Erin McGuirl
BOOK+PAPER WORK
Scholarship: Speaking and Writing
I have been lecturing and writing about the history of material texts since 2010. A selected list of talks and publications appears below; consult my CV for a full list. I welcome opportunities to deliver talks or lead workshops.
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Rare Book & Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association
"Relearning How to Work in Professional Organizations", opening plenary at the 2023 RBMS Pre-Conference. June 27, 2023.
The Film Comment Podcast
"Stick to the Script", a conversation with screenplay collector Robert M. Rubin and Film Comment Podcast hosts Clinton Krute and Devika Girish. June 21, 2023.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
"Practices of moving texts: a roundtable on the history of information," roundtable panelist at the SHARP 2021 Conference, Moving Texts.
The Grolier Club
"From Screenplay to Screen: Collecting Hollywood's Paper Underpinnings," a virtual lecture with Robert M. Rubin for the Grolier Club. May 20, 2021.
University of Pennsylvania
"Movie Materiality: A Bibliographical Analysis of Two Modern Theatrical Texts," a talk for the Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts. April 5, 2021.
The Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin
"The Women Who Made Selznick's Screenplays" in the Ransom Center Magazine, first published online 5 February 2021.
The Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin
"The Women Who Made Selznick's Screenplays" in the Ransom Center Magazine, first published online 5 February 2021.
Modern Language Association
"Professionalization in the Field of Bibliography, Book History, & Textual Editing: Entering the Field Without Formal Training" – Panelist, MLA 2021 Bibliography & Textual Editing Roundtable
Bibliographi-cal Society of America
The Screenplay as Material Text, webinar for the Bibliographical Society of America. Now available as a video recording on YouTube.
Fine Books & Collections
"Bright Young Librarians" interview in Fine Books & Collections (September 2020)
Princeton University Press
"Modern Sales Catalogs" and "Office Practices" in Information: A Historical Companion, eds. Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. Princeton University Press (2021)
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
The Celluloid Paper Trail: Seminar for ABAA Southern California Chapter Members at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library
Featured Panelist, October 26, 2019
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
"Materiality, Portability, and the Making of the Whole Earth Catalogue" at the SHARP 2019 conference, Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book
The New Yorker
Letter to the Editor re: Sam Knight's "Hidden Traces" – The New Yorker, December 17, 2018
Printing History
"Printing the Screenplay in Hollywood & Beyond" in Printing History (New Series no. 24, Summer 2018)
Atlas Obscura
"A Peek at Famous Readers' Borrowing Records at a Private Library in New York"
Atlas Obscura, February 5, 2018