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 2026
Wednesdays, 10-11am
Students can book an appointment with the online Learnweb scheduler.
women’s book history and feminist bibliography
amateur and non-traditional publishing
community cookbooks
feminist print culture
American book history
the book in transnational contexts
BA courses:
Theory and Literature - Understanding Material Culture
Women's Liberation in America: Consciousness Raising in Print
Second Wave Feminist Print Culture (University of Augsburg, teaching assignment)
MA/MEd courses:
Women’s Book History in Theory and Practice
From Kitchen to Press: Community Cookbooks in US Publishing History
The Book in 19th Century America
Postgraduate Class Book Studies
Activist Cookbooks
Boundaries of the Book: Forms, Materials, Contexts
Second-Wave Feminist Print Culture in the US and UK: Books as Action
Publishing Online Fanfiction: Practices, Problems, and Possibilities
Books with Bite: Over 200 Years of American Cookbooks
Print Culture and Second-Wave Feminism Across Anglophone Cultures
Women in Print Culture: 1960s to 1990
Ellen Barth's defended doctoral dissertation examines self-published American community cookbooks to consider women's participation in alternative and amateur book production in the second half of the twentieth century. This research has been supported in part by a 2019 Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Visiting Fellowship and the 2021 BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography.
Since 2020 Ellen Barth has been a research and teaching associate in Book Studies. 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, and in 2024 she defended her doctoral dissertation in English Philology.
Monographs
Contradictory Cookbooks: Print, Protest, and Feminism in Women’s Community Cookbooks. Athens: University of Georgia Press, forthcoming 2026.
Special Issues
Cookbooks in/as American Culture. American Studies/Amerikastudien 70.3 (2025). Co-edited with Corinna Norrick-Rühl. https://amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2025/3
Book Chapters
“Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study”, co-authored with Chandni Ananth, Laura Ntoumanis and Natalia Tolstopyat. Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Eds. Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed. Cham: Palgrave, 2022, pp 237-257.
“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.
Peer-reviewed Articles
“No Taxation for Menstruation: The Book’s Role in Menstrual Activism.” Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, “Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Activism in Contemporary Book Culture,” 13, no. 2 (2022), pp. 1–30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1100560ar.
Other Publications
“Side Dishes and Supplemented Reading: Sammelrezepte in West German Women’s Magazines.” The Recipes Project (Spring 2026). https://recipes.hypotheses.org/27220.
“Resistance Print Shop Sandwiches.” The Historical Cooking Project, May 2, 2024. http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2024/05/guest-post-resistance-print-sandwiches.html
“‘Her Work Shouts Out!’: Feminist Embroidered Texts in the Era of Social Media.” TXT (2023), pp. 35–44. https://txtmagazine.pubpub.org/pub/barth-embroidered-texts.
“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
Barth, E. Sara B. Franklin. 2024. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. New York: Atria Books. xviii + 316 pp. US$29.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-982-13434-1. Also available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. Pub Res Q (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-024-10016-2.
“Kennan Ferguson. ‘Cookbook Politics’.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, 67. 3 (2022), pp. 379–381. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/3/1
“Tessa Jordan. Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism.” SHARP News, 21 June 2022. https://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2022/06/21/tessa-jordan-feminist-acts-branching-out-magazine-and-the-making-of-canadian-feminism/
“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/
“From Fanfiction to Novel: A Model for Layered Adaptation”
“Revisiting Darnton’s Communication Circuit: Our Bodies, Ourselves and Second-Wave Feminist Print Culture”
Post-doctoral project: Women's Writing in the Junior League link