Daniel Bellingradt

Candidate statement

Daniel Bellingradt received his PhD in 2010 (Free University of Berlin) and is Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Book at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany. He is trained as a historian and communication scholar and is co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte (yearbook for communication history). Daniel has published three monographs and more than 25 articles in German and English on the intersections of early modern book history, media history, and paper history. His interests are centered on the materiality, sociality and spatiality of communication flows, and this focus is reflected in his recent edited volumes: Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (2017, eds. with Jeroen Salman and Paul Nelles), A History of Early Modern Communication. German and Italian Historiographical Perspectives (ed. with Massimo Rospocher, 2019), and The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe. Practices, Materials, Networks (ed. with Anna Reynolds). Recently, Daniel has started writing a book on media echoes, and is preparing his thoughts on what a global book history might look like. https://buchwissenschaft.phil.fau.de/institut/teammitglieder/daniel-bellingradt/. He joined SHARP in 2019 and was an invited member of the Scientific Committee of SHARP 2020/2022 in Amsterdam. As a Board member he will try to help early career scholars to develop, publish and promote their work on all kinds of book history. He believes that only visible scholars of this interdisciplinary field will have a chance to get permanent positions at university levels after the PhD.