Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices Between the Analogue and the Digital (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032558271)

Tim Sommer is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Oxford. At the University of Heidelberg, he was principal investigator on the project "Modern Literary Manuscripts as Cultural Heritage: Valuation, Archivization, Digitization" (2020-2021). His research on literary authorship, cultural heritage, and archival institutions has appeared in Romanticism, Book History, the Journal of World Literature, and the Harvard Library Bulletin, among other venues. His monograph Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority: Literature, Print, Performance was published in 2021.