Robert Montoya

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Professor @ UCLA Information Studies | Director @ California Rare Book School (calrbs.org) | Global Bibliography, Libraries, Justice | Fulbright Specialist | Critical Book, Publishing, & Literacy Studies Editor at Library Juice Press

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.

Hi all you humcommoners, just made the hop from my prior server so here's a repeat of my #Introduction: Professor in the English department at University of Maryland. Help run (and get run over by) BookLab there. Much of my life these days seems to revolve around little bits of lead, either moveable type for letterpress or figures for paint and gaming. Have written a few books. Obligatory Honda CR-V and cat.

I wrote a piece on teaching children's literature through the history of the book. The other way around works too-- teaching the history of the book through children's literature . #ChildLit #ChildrensLiterature #BookHistory

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“Coming in May/June from UMass Press!”

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Here’s a proper #introduction I guess… I’m a book historian and communicator, interested in sharing the many dimensions of rare books. I also study the depiction of books in Magic the Gathering! And I make book supports on the side 📖
Important tusk news of a different variety: the oldest sentence in alphabetical writing has been discovered on a 3700 y.o. ivory comb, an invocation against lice! From the New York Times. #archaeology #writing #histodons #history
I’m grateful to @Fitz for recommending Metatext on iOS & OSX—it’s worlds better than the official mastodon app
A (re)introduction for a new instance. I use #machinelearning to study the #history of #literature and #culture, at the intersection of #digitalhumanities and #computationalsocialscience. I teach in the School of Information Sciences and also the Department of English at UIUC. Other interests include #scifi, flower gardening, and posting the occasional generated image that looks like a golden age book illustration.
In a week, I’m off to Kosovo on a #Fulbright project revolving around #specialcollections #libraries. Of course, couldn’t do so without planning some side trips to Lisbon, Portugal, and Sophia, Bulgaria, to set the stage for future @calrbs International trips. Keep an eye out for CalRBS Iberian Peninsula and Balkans, where, like our other international destinations, we immerse ourselves in the intensive study of book, library, and print culture.

Excited to share this tenure-track job at the UIUC iSchool in Digital #Archives, #Preservation, and/or #Curation, which I suspect many #digitalhumanities folks might find intriguing—you can message me with questions about that one (or the iSchool itself) https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1836?c=illinois

It’s one of 3 tenure track jobs we’re hiring for in #informationscience http://ischool.illinois.edu/our-school/job-openings

Tenure-Track Faculty in Digital Archives, Preservation, and/or Curation (Open Rank) - iSchool

Duties & Responsibilities

A #FeministBibliography #archives question: is it typical to refer to a "sister collection" when, say, one institution has an archive connected to another one? And is there a non-gendered term I could use instead?