Aaron T. Pratt
Aaron T. Pratt is Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center, a special collections library, archive, and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. He also teaches and advises graduate students as faculty in the Department of English. Before taking on these roles in 2017, he was Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio and ran a small business as an antiquarian bookseller. He is also a founding member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at Rare Book School. Pratt’s research focuses on bibliography, the history of the book, and the literature and culture of early modern England. He has presented and taught on these topics extensively, and his writing has appeared in several venues, including The Library, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, the Times Literary Supplement, and edited collections published by Oxford and Cambridge (1,2). His first major exhibition, The Long Lives of Very Old Books, was on view at the Ransom Center in 2023.