Martha W. Driver is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s and Gender
Studies at Pace University in New York City. A co-founder of the Early
Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history, she writes
about book production, illustration from manuscript to print, and the
early history of publishing. In addition to publishing 40 articles in
these areas, she has edited twelve journals in nine years. These include:
Film & History: Medieval Period in Film 29, 1-4 (1999); a special
issue of Literary & Linguistic Computing, “Teaching the Middle
Ages with Technology” 14, 2 (June 1999); and the Journal of the Early
Book Society. Her books about pictures (from woodcuts to film) include
The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England (London
and Toronto: British Library Publications and University of Toronto, 2004)
and The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy,
edited with Sid Ray (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland, 2004). Forthcoming
books include Fascicle Four in the Images in English Manuscripts
project, with Michael Orr (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2007),
Medieval Shakespeare in Performance (McFarland) with Sid Ray, and
Midwives to Warriors: Women and Work in the Middle Ages in the
Praeger Series on the Middle Ages.
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