USC Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Stephanie Geller

Stephanie Geller is a Conservation Archivist at the California State Archives with a research background in History of the Book, Material Culture, and Codicology. She is particularly interested in the ways manuscripts embody and reveal the cultural, social, and economic realities of the individuals and societies that created, acquired, and accumulated them.

She specialized in conservation and book history while earning her master’s in library and information science at the University of California, Los Angeles where her thesis used quantitative codicology to examine differences in paper usage in Jewish and Christian books in the Medieval Italian and Iberian peninsulas. Previously she earned a master 1 in Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image from the École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques.

She presented her research “The Utilization of Paper in Jewish and Christian Books in Medieval Italy and Iberia” at the 2021 annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, and recently authored the chapter “Textual Topographies: Equipping Students with Tools for Navigating Academic Writing,” in the monograph Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians published by the Association of College & Research Libraries. 
 

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