Reader
Sydney ShepProfile page
Associate Professor
Wai-te-ata Press
Orcid identifier0000-0003-0699-3739
- Associate ProfessorWai-te-ata Press
- 022 563 5784 (Work)
- RB 006, Rankine Brown, Gate 3, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
BIO
Sydney is a Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press. She focuses on the interdisciplinary study of transnational and cross-cultural book history and print culture in the contexts of the history of empire, history of technology, and the history of reading. Technological convergence is an additional platform for research and practice, bringing both historic and contemporary media into creative conversation though explorations into the digital handmade, generative computer art, and typographically-situated augmented reality experiences. Her current research focuses on big cultural data and collaborative kaupapa Māori approaches and is grounded in the theories, methods, and practices of digital humanities, spatial history, and cultural informatics. In 2014, she was awarded a Marsden Fund grant (her third) to study William Colenso and the Victorian Republic of Letters, with a focus on personal geographies and global networks. Sydney is also a practising letterpress printer, exhibiting book artist, and designer bookbinder who undertakes creative research commissions at Wai-te-ata Press
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate Professor/Reader in Book History, & The PrinterVictoria University of Wellington, Wai-te-ata Press, Wellington, New Zealand2014 - present
- Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture, & The PrinterVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand2002 - 2014
- Lecturer in Print & Book Culture, & The PrinterVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand2001 - 2002
- Research Fellow & The PrinterVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand1997 - 2001
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow & The PrinterVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand1995 - 1997
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- University CarillonneurUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1985 - 1997
DEGREES
- PhDVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand1996
- MAUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1985
- MAJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States1985
- HonsBAVictoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1982
CERTIFICATIONS
- PGCertHELTVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand2009 - presentPostgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning & Teaching
LANGUAGES
- FrenchCan read, write, speak and understand
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Membership of an advisory committee