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For Episode 3 of the fifth season of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “Bibliographic Intimacies,” Kate and Kandice interviewed Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the Marguerite Hicks Collection in the Kresge Library at Oakland University, a collection of women’s books collected by a queer, disabled woman. Their deep, immersive work on this collection highlights the physical, intellectual, and emotional intimacies that arise from bibliographic research.
From the practicalities of rare book collection during the Second World War, to the joys (and occasional frustrations) of collaboration, to a heist (!!!), this episode really has it all. Join us to learn more about the human stories embedded in the Marguerite Hicks Collection.
Guests
Megan Peiser is an enrolled Citizen of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is associate professor of Literature at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where she teaches eighteenth-century literature, Indigenous literature, digital humanities, and book history and bibliography. Her writing on these subjects can be found in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her monograph, The Review Periodical and British Women Novelists, 1790-1820 is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. Peiser is the co-manager with Emily Spunaugle of the Marguerite Hicks Project. She lives and works on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe people.
Emily D. Spunaugle is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Her research interests include book history, bibliography, and women writers of the long eighteenth century, and her writing is featured in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Romantic Circles, ABO, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and elsewhere. She is a former chair of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and a former editor of SHARP News.
Credits
Produced by: Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren
Mixed and mastered by Alexander Kennard
Music: “Fast Forward Conversation,” by ericnorcross81, https://freesound.org/people/ericnorcross81/sounds/570758/, and Ignatius Sancho, “Sweetest Bard”, A Collection of New Songs (1769) from https://brycchancarey.com/sancho/bard.jpg, and played by Kandice Sharren
WPHP Records Referenced
Mary the Osier-peeler, a Simple but True Story (title)
Haywood, Eliza (person)
WPHP Sources Referenced
Oakland University Kresge Library - Hicks Collection
Works Cited
Peiser, Megan. “Citing Seeds, Citing People: Bibliography and Indigenous Memory, Relations, and Living Knowledge-Keepers.” Criticism, vol. 64, no. 3/4, Aug. 2022, pp. 521–31. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899734.
Spunaugle, Emily D. “A Travel Writer Reconsidered: Recovering Mary Morgan’s Mary, the Osier-Peeler.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 10, no. 2, Nov. 2020. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.10.2.1218.