Dominique Varry


Dominique Varry is a French historian of books and professor at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, part of the University of Lyon.

Biography

Dominique Varry began his career as an auditor in the 4th section of the École pratique des hautes études and at the École Nationale des Chartes, as well as a professor of history. He quickly left secondary teaching to become a researcher with the Department of Books and Reading at the Ministry of Culture. His research thesis on the history of private libraries at the end of the "Old Regime" was supervised by Henri-Jean Martin, a renowned expert on the history of the book.
He was appointed a lecturer in Information Science and Communication at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 1989, as well as at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques. In 2005, he was appointed professor of the book at the latter school.
Whilst serving a number of terms as Director of Research at ENSSIB, he continued to edit a number of international journals in his field, including the Revue française d'histoire du livre, the Histoire et civilisation du livre : revue internationale, Tipofilologia : rivista internazionale di studi filologici e linguistici sui testi a stampa and Mémoires du livre. He is also the director of the collection at the "Institute of History of the Book of Lyon."

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