Feminist approaches to editing The Taming of the Shrew.

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

You’re most likely the one called to build the community you crave and can’t find.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Gender studies explains so much of our current moment

The epistemic violence of this moment is absolutely devastating. Students in Texas deserve better.

Second edition in the Arden 4 has arrived! Titus Andronicus, expertly edited by @curtisperry.bsky.social and Ayanna Thompson! This will be a groundbreaking edition, I predict, just as Bate’s for Arden3 was. Looks great next to @authorajhartley.bsky.social‘s superb JC for @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

I’m delighted to share that I will be spending next year in community with an outstanding group of fellows at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where I’ll be working on my next book, Mischiefs Manifold: A Cultural History of Sycorax. nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national...

One among many highlights of #Shax2026 for me was hosting the book celebration, a wonderful tradition created by Louise Geddes several years ago. This year’s event featured more than 50 books published by our @saaupdates.bsky.social members since 2024. sites.google.com/trinity.edu/... 1/3

Such a wonderful celebration at #Shax2026! Photos to follow soon!

We can't wait to see you THIS WEEK in Denver! #Shax2026 kicks off on Wednesday with on-site registration, our opening business meeting, and a social gathering and cash bar for registered attendees and their guests. Check out the full schedule online or in our app. linktr.ee/saaupdates

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.4 is now published via Project Muse! Find the final issue of Shakespeare Bulletin's 2025 volume, now fully open access. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610

Dr. Rodolfo Acuña is one of the most powerful voices in the final chapter of Shakespeare in Tongues, where I write about the outlawing of the Mexican American Studies curriculum in Tucson, which included both Acuña’s Occupied America and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. May Dr. Acuña rest in power.

Latest issue of @shaxbull.bsky.social is out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610 Delighted to join the editorial board of a journal I've long admired. We publish in all areas of Shakespearea performance including early modern & not-Shakespearean stuff so please consider sending us your work & spread the word!

First copies of the Fourth Series landing!

In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires. Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration. Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi

Todos Agua III is a weeklong event to reconnect us with the spirituality of our waterways. Musician Azul Barrientos joins us for a preview of the event happening at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, virtually, and at Brackenridge Park, March 21-28. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/xEbb7

Do you know which iconic civil rights leader has a birthplace that sits vacant without a plaque or acknowledgement and is basically a ghost town? Dolores Huerta. Here's a piece I wrote about it 7 years ago when I was at the Associated Press. www.latimes.com/travel/cruis...

There are just no words. More power to her. May she find peace as she continues to do her amazing work.

And more from Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

Check out all of the beautiful books published by members of @saaupdates.bsky.social since our 2024 meeting! If you will be in Denver for #Shax2026, I hope you'll join us for a celebration on Friday, April 3rd, from 10:30-11:00am in the Centennial Foyer! sites.google.com/trinity.edu/...

If you have not submitted yet but wish to be included, please do so by tomorrow! I'll be sending out a detailed note about the event soon. #Shax2026

This is an *excellent*—albeit temporary—opportunity for an early modernist. 1 year VAP at Bates College in Maine. Very happy to answer questions about teaching at Bates (this is the position I'm currently in). Please pass along to anyone who might be interested! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism! Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

🚨A larum for SAA members🚨 if you published a book about or adjacent to #Shakespeare since #Shax2024, fill out this Google form to join us for a Book Celebration at #Shax2026! forms.gle/aTKJdQZniypr...

Borrowing the phrase “incites the spleen of ___” from Wesleyan President Michael S Roth for future dismissals of people. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Wait. He’s still talking? I thought I had avoided it by staying offline for several hours over here in Central time.

The 2025 book Shakespeare in Tongues by author Kathryn Vomero Santos examines how Shakespeare is still used as a spotlight to bring attention to lesser-known histories of linguistic oppression and colonial resistance. Read More👉 ebx.sh/7CH7Ox

It’s always such a thrill to visit the @texaspublicradio.bsky.social studios and to speak with @normdog1.bsky.social and @mariannavarro.bsky.social on their marvelous #Fronteras program. I’m grateful for the opportunity to discuss Shakespeare in Tongues on the most recent episode. Check it out!

Do pop by the EUP stand to say hello and grab one of our fab books! @rsaorg.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The judge, a President George W. Bush appointee, likened the administration’s rationale for removing the panels to the authoritarian regime in George Orwell’s novel "1984."

the day-to-day is getting uglier and uglier. glad there’s beauty in community.

🚨 UT Austin is planning to shutter its African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS); Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (MALS); Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); and American Studies departments. 👇 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

138 years ago today, Congress signed the Dawes Act into law. You may have never heard of it, but this law redrew the map of the United States.

U Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST). Join us we discuss the volume & commitments to decolonization and their importance in a Canadian context. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Arts + Humanities FTW!

Don’t forget to vote, SAA friends!

Education is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵

"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)

Tomorrow, we stand together and demand an end to censorship at Texas A&M. No more bans. Students deserve to learn without uncertainty, and faculty deserve to teach without retaliation. Join us. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

All SAA members are encouraged to vote in the election of new Trustees! Vote by February 15 to help shape the future of the SAA. Bios and candidate statements are available on our website, linktr.ee/saaupdates

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

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