Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier is a Professeur in the Collège de France, Directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is devoted to the history of written culture, the history of the book and history of reading, and the relationship between literature and history. His books in English are Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); Cardenio between Cerventes and Shakespeare: The Story of a Lost Play (Polity Press, 2012); and The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s Mind (Polity Press, 2014). His most recent book is Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).