Juliet Fleming

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. 1990 (English), University of Pennsylvania; B.A. 1982, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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Juliet Fleming is the author of Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England (2001). Her work investigates early modern writing practices beyond the conventions of book and manuscript to see where textual inscriptions were made and under what circumstances. Her book in progress, Counterproductions: Cultural Graphology in the Age of Shakespeare uses a deep reading of Derrida to extend her analysis of ignored forms of writing, of parts of books that are not writing, and of uses of books that she challenges us to think of as alternative and overlooked forms of reading, including printers’ errors and Shakespeare’s “blots”; the printers’ flowers that ornamented early modern books; semantic elements that form not words, but parts of words (letters syllables and spaces); and early modern decoupage, or the cutting up of books. Other recent work interrogates the survival of poetic forms from the point of view of evolutionary theory, focusing on the circumstances of survival rather than on the moment of production.

Areas of Research/Interest
Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.

External Affiliations
Modern Languages Association, the Renaissance Society of America, the Shakespeare Society of America.

Fellowships/Honors
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England; Ahmanson/Getty Fellowship, Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

Publications

Graffiti et arts scripturaux à l’aube de la modernité anglaise. Trans. Jean-François Caro. Les presses du réel, 2011.

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