emer
@emer.bsky.social
professional shakespeare opinion haver, theatre historian, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
music, fashion, film has really snuck up on me. it’s not as immediate as brat or self-titled but the songs have burrowed into my head and i’m now playing it once a day. damnit ms charlotte xcx has done it again!
Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d agoI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Buy my friend's sure-to-be-excellent book if you're interested in Irish studies, drama studies, or their intersection!
emer@emer.bsky.social · 5d agoand if you like that, well this is coming just in time for halloween
earlier in the year i wrote about hamnet (2025) and what it reifies about shakespeare for rupture media’s print magazine, and whaddaya know it’s now available online for people to read! class
Hamnet’s Shakespeare Problem
by Emer McHugh I am following the release of Hamnet – Chloé Zhao’s recent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel that follows Anne Hathaway (here known as Agnes) in the wake of the death of h...
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i love the odyssey discourse. i haven’t read the poem or seen the movie. i saw minions 3 in imax twice. im free ❤️
the fact that this is coming out just as i’m publishing a book that talks about scott’s hamlet in conversation with the role’s lineage…………
Little White Lies@lwlies.com · last wk.The 2026 BFI London Film Festival's Opening Night Gala is... Elsinore. Starring Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman, directed by Simon Stone, it tells the true story of actor Ian Charleson's legendary performance in Hamlet at the National Theatre. Catch it at the Royal Festival Hall on 7 October #LFF26
i’m being v specific to my field but: it’s hard to sit through cultural reproductions of shakespeare WITHOUT being critical. anyone who knows me knows how i feel about hamnet (2025) & all is true. anyway critical support for @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social, i think everyone in academia has ur back!
Casey Stegman@caseystegman.com · last wk.People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
An Irish writer has been named alongside 12 other authors on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. 28-year-old Djamel White is the youngest writer on this year's longlist with his first novel All Them Dogs. jrnl.ie/7115737
Irish author makes the Booker Prize 2026 longlist with his debut novel
28-year-old Djamel White is the youngest author to feature on the longlist with his first novel All Them Dogs.
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knowing irish men, i am willing to bet that this man has ‘full time mad bastard’ somewhere in his tinder profile
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · last wk.male loneliness epidemic is here to stay
*of the stain on the soul of mankind* Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it
love island said autism rights and i am very happy
emer@emer.bsky.social · 2w agolove island ends on monday and god i cannot wait until i am freed from this prison along with my true winners lorenzo and julia
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
Okay one more odyssey post. Really loved the movie. But I for one am willing to stop rescuing Matt Damon. At some point we’re just going to have to collectively agree that if Matt Damon gets lost again we just have to let him go.
the time where i inducted Nicole Cliffe among the early modernists. i miss Nicole online i hope she’s doing good
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
i dunno i watched moulin rouge and got into shoegaze
Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2w agoHow does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?
love island ends on monday and god i cannot wait until i am freed from this prison along with my true winners lorenzo and julia
Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...
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Once again for all of FIFA’s money they’ve still spectacularly failed to match the grandeur of the 2014 World Bowls Championship.
Just accidentally called him Ringo Spice, as if the other three are John Spice, George Spice, and Paul Spice
look if you are going to write an article on how ai is bad for academic publishing (which it is), maybe don’t use chatgpt as a search engine when writing it. sounds wild i know
The Google Books preview of the Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment is online early. I have a chapter in here on Water and Waste in Palestinian Literature, which discusses speculative fiction and nature writing as new genres in this context. books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxD...
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment
The Routledge Companion to World‐Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that w...
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@emer.bsky.social wrote a beautiful, brilliant book & I'm so excited for you all to read it!
emer@emer.bsky.social · 3w agobeyond honoured and delighted to receive this blurb for IRISH SHAKESPEARES from @norajw.bsky.social 💚
beyond honoured and delighted to receive this blurb for IRISH SHAKESPEARES from @norajw.bsky.social 💚