CV
A list of selected recent work; a full cv is at http://bit.ly/SarahWerner-fullCV
PUBLICATIONS
long (monographs, collections, editions, digital projects)
- Editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 2022–
- Studying Early Printed Books 1450-1800: A Practical Guide. Wiley, February 2019.
- Early Printed Books. Version 2.0, June 2020.
- Textual Editor, The Taming of the Shrew, Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition. Norton, 2015.
- Editor and lead writer, The Collation: A gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 2011–2015.
- Editor, New Directions for Renaissance Drama and Performance Studies. Palgrave, 2010.
- Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage. Accents on Shakespeare. Routledge, 2001.
medium (journal articles, book chapters)
- “What Is a Bibliographical Note?” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 119, no. 4 (2025): 477–83.
- “Working toward a Feminist History of Printing.” Printing History 27–28 (2020): 11–26.
- “Performance in Digital Editions of Shakespeare.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman. Oxford UP, 2017. 341–351.
- “Digital First Folios.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio, ed. Emma Smith. Cambridge UP, 2016. 170–84.
- “Othello and Theatrical Language.” Shakespeare’s World of Words, ed. Paul Yachnin. Arden Shakespeare, 2015. 171–86.
- “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Cowritten with Matthew Kirschenbaum. Book History. 17 (2014): 406–58; DOI: 10.1353/bh.2014.0005.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
Speaker
- “Boundaries and Remediation: Bibliography at the Edges.” Keynote, Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures." REBPAF Project, Dublin, June 2026.
- “Why Think Materially About European Books? or, What’s Type Got to Do with It?” Pressing the Past: Materials, Markets, and Meaning. Library of Congress. May 2026.
- “Feminist Bibliographical Praxis.” London Rare Book School and Institute of English Studies. July 2022.
- “What’s the Power of Feminist Bibliography?” Keynote, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. November 2021.
- “Building Better Book Feminisms.” Panel organizer and speaker, Bibliographical Society of America. Online. December 2020.
- “Crafting a Feminist Practice of Bibliography.” Feminist Bibliographies, University of California–Los Angeles. March 2020.
- “Teaching Like a Feminist Bibliographer.” Plenary, Behn Burney Conference, Auburn University. November 2019.
- “Learning through Erring: The Necessity of Not Knowing.” Keynote, Book History Workshop. Texas A&M Libraries. June 2019.
- “Digital Ephemera of Theater History.” Keynote, Digital and Archival Approaches to Theater History. University of Pennsylvania. January 2019.
- “Working Towards a Feminist History of Printing.” American Printing History Association Lieberman Lecture. Washington, DC. December 2018.
- “Early Digital Facsimiles.” Pforzheimer Lecture. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. February 2018.
- “Looking for a Radically Open Digital Landscape.” Plenary, RBMS. Coral Gables, FL, June 2016. DOI: 10.17613/M6SP52.
Seminar or workshop leader
- “A Bibliogrpahical Introduction to the Hand-Press Period.” Rare Book School. Online. Fall 2023, 2024, 2025.
- “Feminist Bibliography.” California Rare Book School. Online. August 2021, 2023, 2026.
- “Feminist Bibliography.” Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School. University of Otago. January 2023.
- “Learning and Teaching with Early Printed Books.” Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Summer Seminar. University of Toronto. June 2022.
- “Feminist Bibliography in Theory and Practice.” Folger Shakespeare Library. October 2019.
- “Teaching with Primary Materials.” Workshop leader. Clark Library, UCLA. Los Angeles. March 2018.
CONFERENCES
Presenter
- “Who Are Facsimiles For?” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Amherst, Mass. July 2019.
- “What Is Digital Depth?” Modern Language Association. Chicago, January 2019.
- “Your Ark Is Causing The Flood: Digitization Is Not Preservation.” Society of American Archivists. Washington, DC. August 2018.
- “Collaborating For An Accessible Past.” Bibliography among Disciplines. Philadelphia, October 2017.
- “Imaging’s Blind Spot: What We Learn From Digital Facsimiles of Early Print.” BH+DH. University of Wisconsin. Madison, September 2017.
- “Working with Shakespeare’s First Folio on Paper and on Screen.” Society for Textual Scholarship. University of Maryland, May 2017.
- Respondent, “Digital Embodiment.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, January 2017.
Seminar, workshop, or panel organizer
- “Teaching in Collaboration with Special Collections.” Shakespeare Association of America. Online. April 2021.
- “Teaching Material Texts without the Material.” SHARP in Focus. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Online. July 2020.
- “The Politics of Facsimiles.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Amherst, Mass. July 2019.
- “A Sensory History of Material Texts.” With Holly Dugan. Renaissance Society of America. Toronto, March 2019.
- “Teaching Shakespeare in Collaboration with Special Collections Libraries.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, January 2019.
- “Material Texts and Digital Interfaces.” Shakespeare Association of America. Atlanta, April 2017.
- “Digital Futures.” Renaissance Society of America. Boston, April 2016.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Digital Media Strategist, Folger Shakespeare Library (2013-15)
- Undergraduate Program Director (2006-13) and Scholarly Outreach Coordinator (2011-13), Folger Shakespeare Library
- Adjunct Faculty in Georgetown, George Washington, George Mason
EDUCATION
- PhD, English, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
- BA cum laude, English, Bryn Mawr College, 1990