Alison Booth
@alisonbooth.bsky.social
Collective Biographies of Women: database project on how women's biographies were shaped in modern times. English professor since the dawn of time. Faculty Director, DH Center, UVA Library. Love @[email protected] and @[email protected]
Oh no! All health to you!
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Oh no! All health to you!
Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey were hired to a new government agency to design the big beautiful triumphal arch, but they got talking, got the best idea for a Dr. Strangelove remake. No one in the world ever saw anything like it! Made America, get it?
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey were hired to a new government agency to design the big beautiful triumphal arch, but they got talking, got the best idea for a Dr. Strangelove remake. No one in the world ever saw anything like it! Made America, get it?
I am always looking for an escape from ideology. That’s why I admire the Department of Ideology Hunters. They know gender backwards and forwards when they see it. (Love Virginia Heffernan).
September 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I am always looking for an escape from ideology. That’s why I admire the Department of Ideology Hunters. They know gender backwards and forwards when they see it. (Love Virginia Heffernan).
I hope all is well! I sometimes get similar reviews from family members.
August 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I hope all is well! I sometimes get similar reviews from family members.
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Inconvenient truths from @alisonbooth.bsky.social:
1. The narrative genre that ends in death is not (necessarily) tragedy. (See: biography.)
2. Reference entries (e.g. Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary of Nat'l Biography, etc.) are not biographies. (Because genre, not bcse poorly written)
#DH2025
1. The narrative genre that ends in death is not (necessarily) tragedy. (See: biography.)
2. Reference entries (e.g. Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary of Nat'l Biography, etc.) are not biographies. (Because genre, not bcse poorly written)
#DH2025
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Inconvenient truths from @alisonbooth.bsky.social:
1. The narrative genre that ends in death is not (necessarily) tragedy. (See: biography.)
2. Reference entries (e.g. Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary of Nat'l Biography, etc.) are not biographies. (Because genre, not bcse poorly written)
#DH2025
1. The narrative genre that ends in death is not (necessarily) tragedy. (See: biography.)
2. Reference entries (e.g. Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary of Nat'l Biography, etc.) are not biographies. (Because genre, not bcse poorly written)
#DH2025
The second post has fun thinking about typing and the days of copy centers and sending originals to publishers. There will be more frequent posts at first to set up the sections or threads of this refreshing venture. open.substack.com/pub/alisonbo...
The Fiction Folders
Archaic documents
open.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The second post has fun thinking about typing and the days of copy centers and sending originals to publishers. There will be more frequent posts at first to set up the sections or threads of this refreshing venture. open.substack.com/pub/alisonbo...