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Emily Spunaugle

Associate Professor
Humanities and Rare Books Librarian

Library Liaison for English, Film Studies and Production, the Honors College, and the Department of Communication and Journalism

Email: spunaugle@oakland.edu
Phone: 248-370-2498

Office: 246 Kresge Library

Want a virtual meeting? You can make an appointment or email me to find a better time.

About Me

As a humanities librarian, I partner with professors and students to provide unique one-shot and embedded instruction sessions for classes taught in my liaison areas. I also select books and resources for these departments and work to make the library's collections in these areas more familiar, visible, and accessible.

Research Interests

Library history, print culture, book history, women writers of the long Eighteenth Century, Soviet-Era academic libraries in America

Educational Background

Doctorate of Philosophy in English, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), in progress

Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, May 2015

Master of Arts in English, Loyola University Chicago, December 2013

Bachelor of Arts in English, Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL), May 2012

Current Research

My current research focuses on OU's Marguerite Hicks Collection of writings by and about women from the 17th-19th Centuries. With Dr. Megan Peiser, I serve as Co-Director of the Marguerite Hicks Project, which seeks to better understand the collecting strategies behind one of the earliest intentional collections of British women's writings from this period in the United States.

Books

Steven A. Knowlton, Ellen M. Pozzi, Jordan S. Sly, & Emily D. Spunaugle, eds. Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History (Chicago: ALA Editions), 2023.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Spunaugle, E.D. "Defining the Boundaries of Propaganda: Informational Materials Subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in American Research Libraries," in Libraries Without Borders (Chicago: ALA Editions), 2023.
• Spunaugle, E.D. "Epistolary Poetics: Reading the Manuscript Interventions of Melesina Trench," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 116, no. 3 (2022): 379-407.
• Spunaugle, E.D. "Book Condition Survey for Baseline Assessment of Under-Resource Special Collections." Archival Issues 41, no. 2 (2022): 18-36. https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.13881
• Spunaugle, E.D. Scholarly edition and introduction of Mary, the Osier Peeler, 2021. Romantic Circles Electronic Editions. https://romantic-circles.org/editions/maryosier.
• Spunaugle, E.D. "'The President was at Scarborough & not any Member attended': Reading the Sociable Practices of the Wisbech Literary Society, 1797-1802," Libraries: Culture, History, & Society 5, no. 2 (2021): 153-75.
• Spunaugle, E.D.  "A Travel Writer Reconsidered: Recovering Mary Morgan's Mary, the Osier-Peeler," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 10, no. 2, Article 2 (2020). http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.10.2.1218
• Thielen, J., Spunaugle, E.D., and S. Swanberg. (2020). "Research Forum: Creating and Sustaining an Intra-library Venue to Share Library Research," Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication 8 (General Issue), eP2232. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2332.

Other Scholarly Publications (select).

• Spunaugle, E.D., and M. Peiser. "The Enlightenment (1660-1800)," in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions through the Ages, ed by Suzanne M. Stauffer. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 143-63.
• Spunaugle, E.D., and M. Peiser. "Pandemic Pedagogy: Marginalia in the Marguerite Hicks Collection." SHARP News, 25 Jan. 2021.

Selected Scholarly Presentations

• "Do Books Have Genders?" Roundtable discussion with Kadin Henningsen, Leah Price, and Chris Adams, moderated by Sarah Werner, SHARP 2023.
• Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2023, March). "'Shall We Join the Ladies?': The Marguerite Hicks Collection of Women's Writing," Women and Books Panel, Women's Caucus, ASECS 2023.
• Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2022, July). "'Cheap, Working Copies': Reading the Photostatic Negatives in the Marguerite Hicks Collection," SHARP 2022.
• "Defining Publication: Literary and Legal Landscapes; Or, What We Talk about When We Define Publication," Roundtable discussion with Michelle Levy and Emily Friedman, SHARP 2021.
• Spunaugle, E.D. (2021, April). "Ancillary Bluestocking: Identifying Mary Morgan and Recovering Her Lost Petition Poem," Still Lives: Revisiting the Biographical in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing 1, ASECS 2021.
• Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2021, April)."Collecting Queer: Intersectional Bibliographic Methods and the Marguerite Hicks Collection," SHARP at RSA III: Feminist, Queer, Global Book Histories, RSA 2021.
• Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2019, July). Finding Marguerite Hicks: On tracing intersectional voices in the archive. SHARP 2019.
• Spunaugle, E.D. (2019, July). The speculative histories of Soviet texts subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in American libraries. SHARP 2019.
• "Saving Uncle Tom: Revaluing Research Collections in the Material Turn." Popular Culture/American Culture International Conference, Indianapolis. March 2018.
• "Speculative Histories of Soviet Texts Subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act." States of the Book Conference, West Point Military Academy, September 2016.

Invited Talks, selected.

• Peiser, M., and E.D. Spunaugle. "'Cheap, Working Copies': Building the Marguerite Hicks Collection of Women's Writings," Columbia University Eighteenth-Century Seminar, April 27, 2023.
• Spunaugle, E.D. "For the benefit of: British Women's Benevolent Publications in the Long Eighteenth Century." WSU Humanities Center Brown Bag Series, February 2023.
• Peiser, M., & Spunaugle, E.D. "The Marguerite Hicks Collection: Disability, Collection Building, and the Politics of Care." Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, October 2022.
• "Professionalization in Book History, Bibliography, and Textual Editing: Entering the Field without Formal Training," Invited panel discussion with Megan Peiser, David Gants, Erin McGuirl, and Marta Kvande. MLA 2021, Bibliography and Textual Editing Forum Roundtable, January 9, 2021. 
• "Teaching Material Texts without Material," Invited panel discussion with Megan Peiser, Sarah Werner, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. SHARP in Focus webinar discussion, June 2020.

Grants

• Chawton House Visiting Fellowship, November 2022.
• "Women's Benevolent Publications in the Long Eighteenth Century," Faculty Research Fellowship, University Research Committee, 2021.
• OU Educational Development Grant (Fall 2019). Book cradles "supporting" library instruction with primary sources.
• Peiser, M., & Spunaugle, E.D. (2019) BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Gender, disability, and finding women in the archives: Establishing the provenance of the Marguerite Hicks Collection, 1660-1820.
• Spunaugle, E.D., & Peiser, M. (2019). Princeton University Library Research Grant. Establishing the Provenance of the Marguerite Hicks Collection of women's writings.
• Summer Archival Research Grant, WSU English Dept., Winter 2018.
• OU Faculty Research Grant, Winter 2018.
• OU Educational Development Grant, Winter 2018.
• Graduate Professional Scholarship, WSU, 2020-2021
• Graduate Professional Scholarship, WSU, 2018-2019.
• Graduate Professional Scholarship, WSU, 2017-2018.
• "Oakland University Archives and Special Collections Preservation Assessment," submitted with D. Daniel to National Endowment for the Humanities, 2017.
• Finalist. Digitization of Pontiac Press, 1960s. DigMich Newspaper Preservation, 2018.

Awards and Honors

• Faculty Recognition Luncheon for Teaching, 2018 Honoree.

Professional Development

• "Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographic Description," taught by David Whitesell, Rare Book School, August 2023
• "Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books," taught by Joel Silver, Rare Book School, July 2021
• "Teaching the History of the Book," taught by Michael Suarez, S.J., Rare Book School, July 2018
• Book History Workshop at Texas A&M University, May 2017

University Committees

• Center for Public Humanities, Board Member.
• Chair, Senate Library Committee, 2018-2020.
• Member, General Education Committee, 2018-2021.
• Member, Senate Library Committee, 2016-2018.

Professional Activities and Affiliations

• Library History Round Table, Chair, 2022-2023
• SHARP News Associate Editor for E-Resources and Exhibits, 2021-2023
• SHARP moderator
• Literatures in English (LES) Planning Committee, 2020-2020.
• Literatures in English (LES) Conference Program Planning Committee, New Orleans 2018
• Literatures in English (LES) Conference Program Planning Committee, Chicago 2017
• Library History Round Table (LHRT) Member at Large, 2017-2019
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section member, 2015-present

Library Committees and Groups

• Research Forum, co-creator, 2018
• Committee on Instruction, 2016-present
• Journal Club, 2015-present

Created by MH / Updated on July 22, 2020 by MH