Dominique Varry (born 22 July 1956, in Belfort) is a French historian of books and professor at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, part of the University of Lyon.
[1] Dominique Varry began his career as an auditor in the 4th section of the École pratique des hautes études and at the École Nationale des Chartes, as well as a professor of history.
He quickly left secondary teaching to become a researcher with the Department of Books and Reading at the Ministry of Culture (France).
[2] He was appointed a lecturer in Information Science and Communication at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 1989, as well as at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB).
Whilst serving a number of terms as Director of Research at ENSSIB (the last ending on 17 December 2010), he continued to edit a number of international journals in his field, including the Revue française d'histoire du livre, the Histoire et civilisation du livre : revue internationale (initiated in 2005), Tipofilologia : rivista internazionale di studi filologici e linguistici sui testi a stampa and Mémoires du livre (an international electronic review).