Look at the gorgeous cover! So privileged and lucky to have a chapter in this excellent collection edited by such generous and wonderful scholars and forthcoming from Bloomsbury soon. If you're wondering, it's my _Merchant of Venice_ summer 👀🔥 www.bloomsbury.com/ca/shakespea...

Shakespeare and Early Modern Misogyny

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It's us! #BTHOcensorship #LetUsTeach

Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

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This is right.

ACLU@aclu.org · last wk.

BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.

It must be almost August because I just had my first teaching stress dream of the new academic year, and I’m not even scheduled to teach!

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...

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oh. just here. looking at cover of my new collection of Shakespeare Refracted plays. soon from @methuendrama.bsky.social

Michael Kidd’s translation makes a “robust and accessible starting point for students and scholars” of premodern race studies. Learn more via @kathrynsantsos's review of Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation. buff.ly/rrvtgAh #EarlyModern #Spain

Helping my nephew with his college essay is the auntie job I’ve been training for since the moment I held him in my arms when he was six weeks old. 😭

Every purchase is a vote for the world you want to build. Support independent bookstores, borrow challenged books from your library, and invest in publishers and organizations defending the freedom to read. Every intentional choice helps keep diverse stories available for future readers.

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

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...

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...

A Year of Teaching Analogically

What a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating

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Good morning! I published this post in my newsletter, on my notebook assignment, my diagnosis on where we stand in relation to AI and EdTech and my view of the role of humanities classes in all of this. Link: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

ICYMI: the SAA email is changing! Check your email for our May Member Update and more information as we move from Ole Miss to our new host institution, the University of Alabama. linktr.ee/saaupdates

As the Folger prepares to welcome his one-man show, "How Shakespeare Saved My Life," writer and performer Jacob Ming-Trent delves deeper into his story and reframes Shakespeare as an urban poet in the vein of Tupac and Biggie. Now on the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Jacob Ming-Trent on How Shakespeare Saved My Life | Folger Shakespeare Library

As the Folger prepares to welcome his one-man show, How Shakespeare Saved My Life, writer and performer Jacob Ming-Trent delves deeper into his story—and reframes Shakespeare as an urban poet in the v...

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Some good news worth celebrating: my colleagues and I proposed a new major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (in addition to the minor we've had for many years), and we just received word that it was officially approved at all levels. The work continues!

Congratulations to the entire Arden 4 team! I enjoyed getting a behind-the-scenes look into the process as a series fellow a few years ago. I’m excited to dive into the first two plays!

Zachary Lesser@zacharylesser.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's Official Publication Day for the first plays in the Arden Shakespeare 4th series! Been working toward this moment since 2015. Been using Arden editions since Shakespeare class in 1991. The very first Arden edition was Hamlet, 1899. I'm so proud to be part of this historic editorial project.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

As with COVID, those of us doing the teaching and the learning are left to make our own ad-hoc plans without any guidance or support.

The best advice I got as an undergraduate headed to grad school was “everything is a work in progress — including your published work” “Books are never finished you just stop writing them & turn over the mss” is very similar energy.

Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've been on sabbatical doing massive book rewrites. It's finished!* Today I have just sent pitches to ten new agents, and I don't know whether to laugh or dance or collapse in a heap. *books are never finished, obvs; you just stop writing them and turn over the ms., but this draft is done

We round up all the Shakespeare news this spring, including the exciting discovery by scholar Lucy Munro of an overlooked map confirming the location of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, Shakespeare's only London real estate purchase. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Shakespeare in the news | April 2026 | 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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Please enjoy this absolute beauty from my front yard.

Feminist approaches to editing The Taming of the Shrew.

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In honor of me reading all of these thesis proposals, what was *your* senior thesis about?

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

A man of property

Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

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You’re most likely the one called to build the community you crave and can’t find.

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You are most likely the protester you are looking for, if you can't find them.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News

A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

cbc.ca

Gender studies explains so much of our current moment

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“The decree is an escalation of the course content review policies implemented last year and reflects a trend of academic censorship at Texas public institutions.”

The epistemic violence of this moment is absolutely devastating. Students in Texas deserve better.

San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 4mo ago

The Texas Tech University System will end its academic programs "centered on" sexual orientation or gender identity. bit.ly/4eq6ViG