Emily Spunaugle
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Rare Books Librarian
Library Liaison for English, Film Studies and Production, and the Honors College
Email: spunaugle@oakland.edu
Phone: 248-370-2498
Office: 246 Kresge Library
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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 the Department of English, Film Studies and Production, and the Honors College. 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.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Spunaugle, E.D. "Epistolary Poetics: Reading the Manuscript Interventions of Melesina Trench." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, forthcoming Fall 2022.
- 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
- "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.
- "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.
- 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.
Selected Professional Presentations
- "Primary Resources for Engaging Instructional Environments," Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Oakland University, April 2018.
- "Teaching with Rare Books," OU-EMU Instructional Exchange, December 2017.
- "Fast Track to Finishing Your Dissertation" Graduate Office, Kresge Library, Oakland University with Amanda Nichols Hess, January 2017.
- "Rare Books Preservation on a Shoestring: Oakland University's Special Collections," Southeast Michigan League of Libraries, Dominique Daniel. March 2017.
- "Connecting the Virtual with the Vault: Using Rare Books in Tandem with Early English Books Online." IFLA Information Literacy Satellite Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, August 2016.
- "Items Overdue: Condition Assessment of Oakland University Library's Special Collections," Conservation and Collections Care Camp, the University of Michigan, May 2016.
- "Challenging the 'Three Peer-Reviewed Articles' Assignment: Using Library Instruction to Advance Transformative Learning in Your Classroom." OU/Windsor Teaching and Learning Conference, Oakland University, May 2016.
Grants
- 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
- "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 Senate Committees
- 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, Vice Chair/Chair, 2021-2024
- SHARP News Associate Editor for E-Resources and Exhibits
- SHARP moderator
- Literatures in English (LES) Planning Committee, 2020-present.
- 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