Dr Hazel Wilkinson

University of Birmingham


Hazel Wilkinson is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Birmingham. She publishes on early modern and eighteenth-century literature, with a focus on book history and typography. Her first book, Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book won the Isabel MacCaffrey Award in 2020. She is the founder of Compositor, a database of a million eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments. She was awarded fellowship of the Alan Turing Centre for her work at the intersection of computer vision and typography studies. She is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope, and is also currently working on Henry Fielding, and The Spectator.


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h.j.wilkinson@bham.ac.uk

 

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