My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.

All of a sudden, it’s almost October! The first of our #Shax2027 award deadlines arrives tomorrow, October 1. Check out our website for more information on eligibility and applications: Linktr.ee/saaupdates

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

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The last few years have been hard on independent student newspapers, which rely on ad revenue and donations, as they've been on journalism more broadly. If you're cheering for the reporters at the Cornell Daily Sun (as you should) consider tossing a few bucks toward them or an equivalent publication

my book IRISH SHAKESPEARES lands in a month’s time: it’s already on Google Books should you fancy a sneak peek books.google.co.uk/books?id=los...

Irish Shakespeares

Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politi...

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This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362

I loved writing about Safiya Sinclair and her poetry of linguistic rebellion for the catalog accompanying To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, an upcoming exhibition curated by the amazing Patricia Akhimie for the Folger Shakespeare Library. I can’t wait to see it in person!

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Four centuries of Black women have loved, performed, rewritten, and reclaimed Shakespeare. To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library) is the first exhibition to gather their record, and its catalog is free to read online today: https://ow.ly/ZVQJ50ZSIA7

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

The Bard in the Borderlands is in some amazing company! 💜

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thrilled to see the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands in PBS Uncovered's Latinx/Hispanic Heritage month lineup! The episode for this month's books goes live today at 8pm EDT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31aIvWah-eA

It was such an honor to be interviewed about The Bard in the Borderlands for the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. I hope you'll give it a listen!

Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · 2w ago

"The Bard in the Borderlands" (@acmrs.bsky.social), a three-volume anthology of plays by Chicanx and Indigenous playwrights, explores the possibilities of retelling Shakespeare through the culture, language, and traditions of “the borderlands.” More on the podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Had a fantastic time chatting about my play Rough Magic and an even better time listening to these amazing folks talk about Shakespeare and the Borderlands!

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did you see the new Shakespeare Unlimited episode? Amazing conversation from Bard in the Borderlands editors K@@katherinegillen.bsky.social, @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social, and featured playwright @mexicancryptid.bsky.social. www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

I am incredibly lucky to call the National Humanities Center my work space for the next nine months.

I will never forgive the university administrators who have tried to normalize AI on our campuses.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w ago

Many educators are trying to make AI simply go away—but in doing so, they are abdicating a sacred commitment that has guided American higher education for centuries, the president of Dartmouth College, Sian Leah Beilock, argues.

12 Indigenous children are coming home from Carlisle. Frances Bones was 14—a Comanche chief's daughter. A doctor called her healthy the week she arrived. She was dead in six months. The Comanche Nation has waited 130 years to bring her home. www.kosu.org/boarding-sch...

2 federal Indian boarding school students to be repatriated to tribes in Oklahoma

The remains of twelve Indigenous children are coming home from the most notorious federal Indian Boarding School in the U.S., including two students from Oklahoma.

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🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

I don’t know what the library equivalent of dimming our lights is but whatever it is, we should be doing it for Dolly because what that woman did for literacy deserves so much more recognition than it got

[Exit Queen.]

“The four closed departments - Mexican American and Latina/o Studies; African and African Diaspora Studies; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and American Studies - encompassed 62 professors, six majors, four graduate programs, and eight minors and certificates.”

Four UT departments are gone. Their histories span decades

Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.

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The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.social

Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom

Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

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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.

texastribune.org

This is right.

ACLU@aclu.org · 2mo ago

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 · 2mo 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. 😭

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