Penn Material Texts
Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
@hesterblum.bsky.social
A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at Penn State. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social
Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
@roaringgirle.bsky.social
¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & handwriting in old books (vide milton reads shakespeare &c) ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
@laheffernan.bsky.social
English Prof at UNF (Jacksonville, FL). Co-author, The Teaching Archive (U Chicago Press, 2021). Working lately w Jax archivists, historians, writers, and students.
@melia-arter.bsky.social
🌾 eco-anxious natural historiographer & queer beach professional • UPenn History & Sociology of Science • she//they
@profgardner.bsky.social
Proud geek, dad, and husband. Teacher and literary historian with emphasis on Black print culture--esp. C19 and African American women writers. Opinions my own.
@lmrhody.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center, Director of Digital Fellowship Programs, and Affiliated Faculty in MA in Liberal Studies, MA in Digital Humanities, MS in Data Analysis and Visualization, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
@emilyfbrooks.bsky.social
Makeademic. PhD English/ Digital Humanities who loves pop culture, paper engineering, physical computing, and digital fabrication. she/her http://emilyfbrooks.com
@erikthesimpson.bsky.social
English professor, Grinnell College. Romanticism, history and future of the book, digital humanities, paper engineering, jazz saxophony. I do not speak for anyone but myself. If that.
@wordsmith.bsky.social
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
@agpal.bsky.social
Early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish magic | Research associate at FU Berlin | neurodivergent
@boapublishing.bsky.social
Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
@icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech. Disappointing people since 1972.
@whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & book history, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Still a punk.
@pricelab.bsky.social
The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
@pedroterres.bsky.social
Historiador pela UNICAMP 🗃 | Wikimedista | Pesquisando história das enciclopédias no Brasil #BookHistory
@mrlefferts.bsky.social
Loves the Middle Ages, book bindings, special collections librarians, DH. Works for the Consortium of European Research Libraries (www.cerl.org) #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
@memps2.bsky.social
Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell) Coined #HerBook
@scstrecker.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern History, Yale. Early modern religious culture through exempla! Local 33. #digitalhumanities, #bookhistory, #earlymodernwomen. Reading, baking, Star Trek. she/her. Views mine.
@lizfischer0.bsky.social
Medievalist DH researcher | Consultant working with GLAM on AI/data R&D Writing book on #NetworkAnalysis in #BookHistory (they/she) lizmfischer.com
@philiphahn.bsky.social
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
@rjagersma.bsky.social
PhD | Book Historian | 17c and 18c | Quantitative #bookhistory | metadata | 🏳️🌈
@preprintculture.bsky.social
Postdoc / science studies / historical sociology / media history / interested in the field of academic publishing & the mediatization of scientific practice / currently writing a history of preprints in physics: https://preprint-culture.net / modular synth
@bibliomaria.bsky.social
Academic editing, translation [DE and FR>EN], book history in early modern Germany & France, media history, art & art history. Once I had tenure, now I walk the trails of southern Maine.
@melusinagr.bsky.social
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (ie Satura journal). Luddite. Dabbles in art, with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History by researching Indigenous NA newspapers. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
@laurasdeluca.bsky.social
Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon
@zibaldoni.bsky.social
山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
@universalstc.bsky.social
The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world. Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram
@stemma.bsky.social
An ERC-funded project led by Prof. Erin McCarthy and based at the University of Galway. We are building the first large-scale computational model of the circulation of early modern verse in manuscript from 1475-1700. https://stemma.universityofgalway.ie
@thenmct.bsky.social
We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
@manuscriptacademy.bsky.social
The Happiest Place in Publishing! Classes, agent consultations + a thriving community at ManuscriptAcademy.com. Brought to you by the makers of Manuscript Wish List® + #MSWL.
@cmohge.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature, University of London @ies-sas.bsky.social & @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. Co-dir. of https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/. Book history, digital humanities, and literature. https://christopherohge.com
@uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social
Uitgeverij Armorica specialiseert zich in de publicatie van werken die voortkomen uit de master Boekwetenschap aan de UvA. Onze uitgaven omvatten masterscripties, proefschriften en andere publicaties op het gebied van boekgeschiedenis en boekwetenschap.
@jasonwdean.com
Librarian. Bibliographer. Art Lover. Photographer. Texpat. Collector of the work of Carl Hertzog. #rarebooks #histstm #speccolls
@rhiggitt.bsky.social
Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Honorary Fellow at STIS, University of Edinburgh. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh #histsci #histSTM #museums 📜🗃️ https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@karlgalle.bsky.social
Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
@zannavanloon.bsky.social
Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social
rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak.
@rebeccaromney.com
Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
@bhgross144.bsky.social
VP for Research & Scholarship, Linda Hall Library (ret.); Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
@rmathematicus.bsky.social
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.