Laura Estill

Also: Google Scholar does a bad job at capturing citations in book chapters and monographs. This is a problem, particularly for disciplines (like English and other humanities) where these publication outputs are valued and can be quite prestigious.

Here’s a folder with the key assignments I use to get my students using Zotero. Along with this, they produce an annotated bibliography for a research prospectus and have to put all the annotations in Zotero. I introduce the platform in an in class workshop. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Conference Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture An international and interdisciplinary conference July 1-3, 2026 University of Hull This conference explores the prevalence, fun…

CFP: Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1-3 July, Hull
@proverbialculture.bsky.social
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

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I'm on Day 6! (on air tomorrow; posted online today)
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Dean of Arts Dean of Arts, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Come be my Dean at @stfx-university.bsky.social in Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Job posting: Dean of Arts, StFX

www.kbrs.ca/Career/17600...

a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens

Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

Hey Antigonish! There's a blood donor clinic at St Ninian's! It's on this afternoon, tomorrow, and Thursday and there are still lots of open spots.

Pssst, students: free snacks

Make an appointment here www.blood.ca/en/blood/don...

The cover of The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice. An abstract photo of ribbons of light on a black background is in the center. It is a Serious Looking Book

The title page of our chapter, chapter 22. "Public Works: Ecological Inspiration for Equitable Knowledge Production" by Alyssa Arbuckle and Katina Rogers

A black and white photo of an amanita muscaria growing among small subarctic plants.

A good mail day! I loved collaborating with @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social on this chapter. We even snuck a few photos in there. So many great contributors—thank you to editors Constance Crompton, @lauraestill.bsky.social, Richard J. Lane, & @raysiemens.bsky.social for making it possible!

Email opening "Dear Dr.Estill, Laura， I hope you’re doing well. I'm Cindy Commissioning Editor. "

And another laugh, this one from "Cindy Commissioning Editor"

Email from predatory journal Text: Dear Dr. Estill, Laura, Wishing you all the best! After reviewing your work online, the Editorial Office found your paper titled "Thomas Higgons's The Dismal Tempest: an unpublished seventeenth-century play fragment" to be exceptional. Given your profound insights in this field, we would like to extend a sincere invitation for you to publish an article (Research, Review, or Short Communication) free of charge, with a submission deadline of December 15th for the upcoming issue. Journal of Atmospheric Science Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes advanced research in atmospheric sciences, covering areas such as atmospheric dynamics, climate change, extreme weather, atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, and ocean–atmosphere interactions.

Predatory journal laugh: I wrote about a 17th-century manuscript play fragment I called "The Dismal Tempest" and was invited to submit to "The Journal of Atmospheric Science Research"

For more on the play fragment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Me, scanning something that the printer will email to me

Me, thirty seconds later: I wonder who emailed me?

Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR Enumerative bibliographies are lists of scholarship that capture the state of a field. This article first evaluates digital texts of one such bibliography, Franz Thimm’s Shakspeariana from 1564–1864 (...

Out now: "Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR"
www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...

Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…

Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website!
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk

Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds

Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology

Join us for an after-show talk about Zomblet!

With
Dan Bray, playwright
Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Canadian Theatre specialist
Prof. @crushton.bsky.social , zombie specialist
and Prof. @lauraestill.bsky.social , Shakespeare scholar

Weds 29 Oct
Show starts at 7:30 and runs ~90 mins

A gray and sandy orange cat curled up into a ball on an antique chair that is black with stencils and a tan seat.

Storm on an antique chair my Grandma refinished

A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

A vertically oriented graphic shows a white box will a yellow border. Inside the box, black and blue text reads, “Apply Now! RBS-Awarded Scholarships Application Deadline: Sunday, 2 November 2025. The M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography & Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources Application Deadline: Sunday, 7 December 2025.” On a black bar at the bottom of the graphic, white and yellow text says, “Learn more & apply at: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships.” The background of the graphic is a photo of two smiling women standing beside a table covered in books. They are holding notebooks and taking notes with pencils.

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for:

𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)

Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

A search of the novanet library discovery layer for "the reception of German mysticism in early modern england" with a single result for a book called "the history of mathematics"

Not even close, Novanet...or maybe super close?

An image of two knights in full armour, one with two swords having just vanquished the other. stark black and white line drawing.

a striking black and white image of a man kneeling with hands praying, crown falling off. A hand clutching a dagger comes in from the frame on the left.

Some gorgeous illustrations of Ukrainian Shakespeare by Sergia Yakutovych

(volume here: chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Will..., warning: dubious site)

L: 1 Henry VI; R 3 Henry VI

Blue background with Digital Humanities Course Registry logo and text: put yourself on the map! A map peeks through the text

Would you like to be on the Digital Humanities Course Registry? Map here: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu

Canadian programs/institutions: contact @lauraestill.bsky.social

International: contact your national moderator: dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu/national-mod...

I'm fairly certain that the thermostat controls in my office are part of some psychological experiment. (And how did it pass research ethics?)

From the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social website: From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs (Virtual Session 🌐) Laura Estill, St. Francis Xavier University Richard J. Meek, University of Hull Proverbs offer fertile ways of thinking about questions of shared history and cross-cultural understanding; the relationship between classical and popular culture; rhetoric and pedagogy; authorship, style, and creativity; and adaptation, appropriation, and afterlives. We welcome papers that consider proverbs, sayings, and/or commonplaces in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, their nature and transmission, and how to undertake effective research on early modern proverbs today. * Preference will be given to international members facing travel restrictions.

Registration is open for SAA 2026!
@saaupdates.bsky.social

"From Commonplaces to Databases: The Social Memory of Proverbs" is a virtual session w/ asynchronous components leading up to a virtual meeting sometime during the conference (1-4 April)

shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope - NASA Science Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus,

New moon (of Uranus) just dropped, and I have a very important question: given that the naming scheme for Uranian moons is (mostly) Shakespeare characters, what's the funniest possible Shakespeare character name for this new moon? science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!

My niece has finished her Duolingo Dutch lessons, but she'd like to keep praciticing. Does anyone know of a similar series on another app or podcast on practicing Dutch for Anglophones?

My kid's the one at baseball yelling "a hit! a palpable hit!"

Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…

Introducing: Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture. We explore how proverbs of EM England shaped social values, media, & playwriting—including Shakespeare’s works. Our team is building new frameworks, tools, & resources to better understand how proverbs functioned then & endure still today