Ellen Forget

I'm excited to announce that I will be joining University of Alberta this fall as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Film Studies to work on my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading."

JOB(S): My dept has an open rank open specialties (w/in Information Science / Library & Archival Science & closely related) search out of which we hope to make multiple hires! Im not on the committee but can say we'll have new teaching needs in social impacts of information technology & also ethics!

Catch Them All: 30 Years of #Pokémon Video Games Explore the "Catch Them All" exhibit and discover rare games, consoles, collectibles & gaming history from the #UTM library's Syd Bolton Collection ➡️ https://bit.ly/4bghcvN

Consent is not about sex. Consent is about your body belonging to you & other people not having a right to touch you when you don't want to be touched. End of story!

What do folks think are the best ways to write TRRPG scenes in a novel? 1. The game character becomes the POV character and we explore their primary world with them 2. The characters narrate playing the game and the action takes places IRL 3. A combination where we move in/out of the game

The first round of proofs is in 'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' - out on 25 Feb 2027 with @bristoluni.bsky.social as an Open Access ebook (no paywall) & in paperback bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca... #Capitalism #Work #Marxism #Disability

Job opportunity of interest for disability studies lit people! I’m not in the English department and have no connection to this search but if you get a campus visit I’m always happy to meet & chat about working at UW Madison jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

If you’re interested in a PhD in Publishing Studies funded via this scheme, drop me a line…

Sharing the Good Word of Broadsheets on my office door at Stanford. #DHmakes

Firefox just asked me if I am "overwhelmed with too many tabs." I shut my computer off last night, so I only have eight tabs open. Eight! Sir, this is nothing. These are my standing always-open tabs. This isn't even a research window. If eight is overwhelming, then I'm in the wrong profession. 😂

I got my turkey in the oven on time, right on schedule. I was so proud of myself. Until it came time for the first baste, and I suddenly remembered that I broke my baster last year and meant to buy a new one before the holidays this year. 🫠

Q for #BookHistory and #ArtHistory folks. I'm looking for a reading to assign 3rd year undergrads that describes the process of production for early modern engravings. This is not my area of expertise, and I'm having trouble finding something that works. The course is Histories of the Book. Thanks!

Very excited that the critical scholarly edition of ApertureScience that I worked on with Alan Galey, @brendanallen.bsky.social, and @raffazizzidh.bsky.social won the Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! Congrats and thank you to my co-editors! ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/10/2026...

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

as I said in the panel today, I have been alt-texting for all my posts each time since this project started - and a hope is that that practice will rub off on other comics folks. I think it has not, thus far. But I hope it does over time...

so I 3D-printed an etching press & made my first print & was unprepared for just how restorative it would be

Today! Interested in learning how comics can be made accessible to blind/low vision readers? Tune in to our panel at 2pmET/11amPT to learn more from @emilybeitiks.bsky.social Silvana Rainey, @comicnurse.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social & me! Learn about what we’ve done & explore the exhibition!

I had a failed print yesterday! It slipped on the print plate and ended up spaghetti printing about halfway through. I love seeing all the different ways these prints can fail! I added more supports and am reprinting it now. This is a German line braille print from le musée Louis Braille.

#TEIFriday Can anyone give examples of magical texts (spells/curses...) encoded in TEI XML? Any language, date, etc. #digitalhumanities #ancientmagic

Due today! We are still accepting abstracts for the Accessibility in Digital Publishing special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are looking for a variety of material and publishing types.

Happy Spooky Month! Today kicks off our #AccessibilityIsntScary fundraiser which promotes the idea that meeting access needs isn't a scary thing to do. This event is hosted through @tiltify.com with @crowdcontrol.live integrations to fundraise your way! Join us for #AiS2026 👻

It's officially spooky season - and a researcher in Brazil is studying how #AudioDescription in horror movies can be improved to amp up the frights for #blind and #LowVision viewers. 👻 #BlindNewWorld (Story via Unicamp ⬇️)

Due today! We are still accepting abstracts for the Accessibility in Digital Publishing special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are looking for a variety of material and publishing types.

Is there any philosophy (or medicine) paper on what we mean by fatigue and tiredness?

Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract.