@PennEnglish professor currently working on weird histories of computing & books printed in prisons. still a pointy-nosed punk.
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Nearly a week after their renovation budget was pulled from a federal funding bill by PA Senators (and a day after the NHS banned puberty blockers for trans youth), we took “Cultures of the Book” to the William Way Archives.
New issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Vol. 117, No. 4 (2023) journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pbsa/2023/… Chicago Journals The Bibliographical Society of America [email protected]
Congrats to [email protected], finalist for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize for her enhanced U of MN Press book 'Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork.' Couldn't be prouder to host this extraordinary digital edition on Manifold.
acls.org/news/2024-fina…
.[email protected]’s #CutCopyPastetheBook has a place of honor in the #ExperimentalPublishingCompendium as a book experiment that traces today’s digital practices back to early modern ✂📓👻📓✂ book making, cutting and reassembly.
🔗compendium.copim.ac.uk/books/102
Deadline approaching for early-stage graduate students! Apply by March 6!
Submit your application now for 'An Orientation to Research Methods & Agendas' with [email protected] claire m. l. bourne and Marcy North, co-sponsored with The Penn Libraries
Learn more: bit.ly/3ZtfazO
Keepsakes for 'Pop-Up Books through the Ages' are in the building ✌️
Art by Hannah Batsel; paper engineering by Shawn Sheehy; exhibit curated by Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Here is my review of the most thought-provoking book I read in 2022, [email protected]'s Cut/Copy/Paste.
This project is an absolutely brilliant piece of 'bookwork'!
Something for the EEBO and history of the book crowds, just out from me and James Misson in the Fall 2022 issue of Book History: 'Computing Book Parts with EEBO-TCP'. The article describes how we can harness TCP's XML to do bibliographical research on early printed books at scale +
Beyond the word/image binary, Paul Benzon and Rita Raley advance a materialist grammatology for 21C art in 'Inscriptive Studies: Toward a Field Articulation.' Grateful to have contributed a piece on Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, Claudia Rankine, and Glenn Ligon to it.
We know there are many wonderful causes asking for support this #GivingTuesday . If you can, please join us in supporting Darkness RISING Project's REBUILD, a program that helps make free therapy possible for formerly incarcerated and criminalized people of color: bit.ly/DRgivingtuesda…
Submit a proposal for SHARP 2023, which will be a global, online conference taking place from June 26th-June 29th. Proposals are due January 15. We're looking forward to hearing from you! #SHARP2023
sharpweb.org/sharp2023/
some digital humanities-positive graffiti emerged on the blackboards in [email protected]'s and my classroom when Colleen Macklin and John Sharp visited on Monday! 💚
![Pictured here are Kiowa ledger drawings that were likely created by warrior artists during the early reservation period (ca. 1880-1890). They were drawn with colored & graphite pencils on leaves removed from an ordinary, blue-ruled writing tablet. [VAULT Ayer MS 3228] #NAHM](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhNaZzaXoAgH1Zf.jpg "Newberry Library (@NewberryLibrary) on Twitter photo 2022-11-10 14:35:32 Pictured here are Kiowa ledger drawings that were likely created by warrior artists during the early reservation period (ca. 1880-1890). They were drawn with colored & graphite pencils on leaves removed from an ordinary, blue-ruled writing tablet. [VAULT Ayer MS 3228] #NAHM")
