2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-2906
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: s.baron@starpower.net

            Sabrina Alcorn Baron holds a PhD in British History from the University of Chicago and has published on censorship, book collectors, the book trade, and news writing, as well as the history of reading and culture of publication in seventeenth-century England. Baron co-edited (with Brendan Dooley) The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (2001). Also in 2001 she was guest curator for the Folger Shakespeare Library Exhibition, The Reader Revealed, and compiled and edited the exhibition catalog of the same name. She wrote 13 biographies for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). In 2007 she co-edited a book with Eleanor F. Sherlin and Eric N. Lindquist, Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, published by University of Massachusetts Press. Baron was a Fulbright scholar in 1997-8 and has been awarded other fellowships, most recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies at the Library of Congress.

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