Ballot Archive

24 Jun 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Earle Havens

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale)

Profession or occupation

Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Johns Hopkins University

Grounds for election

Historian of the book in Renaissance Europe. 12 books/catalogues, recently: Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe (2018), Bibliomania (2017), Renaissance Printers’ Devices (2015), Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries (2014; rpt. 2016); recent book chapters/articles on the print/scribal cultures of the Elizabethan Catholic underground. Curator, 12 major rare book exhibitions (Yale, Boston Public, Boston College, Johns Hopkins), forthcoming: “Women of the Book” (2020), “Ephemeral Renaissance” (2022). Recent fellowships (2018-): Houghton, Princeton, Huntington, U. Durham libraries; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; All Souls College, Oxford. Principal Investigator (2014-19), “The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe” (with UCL, Princeton), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Discipline Chair (2018-), History of the Book, Renaissance Society of America. Member: Grolier Club, Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, Johnsonians, Library Committee of the Elizabethan Club at Yale (2003-).

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