SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

FYI: Out of the Newberry's ~22k French pamphlets, 530 are on the imprisonment, trial and execution of Louis XVI (published between August 10, 1792 and Jan. 21, 1793). Our doors are open today if you need a place to sit and think about a society with #NoKings. www.newberry.org/collection/r...

Still processing my thoughts on “Cartooning the Medieval” and I’ve not yet managed to type anything up. @marniegalloway.bsky.social just shared her reflections and artist talk; I encourage you to read her wonderful post if you’re eager to know more about the event: open.substack.com/pub/marniega...

Same. Newberry: Case 3A 1572

Medievalist-friends! Interested in learning about comics and narrative art and meeting cartoonists for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

In our introduction, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, @noraepstein.bsky.social and I argue that it is time to take gender seriously as a methodology in book history. You can read the chapter here (or ask any of us for a PDF): www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Happy Publication Day, ‘Gender and the Book Trades’! I am deeply proud of this conference and my co-organizers, who edited this astonishingly good volume. I contributed to the introduction, 'Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History', and am happy to share a pdf. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)

Alexandra Franklin & @chapbookpro.bsky.social 2021 post where they created letterpress blocks w/detachable hats! after using largescale image analysis to notice the same "detachable hats" appearing across multiple historical print ballads: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/... +

Capital work on Koberger's 1486 edition of Boethius i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

In rare (and thrilling) #paperhistory news: www.newberry.org/news/analysi... "At approximately 49 sheets, the discovery increases the amount of maguey paper known to have survived by about four times."

Do yourself a favor and follow @analulopez.bsky.social! She is the Librarian for the Newberry's Ayer collection, one of the curators of the 'Indigenous Chicago' exhibit, and a brilliant and generous scholar. Plus her #bookhistory content is 10/10!

I will never recover from witnessing perfect 16c. German bindings pulled out of a grocery bag, one by one, in the main lobby of the Newberry. Fantastic bibliographic sleuthing, @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social!

Last day to apply for Materiality, Mobility, Mind! www.newberry.org/calendar/mat... Graduate students, come to the Newberry and join the discussion about the transmission of early modern printed images!

Now that it's public, I’m absurdly excited to say that I’ve been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh for a transnational project on collaborations between women at all levels of the early modern book trade! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

I'm deeply bummed to miss my RSA book history panel today, but this new addition (edition?) arrived weeks ahead of schedule. I encourage everyone to see @ewatson.bsky.social & Chelsea Reutcke deliver their brilliant bibliographic research this afternoon.

I added to my list of phrases never uttered until working at the Newberry:    "I was looking at our Septembertestament, you know, the one with the rubricated nipples…" collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

I'm teaching an RBS course on the history of typography this summer! At the Newberry! rarebookschool.org/courses/typo...

Thank you to the Newberry Library for getting me to the Magnificent Mile just in time for peak tweed season! And the Grad Conference was fabulous too! @summerblocklizer.bsky.social @noraepstein.bsky.social @yasminehachimi.bsky.social

Guests are coming over, time to break out the fine stemware! [grabs the 2001 Burger King commemorative Lord of the Rings glass goblets from the top shelf.]

Today is my first day as the Newberry Library’s Instruction and Outreach Librarian. Thanks to all the Newberry staff for such a warm welcome!

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades RIP

These last weeks were exhausting on every level, but I'm so grateful to have been slightly distracted by a fantastic research trip to England, supported by the Bibliographical Society of America. If you need a break from doomscrolling, check out these silly 16/17c. MS images that kept my spirits up.

I wrote a short piece on early modern copying for the Folger Shakespeare Library's The Collation blog. Have a look and see why this strange commonplacer, Thomas Trevelyon, has dominated my brain space for years. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

#Earlymodern books were more than just reading material. Yesterday I visited the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven again where Lieve Watteeuw showed me this unique hollowed out book printed in the Officina Plantiniana in 1589 with relics inside! I'm in awe 🤩