"Physiognomy and Visual Judgment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe," an issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (54:1) is now online! Check out the TOC & read the intro by editors John Jeffries Martin & Manuela Bragagnolo for free: ow.ly/2hIe50Qvx9h

🏳️‍🌈 Open for registration Queer & Trans philologies 🗓️ 22-23 March 📍 Online & Faculty of English crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800 A conference that seeks to bring together researchers working across disciplines on the historical ties between language, sexuality, and embodiment.

My and Dr Maria Shmygol 🌻's introduction to our Shakespeare journal special issue on 'Shakespeare in Action' is now live, and you can read it for free via this link if you don't have institutional access! 50 eprints available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/DICJJ6E…

Thinking a bit about the temporal depth of the early modern repertory (or lack thereof). There's something interesting going on with the repertory of the Admiral's Men in the mid 1590s, at least as documented by Henslowe.

OUT IN THIS WEEK'S The TLS— IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by me, @aarontpratt, & jes1003 the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-… cc Phoenix Public Library 🧵

My book, HERE IS A FIGURE: GROUNDING LITERARY FORM, is coming out with Northwestern University Press!! It’s about all the different people lying around & lying on the ground in contemporary literature, what they’re figuring & what they ask of us. nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/…

Are you interested in early modern practical texts (e.g., husbandry manuals, cookery books, surveying texts)? @fairban_c and I are hoping to edit a book on this very subject! Send us your submissions by 30th August! drive.google.com/file/d/1SZgZcL…

I am so excited to announce the relaunch of the Shakespeare and Consent website today! the project has changed shape a lot over the past three years, and now it will host a series of companions to Shakespeare's plays rooted in helping artists discuss consent and other topics

Looking to publish your first academic article? We're hosting an in-person panel and Q&A with editors and writers on Friday 28th June at 16:00. Join us! tickettailor.com/events/centref… Hannah Murphy Laura Gowing Emily Rowe King's History King's Arts & Humanities

I'm ridiculously excited about #marlowe24 next week! If you're there and interested in blood & gore, please consider coming to my paper and our Marlowe and Materiality panel (July 11, 9am)

Patrick Durdel (Patrick Durdel) has written an excellent reflection of MSA Deptford Day 2! Read it here! marlowesocietyofamerica.org/home/2024/7/11… #marlowe24

CfP! I am working on an edited collection on Korean Shakespeare with two brilliant colleagues, Han Yehrim and Scott Shepherd. We welcome contributions on all approaches to the topic. RTs appreciated, and please feel free to reply/email with questions!

We're advertising a one-year postdoc to work with me and the Print Matters team. If you're into embodiment and text technologies (any period) and keen to turn your hand to letterpress printing, please apply! Feel free to be in touch with questions. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Dr Eleanor Rycroft (ellierycroft.bsky.social) and I are hosting the March 25 meeting of Medieval English Theatre Society in Bristol. Theme is 'Medieval Theatre in Action', also ft. a workshop performance of 'The Life of Job'. Send us your abstracts/ email your questions! CfP here: medievalenglishtheatre.co.uk/meet_2025/meet…

I'm word-oriented, obscurity-loving human. I found a home for myself in early modern studies, where those core traits can be oriented towards ethical, pleasurable communal work. My new book rethinks 'stupidity' and 'pedantry' and 'nonsense' to share that orientation.

📣Job klaxon📣 We’re hiring Shakespeare’s Globe for a fixed-term Lecturer & Research Fellow and we’d love to have you join us. shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-oppor…

This article from The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America examines questions of forgery and pseudonymity surrounding a Romantic-era, gender-nonconforming writer. Learn more about the possibilities of trans bibliography: ow.ly/jSIS50Tn0SY The Bibliographical Society of America

Sorry to toot my own horn but: a collection edited by Carla Mazzio on the future - & the future of Shakespeare studies - has just come out from UPenn press & it contains an essay by yrs truly called “Earth Dies Burning.” I worked really hard on this and I hope you will read it.

Raising a toast to Devani Singh, whose book Chaucer's Early Modern Readers has been named winner of the 2024 Book Prize for a first monograph; awarded by the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. 🎉📚🏆 Discover more: cambridge.org/universitypres… SAMEMES (Disabled)

i’m beyond thrilled to be co-organizing next week’s Folger Research symposium—MARLOWE, SHAKESPEARE, & EDITORIAL FUTURES—with @bkadams, Rory Loughnane, & catherine richardson. 📖📚🎭✨ more info: folger.edu/research/the-f…