Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press
@markalanmattes.bsky.social
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Literacy Propagandist - Book & Media History - Early American Lit - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies - Letterpress
Editor, Handwriting in Early America:
A Media History (UMass 2023)
Literacy Propagandist - Book & Media History - Early American Lit - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies - Letterpress
Editor, Handwriting in Early America:
A Media History (UMass 2023)
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Thank you all for supporting my ACLU fundraiser. We've raised $625 so far! I just updated things for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. Fresh copies are available in my store: www.etsy.com/listing/4334...
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
Better?
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Better?
Facebook Marketplace keeps trying to sell me copies of The Last of the Mohicans. No.
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Facebook Marketplace keeps trying to sell me copies of The Last of the Mohicans. No.
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I'm teaching Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show in my plantation modernity class today. When pop culture serves, we make room in the schedule.
When the plantation shows up, it's usually deadly and bleak for obvious reasons. This performance feels genuinely joyfully political. I'm stoked.
When the plantation shows up, it's usually deadly and bleak for obvious reasons. This performance feels genuinely joyfully political. I'm stoked.
February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I'm teaching Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show in my plantation modernity class today. When pop culture serves, we make room in the schedule.
When the plantation shows up, it's usually deadly and bleak for obvious reasons. This performance feels genuinely joyfully political. I'm stoked.
When the plantation shows up, it's usually deadly and bleak for obvious reasons. This performance feels genuinely joyfully political. I'm stoked.
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I mean, best I can do curbside is my current syllabus: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Kirschenbaum, Reading AI (Spring 2026 UVA Grad Seminar) PUBLIC
ENGL 8559-001: Reading AI (Spring 2026) Prof. Matthew Kirschenbaum mgk3k@virginia.edu Office Hours: Bryan 304-A, Wed. 10AM-12PM and by appointment (Zoom) Course Meets: Wed. 2:00-4:30pm, Monroe Hall 1...
docs.google.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I mean, best I can do curbside is my current syllabus: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Two eyeballs emojis from @transbookhistory.bsky.social ?!?! I've arrived!
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Two eyeballs emojis from @transbookhistory.bsky.social ?!?! I've arrived!
😆😆😆
Magnets how do they work
February 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
😆😆😆
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The effort behind the mark
Hacky-ass lockup right here, folks!
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
The effort behind the mark
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#DHmakes I love how this print also doubles as screaming.
New #letterpress print in support of my dear friend, Ben Bascom, and his forthcoming March lecture at the U of Louisville, "A is for Abjection: Bilious Methods in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
#DHmakes I love how this print also doubles as screaming.
New #letterpress print in support of my dear friend, Ben Bascom, and his forthcoming March lecture at the U of Louisville, "A is for Abjection: Bilious Methods in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
February 12, 2026 at 1:05 AM
New #letterpress print in support of my dear friend, Ben Bascom, and his forthcoming March lecture at the U of Louisville, "A is for Abjection: Bilious Methods in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
The good old days 😆
February 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
The good old days 😆
The Olympics have taught me that I should hire a curling brusher to clean my kitchen floor
February 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
The Olympics have taught me that I should hire a curling brusher to clean my kitchen floor
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Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
Chillin' the Tonkatsu
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Chillin' the Tonkatsu
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
Souper Bowl of ramen, in progress...
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Souper Bowl of ramen, in progress...
Pepperidge farms and I remember a simpler time when Super Bowl commercials involved rap battles about Doritos flavors or cat herding and whatnot
In the future, you will probably be able to connect a Trump account to a betting app
Anybody who shills for online betting apps is a garbage person.
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Pepperidge farms and I remember a simpler time when Super Bowl commercials involved rap battles about Doritos flavors or cat herding and whatnot
In the future, you will probably be able to connect a Trump account to a betting app
Anybody who shills for online betting apps is a garbage person.
February 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
In the future, you will probably be able to connect a Trump account to a betting app
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Anybody who shills for online betting apps is a garbage person.
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Anybody who shills for online betting apps is a garbage person.
Lately I've noticed a lot of holy-crap-this-is-a-game-changer discourse around various AI tools...
Today I spent an hour with a dear friend brainstorming some ideas for a poetry broadside in support of their new book dropping this summer/fall. It was so damn fun, and I can't wait to get started!
February 7, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Lately I've noticed a lot of holy-crap-this-is-a-game-changer discourse around various AI tools...
Today I spent an hour with a dear friend brainstorming some ideas for a poetry broadside in support of their new book dropping this summer/fall. It was so damn fun, and I can't wait to get started!
February 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Today I spent an hour with a dear friend brainstorming some ideas for a poetry broadside in support of their new book dropping this summer/fall. It was so damn fun, and I can't wait to get started!
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Today, like every day, is a good way to remember Lucretia Mott.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,076 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Inside this locked cemetery is the grave of Lucretia Mott. Born in 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Coffin grew up in a whaling family. Her family were early Puritans and had gotten involved...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Today, like every day, is a good way to remember Lucretia Mott.
With all due respect to the narrow question of unseen handwriting, the article shared problematically separates working with material texts and doing history: "...AI may soon be able to take on this often monotonous task, giving scholars more time to analyze history rather than decrypt calligraphy."
February 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
With all due respect to the narrow question of unseen handwriting, the article shared problematically separates working with material texts and doing history: "...AI may soon be able to take on this often monotonous task, giving scholars more time to analyze history rather than decrypt calligraphy."
Andrea!
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Andrea!