Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy Through the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

by A. Robin Hoffman (Author)

Author Biography

A. Robin Hoffman, Senior Editor, Publishing, The Art Institute of Chicago

For more than twenty years, A. Robin Hoffman's research has focused on children's literature and Victorian illustration. This includes master's degrees in English (University of Connecticut, 2005) and art history (University College London, 2007) and a PhD in English, completed spring 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh. That fall, she began a postdoctoral fellowship in museum publishing at the Yale Center for British Art, where she became a curatorial staff member in 2015. Upon moving to Chicago in 2017, Robin joined the publishing department at the Art Institute of Chicago and is now Senior Editor.