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

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies@acmrs.bsky.social · last wk.

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 · 2w 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 · 3w 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.

kosu.org

🎂 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.

statesman.com

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.

throughlines.org

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

bloomsbury.com

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. 😭

Every purchase is a vote for the world you want to build. Support independent bookstores, borrow challenged books from your library, and invest in publishers and organizations defending the freedom to read. Every intentional choice helps keep diverse stories available for future readers.

Four of the boldest Shakespeare adaptations on the US–Mexico border — a narco Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, a queer Hamlet on the turntables, and a Tempest in a hurricane — now free for everyone to read in the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands. Dig in now: https://ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv

Volume 3 of The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera is officially out today in print and open access. We hope you'll consider adding these brilliant plays to your syllabus! 💜 acmrspress.com/978086698892...

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...

A Year of Teaching Analogically

What a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating

ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com

Good morning! I published this post in my newsletter, on my notebook assignment, my diagnosis on where we stand in relation to AI and EdTech and my view of the role of humanities classes in all of this. Link: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

ICYMI: the SAA email is changing! Check your email for our May Member Update and more information as we move from Ole Miss to our new host institution, the University of Alabama. linktr.ee/saaupdates

As the Folger prepares to welcome his one-man show, "How Shakespeare Saved My Life," writer and performer Jacob Ming-Trent delves deeper into his story and reframes Shakespeare as an urban poet in the vein of Tupac and Biggie. Now on the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Jacob Ming-Trent on How Shakespeare Saved My Life | Folger Shakespeare Library

As the Folger prepares to welcome his one-man show, How Shakespeare Saved My Life, writer and performer Jacob Ming-Trent delves deeper into his story—and reframes Shakespeare as an urban poet in the v...

folger.edu

Some good news worth celebrating: my colleagues and I proposed a new major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (in addition to the minor we've had for many years), and we just received word that it was officially approved at all levels. The work continues!