Biography
Angela Wachowich (she/her) is a researcher and writer from the traditional territories of the Treaty 7 people. She received her BA (Honours) in English at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC) and MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. She co-founded and -coordinates the Chicago School of Book History with Dr. Eric Slauter and currently co-coordinates the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures graduate student workshop. Her doctoral research engages subjects such as environmental book history and manuscript in the age of print.
In addition to scholarly and non-scholarly writing, Angela works as a Rare Books Assistant at The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library.
Publications
“‘Scratch it out’: Retrospective Editing in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany,” Gender, Literary Networks and Media Cultures in the Eighteenth Century. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press (Forthcoming, 2025).
Schellenberg, Betty A., Linara Kolosova, and Angela Wachowich, eds. “Letters of Elizabeth Montagu to the Duchess of Portland 1741-1742,” Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online, General Ed. Nicole Pohl, Digital Humanities at Swansea University, 2024, https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/.