If you’re in Welly it’s not too late to register for Patricia Akhimie’s talk on race and setting in Othello - Tues 25 Nov 5pm Hunter Council Chamber

Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social

Wonderful work in the @elccprogramme.bsky.social at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social! Congratulations @nikkihessell.bsky.social

I need to share my euphoria and sense of complete f***ing triumph that it is 5 November, grading done, and I’m in actual stacks with 7 weeks to go til shutdown 💪 [antipodean academic calendar] also we still have stacks

I reposted a repost of this a couple of days ago but @mehr.nz articulates with such clarity and precision here the state of the NZ research sector. This is a crisis for all of us - including our students and their opportunities. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Fascinating Katherine Philips find!

Media and Communication job at Victoria University of Wellington - come work with us! ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Our book gets launched in Wellington in a few weeks and youse are all welcome. The Tokyo launch is in November!

And while we're on @parergon.bsky.social, we're just sending to print issue 42.1 (2025) - and loving Agnolo Bronzino's Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour on our cover, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

And don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions about submitting a proposal - we'd love to hear from you

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing theconversation.com/top-australi...

Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!

Spread the word: 3-year Shakespeare and early modern literature job at the University of Auckland: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students. Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Boston and Harvard you were lovely, but this beauty did a good job of welcoming me home today

17thC ms question: are these random numbers/squiggles or am I missing a key? V grateful for any thoughts.

Boston sunset last night #Shax2025 #RenSA2025

Wellington, NZ friends and more: get to Wellington Opera’s world premiere of Dame Gillian Whitehead’s Mate Ururoa - a wonderful and unique opportunity to hear this work www.wellingtonopera.nz/2025/mate-ur...

So delighted to share that Te Herenga Waka is taking up partnership with SGCNZ in the beloved annual Shakespeare festivals: www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/03...

Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social

We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

The top-up funding adds $1.67 into our research system for every $1 spent. An absolute bargain...unless you actively want to discourage certain research.

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What fresh horror? Two weeks after Hums and Soc Sci research was cut from the Marsden Fund, MBIE announces it is cutting off Hums and Soc Sci researchers’ access to Horizon EU. Make this make sense - economic? social? cultural? We are now denying NZ researchers access to other countries’ funding 🤯

We're hiring! VUW Classics is looking for a generalist and particularly encouraging specialists in Greek history and Roman art and archaeology to apply. Full details here: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Think you might use our digital edition *at all*? Then now is your chance to make sure it works for you as well as possible. Have a play and then press the feedback icon and spend 30 seconds or so letting us know what wasn't so great so we can try and fix it! #EarlyModern #Yorkshire #FamilyHistory

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

*Please share widely!* Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

"Marsden funding for social sciences and humanities is a tiny portion of our overall research funding, and yet makes a massive impact. Without it, the pie starts to crumble." thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-1...

This is an utter disgrace: New Zealand has such a stellar record in cutting edge humanities research. I have assessed multiple Marsden applications and will be writing to express my disgust at this decision

Our fantastic colleague @nikkihessell.bsky.social is convening the joint Australasian 18C and Romantic Studies conference in Wellington, NZ, Nov 26-28 2025. It will be a cracker! Info 👇

Grateful for a weekend in Dublin speaking at the Irish Renaissance Seminar, thanks to @rhetorician.bsky.social and her UCD colleagues - such fun

Just created a starter pack for people interested in early modern women! Somewhat random and definitely incomplete, so please suggest more people to add (including yourself) go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

Hi everyone and welcome! So great to see everyone here. A promo: I edit @parergon.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social with Rosalind Smith: we publish excellent scholarship in medieval and early modern studies: art, architecture, literature, theatre, music, philosophy, theology and history ... 1/3

Hi everyone! I edit book reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin (@shaxbull.bsky.social), so if you want to review a book about #earlymodern drama in performance, get in touch! See below for a call for theater reviews too.

The University of Waikato in Hamilton, NZ, is advertising two lectureships in English, one in pre-1900 and one in post-1900 literature: elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @parergon.bsky.social @anzamems.bsky.social

All righty folks, let's do this thing. Met Gala looks as the covers of Broadview Editions, a 🧵

Psst #medievalsky #earlymodern! The next @anzamems.bsky.social conference is going to be in Melbourne, sometime in December 2025. Why not start planning your trip!? It would be a blast to see you there!

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Ideas of space and place were central to Anne Southwell's concept of poetic creation. In this article from our latest issue, Cassandra Gorman explores Southwell's use of imagery to write physical and astronomical encounters. search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

New year, new articles! Issue 40.2 went to print in December and we're going to share the excellent research with you over the coming weeks. First, though, you really must read the intro to the special issue by its editors, @katefallan.bsky.social and Nupur Patel. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication. Please share widely (scroll down after following link) www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

Also I'm going to be back at Keble College Oxford for ALL of Michaelmas term - 2024 is a year of treats and I can't wait to catch up with UK friends and colleagues.