Tanya Kirk

Tanya Kirk is the Lead Curator of Printed Heritage Collections 1601-1900 at the British Library and is currently the leading expert on 300 years of the Library’s printed collections. She has curated five major exhibitions on topics including Gothic fiction, Shakespeare in performance, the British landscape in literature and most recently Harry Potter: A History of Magic. She has edited two themed collections of ghost stories, The Haunted Library (2016) and Spirits of the Season (2018).