trades.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 34 (2001): 79-99

 

Research Description

book history and print culture, authorship and intellectual property, digital literacy, digital humanities, history of literacy education, children's literature, eighteenth-century British fiction (especially by women), the rise of the novel

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