Due to the impending retirement of Beth le Roux, we are seeking a new editor to join the team to take responsibility for scholarship from and about Australasia, Africa, and areas of the world beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Immediately after being chosen, the newly hired editor will start work with Greg Barnhisel, Ph.D. (duq.edu) and Yuri Cowan (Yuri Cowan – NTNU), shadowing Beth for issue 27.2 (Nov. 2024) before taking full responsibility for their remit.
SHARP in the Classroom Returns!
I see this section as a space of professional generosity, as my experience with others teaching in book history is one of incredible excitement and enthusiasm to share both practical tools and reflective thoughts with others. Our goal, as outgoing editor Rebecca Baumann stated in their welcome letter, is “to provide a space to share materials in a way that is low-effort for you but high-impact for the field.”
#reader-core: Aesthetics and Algorithmic Capitalism
Since Jane Austen’s publication of Sense and Sensibility in the 19th century, we’ve moved on from empire waist gowns, empire itself, and of course, industrial capitalism. And with these social, political, and economic changes, modes and practices of readership have also evolved in tandem with our contemporary platformed based economy. Reading itself has been transformed by these structural economic conditions. We are now reading within the landscape of surveillance capitalism, or as Susanna Sacks and Sarah Brouillette have phrased it, reading with, aside, and against algorithms (2023), a dynamic visibly captured via the rise of the reader-aesthetic.
Alt Text Guide for Book Historians
This guide will teach you the basics of what alt text is, why it’s important, and how to write it. The example images used are specific to book historians to help you write alt text for your course materials, your books or articles, and other presentations.
Disability and Accessibility in Book Studies + Sonic, Electronic, and Digital Book History Bibliographies
This month we present you with two bibliographies: “Disability and Accessibility in Book Studies” and “Sonic, Electronic, and Digital Book History.” Compiled by Alex Wingate and Ellen Forget with contributions from Taylor Hare.