Full Name:
Pearce J. Carefoote
Bio:
Pearce J. Carefoote is a librarian at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book
Library. He holds a PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain,
Belgium, and is the author of Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored, and
Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter (2007), and the article
"Government Censorship of Print" in the History of the Book in Canada, vol. 3 (2007).
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Country:
Canada
Personal Statement About Topic:
My interest in censorship originally derived from my studies of the old
Roman Index; it was renewed after 11 September 2001 when the attempt to
contextualize those tragic events was regularly curtailed in the media
by the new war on terror.