Prof. Dr. Christine Haug is Professor of Buchwissenschaft at the University of Munich and director of the Buchwissenschaft programmes. Her main areas of research include the history of the book and publishing trade from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the clandestine book market in the eighteenth century and the development of sub-markets in the book trade (such as railway bookstores and department stores) as well as author-publisher relationships around 1900 (among others Stefan George). She is co-editor, together with Prof. Dr. Vincent Kaufmann (mcm Universität. St. Gallen), of Kodex, the yearbook of the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, and co-editor, together with Thomas Fuchs and Detlev Döring (Leipzig), of the Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte.
Peter Kornicki is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Warden of Robinson College. He is the author of The book in Japan. A cultural history from the beginnings to the nineteenth century (Leiden 1998), co-editor of The female as subject: Women and the book in Japan (Ann Arbor 2010), and works on vernacularisation and the book in East Asia.
Dr. César Manrique has recently received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Leuven (kul). His main research interests are in bibliographical and artistic exchanges between the Southern Netherlands and the Hispanic World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis. Among his publications related to book history are ‘Los impresores bruselenses y su producción dirigida al mercado hispano, siglos xvi-xvii’, in: Erebea. Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales 2 (2012), 205-226; and ‘From Antwerp to Veracruz. Southern Netherlands books in Mexican colonial libraries’, in: De gulden passer 87 (2009) 2, 93-112.
David McKitterick fba is Librarian and Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His books include the standard history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries (3 vols, 1992-2004), and the history of Cambridge University Library in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1986). More recent work includes Print, manuscript and the search for order (Cambridge 2003), and Old books, new technologies; the representation, conservation and transformation of books since 1700 (2013). He is one of the general editors of the Cambridge history of the book in Britain.
Frederick Nesta is founder and Executive Director of the Centre for the History of the Book in China. Previously he was University Librarian at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and has had a long career in academic, special, and corporate libraries in New York and London.
Aina Nøding is a postdoctoral research fellow in History at the University of Oslo, and a partner in the research project Diversifying Publics and Opinions, on Dano-Norwegian journals in the eighteenth century. She holds a PhD in comparative literature, with a study on literature published in Norwegian eighteenth-century newspapers (2007). Her interest lies in the intersection of literature, book and media history. Publications include contributions to T. Rem (ed.), Bokhistorie, 2003; H.Fr. Dahl (ed.), Norsk presses historie, 2010 and V. Ystad (ed.), Henrik Ibsen's writings, 2008-2010.
Dr Roger Osborne has published widely in the fields of book history, print culture and textual criticism. He completed a PhD at the unsw in 2000 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, from 2004-2007. He was project manager of the Aus-e-Lit Project from 2008-2011, and, from 2012, is a member of the steering committee of the Australian Electronic Scholarly Editing project. He is co-editor of the Cambridge edition of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes (forthcoming 2013) and as the 2011 Nancy Keesing Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales, he is working towards an electronic edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life.
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