After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill 'Look not so fierce on me'

Please consider donating to help make Meghan Andrews's forthcoming work open-access. Meghan passed away from cancer in 2023 and was honored at the MSA conference in Deptford with the Meghan C. Andrews Memorial Lecture. You can find the link to the GoFundMe here: tinyurl.com/yc8pdpbu

this is an absolutely brilliant book, go check it out & order it for your libraries!

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

Resource announcement: 'Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809' The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235

today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!

It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟 If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at [email protected] 🤍

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'? bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'. here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

Call for papers for the next Medieval English Theatre Society Meeting (28th March 2026). The theme of the meeting will be ‘Records and Performance’.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Monday 10 November @ 7.30pm online PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture. Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...

Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of! www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

@gregmw4.bsky.social and I received the wonderfully welcome news that 'Predramatic Theatre' has been accepted for publication by Palgrave following peer review. Who knows? It might even be out by Christmas! It has certainly been a gift working with my mentor on a topic we're both passionate about.

I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

last day, people!

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me! www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

I am writing a book about ideas about/theories of performance in some weird/great 16c. plays that are not often taught etc. – I would love to hear what you would hope to find in such a book to matter for your research/teaching in early modern drama!

🌟Publication Day!🌟 The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Does anyone have easily to hand: William Proctor Williams, 'F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in 17th Century Binding', Shakespeare Newsletter 16 (1966)?

maybe not "top", but ones that changed the way I view things & think about theatre: *2023 titus at the sam wanamaker *2022 soho place as you like it *2008 (and still running) schaubühne hamlet *a 2025 production of twelfth night at my old high school *the merry wives currently at the globe

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts. what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

i spent my last day of work at the university of lausanne in london with students on the yearly shax trip and saw a surprisingly tender production of merry wives at the globe. i'm not really a good new historicist so i'cant really spin a meaningful anecdote out of this, but i was very happy!

I'm organizing a seminar on "climate fictions before climate change" for next year's acla in montréal. if you have sth: pls submit; if you know someone: pls share widely! www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

🥳 Announcing our reading group! Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us! Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz

The 2026 World #Shakespeare Congress takes place in Verona, & @gemmaallred.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social & I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their 21st-Century Reverberations - come join us! #WSC2026 Register at www.wsc2026.org

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

ICYMI: The SAA Graduate Committee is looking for new members! These collaborative roles are open to any current Ph.D.-level SAA graduate students. Find more information and apply online by September 2: linktr.ee/saaupdates

so many things i want to write instead of my book proposal

Have you registered yet for this year's #Globe4Globe? Join us for 24 hours of Shakespeare and environmental justice, with a brilliant line-up of speakers! Free and online. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

no time like the present to impulsively submit a seminar proposal for acla i guess

The tracklist of R+J's soundtrack album, released in 1996.

My recent lecture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social can now be found on their YouTube channel youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ.

early modern drama people: I'm starting to think about a new project about (modern) rehearsal practices and the study of (early modern) drama. would that be interesting? who's working on rehearsal?

so so so excited to announce that starting october i'll be at oxford for a postdoc, working on a new research project on climate control in early modern lit!

The real reason academic conferences exist is that after you have marinated your brain in hundreds of books on a single field of study for 10+ years there are only so many people you can speak coherent sentences to, and it’s a pleasure to have them all in one place 😅

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

If you would like to come & be me for a year (in terms of employment) then we are advertising for a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Email me with any queries (address in ad). I assure you there are v few places as Med/Emod as Norwich. Pls share! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...

so so excited that this will be out in the world soon!! (in this year's shakespeare survey)

revels office conference happening right now! doing some things about props and bodies later www.youtube.com/watch?v=d21w...

apparently this really happened, still can't believe it

I thought I'd do before and after pics, but I looked so so done after the viva there's no chance i'm putting that online, so only before (aka GRWM to do some defending)

viva day!! (on the train to Lausanne, putting together my ppt slides like some kind of management consultant)