Dylan Lewis

Dylan Lewis is a PhD candidate in English Literature and a graduate assistant at UMD BookLab. Previously he has worked as an editorial assistant for Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700 and as a part-time instructor in the UMD Department of Germanic Studies. He predominantly works in the fields of book history, bibliography, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and print culture. His interdisciplinary dissertation looks at the transmission and transformation of English republicanism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany through transnational print history. As both gay and a first-generation college student, he is particularly interested in new, accessible approaches to bibliography, book history, and letterpress printing.

He has presented his work at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and the Senate House Library in London, as well as at multiple annual conferences held by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the German Studies Association, the American Printing History Association, and other national and regional societies. He has also trained as a bibliographer in courses at Rare Book School, California Rare Book School, and California Rare Book School International, and has worked as a librarian at the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek in Dortmund, Germany. Currently he serves as Chair of the Graduate & Early Career Caucus for the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies and is an early modern dissertation fellow with the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Some of his academic-adjacent hobbies include playing (MMO)RPG video games, letterpress printing, collecting seventeenth- and eighteenth-century books, and playing the clarinet. You can find him on Twitter at: @IAmDylanLewis