Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller

Worth bringing to ALL conferences!

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025.
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH

Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
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Mona Narain's 2/19 Abstract

Don’t miss out, ABO readers! Mona Narain, our scholarship editor, will speak on Charlotte Smith and Phillis Wheatley Peters' poetry at the next Columbia Seminar in #18C European Culture meeting this Thursday, 2/19, at 7:00pm (Eastern).
Zoom link: yeshiva-university.zoom.us/j/95230908037
Abstract 👇.

I'm very happy @abojournal.bsky.social's #DH section is up and running again! Thanks to @allisonmuri.bsky.social for reflecting on The Grub Street Project's 20th anniversary and to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social for reviewing @books-borrowing.bsky.social!

I'm giving a talk for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada on Nov. 12: explora.alliancecan.ca/events/digit.... All welcome to register!

Hessell abstract

Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.

Defoe Society ASECS 2026 CFP

Attention #Defoe scholars! Just under a month to submit your abstracts for our sponsored #ASECS2026 panel, “Weather, Climate, and the Anthropocene in Daniel Defoe." Panel description👇
asecs.org/sessions2026...
Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18

Screenshot of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+

Screenshot of page 12 of the "Queer Book History" zine, adorned with the Homosaurus queer linked open data vocab's logo of a dinosaur under a rainbow. Text reads: "A model teaching approach to Queer Book History Digital Transgender Archive & Homosaurus Nicole Infanta Keller: "I've taught with the Homosaurus and Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) in both my Book History and Gender, Culture, & Equality courses. These projects, when taught in conjunction, allow for productive discussions about archival violence, and also bring to light the significant barriers we face in both researching and writing transgender history. The Homosaurus introduces the importance of metadata, rendering the stakes clear: if the metadata we search isn't inclusive, our understanding of history won't be either. The DTA demonstrates the extent to which archival objects are dispersed, as well as the point that, even when we can locate items, they might be overshadowed by "LGB" histories. The DTA is well equipped with teaching resources, too; students already familiar with archives can search the collections by keywords, time periods, etc., while students needing more guidance do well with the" (page ends)

Screenshot of page 13 of the "Queer Book History" zine, adorned with a photo of a printing press inked in a trans pride flag pink to blue gradient, a photo of the cover of Rich Dana's "Cheap Copies! The Obsolete! Guide to DIY hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication by Rich Dana, and a photo of historical press-inking devices I forget the name of at the moment. Text reads: "DA's "Primary Source Sets," curated groups of items that include topic overviews, discussion questions, and additional readings." Links: • digitaltransgenderarchive.net/learn/teachingtools • digitaltransgenderarchive.net/learn/LGBTHistory. • homosaurus.org Amanda: "Instructors might adapt Ryan Cordell's awesome experiential book history exercises (e.g. writing with quill & ink by candlelight!) to attend to contemporary The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography queer experiences of those & Spirit Duplication methods—or explore other historical by Rich Dana queer methods with similar hands-on practice (e.g. zine culture, paths for sharing writing without access to public printshops) e.g. using Rich Dana's Cheap Copies! manual." (s18tot.ryancordell.org/labs/Lab3-Scriptorium)"

Print as many as you like (for yr class/library/leave piles wherever?). Highlights fave research+teaching resources; teaching examples by @nicolekeller.bsky.social uses homosaurus.org (@kjrawson.bsky.social et al)+ www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net (@transgenderarchive.bsky.social);+@ryancordell.org

I'm really proud of the work of @bibliowingate.bsky.social and the Queer Book History and Bibliography (of which I was a member). This is an invaluable resource. And @literaturegeek.bsky.social's zine is amazing. Everyone should print copies and leave them around their local libraries!

And a personal shoutout to the NU grad students / @transgenderarchive.bsky.social researchers, Rhiannon Callahan, @cailinroles.bsky.social, and Eamon Schlotterback, who inspired me to teach with the DTA and Homosaurus back in 2022!

Zine Alert: @literaturegeek.bsky.social has curated and designed such a beautiful, important resource to supplement @sharpnews.bsky.social's LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography!

I also want to thank the seventeen (17!!) volunteer guest bibliographers for collaborating on my last bibliography! This was such a team effort, and it would not have turned out the way it did without our conversations and collective labor!

I'm excited to share that the @sharpnews.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is live! I learned so much from @bibliowingate.bsky.social (and fellow project contributors) throughout the compilation process. Please use and share! (And there's a fab zine, which merits its own post...)

DSC: Thoughts on AI and DH We published what might turn into a controversial DSC book on AI, which will probably bring up a lot of thoughts and feelings from the DH community. We're already planning a follow-up book where were ...

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

You can contribute to the "Save Our Signs" project by taking photos of signage, markers, and memorials at National Park Service sites and sharing them here:

www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

I was already bummed to miss the Defoe conference, and these pics certainly aren't helping! See y'all in 2027!

“If he had lived, we might have known something” The title of this post is Newton’s rather surprising comment on hearing of the early death of the Cambridge mathematician Roger Cotes at the age of 33 in 1716. I say rather surprising, as Newton wa…

Mathematician, astronomer Roger Cotes was born 10 July 1682 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/i...

Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...

New issue of Digital Defoe is live! Well done, editor and author buddies!

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Features

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Book Reviews

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

ABO 15.1 Contents 1

ABO 15.1 Contents 2

Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries

Defoe Society Conference Programme Preview

Our conference programme is live (overview 👇)! Download the full doc: www.defoesociety.org/wp-content/u...
See you all in the UK next month! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Lower abstract

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading!
#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy

SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...