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Lisa Maruca

@lmaruca.bsky.social
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C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.

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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The fact that this article comes out a day after the NCTE’s termination of CCCC (a major conference focused on English and Communication), makes it clear that Corporate America is waging war on the Humanities. Declaring war on the Humanities is part of the authoritarian fascist’s playbook.
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Jody Shipka @jshipka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
RIP April 1, 1949-July 24, 2026 #CCCC #4C
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Important petition re CCCC "If you are currently a CCCC member, we ask that you commit to cancelling your NCTE membership should these changes be made." Petition: "Join us in calling on the NCTE to halt any actions leading to the dissolution of the CCCC member group." www.change.org/p/halt-disso...
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Halt Dissolution of CCCC and Call for Transparency from NCTE #SaveCCCC
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Wow! Next year’s @sharpweb.org conference will be in Pretoria, South Africa in early July 2027! 🤩 #SHARPIES26
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mark Lester encouraging us to look in both directions from our normal period (past/future) for comparisons/inspiration is right on the money. This is what I love about book history and SHARP, you hear/read research on a completely different area/period, and it totally changes your work #SHARPIES26
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Colleen Barrett @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Showing off a bookseller catalog might be one of the fastest ways to get me really excited about a presentation, so looking forward to reading what Ruthie Block writes in the future. #SHARPIES26
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Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Such a diverse array of time periods, geographies, and genres led to a very productive conversation. This has been so much fun to attend and participate in! #SHARPIES26
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Do I know anyone with remote access to the Stationers' Company archive who'd be willing to look up a couple of references for me? @sharpweb.org
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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s the first day of our conference on Print and Education! We are beginning with a mixture of online and in‑person papers. You can follow along at #USTC26
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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 15/06/2026
Are you interested in reading and readers? Join us July 7-9 for the SHARPIES, our inaugural global book history festival! Registration is free for SHARP members. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... And if you aren't a SHARP member, joining is easy! sharpweb.org/membership/
What Contemporary Readers Do: A Spoken Word Interactive Video Game Experience, a keynote address by Beth Driscoll, Wednesday, July 8 @ 6:30am UTC
Imagining Readers: A Conversation, hosted by Leah Henrickson, July 8 @ 8am UTC
Youth Reading: A Conversation, hosted by Lisa Maruca, July 8 @ 4:30pm UTC
A Conversation on the Technologies of Reading, Adrian Johns and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay interviewed by Hwisang Cho, July 9 @ 4pm UTC
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
OMG my Romantic Textualities special issue ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ is OUT www.romtext.org.uk/issues/issue...
Front cover featuring the frontispiece to Frankenstein - the undergraduate from Hell - abandoning his experiment
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/04/2026
Q: What does the Great War Pig do? A: Whatever He wants. The Pig does not answer to man’s law, unless we remember that, in fact, he does. With hooves of iron, He treads upon the earth, breathing pestilence and supping upon the blood of the innocent.
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Here at H&R Block, It’s Our Pleasure to Answer Your Questions About How We Funnel Your Tax Dollars Into the Gullet of the Great War Pig
“While H&R Block does not endorse the activities of the Great War Pig, we must feed Him.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Such an impressive group of finalists for the @sharpweb.org book history prize… …and extra congratulations to prize recipient Martin Paul Eve for his “Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History”! #SHARP2025
Screen of 13 book covers with presenter with mic speaking below the screen
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10/07/2025
Wow! I won the SHARP Book History Prize for my last book with Stanford University Press, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History!
A slide featuring the book cover, showing that I had won
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#SHARP2025 people! If you use #BookHistory in your posts, it will show up in the Book History feed (which you should also add to your feeds!) bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Excellent first #SHARP2025 keynote by Katie Mitchell, author of “Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores.” Mitchell conducted deep research in archives & communities, & interviewed 1960s+ bookstore owners & their families. Fascinating & varied stories! www.prosetothepeople.com
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Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell
Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell is a visual homage to Black bookstores in the United States. Prose to the People chronicles the Black bookstore's past and present lives by combining narrative pr...
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Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The BOOK HISTORY editors are here in Rochester at the @sharpweb.org conference and ready to answer your questions or help you with any issues you might have missed! #bookhistory #sharp2025
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
nothing has made me lose more hope for the future recently than seeing how many people who claim left wing politics were unable to pass the "is it ethical to stay on the nazi brainwashing site" test. smallest possible sacrifice being asked, and so many people can't even manage it.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is the book! Check it out. #SHARP2025
Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell book cover
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
And this is what keynotes are for! 💖 Answering my (recurring) question about working with non-dead people, Katie Mitchell has provided wonderful advice about working on dead people: - you need to love them - you need to treat them like they are still alive to be able to tell their story #SHARP2025
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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Make sure to tag us in your @sharpweb.org Rochester posts! We wanna see it what ya'll are up to! Safe travels to everyone heading to Rochester. We hope you have a blast!! #BookHistory #SHARP2025
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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 08/07/2025
#sharp2025 first keynote is Katie Mitchell's Prose to the People, an incredible book of Black book history
book cover for prose to the people
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon! #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is dark
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
i have come to love all the old grandmas with their homemade signs about protecting democracy or immigrants. it's so heartwarming. goals honestly
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print! Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...
The gorgeous front cover of Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas. It shows a pixelated cursor half of it is made of binding stitches. The spines of ten copies of the book.
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you work at a university remind your bosses that there's no such thing as an illegal protest.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Trump's Assault on Social Security
The plan to cut America's most successful safety net program in half
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Virginia Grassroots Coalition - Climate @vgcclimate.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Legislation HB2037 (Bulova) progressed to the Governor's desk. ALLOW localities to require Solar canopies! #DillonRuleState
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Letter: Solar canopies over parking lots are a win-win
Michael Shank’s Feb. 7 column ("Despite assault on clean energy, the future remains bright for solar") notes that location choices for solar power are critical. The recently passed bill promoting
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✨🦋Jeannette Jaybird🦋✨ @jeannettejaybird.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Escarbille @escarbille.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In France, we have a specialty. We like to cut off crowned heads. We can help you.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
Screen shot, which reads, As required by the Administration’s Executive Orders, NEH awards may not be used for the following purposes:  promotion of gender ideology;  
promotion of discriminatory equity ideology;  
support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities; or  
environmental justice initiatives or activities.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/02/2025
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/02/2025
Cars were the worst invention in human history and I cannot be moved off that opinion
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The folks overseeing the General Services Administration have disabled the spoon emoji on its videoconferencing platform because employees were using the symbol yesterday to mock the Elon Musk-influenced "Fork in the Road" resignation offer. Goodnight 🥄.
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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's a small consolation in these dark times, but I've come as close as I ever have to crafting a history of the book syllabus that combines the traditional aspects of the discipline that I love with the new and expansive aspects of the discipline that I also love: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e11aa...
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 24/01/2025
Right out of the gate, President Trump has made a flurry of (mostly bad) moves on energy & environmental issues. Some are worth paying attention to, and some aren't. Here's a great roundup by @ameliadavidson.bsky.social, & we've got some thoughts... 🧵 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Cheat sheet: Trump’s executive orders on energy and the environment, all in one place
Trump’s flurry of first-day executive orders included the declaration of an “energy emergency” and the rollback of scores of previous presidents’ environmental initiatives.
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Virginia Grassroots Coalition - Climate @vgcclimate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Community Access to Renewable Energy bills in Senate Committee Friday afternoon. Let your representatives hear your support for SB1040 (Van Valkenburg) The Distributed Generation Expansion Act SB1100 (Hashmi) The Community Energy Act: Virtual Power Plants actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask Virginia Lawmakers to Support Clean Resilient Power
Why is this important? These bills are a much-needed step to make Virginia’s power grid cleaner, more resilient, and more efficient by smartly using distributed energy technologies - such as rooftop ...
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Christmas lights’ ability to sit around and do absolutely nothing all year and still come out of it a complete mess is something I can really relate to
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🚨 2 weeks to go 🚨 The School of Advanced Study has launched a new Public Humanities Fellowship! The Fellowship seeks to foster new ideas around public #humanities and connect creative approaches to the public value of #research. Apply by 6 December: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...
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Public Humanities Fellowship
Our Public Humanities Fellowship stimulates new ideas and conversations around public humanities.
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My student is interested in material related to learning to write for her final medieval manuscripts project—we’ve been thinking about primers and alphabet “pen trials”, but we’re having a hard time finding any digitised manuscripts that fit the bill. Does anyone have any suggestions? #medievalsky
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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I learned a little bit ago that my research won the 2024 Society of Early Americanists Essay Award. The competition is in memory of my late colleague, Sarah Schuetze, a friend and generous reader of the work when we were fellows in Philly years ago. #c18 #c19 #NativeAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
This headline stack is one for the time capsule. First, analyzing Harris's message discipline, which is common to normie politicians, as if it's uniquely revealing and shifty. Second, framing Trump's openly racist, completely dishonest stump rhetoric as if it's quirky and full of subtle meaning.
Top headline: "In Interviews, Kamala Harris Continues to Bob and Weave. Her media swing showed how she often responds to uncomfortable questions by acknowledging them, yet not fully answering them."

Second headline: "In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics."
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
FSU professor awarded prestigious fellowship to study #Indigenous #religious #history and texts Book project explores how Cherokee citizens used the #printing press to create and distribute religious literature during the forced Cherokee migration news.fsu.edu/news/ar...
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FSU professor awarded prestigious fellowship to study Indigenous religious history and texts - Florida State University News
A Florida State University scholar of religious studies has earned a prestigious fellowship from the National Humanities Center (NHC) to […]
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