Emily F Brooks

New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts

Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

Our last grad student working group meeting of the semester! Join us this Thurs 12/4 for a discussion with @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jacquesanglais.bsky.social, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social, and Emily Hammer about DH work and the job market 💼

The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...

Infographic reading: Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?, tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog, digital methods for the humanities, programminghistorian.org

🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?

Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.

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📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026

#CallForPapers

I also printed the front of these digital humanities cards afterward #DHmakes

ELO (un)supervised logo designed by PD Edgar

We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly

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JOB POSTING!

Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu

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three pages playing with three different styles - Archie, street angles and tales from the crypt

three strips - playing with styles of three different cartoonists, Jim Davis, Stephan Pastis, and Charles Schulz

three pages of comics paying home to three styles - Tillie Walden, Tatsuki Fujimoto, Schulz

one page, three styles Bill Watterson Raina Telgemeier and Marnie Galloway

In my intro Making course, a favorite project, students pick 3 comics authors that inspire, influence, aspire to be like to mimic for a comic about themselves for "autobiographical influences". Some stellar examples from this time around 1/3

For folks who follow me from PhillyDH days...
There will be an informal get together of Philly based digital humanities folks at Victory Brewing Company, on the Ben Franklin Pkwy, starting ca 5:30. Organized by Matt Shoemaker.

A piece of butcher paper with 11 values and how kids are going to enact them, written in different colors

Yarn cut into long pieces, hanging over a table in a colorful classroom

A cardboard loom with three different yarns on it

Bringing #DHmakes to the local second grader's class today! I worked with their teacher for each kid to mark one thing from their class pledge that they did each day last week. Each kid will have their own weaving (data or otherwise) project & they'll weave class pledge data together.

Photo of a red brick wall displaying a 4 x 4 grid of small (about 3" square) aqua and black art prints of trees, sea creatures, and more, under a title print that says "TetraPak Prints"

Photo of a red brick wall displaying a long strip of material printed in aqua and black with the backwards words "TetraPak Prints"; a tab at the bottom of the strip says "LIFT to see back of printing plate"

Photo of a red brick wall displaying a long strip of material printed in aqua and black with the backwards words "TetraPak Prints"; a tab at the bottom of the strip says "LIFT to see back of printing plate" and has been lifted to show the back of that printing plate is just a strip of chicken broth carton material

Photo of an exhibit label on a red brick wall. It says "Tetra Pak Printmaking The following sampling of prints were made by visitors to our Book Arts Demonstration Day held during the Virginia Festival of the Book in March of 2025. We made printing plates cut out of Tetra Pak, a material commonly used for packaging food such as broth, oat milk, soups and more. Guests were invited to "draw" on a piece of Tetra Pak with a pointed awl. Each plate was then inked, wiped clean of excess ink, and run through a small etching press with a dampened sheet of watercolor paper to produce a print. Tetra Pak printing has become quite popular as a fast, affordable and eco-friendly method of printmaking. Look for classes and demos at Virginia Book Arts in the coming year."

Seen at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Liz Schneiders & students' printing using just tetrapaks (eg broth & oat milks cartons!) & tiny plastic Sizzix craft/scrapbooker presses or etching presses #DHmakes

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with bright green ink. It says "we can be / SOFT & BRAVE / SiLLY & RIGHT" over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents.

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with bright green ink. It says "HOPE comes from us." over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents.

Photo of a letterpress press bed with a print at one end on white paper with bright green ink. It says "HOPE comes from us." over an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents. At the other end of the press you can see the rollers and wood type that made the print inked in green.

Closeup photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with bright green ink. It shows an image printed using a lasercut wood block made from @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog standing up to evil government agents.

I got one of the wood lasercut blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's to print better: "We can be soft & brave / silly & right" and "hope comes from us" #DHmakes

Title page of the moon bible, which is embossed in the moon tactile code. It says that it is volume one of three and that it was published by the Moon Society, a branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London.

The opening page in the moon bible, which just says "moon" repeatedly across the whole page, embossed in the moon tactile code.

A close-up of the interior spine and margin on a page, which shows the running head that is embossed vertically in the inside margin rather than at the top of the page. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code.

A close-up of the outside margin and top right corner of a recto page, which shows a page number in the very top corner. It also shows parantheses-like markers at the edge of the page, which are used to guide the finger as you read lines back-and-forth. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code.

The Bruce Peel special collections library at UAlberta recently acquired a Bible in moon, and I'm so excited—you might even say that I'm over the moon about it.

It's a 1960s reproduction of a mid-1800s volume (moon was invented in the 1840s). Unfortunately. It's only volume 1 (of 3).

Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:

A white page which says 'Goodnight nobody' at the bottom in black type. From Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon (1947), illustrated by Clement Hurd.

Final double-page spread from Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are. It's completely blank, apart from 'and it was still hot.' in black type in the lower left corner of the verso

Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends

A letterpress poster in wood type reading: LUDDITES RESIST OBNOXIOUS TECHNOLOGY

Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org

Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

BOOKBEETLE BookBeetle Desktop Letterpress Selling the BookBeetle desktop printing press for letterpress, linoleum cuts, and wedding invitations.

. @josefbeery.bsky.social talks how he ended up designing the BookBeetle, a tabletop Common Press (the kind of press used to print the Declaration of Independence) replica screw press. Wanted to focus on teaching K-12 classrooms about printing history+creativity, so designed for safety+accessibility

You have an PhD in #DigitalHumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #PostDoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #DHGraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...

Letterpressy responses to AI hype/harm: @markalanmattes.bsky.social's new series (QT'd); got @starshapedpress.bsky.social's "made with human intelligence" postcard club print this past week (bsky.app/profile/star...) & @umdbooklab.bsky.social's "small language models made here" back in May #DHmakes

Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc

An iron frame printing press in an academic building with a just printed broadside on it.

A broadside on white paper and blue type that reads “MOVABLE TYPE NOT AI HYPE!”

A pile of drying letterpress broadsides. They read MOVABLE TYPE NOT AI HYPE

This morning at the press.

ICYMI for Banned Books week SaraGrace Stefan and I shared @us.theconversation.com our analysis of cover images for every book banned in public schools and libraries in the 2021-2022 school year. Thanks to @mellon.org for their support, and to co-PI @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, and all our student workers

A white female student uses purple and pink dry erase markers to storyboard her mapping project. Her laptop sits on the table displaying the project assignment and her notes are on her phone in her lap

Further proof that the best tech in our #DigitalHumanities Center = our writable tables. Here’s a student planning their StoryMap

Original artwork that mimics the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, with the marines replaced by protesters in inflatable animal costumes. The Statue of Liberty and a city landscape are in the background.

Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.