Claiming a desire for “transparency,” TAMU administrators are acting as though administrative review isn’t the first step toward censorship.

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

This is really great news, both because it's a wonderful project and because @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is a brilliant advocate for our subject.

We’re so excited for our hybrid conference in Denver - have you registered for #Shax2026 yet? Linktr.ee/saaupdates

Every paragraph of this describes a situation that just gets more and more bonkers. Texas A&M is not a university. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

In the past month two essays of mine on Measure for Measure have appeared in the world. They are very different & politely act like they don’t know each other. One is in this (fabulous-looking) issue of Shakespeare Studies

Outrageous.

Did you publish a book about or adjacent to #Shakespeare since the 2024 meeting of @saaupdates.bsky.social? Please fill out this Google form to provide information about your book and join us for a celebration at #Shax2026 in Denver on Friday, 4/3, from 10:30-11am. forms.gle/aTKJdQZniypr...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

Merry COVIDmas. 🤒😷😩

This is just the sweetest thing. I love the San Antonio Public Library! 📚 💝 guides.mysapl.org/gift

If you’re in San Antonio, I’ll be reading from Shakespeare in Tongues tonight at Trinity University alongside Texas Poet Laureate Emeritus and Librotraficante co-founder Lupe Mendez, whose new collection Prayer Holding Night was just published. Join us! luma.com/s93fnvjk

My dad happened to be visiting me in June when my book arrived in the mail, so I gave him a copy. When I saw him again this week at my brother’s house, he said, “I read it cover to cover, and there’s only one thing wrong…you didn’t sign it, so I brought it with me.” 🥺

Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6b

As we look ahead to #GivingTuesday, remember the SAA Annual Fund in your philanthropic plans. Gifts to the Annual Fund support grants for contingent faculty, members without funding, & grad students, plus special events, awards, & prizes. Give at linktr.ee/saaupdates

Get set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists... https://edin.ac/32O7hNr

Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c... Many to thank ...

Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts. First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj... Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...

So exciting to see a new book in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series. I can’t wait to read it!

Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally. A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!) Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h

A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas. "It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.” — Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom

Agreed. It’s a deeply moving film. I also loved hearing her talk about it on WTF with Marc Maron.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.

Last night, I had the chance to meet the amazing Iris De Anda, whose poem “To be a Pocha or not to be” is the subject of the third chapter of my book. Tomorrow, we’re going to be on a panel about poetry and protest for the El Mundo Zurdo conference. What a gift!

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

[Exit Clown.]

Actually remembered to schedule a haircut this AM for tonight’s launch, but of course it’s pouring & I have multiple stops while I’m out. Will it look nice or like a crow’s nest? Hop on YouTube @6:30 TONIGHT to find out! #SweetBook #RaceB4Race www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...

I don't pretend to know every line in Shakespeare, but I definitely know an AI-hallucinated quotation from The Tempest when I see one. 😩

So very proud of our Trinity community for coming together and standing in solidarity against the Trump compact. Check out the coverage in today’s Trinitonian. 🔥✊🏻 trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...

Happening today!

@borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us! www.redbulltheater.com/invierno

Nothing compares to the random conversations one has with strangers in New York City. It’s always so great to be back.

I’ll be speaking at The Henry Ford Theater on November 8 to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media.” Register and get tickets:

Higher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good https://bit.ly/3WbZv8K

What a lovely photo to receive from my former neighbor, whom I miss dearly. I’m so touched! ❤️

I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!

Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you: 1 Event or 1 Organization or 1 Person Here's what we mean...

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

October 5-11 is Banned Books Week. To be sure, we have seen an alarming rise in book banning in recent years, but this is not new, and neither are the powerful forms of resistance against such epistemological violence. (1/2)

A jazz vocalist from Mexico is giving a new romantic and modern spin to the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, a crying female spirit who is said to take children, amid mass deportations in the U.S. www.axios.com/2025/10/05/m...

Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded of our sweet Lexington, who went to his final rest on Thursday. He was with me from dissertation to book(s) and everything in between. Thank you for a beautiful sixteen years together, my handsome lovebug. 🖤🤍

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.