Hello everyone! I just wanted to take a quick moment to introduce myself. I’m Eric Johnson, the newly appointed Associate Curator for Rare Books and Manuscripts at The Ohio State University Libraries. I’m delighted to join the Buckeye family and I’m looking forward to promoting the appreciation and use of our collections to all our users, be they faculty, students, researchers, or the general public. I’m specifically responsible for overseeing our collections of medieval, Reformation, renaissance, and early modern collections, so contact me should you have any questions related to these fields.

Prior to arriving at OSU I worked as a Curatorial Assistant at Princeton University’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. I have a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania; a M.L.I.S. from Rutgers University; and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York (U.K.). My research and reading interests span a wide variety of topics, from medieval preaching to 20th-century military propaganda produced for children, and I’m always interested in learning more about other people’s work. So please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you think there’s any way that either OSU’s world-class Rare Books and Manuscripts Library or I can help you.

I hope to see you in the reading room!

Eric J. Johnson