Terry Belanger
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970
University Professor Terry Belanger was educated at Haverford College and at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in 18th-century English literature in 1970. His doctoral work was on the l8th-century London book trade, and he has published extensively on this subject. In 1971, he established the Book Arts Press at Columbia University as a bibliographical laboratory supporting a program for the training of rare book and special collections librarians and antiquarian booksellers. In 1983, he instituted Rare Book School (RBS), a collection of courses of interest to students of the history of the book and related subjects. In 1985, he and the Book Arts Press began a series of videotapes on various aspects of printing history; his widely-distributed Anatomy of a Book: I: Format in the Hand-Press Period (1991) was reissued as a DVD in 2003. Belanger moved both the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School to the University of Virginia in 1992, where he accepted an appointment as University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections. Each year (during seven weeks in the winter, spring, and summer), Rare Book School attracts about 300 participants who compete for admissions to five-day courses on subjects ranging from the history of bookbinding structures to rare book cataloging. Belanger’s appointment at UVa as University Professor is an interdisciplinary one, without department or fixed duties; during the current academic year he is teaching history courses in the School of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Belanger was Rosenbach Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania (1986); and he has given the Graham Pollard Lecture of the Bibliographical Society of London (1988), the Hanes Lecture at the University of North Carolina (1991), the Malkin Lecture at Columbia (1991), the Brownell Lecture at the University of Iowa (1994), the Adler Lecture at Skidmore College (1996), the Mayo Lecture at Texas A & M University (2003), and about a hundred other formal presentations on bibliographical and bibliophilic subjects over the past three decades.
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