What is David Greetham (textual scholar)?
[[File:David greetham.png|right|200px]] '''David Greetham''' (October 21, 1941 &ndash; March 24, 2020) was an English-American literary critic.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greetham|first1=David C.|title=Theories of the Text|date=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67Yg06eUaDkC|access-date=15 April 2015|ref=theories_text|isbn=9780198119937}}</ref> He was known as the founder of the [[Society for Textual Scholarship]]. He was the Society's President from 1999 to 2001.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Society for Textual Scholarship|journal=Textual Cultures|date=Spring 2011|volume=6|issue=1|pages=166–169|jstor=10.2979/textcult.6.1.166|ref=soc_text|doi=10.2979/textcult.6.1.166|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/textual/article/view/5058}}</ref> He worked at the [[Graduate Center, CUNY|Graduate Center]] at [[City University New York]]. Greetham was born in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. Greetham died on March 24, 2020 from a long-illness at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.gc.cuny.edu/News/Detail?id=54613|title=The Graduate Center Mourns the Loss of Retired Professor David Greetham|date=April 8, 2020|access-date=April 8, 2020|publisher=[[Graduate Center, CUNY|Graduate Center]] at [[City University New York]]}}</ref> ==Works== * ''The Pleasures of Contamination'' (2010) * ''Theories of the Text'' (1999) * ''Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography'' (1998) * ''The Margins of the Text: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism'' (1997) * ''Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research'' (1995) * ''Textual Scholarship: An Introduction'' (1992) * ''TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies'' (1984) ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Greetham, David}} [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from Cheshire]] [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:American literary critics]] [[Category:American essayists]] [[Category:Writers from Massachusetts]] [[Category:People from Le