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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 9d

I loved the Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade - fantastic exhibitions including on clandestine letterpress printing in the resistance

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 13d

Many thanks to @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social for this fantastic piece on our new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 14d

How One University Is Reimagining a Humanities Ph.D. Program

@cmu.edu is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain future. https://bit.ly/4ngm7R7

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 19d

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 19d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 19d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 27d

Carnegie Mellon English proudly supports Ed Simon's launch of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. I like to say that @cmuenglish.bsky.social is where readers find refuge and leaders find language. It's tremendous to see Ed and ProB offering that same spirit to our city and to our world.
pghrev.com

Pittsburgh Review of Books - Engaged, Incisive, Smart Cultural Criticism & Analysis

The Pittsburgh Review of Books publishes engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism and analysis.

pghrev.com

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · Aug 25

Did you miss our summer talks or wish you could share them with someone else? You’re in luck! Recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series are now online!

Video recordings are under the “Summer Lectures” playlist at youtube.com/rarebookschool

Listen to the audio at soundcloud.com/rarebookschool

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Aug 15

After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜

Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Nov 16

When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org

estc.printprobability.org

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations, Sheila!

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Aug 5

My recent lecture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social can now be found on their YouTube channel youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ.

2025 Malkin Lecture: "What is Computational Bibliography?"

YouTube video by Rare Book School

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Aug 5

My recent lecture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social can now be found on their YouTube channel youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ.

2025 Malkin Lecture: "What is Computational Bibliography?"

YouTube video by Rare Book School

youtu.be

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)

diagram goes from authors to publishers to printers to books to gatherings to sheets to inner/outer forms, to pages, to sorts. Closed captioning reads: "...a method for moving between them. For connecting the microscopic to the systemic, the page to the printer, the sort to the state. It builds a bridge..."

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Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social · Jul 21

Here's another fun announcement. You can now access the first three episodes of Third Person Limited, a podcast on books and culture that I have been working on with my friend, Mason. thirdpersonlimited.com

Third Person Limited

thirdpersonlimited.com

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Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social · Jul 2

Here's a nice announcement. I just turned in the final draft for my first academic book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage' to be published with Edinburgh University Press next year.

A schematic of an explanation of a rainbow from Descartes' "A Discourse on Method" showing a man looking out on an arc of light standing visibly in front of him.

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Jul 21

it's proofs day 😍 Introducing Catherine Sanger. This is another woman publisher that I found after an editor assumed traces of her labor in the English Short Title Catalogue were a typo. A [sic] was put next to her initial, and I spent weeks combing through Ancestry to figure out who she is.

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jul 21

oh hey this looks cool ;)

Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · Jul 18

Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.

Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

#BookSky #DigitalHumanities

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jul 16

the rpince of denmark nods in agreement

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jul 10

I'm so excited for the Pittsburgh Review of Books!

Rust Belt Magazine @beltmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 1

A new hub for literature! The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be both in Pittsburgh (and the Rust Belt) and of the wider world; a means of introducing the region’s vibrant literary community into national conversations as well as bringing those conversations here.

beltmag.com/introducing-...

Introducing the Pittsburgh Review of Books - Belt Magazine

Belt Magazine Becomes Rust Belt Magazine While Getting a New Publishing Partner.

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 23

thanks for thinking of me - seems like he's found what he needed

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨 Discourse alert!!! What should you teach engineers who have never read a critique of modernity before? 😰😳

I’d be tempted to throw them right in the deep end with Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History

Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · Jun 20

For my sins (working with 20-yo start-up engineers who ask questions), I ended up feeling like I had to read a bunch of Curtis Yarvin yesterday. My general takeaway is that the appeal seems to be for people who haven't ever encountered a real critique of modernity before…

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 19

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 19

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 2

Now emancipated from its paywall.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks, Sarah! Hope we can cook some cool stuff up together!!👨🏻‍🍳👩‍🍳

Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 12

some personal news www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

Christopher Warren Named Head of Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University's new Department of English head, who begins Aug. 1, is an expert in 16th and 17th century literature and culture who is also one of the world's foremost leaders in using te...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jun 10

As the debate continues about the value of humanities, arts and social sciences degrees, we have published a new toolkit that captures the vital contributions of SHAPE graduates to society, culture and the economy.

It's covered here on WonkHE: buff.ly/pB45bCX

Dive in here: buff.ly/WU6xBzT

What SHAPE graduates do

The British Academy has released analysis of what social sciences, humanities, and arts graduates do after graduation. Pablo Roblero and Alfie Denness introduce the findings

wonkhe.com

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