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@PennEnglish professor currently working on weird histories of computing & books printed in prisons. still a pointy-nosed punk.
Apr 7, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
I'm excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet's 17th-century commonplace book, held at @MorganLibrary.

@zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet's source texts.
digitalbookhistory.com/colletscommonp… screenshot of the digital e... Collet was a member of the religious household at Little Gidding ca. 1630s. Her commonplace book is remarkably structured: one half scripture excerpts, organized by topic, the other half secular excerpts organized under the same topics. More about it here: digitalbookhistory.com/colletscommonp…
Feb 11, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
It strikes me that we — advisors, academics with good positions, tenure — can't simultaneously push PhD students to "make a name" on social media, provide them with little/no support for doing so, then snidely deride those who dare to put their ideas, however half-baked, online. The whole hiring and publishing economy has been shifted by 2010s-era blogging and Twitter. I and probably you have had professional opportunities we would not have without social media. Those coming up in this brutal profession see that.