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.
@leadgraffiti.bsky.social
A letterpress studio in Newark, Delaware, with a strong urge to experiment and challenge long-held rules about design, readability, and a few other things I'll remember later.
@djbduncan.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
@jimmussell.bsky.social
Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
@pupandpony.bsky.social
Fine Art oil painter, graphic design educator, letterpress and linocut printmaker. www.wendyemery.com and pupandpony.com
@bowerbox.com
Letterpress nerd, fledgling typefoundry, cats. Also probably mushrooms. Find my work at bowerbox.com, buy some of my type and print things with it! Subscribe to my niche newsletter about typecasting: americantypecastingfellowship.org
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
@debraraecohen.bsky.social
Finally here. Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, M/m; past president, CELJ. Modernism and media, especially the BBC. Anti-fascist, trans ally. Bean soup, pickles, word games. She/her. 🍉
@akhuseby.bsky.social
Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
@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. 🏳️🌈
@triproftri.bsky.social
Director, Public Programming, College of Humanities & Arts + Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed, *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* PI, DH@CSU Consortium. *Forget Me Not: Rise of British Literary Annual 1823-1835* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
@kconrad.bsky.social
Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
@richove.bsky.social
Bodley's Librarian, @bodleianlibraries.Bsky.social & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social
@norabenedict.bsky.social
📚💻📜💃✨🧁 | Associate Prof of Spanish & DH @ UGA | book: _Borges and the Literary Marketplace_ (Yale UP) | edited volume: _The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges_ (OUP)
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
@prolixpost.bsky.social
UMD PhD candidate, studying surveillance technology, privacy, digital culture
@fraistat.bsky.social
Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@lmaruca.bsky.social
C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in history of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
Professor-turned-librarian; my digital humanities is usually analog; often seen with two dogs and a lot of yarn; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
@malcolmcanmore.bsky.social
University admin & historian. Likes books, book arts, and typography. Medieval Scotland. Parent to two fluffy baby bunnies. Neurodivergent. 🏳️🌈🇵🇷 (she/they/ella[e])
@kajamarczewska.bsky.social
Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020)
@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social
Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
@rlprm.bsky.social
Director of Natural History Libraries (Ernst Mayr and Botany Libraries), Harvard. Collaborator, listener, pie enthusiast. Perpetually curious. Outdoor-oriented.
@markalanmattes.bsky.social
Book & Media History - Early American Literature - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies Hot Brown Press - hotbrownpress.com Editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@devinfitz.bsky.social
Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
@briancassidy.bsky.social
Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News. W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
@madamebibliophile.bsky.social
📚 Special Collections Librarian 📍London ☞ primary source literacy & engagement ¶ book hiſtory ❡ palaeography ⁊ codicology #herbook
@pulp-wire-wtrmks.bsky.social
Archivist at NARA. Processing and accessioning job. Conservation passion. Fascinated by the moments when practice meets theory and user meets object. Books. Paper. Bound. Unbound.
@anastasiaa2z.bsky.social
special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
@18thcenturysam.bsky.social
NUAcT PhD student working on bibliography of 18th pornographic print // she/they
@marthanellsmith.bsky.social
Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Maker of @mobydickatsea.bsky.social and @clipart.bsky.social. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io
@noraepstein.bsky.social
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian ❧ Postdoc fellow with @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social ❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles ❧ she/her ❧ all opinions my own
@juliepark.bsky.social
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
@ngmcburney.bsky.social
Antiquarian bookseller with a focus on printed books and manuscripts from the Muslim world, defined as broadly and inclusively as possible. www.ngmcburney.com
@amplify285.bsky.social
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@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
@robdmontoya.bsky.social
Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I do enjoy my work | 🐘 https://historians.social/@dbellingradt | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
@ehxlibris.bsky.social
PhD candidate in late medieval/early modern book history @ Ohio State. libraries. book arts. HEMA. nature.
@alothian.bsky.social
Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
@glavey.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina; author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde; working on a book about relatability and the poetics of oversharing
@hibitus-habitus.bsky.social
Co-author (with @stevechiger.bsky.social) of the middle grades novel "Gram and Gran Save the Summer." It teaches media literacy! And it's fun! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW19FKNR
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home