Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller
@nicolekeller.bsky.social
part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Attention ABO readers! Issue 16.1 (2026) dropped last week. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities
Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025. Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
DH Awards 2025 – Call For Nominations | Digital Humanities Awards
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Don’t miss out, ABO readers! Mona Narain, our scholarship editor, will speak on Charlotte Smith and Phillis Wheatley Peters' poetry at the next Columbia Seminar in #18C European Culture meeting this Thursday, 2/19, at 7:00pm (Eastern). Zoom link: yeshiva-university.zoom.us/j/95230908037 Abstract 👇.
I'm very happy @abojournal.bsky.social's #DH section is up and running again! Thanks to @allisonmuri.bsky.social for reflecting on The Grub Street Project's 20th anniversary and to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social for reviewing @books-borrowing.bsky.social!
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts@abojournal.bsky.social · 7mo agoAttention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities
I'm giving a talk for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada on Nov. 12: explora.alliancecan.ca/events/digit.... All welcome to register!
Digital Fragility, Sustainability, and Longevity, or Whatever Happened to the Internet Shakespeare Editions?
<p>In December 2018, the Internet Shakespeare Editions server failed. In April 2020, the Shakespeare Quartos Archive was withdrawn from its Bodleian host. In October 2023, the cyberattack on the Briti...
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Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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Attention #Defoe scholars! Just under a month to submit your abstracts for our sponsored #ASECS2026 panel, “Weather, Climate, and the Anthropocene in Daniel Defoe." Panel description👇 asecs.org/sessions2026... Please submit and share! Looking forward to reading your brilliant abstracts! #18C #C18
I'm really proud of the work of @bibliowingate.bsky.social and the Queer Book History and Bibliography (of which I was a member). This is an invaluable resource. And @literaturegeek.bsky.social's zine is amazing. Everyone should print copies and leave them around their local libraries!
Zine Alert: @literaturegeek.bsky.social has curated and designed such a beautiful, important resource to supplement @sharpnews.bsky.social's LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography!
I also want to thank the seventeen (17!!) volunteer guest bibliographers for collaborating on my last bibliography! This was such a team effort, and it would not have turned out the way it did without our conversations and collective labor!
I'm excited to share that the @sharpnews.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is live! I learned so much from @bibliowingate.bsky.social (and fellow project contributors) throughout the compilation process. Please use and share! (And there's a fab zine, which merits its own post...)
Alex Wingate@bibliowingate.bsky.social · last yr.The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!
DSC: Thoughts on AI and DH
We published what might turn into a controversial DSC book on AI, which will probably bring up a lot of thoughts and feelings from the DH community. We're already planning a follow-up book where were ...
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You can contribute to the "Save Our Signs" project by taking photos of signage, markers, and memorials at National Park Service sites and sharing them here: www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...
We love our National Parks. Help us #SaveOurSigns
We need your help to #SaveOurSigns
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404 Media@404media.co · last yr.'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It 🔗 www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
I was already bummed to miss the Defoe conference, and these pics certainly aren't helping! See y'all in 2027!
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️@megandanielle.bsky.social · last yr.Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
Mathematician, astronomer Roger Cotes was born 10 July 1682 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/i...
“If he had lived, we might have known something”
The title of this post is Newton’s rather surprising comment on hearing of the early death of the Cambridge mathematician Roger Cotes at the age of 33 in 1716. I say rather surprising, as Newton wa…
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Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade). ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...
Issue 21.1 • Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy and Gender • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing! cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe
Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries
Our conference programme is live (overview 👇)! Download the full doc: www.defoesociety.org/wp-content/u... See you all in the UK next month! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy
#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
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Presidential Panel abstract deadline extended to *May 15*! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #C18 #18thC
The Defoe Society@defoesociety.bsky.social · last yr.Katherine Ellison is organizing a Presidential Panel at our upcoming conference on the theme of “Endings.” Please email her with your abstracts by April 30. Details in KE’s message 👇 Looking forward to your ideas! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
![Bingo card with conference cliches for the 2026 RSA conference
Boxes separated by semicolons:
First row: Statement shoes; Presenter goes over time by more than 5 minutes; Person enters room, realizes it’s the wrong session and leaves; Enthusiastic meeting between conference buds that have not seen each other in forever; Magnet from bookseller vendor
Second row: The overladen scholar (carrying drink, multiple coats and bags); See familiar face…forgot their name; Someone taking notes with hotel stationery;Uncontrollable coughing or sneezing from an audience member; Elbow patches
Third row: Archive that is not an archive (aka Derridian archive); Q&A becomes debate between 1 panelist and 1 audience member; FREE SPACE “More of a comment than a question…”; RSA name tags in the wild (outside of hotel); Slide with picture of archival material or rare book
Fourth row: Standing room only session; More than 50% of audience gets up and leaves during Q&A; Any non-English language quote without a translation; “As my mentor/advisor, [name drop] would say…”; Grad student giving their first RSA presentation
Fifth row: “Have you read…?”; Statement raincoat or umbrella; Includes social media handle in presentation; Technology issue; Forgot breakfast, eating granola bar in a corner](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uinvl5vaekaxehv2rerf2pvu/bafkreihrdww43j6emngf2tn2rmruyv55skb4wtkru5dhbsn2mrr6mghbdy)
