A. E. B. (Anne) Coldiron

Candidate statement

A. E. B. (Anne) Coldiron, Krafft University Professor, Florida State University; Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews (Scotland). Book History (early print/late manuscript cultures); Translation Studies; early modern literature; late-medieval literature; women and literature; French-English literary relations over the longue durée; multilingualism; poetry and poetics. My work focuses on textual alterities and on the effects of technological transformations of media, particularly across literary cultures. Author of (e.g.) Printers without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance (Cambridge UP, 2015); articles forthcoming: “Transnational Lyric”; “Adventures in Multilingualism: The ‘English Exception’?”; “Translingual and Multilingual Printing.” Coordinator, Special Topic on Translation, PMLA; accepting essays until 30 June 2021. https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/anne-coldiron. My previous involvement in SHARP has been as member and attendee since 2008, as a Keynote Speaker (“Languages of the Book,” SHARP 2016, Paris), and as Board Member (2013-2021). I’ve loved watching and participating in SHARP’s growth. I would aim to continue the high standards of quality, equity, and diversity that Leslie Howsam and the current Nominating Committee have demonstrated. I, too, want all parts of this wonderfully diverse field to be represented. Our future success continues to mean balancing nominations of junior, mid-career, senior, precarious, independent, and emeritus scholars; ensuring nomination slates are as inclusive as possible in every sense of that word (e.g. racial, ethnic, gender-identity, age, ability, religious, linguistic backgrounds); and attending to regional-national-international diversity, varied university types, intellectual methods, and sub-fields. I’ll be approachable and responsive to the members, actively inviting nominations to represent our varied perspectives.