A wild thing to open my own book and use a recipe* that I wrote and then have a snack. *strawberry conserve, chapter 4

People of (the greater) Philadelphia (area), Kiki Aranita's article about my book is in the food section of the print edition of the Inquirer today! @inquirer.com @phillyinqfood.bsky.social

Morning campers! We have a #SRSlyGood book launch coming up on 2nd June at 17.30BST. Join @drwillgreen.bsky.social in conversation with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social as they discuss their man Tommy Middleton's Theatre of War #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Here @parergon.bsky.social our call is open for proposals for special issue 45.2 (2028) - please circulate widely! www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...

Come and ask me questions about Shakespeare in the Kitchen! Really looking forward to this.

Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!* 22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST *other [meal]time zones available rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents

Also, will you just look at @gaypanek.bsky.social 's gorgeous photo on @inquirer.com !

Read Kiki Arantia's article about Shakespeare in the Kitchen in @inquirer.com today! @phillyinqfood.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/GE1MCw

It's @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social in my newspaper! share.inquirer.com/tayMsR

Yes! So glad the @inquirer.com has picked up on this awesome story. Congrats @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social !

guest editors Jennifer Jahner and Jessica Rosenberg bring together 31 contributors to reflect on these themes across 22 dynamic pieces—research articles, interviews between academics and practitioners, and ‘skill-shares,’ short works of practical knowledge

technique—technology—technê ‘Technique: Alternate histories of expertise and experiment’—our 2025 double special issue—explores modes of making and questions of functionality, ornamentation, craft, artificiality, skill

It's been fun reading the other essays in this special issue! I wrote a short piece for it about making possets (often badly).

the issue is temporarily #openaccess, head over to our website to read contributions by @leonieboettiger.bsky.social (@mpiwg.bsky.social), @drcourt.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, @georginaemw.bsky.social among others‬:

stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!

Seems a delicious read.

It's official! I've been promoted to (full) professor effective July 1. Thank you to everyone who has helped me along my way. www.psu.edu/news/academi...

Really excited to talk about Shakespeare in the Kitchen at some upcoming events!

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

You could just read scholarship before you cite it and only coauthor pieces with other people who do the same.

If you are interested in achieving a deeper understanding of the writings of William Shakespeare (as I certainly am), this interview with @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social will open an entirely new area of exploration into his works: food and cooking. #Booksly podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

It was a pleasure to talk to Miranda Melcher about Shakespeare in the Kitchen for this episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/shakespeare-...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between digital humanities & the growing book lab movement & while prepping for a “So You Want to Build a BookLab?” workshop this week considered this connection—like many DH centers, many book labs are about supporting community, not individual work

It was a pleasure to talk to Miranda Melcher about Shakespeare in the Kitchen for this episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/shakespeare-...

Rick-rolled by BL Add. MS 45964 (cc: @stemma.bsky.social)

Or, put another way, "You're like the cook who tried to put live eels into her eel pie." It's a joke that falls flat today, but it would have hit home in 1600. Only an idiot, Shakespeare winks at his knowing audience, wouldn't know how to make at least a basic eel pie! /fin

In Act II, Lear throws a pity party, crying: “Oh my heart, my rising heart! But down!” His fool mocks him: "Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' th' paste alive. She knapped 'em o' th' coxcombs with a stick and cried, “Down, wantons, down!" 2/3

In pre-modern England, everyone ate eels. And not knowing how to deal with them was a literary trope -- a marker of culturally visible stupidity. There's a great example in Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Fun fact: there are more eels in Shakespeare's writing than any other fish! 1/3 🗃️🧪

The CFP for the Stuart Drama Conference (July 2027) is officially open! stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... Been a privilege to dream this up with the incredible @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social and @bkadams.bsky.social. So excited to share it with you all!

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

We've joined forces with the Writers' Guild of Great Britain to issue urgent new guidance outlining measures authors can take to protect themselves against scams. Download the guide on our website. buff.ly/qOhFz8q

I have been told that certain celebrity girlboss influencers have issued a social media fatwa on this column. Therefore, I’m sharing it again because I’m just that kind of contrary.

We're excited to share a new dataset, The Playboy Fiction Index, by Nora Shaalan. It includes metadata for +1,000 works of fiction that appeared in Playboy between 1953-2020—featuring authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, and more. data.post45.org/posts/playbo...

I don’t know if I would be going to play at the Folger if not for the work Marissa has done to show new ways of engaging with archival material. It has been an honor to see her near & far, as my own manuscript work took me in weird directions.

Here begins a little thread about all the chapters in my new book Shakespeare in the Kitchen! (to be updated sorta daily until I make it all the way through)

👀 over the last few months, I’ve been working on a project with that terrific triumvirate of scholarly erudition @bkadams.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social & @cazzert.bsky.social, and we’re almost ready to lure y’all to Liverpool in July 2027 to be part of it…

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: 13th-century London had such high water needs that the city constructed a system of twelve conduits, or underground pipes that brought fresh water from springs over 2 miles away to public pumps in the city centre

May this become a Big Ten trend!

"The faculty vote comes on the heels of graduate students voting in November 2025 to unionize. It also comes amid sweeping changes at Penn State, including the decision to close seven campuses, and hire McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of the university's operational and academic operations."

WE ARE UNION! www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

127 years after the very first Arden Shakespeare play published in 1899, a new generation of editions begins today. The first 2 plays - Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar - are out now 🎉 Discover the Fourth Series: https://bit.ly/48RVXiA

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

I am once again here to preach the good word that Thomas Pynchon is a gorgeously readable writer and also probably the greatest american prose stylist of at least the last 50 years and people who tell you his books are calculus tests for boys don’t love you and Vineland is a great place to start

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

tá tatá tata ta

Screaming crying carrying on

For the past several years I’ve been working on a database of Pennsylvania’s surviving county slave registrations. Now, a pilot site exists. I hope JTR will demonstrate the value of collecting these materials in a single place. There’s more to do, but I’m proud of this. justandtrue.lib.uiowa.edu

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

We’ll be at the World Shakespeare Congress this summer @wsc2026verona.bsky.social to lead an informational event about the New Variorum Shakespeare. Speakers will include our Director Dr. Robert Stagg, one of our Digital Editors Dr. Dorothy Todd, and one of our General Editors Prof. Paul Werstine.