Josée Vincent
Election
Position
Name
Josée Vincent
Candidate statement
Josée Vincent. Professeure titulaire en Littérature, Département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
I have been a member of SHARP since 2004 and since then I have attended seven conferences (Lyon, Toronto, Philadelphia, Dublin, Antwerp, Montréal, Victoria). I organized the SHARP conference in Montréal in 2015. I was appointed Director of Conferences in January 2017, then formally elected in June 2017. I was the Director of the Groupe de recherches et d’études sur le livre au Québec from 2006 to 2018. I am Co-Editor, with Marie-Pier Luneau, of the Dictionnaire des gens du livre au Québec (forthcoming in 2020), and with Marie-Pier Luneau and Anthony Glinoer, of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book culture. My research interests are Publishing, Book fairs, the Politics of the book and the Marketplace of the book.
Conferences are one of the main activities of the Society. It is very important to offer members events that attain a high level of scholarship and give us an opportunity to meet each other, present our research, and develop new projects. In that sense, I believe that while SHARP conferences must reflect the state of Book History and its future, they should also reflect the diversity of the membership, which is part of its richness. As Director of Conferences, I will work with the other members of the Executive in order to plan Conferences and recruit members to organize them. My special focus will be on working with people from non-anglophone countries to help them organize a successful SHARP conference. I will support the Conference organizers through the entire process of organizing a conference and help them use the SHARP Conference Resource Suite that I will continue to adapt to the standards that the SHARP members are looking for.
I have been a member of SHARP since 2004 and since then I have attended seven conferences (Lyon, Toronto, Philadelphia, Dublin, Antwerp, Montréal, Victoria). I organized the SHARP conference in Montréal in 2015. I was appointed Director of Conferences in January 2017, then formally elected in June 2017. I was the Director of the Groupe de recherches et d’études sur le livre au Québec from 2006 to 2018. I am Co-Editor, with Marie-Pier Luneau, of the Dictionnaire des gens du livre au Québec (forthcoming in 2020), and with Marie-Pier Luneau and Anthony Glinoer, of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book culture. My research interests are Publishing, Book fairs, the Politics of the book and the Marketplace of the book.
Conferences are one of the main activities of the Society. It is very important to offer members events that attain a high level of scholarship and give us an opportunity to meet each other, present our research, and develop new projects. In that sense, I believe that while SHARP conferences must reflect the state of Book History and its future, they should also reflect the diversity of the membership, which is part of its richness. As Director of Conferences, I will work with the other members of the Executive in order to plan Conferences and recruit members to organize them. My special focus will be on working with people from non-anglophone countries to help them organize a successful SHARP conference. I will support the Conference organizers through the entire process of organizing a conference and help them use the SHARP Conference Resource Suite that I will continue to adapt to the standards that the SHARP members are looking for.