Julie Park is Assistant Curator and Faculty Fellow of NYU Special Collections. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, material and visual culture, and book history, and the author and editor of several books, collected volumes and articles. Her forthcoming book My Dark Room (University of Chicago Press, 2022), takes the camera obscura as a conceptual model for understanding the designs and experiences of interior spaces in 17th- and 18th-century England. At NYU she is researching and writing Writing’s Maker, a book on the materiality of life writing and self-inscription formats in the eighteenth century. She has been awarded many research awards, including long-term fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library. In 2020 she was the winner of the American Library Association’s Justin Winsor Library History Essay Prize.
Marii Nyrop works on digital humanities projects at NYU.
The materials in this exhibition are held by the Special Collections Center of New York University Libraries. The reading room is now closed to non-NYU affiliated visitors. When it reopens to all users, non-NYU affiliated individuals may request an appointment to view them.
Special thanks to Charlotte Priddle, Nicholas Martin, Felix Esquival, Marii Nyrop, Janet Bunde, Elizabeth Verrelli, Nicole D’Andrea, Andrew Rarig, Kent Underwood, Gabrielle Dean, Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Curtis Small for their much-appreciated roles in supporting this exhibition.
Gratitude goes also to David Selis and Michelle Margolis for providing help in interpreting the Sefer ‘Evronot in the exhibition.