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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks Eleanor!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Devani!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Malcolm!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

In true early modern style the waggons bearing author copies appear to have got stuck somewhere

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Christopher! :)

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 9d

🎥 📚

I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.

If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).

Thank you!

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 26d

Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Sep 4

Featuring brilliant respondents Laurie Maguire, Debapriya Sarkar, and @zacharylesser.bsky.social!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's 2 weeks until the joint launch of @wsperrazza.bsky.social's ANATOMICAL FORMS, Jonathan P. Lamb's HOW THE WORLD BECAME A BOOK IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND and my PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE!

All welcome - join us 6-7pm BST on Thursday 18th Sep.
(Message me for Zoom details)

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Aug 15

'Chapters remain through all these genres a fundamental tool of composition: a way of writing stories, shaping readings, and making physical and digital "books".’

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Aug 11

For the next 4 weeks, when not in the Walpole library archives, I'll be listening to Clarissa on audiobook and reading Charles Lamb's essays. Eighteenth-centuryist method acting!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 30

Foxes and Holidays! I reviewed new editions of old plays in @thetls.bsky.social

Early modern London in new editions of early modern plays

There are eleven commendatory and dedicatory poems at the start of Ben Jonson’s comedy Volpone, or, The Fox, both as it first appeared in print in 1607

www.the-tls.com

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 29

A sneak preview of the brilliant line up in a special issue of Critical Quarterly on *PAPER AND POETRY: INTERVENTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE* that I co-edited with Orietta Da Rold!

Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · Jul 28

I wrote about John Taylor and ethnographies of paper. It's out online today, prior to publication in *Critical Quarterly*.

Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social and co for kicking off this train of thought with a wonderful conference, and giving it a home.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ethnographies of Paper in Early Modern England

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 18

Fantastic books are currently being made!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 18

@wordsmith.bsky.social @jillburke.bsky.social @gillpartington.bsky.social @18thcenturysam.bsky.social @ktonry.bsky.social @samuscript.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social @matildah-b.bsky.social @loreandordure.com @susannah-lw.bsky.social @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 18

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 14

Applications for 2 artists' residencies now open at Thin Ice Press! Deadline 25th July www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

print matters artist’s residencies — Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, offering memberships, workshops, equipment hire, events & exhibition space.

Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print welcomes applications for two artist’s residencies, to take place across five days between August and September 2025 as part of our research project: Print ...

www.thinicepress.org

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks to our panellists and engaged audience for a wonderful discussion on critical writing, creative writing, close reading, and the jutting elbows of proximate essayists @univeng.bsky.social

Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · Jul 4

Brilliant time this afternoon at the Shared Futures conference, talking on the 'Work of Writing' roundtable with @georginaemw.bsky.social, Ben Card, Joe Moshenska, and Orlando Reade. Lovely to see @veldaelliott.bsky.social in the audience too! I grasped the nettle & talked about generative AI...

Screenshot of abstract: "Authentic Intelligence: Notes on generative AI, recognition, and the creative/critical classroom.

I don't really want to talk about generative AI, but feel I need to. For all the talk of its utility and/or inevitability, I can't help but see generative AI's recent proliferation as a grotesque threat to the intellectual and transformative potential of the work of writing.

So I want to use my time to consider some pedagogical strategies by which teachers might encourage student appreciation and embrace of 'Authentic Intelligence', rather than the artificial kind.

I won't be focusing on strategies for detection, which I don’t think should be part of our job as educators. Rather I'll be using my position as a teacher of both English Literature and Creative Writing to reflect on how AI seems to be posing a threat – or not – in both kinds of classroom, and in what I think one might possibly learn from the other."

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks so much to co-editor @zacharylesser.bsky.social as well as all our fantastic contributors! We're thrilled that this special issue is out in the world

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Vol. 14 (2025): The Politics of Book History: Then and Now | Journal of Early Modern Studies

oajournals.fupress.net

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jun 20

Had a brilliant week learning about Artists' Books @ies-sas.bsky.social with @gillpartington.bsky.social! We saw sculptures, boxes, pills, epherama, and >25 gasoline stations. Parts of one page were consumed in the process.

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · May 16

This!

Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Call for Contributors!

@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!

Deadline: 30 September 2025

More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

Call for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book Studies

Call for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · May 3

Setting up Thin Ice Press for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with @wordsmith.bsky.social - come along and say hello at the Exam Schools this weekend!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Apr 30

Are you a) intrigued by artists' books, and b) looking for something to do 16th-20th June? There's still time to sign up for this course ran by the brilliant @gillpartington.bsky.social

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Mar 25

Looking forward to our Print Exchanges flash talks tomorrow at 4pm GMT! Come along to learn about 6 brilliant new projects from @printlady.bsky.social @john-stone.bsky.social @profjrussell.bsky.social Eve Houghton, Priya Nambrath, and Stacie Vos.
Email [email protected] for registration link

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