Dr. Gabrielle Dean is the Curator of Modern Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Librarian for English & The Writing Seminars for the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, where she focuses on collecting and teaching about post-1800 rare and primary source materials.  Her research investigates the exchanges between textual and visual culture during the industrial era of print, especially the influence of photography on readers and writers, and on the history and future of the archival imagination.  Recent projects include an exhibit on H. L. Mencken’s role in the growing magazine business of the early 20th century, and a class about the George Peabody Library culminating in a student-curated exhibit.  She is currently working on a book called Picturing the Grid: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein and the Photographic Turn.