Whitney Trettien

scholar, teacher, maker, historian of media technologies

Cut/Copy/Paste

a book about experimental publishing with scissors and paste

Manicule

an open source platform for building digital editions of material texts

Printing in Prisons

a collaborative digital project discovering the stories of incarcerated printers, writers, and editors

Little Gidding Harmonies

a networked digital edition

Susanna Collet's Commonplace Book

a digital edition

Theophila

a tour of Edward Benlowes' weirdest book

Digital Sound Studies:

a co-edited volume at the intersection of digital humanities and sound studies

What is a Fragment?

an essay toward a taxonomy of fragments, published in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Substrate, Platform, Interface, Format

an essay bridging book history and media studies, published in Textual Cultures

A Deep History of Electronic Textuality

an essay on print-on-demand historical texts, published in Digital Humanities Quarterly

What Happened to Edwin Forrest’s Burned First Folio? ?

an essay on the power of cataloguing & the logic of discovery, co-written with Zachary Lesser and published in Shakespeare Quarterly

A Hornbook for Digital Book History

a talk to the Rare Book School

thresholds

a creative/critical digital zine

Humphrey Moseley's Social Network

an experiment in social networking

OA Workouts episode

a talk about Cut/Copy/Paste as a digital, open access publication

A Conversation with Lisa Nakamura

at Kelly Writers House

Gaffe/Stutter

print/digital reflections on opacity and failure, published by punctum books