UMD BookLab and the Plaintxt Press
Founded in 2018, BookLab is the University of Maryland English Department’s letterpress workshop, book arts studio, and bibliographic makerspace; and the Plaintxt Press is our imprint. Come visit in Tawes Hall 3248.
We make small language models.
@transbookhistory.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Trans Book History & 19C Am. Lit. | former sub-sub-librarian | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶Rare Book Librarian ¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍TX -> DC -> ATL https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@bibliomolly.bsky.social
Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library. Minimalist on even days, maximalist on odd ones. Don’t lick green books.
@davidnwright.bsky.social
Making Things / Digital Humanities / Archives / Non-practicing modernist / Comics / Other cultural / historical stuff. Thoughts and statements are my own. http://watchtheedge.ca/
@richardacarter.bsky.social
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
@elikaortega.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Spanish working on digital lit+media, cultural hybridity, book studies, DH+LatAm Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025) Dog person. Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish https://elikaortega.net
@book-historia.bsky.social
Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter.
@jsench.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Book History @UWMadison. Director @UW_CHPDC. Author: Intimacy of Paper @UMassPress. Summer class @CalRBS. Coeditor of PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. #BillsMafia. (Falo português, mais ou menos.)
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@jeschollaert.bsky.social
Outreach and Engagement Librarian in Special Collections @ UMD Libraries. Writing about plants and abortion in American Fiction. Yinzer. She/her. www.jschollaert.com
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
@ashleyreed.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. 19th-century lit, religion, digital humanities. Author of Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America. Buy it or read it for free: https://shorturl.at/Tmavp
@jbd1.bsky.social
Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
@matthewkollmer.com
PhD student (info sci at UIUC). Research in DH, NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Background in 19th/early 20th century US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com I also own and operate a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com
@natmcgartland.bsky.social
PhDing @ UMD English HBIC @UMDBookLab book history, STS, digital studies linktr.ee/natmcgartland
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.