Peter Stallybrass
Peter Stallybrass is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and directed the History of Material Texts seminar for 26 years. Peter has been the Samuel Wannamaker Fellow at the Globe Theatre in London, the Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, a Guggenheim Fellow, and he is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (with Allon White), Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (with Ann Rosalind Jones, which won the James Russell Lowell Prize by the MLA for the outstanding book in Modern Languages), and Benjamin Franklin, Printer and Writer (with James Green). His essay with Heather Wolfe on “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England” won the Archival History Article Award from the Society of American Archivists and he is working with Heather and Ray Schrire on “Dots and Slashes in Early Modern Account Books.” He is at present completing a book on the bible as a material text.