Jesse Erickson, Ph.D., MLIS

Jesse R. Erickson is the Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum. He worked previously in a joint appointment as Coordinator of Special Collections and Digital Humanities and Assistant Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware where he taught specialized courses in the history of the book, Victorian literature, and digital humanities. He also worked as the Associate Director of the University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center. Prior to that, he spent several years working at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA in various capacities. Along with Sarah Werner, he served as co-editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America from 2021 to 2024. And in addition to his more recent service on the Board of Directors for the Center for Book Arts in New York City, he has previously served as the Vice President for Programs for the American Printing History Association and on the editorial boards of the University of Delaware Press and Birmingham City University Centre for Printing History and Culture’s journal, Publishing History. His research specializations are in ethnobibliography, alternative printing, Black print culture, and the transnational publishing history of the works of Victorian period author Ouida, and he is written and lectured extensively on these topics with articles, chapters, and reviews published in such journals as Printing History, Publishing History, and Criticism.