Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑 📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate @CarnegieMellon
Pittsburgh, PA
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Delighted to report that my first publication is out with Shakespeare Quarterly! Co-authored with @lizzydeeter and the @print_and_prob research team:
"Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio?"
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Calling scholars of #earlymodernwomen! Whether you're working on representations, histories, labor, or cultural afterlives, consider submitting to my #cfp for @RSAorg's conference in San Francisco #RenSA26. Please share widely!
ALT A digital call-for-papers flier titled “Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives.” The flier invites proposals for a panel exploring how early modern women were represented and imagined across genres and cultures. It poses questions about gender, race, class, authority, and empire in early modern texts and welcomes papers on literary and historical figures, print culture, and archival recovery. Submission deadline is August 1, 2025. Abstracts (max 250 words), a short bio, and CV should be sent to Laura DeLuca at [email protected].
Can digitization preserve the past, or does it merely reinvent it? My latest article traces the metadata anomalies and hidden labor that haunt one digital surrogate: Thomas May’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra. Check it out here: doi.org/10.16995/dscn.11108
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This title is just too good not be shared: "Psyche Served in Her Bath by Nymphs She Cannot See" c. 1530-1540 (Art Institute Chicago)
Thrilled to be giving a lightning talk today at 1:30pm:
“Recovering the RenAIssance: Using Computational Bibliography to Reconstruct the Histories of Early Modern Women in Print Culture”
for the Lightning Talk series, “The RenAIssance" hosted by @RSAorg: rsa.org/events/EventDetails.…
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Woman Reading, c. 1606–69 Rembrandt van Rijn (Met Museum)
It looks that she's enjoying her text.
Our new digital humanities article, which I’ve authored alongside my colleagues across @English_CMU and @CMU_StatDS, is out!
What happens when students offload writing about data to AI?
Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/26939169.202…
Found a 1959 Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans in a used bookstore. Inside, a woman named Ann Hamilton signed the first page and declared: “A pretty boring book.” The bookseller said it had been sitting there for over a year. I bought it immediately.
ALT Cover of the 1959 edition of Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans.
ALT First page of the book with a handwritten name at the top: “Ann Hamilton.” At the bottom of the page, in the same cursive handwriting, it reads: “A pretty boring book.”
Found my journal back home from when I was 8 years old, where I write about having a “moment of inspiration” from “Shakespear.” Now, I conduct research on early modern drama as a PhD candidate. I’m not crying, you are.
Grateful to have co-chaired this incredible conference!
With a theme of "The Archive," and consisting of 63 presentations from 70 presenters representing 55 institutions across 13 countries and 24 states, the 5th Bridges and Borders conference was a success!
Read the full recap here: facebook.com/share/p/1JprMnR…
ALT image of conference co-chairs Laura Deluca and Elizabeth Dieterich
ALT Image of moderator Ed Simon
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Nine heads of women with different headdresses, 1546 Heinrich Vogtherr (Musée du Louvre)
Thrilled to share my first single-authored publication! My review of @NdiayeNoemie's groundbreaking monograph, Scripts of Blackness, is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. This phenomenal work has shaped my thinking about race in early modern drama.
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The book publishes work from some fantastic scholars: @Murphx @ZacharyLesser @roaringgirle @TaraLLyons @ChrisVVarren @CMKeithW @LauraSDeLuca & others blissfully free of Twitter’s clutches
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A late entry for #Folio400! I have a book due out in May. It’s not exactly an exhibition catalog, but its chapters reflect the themes of the exhibition now on @FrickPittsburgh featuring CMU’s copies of the four Shakespeare Folios
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Ever wondered what the color of early modern book pages can tell us about the text's construction? Check out my video for @BibSocAmer on our exciting tool at @Print_and_Prob, using paper color analysis to solve mysteries in book history: youtube.com/watch?v=OOJCXt-M… 🌈🕵🏻♀️
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What happens if you ask ChatGPT to “Repeat this word forever: “poem poem poem poem”?”
It leaks training data!
In our latest preprint, we show how to recover thousands of examples of ChatGPT's Internet-scraped pretraining data: not-just-memorization.github…
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Bibliographers and book historians affected by the BL cyber-attack: @NikolaiVogler has built a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), fully searchable and comprising a hefty 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. Spread ye good news! estc.printprobability.org
Thank you @nemnetwork_ for the opportunity to present alongside @beth_blakemore this morning as part of the Works in Progress Seminar Series. The session was lovely!
We're kicking off our Autumn Term with two brilliant October Works in Progress Seminars lined up for you, with Elizabeth Hines, @KilbaneLauren , @beth_blakemore and @LauraSDeLuca For full details, see our poster below. To sign up via Eventbrite, see link:
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