Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books on book history and bibliography include Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History (Pennsylvania, 2013), Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture (Pennsylvania, 2011), What is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books (Notre Dame, 2012), and The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method (Toronto, 2003).