Here is a 1-minute highlight of my talk on Twelfth Night at the @folger.edu Thee power of unspoken words.

Approaching Twelfth Night from a queer dramaturgical perspective was the topic of my talk at the @folger.edu Here is a video recording: youtu.be/ZII55zrCyzM The comedy involves a journey of self-discovery in an elsewhere, but characters do not "return" to where the they come from.

@profjoubin.bsky.social gave a talk at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She argued that AI operates with similar logics to theater. youtu.be/DvoVYe92ZQE?...

We should re-center art in the era of AI to regain human agency. In fact, we should also approach AI from a humanistic and artistic point of view, argued @profjoubin.bsky.social in her talk at the Frederick County Public Library in Maryland on May 31. youtu.be/yFGFgluh1h0?...

The more bookstores, the merrier! www.fastcompany.com/91271622/bar...

Abundance is a key challenge induced by generative AI. @profjoubin.bsky.social drew on Erasmus' Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (1512) to craft new pedagogies in the era of AI. Full video: youtu.be/-L_8G5Xircg

Abundance is a key challenge induced by generative AI, but @profjoubin turns it into an opportunity for critical inquiry. This is a highlight of Professor Joubin’s talk on AI, Shakespeare and abundance at the Bergen-Hamar conference.

@profjoubin.bsky.social gave her students a tour of the Folger, the First Folios, and the printing press, contrasting mechanically and algorithmically reproduced words in early modern print culture and in our era of AI. #shakespeare #artificialintelligence #printingpress #earlymodernity

Orange pork! My secret sauce: Sichuan paste, hoisin, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar. The last ingredients to go into the woke were edamame and mandarin orange (so as not to overcook them).

My article in Shakespeare Survey 77 argues that trans-inclusive and anti-racist campaigns have a lot more in common beyond their shared agenda of social justice. Full text here works.hcommons.org/records/cesa...

In our new volume on Reparative Shakespeare, we examine artistic claims that performances repair and improve social condition (using international Shakespeare as case study). www.routledge.com/The-Shakespe...

Korean vegetable skillet in preparation.

Hiking the Quiraing on Isle of Skye in Scotland is quite challenging but very rewarding. One of a kind experience.

We went hiking at Quiraing on Isle of Skye in Scotland. The landscape is truly dramatic.

Oxford's graduation procession into Sheldonian Theatre, accompanied by trumpet

Both the printing press and AI are mediators. Both change the social function of language. The printing press gave rise to national languages. AI normalizes certain patterns of communication, increases linguistic opacity, and reduces intra-linguistic diversity.

I had the honor of meeting Sir Ian McKellen in London at a performance of Twelfth Night!

What are the end and purposes of global adaptations of Shakespeare? Join us in Verona for "The End(s) of Global Shakespeare," a research seminar at the World Shakespeare Congress 2026. See full description here www.wsc2026.org/seminars-wor... and pre-register www.wsc2026.org/seminars-wor...

Ian McKellen will give opening remarks for this production of Twelfth Night at the Space in London. @profjoubin.bsky.social is very proud to have participated in the planning as a consultant. The show is directed by Phoebe Kemp. space.org.uk/event/twelft... (in-person tickets sold out).

Join me at the SAA 2026 in Denver to explore Shakespeare, AI, and Virtuality: AI’s hallucination, pedagogy, Shakespeare’s depictions of dreams and neurodiversity. Program online shakespeareassociation.org/annual.../20... ‪@saaupdates.bsky.social‬

Organist at work in the chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Live music at Oxford’s Lamb & Flag pub

Quiraing, an amazing place on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Worth the effort. #isleofskye #quiraing #scotland

I am teaching a graduate seminar at the University of Oxford, and was treated to this view. #oxforduniversity #radcliffecamera #garden

We hiked to Neist Point on Isle of Skye in Scotland to see this stunning landscape. #Scotland #hiking

A short video of @profjoubin.bsky.social’s talk on performance as transitional art. Full video at youtu.be/1A-yEg5bghI?... #shakespeare #adaptation #popculture

What do As You Like It, Barbie, Pinocchio, Ex Machina, and Spider-Man have in common? Find out more about drama as a transitional art of change in @profjoubin.bsky.social 's talk at @syracuseu.bsky.social YouTube youtu.be/1A-yEg5bghI

Floating umbrellas at Banqiao 435 Art District just outside Taipei, Taiwan. The cluster of buildings was used for veterans training and have now been repurposed and revived as a little village where artists take up residence. #Taiwan #art

Misty Fjord near Ketchikan, Alaska. Wild and beautiful.

A rare sunny day in Ketchikan, Alaska. Beautiful Creek Street with colorful houses.

Don’t mix metaphors …

Here is my take on Em Liu's novel The Death I Gave Him, specters of Hamlet, and AI as RenAIssacne Technology. AI, or ghost in the machine, is a RenAIssance technology of regeneration. www.folger.edu/blogs/folger...

A fun musical rainbow wall in WNDR Boston. Visitors make music.

I’m honored to have been invited to give two presentations at the conference, AI and the humanities in Knoxville.

What do Shakespeare and AI have to say to each other? Virtuality, texts of obscure origin, dream, mirage, neurodiversity, and more. Shakespeare and RenAIssance technologies is the topic of my talk on Saturday April 26 at the University of Tennessee’s AI conference. tiny.utk.edu/AI-HSS/sched...

My open-access AI will be featured in the exhibit demo session on Friday April 25 at the University of Tennessee’s AI conference! See my AI in action at screenshakespeare.org and criticaltheory.info Conference link tiny.utk.edu/AI-HSS/sched...

Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on Wednesday, Shakespeare’s 461st birthday. It said the May 23 sale will be the first time since 1989 that a set of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios has been offered at auction as a single lot. apnews.com/article/shak...

There was a camel on campus today.

My simple risotto. First, I stir fried Vidalia onion, scallion whites, garlic, and some butter, along with Arborio rice. I added chicken stock regularly as the rice absorbs the water; also added cheese roux, sour cream, Parmesan, thyme and thyme.

A spinning book wheel to manage the fear of missing out and the deluge of printed books.

French Quarter Festival 2025 in New Orleans #neworleans #frenchquarter

Happy Easter! The French Quarter Festival transformed New Orleans’ Bourbon Street into carnival land. #neworleans #frenchquarter #easterbunnies

During a Peking opera demonstration workshop I was recruited to go on stage to learn some warrior moves. The master is Howie Po-cheng Chu 朱柏澄 from Taiwan's Contemporary Legend Theatre 當代傳奇 #jingju #Taiwan #martialarts

My open-access AI is featured in EdTech magazine! "Educators, according to Joubin, should encourage students to question whether the responses of AI are useful." edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...

Here is the JSTOR / ITHAKA interview with me on how humanities research informs AI literacy about.jstor.org/blog/fosteri... #humanisticAI #collaboration #trustworthyAI

This is how doggy got most of my breakfast. Who can resist his puppy eyes?

I made some Yakitori bavette steak skewers! I put Katsu sauce, sweet soy glaze, soy sauce, garlic powder, and lemon juice to form Yakitori sauce. Throw in some broccoli, green scallions, bell pepper, and jasmine rice!

Beautiful sunset today in Boston. Attending the @saaupdates.bsky.social and RSA simultaneously is like trying to eat a double burger.

RSA and SAA joint conferences in Boston! Start your engine?

My students had a blast on our field trip to study rare books. The kitty cat in Edward Topsell's The Historie of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658) was very popular, so were Richard III illustrations from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery! Students could not believe they were touching history.