UCLA professor of history Mary Terrall is the new interim director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. David Schaberg, UCLA College dean of humanities, appointed Terrall to the position, which was previously held by Barbara Fuchs, a professor in the departments of English and also Spanish and Portuguese.
As a renowned historian of 18th Century European science and Enlightenment material culture, Terrall published “Catching Nature in the Act” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) which focuses on the history of science and early modern Europe and won Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title Award.
This past academic year, Terrall directed the seminar “Books, Readers, and the Sciences in Eighteenth-Century England” at the Clark. Located in West Adams district of Los Angeles, the library is currently closed for retrofit. Be sure to look out for its reopening and upcoming events on the library’s website.
