Power, Possession and Post-Modernism: Contemporary Readings of the Colonial Archive

Bronwen Masemann is a second-year student in the Master of Information Studies Program at the University of Toronto, enrolled in the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture. She received a B.A. in 2006 from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in History from McGill University in 2007. She has worked as a digital collections cataloguer at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Iter database, and as a student reference archivist at Library and Archives Canada. She combines ongoing research on the history of the book in the eighteenth century French and British Atlantic with interests in digital humanities scholarship and information literacy for special collections