Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>>
@caitcoker.bsky.social
Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
These theater students having a MOMENT. Shared with their permission!
February 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
These theater students having a MOMENT. Shared with their permission!
Today is a Theater class visit focused on Much Ado: starting w First Folio, ending w press kit for the Branagh film.
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Today is a Theater class visit focused on Much Ado: starting w First Folio, ending w press kit for the Branagh film.
YEAH THEY DID!!!!!!!
New Yorkers return Pride flag to Stonewall after Trump administration removed it
New York officials on Thursday hoisted a large rainbow Pride flag over the Stonewall National Monument that was removed by the Trump administration earlier in the week.
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 PM
YEAH THEY DID!!!!!!!
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Job! Technician for the Book Arts & Letterpress Lab with Karen Zimmerman and the School of Art's 2D Print Studio at the University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Job! Technician for the Book Arts & Letterpress Lab with Karen Zimmerman and the School of Art's 2D Print Studio at the University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Installation for Erosophia: From Sappho to Cavafy, opening Saturday at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago!!!
February 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Installation for Erosophia: From Sappho to Cavafy, opening Saturday at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago!!!
Ready to show off some historic Valentine’s stuff!!
February 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Ready to show off some historic Valentine’s stuff!!
Gonna be in the Greek panel, gonna be fun!!!!!!!
For those of you descending on San Francisco for RSA next week, join us at Book History Now (a 3-part series)
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
- Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Networks, Media, and Method in Book History
The papers in this session raise questions about materiality, media, production networks, circulation networks, and methods for putting Renaissance manuscripts and print to work today.
rsa.confex.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Gonna be in the Greek panel, gonna be fun!!!!!!!
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
FFS
Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
FFS
The audacity of this early Marvell reader!!!
February 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The audacity of this early Marvell reader!!!
Teaching ekphrasis: Chapman’s Homer, Keats’s On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, and a broadside of Keats I couldn’t fit into frame.
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Teaching ekphrasis: Chapman’s Homer, Keats’s On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, and a broadside of Keats I couldn’t fit into frame.
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"Ancient 3,500-year-old statue stolen from Luxor during Arab Spring returned to Egypt"
nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/a...
nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/a...
Ancient 3,500-year-old statue stolen from Luxor during Arab Spring returned to Egypt
A 3,500-year-old stolen Egyptian sculpture that ended up in the Netherlands has been returned to Egypt. Investigation revealed that the sculpture was likely stolen from an archaeological site in the L...
nltimes.nl
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Ancient 3,500-year-old statue stolen from Luxor during Arab Spring returned to Egypt"
nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/a...
nltimes.nl/2026/02/06/a...
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
Really looking forward to the Bad Bunny concert tonight.
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Really looking forward to the Bad Bunny concert tonight.
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Edmonia Lewis (U.S., 1844-1907) was the first BIPOC sculptor in the US, the first to be internationally recognized.
Her father was African American and her mother was Indigenous (Chippewa, Ojibwa). Both died when she was little.
The Death of Cleopatra (carved 1876, marble).
#BlackHistoryMonth
Her father was African American and her mother was Indigenous (Chippewa, Ojibwa). Both died when she was little.
The Death of Cleopatra (carved 1876, marble).
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Edmonia Lewis (U.S., 1844-1907) was the first BIPOC sculptor in the US, the first to be internationally recognized.
Her father was African American and her mother was Indigenous (Chippewa, Ojibwa). Both died when she was little.
The Death of Cleopatra (carved 1876, marble).
#BlackHistoryMonth
Her father was African American and her mother was Indigenous (Chippewa, Ojibwa). Both died when she was little.
The Death of Cleopatra (carved 1876, marble).
#BlackHistoryMonth
Sooo was anyone gonna tell me the RSD list was out, or was I really supposed to find out while depression puttering?
February 8, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Sooo was anyone gonna tell me the RSD list was out, or was I really supposed to find out while depression puttering?
Signalboosting! Tis app season for the annual Book History Workshop at Texas A&M University, May 31-June 5, 2026.
The deadline for first consideration is March 6, 2026, after which any remaining seats will be filled on a rolling basis.
I'll be talking way too much about everything, so come play!
The deadline for first consideration is March 6, 2026, after which any remaining seats will be filled on a rolling basis.
I'll be talking way too much about everything, so come play!
Historic Press Room
library.tamu.edu
February 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Signalboosting! Tis app season for the annual Book History Workshop at Texas A&M University, May 31-June 5, 2026.
The deadline for first consideration is March 6, 2026, after which any remaining seats will be filled on a rolling basis.
I'll be talking way too much about everything, so come play!
The deadline for first consideration is March 6, 2026, after which any remaining seats will be filled on a rolling basis.
I'll be talking way too much about everything, so come play!
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“7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers”
Tom Metcalfe
Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...
Tom Metcalfe
Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...
7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers — Live Science
The discovery of a deer skull headdress and tools made from antlers at the site of a New Stone Age farming village suggests that hunter-gathers were sharing ideas with the newcomers.
apple.news
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
“7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers”
Tom Metcalfe
Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...
Tom Metcalfe
Live Science. apple.news/AaM4xDInWSNS...
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Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
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Fornax,Roman Goddess of Bakers and Ovens,festival 7-17th Feb is invoked to prevent baking goods from burning.Folk wisdom claims that a person could bake a wish into the bread.Feeding it to the birds will convey their hopes to the Goddess. #Folklore
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Fornax,Roman Goddess of Bakers and Ovens,festival 7-17th Feb is invoked to prevent baking goods from burning.Folk wisdom claims that a person could bake a wish into the bread.Feeding it to the birds will convey their hopes to the Goddess. #Folklore
Map of New Spain by Theodore de Bry, 1595.
Student: How did they write so small back then??
Me: Very carefully, and BACKWARDS!!!!!
Student: How did they write so small back then??
Me: Very carefully, and BACKWARDS!!!!!
February 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Map of New Spain by Theodore de Bry, 1595.
Student: How did they write so small back then??
Me: Very carefully, and BACKWARDS!!!!!
Student: How did they write so small back then??
Me: Very carefully, and BACKWARDS!!!!!
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck https://theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-reader-cant-believe-how-long-it-taking-sam-and-frodo-to-fuck/
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck https://theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-reader-cant-believe-how-long-it-taking-sam-and-frodo-to-fuck/
Absolutely strugglebussing with writing my presentation so I am giving up and making slides to clean up later.
I think it my dismay I am becoming the kind of prof who ends up writing conference papers on the airplane...
I think it my dismay I am becoming the kind of prof who ends up writing conference papers on the airplane...
February 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Absolutely strugglebussing with writing my presentation so I am giving up and making slides to clean up later.
I think it my dismay I am becoming the kind of prof who ends up writing conference papers on the airplane...
I think it my dismay I am becoming the kind of prof who ends up writing conference papers on the airplane...
Take 'em to the bank, gf.
Texas A&M Lecturer Who Was Fired Over Gender Lesson Sues University
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Take 'em to the bank, gf.