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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work?

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July.

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

now in press! 📖 the contributions to this collection are brilliant and a little bit weird (compliment!) & i can’t wait for it to be out in the world. forthcoming 2027… ✨

the table of contents of a collections called SHAKESPEARE AND TEXTUAL FAILURE printed on white computer paper. full text here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/utntr2lzaby23fzfjqhlo/TOC-shakespeare-and-textual-failure.pdf?rlkey=cog3pis71494adnioh3o0h6el&st=m5axwkxt&dl=0

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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Caxton 550 - YouTube

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.

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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who needs endless social media vids, try the dopamine rush of finding a woman hidden in a 1649 imprint!!

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The form will still be set for Open House Chicago if you want to check it out.

Type form for the print on press with a sheet of paper freshly printed.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

The printed letter A set within ornate woodcut border including foliage, two squirrels and a crowned bird.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And I would have gotten away with it* too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids**! *an exact index **inexact printers Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1649) #bookhistory

Printed text reading: “In regard that this Impression passing in Presse through the hands of divers Printers, divers pages are mis-cyphered, and others have none at all, this Index could not be made so exact as it might have been made otherwise.”

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This week! Thursday & Friday! Come think about books & collecting & reading & annotating!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

buying books is a perverse act of hope. that i might find time to read yet another.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

finally someone is speaking out against Big Rare-Books-and-Manuscripts

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

PhD year 2, starting off strong 👉

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So cool! This was an awesome project to see come together, and then get to teach with.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🌻 Curtis's botanical magazine.. London ; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.]. [Source]

Historical botanical illustration showing three yellow sunflower blossoms on long reddish-brown stems with green leaves at the base. Two flowers are fully open, displaying multiple elongated yellow petals with fine brown veining and dark brown, intricate central disk florets. The third flower is viewed from the side, revealing overlapping petals and a dark green, bulbous base beneath the petals. A large leaf with detailed veins is faintly sketched behind the flowers. The image is rendered on aged paper with subtle text in the background, typical of early 19th-century botanical prints.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking about books & publishing from a different perspective? Want to write a review of the new game/trend that foregrounds bookishness? Want to express how the Muppets have influenced your book history pedagogy? Submit a proposal to @sharpnews.bsky.social Features! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A book with an eye in the center walking along on a metal stand

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Finished print: "We need spaces of refusal: to prioritize us safe free protecting each other; recognizing proximity to tech is only technofascism's expl!c!t lure". If we're dreaming futures, why choose a nightmare? <3, Bartleby.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do not dreame it Be it

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s a cruel joke to have to submit seminar papers during Virgo season as a Virgo. There are not enough hours in the day to meet the perfectionism that this moment asks for!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Manicule Manicule Manicule Manicule Manicule Monday #Manicules

Colophon of book printed in London with a pointing hands motif. Four are pointing towards each other with s floral motif in the center. A hand drawn hand appears above, and faintly, below.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love fallen type! I found this example from 1585 when I worked at the Wangensteen.

Full page from Bottoni’s De Morbis Muliebribus (1585), showing fallen type

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

What is it about the printing press that inspires bad metaphors about digital tech?

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who’s got a favorite book/article on feminist and/or queer theory and Shakespeare?

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Reflecting back on this. One consequence of our intensified regime of third-hand consumption of information displacing study is that we are going to have to be more explicit in teaching students that if they want to inquire into a phenomenon they’ll need to identify the appropriate primary sources.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Trying my hand at some linocut! This A is from Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605)

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our medieval manuscripts curator rates every "open book" emoji. 📖

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027

Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects.

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
*Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 10/08/2026

Now on the blog, curator @heatherwolfe.bsky.social shares heavily annotated books in the Folger collection from early modern readers who knew the power of underlining words, adding notes in the margin, and even putting the occasional doodle in what they were reading. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Should we dismantle the collage, catalogue & preserve the fragments individually, so that they can be identified, studied & made accessible to researchers? Or keep the collage intact, recognising it as a museological object in its own right? /2 #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks

Detail of the different printed sheets pasted on the frame, displaying printed text, red-inked ornaments, copperplate engravings, and music print.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ghosts have always entered the bibliographic record and it’s always been our job to use the physical evidence to extinguish them. Automatically generating them without a care is anathema.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Might make this thread into a between-term reading list!

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Guess it’s time to plan another visit for 2027! 😁

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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hiring a new full-time colleague in the School of Library and Information Science in Iowa. Particularly well-suited (but not limited) to special collections librarians or academic library instruction librarians who want to switch to full-time teaching. 📜 jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Might need to issue a formal apology to dozens of student workers… 😬

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Obsessed with these early modern memento mori woodcuts specifically for printers. Leave setting thy page, spent is thine age! 💀

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I fucking love the LIBRARY, man. I go to a new town and then I go to its library, where I have everything I need.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Nothing beats talking with someone who has just read the same book as you.

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.

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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Top-tier episode of a really excellent podcast! My 1.5 hr commute thanks you @americanmedieval.bsky.social 🙏

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Christopher Nolan's The Blazing World.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey sexy 😍

The front opening of a manuscript in 15th c binding, with the thongs and wood boards visible. An older manuscript has been used as an endpaper and the pigment has transferred to the board. The edges of the leather covering and a library label are also visible on the board

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I HAVE NEWS! You asked, and now it’s time for me to answer! This August, I’m teaching a crash course on creative nonfiction!! We will meet once a week over zoom and students will have access to the recorded sessions afterwards! Go here for more info: