It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

In every breath you take there is one molecule of air from the last exhale of Cleopatra.

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

16 Sept 1672: d. Anne Bradstreet, #poet - she was the first woman to be published in the #English American colonies #otd

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

First week teaching about ancient queens in early modern drama to upper-level undergrads begins with Dido, and I fittingly get to hold class in a building with neoclassical columns that recall the Greco-Roman past quite nicely 👑🏛️

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜

As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)

A little bit of a personal touch left behind. De censuris Ecclesiasticis tractatus. Leiden, 1608 #NationalLibraryOfLithuanis #earlymodern #printculture

This is why I love bibliography: i want to do a really good job on a small little piece and add it to the wealth of human knowledge. Then 50 years later, someone else finds it and adores this stranger who helped them so thoroughly. I want to be for others who bibliographers were to me.

“AI” doesn’t lie. It’s not deceitful, it doesn’t have feelings: it is broken. Those who are selling AI products encourage people to anthropomorphize it because doing so avoids language that indicates what a garbage product it is they’re selling. Or, as I wrote here: www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Karen Chernick on early modern women painters you should know about

Calling scholars of #earlymodernwomen! Whether you're working on representations, histories, labor, or cultural afterlives, consider submitting to my #cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco #RenSA26. Please share widely!

A new hub for literature! The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be both in Pittsburgh (and the Rust Belt) and of the wider world; a means of introducing the region’s vibrant literary community into national conversations as well as bringing those conversations here. beltmag.com/introducing-...

Published now open access ✨️ Scholars have invented men to explain away women's labor in the British print trades. In this ex, a misgendering travels from a catalog to WorldCat and Amazon. It shows how linked data's fragmentation perpetuates old assumptions. oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Scowling at you since 1663, dear human reader. #caturday #catcontent

Can digitization preserve the past, or does it merely reinvent it? My latest article traces the metadata anomalies and hidden labor that haunt one digital surrogate: Thomas May’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra. Check it out here!

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

This title is just too good not be shared: "Psyche Served in Her Bath by Nymphs She Cannot See" c. 1530-1540 (Art Institute Chicago)

Thrilled to be giving a lightning talk today at 1:30pm: “Recovering the RenAIssance: Using Computational Bibliography to Reconstruct the Histories of Early Modern Women in Print Culture” for the Lightning Talk series, “The RenAIssance" hosted by @rsaorg.bsky.social! www.rsa.org/events/Event...

Woman Reading, c. 1606–69 Rembrandt van Rijn (Met Museum) It looks that she's enjoying her text.

Our new digital humanities article, which I’ve authored alongside my colleagues across @cmuenglish.bsky.social and @cmu.edu's Statistics & Data Science Dept, is out! What happens when students offload writing about data to AI? Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/2693...

In Elisha Coles's "An English Dictionary" (1676), "typographer" & "typography" immediately precede "tyrannicide" & "tyrant," and that's the energy I bring to letterpress printing these days

Found a 1959 Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans in a used bookstore. Inside, a woman named Ann Hamilton signed the first page and declared: “A pretty boring book.” The bookseller said it had been sitting there for over a year. I bought it immediately.

📐 Cubist Art? Picasso? 💠 Nope, In 1624, Giovanni Battista Bracelli — an Italian engraver and painter working in Florence — produced an extraordinary book of mostly abstract prints titled Bizzarie di Varie Figure (Oddities of various figures). 🗃️ #arthistory #art #earlymodern #skystorians

Juan van der Hamen, Offering to Flora (Glycera?), 1627, oil on canvas, 216 cm x 140 cm (Museo del Prado) #earlymodern #spring

Fra Angelico, Virgin Annunciate, c 1450-1455, gold leaf and tempera on wood panel (Detroit Institute of Arts)

Found my journal back home from when I was 8 years old, where I write about having a “moment of inspiration” from “Shakespear.” Now, I conduct research on early modern drama as a PhD candidate. I’m not crying, you are.

A little lion made of glass, 1570/90 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Grateful to have co-chaired this incredible conference!

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

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Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced 🧵

Riding the frog in 1545. The Zurich-based printer Christoph Froschauer used this trademark frog on the title page of Conrad Gessner’s 'Bibliotheca Universalis'. #earlymodern #bookhistory The trademark frog derives from a translation of the printer’s last name: frog is in German “Frosch”.

Another sign of our weird times: a CBC story on Virgil & imperial epic as a key to explaining the current parlous state of Canada-US relations. Never thought my Latin classes would come in handy like this! (And apologies for showing you these ugly Republican mugs.) www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Ok, an object which demonstrates my passion for death history. A fragile Delftware plate titled ‘You and I are Earth. 1661’ It was found in a sewer and went into the collection of @londonmuseum.bsky.social #skystorians

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names! 1/? (Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)

I wrote about queer conviviality in Antony and Cleopatra because only planetary humanism and a utopian imaginary can save us now. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archivist: either way, it is not permitted in the Reading Room

Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook

Team Mark Antony? An early reader of this 16th c. biography of Cleopatra at #NewberryLibrary was clearly besotted with at least one of Cleo's men... The annotations throughout the book mostly mention him, and this account of his tragic death gets a fancy manicule!

If you haven't checked out the Bluesky directory site, you absolutely should. Stupefyingly useful. blueskydirectory.com

Thrilled to share my first single-authored publication! My review of @NdiayeNoemie's groundbreaking monograph, Scripts of Blackness, is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. This phenomenal work has shaped my thinking about race in early modern drama....

Ever wondered what the color of early modern book pages can tell us about the text's construction? Check out my video for @BibSocAmer on our exciting tool at @Print_and_Prob, using paper color analysis to solve mysteries in book history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJCXt-MNMw...