👀 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

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.