Jonathan

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Assoc Prof of Book History & Print Culture @UWMadison, Director, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, Printer, Dad, Peloton Weirdo.
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JonathanNov 18, 2022
Carin RuffNov 18, 2022

Time for a belated introduction!

I'm a medievalist, teaching graduate Medieval Latin courses in the DC area and paleography virtually and IRL (e.g. for HMML and in workshops).

I'm currently working on an open-access Latin paleography textbook and also writing a novel about nuns and archaeologists. I have high hopes that procrastinating on one of those projects will result in finishing the other, or vice-versa.

Since 2010, most of my work in DC has been in historic preservation, with a focus on the architecture and development of DC's neighborhoods. A lot of my energy over in the other place was devoted to local DC matters—yelling about statehood, yelling at District agencies, following weather and traffic, etc. I expect I will remain there for those purposes as long as those functions continue.

#paleography #medievaldons #medieval #manuscripts #nuns #womenreligious #benedictines #archaeology #dchistory #dcstatehood #historicpreservation #preservation

JonathanNov 13, 2022
Ryan CordellNov 12, 2022
One of these days I’ll be ready to write about being in a position—like many others!—charged with building digital humanities at an institution slowly constricting its humanities departments year over year—there is no future of DH without a future for the humanities themselves
JonathanNov 11, 2022
It's interesting to see who's here now because it reminds me of all the early users of twitter who I saw a lot in the early days and then sort of lost track of as the network grew.
JonathanNov 11, 2022

I work on the material cultures of text, which sometimes looks like #bookhistory, sometimes looks like literary history of print, sometimes looks like information studies, and sometimes looks like Black print culture or African American literary studies/#c18 - #c19 American literary studies. Large/multitudes.

I work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I'm an associate professor in the #iSchool and direct the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. A lot of my students come from #libraries, #digitalhumanities, #museums, and anywhere that works with and studies #books, #materialtexts, and #archives.

I'm also a letterpress printer and increasingly interested in exploring how I know things through my hands. I might be the only #BillsMafia fan here but Bills twitter was a scene of joy for me and Bills fandom is baked into my lizard brain. I pedal to nowhere on #Peloton and am a mediocre distance runner.