Randall Martin
@rwfm.bsky.social
Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
Delighted to be part of this number with my 10-book Thematic Review: Nature, Environment, Science, Ecology
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900@sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 2mo ago🪻SEL is entering our lavender era! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2026 issue (64.2) featuring our inaugural installment of "SEL: The Roundtable." Read now on Project MUSE and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56866
Delighted to be part of this number with my 10-book Thematic Review: Nature, Environment, Science, Ecology
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900@sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 2mo ago🪻SEL is entering our lavender era! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2026 issue (64.2) featuring our inaugural installment of "SEL: The Roundtable." Read now on Project MUSE and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56866
Exciting news! Madeline Bassnett's Climate Change Cookery: Recipes and Resilience in England's Little Ice Age 1550-1700 is now avalilable for pre-order: www.concordia.ca/press/climat... (full disclosure: Madeline is my partner, but the book really is brilliant!) #earlymodernclimatechange
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!
I've seen students use AI writing tools to help them "write in the style of a scientific paper". And the AI tools are really good at that - too good. A better idea? Use them to help *avoid* the thickets of jargon and swamps of tedium that typify our literature! scientistseessquirre... 🧪
Formalizing and deformalizing academic writing – with and without AI tools
“Write up your results in the style of a scientific paper.” Untold thousands of undergraduate science students have received that instruction, and it’s done a lot of damage to our professional lite…
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Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
Check out all of the beautiful books published by members of @saaupdates.bsky.social since our 2024 meeting! If you will be in Denver for #Shax2026, I hope you'll join us for a celebration on Friday, April 3rd, from 10:30-11:00am in the Centennial Foyer! sites.google.com/trinity.edu/...
SAA Book Celebration 2026
The following books were published by members of the Shakespeare Association of America since our 2024 meeting. Please click on the book covers to visit the publishers' websites. Any discount codes pr...
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Starting shortly until 1 pm EST. Reimagining #Shakespeare, Remaking World Systems . Online and in person. #Macbeth #McGill
Join us next Wed 28 Jan @ 08.30 EST for Reimagining Shakespeare, Remaking World Panel Systems, a symposium/online webinar opening with theatre-maker Robert Lepage in conversation w Laurette Dubé & Paul Yachnin followed by 5 interdisciplinary panels anchored in #Macbeth. stratfestbsky.social
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Getting ready for 2026 this morning by brainstorming “Heating up the Little Ice Age in Shakespeare,” a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and the Natural World, ed. Karen Raber and Todd Borlik. @oxunipress.social #climatechange #extremeweather #LittleIceAge #Shakespeare #weatherwatching
Submitted my chapter ‘Cannonfire Distractions and “Distract” Ophelia: recovering the environmental politics of Hamlet through sound, affect, and memory’ for Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis: Interventions in the Face of Climate Emergency, ed Rebecca Lemon & Carolyn Sale (Edinburgh UP 2026).
In addition to the purchase discount, OUP academic is also offering readers a free chapter (my Introduction). Happy reading. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
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I'm delighted to post that OUP is offering a 30% discount on hardback copies of my new book, *Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: disability, gender, race, ecology*: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/.... Use discount code AUFLY30.
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Very excited about next year's Othello, to be dir by Haysam Kadri @abtheatreprjcts.bsky.social, w the beautifully & powerfully spoken André Sills as Othello, Evan Buliung Iago, Krystin Pellerin Desdemona, Jordin Hall Cassio, Jessica B. Hill Emilia, & Rylan Wilkie Roderigo. What a fabulous line-up!
Stratford Festival@stratfest.bsky.social · 10mo agoAntoni Cimolino announces casting for the 12 productions set to take the stage in 2026, his final season as Artistic Director. Click here for details: www.stratfordfestival.ca/Media/NewsRe...
Don't you wish your department/university did more to help grad students learn to write? Teaching writing is hard, but students are eager to learn. I can help! I can teach a one-week intensive course for you. Details here: scientistseessquirre.... Get in touch!
Writing Course
I can help your students write! I can offer a one-week, in-person writing course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at your institution. Class sizes of 8-25 work well; we can discuss la…
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If you're in the UK, you can pre-order my book from Waterstones at 25% off with the code "OCTOBER25" #Shakespeare #EarlyModern www.waterstones.com/book/whats-i...
@profjoubin.bsky.social sums up Shakespeare in three words!
If you missed part or all of #G4G2025, you can watch all of the individual recorded presentations here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube
In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...
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My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
Last day to enroll for seminars at #WSC2026!
Randall Martin@rwfm.bsky.social · 11mo agoOne week left to enroll in the World Shakespeare Congress seminars, including "Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations" led by Sophie Chiari and me. www.wsc2026.org/seminars/. Join us! #Shakespeare #Anthropocene #ecocriticism #ecodramaturgy #researchinpractice #WSC2026
Arrived yesterday, just in time for today's online #G4G2025. Congratulations Katie and Elizabeth! 🎊 events.humanitix.com/globe4globe.
Tomorrow! Register here for the online Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium Fri 10am-Sat 10am EDT events.humanitix.com/globe4globe. Program shakespearereloaded.edu.au/sites/defaul.... Hope to see you there. #Globe4Globe2025
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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One week left to enroll in the World Shakespeare Congress seminars, including "Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations" led by Sophie Chiari and me. www.wsc2026.org/seminars/. Join us! #Shakespeare #Anthropocene #ecocriticism #ecodramaturgy #researchinpractice #WSC2026
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One week until #Globe4Globe2025 Shakespeare and Environmental Justice. Check out the fabulous 24-hr programme Frí 12-Sat 13 Sept of international speakers: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe. #eco-Shakespeare. #Shakespeare. #ecotheatre #ecocriticism #anthropocene
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
events.humanitix.com
I’ve just heard Gabriella Smith’s sonically astounding Breathing Forests, an eco-musical evocation of the precarity & resilience of contemporary forests. Incredible! UK residents can listen again. Rest of the world isn’t so lucky. I wonder if there’s a recording…. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2025, Adès conducts the BBC SO
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Sibelius, Adès & Gabriella Smith.
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