The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere - October 2016
Author: Tom Mole
Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His research interests include: book history and print culture; literature of the Romantic period in Britain, especially Lord Byron; Romantic periodicals and reviews; the cultural history of celebrity; and the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Contact him at tom.mole@ed.ac.uk.
Retro-fitted Illustrations and Temporal Dislocations’
NASSR, ‘Romanticism and its Discontents’, Berkeley - August 2016
Byron and the Good Death
International Byron Conference, Paris - July 2016
Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Victorian Anthologies as Data
Plenary Lecture, Print Networks Conference, NUI Galway - July 2016
Why Do Academics Write Books?
Academic Book Week Event, Blackwells Bookstore, Edinburgh - November 2015
Byron’s Unlikely Celebrity in Victorian Sermons
University of Vienna - November 2015
Celebrity in Historical Perspective
Roundtable, After-image: Life Writing and Celebrity, The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities and Wolfson College, Oxford - September 2015
About the Centre for the History of the Book
In this short video, produced for the University of Edinburgh, I discuss the work of the Centre for the History of the Book.
Celebrity and Anonymity in the Long Eighteenth Century
University of Edinburgh 'Literary Commerce in 18th-Century Britain' Workshop - July 2015
Victorian Illustrated Editions: Renovating Romanticism
British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, 'Romantic Imprints' , Cardiff University - July 2015