Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...

Good morning! I published this post in my newsletter, on my notebook assignment, my diagnosis on where we stand in relation to AI and EdTech and my view of the role of humanities classes in all of this. Link: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

ICYMI: the SAA email is changing! Check your email for our May Member Update and more information as we move from Ole Miss to our new host institution, the University of Alabama. linktr.ee/saaupdates

As the Folger prepares to welcome his one-man show, "How Shakespeare Saved My Life," writer and performer Jacob Ming-Trent delves deeper into his story and reframes Shakespeare as an urban poet in the vein of Tupac and Biggie. Now on the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Some good news worth celebrating: my colleagues and I proposed a new major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (in addition to the minor we've had for many years), and we just received word that it was officially approved at all levels. The work continues!

Congratulations to the entire Arden 4 team! I enjoyed getting a behind-the-scenes look into the process as a series fellow a few years ago. I’m excited to dive into the first two plays!

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

As with COVID, those of us doing the teaching and the learning are left to make our own ad-hoc plans without any guidance or support.

The best advice I got as an undergraduate headed to grad school was “everything is a work in progress — including your published work” “Books are never finished you just stop writing them & turn over the mss” is very similar energy.

We round up all the Shakespeare news this spring, including the exciting discovery by scholar Lucy Munro of an overlooked map confirming the location of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, Shakespeare's only London real estate purchase. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Please enjoy this absolute beauty from my front yard.

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...