Publications
“A Satirical News Aggregator in Eighteenth-Century London,” Media History 20 July 2016.
“The Rise of the Newspaper,” in Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, eds., Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 19-46.
“News,” in Trevor R. Burnard, ed., Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History (published online April 2015)
“Toward a History of Copyright for Periodical Writings: Examples from Nineteenth-Century America,” in Nathalie Collé-Bak, Monica Latham, and David Ten Eyck, eds., From Text(s) to Book(s): Studies in Production and Editorial Processes (Nancy: Editions universitaires de Lorraine, 2014), 65-84. [4th volume of the series “Book Practices and Textual Itineraries”).
“Upright Piracy: Understanding the Lack of Copyright for Journalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Book History 16 (2013): 34-61.
“Le paragraphe mobile: circulation et transformation des informations dans le monde atlantique du 18esiècle,” Annales : Histoire, sciences sociales 2012, no. 2 (avr.-juin 2012): 363-389.
English version of above article: “The Paragraph as Information Technology: How News Traveled in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Annales: H.S.S. 2012, no. 2: 253-278.
“Write Up Your Dead: The Bills of Mortality and the London Plague of 1665,” Media History 17, no. 1 (Feb. 2011): 1-15.
“A Trojan Horse in Parliament: International Publicity in the Age of the American Revolution,” in Charles Walton, ed., Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment. Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2011).
“Constructive Misreadings: Adams, Turgot, and the American State Constitutions,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 115, no. 1 (Mar. 2011): 33-67.
“Forward-Looking Statements: News and Speculation in the Age of the American Revolution,” Journal of Modern History 81, no. 4 (Dec. 2009): 759-792.
Conference papers
“Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Great Britain and the United States,” Toronto Center for the Book / Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto, 3 March 2016 (invited).
“Copyright and Credit: Understanding Reprinting in Nineteenth Century Newspapers,” MLA annual convention, Austin TX, 7-10 January 2016.
“A Satirical News Aggregator in Eighteenth-Century London,” Digital Antiquarian Conference, American Antiquarian Society, 29-30 May 2015.
“Form, Genre, and Subject: Toward a History of Copyright for Newspaper and Magazine Writings,” Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 10 April 2015 (invited).
“What is the History of Media?” Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire sur l’état de la recherche sur les médias, Université Paris VIII (EA 1569: Transferts critiques et dynamique des savoirs), 23 January 2015.
“News Piracy in Early Modern England,” international conference “Managing the News in Early modern Europe,” University of Amsterdam, 18-20 June 2014.
“Copyright Law and Publishing Practice in 18th-Century Britain,” annual workshop on the Enlightenment, University of California Berkeley, 21-22 February 2014.
“Who Owns the News? Journalism and Copyright in Britain, 1710-1910,” Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, 6 February 2014 (seminar).
“The Authorship and Ownership of News in 18th and 19th Century Britain,” Modern Cultural History seminar, University of Cambridge, 22 January 2014 ; and Séminaire franco-britannique d’histoire, Université Paris IV, 5 December 2013.
“Circulation Area: The Shifting Geography of Copyright for Journalistic Texts,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Philadelphia, 18-21 July 2013.
“News Piracy in Historical Perspective,” Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 15 November 2012.
“Material Form and Copyright: From Printed Ballads to Telegraphic Dispatches and Beyond,” pour colloque “From Text(s) to Book(s),” Université de Nancy, 23-24 June 2012.
“Owning the News, Before and After Copyright,” international conference “News in Early Modern Europe,” University of Sussex, 6-7 June 2012.
Other
"Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century," Winterthur Museum & Garden, 29-30 March 2017 (co-organized with Stéphanie Delamaire).
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A Great War,” workshop and multimedia performance organized in collaboration with the composer Joseph Kudirka, performed by students and faculty of Université Paris 8, 11 April 2014 (part of the thematic year “Le siècle commence en 14.”). Co-organizer, with Tonia Makatsianou.
“Cultural Economy and Intellectual Property,” 5th annual workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, Paris, 26-28 June 2013. Co-organizer, with Laurent Pfister.
“Histoire des sciences, histoire du livre, histoire intellectuelle: au carrefour de trois historiographies,” Université Paris 8, 31 March 2012. Organizer.
“Intellectual Property and its Discontents,” weekly lecture series, Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, January-April 2009. Co-organizer.
