The Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest. The Centre’s work draws also upon the University’s outstanding collection of early photography, the riches of the Hunterian collections, both in the Library and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, that take us from Dürer to Picasso, and the modern emblem, namely the graphic novel, or French bande dessinée, for which our collection, in association with the Alliance Française, is potentially the strongest in a non-French speaking country.

 We offer postgraduate study on all aspects of text/images and visual cultures, with particular emphasis on the graphic novel and its historical antecedents, such as the emblem book. The University of Glasgow's collections are second to none and there is a lively environment of postgraduate and general scholarly activity, through seminars, publications and conferences.