Tara Wood

Social Media Use in Special Collections and Archives; European History; British Isles, 1000-1500; Print Culture/History of the Book; Digital Methods; Gender, Women, and Sexuality

Tara S. Wood is a historian and rare books and manuscripts librarian. Her research focuses on the intersections between early modern print culture and women’s history. In addition to using traditional archival research, Dr. Wood employs digital methods such as network analysis, to uncover the often-hidden contributions of women in shaping the book trade in early modern London. A current project seeks to utilize textual analysis algorithms to examine printed funeral sermons of seventeenth-century women in London. She was selected one of 15 fellows for an international, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, “Early Modern Digital Agendas Institute” in 2017 & 2018. Dr. Wood teaches courses on England, witchcraft & heresy, medieval Europe, and women’s history.