[In-Person Lecture] Collecting Independent Publishers in Latin America

David Fernández, Head of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, will survey how Latin America’s independent publishers have formed alternative book cultures in the past 30 years. From Mexico City to Buenos Aires, wide arrays of books circulate in fairs and populate catalogues created by and for an expanding community of publishers, editors, translators, printers, book artists, designers, readers, and collectors. Fernández will consider the role of collectors and the practice of collecting in the field, as new ways of making and collecting books form part of personal and professional projects. Fernández focuses on the history of the book in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, with a special interest in queer bibliography and book collecting.

David Fernández is also an instructor for the University of Toronto’s Book History and Print Culture Program, teaching various aspects of rare book and special collections librarianship.

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