I’ve begun a little project of reorganizing my website; namely, my Academic Research page. It’s a good thing. It’s been spurred by the fact that I’ll have things to add over the course of the next few months. But more projects and articles and so forth mean the whole page could get cluttered! How many…
It’s been two weeks since Kristina and I exhibited at the 62nd annual Chicago Book & Paper Fair. It was a good fair this year. We met quite a few collectors. We also caught up with fellow booksellers–folks we’ve gotten to know over the years at fairs and through business dealings and through bookseller associations….
This past week, I submitted a draft of my field exam portfolio (the narrative statement and reading list). It’s helped me articulate my position in relation to larger scholarly fields. That’s worthy of wider discussion and further input, so I’m posting these materials here. Other PhD students gearing up for the field exam may find…
Introduction About two months ago, I created the Rare Books feed on BlueSky. Ever since, I’ve been thinking that I need to release the specifics of the feed (to publish my algorithm)–but then, I didn’t have an outlet for those sorts of side projects, curiosities, or longform updates. Hence this post, my first blog. I’m…