Bio
Claire Battershill is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English. Her research focuses on the history and future of the book. Specifically, her work examines relationships between feminist experimental publishing, literary aesthetics, and practices of book making in 20th and 21st-century literature.
Professor Battershill is a Co-Director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), a critical digital archive of early 20th-century publishers’ records, the author of a collection of short stories, Circus (McClelland & Stewart, 2014) and the Co-Creator of ‘Make Believe,’ a collaborative research-creation project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Her most recent books are Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom (revised 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2022).
Memberships
- Wendy M. Cecil Professor in VicOne at Victoria College
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS)
Awards
- SHHRC Impact Award, 2017
Other Appointments
- Victoria College Fellow
- Book History and Print Culture (BHPC) Collaborative Program Faculty
Teaching
INF2228H The Future of Things: Digitization and Remediation 0.5 Credits
INF1501H Introduction to Culture & Technology 0.5 Credits
BKS1002H Book History in Practice 0.5 Credits
INF2161H History of Books and Publishing 0.5 Credits