Fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, 2026–2027 THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowships. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/9428-2/

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4) We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live! buff.ly/tFadeCz This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access. Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

2026 CSRS Conference, June 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. 2026 SCÉR colloque, juin 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. Announcement with Call for Article Abstracts / Annonce avec Appel à communications: csrs-scer.com/congress-202...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

"A fourth? Start, eyes!" The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming. Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇

I really needed this today. Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social You can get lost in it. A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

Excited to have a new article out in Renaissance Drama! This one traces how early modern clowns relied on disability imitation. So much familiar clowning activity appropriates disabled performance, behavior, or positionality that the distinction between "artificial" and "natural" fools is tricky.

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Come visit our table in the RSA/SAA Exhibit Hall in Boston. We'll be sharing the table with Digital Renaissance Editions. #SHAX2025

B&L is starting a search for new general editors! Please share widely and reach out with any questions. The editorial team will be at #shax2025 and happy to talk about your vision for this amazing journal.

More thoughts on Eleanor Rykener in the BL's #MedievalWomen exhibition. Her inclusion is majorly important, not just because of *her* importance as a beacon of trans visibility in the historical record, but also the current anti-trans environment in the UK & elsewhere

*Out now* 'The Winter's Tale: A Critical Reader' edited by @drpetekirwan.bsky.social & Todd Borlik contains cutting-edge essays covering critical and performance history as well as new scholarship on themes of ecology, hospitality, childhood, and racialisation in the play. bit.ly/4b3D2kN

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, now voted one of the most influential minds in the world… english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

✨ It was such a delight to stumble upon Anthony Trollope's notes on Christopher Marlowe's plays last October at the Folger! Even better was collaborating with the brilliant @lauraestill.bsky.social on our Collation post, "Anthony Trollope Reads Christopher Marlowe"! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!

I see that it's finally Business Time on Bluesky. So: I speak for the Program Committee for the 2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social conference, in Denver. We're accepting proposals for seminars, panels, and workshops: Questions? Ask me, or my committee-mates in next post. And please spread the word!

tl;dr: They can't. LLMs aren't peers and will make mistakes that alter good work done by actual humans. Please stop trying to make already difficult things even worse, tech bros.

I've made a starter pack for academics who work in Premodern Trans Studies: go.bsky.app/RihBQMi There used to be more of us on the old site, but if I'm missing anyone, at any career stage, please let me know and I'll add them. Thanks! We have always been here.

I added half a dozen new entries to the Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies, with a shoutout to @tswingard.bsky.social who added a few things recently as well. (Thank you!!) There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.

Publication day is here! I am excited to announce that my chapter “Astonished and Amazed” has been published in None A Stranger There. The chapter thinks about Middleton’s Triumph of Truth, Black Christianity, and respectability politics. #shakerace #raceb4race books.google.ca/books?hl=en&...

Hello, haven’t been here in a while but we’re gonna try again. Here’s my gorgeous book cover. I am obsessed. She’s due in December !

Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!

Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Really delighted to share my and Maria Shmygol's special issue of Shakespeare on 'Shakespeare in Action' with outstanding contributions from our authors. Hope that you enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

Most current formats for digital humanities projects only have an expected lifespan of 10 years. Our answer? The Endings Project! The Endings Project has developed a set of principles for sustainable digital humanities projects from start to end. Learn more about this project at endings.uvic.ca

Trans misogyny has a long history, but so does trans world-making in its face. And almost always at its centre, the sex worker 💅 Join me for my (first!) visiting lecture on Tuesday, March 5th at the University of Toronto or online 💘 Register for free here: tinyurl.com/sexworkersco...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race is here! There are so many brilliant chapters for you to read including one I wrote entitled Editing Shakespeare and Race. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

As you share your 2023 reading wrap-ups and begin to compile your 2024 reading lists, here’s my plug for ‘The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024’, coming in April 2024! #EarlyModern

follow along over the next couple of weeks as editors for the arden shakespeare, 4th series, discuss editorial challenges arising from the first folio texts of shakespeare's plays: youtube.com/playlist?lis... here's my short bit on naming joan (of arc) in 1 HENRY 6: youtu.be/Mq24Rj2G4Wg?...

On behalf of LEMDO, I am delighted to announce the release of the new Queen’s Men Editions anthology at lemdo.uvic.ca/qme, including Kirk Melnikoff’s new edition of Selimus and three remediated and republished editions. All OA texts encoded in TEI-XML.

Natalie Davis's obituary in today's NY Times. #earlymodern www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/b...

OUT NOW 🎉 “Trans Histories by Trans Historians,” a GHR special issue featuring the work of nine emerging trans historians and the joyful cover art of Two-Spirit artist Milo Ira. Co-edited by @chrisapihlak.bsky.social and yours truly 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share & read open-access here: tinyurl.com/ghrvol12