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)

dreamt about my viva: forgot to prepare a presentation, didn't put on a proper outfit, and the president of my jury was david damrosch

still getting used to being allowed to think about other things again now that the PhD thesis is submitted, so for now all I have to say is: it's very curios that two new series, released on May 15 and 16, Duster and Murderbot, use a toy aesthetic for their opening credits

Exciting news! To celebrate the fast approaching end of our @snsf.ch project « Theatre and Judgment in Early Modern England » directed by Kevin Curran, we are organising a one-day symposium at @unil.bsky.social on 6 June! Full program available api.unil.ch/newsunil/v1/...!

okay submitted the final revised version of my phd yesterday... what should i do next?

I’m excited to be presenting at this workshop on May 30th. I will talk about Inxeba/The Wound (2017), privatization of nature, and sexual ecologies in queer cinema. Do come along if you’re around at that time!

doing final revisions of the whole thing is the exact opposite of this

Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)

📣 Job alert: I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Chaucer Studies (0.8 FTE, up to 4 years) to work with me on a new SNSF-funded project on Caroline Spurgeon, to be based at the University of Geneva. The deadline is April 30. www.unige.ch/lettres/angl... +

To academics who are currently organizing conferences: 1st, thank you! 2d, if your conference will be in the UK or Canada, pls consider hybrid options that would enable grad student presenters, those esp who are now in the US as international students, to present remotely.

I once went through the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English to collect all the attested Middle English spellings of ‘through’ (476).

I had the BEST time at #Shax2025 in boston. thank you everyone who showed up for the NextGenPlen & to everyone who came up to me to chat about stage blood, bladders, & other things!

friends & foes at #Shax2025 pls consider coming to the NextGenPlen on saturday: i promise i will deliver a disgusting little paper!

Introducing Early Modern Community of Care! Inspired by similar affinity networks for premodern scholars, we aim to connect early modern scholars with disabilities for mutual support and opportunities to address topics like accessibility. sites.google.com/view/earlymo...

Heading to Boston for SAA? Drop by for the launch of the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions’ new digital resource, *Shakespeare’s Stages* (by @harrymccarthy.bsky.social & Judy Bae)!

Call for Papers for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Organised by @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @kingsartshums.bsky.social