Save the date! Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond 9/2/26. A webinar that puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation. Learn more about the speakers and register here: na.eventscloud.com/race-and-dis...

What's in the Venn diagram of true crime and 16th century English pamphlets? "The Bloody Mother" offers insight on men narrating women's lives, spectacle, the longevity of lurid media. Read the full excerpt in He Words Me by Katherine Loomis https://ow.ly/MCnR50ZmfKI

Whether Rowlands intended it, “A Courtesan’s Humor” (1607) offers a portrayal of sex work as labor governed by market forces, professional risk, and the pragmatics of survival. Read more works of women's voices penned by male authors in HE WORDS ME free from ACMRS Press: https://ow.ly/Z4uz50Zjklc

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The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3

This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives.

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Volume 3 of The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera is officially out today in print and open access. We hope you'll consider adding these brilliant plays to your syllabus! 💜 acmrspress.com/978086698892...

Four of the boldest Shakespeare adaptations on the US–Mexico border — a narco Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, a queer Hamlet on the turntables, and a Tempest in a hurricane — now free for everyone to read in the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands. Dig in now: https://ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv

To understand our libraries and editorial traditions today, Emma Smith argues we must confront how deeply these systems of value were shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. https://throughlines.org/suite-content/slavery-sugar-and-the-value-of-shakespeare

How lucky are we to call Ty Defoe a colleague and friend? Check out his interview with KJZZ on his multimedia, one-person puppet show SKELETON CANOE: https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2026-06-18/skeleton-canoe-is-a-multimedia-one-person-puppet-show-this-asu-professor-helped-write-it

'Skeleton Canoe' is a multimedia, one-person puppet show. This ASU professor helped write it

An interdisciplinary artist with ties to Arizona State University will be performing this weekend at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Join the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network to develop your research and academic career alongside a leading scholar in premodern critical race studies. Mentees are matched with a mentor for two semesters of virtual meetings. Applications due June 26!: https://acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/mentorship-network

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Building the field of premodern critical race studies will depend on new ideas and new practitioners. RaceB4Race is pleased to offer a dynamic mentorship network, connecting established career scholars with early career scholars. The networ…

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He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me/

Female, queer, non-academics, in a world dominated by male editors with university affiliations, Helen Clarke and Charlotte Porter were outliers in the world of Shakespeare scholarship. The Folger's Curator of Manuscripts Heather Wolfe explores their life and work: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

The American Women Who Transformed Shakespeare Editing | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Happy birthday Shakespeare! Who wants a triple-serving of Titus to celebrate? Ayanna Thompson has three new pieces on Throughlines unpacking the deep questions that arise when you wipe away all the blood in Shakespeare's goriest tragedy. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

Throughlines contributors @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social and Dennis Britton will be presenting at the Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies seminar at Columbia University on Friday. Keynote with Madeline Sayet and Scott Manning Stevens universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/enviro...

Free resources from Cassander Smith on the Black protest tradition, respectability politics, and race in early American lit. Syllabi, classroom activities, video lectures. Start with “Poetic voices across time”—students remix Wheatley and Hammon to address current events: https://ow.ly/8aCt50YLoXr

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Did you catch the @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture from Emma Smith this weekend? www.youtube.com/live/KZV-21r...

Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith

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New and FREE to read online—'What Country Friends, Is This?' Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile. In their intro, editors Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton address our contemporary age of exile and what Shakespeare has to do with it. https://ow.ly/ykO250YLfTr

‘What Country, Friends, Is This?’: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today.

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Need weekend plans? Emma Smith will be delivering the annual @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture "Shakespeare and Immigration" this Saturday 4/18. www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...

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Join us for the Folger Institute's annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University.

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Professor Cassander L. Smith offers an important reading the double-edged sword of respectability politics in the lives of Black Americans. This respectability can be found in the first memoir written in English by a Black African, Olaudah Equiano. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

Shakespeare and the Senses by Holly Dugan is out this week! A fascinating new way to think about Shakespeare. What did early audiences hear, smell, and feel in the theatre? How did those sensations shape meaning? Read online for free or you can grab your own print copy: https://ow.ly/NuoS50YBqRy

We are thrilled to announce “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile—a new edited collection exploring how Shakespeare’s works engage with exile, edited by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton. Read free online: https://ow.ly/XIIO50YBpZT

Many congratulations to Amrita Dhar and Amrita Sen, winners of the SAA Innovative Article Award for their piece in Borrowers and Lenders, "Two Nations, Both Alike: Shakespeare in Bengal." You can read the article for free on the B&L site: https://doi.org/10.18274/659cc926

Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA

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THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week.

How did rare books become valuable? Emma Smith talked to us about the rare books market, Shakespeare's first folio, and their ties to sugar plantations and slave labor in the Caribbean. Learn more from Professor Smith for free at throughlines.org #Shakespeare #BookHistory

This Thursday! Hosted by the Department of English at ASU, actors with @playonshakes.bsky.social visit ASU's Tempe campus to give an inside look at what it takes to perform Shakespeare in the 21st century. asuevents.asu.edu/event/play-s...

Emma Smith traces how editorial traditions today are systems of value shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. Find a snapshot of her work on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

Happy Sun Devil Giving Day! Any support you send to ACMRS goes directly to public programs, open access publishing, and ensuring travel funds are available to scholars attending RaceB4Race. If you can, please consider supporting ACMRS this SDGD acmrs.asu.edu/give

THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week.

ASU hosts a biennial Chaucer celebration, join us March 26-26 for Chaucer's Women! english.asu.edu/chaucer-cele...

Congrats to @a-arvas.bsky.social for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity!

Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

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New Borrowers and Lenders out today! Vol. 17 No. 2 (2026): Borderlands borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/in...