Heather Bamford is an associate professor of Spanish at The George Washington University. She studies and teaches the literatures and cultures of medieval and early modern Iberia. She earned her B.A. in Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Heather’s research interests include the history of the book, magic, Islam in Spain, and the composition and function of the Digital Humanities. Her first book, Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100–1600 (University of Toronto Press, 2018), places fragments at the center of reading and non-reading aspects of medieval and 16th-century use of manuscripts. The book challenges the notion that fragments came about accidentally, arguing that most fragments were created on purpose, as a result of a wide range of practical, intellectual and spiritual uses of manuscript material. MLA Medieval Iberian awarded Cultures of the Fragment the 2020 La corónica book award for the best monograph published in the field of hispanomedieval studies. Heather’s current project is tentatively titled Unprinted; it writes a history of reading in early modern Iberia by examining not only the meaning of reading, but also the meaning of meaning in a range of manuscript texts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, including personal notebooks, magic texts, forgeries, religious works, and literature that circulated among Christians and religious minorities. Unprinted argues that these writings, when analyzed with a view to institutions and systems of knowledge and belief, and one potentially affective sphere, literature, evince a wide variety of reading practices and modes of meaning creation, some of which do not look much like hermeneutics at all. Heather has been a member of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, serves on the Advisory Board for the journal Scholarly Editing and is at work on a digital, interactive edition of the Libro de buen amor with Emily Francomano (Georgetown University and PI). At GW, Heather directs the Program in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures.