Gill Partington

Dr Gill Partington serves as a Fellow in Book History at the Institute of English Studies (IES), School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research interrogates twentieth-century and contemporary book cultures, emphasizing physical and conceptual mutations of the book at the intersection of literature and art.

Her primary research domains include Book History, Material Text Studies, Contemporary Book Art, and Literary Materialism. Current work centers on the 'Page Not Found' project, which investigates the outer limits and unconventional histories of the page, alongside prior studies of artists Tom Phillips and John Latham, book burning phenomena, and dust jacket evolution.

Partington co-founded and edits Inscription – Journal of Material Text: Theory, Practice, History with Adam Smyth and Simon Morris. She co-edited Book Destruction (2014) and contributes to major publications including the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Literary Review, LA Review of Books, and Public Books.

Her creative practice, exhibited at the Bodleian Library’s Sensational Books exhibition and Shandy Hall in Yorkshire, includes work commissioned by Yale’s Beinecke Library through the 39 Step Press printing collective.