Alexandra Gillespie is an associate professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research is concerned with the changing technologies and the dynamic business of medieval book production; it spans more than a thousand years—beginning with the earliest surviving parchment and papyrus books of the second century AD, up to the first century of printing in Europe. She is the author of Print Culture and the Medieval Author (Oxford, 2006) and recently co-edited The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011). Right now she is working on an illustrated history of Western bookbinding techniques and a study of the Middle English author Geoffrey Chaucer’s books. She is a principal investigator of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation project, Manuscript Studies in an Interoperable Digital Environment. She has a DPhil from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and she has held research fellowships at Balliol College in Oxford, Cambridge University Library, and the Huntington Library in California

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