Back from leave with a new article to share - thanks to my co-authors for collaborating on this one! If you're interested in authentic assessment in lit studies, open access is available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s me! From Shakespeare’s sparring lovers to Hollywood meet-cutes, this in-conversation event unpacks what keeps us hooked on rom-coms – and why we need them now more than ever. 📅 Thursday 4 Dec, 6–7pm⁠ 📍 Southbank Theatre⁠ ⁠ Free, but bookings are required: mtc.com.au/much-ado-about-rom-coms

Latest #HeartoftheMatter podcast ep up now - featuring the three of us delving into three heart films: two rom-coms, one slasher! Listen here - sites.google.com/view/thehear... #healthhum

Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work

A HUGE congrats to ANU English's very own @rossmith.bsky.social and @claireghansen.bsky.social on their recent ARC Discovery grant success! 'Handwritten' promises to change how we think about the significance, value & power of writing by hand, then and now - congrats to the dream team! 🥳 🥳 🥳

A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We are finishing up #Globe4Globe with "Plant, Trees, Soil", feat. Theo Black - BIOphelia @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Liz Oakley-Brown - Shakespearean Soil Imaginaries: Creative Encounters with Climate Emergencies

We're rapidly coming to the end of #G4G2025 - if you missed out, keep an eye out for the release of the recordings of these incredible presentations!

We're now talking "Land and Language" with Chris Thurman, Kirsten Sandrock and Craig Dionne. #G4G2025

Feline assistance at #G4G2025

After a wonderful session on "Eco-theatrical adaptation" with Asher Noor, Alys Daroy, Paul Prescott & Monika Smialkowska, we're now moving onto "Staging and Reading Sustainability" - with @rwfm.bsky.social, Sophie Chiari and Liz Schafer! #G4G2025 #Globe4Globe

It's not too late to join #Globe4Globe 2025 live and hear from the world's leading minds on Shakespeare and environmental justice. All details here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

3 fabulous speakers on "the Little Ice Age" at #Globe4Globe: Lukas Arnold on Thomas Nashe; Laurie Johnson on cultural history and climate crisis; Una McIlvenna on disaster ballads #G4G2025

So lucky to see this epic line of eco-adaptations screened for #Globe4Globe 2025. Join us in an hour for our final plenary: Sandra Young - 'An Ordinary Storm: Attending to climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession through “wild adaptation”' events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Next up on #G4G2025 is "Creative Ecological Activism" panel! We're halfway through our 24 hours of live Shakespeare - still time to join us! events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

We're onto Session 9 here at #Globe4Globe, on "Histories of Indigeneity and Colonialism": Todd Borlik - Caliban as Ecological Indian Katherine Gillen - Colonized Knowledge and Environmental Justice in Titus Andronicus Florence Boulard - Roméo et Juliette in Kanaky–New Caledonia #G4G2025

If you're not at #Globe4Globe 2025 you're missing a fabulous session on animal justice, complete with gorgeous live bird cameo #G4G2025

Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice! Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare #G4G2025

Back into panels now with Tiffany Jo Werth, Daniel Vitkus and Carolyn Sale speaking on "Presentism & Futurism" events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Onto the 3rd plenary of #G4G2025 with Madeline Sayet's "Rotten Policy: Shakespeare’s Political Ecologies" - full program here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

"time to imagine what has previously felt unimaginable"; "it is time to 'awake our faith'" - Guy Jones, New Writing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe, #G4G2025

"blown away by the early modern relationship to nature" - Michelle Terry, Shakespeare's Globe, speaking at #G4G2025

"Everyone is still surprised by the Titania speech" - Michelle Terry speaking at #G4G2025 #globe4globe #shakespeare #ecocrisis

And we're off with Globe4Globe 2025! First up is Michelle Terry (Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe) and Guy Jones (New Writing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe) #G4G2025

Less than a day until #Globe4Globe 2025! If you haven't registered yet, join us for 24 hours of scholars, practitioners and educators discussing Shakespeare & environmental justice. It's free, it's online, it's live for 24 hours! #G4G2025 events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Globe4Globe 2025 is only a few days away! We've added more exciting names and screenings to the line-up - you can check the program and register (free) here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

I have just submitted my short video presentation for this awesome symposium! Join me to chat predators, and check out the awesome program of presenters. 🐻🐺

Huge thanks to brilliant coauthor Florence Boulard - our chapter on reimagining Romeo & Juliet in Kanaky-New Caledonia is out now!

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Have you registered yet for this year's #Globe4Globe? Join us for 24 hours of Shakespeare and environmental justice, with a brilliant line-up of speakers! Free and online. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Take a sneak peek at the incredible speakers we have lined up for #Globe4Globe this year. If you're interested in #shakespeare, environmental justice, theatre, performance, education, social justice & climate change - register now for our 12-13 Sep online event! events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

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The Reef just recorded its worst coral loss on record. We're losing a natural wonder due to climate inaction. 🇦🇺 is 2nd biggest fossil fuel exporter & one of ⬆️ per capita emitters in the 🌏 We need bold leadership to protect the people & places we love www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Thanks to Cassidy Cash for welcoming us to #ThatShakespeareLife to discuss broken hearts in Shakespeare! Always a joy to chat with my brilliant co-conspirator Brid Phillips. Listen here: www.cassidycash.com/wilt-break-m...

Interested in #Shakespeare & environmental justice? Register (free!) to join the Globe4Globe 2025 Symposium: online, 12-13 Sep 2025. An incredible line-up of speakers from across the globe, supported by Shakespeare's Globe & ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined. #RepealJRG theconversation.com/top-australi...

Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so. Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our amazing leader @rossmith.bsky.social has been awarded the very competitive Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at the Bodleian Library for her work on early modern women’s marginalia! She’ll be there for Trinity term 2026. Congrats Ros! 🥳 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Special section includes contributions by Michael Albright, @claireghansen.bsky.social and Brid Phillips, Angus Gowland, Rachel Robinson, and Rebecca Olson.

Hey #earlymodern folks! Latest issue of *Shakespeare* just out, with a special section on 'Health and Wellbeing' guest-edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

Join Dr Kate Flaherty (ANU English) & Associate Director of Bell Shakespeare James Evans for a screening & discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet at the National Film & Sound Archive 22 Jun 1pm. Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2) tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Book-...

Congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's Bridget Vincent, who, along with researchers in Denmark, has been awarded a Circle U. award for their project to support inclusive participation in academic dialogue. Read about it here: www.circle-u.eu/news/2025/sp...

It's Day 2 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2! #2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.

At @englishanu.bsky.social we're super excited to announce our courses for semester 2, so we're going to spend the next few days showcasing them! #1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re delighted to have our #HeartoftheMatter podcast listed here!

Latest #HeartoftheMatter podcast ep on health literacy and cardiovascular disease. Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Dire: historians of 17th century absolutism “please don’t make our expertise relevant!”

Australia's extinction crisis: 2200+ threatened animals & plants - koalas, northern hairy-nosed wombats, parrots, cockatoos, finches, quolls, gliders, wallabies, frogs, snakes, fish. "Scientists say that, unless something is done to improve their plight, many could become extinct this century."

Every year, over 600 million farmed animals are transported across Australia under poor conditions that result in stress, injury and even death. 📢 This must stop!⚠️ #AnimalsNotCargo Sign our newest petition to #EndCruelAnimalTransport! ✍️ fpau.org/stop-cruel-live-transport