T-15 days until my first book, Clothed Villainy, is available for purchase. You can preorder now: www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736266...

Clothed Villainy

Examines how centuries-old stagecraft shaped modern racial politics—and why the performance of whiteness still commands the spotlight.From Shakespearean bl...

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I really enjoyed Verona and my first World Shakespeare Congress. I will remember so many wonderful papers and conversations from this trip. Mostly, though, I will remember the gelato

Good grief, this hits home.

The University of Verona just might have the most beautiful classrooms in the world.

This is a classroom at the University of Verona. Is it possible for a classroom to be so beautiful that it actually hinders learning?

I’m in Verona and everyone seems to speak really good English. I don’t think I really understood the linguistic hegemony of English before this trip

Off to Verona for the World Shakespeare Congress, where I will participate in a seminar on eco-criticism and a round table discussion on editing a scholarly journal.

A play in two acts Me to my dog: hay, buddy, do you want to go on a nice walk? Sniff some dog butts? Maybe pee on a tree? My dog to me: thank you for this nice walk, kind sir who feeds and houses me. I’m going to show my appreciation for all you do by eating a balloon!

I wish this wasn’t so on the nose.

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · last mo.

Editorial: The Human Rights Museum’s Nakba exhibit ignores the important context that I don’t want to hear about it

To understand our libraries and editorial traditions today, Emma Smith argues we must confront how deeply these systems of value were shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. https://throughlines.org/suite-content/slavery-sugar-and-the-value-of-shakespeare

Unsettling Shakespeare - our call for papers is open. Come join us! conference.anzsa.org

I said no to something I wanted to do. Please clap

This thread is fascinating

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

One of the best threads I have read about the emotional impact AI is having on university students. At very least, we need to give students clear guidance about AI use that is consistent across all of their classes

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Did Winnipeg always have this many tornadoes? I remember these being a once every other summer kind of thing

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Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at University of the West of Scotland

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I’m happy to announce that I will be leading an SAA seminar on premodern critical Indigenous studies (seminar 28): shakespeareassociation.org/wp-content/u...

The more time I spend teaching obscure-ish medieval and early modern poetry, the more convinced I am that there is a market for a podcast or YouTube channel that features actors with different accents reading old poems

That Spurs team might have the best collection of young players in NBA history. The only teams close were the KD, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka Thunder and Magic’s Lakers

You know, people keep telling me that you can’t make a living as a poet in Canada, but I just got a royalty payment of $95, so who’s laughing now!

My hot take is that there is no problem with BluSky. It is a social media platform without an algorithm that works exactly like it should work. People dislike it because it is really difficult to go viral, not because it is an echo chamber

Today two missionaries knocked on my door. I laughed, politely, and said “you don’t want this smoke,” and closed the door. I think it might have been the most Christian thing I’ve done this year

Harlequin is hiring an apprentice editor. The job pays almost nothing and a majority of one’s time would be spent reading the slush pile. And yet, if I were looking to leave the academy, I think it would be my dream escape job. It would be like running away to join the circus but with books

Publication day! My article “‘No Landfill Is a Grave:’ Learning to Listen to Indigenous Women’s Poetry in wînipêk” is out with Canadian Literature. I am so incredibly proud of this article and grateful to CanLit for giving it a home: DOI: doi.org/10.14288/can...

The affirmation of the duty to consult First Nations before the start of a separation referendum in Alberta is good news for all Canadians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Canada court quashes bid by Alberta separatists for independence referendum

Alberta judge ruled provincial government must consult with First Nations before collecting signatures for a proposed referendum

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I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

I am coming to the realization that the music I grew up listening to had very few songs about men learning how to love and care about themselves and lots of songs about men trying, and often failing, to find women who will love and care about them

Why do academics make everything due on April 30th? This is a problem every year and yet nobody changes a bottleneck that doesn’t have to exist

I really hope the hotel and serving staff are safe and that they all get big cash bonuses and free therapy

AI is making marking harder. First you have to decide if the work was likely done by a person, then you have to decide if it was plagiarized, and only after that can you really consider if the work is any good. The perpetual Turing-testafication of student writing is making everything worse