Sam Lemley is Curator of the Posner Center for Special Collections at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He holds a PhD in English Literature & Textual Studies from the University of Virginia and an MSLIS from the Palmer School. His writing has appeared in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, The Library, Studies in Bibliography, Shakespeare Quarterly, Hyperallergic, and other journals. In 2023 Lemley edited The Four Shakespeare Folios: 1623–2023 (Penn State University Press) and in 2025 published Rare Books & Ancestral Machines (CMU Press), a portable and richly illustrated guide to the Posner Center for Special Collections at CMU.
