Michael Winship

Michael Winship is Iris Howard Regents Professor of English II (emeritus) at the University of Texas at Austin and edited the final three volumes of the nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature. He is the author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields (1995) and has published widely on the nineteenth-century American book and publishing trades. He was an editor of and contributor to The Industrial Book, 1840–1880 and contributor to Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940 (volumes 3 and 4 of A History of the Book in America), and served on that series’ editorial board. He has taught annually at RBS since 1983.

Courses Formerly Offered

• Descriptive Bibliography, 1820–1914 (1989–1993)
• History of the American Book (1987–1988, with Edwin Wolf 2d)
• Bibliography of 19th-Century American Books (1986)
• Publishers’ Bindings, 1780–1910 (1984–1985, with Sue Allen)
• The 19th-Century Book (1983); The 19th-Century English & American Book (1984); Sources for the Study of the 19th-Century English & American Book (1985) | co-taught with Michael Turner

Courses Offered

• H-135. The History of the Book in Antebellum America
• H-135v. Key Moments in the History of the Book in the Antebellum United States
• H-50. The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
• H-95. Reading Publishers’ Archives for the Study of the American Book