Ruben Espinosa
@ruben-espinosa.bsky.social
Chicano | Professor of English at ASU | Director, ACMRS | All views my own.
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...
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
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.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
The Bard in the Borderlands' celebrates, critiques Shakespeare through a Chicano lens www.kjzz.org/kjzz-news/20...
'The Bard in the Borderlands' celebrates, critiques Shakespeare through a Chicano lens
“The Bard in the Borderlands” is a collection of Shakespearean adaptations reflecting the culture and history of this region of the world — both critiquing and celebrating the bard in the process.
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All SAA members are encouraged to vote in the election of new Trustees! Vote by February 15 to help shape the future of the SAA. Bios and candidate statements are available on our website, linktr.ee/saaupdates
Beyond excited that Dan-el will be joining us next fall! 🔥🔥🔥
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · 8mo ago"He cited ASU’s charter mission and specifically its emphasis on 'fundamental responsibility' for the communities it serves . . . 'ASU seemed to me to be doing something very right in its commitment to inclusion,' Padilla Peralta said." www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
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Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social! “Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU. news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
Looking for assistance to attend #Shax2026 in Denver? Check out our Travel and Dependent Care grants — applications are due November 1. Find out how to apply on our website: shakespeareassociation.org/awards-prize...
“What’s less clear is how a man with no private-sector resume, no known business ventures, and no discernible talent outside of writing xenophobic policy memos, ended up in a multimillion-dollar property in one of Arlington’s wealthiest enclaves.” dailyboulder.com/sidewalk-cha...
Sidewalk Chalk Messages Force Stephen Miller to Flee Arlington, Put Home Up for Sale
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and architect of some of the Trump administration’s most hardline immigration policies, has listed his Arlington home for $3.75 million — just two yea...
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🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace 10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
bcrw.barnard.edu
Happy pub day to The Island of Hermaphrodites, translated by Kathleen P. long. Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today. Access the full text for free online asu.pressbooks.pub/the-island-o...
The Island of Hermaphrodites – Simple Book Publishing
A scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless satire blends courtly decadence with political rebellion in an imagined world of unchecked power.
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Tomorrow is August 🤯 is your syllabus ready?? Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.org
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.
throughlines.org
👀 Is that our executive director Ayanna Thompson hanging out with the absolutely STACKED cast of The Public Theater's 12th Night??
As I finished Shakespeare in Tongues in 2024, I could sense that my chapter on The Tempest and the 2012 outlawing of the Mexican American Studies curriculum in Tucson, AZ, would become increasingly relevant in this new era of epistemic violence, so I wrote a short piece about it for The Sundial.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · last yr."In giving voice to resistance in the face of dispossession and enslavement, Caliban disrupts the hierarchical, colonial world order that is invested in keeping him at the bottom and Prospero on top." Read more from @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social new piece in The Sundial
Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
Shakespeare in Tongues is officially available for pre-order today! If you would like to order a copy for yourself or your library, please use the discount code 25AFLY2* for 20% off. www.routledge.com/.../Vomero.....
Looks like the @pennpress.bsky.social off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!
The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press
How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slave...
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Don't miss our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on JULIUS CAESAR with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams 2 June 6-7.15pm Online via Zoom All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk #juliuscaesar #historyplays
Are you an early career scholar? Apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. 2-3 mentees are matched with expert scholars in premodern critical race studies. Discuss career development, collaboration, and publishing in the field of PCRS. Apps close 5/15 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Travel grants, awards and prizes, and #ShaxGrads programming offer essential support for and recognition of professional development. Support the future of our field (both research and researchers!) by making a gift to the SAA Annual Fund: linktr.ee/saaupdates
This is pure unadulterated evil www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...
Trump Strips Legal Representation From Thousands Of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration has canceled the funding for legal representation for 26,000 children — and lawyers are calling it a "heartless" move.
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Hey journals? This is bad
Z Samudzi@zsamudzi.bsky.social · last yr.The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.
