Suzanne graduated with a PhD in English Literature in 2021 with a thesis about the role of the internet in the 21stc digital literary sphere supervised by Anouk Lang (@aelang.bsky.social). While working @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, she developed her thesis into a full-length monograph.

How do you get from PhD thesis to monograph? We talk to graduate Dr Suzanne Black whose book Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction has just been published by LSU Press https://llc.ed.ac.uk/news/from-thesis-to-monograph-suzanne-r-black

From thesis to monograph | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture

Graduate Suzanne R Black talks to us about developing her PhD into a new book.

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These letterpress prints are 🔥 and I feel like @kateai.bsky.social would appreciate them

Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress.com · 2mo ago

Most of the letterpress prints in this roundup 🧵 of what I completed mid-May through June (everything after early May's #pizzapress!) are available in my store (store.wolfproofpress.com) if you'd like an art for you or a friend. Photos from my inky printing process:

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

I'm biased but there's an incredible Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer (DH RSE) job going at the British Library, working with the Digital Research team, curators and more ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web... #JobFairy #RSEs #JobKlaxon

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Absolutely this on the lasting effects, networks & friendships built through DH summer schools (for me this was DHSI, but the European Summer School is closer to home for those of us on the other side of the pond). I'm looking forward to teaching the Critical AI workshop from 13-17 July: do apply!

Artjoms Šeļa@artjomshl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ESU DH in Leipzig had a lasting effect on my scholarly path: it gives access to networks that will be important for years. It builds friendships. It runs for two weeks, offering that tipping-point exposure to methods and skills that molds a DH-er A reminder to apply and share the call!

reading computer science journals from the 1950s this morning, which I recommend as a soothing antidote to AI hype, I found what might be the earliest published instance of "doge" in a computing context (1959)

I'm giving a talk on literary theory, LLMs and the circulation of affect this Thursday, 30 April, at @camdighum.bsky.social www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41386/. If you're in/near Cambridge and do critical AI, DH, digital culture/media/lit etc I'd love to chat, so please come along! 5pm, English Faculty

Literary Theory Post-GPT: Large Language Models and Affective Circulation - CDH

Speaker Dr Anouk Lang, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Edinburgh Anouk Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the Un...

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Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes

Getting 'AI Ready' with Textiles

No computers required!

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New book from the #DataSittersClub about AI, ethics, and digital humanities, by me & @readywriting.bsky.social! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc24/ Includes some of the responses we got to our "what do you think of AI & DH?" survey, so scroll to the end for those

DSC #24: Anouk and the AI Surprise - The Data-Sitters Club

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My scholarly org out there trolling DOGE with the official MLA Style Guide on citing a deposition. For example... “Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 1) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH.” YouTube, uploaded by ModernLanguageAssoc, 7 Mar. 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-QvaJ_QJk.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sources matter! The MLA Style Center's latest post shows how to cite a deposition:

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Forming Your Corpus

You need 'stuff' to do DH

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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy released a static site generator, Polybius github.com/shawngraham/..., which lets you visualise different aspects of a dataset, and I tried it on some correspondence between Australian women writers aelang.github.io/letters/. Thanks Shawn!

GitHub - shawngraham/polybius: static site generator for historical data; use the online editor

static site generator for historical data; use the online editor - shawngraham/polybius

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I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace

Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...

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Wow, what a resource for AI literacy! Thank you @miriamposner.com! (and HT @suzannerblack.bsky.social)

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · last yr.

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins... H/t @naitian.org for the link

institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · last yr.

can't wait til they actually upload the dataset to go with this one arxiv.org/abs/2506.08300

Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · last yr.

The #DataSittersClub is back and we're talking zines! @readywriting.bsky.social checks out a collection of handmade books (manuscripts to zines), and tries making 4 zines in 5 days out of earlier DSC books! We also interview tech zine pros @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines!

Can confirm @anasalter.bsky.social's game is hilarious ("Decolonize the mainframe"). Plus the retro styling of the graphics is *chef's kiss*. We were treated to a demo of distant coding too in which, in about 3 and a half minutes, they built the basics of an escape room text adventure game #ACH2025

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · last yr.

This game is incredible -- a playful commentary on higher ed admin and a great model of critical making and #DHmakes. Come join us in WorkAdventure to get a tour (we're in 13C) and then try it out yourself! #ACH2025

This zine, I mean DSC book, has everything: illuminated medieval manuscripts, "some pretty cool art books about surveillance, censorship, and oppression" including this banger from Anne Covell annecovell.com/artist-books..., kid-kits as print culture ... [contd]

Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · last yr.

Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍

Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍

Open Access now available for "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities" ed. @gabrielh.bsky.social , Anouk Lang, & Simon Appleford proud to have a chapter in this fine volume! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/digital...

Something I don't understand is: why can't LLMs write novel-length fiction yet? They've got the context length for it. And new models seem capable of the multi-hop reasoning required for plot. So why hasn't anyone demoed a model that can write long interesting stories? I do have a theory ... +

Deleted old post that had the wrong time! If you're local please join us for the roundtable March 18th at 12:00. We will have copies of the collection to give out to graduate students. cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve...

DH Panel: Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities

Join the Scholars' Lab & the Digital Humanities Center for an event celebrating the launch of Digital Futures of Graduate Studies, a new edited collection from the University of...

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