Centre for Material Texts, University of Cambridge

Centre for Material Texts, University of Cambridge a new forum for the study of the word in the world More information can be found on the CMT website. The current Director of the CMT is Jason Scott-Warren.

The Centre for Material Texts at Cambridge fosters research into the physical forms in which texts are embodied and circulated, and the ways in which those forms have interacted with literary cultures and historical contexts. Based in the Faculty of English, it provides a focus for editorial and bibliographical work, and for critical, theoretical and historical projects of many kinds. The CMT fost

ers the study of a wide variety of media–from spoken words to celluloid, from manuscript to XML–and brings together academics and postgraduates from a range of faculties and departments across the University. This is a forum for starting new conversations which will push back the boundaries of knowledge in one of the most exciting areas of humanities research. The CMT is coordinated by a steering committee of academics from a range of disciplines, and there is also an advisory committee of senior specialists.

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Postdoctoral position available within the “Tandem” project:Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and Self in Contemp...
08/09/2025

Postdoctoral position available within the “Tandem” project:

Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East

led by a “Tandem” of 2 researchers:

Hélène Martinelli (ENS / CNRS, based at CEFRES, Prague)
Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

“The project explores self-made books and private bookmaking practices in contemporary Europe and the Middle East, focusing on their material, symbolic and social dimensions. Adopting a genealogical perspective, it examines how non-commercial publishing and book production shape relationships, express identity and responds to political and technological change.
Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, book history and sociology of literature, the project aims to reappraise the social significance of the print book in the era of digital publishing. Researchers working on contemporary bookmaking practices from the perspective of book history, anthropology, sociology, literary studies and other disciplines such as information and communication sciences are more than welcome to apply.”
Read more about the project here.

Call opens June 16, 2025 Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025 Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025 Period: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027 Application Language: English Address for submission: [email protected] (send a copy to: [email protected]) Two postdoctor...

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