Gabrielle Dean

Gabrielle Dean is the William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries and an Adjunct Professor in the English Department and the Program in Museums and Society. She co-leads the Classics Research Lab's John Addington Symonds Project and serves as Associate Editor of Archive Journal and Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

• Specializes in post-1800 rare books and manuscripts
• Focuses on marginalized histories (women's, LGBTQ+, African American)
• Advocates for preservation of vulnerable archival formats (ephemera, personal papers, artist books)
• Co-curated exhibitions on H.L. Mencken, Stephen Crane, and Edgar Allan Poe