Dr Pollie Bromilow BA, MA (Lond.) PhD (Cantab.)

My recent work has concentrated on the interface between textualities and the materiality of the book. I am currently editing a collection of essays entitled 'Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600. I have also recently published several articles on the theme of reading and its relationship to women and representations of women.
My current major project is a monograph which is emerging from these preoccupations provisionally entitled 'Books for the Girls? Secular Women Readers and Vernacular Printed Books in Renaissance France'. This book will examine the ways in which book culture started to respond to the perceived needs of secular women readers in the sixteenth century through adaptation, format, typography, illustration and paratexts.
I am also co-editing a collection of essays with Dr Sara Barker (History, Exeter) on 'Reading Anthologies in Renaissance Europe 1450-1650'. This collection came out of a study day and conference we organised together with Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey in Liverpool and Trinity College, Dublin in 2009-10.