Dr. David Gants

David L. Gants (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997) publishes on bibliographical, textual, and technological matters, and is the Electronic Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He is also director of the Early English Booktrade Database project, which seeks to describe, quantify, and classify every book published in the STC period. He serves on the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America as well as chairing its Fellowship Committee, and has taught Descriptive Bibliography at Virginia's Rare Book School since 1996.

Dr. Gants joined the HoTT program to teach and pursue research in the technologies of textual transmission from Gutenberg through the Internet revolution, with a special emphasis on the material practices of printers and publishers. In the HoTT program, he has taught such courses as The History of the Book, Introduction to Humanities Computing, and has co-taught Editorial Theory from Jerome to JSTOR with Prof. Gary Taylor.

Dr. Gants' recent publications include:

“Descriptive Bibliography and Electronic Publication,” forthcoming in 2010 Essays and Studies.

“Electronic Texts.” Renaissance Studies and New Technologies: A Collection, with R. Carter Hailey. Eds. William R. Bowen and Raymond G. Siemens. Renaissance Society of America, 2008.

“Editing Drama.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe, John Unsworth. MLA, 2006.

“Shifting Modes of Ordered Knowledge in the Early Modern Book Trade.” Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade. Ed. John Hinks. Oak Knoll, 2006.

“A Quantitative Analysis of the London Book Trade 1614-1618.” Studies in Bibliography 55 (2002; published 2004).

“Identifying and Tracking Paper Stocks in Early Modern London.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 94 (2000).