User:Missheathcliff

Miss Heathcliff is the Rare Books Curator at the University of Melbourne, specialising in pre-1820 international imprints and history of the book.

Interests
History of the book, codicology, the book as object, historical context, provenance, marginalia, enhancing discovery & use of hidden collections, medieval manuscripts, Elizabethan book trade, Gothic literature and literary landscapes, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, history of garden and landscape design and more...

Projects and initiatives

 * Medieval Manuscripts Project (National Library of Australia), 2015
 * Middle Eastern Manuscripts Project (Special Collections/Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne-John Rylands Library, University of Manchester joint project), 2017
 * Rare Book Detectives (Cultural Collections Projects Program, University of Melbourne)
 * Great Rare Book Archaeological Dig (Cultural Collections Projects Program, University of Melbourne)
 * Hands-On Rare Book Exploration workshops (Researcher@Library Week 2017, University of Melbourne)

Conference papers
'Blacke Beares, Green Dragons and Brazen Serpents: re-imagining a 17th century publishing community through the University of Melbourne Rare Books Collection'. Local Bibliography—The Deepening Stream, The Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand University of Waikato, 21–22 November 2016.