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As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
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UMass provides a ludicrously detailed location map letting you know where people are when they access your scholarship which is how I found out there is a duck in the reservoir who is into Ben Jonson.

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And say hi to SHARP News, the open publication of SHARP, complete with reviews and bibliographies and pedagogical goodies! 📜📚

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Live action shots of the Villages/New Home 7" from @repeatingcloud.com are available if you follow us on Ye Olde Insta. You can recreate this short film if you purchase the Broken Promise EP on bandcamp - a 7" is included with every purchase... while supplies last.

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oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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Me when I read basically anything about the world right now:

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Amazon's "how big is this object" service seems a bit like it's showing the world how to use The Places of Wit to block incoming projectiles.

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Next week Prof. Liza Blake (Toronto) @medrenliza.bsky.social will be visiting @tamu.bsky.social where she’ll give a NVS Seminar titled ‘Queer(er) Editing’. More details and Zoom link available at newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

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Giant thanks to @rosyoverdrive.com for this amazing review of the @outro-band.bsky.social EP. Seriously, click on through folks rosyoverdrive.com/2025/02/17/p...

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Last outro post unless we get booked on the European Festival Circuit in 2026.

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In 1598 AND in 1623, people printing Love's Labour's Lost saw the word "Concolinel" sitting there by itself and were totally fine with it. Now editors get to guess why. In 2027 or so, you can find out what my guess is!

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It's his own fault, really. Everyone knows the two Sir Williams of Trinity House won't shut up about the sass of Sir Nicholas Crisp.

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This week in Freak Scene, the latest from @outro-band.bsky.social, a new album from The Will Call and an idea for @fountainsofwayne.bsky.social: #WesternMass buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

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Despite it all, I think we can take comfort in the news that I have once again been nominated to be the Chair of a Chair nominating committee.

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The Outro EP is out today and 7"s are arriving any minute now! outro-band.bandcamp.com/album/broken...

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Taught opening of Faerie Queene this morning. Half the class told me they felt sympathy for Error, which blew my mind, and made me wish that I had internalized the argument about Aguecheek in the first chapter of Shakespeare Unlearned, which you think I would have, since I wrote it. But no.

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"Post-punk sense of dank" - something Pepys would have said about us if he had the chance.

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Turning the @outro-band.bsky.social account into a Pepys commentary account because there is no one here to stop me.

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Pepys really annoyed at this painter's lack of skill in shadows.

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Student in class today asked me to spell a word I had just used and admitted to both loving and being disgusted by - 'fecundity' - and it made my day.

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NEW BOOK! I am so excited to introduce The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader to the world. Feat. new essays on the play’s implications for border politics, critical race studies, ecocriticism, pedagogy and childhood studies, as well as surveys of the play’s critical and theatrical history.

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Outro makes new music – tight, wandering, melodic, out there; soaring, rough, harmonizing, thoughtful – in a warren of drywalled rehearsal rooms in an old mill building in Western MA. Is it Murmur with a post-punk edge? Is it now rock for the angry ones? Is it angled, or cycled, or… what?

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On Feb. 27 I'll be giving a talk (online and in person) for NVS: "Queer(er) Editing: Editing Early Modern Texts through Asexual and Aromantic Lenses." Will be thinking about how our editorial practices erase what is already called the "invisible orientation" -- and how we might change that. 💚🤍🖤🤍💜

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Subconscious update, early days of new autocracy: dreamed last night of an untraceable ice dam leak in my house and having to take notes on a tiny dry erase pad while a guy who books shows here in town gave my Shakespeare lecture for me and entranced my students.

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Tired of these Nova Scotia sheltered states pretending they are most exposed to the ocean’s weather, tbh

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Abruptly woken at 4:45 AM by texts and automated phone calls telling me everything is cancelled, which is not exactly how I wanted this to go down, but fine.

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Everything had better be cancelled for snow when I wake up, and I mean everything

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Tapping the "Program Proposals" sign...

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I endorse Doechii.

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Chappell Roan: continuing to make art historians feel like we might be relevant to our students.

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I wrote a thing for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. It is about how Medea and Becky Sharp and Amy Dunne and a bunch of other fictional ladies-who-lie are all telling us something real: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...

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