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Martha Driver
Distinguished Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
English - NYC
Location
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41 Park Row 1525
- Biography
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- Professional Contributions & Service
Biography
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 illustration from manuscript to print, book production, and the early history of publishing. In addition to publishing some 45 articles in these areas, she has edited eighteen journals over fifteen years, including Film & History: Medieval Period in Film and the Journal of the Early Book Society. Her books about pictures (from manuscript miniatures to woodcuts to film) include The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England (British Library Publications and University of Toronto), An Index of Images in English MSS, fascicle four, with Michael Orr (Brepols), and The Medieval Hero on Screen and Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, with Sid Ray (McFarland).
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1980
MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1975
A.B., Vassar College, 1974
Awards and Honors
2003 - Dyson Distinguished Achievement Award
2002 - NYSERNET Sponsored Education Grant
2001 - National Science Foundation Grant
Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1996 - Rodney G. Dennis Fellow in the Study of Manuscripts
1995 - American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
Pace University, 1995 - Fellow, Society of Fellows of the Dyson College
1995 - NEH Research Tools Grant
Pace University, 1994 - Fellow, Society of Fellows of the Dyson College
Folger Shakespeare Library, 1994 - Seminar Participant, Folger Institute
1990 - American Philosophical Society Grant
1990 - NEH Travel to Collections Grant
Pace University, 1990 - Scholarly Research Grant
1988 - NEH Fellowship for College Teachers
1987 - Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship
1987 - NEH Travel to Collections Grant
1986 - NEH Travel to Collections Grant
Pace University, 1986 - Summer Research Grant
Columbia University, 1982 - NEH Summer Seminar
University of Pennsylvania, 1977 - Lectureship in English
1975 - Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
"The wise book of philosophy and astronomy" and "How men that ben in hele sholde visite sike folk"
Driver, M. W. Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters (Eds.), .
RESEARCH INTEREST
Medieval manuscripts and early printing history representations of medieval women films with medieval themes
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
EBS (Early Book Society) Website [Other]
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/EBS/
Middle Ages on Film [Other], 2013
Curated Middle Ages on Film: Vikings! and Middle Ages on Film: Shakespeare!, Anthology Film Archives (October-December 2013), listed with my name and Pace affiliation in descriptive brochures of fifteen featured films (which I wrote). Both series were discussed in the New York Times (“Check out the legs on that Viking!” October 18, 2013) and New Yorker on Chimes at Midnightin a longer essay (Nov. 25, 2013), as well as in their weekly listings for fall 2013; I introduced five of the films.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association Internationale de Bibliophile
Bibliographical Society of America
College Art Association
Early Book Society
International Arthurian Society
Medieval Club of New York
Modern Humanities Research Association (UK)
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
The Bibliographical Society
The International Center of Medieval Art
The Medieval Academy of America
The New Chaucer Society
