Cohort Year:
2022
Research Interests:
History of the Book and of Reading; Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature and Culture; Print and Manuscript Cultures; Descriptive Bibliography; Environmental Humanities; Archival Studies.
Education:
B.A. (Honours), Simon Fraser University, 2022. M.A., English, University of Chicago, 2023
Biography
Angela Wachowich is a PhD student in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, studying literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. She writes about the social lives of books, texts, and their users, though she is more widely interested in all processes of printing, illustration, book binding and collecting. Her current research follows the environmental life-histories of book-objects with an eye to their animality, material origins and supply chains, resource choice and allocation, technological change, and energy use.
Angela is the Curatorial Assistant at the University of Chicago Library Special Collections and Interim Program Coordinator of the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book. She co-founded and coordinates the Kim-Park Book History Colloquium (formerly the Chicago School of Book History) with Dr. Eric Slauter. Angela interns as an antiquarian bookseller at W.S. Cotter Rare Books.
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/.