Luna Liu
PhD Student
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Nash (IES)
Thesis: 'A Study on the History of George Allen & Unwin — The intersection between the publishing output and the wider business context, 1914-1968'
Research
Luna Liu is a partly qualified accountant; a business student interested in the secondhand and collectable book trade, recently graduated from MA Publishing at Oxford Brookes University; and a Tolkien fan, whose PhD topic is the history of his publisher.
Her main research interests include the history of the book, and publishing, since 1800, in particular, the history of individual publishing houses, and the author-publisher relationship.