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Ellen Barth

Contact
Englisches Seminar / Book Studies
ES 121, Johannisstr. 12-20, 48143 Münster
Telephone: (0)251-83-24883

Email: e_bart10@uni-muenster.de

Office Hours

Summer Term 2022

Thursdays 12.30-1.30 pm

Appointment via email

  • Research Interests

    • amateur and non-traditional publishing
    • the book in transnational contexts
    • book illustrations
    • the digital book
    • women in book history

  • Teaching

    MA/MEd seminars:

    Second Wave Feminist Print Culture (University of Augsburg, teaching assignment)

    Publishing Online Fanfiction: Practices, Problems, and Possibilities

    Community Cookbooks in the American Melting Pot

    Books with Bite: Over 200 Years of American Cookbooks

    Print Culture and Second-Wave Feminism Across Anglophone Cultures

    What Makes a Book a Book?: Forms, Materials, Contexts

    Women in Print Culture: 1960s to 1990

  • Doctoral Thesis

    Ellen Barth's doctoral research examines women’s involvement in the production of American community cookbooks in the second half of the 20th century. Focusing particularly on the books’ material aspects and the mechanisms of their creation, this project aims to shed light on the way women have participated in publishing outside of mainstream channels, using their own methods and print culture practices.

  • CV

    Ellen Barth is a doctoral candidate in Book Studies, researching cookbooks and the role of American women in non-traditional publishing in the twentieth century. Originally from the United States, Ellen holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In 2018, she completed the M.A. National and Transnational Studies program at the University of Münster.

  • Publications

     

    Articles

    “Indignization through Illustration in the Shimbun Shôsetsu of Meiji Japan.” Journale Lesen / Reading Journals: Lektüreabbruch – Anschlusslektüren / Coherence and Interruption. Eds. Volker Mergenthaler, Nora Ramtke, and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2022, pp. 273–286.

    “Minding the Gap: Online Quaranzine Distribution and/as Pandemic Participation.” TXT, 8 (2021), pp. 13–18.

    “Reading the Changes: Variance and Digital Tools.” Satura, 2 (2020), pp. 22- 31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2019-3064

    “Update Soon!: How Readers Shape Online Fanfiction.” TXT (2019), pp. 119–129.

    “A Brief History of Book Studies in Münster.” Satura, 1 (2018), pp. 85–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-3141

    “Bookswapper.de and the Easily Shared Paper Book.” TXT (2018), pp. 153–158. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/123158

    Book Reviews

    “A Poetics of Editing, by Susan L. Greenberg” SHARP News, 25 February 2021. https://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2021/02/25/susan-l-greenberg-a-poetics-of-editing/