Saw the Hamnet trailer last night. Looks wonderful, and sorry to be that guy, but… painted sets at the Globe?!

Six years as Dr Harry. This guy wouldn’t have believed what’s happening now. Photo by @pascaleexeter.bsky.social minutes after @lucycmunro.bsky.social & Jane Milling gave me my laurels.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this really isn’t the site for me - so email for work (link in bio); Instagram for cocktails.

Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Erickson - a leading light and the ultimate role model for white scholars working within the field of PCRS—and beyond.

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

I personally am taking this as an invitation never to write anything again 🙏

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety (32 today 🎈)

Great to see this year's Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinars making their way onto YouTube - here's @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me in conversation about Titus Andronicus www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQv...

What a wonderful event we had at Bristol this evening with alum @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and Jayne Gold talking about their cutting-edge research. Followed by exceptional pasta/pizza at Moltobuono! - thanks to everyone who turned up on a rainy Thursday.

Despite Everything Going On, my nonagenarian grandmother's principle concern about the move to LA is that I'll unconsciously adopt American spelling

Reading this made my morning - so wonderful to see such thoughtful work on this hot mess of a play 🔥😈

Very excited to be hosting Harry and Jayne, two of our esteemed postgraduate alumni, at Bristol next week. Come if you can! www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

absolutely not.

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Last night, the House of Lords defeated the Government for a fourth time by passing an amendment establishing meaningful transparency measures for the use of rightsholders’ works in AI systems, many of which are being used without recognition, permission or remuneration. (1/3)

I don't know what I was expecting Helkiah Crooke to compare ejaculate to, but it sure wasn't 'a company of Antickes holding hand in hand' who 'vault upon a stage' [Mikrokosmographia, book IV]

Seems a good time to remind that I'm talking about the question of boy actors, 'transvestism', and early modern trans studies in Bristol two weeks from now: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

On the one hand, Awesome. Sir Ian McKellen is an awesome ally. On the other hand, please read Early Modern Trans Studies (#EMoTrans). 1/2 www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

This coming Monday, at 6pm BST, @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and I take to the webinarwaves to discuss Titus Andronicus. Do join us as we try to make sense of this magnificent play! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

The @acmrs.bsky.social RaceB4Race Mentorship Network was transformative for me last year - apply by May 15 to be part of the Fall 2025 cohort: acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/m...

PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

I do! Looking forward to discussing Titus Andronicus with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social in this free webinar next month. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 10,000+! If you haven't added your name, #DoTheWriteThing -

A brilliant reflection on and advocacy for humanities research, teaching, and engagement in these trying but urgent times for SHAPE academia, with a forceful intro from Regenia Gagnier and including @jennyrichards.bsky.social on English and @englishassociation.bsky.social work.

We've just published a thematic collection of essays in the Journal of the @britishacademy.bsky.social exploring the state of HE and of humanities and social sciences within it. I'll thread the pieces so you can find them all in one place. Intro here journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...

And that’s the door closed on my last seminar at Exeter - heading to the train to Cornwall with joy in my heart and a student-gifted bottle of Sémillon in my bag.

A happy discovery: Boy Actors in Early Modern England is now available in paperback! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

We love you @alcs.co.uk 😘 🤑

Re-upping this CFP for the #shax2025 crowd

Friends, you're all at SAA anyway, but if anyone's trying to email me then please note that nothing external is currently getting through to @exeter.ac.uk addresses

Update: our isolationist phase continues! 'any emails sent to you externally today may not be received. You may have to request that the sender resends once this incident is resolved.' I have been doing it wrong all these years because I don't know who has sent me an email until I receive the email

Sorry not to be at @saaupdates.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of this resource - we're very proud of it! Raise a cookie for me...

My Head of Department's young son has diagnosed me with both 'rizz' and 'aura.' What's the prognosis for these painful-sounding conditions?

So excited to be working on this collection with @ellierycroft.bsky.social and @susananderson.bsky.social! I won't be at SAA/RSA, but feel free to grab me virtually for more on Shakespeare/Movement!

Let's take a look at Katheryn Thompson's article, "Knives and Femininity on the Early Modern Stage"! 📰 : muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Grinning ear-to-ear after a first year seminar on The Tamer Tamed this afternoon. What a play! What a group!

Happy #WorldBookDay from this pile screaming at me to finish my review

Thinking about a course on literary boyhoods - what are your favourite novels/poems/plays/films (any era) which tap into masculinity and coming of age?

Thinking about a course on literary boyhoods - what are your favourite novels/poems/plays/films (any era) which tap into masculinity and coming of age?