| 2016- | Curator Emeritus, The Newberry Library |
| 2013-2016 | George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books, The NewberryLibrary |
| 1987-2016 | Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History ofPrinting, The Newberry Library |
| 1984-87 | Associate Director of Research and Education, The NewberryLibrary |
| 1981-84 | Assistant Director of Research and Education, The NewberryLibrary |
| 1979-81 | Visiting Lecturer in Christianity, Dept. of the History andLiterature of Religions, Northwestern University |
| 1978-81 | Assistant Director, Religion and Ethics Institute, Inc. |
| 1976 | Ph.D. (History), University of Chicago |
| 1972 | M.A. (History), University of Chicago |
| 1971 | A.B. Classics, John Carroll University |
Chicago Modernism & the Ludlow Typograph: Douglas C. McMurtrieand Robert Hunter Middleton at Work. Newtown (NSW, Australia): Opifex,2020.
A Meditation in Rome. New York: Russell Maret, 2012.
A Moral Art: Grammar, Culture and Society in Trecento Florence.Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Humanism For Sale. Making and Marketing School Books in Italy,1450-1650. Published by the Newberry Library Center for RenaissanceStudies, 2009: www.humanismforsale.org/text
Robert Hunter Middleton, The Designer-Craftsman Speaks: Writings byRobert Hunter Middleton. Newtown (NSW, Australia): Opifex, forthcomingin 2024.
\"Stanley Pargellis: Building a 'Scholar's Library' for Chicago,\"forthcoming in La Bibliofilía 125 (2024).
\"Mid-century Opportunism in the Book Market: Newberry Librarians inEurope,\" forthcoming in Library and Information History 40 (April2024).
\"Tommaso Schifaldo in a Sicilian Humanist Miscellany,\" forthcoming inCustomized Books in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Walter Melion andChristopher Fletcher. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. 290-324.
\"Two Collections: Type on the Page at the Houghton and NewberryLibraries,\" Textual Cultures 16.2 (2023), 29-53. Open access journal:https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v16i2.36764
\"Frank Barr: Avant-Garde Designer in Mid-Century Chicago,\" Journal ofDesign History 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad010.
\"Sheltering Books From Anarchy: The Library of Clémence Royer inChicago,\" Bulletin du bibliophile 2022, no. 2, 259-270.
\"Humanist Pedagogy and 'Humanist' Design: the Bavarian Case ofJohannes Aventinus.\" In Imago Librorum. Mille anni di forme del libro inEuropa. Edited by Edoardo Barbieri and Luca Rivali, Florence, Olschki,2021. Pp. 169-189.
\"A Laywoman's Devotion on the Handcrafted Page: Modern Altar CardsCreated by Gertrude Carrier,\" Archivio italiano per la storia dellapietà 34 (2021), 333-365.
Co-authored with Eufemia Baldassarre and Lia Markey, \"AScholar-Collector in Mid-Century Chicago: The Books of BernardWeinberg.\" In Beyond Aristotelian Poetics, New Directions in LiteraryCriticism. Edited by Bryan Brazeau, London, Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 19-37and 251-286.
\"Procurare all'America i migliori libri europei: Storia della stampaalla Harvard University e alla Newberry Library.\" In Biblioteche esaperi: Circolazioni di libri e di idee tra età moderna e contemporanea.Edited by Giovanna Granata. Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura,2019. Pp. 93-120.
\"A Scholar-Librarian Collects: Hans Baron at the Newberry Library.\"In Lux Librorum. Essayson Books and History For Chris Coppens. Edited byGoran Proot et al. Mechelen, Flanders Book History Society, 2018. Pp.213-228.
\"Teaching With Type: Design for the Renaissance Grammar Classroom,\"La Bibliofilía 119 (2017), 349-365.
\"American Collecting Traditions. Emblem Books at the NewberryLibrary.\" In Itinerari del libro nella storia. Per Anna Giulia Cavagna.Edited by Francesca Nepori, Fiametta Saba and Paolo Tinti. Bologna,Patron, 2017. Pp. 251-257.
\"Selling Terence in Renaissance Italy: The Marketing Power ofCommentary.\" In Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a ScholarlyGenre. Edited by Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 253-274.
\"A Libertine in Print (and Not): Bibliographizing Pietro Lasena,\" LaBibliofilía 115 (2013), 105- 111.
\"Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks inSixteenth-Century Italy.\" In Print Culture and Peripheries in EarlyModern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing in SmallEuropean and Spanish Cities. Edited by Benito Rial-Costas. Leiden:Brill, 2013. Pp. 69-99.
Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, \"Cheap Print: A Look Inside theLucini/Sirtori StationeryShop at Milan (1597-1613), La Bibliofilía 112(2010), 281-327.
\"The Calligraphic Tradition in Chicago Graphic Design, 1900-1950,\"Bibliología 5 (2010), 127-163.
\"Off the Press and Into the Classroom: Using the Textbooks of AntonioMancinelli,\" History of Education and Children's Literature 3 (2008),19-30.
\"The Maiuscole Moderne of Giovambaptista Verini Fiorentino: FromMusic Texts to Calligraphic Musicality,\" In Writing Relations, AmericanScholars in Italian Archives, Essays for Franca Petrucci Nardelli andArmando Petrucci. Edited by Deanna Shemek and Michael Wyatt. Florence:Olschki, 2008. Pp. 41-70.
\"Grammatica Despauteriana: L'adattamento di libri di testoprovenienti dal Nord Europa per il mercato editoriale italiano,1540-1600,\" Bibliología 3 (2008), 35-53.
\"Moral Analogies in Print: Emblematic Thinking in the Making of EarlyModern Books,\" Philosophica 70 (2002, but 2004), 91-107. [Special issue,Diagrams and the Anthropology of Space, edited by Kenneth J.Knoespel.]
\"Religion and Politics in the Market for Books: The Jesuits and TheirRivals,\" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003),435-460.
Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, \"The Eye of Commerce: VisualLiteracy Among the Makers of Books in Italy.\" In The Art Market inItaly. Edited by Sara Matthews Grieco. Ferrara: Istituto di StudiRinascimentali, 2003. Pp. 273-281.
\"La storia dei tipi può essere una buona storia?\" Progetto grafico 1(July 2003), 34-38. This talk, to ATypIRoma 2002, was republished in theoriginal English as a book under the title A Meditation in Rome, 2012(see above).
\"Latin Orthopraxes.\" In Latin Grammar and Rhetoric in the MiddleAges. Edited by Carol Dana Lanham. London: Continuum, 2002. Pp.1-21.
\"Military Courtesy in Sixteenth-Century Lithuania: Il Cavaliere ofDomenico Mora,\" Archivum Lithuanicum 3 (2001), 55-76.
\"'Mancha uno alfabeto intero': Recording Defective Book Shipments inCounter-Reformation Florence,\" Papers of the Bibliographical Society ofAmerica 93(1999), 316-358.
\"Day-by-day on Credit: Binders and Book Sellers in CinquecentoFlorence,\" La Bibliofilía 100(1998), 391-409.
\"Describing (and Selling) Bindings in Sixteenth-Century Florence,\"Italian Studies 53 (1998),38-51.
\"Credit-Sales Strategies in the Late Cinquecento Book Trade.\" InLibri tipografi biblioteche. Ricerche storiche dedicate a Luigi Balsamo.Edited by Arnaldo Ganda and E. Grignani. Florence: Olschki, 1997. Pp.193-206.
\"Libri per donne: le monache clienti del libraio Piero Morosi,1588-1607.\" In Donna e disciplina. Edited by Gabriella Zarri. Rome:Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1996. Pp. 67-82.
\"The 1615 Statutes of the Sienese Guild of Stationers andBooksellers. Provincial Publishing in Early Modern Tuscany,\" I TattiStudies 6 (1995), 215-253.
\"Preachers, Teachers and Translators: The Social Meaning of Latin inTrecento Tuscany,\" Viator 25 (1994), 289-323.
Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, \"Giovanni Battista Bosso and thePaper Trade in Sixteenth-Century Milan,\" La Bibliofilía, 96 (1994),43-90.
\"Watermark Evidence for the Competitive Practices of AntonioMiscomini,\" The Library, ser. 6, vol. 15 (1993), 281-305.
\"An Augustinian Catechism from Fourteenth-Century Florence, theEpigrammata of Prosper of Aquitaine,\" Augustinian Studies 19 (1990),93-110.
\"Latin Readers in Fourteenth-Century Florence: Schoolkids and theirBooks,\" Scrittura e civiltà 13 (1989), 387-440.
\"Competens silentium: Varieties of Monastic Silence in the MiddleAges,\" Viator 18 (1987), 125-160.
\"An Answering Silence: Medieval and Modern Claims for the Unity ofTruth Beyond Language,\" Philosophy Today (Fall 1986), 224-233.
\"Philip of Harveng on Silence,\" Proceedings of the Illinois MedievalAssociation 2 (1985), 168-181. Partial text on-line at:www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol2/gehl.html.
\"Mystical Language Models in Monastic Educational Psychology,\"Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984), 219-243.
\"From Monastic Rhetoric to Ars Dictaminis: Traditionalism andInnovation in the Schools of Twelfth-Century Italy,\" AmericanBenedictine Review 34 (1983), 33-47.
\"Some Problems in Cataloging Medieval Grammaticalia,\" Res PublicaLitterarum 5,2 (1982), 85-91.
\"Apropos of Catalogue Notices and the History of GrammaticalPedagogy,\" Revue d'Histoire des Textes 8 (1978), 303-307.
\"Barbara Lazarus Metz: A Remembrance & an Invitation,\" Guild ofBookworkers Newsletter, April 2022.
\"When Chicago Led the Race for Modernist American Typefaces,\" ChicagoArt Deco Society Magazine Summer/Fall 2020,14-16.
\"Looking Back: 125 Years of the Caxton Club,\" Caxtonian 28:5 (May2020), 1-3.
\"The Book Review as Quid pro quo,\" The Clarion 12:3 (March 2020), 4,11.
Foreword to Alan Loney, In Search of the Book as a Work of Art.Alexandria: Opifex, 2019.
\"The Craft of the Foreword,\" The Clarion 11:8 (August 2019), 6-7.
\"The Chap-Book,\" in Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications that Shapedthe City and its Image, Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2018.
Introduction to An Alphabet of Sorts. Aurora, NY and Chicago: WellsCollege Press and Starshaped Press, 2015.
\"The Types of Russell Maret,\" in Pressed For Time, a DescriptiveBibliography of the Work of Russell Maret. New York: Russell Maret,2014. Pp. 103-104.
Foreword to Demetrio Yocum, Petrarch's Humanist Writing andCarthusian Monasticism. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
Various entries in The Newberry 125. Stories of Our Collection.Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2012.
Foreword to Jason Dewinetz, Alphabetum Romanum, The Letterforms ofFelice Feliciano, ca. 1460, Verona. Vernon, B.C.: Greenboathouse Press,2010.
Various entries for the Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2009.
\"Celebrating Robert Williams,\" Chicago Calligraphy CollectiveNewsletter, March 2007, 2-3.
\"Norma Rubovits and Her Collection at the Newberry Library inChicago,\" Society of Marbling 2006 Annual, 21-24.
\"The Newberry Alphabet: A Note on Provenance,\" Typography Papers 6(2005), 17-18.
\"Book Arts\" and \"Printing\" entries for The Encyclopedia of Chicago.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 87-88 and 646-648. Fulltext with additional illustrations online at:encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org.
\"Education\" and \"Universities\" entries for Medieval Italy: AnEncyclopedia. Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz. New York: Routledge,2004. Pp. 313-315 and 1107-1109.
\"The Making of a Chicago Eccentric,\" foreword to John Mansir Wing,The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing, 1865-1866, ed. by Robert Williams.Carbondale and Chicago: Southern Illinois University Press and theCaxton Club of Chicago, 2002. Pp. ix-xiii.
Guest editor, history of design issue of InForm (quarterly journal ofthe American Institute of Graphic Arts / Chicago chapter), September2001.
\"Florence in Chicago,\" in Chicago Calligraphy Collective Letter,Winter 2001, 4-10.
\"Recent Trends in the History of the Italian Book,\" talk presented tothe Western European Studies Section of the American LibraryAssociation, July 10, 2000; full text: http://www.newberry.org/printing-history-and-book-arts-recent-trends-history-italian-book
\"The Professional Bookman: Middleton at Ludlow,\" Caxtonian 6 (1998),1.
\"From Clay Tablets to CDs: A Short History of the Written Word,\" TheChicago Calligraphy Collective Letter, Summer 1998, 6-13.
\"What's This Purchase Prize For, Anyway?\" The Chicago CalligraphyCollective Letter, Winter 1998, 2.
\"Bertram Lord Ashburnham\" Dictionary of Literary Biography 184:Nineteenth-Century British Book Collectors and Biographers. Atlanta:Bruccoli Clark Leman, 1997.Pp. 10-20.
\"Chicago Collecting?\" in Personal Treasures. Chicago: Caxton Club,1995. Pp. 3-8.
\"Some Thoughts on Politics and Moral Education\" in REI NewsletterJuly 1994.
\"Books on View,\" in Bookways 8 (1993), l2-13.
Co-authored with Elizabeth Zurawski, \"Incunables Bound By ElizabethKner: the 1950-51 Project for the Newberry,\" Guild of BookworkersJournal 31 (1993), 1-35. Reprinted in Hungarian with new illustrationsas \"Inkunábulumok Kner Erzébet öteseben,\" Magyar Grafika 38 (1994),19-25 and 37-47.
Translations of Simone Prudenzani and other fourteenth-century poetsfor Newberry Consort recording, Il Solazzo, Music for a MedievalBanquet. Harmonia Mundi CD, 1992.
A Bookplate By Eric Gill. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1990. 8pp.
Co-authored (with Richard H. Brown), \"The Newberry Library Today, aCommunity of Learners.\" In Humanities' Mirror, Reading at the Newberry,1887-1987. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1987. Pp. 37-42.
\"Texts and Textures: Dirty Pictures and Other Things in MedievalManuscripts,\" Corona 3 (1982), 68-77.
Co-authored (with Patricia Jobe), \"Roma Illustrata: Maps in the AdultEducation Classroom,\" Mapline 28 (1982), 1-2.
The Roman Imperial Cult. Illustrated Slide Lecture A4. Evanston:Religion and Ethics Institute, 1979. 8pp., 24 slides.
Cybele and Attis. Mystery Religions Lecture 8. Evanston: Religion andEthics Institute, 1979. 8pp., 24 slides.
\"Yes, But Slowly; Translating Emilo Villa,\" The Decadent Review, July2019: https://thedecadentreview.com/ corpus/emilio-villa-in-english/
Various background essays (unsigned) for the Newberry's ItalianPaleography site, live July 26, 2019:https://italian-paleography.library.utoronto.ca/
\"Huh? No. 30: An Interview with Paul Gehl,\" October 26, 2016.Perpetual Beta blog of the Vermont College of Fine Arts(https://perpetualbeta.vcfa.edu/).
\"A Contemporary View on Curatorial History: An Interview with PaulGehl,\" Jan. 9, 2013. Tropisms blog of Adam Kallish(http://blog.tropesites.com).
\"Hey, It's 2012 Already, Why Bother With Book History?\" lecture atWabash College, Oct. 23, 2012. YouTube.
\"One Hundred Years of Poetry. Designing the Magazine, 1912-2012: ADetailed Look at Our Typographic History,\" illustrated essay for thePoetry Foundation website, Fall 2012:www.poetryfoundation.org/article/244922#article
\"Newberry Minute: Calligraphy at the Newberry,\" June 16, 2011.YouTube.
\"Newberry Minute: Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis (Block Book), June 6,2009. YouTube.
\"Typeface Extra Scenes: The Most Ambitious Wood Type in the World,\"outtake from the Kartemquin film Typeface, released on DVD in 2009,available on YouTube.
\"Old Type/New Face: Digitizing a Classic Typeface,\" born-digitalessay co-authored with designer/typesetter Paul Baker. On his website1997-2013; no longer available.
Curatorial advisor, Renaissance Capitals from the Maywald Collectionat the University of Minnesota, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum,Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 2018.
Curator, Calligraphy is Always News, 2016.
Curatorial contributor, Ephemera by Design, Organizing the Everyday,2015.
Curator, Chicago's Great 20th-century Bookman: The Newberry Career ofJames M. Wells (1917-2014), 2015
Curatorial contributor, Treasures of Faith: Twenty Years ofAcquisitions, 2013.
Curatorial contributor, The Newberry 125, 2012.
Co-curator (with Barbara Korbel and Giselle Simon), Marbled Papersand Fine Bindings by Norma B. Rubovits, The Newberry Library, Chicago,2010.
Co-curator (with Jenny Schwartzberg), Artifacts of Childhood: 700Years of Children's Books at The Newberry Library, 2008-2009.
Catalog essay, \"Nothing…About Books: Reading Textures in the Books ofAnton Würth.\" In Anton Würth, in Form von Buch. Offenbach: KlingsporMuseum, 2008. Pp. 20-25.
Curatorial contributor, Recent Acquisitions at the Newberry Library,2008.
Local curator, Disbound and Disbursed: The Leaf Book Considered.Caxton Club, 2005.
Foreword, The Press at Colorado College: Pressroom as Classroom.Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 2004. Pp. 9-10.
Introduction, Inland Printers: The Fine Press Movement in Chicago,1920-1945, Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2003. Pp. 5-13.
Catalog essay, \"Something Added, Thoughts on Process,\" in Jerome BookArts Fellowship Exhibition VII. Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for BookArts, 2001. Pp. 4-5.
Curator, Florentine Humanism and the Church Fathers, 2000.
Curatorial contributor, The Joy of Collecting, Recent Acquisitions atthe Newberry Library, 1999.
Curatorial contributor, Living Treasures of the Newberry Library,1998.
Curatorial contributor, The Hebrew Renaissance, 1997.
Curatorial contributor and sometime juror, Explorations, the annualjuried exhibit of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, 1995 – 2016.
Co-curator, Personal Treasures: Favorite Books of Caxton ClubMembers, 1995.
Curator, A Century of Book Collecting and Book Loving in Chicago,Caxton Club centennial exhibit, 1995.
Curator, Ernst F. Detterer: Chicago Teacher, Designer and Collector,1889-1947, 1990.
Foreword, Chicago edition of Fifteenth Century Italian Woodcuts fromthe Biblioteca Classense in Ravenna (Ravenna: Longo, 1989).
Co-curator (with Clark Hulse), An Uncommon Collector: Frederic IvesCarpenter (1861-1925), An Exhibit of Renaissance Imprints at theNewberry Library, 1986.
Curatorial assistant, Faith, Law and Dissent, The Inquisition in theEarly Modern World, 1985.
Miniature exhibits in the Newberry Library spotlight series onNapoleon I & Josephine (2003), Papal Rome (2003), Second EmpireParis (2004), the Klaus Stopp collection (2004), Marie Antoinette(2005), Copyright Issues (2006), Multi-Lingual Typography (2007),Printed Ephemera (2008), Book Crimes (2010), Military Architecture(2011).
JURYING AND JUDGING for design and book-arts competitions of theAssociation of American University Presses, Chicago Book Clinic, ChicagoCalligraphy Collective, Chicago Hand Bookbinders, Chicago PublicLibrary, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Guildof Bookworkers, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts.
BOOK REVIEWS have appeared in Analytical and EnumerativeBibliography, La Bibliofilía, Bulletin du Bibliophile, The CODEX Papers,The Decadent Review, Historiographia Linguistica, History of EducationQuarterly, Italica, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, ModernLanguage Review, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,Parenthesis, Printing History, Publishing Research Quarterly, ReligiousStudies Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth-Century Studies,Speculum, etc.
| Born: | September 24, 1949 at West Bend, Wisconsin |
| Citizenship: | U.S.A. (fifth-generation German-American) |
| Service: | Current or past service on boards or committees of theAmerican Printing History Association, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, CaxtonClub, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Press at Colorado College,Religion and Ethics Institute, Seminary Co-op Bookstores, LaBibliofilía, Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà, LitteraeCaelestes, rarebooksinfo.com. |
| Contact: | gehlp@newberry.org 312-255-3657 |
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