Elise Watson

Elise Watson (she/her) is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology. She researches and teaches on gender history and the history of the early printed book. Her current project, ‘A Scandalous Sisterhood? Female Collaboration in the First Age of Print’, examines women’s business relationships in the early modern book trade, and the history of women’s labour.

Recent publications

• With Jessica Farrell-Jobst (eds.), Gender and the Book Trades (Leiden: Brill, 2025). https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/70509
• With Jessica Farrell-Jobst and Nora Epstein, 'Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History’, in Gender and the Book Trades (Leiden: Brill, 2025), pp. 1-19. https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004701656/BP000009.xml
• 'Queering the language of dynasty in imprints and bibliographic metadata’,  The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 118.2 (2024), 223-243. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730317