SHARP
📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
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We heartily welcome all who are interested in the histories of text-making, dissemination, and use. We hope you will want to join us in making SHARP an invigorating community for book studies!
@erikgeleijns.bsky.social
Collection specialist @KB, National Library of the Netherlands. Was cataloguer @Allard Pierson and Curator of Early Collections @Huis van het boek. Double espresso. Archives. Long distance walking.
@gillpartington.bsky.social
Here, but grudgingly. Fellow in Book History, IES. Artists' books and odd-shaped pages. Co-editor of @Inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
@michaelobeirn.bsky.social
I'm married and retired. I enjoy nature and wildlife. I enjoy traveling around the world vicariously through the photographs you share. I love to cook and garden.
@bianchiniginevra.bsky.social
PhD Student at Trinity College Dublin | Gender Studies | Critical Race Studies | Dog mum 🐶 | LOTR enthusiast | (she/her) 🏳️🌈 | PG Caucus co-chair of the Irish Association for American Studies | Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social
@rrrjournal.bsky.social
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages. www.rrrjournal.com EiC Sophie Thompson | Dep Ed @katiemacleann
@alanacutandpaste.bsky.social
Zines, libraries & archives, making things with paper. End genocide, arms embargo, now and forever.
@emilydourish.bsky.social
Rare books at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social, frogs in my garden, medieval nuns. These are a few of my favourite things.
@karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social
# Wanders through history of science, knowledge, and archives. # Leaping between early modern and Victorian worlds. # Marginalia, haunted papers, and scholarly personae. # Secretly tracing a wild Warburgian current—don’t tell the cataloguers. 🤫 @SOAS
@kleidouxos.bsky.social
Occult detective. | Grad student in HistSci + ILS @ Indiana. | Science as culture and the afterlives of ideas. https://linktr.ee/kleidouxos
@graceholleman.bsky.social
religious studies phd student at northwestern | c19-20 gender, race, religion, education, reading & writing | i miss the rocky mountains | here for sports
@paige-roberts.bsky.social
Public historian: Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA). Swimming, hiking (she/Dr.) #openGLAM #DigitalHumanities #PublicHistory #BookHistory #Maps
@ricciinstitutelib.bsky.social
The Library of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College. 利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所圖書館. https://web.bc.edu/ricci/
@bogarty.bsky.social
Historian & Researcher 🏚️ Science Museum Group collections 🛰️ Returned Cardiffian 🏴 Plant Nerd 🌱 Views my own. She/her/hi
@jessicabates.bsky.social
Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
@sarahbodman.bsky.social
Artists' Books projects at CFPR | UWE Bristol, UK: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event etc. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman
@celiason.bsky.social
Typeface designer at Teeline Fonts, type and lettering historian, art history professor, cocktail enthusiast.
@acls1919.bsky.social
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
@fb09public.bsky.social
Hier postet die Wissenschaftskommunikation des Fachbereichs Philologie @uni-muenster.de | Web: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Philologie/ ⎪ Impressum: http://uni.ms/6fzy7 | Mastodon (via Bridgy Fed): mastodon.social/@fb09public.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
@abojournal.bsky.social
Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
@katherineaeast.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the History of Radical Ideas - School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University
@mrconstan.bsky.social
Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid.
@kchew.bsky.social
Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
@rgmemss.bsky.social
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books? Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
@shaftowheed.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, Impact Lead for English, current VP of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
@historiankarol.bsky.social
▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian ▪︎ Associate Professor @unioflimerick.bsky.social, Ireland 🇮🇪 ▪︎ #IrishCulturalHistories #SocialHistories #MusicHistories #MusicalCulture #PublicHistory #CulturalPolitics #CulturalHeritage
@astra-mpiwg.bsky.social
A research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) dedicated to studying the astral sciences in trans-regional Asia. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/departments/max-planck-research-group-astra
@amndw2.bsky.social
Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Researching commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️🌈
@mirandab-oa.bsky.social
Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own. [Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
@romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
@emilieslaurent.bsky.social
PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
@gutenbot.bsky.social
A bot falsely attributing inventions to Johannes Gutenberg, the Mainz entrepreneur who innovated on aspects of western printing & typography in the 15th century. I post once a day! creator: @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
@monicakeane.bsky.social
Special collections librarian. I have a weakness for Italian things, medieval literature, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
@edwinapenge.bsky.social
Rare books librarian at Longleat | library & book history | moderately early modern
@nic-davisson.bsky.social
Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 https://lavienouveaudecor.etsy.com
@vassarlibraries.bsky.social
The libraries at Vassar serve as a central hub for the intellectual life of the campus. With over 1,000,000 volumes and vast online offerings, the libraries fuse rich collections with expert help and inspiring spaces.
@awickenden.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections & the politics of provenance volunteer for Abortion Support Network forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collections and the Production of Knowledge (CUP 2025)
@freeburian.bsky.social
FRHistS. Author. Shakespeare Lecturer. General Editor: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Editor: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh. https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social
We support digital approaches in research, teaching and outreach at the University of Exeter and beyond. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/digitalhumanities/
@lemdo-uvic.bsky.social
Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
@baindex.org
Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair, Conference Director and Fellow | CIEP APM | See also cryptic crosswords, Cymraeg, #IndexSky | Stockport, UK Society of Indexers 👉 @indexers.bsky.social www.indexers.org.uk
@cristinalalfar.bsky.social
Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
@susanpennyindexing.bsky.social
Professional indexer - mostly arts and humanities. Passionate believer in the power of books and reading, especially for children. When I'm not at my desk I'll be on the beach with dogs or ponies.
@tamara2727.bsky.social
Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
@anna-opryszko.bsky.social
Assistant Curator @ Wangensteen Historical Library, UMN Future PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser University Here for book history & print culture 📚
@heggledepeg.bsky.social
PhDer | Writer | Curator | Teacher | Lapsed theatre maker | Ex-Londoner
@scrivener1980.bsky.social
is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. BUY TICKETS FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY HERE: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2025-scrivener-launch-party
@peterdverheyen.bsky.social
Bookbinder, conservator, librarian. Pressbengel Project Blog | https://pressbengel.blogspot.com The Book Arts Web | https://www.philobiblon.com Fritz Otto Buchbinder | https://www.instagram.com/fritzottobuchbinder/
@tjamke.bsky.social
Head of KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections; PhD in medieval history. On a mission to get our books and manuscripts out into the world.