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As English Humanities Librarian, I serve the research, instructional, and collections needs of the Departments of English, Theatre, Journalism, and Communication Arts. Additionally, I am the Literary Collections Curator for the Department of Special Collections.
Office Location
Special Collections
Room 990B
976 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
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Room 990B
976 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
Find on the Campus Map
Subject Specialties
Department Liaison
- Communication Arts
- English Literature
- Journalism and Mass Communication, School of
More About Emily Spunaugle
Education
- PhD in English, Wayne State University
- Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- MA in English, Loyola University Chicago
- BA in English, Olivet Nazarene University.
Professional Service
- Bibliographical Society of America, Council Class of 2027
- Bibliographical Society of America, liaison to ASECS Library History Round Table, Chair, 2022-2023
- SHARP News Associate Editor for E-Resources and Exhibits, 2021-2023
Grants and Awards
- Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award, Library History Round Table of the ALA, 2025.
- Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant, Yale University, June 2024.
- Chawton House Visiting Fellowship, November 2022.
- Peiser, M., & Spunaugle, E.D. (2019). BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century. "Gender, Disability, and Finding Women in the Archives: Establishing the Provenance of the Marguerite Hicks Collection, 1660-1820."
- Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2019). Princeton University Library Research Grant. "Establishing the Provenance of the Marguerite Hicks Collection of Women's Writings."
Books
Steven A. Knowlton, Ellen M. Pozzi, Jordan S. Sly, & Emily D. Spunaugle, eds. Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History (Chicago: ALA Editions), 2023.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Spunaugle, E.D. "Defining the Boundaries of Propaganda: Informational Materials Subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in American Research Libraries," in Libraries Without Borders (Chicago: ALA Editions), 2023.
Spunaugle, E.D. "Epistolary Poetics: Reading the Manuscript Interventions of Melesina Trench," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 116, no. 3 (2022): 379-407.
Spunaugle, E.D. "Book Condition Survey for Baseline Assessment of Under-Resource Special Collections." Archival Issues 41, no. 2 (2022): 18-36.
https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.13881
Spunaugle, E.D. Scholarly edition and introduction of Mary, the Osier Peeler, 2021. Romantic Circles Electronic Editions.
https://romantic-circles.org/editions/maryosier
Spunaugle, E.D. "'The President was at Scarborough & not any Member attended': Reading the Sociable Practices of the Wisbech Literary Society, 1797-1802," Libraries: Culture, History, & Society 5, no. 2 (2021): 153-75.
Spunaugle, E.D. "A Travel Writer Reconsidered: Recovering Mary Morgan's Mary, the Osier-Peeler," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 10, no. 2, Article 2 (2020).
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.10.2.1218
Scholarly Presentations
Spunaugle, E.D. "Accounting for Authorial Labor in Women's Self-Published Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century," SHARP affiliate panel, ASECS 2024.
"Do Books Have Genders?" Roundtable discussion with Kadin Henningsen, Leah Price, and Chris Adams, moderated by Sarah Werner, SHARP 2023.
Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. "'Shall We Join the Ladies?': The Marguerite Hicks Collection of Women's Writing," Women and Books Panel, Women's Caucus, ASECS 2023.
Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. "'Cheap, Working Copies': Reading the Photostatic Negatives in the Marguerite Hicks Collection," SHARP 2022.
"Defining Publication: Literary and Legal Landscapes; Or, What We Talk about When We Define Publication," Roundtable discussion with Michelle Levy and Emily Friedman, SHARP 2021.
Spunaugle, E.D. "Ancillary Bluestocking: Identifying Mary Morgan and Recovering Her Lost Petition Poem," Still Lives: Revisiting the Biographical in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing 1, ASECS 2021.
Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. "Collecting Queer: Intersectional Bibliographic Methods and the Marguerite Hicks Collection," SHARP at RSA III: Feminist, Queer, Global Book Histories, Renaissance Society of America 2021.
Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. "Finding Marguerite Hicks: On Tracing Intersectional Voices in the Archive," SHARP 2019.
Invited Talks
Peiser, M., and E.D. Spunaugle. "'Cheap, Working Copies': Building the Marguerite Hicks Collection of Women's Writings," Columbia University Eighteenth-Century Seminar, April 27, 2023.
Peiser, M., & Spunaugle, E.D. "The Marguerite Hicks Collection: Disability, Collection Building, and the Politics of Care." Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, October 2022.
"Professionalization in Book History, Bibliography, and Textual Editing: Entering the Field without Formal Training," Invited panel discussion with Megan Peiser, David Gants, Erin McGuirl, and Marta Kvande. Bibliography and Textual Editing Forum Roundtable, MLA 2021.
"Teaching Material Texts without Material," Invited panel discussion with Megan Peiser, Sarah Werner, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. SHARP in Focus webinar discussion, June 2020.
INF 6120: Access to Information (Wayne State University School of Information Sciences)
Women writers of the long 18th century, book history, feminist bibliography, library history.