Rachel Maley
@rachelamaley.bsky.social
Teaching Assistant Professor in archival research methods, print culture, interactive literature, and children’s literature. Research on standby: 19th-century children’s literature and print culture, adaptation, and toy books.
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Okay YA hive mind, what’s your favorite YAL recommendation these days? I feel like
I’ve been out of the loop and have an upcoming trip and need a book or two!
I’ve been out of the loop and have an upcoming trip and need a book or two!
May 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Okay YA hive mind, what’s your favorite YAL recommendation these days? I feel like
I’ve been out of the loop and have an upcoming trip and need a book or two!
I’ve been out of the loop and have an upcoming trip and need a book or two!
Looking forward to trying this out with my Interactive Lit students this semester!
I'd really recommend choosing a conversation that you like from a game and just taking the time to transcribe it out as an exercise. It made me appreciate the writing in the Mouthwashing example even more!
It's tedious but it forces you to really think about why a scene was crafted that way.
It's tedious but it forces you to really think about why a scene was crafted that way.
January 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Looking forward to trying this out with my Interactive Lit students this semester!
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Here are my remarks for @ach.bsky.social’s #mla25 "Book History & the Digital Humanities" roundtable—"Making Media Manifest" tries to link DH making, the communications circuit & origins of BH, the current "book labs" movement, & critical infrastructure studies—& channel some 2011-era-twitter vibes
Making Media Manifest | Ryan C. Cordell
Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences
ryancordell.org
January 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Here are my remarks for @ach.bsky.social’s #mla25 "Book History & the Digital Humanities" roundtable—"Making Media Manifest" tries to link DH making, the communications circuit & origins of BH, the current "book labs" movement, & critical infrastructure studies—& channel some 2011-era-twitter vibes
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From 1890, one of several Christmas tree shape poems by H. C. Dodge.
![[Christmas tree shape poem, with topper and ornaments composed of stars, daggers, black boxes, o's, x's, dolls composed of typographical elements, and other decorative print objects.]
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
BY H. C. DODGE
O say can you see by its own sparkling light
this beautiful tree filling home with delight?
’Tis the Christmas Tree bending with tokens of love,
earth’s angels attending heaven’s angels above.
O, say can you hear sweetest music around
making home, ever dear, dearer yet with its sound?
’Tis the glad song of childhood’s right merriest glee
inspired by the wild wood’s most beautiful tree.
O, say you will find on this tree of delight
rare gifts all designed to make memory bright
from father and mother and daughter and son—
from each to the other with love never done.
O, say you will feel as the fruits from this tree
their beauties reveal a great joy that will free
the heart from all sadness and cause it to know
the holiest gladness that earth can bestow.
Hail, Tree! while we mingle around thee with cheer.
All hail to Kris Kringle, who planted thee here.
May Christmas’ old story told always with zest
give home a new glory and make its own blest.
[One line of text in the trunk of the tree:]
Christmas Comes But Once a Year](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rykdmiisbjdf4ooel7bxlrfu/bafkreie6h3vabl7bbiqzplbaakovay6s2y6z4p4v2ce72wnz5s7cqhdw44@jpeg)
December 2, 2024 at 1:43 PM
From 1890, one of several Christmas tree shape poems by H. C. Dodge.
I didn’t so much mind a Zoom defense in July 2021, but when I had my chance to walk at graduation and officially celebrate/get hooded in Spring 2022 for my doctorate, both me and my son got COVID. Had to stay home. Quite the bummer after 10 years of hard work.
November 27, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I didn’t so much mind a Zoom defense in July 2021, but when I had my chance to walk at graduation and officially celebrate/get hooded in Spring 2022 for my doctorate, both me and my son got COVID. Had to stay home. Quite the bummer after 10 years of hard work.
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who knew! the kaleidoscope was the original distracting social media device in the early 19th century - people were even writing articles bemoaning that boys were obsessed with the kaleidoscope rather than the more worthy telescope, microscope, or periscope www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
November 27, 2024 at 4:18 PM
who knew! the kaleidoscope was the original distracting social media device in the early 19th century - people were even writing articles bemoaning that boys were obsessed with the kaleidoscope rather than the more worthy telescope, microscope, or periscope www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...