Julie Park

A scholar of material and visual culture, book history, and the history of selfhood in eighteenth-century England, Julie Park is the author of My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford University Press, 2010).

Her current book project, Writing's Maker, examines the materiality of self-inscription formats (commonplace books, pocket diaries, extra-illustrated books and penmanship copy books) as intermedial channels of documenting, making, and marking the lives of writers in the long eighteenth century.

She is editor of the Penn State History of the Book Series at Penn State University Press.

To find out more about Julie Park's research, go to her Penn State English Department website page, and her personal website.