Jason McElligott

is the Director of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, which was founded in 1707. Educated as an early-modernist at University College Dublin and St John’s College, Cambridge, he is interested in the political and literary afterlives of seventeenth-century print culture. Over the next 12 months he will publish articles on Bram Stoker’s reading of pamphlets from the 1680s; the birth of newspaper advertising in the 1650s; women’s book ownership in seventeenth-century Ireland; and the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820 to assassinate the British cabinet. He has two book-length projects which are woefully overdue and is actively ignoring emails from his publishers.