Beyond excited to be taking up a long-term fellowship at @folger.edu this fall!

Me: Why do we think Little Lord Fauntleroy might have fallen out of favour with an American readership? Student: Is it because it's really boring?

BEYOND hyped for this. coinandghost.org/aaron/

The Aaron Play

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dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

New humanities faculty join USC Dornsife

New faculty specialize in Latin American fiction, Korean history, Russian poetry, philosophy and early modern English literature.

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Saw the Hamnet trailer last night. Looks wonderful, and sorry to be that guy, but… painted sets at the Globe?!

Six years as Dr Harry. This guy wouldn’t have believed what’s happening now. Photo by @pascaleexeter.bsky.social minutes after @lucycmunro.bsky.social & Jane Milling gave me my laurels.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this really isn’t the site for me - so email for work (link in bio); Instagram for cocktails.

Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

Jane Austen at 250: Why we shouldn’t exaggerate her radicalism

Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.

theconversation.com

Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Erickson - a leading light and the ultimate role model for white scholars working within the field of PCRS—and beyond.

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last yr.

#GenAI is not just for students. Isabel Fischer outlines draft principles to help assessors use AI responsibly in #marking and feedback. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

I personally am taking this as an invitation never to write anything again 🙏

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last yr.

AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety (32 today 🎈)

Great to see this year's Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinars making their way onto YouTube - here's @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me in conversation about Titus Andronicus www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQv...

English Faculty / OWC Shakespeare webinar with Professor Emma Smith: Titus Andronicus

YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford

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What a wonderful event we had at Bristol this evening with alum @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and Jayne Gold talking about their cutting-edge research. Followed by exceptional pasta/pizza at Moltobuono! - thanks to everyone who turned up on a rainy Thursday.

Despite Everything Going On, my nonagenarian grandmother's principle concern about the move to LA is that I'll unconsciously adopt American spelling

Reading this made my morning - so wonderful to see such thoughtful work on this hot mess of a play 🔥😈

Max Riviera@maxriviera.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that "In Bed with the Pope" – my article on Barnabe Barnes' The Devil's Charter, sodomy & anti-Catholic propaganda – has been published on Renaissance Studies! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very excited to be hosting Harry and Jayne, two of our esteemed postgraduate alumni, at Bristol next week. Come if you can! www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

absolutely not.

Mark Williams@mrfw17thc.bsky.social · last yr.

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Jocelyn Leitzinger@jocelynl.bsky.social · last yr.

When you're working 3 jobs while going to school full time and just barely making enough to feed yourself, ChatGPT offers an appealing way to make life a little bit easier without feeling like you're REALLY doing something wrong I'm increasingly getting a double bell curve in my classes

Last night, the House of Lords defeated the Government for a fourth time by passing an amendment establishing meaningful transparency measures for the use of rightsholders’ works in AI systems, many of which are being used without recognition, permission or remuneration. (1/3)

I don't know what I was expecting Helkiah Crooke to compare ejaculate to, but it sure wasn't 'a company of Antickes holding hand in hand' who 'vault upon a stage' [Mikrokosmographia, book IV]

Seems a good time to remind that I'm talking about the question of boy actors, 'transvestism', and early modern trans studies in Bristol two weeks from now: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Trans* Book History@transbookhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

On the one hand, Awesome. Sir Ian McKellen is an awesome ally. On the other hand, please read Early Modern Trans Studies (#EMoTrans). 1/2 www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

On the one hand, Awesome. Sir Ian McKellen is an awesome ally. On the other hand, please read Early Modern Trans Studies (#EMoTrans). 1/2 www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

attitude.co.uk

This coming Monday, at 6pm BST, @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and I take to the webinarwaves to discuss Titus Andronicus. Do join us as we try to make sense of this magnificent play! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Titus Andronicus

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Titus Andronicus from Oxford World's Classics.

eventbrite.co.uk

The @acmrs.bsky.social RaceB4Race Mentorship Network was transformative for me last year - apply by May 15 to be part of the Fall 2025 cohort: acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/m...

PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

I do! Looking forward to discussing Titus Andronicus with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social in this free webinar next month. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Titus Andronicus

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Titus Andronicus from Oxford World's Classics.

eventbrite.co.uk

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

‘The violence is relentless. I don’t understand it’: Simon Russell Beale faces up to Shakespeare’s goriest play

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.