Dr Sydney Shep
Senior Lecturer
Waiteata Press
address
Phone: 04 463 5784
Fax: 04 463 5446
Location: Room 006, Rankine Brown Gate 3 Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Wai-te-ata Press : : Te Whare Tā o Wai-te-ata is directed by The Printer, Dr Sydney J Shep, Senior Lecturer in Print and Book Culture. Sydney specialises in a variety of book history and print culture research projects, including the history of paper and papermaking in nineteenth-century New Zealand, edible typography and street graffiti, Wellington's book trade history, diasporic print cultures and transnational book history. In 2009, she was awarded a three-year Marsden Fund grant (her second) to study nineteenth-century typographical journals. Sydney is also a practising letterpress printer, exhibiting book artist, and designer bookbinder who undertakes creative research commissions at Wai-te-ata Press.