Adrian
Johns
Allan Grant Maclear Professor
Chair, Department of History
University of Chicago
History of the sciences; history of the book and other media; reading and its consequences; intellectual property and piracy from the Renaissance to the present; information and its control; Early Modern and Modern British history
Recent
Works
The Science of Reading: Information,
Media, and Mind in Modern America
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023).
After
Hours: Historia Coelestis: Linda Hall Library, November 2022
(video).
Piracy
in the Book Trade [essay review of Robert Darnton, Piracy and Publishing],
American Historical Review 127:3
(September 2022), 1433-1435.