Book Studies
A person studies a text while protecting the spine of the book from damage. Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones ’97
College of Arts and Sciences

Book Studies

Program Type:
  • Concentration

The Book Studies Concentration is designed to provide pathways for students interested in books as communication, material culture, and artistic media on a global scale. It takes two core approaches—history and theory, and practice—to enable students to experience how making and creating go hand in hand with thinking and analyzing.

Program Director

Ann Sherif

Professor of Japanese

Sample Courses

  • ARTS 306 - Art from 1960 4 credits
  • ARTS 461 - Contemporary Photography: Book, Archive, Picture 4 credits
  • ENGL 227 - Romantic Revolutions 4 credits
  • ARTS 011 - Visual Concepts and Processes: Screenprinting 4 credits
View course catalog for requirements

Book Studies News

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Books at Work, In Oberlin

August 13, 2018
A longtime professor of English and now associate dean of the college of arts and sciences at Oberlin, Laura Baudot has long studied how people read, but now she’s asking a different question: why?

Learning through the Letterpress

April 15, 2015
In the Letterpress Studio, students get hands-on experience with printing presses to learn about literature and create new projects.
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