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Anastasia Salter

@anasalter.bsky.social

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Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 4h

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 6h

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic

"Are language models worth it?"

Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 4d

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 4d

Kicking things off with this exciting new REPLAY series

Thank you so much to @uchicagopress.bsky.social for this one 🙏

“ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS - CAN A GAME TAKE CARE OF US?”

Excited to see @n-w-f.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social headline this launch!

The book cover for animal Crossing New Horizon‘s can a game take care of us. It is sitting on a wooden table with a blurred background. The cover is a series of 4 o’clock’s with one of the hands being a heart shape.

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 4d

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 6d

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...

cal.lib.virginia.edu

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 7d

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 13d

I just saw One Battle After Another, and wow. If you are on the fence, see it, this is Anderson at his best and most relevant. Also, my fellow geriatric millennials will enjoy DiCaprio at his most Oscar worthy.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23d

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 29d

well, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

Hollywood Walk of Fame style star, but colored blue like a photo negative from a scandal, with book title Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-fandom of Academia and author
Mel Stanfill

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Fans of Aca- Fans: FanStudies Scholars as Celebrities
Chapter 2 From Lecture Notes to Likes: Academics as Social Media Microcelebrities
Chapter 3 Haters Gonna Tweet: Academia as an Object of (Anti- )Fandom on Social Media
Chapter 4 Make the Ivory Tower Exclusive Again: Frustrated Fandom
of Academia at the University of Austin
Chapter 5 Red, White, and Antischool: The University as Conservative Anti- Fan Object

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 29d

ooof I bet, and there's no grant money out there anymore, but a textile sabbatical someday would be amazing! 😍

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 29d

omg that is the coolest thing, I need it!

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's still one of my favorite games to teach, feels like there's always more to find when different players explore!

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Sep 9

The first copies of my next book, a short reflection on the lasting impact of indie game Undertale, have arrived at @uchicagopress.bsky.social and are in good company with @n-w-f.bsky.social's upcoming book on Animal Crossing. Find both at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

First books upcoming in University of Chicago Press's Replay series: Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? and Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Even knowing the consequences, I did want to select it...

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?

In Kuali: Propose Changes - Create a New Version (Please select this option.) Create a New Revision (Do NOT use this option.)

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Aug 25

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

A kid labeled "higher ed" splashes AI on Dawn, in a pink bikini on the beach.

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 24

+ @lucidbard.bsky.social - we will be sharing some of our pedagogical concerns and some of the concepts we taught in "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" at DHSI 🤖

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Aug 24

Sneak peak of the next #DataSittersClub, "Dawn of the Coasting AI", with @anasalter.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social!

"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!

Data-Sitters Club cover with "higher ed" splashing Dawn with AI water.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Aug 24

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 22

...definitely a trap 😹

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 22

First week of fall semester is wrapped, and my floofy kitty and I are on the same page.

A fluffy ragdoll cat sprawled on his back, feet askew, done.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

Photo of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

Photo of the table of contents of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The table covers 32 pages and says:
• Credits & how to cite this zine.
• Introduction
Resources:
• Intro to general book history
• Intro to QUEER book history!
• Teaching queer history toward
• A model teaching approach
• Black, Indigenous, POC + Queer
• Broader BIPOC book history
• Zines, community periodicals, DIY queer publishing history
• Libraries, archives, museums
• Archives & catalogues
• Design & art.
• Close readings
• Ethics & justice re:gender & sexuality
• Feminist 2SLGBTQIA+
• Community & conferences
• Queer book history isn't past
• Current book arts practitioners relevant to queer book history
• Want more queer book history?
• Back cover & reuse/ remix info

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Aug 17

Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.

This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College

Members of the class of 2026 have been using ChatGPT since they were freshmen.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Aug 11

I’m sure I’ll keep tinkering—but I’ve drafted a syllabus for "Writing with Robots"

This my theme on an upper-level English course fulfilling students’ advanced writing requirement. The course seeks to help students understand what LLMs actually are & situate them in longer & more nuanced histories

Writing with Robots

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 8

First day of our fall contracts. I get tired of thinking this is going to be the worst year of my career in higher education, but here we are again. Seemed like a good night for a theme park.

Jurassic Park float, with mist and dino.

Ghostbusters, old school, with a giant marshmallow man.

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 7

As education is being systematically devalued, this also promises users it'll be OK if (when?) we stop offering actual PhDs.

Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · Aug 7

This comical category error continues. Do you know what it's like to talk to a Ph.D.-level expert about anything, and especially their expertise?

Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · Aug 7

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · Aug 7

This comical category error continues. Do you know what it's like to talk to a Ph.D.-level expert about anything, and especially their expertise?

Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · Aug 7

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait

CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.

www.wsj.com

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just finished building out the remaining exercises for my Humanities in the Age of AI course. Since this is a class with no technical prerequisites, I'm ending on some simple fine tuning with Unsloth and working locally with Ollama to give students more control. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

Humanities in the Age of AI

Fall 2025 - Anastasia Salter

anastasiasalter.net

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Taking some time with the pollinators this morning with the first day of fall contracts looming over the week.

Queen butterfly chilling on the rosinweed

Gulf fritillary wandering through the shrubbery

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Aug 4

I kept waffling on bringing GitHub Copilot into this second iteration of my Humanities AI DH class because of the interface nightmares. Decided to break it up into two weeks of exercises: GitHub Pages anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... and agent mode anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...