Abigail Moreshead

At #sharp2025 and just enjoyed a lovely presentation by @amoreshead.bsky.social about the credibility book case and really enjoyed the distinctions between public and private roles for bookcases and books themselves.

The paperback (Gollancz 1979; Flamingo ed., 1986) containing the bookplate I posted yesterday features a delightful illustration by Susan Moxley, whose name you have to hunt to find on the (back) cover

Still, a step up from the anonymous illustrators of the c19… #womenmakingbooks

A spot of bookish aesthetic and historical fun in these hard times: bookplate of historian Diane Worzala (1934-2007), which I discovered in an ILL from the UW Madison library.

I want one.

Looking for books/articles on the current generation of college students, without oversimplification or "kids these days" vibes. Every time I email a student, I wonder "Who are these people? How do they view the world?" Most importantly, as their professor, how do I engage them?

I know our collective consciousness can only handle so much, but we need to talk about Google news alerts: namely, what happens to the results when the book illustrator you study shares a name with an AI startup founder... #bookstudies #illustrationstudies

Rewarding to see my dissertation, “The Women’s Wood Engraving Revival and Its Global Impact (1912-1960)” included in the SHARP bibliography of book history theses/dissertations, alongside a fascinating array of global scholarship: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

T&T alum @amoreshead.bsky.social and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social recently published "Stand with the Banned: Credibility bias and the Fetishization of the "Classic" Banned Books on Etsy." Check it out! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Had a great time participating in @ucftandt.bsky.social #DayofDH2024, discussing my research on women illustrators and the wood engraving revival. Nothing thrills me like talking about women as middlebrow cultural creators, especially among such a rich #DH research community!

I’ve taken up Arts & Crafts Movement-inspired coloring of late. Don’t tell William Morris’s ghost that the pages were digital downloads.

Hoping to get back into oil painting in 2025, but this is definitely a less messy alternative 😊

Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

“The Case of Anachronistic Authorship in the Age of Internet Commerce; Or How King David Missed Out by Not Having an Amazon Profile.”

Imagine my surprised as I peruse fancy hardback classics on Amazon to discover authorship of the B&N edition of the Psalms attributed to … Arthur Conan Doyle. 🫣🧐

I suppose there’s a case to be made for Sherlock as “decorative and durable religious wisdom in the palm of your hand”…?

Dear followers, old and new. Here is one of my favourite illustrations (by Frederick Sandys). I’m interested in all things Victorian, books, pictures — and (life after) death/consciousness

One of my favorite things about ILL books (especially old ones): vintage book plates.

I wonder if there are any scholars talking about how some of these titles are represented in "bookish" merchandise 😏

The irony of AI accurately depicting my face when I read another student assignment written by AI....

Teaching English Lit I (online/asynch) in spring and planning to incorporate AI into discussions (i.e. students compare chatGPT response to prompt to their response or write a prompt to input themselves, etc). Looking for any suggestions/warnings on teaching literature with AI? Thanks in advance!

T&T congratulates faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and alum @amoreshead.bsky.social on their recent article "Knitting the in_visible: data-driven craftivism as feminist resistance" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I had the pleasure of working on Johnson's Dictionary Online during my PhD. They're currently doing a series of posts on gendered (and often long-forgotten nouns) ending in -ess. The findings are quirky and fascinating, especially if you enjoy lexicography/history of English. Give them a follow!

Knitting the in_visible: data-driven craftivism as feminist resistance Feminist scholars are drawing attention to how conventional forms of data representation fail to make visible the experiences of women and marginalized communities. While the problem of reinscribin...

My new collaboration with @amoreshead.bsky.social "Knitting the in_visible," exploring textile data representation as feminist / craftivist making, is up today in the Journal of Gender Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....