Nora Epstein, PhD

❧ Instruction & Outreach Librarian @NewberryLibrary
❧ PhD @StAndrewsHist / @UniversalSTC
❧ MLIS @iSchoolUI
❧ all opinions my own
❧ she/her

[Dr Elise Watson @elisewatson_]

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. https://t.co/sH66ZLs6hD

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

@Seabass173948 @abs_sweetmarie I've never met an "eptein"...

[Dr Elise Watson @elisewatson_]

Now that the news is public, I’m absurdly excited to share that I’ve been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Postdoctoral Fellowship at @EdinburghUni for a transnational project on collaborations between women at all levels of the early modern book trade!

https://t.co/sRv749UBiG

[Dr Elise Watson @elisewatson_]

My latest piece is out in Library & Information History: click here for some hot Tauschhandel takes and sensational Dutch bookseller drama https://t.co/WvFdyfbbZQ

Huge thanks to the @books_borrowing team for hosting such a wonderful conference and editing this special issue!

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

@EilishGregory @SHARPorgNews @RSAorg @CReutcke @elisewatson_ Thank you, Eilish! We are both doing very well.

Despite being premature, Jonah was well over 7lbs. ( I shudder to think what a chonk he would have been in a month).

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

I'm deeply bummed to miss my @SHARPorgNews @RSAorg book history panel today, but this new addition (edition?) arrived weeks ahead of schedule.

I encourage everyone to see @CReutcke and @elisewatson_ deliver their brilliant bibliographic reseach this afternoon.

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

I added to my list of phrases never uttered until working at the Newberry:  
"I was looking at our Septembertestament, you know, the one with the rubricated nipples…"

https://t.co/p4Ob0GLoz0

[Folger Research @FolgerResearch]

#FolgerFellow Nora Epstein’s (@noraepstein) project continues her work on the early modern practice of copying illustrations.

[Folger Research @FolgerResearch]

@NoraEpstein @FolgerLibrary, Epstein is tracing the printed sources used by prolific early modern copier Thomas Trevelyon, gaining insight into the wider worlds of memory, book, and material cultures. #FellowsFriday

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

@DrewBThomas For some reason, the ICONCLASS notation for this always cracks me up:
7 · Bible
73 · New Testament
73E · events from Resurrection to Pentecost
73E4 · Christ and his apostles on the Mount of Olives
73E44 · the footprints of Christ on the Mount of Olives ~ the Ascension

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

Guests are coming over, time to break out the fine stemware!

[grabs the 2001 Burger King commemorative Lord of the Rings glass goblets from the top shelf.]

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

While scrolling through the @newberry's digitized collection of "John Monroe sports postcards," I discovered my next nightmare:

https://t.co/bwPBwnfCJv

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

Today is my first day as the @NewberryLibrary's Instruction and Outreach Librarian. Thanks to all the Newberry staff for such a warm welcome!

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

These last weeks were exhausting on every level, but I am so grateful to have been slightly distracted by a fantastic research trip to England, supported by @BibSocAmer.

If you need a break from doomscrolling, check out these silly 16/17c. MS images that kept my spirits up.

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

I wrote a short piece on early modern copying for @FolgerLibrary 's The Collation blog.

Have a look and see why this strange commonplacer, Thomas Trevelyon, has dominated my brain space for years.

https://t.co/a1xtwtGUua

[Nora Epstein, PhD @NoraEpstein]

A delightfully bibliographic weekend at the @NewberryLibrary & @PrintersRowFest!

[Dr Saskia Limbach @saskia_limbach]

Thrilled and honoured to receive a Starting Grant from @ERC_Research for my project *WidowsPrint*.

The project will investigate how economic developments influenced the rights and the agency of widows in the German print industry, c. 1500-1700.

More details soon! For now 🍾