Contact
Englisches Seminar / Book Studies
ES 121, Johannisstr. 12-20, 48143 Münster
Telephone: (0)251-83-24883
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours
Summer Term 2025
Tuesdays, 1-2pm, s.t.
Students can book an appointment with the online Learnweb scheduler.
women’s book history and feminist bibliography
amateur and non-traditional publishing
community cookbooks
feminist print culture
American book history
the book in transnational contexts
BA courses:
Theory and Literature - Understanding Material Culture
Women's Liberation in America: Consciousness Raising in Print
Second Wave Feminist Print Culture (University of Augsburg, teaching assignment)
MA/MEd courses:
Activist Cookbooks
Boundaries of the Book: Forms, Materials, Contexts
Second-Wave Feminist Print Culture in the US and UK: Books as Action
Publishing Online Fanfiction: Practices, Problems, and Possibilities
Community Cookbooks in the American Melting Pot
Books with Bite: Over 200 Years of American Cookbooks
Print Culture and Second-Wave Feminism Across Anglophone Cultures
What Makes a Book a Book?: Forms, Materials, Contexts
Women in Print Culture: 1960s to 1990
Ellen Barth's defended doctoral dissertation examines self-published American community cookbooks to consider women's participation in alternative and amateur book production in the second half of the twentieth century. This research has been supported in part by a 2019 Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Visiting Fellowship and the 2021 BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography.
Ellen Barth is a research and teaching associate in Book Studies. Originally from the United States, Ellen holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In 2018, she completed the M.A. National and Transnational Studies program at the University of Münster. Since 2023 Ellen has been recording secretary for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
Book Chapters
“Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study”, co-authored with Chandni Ananth, Laura Ntoumanis and Natalia Tolstopyat. Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Eds. Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed. Cham: Palgrave, 2022, pp 237-257.
“Indignization through Illustration in the Shimbun Shôsetsu of Meiji Japan.” Journale Lesen / Reading Journals: Lektüreabbruch – Anschlusslektüren / Coherence and Interruption. Eds. Volker Mergenthaler, Nora Ramtke, and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2022, pp. 273–286.
Peer-reviewed Articles
“No Taxation for Menstruation: The Book’s Role in Menstrual Activism.” Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, “Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Activism in Contemporary Book Culture,” 13, no. 2 (2022), pp. 1–30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1100560ar.
Student and Online Publications
“Resistance Print Shop Sandwiches.” The Historical Cooking Project, May 2, 2024. http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2024/05/guest-post-resistance-print-sandwiches.html
“‘Her Work Shouts Out!’: Feminist Embroidered Texts in the Era of Social Media.” TXT (2023), pp. 35–44. https://txtmagazine.pubpub.org/pub/barth-embroidered-texts.
“Minding the Gap: Online Quaranzine Distribution and/as Pandemic Participation.” TXT, 8 (2021), pp. 13–18.
“Reading the Changes: Variance and Digital Tools.” Satura, 2 (2020), pp. 22–31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2019-3064.
“Update Soon!: How Readers Shape Online Fanfiction.” TXT (2019), pp. 119–129.
“A Brief History of Book Studies in Münster.” Satura, 1 (2018), pp. 85–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-3141
“Bookswapper.de and the Easily Shared Paper Book.” TXT (2018), pp. 153–158. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/123158
Book Reviews
Barth, E. Sara B. Franklin. 2024. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. New York: Atria Books. xviii + 316 pp. US$29.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-982-13434-1. Also available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. Pub Res Q (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-024-10016-2.
“Kennan Ferguson. ‘Cookbook Politics’.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, 67. 3 (2022), pp. 379–381. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/3/1
“Tessa Jordan. Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism.” SHARP News, 21 June 2022. https://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2022/06/21/tessa-jordan-feminist-acts-branching-out-magazine-and-the-making-of-canadian-feminism/
“A Poetics of Editing, by Susan L. Greenberg.” SHARP News, 25 February 2021. https://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2021/02/25/susan-l-greenberg-a-poetics-of-editing/
Post-doctoral project: Women's Writing in the Junior League link
"Cookbooks in/as American Culture: Identity, Community, Action": special issue of "American Studies. A Quarterly / Amerikastudien" (co-edited with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, see CfP here)