Ay Ay Ron
@artsacrilege.bsky.social
A scholar who’s invested in the creation and circulation of texts from the Early Modern Period alongside the history of bookmaking and print culture through the ages
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Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
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DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,
This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CFP: The Data of Post45 Literature and Culture (Online Graduate Workshop)
How has encroaching climate disaster impacted how the future is imagined in science fiction novels? What can a century of NYT bestsellers lists tell us about trends in mainstream publishing? And how c...
docs.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,
This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...
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give.uky.edu
September 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...
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Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!
@gem-gem.bsky.social Times like this I really miss being at @skeuomorphpress.org .
Really excited about this event. The first we’ll get to host using our Yiddish type!
Two weeks from now at Skeuomorph. Come learn more about the history of Yiddish print in the US & make some cool prints!
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
@gem-gem.bsky.social Times like this I really miss being at @skeuomorphpress.org .
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the skeleton of the whale is by no means the mould of his invested form
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
the skeleton of the whale is by no means the mould of his invested form
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Add a colon smack in the middle of the first four words in this very real filename in the folder for today’s faculty meeting & you’ve got a very spicy romance novel
Ass Director: Academic Affairs
Ass Director: Academic Affairs
October 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Add a colon smack in the middle of the first four words in this very real filename in the folder for today’s faculty meeting & you’ve got a very spicy romance novel
Ass Director: Academic Affairs
Ass Director: Academic Affairs
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Turned on 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 and was disappointed to learn that it was not a sequel to Carl Sagan’s 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴.
October 1, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Turned on 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 and was disappointed to learn that it was not a sequel to Carl Sagan’s 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴.
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She taught the world so much, including teaching John how to eat a banana. Rest In Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you for spending some time with us. youtu.be/izUzqUrhbh0
Dr. Jane Goodall Interview: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
She taught the world so much, including teaching John how to eat a banana. Rest In Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you for spending some time with us. youtu.be/izUzqUrhbh0
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Lasercut a printing block of @virginiabookarts.bsky.social's new logo (a letterpress typecase, with the places v, b, & a go highlighted) #DHmakes
October 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Lasercut a printing block of @virginiabookarts.bsky.social's new logo (a letterpress typecase, with the places v, b, & a go highlighted) #DHmakes
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
I might be biased since Professor Newcomb was my mentor, but this is certainly a substack to look out for
The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
open.substack.com/pub/badoldda...
The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
open.substack.com/pub/badoldda...
The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
This substack is a book-length study of the many types, meanings, and results of violence in America, chronicling one exceptionally traumatic year in an almanac format.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I might be biased since Professor Newcomb was my mentor, but this is certainly a substack to look out for
The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
open.substack.com/pub/badoldda...
The United States of Violence: The Bad Old Days of 1978- Read This First!
open.substack.com/pub/badoldda...
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Excited that longtime Viral Texts collaborator Avery Blankenship’s *American Literature* article is out—stemming from a chapter of her diss, it outlines her research using infrared spectroscopy to analyze food stains in C19 cookbooks—interesting for DH, book history, bibliography, and foodies alike
Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks
Abstract. Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts ra...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited that longtime Viral Texts collaborator Avery Blankenship’s *American Literature* article is out—stemming from a chapter of her diss, it outlines her research using infrared spectroscopy to analyze food stains in C19 cookbooks—interesting for DH, book history, bibliography, and foodies alike
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We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! Prompt streaming for our square fans, late cable for our freaky fans! Cause we’re a well-rounded program with a little somethin’ for everyone in terms of time management! And in terms of content? We’re exclusively serving “guy at a desk.”
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! Prompt streaming for our square fans, late cable for our freaky fans! Cause we’re a well-rounded program with a little somethin’ for everyone in terms of time management! And in terms of content? We’re exclusively serving “guy at a desk.”
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Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....
September 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....
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many people are saying
September 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
many people are saying
Just deleted all my socials except bluesky and red note which means I now have to fill the void by being one of the many annoying english majors asking you to subscribe to my substack <3
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Just deleted all my socials except bluesky and red note which means I now have to fill the void by being one of the many annoying english majors asking you to subscribe to my substack <3
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i love when ao3 author notes have more lore than the average book (i hope OP is okay and thriving)
September 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
i love when ao3 author notes have more lore than the average book (i hope OP is okay and thriving)
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September 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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OMG I JUST REALIZED. I have all the Fics I sent to my ereader for camping! They're still on there. I added so many. I will be okay when AO3 is down!
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
OMG I JUST REALIZED. I have all the Fics I sent to my ereader for camping! They're still on there. I added so many. I will be okay when AO3 is down!
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Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves
September 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves
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Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: "Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives"
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Deadline: until 30th of November 2025
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Deadline: until 30th of November 2025
Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: "Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives" | H-Net
Call for Abstracts for a Special IssueInterdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal Of Criticism and TheoryWebsite: https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_ILS.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq6TgeNwT7gKmcZ4tHARQV...
networks.h-net.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: "Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives"
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Deadline: until 30th of November 2025
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Deadline: until 30th of November 2025
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🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP
Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳
Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳
Call for Papers
jcls.io
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I just know this would send Hobbes into a tirade where he argues that the blue whale consented to this by being born
Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I just know this would send Hobbes into a tirade where he argues that the blue whale consented to this by being born