SHARPists
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!
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@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.
@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.
@tamara2727.bsky.social
Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
@millicentweber.bsky.social
Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
@profbookshops.bsky.social
Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
feminist bibliography, old books, and mutual aid // I wrote Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide, I edit The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and sometimes I play with wallpaper designs // sarahwerner.net
@e-akansu.bsky.social
Graduiertenkolleg "Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen" @grk2806.bsky.social https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/person/eyk-akansu/
@nicolekeller.bsky.social
part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
@shsalter.bsky.social
Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals, at Emory U. [all opinions = my own] Also: dogs dogs dogs
@gingeykate.bsky.social
Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Digital projects. Interested in all things history of the book and print culture. Low-key paper nerd. Research Services Archivist. she/her.
@claireparnell.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social
Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Literature (Princeton UP). laurabmcgrath.substack.com
@henninghansen.bsky.social
Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
@sharpnews.bsky.social
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@rs4vp.org
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
@johnraimo.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶Librarian-in-training ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍Texan in DC https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@citizenwald.bsky.social
Historian, Hampshire College, Amherst MA Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for the Book https://www.massbook.org/ Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
@patrickleary.bsky.social
Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile.
@sgediting.bsky.social
Former journalist and editor turned academic, teaching/research about publishing & writing. Now back in professional practice c/o https://oddfish.uk & @oddfish-editorial.bsky.social. Cares about words & what they mean. http://bit.ly/2Jjx4gZ
@jordanstein.bsky.social
Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
@jochargrave.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby, UK | Co-Editor of PRQ | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
@speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social
We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
@jepub.bsky.social
Open access, scholarly communications journal for research about contemporary publishing practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema supported by University of Michigan Press https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
@jgarc.bsky.social
AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular synthesizer. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
@morree.bsky.social
Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution *at all* apparently) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@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.
@stcvbe.bsky.social
STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
@amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social
Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
@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)
@sarahpyke.bsky.social
teaching and researching at the University of Münster children's books, customs raids and censorship, histories of reading, materiality, #QueerBibliography etc. london.ac.uk/seized-books | librarylist.substack.com
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
@amandalastoria.bsky.social
North America's 1st PhD in Publishing Adjunct Prof at Simon Fraser University Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design EA at SHARP Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
@emilyrohrbach.bsky.social
🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University 📚Now writing Codex Poetics - & thinking about poetics and format, intermediality, politics of reading, racialization of the book, Romanticism 💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
@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
@annamuenchrath.bsky.social
Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History. Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP) Opinions Mine
@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
@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.)
@uniformbooks.bsky.social
Imprint for visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies. Edited and published by Colin Sackett. colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
@miyamotoben.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - CREW EA 4399) Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation) She/her/Dr
@medrenliza.bsky.social
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@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
@amoreshead.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
@libraryatnight.bsky.social
Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
@lauraestill.bsky.social
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
@anastasiaa2z.bsky.social
special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@anthonyglinoer.bsky.social
Sociologie historique du littéraire, book culture, publishing, bohemia, literary classics, groups and bands, SFF, board games, history of the left, family (mine), super-heroes, tennis (watching, not playing), etc. Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke.
@amyblair.bsky.social
Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
@joliebraun.bsky.social
Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about self-publishing, zines, cookbooks. Book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL, 1930s movies, neighborhood walks. https://joliebraun.com/
@hdhudson.bsky.social
C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
@lurideditions.bsky.social
Publishing forgotten queer books from the 20th century and beyond https://www.lurideditions.com
@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
@janellejenstad.bsky.social
Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
@mazarine.bsky.social
Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
@loradeets.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@hannah-sakura.bsky.social
PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship. Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
@lehelton.bsky.social
Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
@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>
@cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social
CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
@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.
@jontopham.bsky.social
Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
@mattiet650.bsky.social
Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
@markalanmattes.bsky.social
U of Louisville English - Book & Media History - Early American Studies - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies - Hot Brown Press (hotbrownpress.com) - Editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@georginaemw.bsky.social
Early Modern Lit and Material Texts between York and London. Book forthcoming Sep 2025 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
@adamwithbooks.bsky.social
lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london. Rep'd RCW Literary Agency THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024) co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text president Oxford Bibliographical Society micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
@obs1922.bsky.social
Founded 102 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚 Oxford, England oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
@ellenforget.bsky.social
Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & cane user.
@sharpweb.org
📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 💚 Promoting humanities scholarship 🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars 🪢 Facilitating bookish community sharpweb.org