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David Greetham
Faculty Profile

Ph.D., The City University of New York.
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of the City University of New York. English.

Selected Publications:

  • Theories of the Text (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); ix + 580pp [study of interrelationships of literary and textual theory].

  • Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography (New York: Garland/Taylor and Francis, 1998]; xiv + 602pp [collection of theoretical and pragmatic essays on textuality, with “interweaves” of autobiographical contexts].

  • The Margins of the Text (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997): viii + 383pp [two-part collection–“The Margins of Discourse” and “The Margins of the Book”–on the ideological “edges” of textuality, e.g., gender, class, race, and on the significance of marginality to the meanings produced by texts].

  • Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research, ed. (New York: MLA, 1995); vi + 740pp [collection of essays on scholarly editing from biblical/classical to present].

  • Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (New York: Garland, 1992, xx + 539pp; 1994, xx + 561 pp); Italian translation 2006; 2nd. Ed. New York/London: Routledge, 2006) [historical and critical survey of all aspects of textual scholarship, from classical bibliography to hypermedia].

  • TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies (New York: AMS/Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1984ff. [interdisciplinary journal of textual studies, emphasizing theory; founding co-editor].

  • On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa’s Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De Proprietatibus Rerum (xv) (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1975, pp. 726-824 [2v; vol. 3, 1989]. [critical edition of most influential Middle English encyclopaedia].

  • Board of Advisers Review, TEXT, Editio, SEENET, Ecdotica, Piers Plowman Archive, Ulysses Hypermedia Archive, Center for the History of the Book (Pennsylvania State University), U of Washington Center for Textual Studies, Working Group on Electronic Representation of Handwritten and Printed Materials.

 

 

  

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