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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 16/03/2026

One of our SHARPIES highlights is three keynote events, featuring emerging and established scholars who, together, embody our inclusive approach to book history in their diversity of objects, geographical and historical focus, and methods. @bethdriscoll.bsky.social

Flyer for three SHARPIES events: Ruthie Block's "'Stacker/Finder/Keeper'": Mayme Clayton and the Itinerant Life of Black Books" on Tuesday, July 7 @ 2:30 UTC, Beth Driscoll's "What Contemporary Readers Do: A Spoken Word Interactive Video Game Experience" on Wednesday, July 8 @ 6:30am UTC, and Mark Lester & Mark Letteney's "Ancient Book History: What Can We Learn by Studying Material Transmission and Transformation in the Ancient Mediterranean?" Wednesday, July 8 @ 7:30pm UTC

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 16/03/2026

Registration is now open! And all events are free for SHARP members. Depending on your employment status and location, membership is between $55 and $100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

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SHARPIES: A Global Book History Festival

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 09/03/2026

👀 Wow! We have over 100 registrants in our first week of registration! Take a look at what's going on over at the SHARPIES website and get in touch if you have any questions about how to join us in July! sharpweb.org/conferences/...

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SHARPIES 2026 Program – SHARPweb

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I enjoyed presenting on children's Art History picture books this morning. It's kickstarted an exciting new direction for my research :) Thanks to @jenniegouck.bsky.social for organizing the 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature' #kidlit conference!

Slide with white text reversed out of black background saying Mothers of the Avant-Garde: Depictions of Mothering in Children's Art History Picture Books Amanda Lastoria, PhD

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Registration for online #kidlit conference 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering' is open! indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/ I'll present 'Mothers of the Avant-Garde: Depictions of Mothering in Children’s Art History Picture Books'. Thx @jenniegouck.bsky.social at Uni of Münster for organizing!

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thanks to @drbecca.bsky.social I'm delighted to have written the Publishing Industry chapter in new undergrad textbook Children's Literature and Culture: An Intro. It's published by Routledge, where I had my first proper job in publishing :) www.routledge.com/Childrens-Li... #kidlit #bookpublishing

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Children’s Literature and Culture: An Introduction

Children’s Literature and Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through children’s literature. Children’s literature has long been used as a mechanism by whic...

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 15/07/2025

🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...

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Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History | Stanford University Press

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect.

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I received and returned proofs of my chapter on #kidlit #bookpublishing in less than 2hrs – hooray for one of the best stages of publishing!

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 26/03/2025

If you are a member of SHARP, consider standing for our Treasurer position! Get in touch to learn more. Nominations are due by April 7th. sharpweb.org/about/office...

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SHARP Officer Position Descriptions – SHARPweb

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

i submitted 2.5 months early! i was slated to present on class, race & gender in designs of posthumous editions of wonderland at SHARP last year. unfortunately, i had to back out, so this would be a great venue for finally sharing that work!

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Hot off the press! I'm pleased to have contributed a chapter – 'Reflections on Book Publishing Strategies: A Guide to Types of Editions of the Alice Books' – alongside brilliant Carrollians. Thx to @frankendodo.bsky.social and Justine Houyaux for wrangling us!

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Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Here comes my first post ... I won an Excellence in Teaching Award from Simon Fraser University for teaching Publishing grads and undergrads. It was a tougher-than-usual semester to be a sessional, so it's nice to wrap it up with an award!

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