| Job Title: | Director, UCL Centre for Publishing |
| Affiliation: | UCL |
| Email: | s.rayner@ucl.ac.uk |
| Twitter: | @samartha |
Why I am supporting the Academic Book of the Future Project:
I’m the Principal Investigator on the Project!
Research Interests:
I teach and write on publishing and book related topics, with special interests in publishing archives and publishing paratexts, bibliography, the culture of bookselling, editors and editing, bibliotherapy, and academic publishing. I have also taught extensively on English Literature courses and have particular interests in Medieval and Arthurian texts.
Recent Publications:
Books:
Monograph: Kingship in the work of the Four Major Ricardian Poets (Boydell and Brewer, 2008).
Chapters:
- “University Presses and Academic Publishing” in The Cambridge History of the Book, Vol VII (forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 2015)
- “How love and I togedre met”: Gower, Amans, and the Lessons of Venus in the Confessio Amantis, in Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (D. S. Brewer, 2014)
- “Death and the grimly voice in David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’” – (Boydell, 2009) Arthurian Way of Death, ed. Kevin Whetter and Karen Cherewatuk
Articles
- “The Case of the ‘Curious Document’: Malory, William Matthews, and Eugène Vinaver”, Journal of the International Arthurian Society (JIAS), forthcoming, 2015.
- “A New Spirit of Hope”: Educating the Book Trade, 1920–1930, Publishing Research Quarterly, May 2013
- “Grey Areas in Malory and the Stanzaic Mort Arthure”, Arthuriana (2012)
See Sam’s UCL profile here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/samrayner/
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