Matthew Day Deputy Dean, Art, Humanities & Education, at the University of Derby. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in travel literature and early modern manuscript and print culture. He has a keen interest in knowledge exchange and partnership work and actively promotes collaborations. He has undertaken research-based projects with organisations including The Tennyson Research Centre, The Wordsworth Trust, Writing West Midlands, The Birmingham REP and The Library of Birmingham. His research focuses on the materiality of the text, on manuscript and print culture, and the reception history of early modern texts, particularly travel literature. He has specific research interests in textual production in the early modern period - especially paratextuality, the transition from manuscript to print, and book-bindings. He is working on a reception history of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598-1600) and is co-editing volume 9 of the Oxford University Press edition of Hakluyt's work.

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m.day@derby.ac.uk