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Claire Battershill is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed at the Faculty of Information and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the history and future of the book, particularly examining the relationships between feminist experimental publishing, literary aesthetics, and the practices of book-making in 20th and 21st-century literature. She is the Co-Director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), a critical digital archive of early 20th-century publishers’ records. Battershill is also the author of a collection of short stories titled 'Circus' published by McClelland & Stewart in 2014, and has co-created the collaborative research-creation project 'Make Believe,' funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Her recent publications include 'Women Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions' with Cambridge University Press in 2022 and the revised second edition of 'Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom' published by Bloomsbury in 2022. She is a Fellow at Victoria College and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contributions to book history and print culture.
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