Betty Schellenberg

is a Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her interests in authorship, the Bluestocking movement, and interfaces between the print trade and scribal networks inform her most recent monograph, Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture (2016). For her current SSHRC-funded project on the eighteenth-century manuscript verse miscellany she is surveying these unique, handwritten compilations in British and North American archives, focusing on what they reveal about how obscure individuals responded to, curated, and helped shape the poetic culture of their day.