Annual Charles Rheault Lecture

On February 1, Kat Stefko will address us on the subject of “The Lives & Afterlives of Printers’ Devices.”

Kat Stefko directs the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, a part of Bowdoin College Library dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available rare and distinctive materials. Trained as an archivist and art historian, Stefko holds an MSLIS from Simmons College, an MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA from Oberlin College. She has more than twenty years’ experience working in libraries and museums, including at Harvard and Duke Universities, Bates and Wellesley Colleges, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her current research interests include printers’ devices; the Bowdoin College Class of 1825, which included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and silhouettes.