Anastasia Salter
Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: anastasiasalter.net
- Reposted by Anastasia Salter"the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants." 1965!!!
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterLet's make 2026 the year we induct Caper in the Castro (1989) into the Video Game Hall of Fame.
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterNew CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
- This beautiful boy didn't make it, but if you want to donate to help owls like him, the folks at this center are lovely: www.audubon.org/cbop
- Reposted by Anastasia Salter📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks. It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
- My afternoon took a turn when I came across this barred owl. Took it to the local rescue, he had enough energy to be indignant so fingers crossed.
- Please enjoy the additional irritated owl photos that I would normally not have been allowed close enough to take.
- Reposted by Anastasia Salter#DHmakes folks, join me in feasting your eyes on the work of Onna Schwindt, who's sitting in front of me at an embroidery retreat this week, and is going to be teaching beaded embroidery later today. So many exciting data visualization possibilities here. 😍
- The first day of classes is upon us, and I'm excited to be teaching a new version of my Critical Making course with an emphasis on thinking about voice and intention through multimodal expressions. Initial syllabus here, but the exercises will be updated as I go: anastasiasalter.net/CriticalMaki...
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterPerhaps harder to interpret if you didn’t hear @kiberens.bsky.social, @briancroxall.bsky.social, & @matthewkollmer.com's papers just before, but here are my brief remarks as a respondent in today’s "Student-Centered AI & DH Practices" roundtable at #mla2026
- As the book exhibit at #MLA26 is wrapping up this morning, consider dropping by to check out the new Replay series from @uchicagopress.bsky.social with my book on Undertale and @n-w-f.bsky.social on Animal Crossing.
- Thanks everyone who joined us for Distant Coding at #MLA26! I've updated the resources page with a transcript of the workshop as well as some of the examples we created together during the session, please enjoy the millennial nostalgia 🤩 See it all at: anastasiasalter.net/DistantCoding/
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterI’m presenting as part of this first panel today at #MLA2026! Join us to chat about open source humanities
- For those headed to #MLA2026, please consider dropping by the two sessions sponsored by @eliterature.bsky.social: first up, a roundtable conversation, "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" on Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM. Panelists and abstracts at: anastasiasalter.net/OpenSourceHu... #MLA26
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterWorried about increased surveillance of syllabi & course curricula at your institution? Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.
- There are threads of #DHMakes in the Critical Making course I'm teaching this spring, syllabus and exercises are available here: anastasiasalter.net/CriticalMaki... and I'm still looking for a few more awesome folks to interview 😄
- #DHmakes is digital humanists (& other folks doing knowledge-work anywhere: library/academic-ish, or on your own!) sharing art/craft/making that has all or partial analog/physical components (ie not code/sites as those had more understanding/sharing in DH already). literaturegeek.com/2025/12/31/w...
- For those headed to #MLA2026, please consider dropping by the two sessions sponsored by @eliterature.bsky.social: first up, a roundtable conversation, "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" on Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM. Panelists and abstracts at: anastasiasalter.net/OpenSourceHu... #MLA26
- On Friday from 10:15 - 11:30, Lai-Tze Fan and I are running a beginner-friendly workshop on agentic tools for digital humanities projects, with discussion of how distant coding is shaping programming pedagogy and practice. Overview at: anastasiasalter.net/DistantCoding/ #MLA2026 #MLA26
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterI've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
- The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterHey, look at that, the 2026 site for @iftechfoundation.org's annual @narrascope.org conference on narrative games is live narrascope.org
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterUh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI: aftermath.site/generative-ai-...
- Hey #dhmakes folks, would anyone be up for scheduling a quick zoom call to chat with me about your practice and making? I'm running a new iteration of Critical Making, and my students always benefit from hearing your advice!
- Reposted by Anastasia Saltermy 2020 book with @anasalter.bsky.social, "A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises," is 50% OFF for December 1 and 2. makes a great gift for all the nerds in your life. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...
- We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterIt's National Novel Generation Month. LLMs have drained much of the original creativity and impetus for NaNoGenMo, but I gave it a go this year anyway. I took "No Time to Discourse," my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, and turned it into a ~400-page book.
- We're entering the last week of my Humanities in the Age of AI course, and I ended up completely revising the last five weeks of assignments to take advantage of Claude Code's new web version and emphasize the growing non-code uses of agents. Final version is here: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterMy first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
- Hey folks in the MLA, please consider voting for me in the Executive Council election. apps.mla.org/ballot_main My statement is on the site: I particularly bring experience navigating ideological pressures on institutions as a Florida professor and a critical lens to AI, edtech & surveillance #MLA26
- Reposted by Anastasia Saltermy book with @anasalter.bsky.social, A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, is ON SALE through November 19. if you have been waiting to get your hands on it, now's the time! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...
- One of the lovely things about Florida.
- Reposted by Anastasia Salterswitcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚 *Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Anastasia SalterKyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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- I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterA devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Just added this excellent MLA statement to the workshop I'm running contextualizing agentic AI for faculty and graduate students tomorrow - we need conversations around this new iteration of the tech urgently. Here's my materials if anyone is interested: anastasiasalter.net/AgentWorkshop/
- The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/ www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterICYMI, my new book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 30% off (w/ free shipping) It's a scholarly book, looking at ACNH through lenses like craft, compulsion, and community. It's also a personal book, about playing with my kids during the pandemic More details: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...
- This is just taunting those among us still grading...🤣
- Getting really tired of this robots in space maintenance screen today. Maybe concentrating our infrastructure to rely heavily on a single cloud computing provider was not a great plan...
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- THANK YOU @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social for this morning’s coffee shop reading 💙 ☕️ 📕 Absolutely loving this REPLAY series! #Undertale
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterThe end of a held ethical code among all technologists, as light weight and infrequently applied as it was, marks the end of a web where sites can trust in a basic ground level of cooperation. The result is a web increasingly militarized against itself. Everyone must now close up and arm up.
- "The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterI am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5. eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/ I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa. This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
- My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterKeynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic "Are language models worth it?" Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterIf you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
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- Kicking things off with this exciting new REPLAY series Thank you so much to @uchicagopress.bsky.social for this one 🙏 “ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS - CAN A GAME TAKE CARE OF US?” Excited to see @n-w-f.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social headline this launch!
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterAnouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterRoll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
- I just saw One Battle After Another, and wow. If you are on the fence, see it, this is Anderson at his best and most relevant. Also, my fellow geriatric millennials will enjoy DiCaprio at his most Oscar worthy.
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterRobert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
- Reposted by Anastasia Salterwell, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...
- The first copies of my next book, a short reflection on the lasting impact of indie game Undertale, have arrived at @uchicagopress.bsky.social and are in good company with @n-w-f.bsky.social's upcoming book on Animal Crossing. Find both at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
- Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterThe #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
- + @lucidbard.bsky.social - we will be sharing some of our pedagogical concerns and some of the concepts we taught in "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" at DHSI 🤖
- Sneak peak of the next #DataSittersClub, "Dawn of the Coasting AI", with @anasalter.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social! "Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
- First week of fall semester is wrapped, and my floofy kitty and I are on the same page.
- Reposted by Anastasia Salter"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterRecommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.
- Reposted by Anastasia SalterI’m sure I’ll keep tinkering—but I’ve drafted a syllabus for "Writing with Robots" This my theme on an upper-level English course fulfilling students’ advanced writing requirement. The course seeks to help students understand what LLMs actually are & situate them in longer & more nuanced histories
- First day of our fall contracts. I get tired of thinking this is going to be the worst year of my career in higher education, but here we are again. Seemed like a good night for a theme park.
- As education is being systematically devalued, this also promises users it'll be OK if (when?) we stop offering actual PhDs.
- Just finished building out the remaining exercises for my Humanities in the Age of AI course. Since this is a class with no technical prerequisites, I'm ending on some simple fine tuning with Unsloth and working locally with Ollama to give students more control. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/
- Taking some time with the pollinators this morning with the first day of fall contracts looming over the week.
- I kept waffling on bringing GitHub Copilot into this second iteration of my Humanities AI DH class because of the interface nightmares. Decided to break it up into two weeks of exercises: GitHub Pages anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... and agent mode anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...
