Stephanie Ann Frampton, Ph.D.
Spring 2026 Scholar-in-Residence
Humanities Center
Email: stframpt@ttu.edu
Stephanie Ann Frampton is a writer and scholar based at MIT in Cambridge, MA. She has published widely in on the history of books and their readers
from antiquity to today.
Her first book, Empire of Letters (Oxford 2019), examines how Roman authors like Vergil and Cicero reimagined literature,
philosophy, and society through the very artifacts of writing: papyrus scrolls, wax
tablets, and inscriptions on stone and bronze. Her current project, Words with Friends, is a reflection on how we make connections with others by sharing texts in common
and what we can learn about the past and the future from reading the classics in the
twenty-first century.
Prof. Frampton is a co-convener of the Seminar in the History of the Book at Harvard. She serves on the Fellowship Committee of the Bibliographical Society of America and the Program Committee of the Society for Classical Studies. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Andrew Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In fall 2025, she was a Writer in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.
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