Dr. Alan Galey

Associate Professor

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Biography

Alan Galey is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed in the Department of English. He is the director of the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture. His research and teaching are situated at the intersection of media studies, the history of books and reading, and digital textual scholarship. He focuses on bibliographical studies of digital texts and artifacts, including ebooks, videogames, and digital recordings of musical performances. Galey's monograph, 'Shakespearean Archive: Experiments in New Media Renaissance and Postmodernity,' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He has published articles in leading journals such as Book History, Shakespeare Quarterly, and others, and has contributed chapters to scholarly edited collections. His article, 'The Enkindling Reciter: E-Books and Bibliographical Imagination,' published in 2012, received the Fredson Bowers Prize from the Society for Textual Scholarship. In 2016, he co-curated the exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library celebrating Shakespeare, which won the 2017 Leab Exhibition Award from the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Research Interests

Awards

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Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Award

2017-01-01
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Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize

2013-01-01
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Outstanding Instructor Award

2014-01-01

Courses

INF2243H Histories of Information Technologies INF311H1 Information Cultural Imagination INF1501H Introduction to Culture & Technology INF2159H INF1240H Research Methods

Requirements for University of Toronto

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:93
Prerequisites
Appropriate four-year bachelor's degree Background in sociological theory and statistics preferred
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Specialization Notes

Department of Sociology