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Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller
@nicolekeller.bsky.social
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part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
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janellejenstad.bsky.social
I'm giving a talk for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada on Nov. 12: explora.alliancecan.ca/events/digit.... All welcome to register!
Digital Fragility, Sustainability, and Longevity, or Whatever Happened to the Internet Shakespeare Editions?
<p>In December 2018, the Internet Shakespeare Editions server failed. In April 2020, the Shakespeare Quartos Archive was withdrawn from its Bodleian host. In October 2023, the cyberattack on the Briti...
explora.alliancecan.ca
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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defoesociety.bsky.social
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
Hessell abstract
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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titachico.bsky.social
advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
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Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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aksagal.bsky.social
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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defoesociety.bsky.social
Attention #Defoe scholars! Just under a month to submit your abstracts for our sponsored #ASECS2026 panel, “Weather, Climate, and the Anthropocene in Daniel Defoe." Panel description👇
asecs.org/sessions2026...
Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18
Defoe Society ASECS 2026 CFP
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+
Screenshot of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Print as many as you like (for yr class/library/leave piles wherever?). Highlights fave research+teaching resources; teaching examples by @nicolekeller.bsky.social uses homosaurus.org (@kjrawson.bsky.social et al)+ www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net (@transgenderarchive.bsky.social);[email protected]
Screenshot of page 12 of the "Queer Book History" zine, adorned with the Homosaurus queer linked open data vocab's logo of a dinosaur under a rainbow. Text reads: "A model teaching approach to Queer Book History Digital Transgender Archive & Homosaurus Nicole Infanta Keller: "I've taught with the Homosaurus and Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) in both my Book History and Gender, Culture, & Equality courses. These projects, when taught in conjunction, allow for productive discussions about archival violence, and also bring to light the significant barriers we face in both researching and writing transgender history. The Homosaurus introduces the importance of metadata, rendering the stakes clear: if the metadata we search isn't inclusive, our understanding of history won't be either. The DTA demonstrates the extent to which archival objects are dispersed, as well as the point that, even when we can locate items, they might be overshadowed by "LGB" histories. The DTA is well equipped with teaching resources, too; students already familiar with archives can search the collections by keywords, time periods, etc., while students needing more guidance do well with the" (page ends) Screenshot of page 13 of the "Queer Book History" zine, adorned with a photo of a printing press inked in a trans pride flag pink to blue gradient, a photo of the cover of Rich Dana's "Cheap Copies! The Obsolete! Guide to DIY hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication by Rich Dana, and a photo of historical press-inking devices I forget the name of at the moment. Text reads: "DA's "Primary Source Sets," curated groups of items that include topic overviews, discussion questions, and additional readings." Links: • digitaltransgenderarchive.net/learn/teachingtools • digitaltransgenderarchive.net/learn/LGBTHistory. • homosaurus.org Amanda: "Instructors might adapt Ryan Cordell's awesome experiential book history exercises (e.g. writing with quill & ink by candlelight!) to attend to contemporary The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography queer experiences of those & Spirit Duplication methods—or explore other historical by Rich Dana queer methods with similar hands-on practice (e.g. zine culture, paths for sharing writing without access to public printshops) e.g. using Rich Dana's Cheap Copies! manual." (s18tot.ryancordell.org/labs/Lab3-Scriptorium)"
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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transbookhistory.bsky.social
I'm really proud of the work of @bibliowingate.bsky.social and the Queer Book History and Bibliography (of which I was a member). This is an invaluable resource. And @literaturegeek.bsky.social's zine is amazing. Everyone should print copies and leave them around their local libraries!
August 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
nicolekeller.bsky.social
Zine Alert: @literaturegeek.bsky.social has curated and designed such a beautiful, important resource to supplement @sharpnews.bsky.social's LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography!
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Aug 21
"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +
Photo of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript. Photo of the table of contents of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The table covers 32 pages and says: • Credits & how to cite this zine. • Introduction Resources: • Intro to general book history • Intro to QUEER book history! • Teaching queer history toward • A model teaching approach • Black, Indigenous, POC + Queer • Broader BIPOC book history • Zines, community periodicals, DIY queer publishing history • Libraries, archives, museums • Archives & catalogues • Design & art. • Close readings • Ethics & justice re:gender & sexuality • Feminist 2SLGBTQIA+ • Community & conferences • Queer book history isn't past • Current book arts practitioners relevant to queer book history • Want more queer book history? • Back cover & reuse/ remix info
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
I also want to thank the seventeen (17!!) volunteer guest bibliographers for collaborating on my last bibliography! This was such a team effort, and it would not have turned out the way it did without our conversations and collective labor!
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
nicolekeller.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that the @sharpnews.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is live! I learned so much from @bibliowingate.bsky.social (and fellow project contributors) throughout the compilation process. Please use and share! (And there's a fab zine, which merits its own post...)
bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Aug 23
The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
August 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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quinnanya.me
Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!
DSC: Thoughts on AI and DH
We published what might turn into a controversial DSC book on AI, which will probably bring up a lot of thoughts and feelings from the DH community. We're already planning a follow-up book where were ...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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stephenwest.bsky.social
You can contribute to the "Save Our Signs" project by taking photos of signage, markers, and memorials at National Park Service sites and sharing them here:

www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...
July 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
nicolekeller.bsky.social
I was already bummed to miss the Defoe conference, and these pics certainly aren't helping! See y'all in 2027!
megandanielle.bsky.social Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 5
Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
July 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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rmathematicus.bsky.social
Mathematician, astronomer Roger Cotes was born 10 July 1682 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/i...
“If he had lived, we might have known something”
The title of this post is Newton’s rather surprising comment on hearing of the early death of the Cambridge mathematician Roger Cotes at the age of 33 in 1716. I say rather surprising, as Newton wa…
thonyc.wordpress.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
nicolekeller.bsky.social
Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...
Issue 21.1 • Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy and Gender • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
ncgsjournal.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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defoesociety.bsky.social
Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe
Digital Defoe vol. 16 Features Digital Defoe vol. 16 Book Reviews
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
nicolekeller.bsky.social
Out of This World – Vopell’s Exquisite Armillary Sphere | Worlds Revealed
An armillary sphere is a model of the heavens featuring a central globe with a framework of rings around it that represent celestial bodies and features. This blog post will discuss these astronomical...
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June 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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abojournal.bsky.social
Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries
ABO 15.1 Contents 1 ABO 15.1 Contents 2
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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defoesociety.bsky.social
Our conference programme is live (overview 👇)! Download the full doc: www.defoesociety.org/wp-content/u...
See you all in the UK next month! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Defoe Society Conference Programme Preview
June 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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abojournal.bsky.social
Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading!
#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy
Lower abstract
May 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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defoesociety.bsky.social
Presidential Panel abstract deadline extended to *May 15*!
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #C18 #18thC
defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Mar 14
Katherine Ellison is organizing a Presidential Panel at our upcoming conference on the theme of “Endings.” Please email her with your abstracts by April 30. Details in KE’s message 👇
Looking forward to your ideas! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Defoe Conference Presidential Panel Call
May 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM