From 2018 to 2023, a set of fifteen doctoral students at the University of Oxford was supported by the Leverhulme Trust to research ‘Publication beyond Print’. The students of the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre studied methods of publication in different unprinted media, times and places. Working in various Faculties (English, Modern and Medieval Languages, Classics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Oxford Internet Institute), they ranged from ancient Athenian inscriptions to social media, via Roman papyri, medieval manuscripts and song, early modern politics and theatre, and from England, France and Germany to the Ottoman empire and Tibet.
As well as their own doctoral research, several of the students collaborated on a ‘multigraph’, comparing their findings, edited by Dr Daria Kohler, one of the former students (now at the University of Leuven), and Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), who managed the doctoral group day-to-day. The book was published by on 15 January 2025 and is available online for Open Access until 12 February 2025 and for sale in print from Cambridge University Press. As the students write in the Foreword, ‘Its shared authorship and its circulation largely online are experiments in the ‘publication beyond the press’ that the book considers’.
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