@lizbethcalvario
EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM Maestría en Traducción - CELL/COLMEX Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
I want this for purposes of teaching (... yes that'll be my excuse). Maybe I can get the university to pay for this too.
Suffolk author Mai Black in period costume
Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years
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Suffolk author Mai Black is reviving the #Shakespeare Ladies Club to offer a place for women to come together, read the playwright's works and celebrate the original women.
MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
Forgot to mention: still no answer at all on translation rights for Innua Ellams's 'Fuck/Shakespeare'. I'm afraid this one will remain unpublished indefinitely.
Ah, the cry that summons historians! Were did the fact come from, who first said it, what actually happened, and why do we get it wrong? Such is the stuff of historiographic research.
Unfinished projects from last year:
- Revising my trans. of Nahum Tate's Lear for submission to a university press (missing last act)
- Trans. of Two Gentlemen of Verona (scene 1 done)
- Trans. of The Spanish Tragedy (1/2 of scene 1 done)
Works in progress:
- Article on Hamnet (novel/film), Hamlet, & Shakespearean biography (writing)
- Article on Sly's full name in Taming of the Shrew (researching)
- Trans. of M.R. James's 'There Was a Man Dwelt by the Churchyard' (to be submitted)
- Trans. of Wilkie Collins's 'Stolen Mask' (1/2)
- Spanish trans. of Keats's 'On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again' (followed by a trans. of the first page of Lear in the Folio)
Currently under peer-review:
- Spanish translation of Cowley's ode to the chair made out of Francis Drake's ship
- Article on the omission of the preliminary poems of the Quixote in English translations (rejected once last year)
Huh.
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
*Available open access*
'Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama' by Valentina Finger introduces mirrors as material and metaphorical agents of early modern theatricality reflecting gendered dynamics and magical possibilities.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4rZVlyz
Deadline tomorrow! Submit your abstracts for "Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture"
Conference to be held at @uniofhull.bsky.social from 1-3 July
Full CFP:
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...
Filmmaker and Folger Artistic Research Fellow Fred Kuwornu found himself looking at Renaissance paintings and wondering who the Black Africans were in some of these iconic works. In his documentary, "We Were Here," Kuwornu shares what he discovered: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Now at Bardfilm: Hamlet in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
bardfilm.blogspot.com/2026/02/haml...
Every now and again I feel obliged to repost David E. Alter Jr's brilliant 1982 pic Bilbo's Great Adventure. Like a cross between a Victorian neo-medieval tapestry and an 8-bit platform game it condenses the whole story of The Hobbit into one image. My fave #Tolkien detail...that awesome little Bard
A sneak peek of our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare being assembled at the Cushing Memorial Library @tamu.bsky.social in advance of opening on Monday evening:
HASTA EL MOÑO DEL ‘ORGANIC’
Y es que no paro de ver ‘orgánico’ en malas traducciones, en lugar de
sin forzar las cosas, por casualidad, de forma natural / espontánea / fluida / intuitiva, sobre la marcha, sobre el terreno, sin publicidad, sin pagar, por el boca a boca, paulatinamente...
Plaque at St. George's tower commemorating the baptism of Christopher Marlowe
Feb 26, 1564: Playwright Christopher Marlowe is baptized at St George's Church, Canterbury in Kent. #OTD
Este símbolo se llama ‘et’ en español y, como su propio nombre indica, procede de aquella conjunción latina. No se llama «ampersand» (su nombre, en inglés, abreviación de ‘and per se and’) ni «y comercial».
En español apenas lo usamos, porque tenemos la brevísima ‘y’.
Feb 25, 1598: Henry IV Part 1 is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
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¿Tienes alguna web imprescindible que consideres que puede ser interesante para otra mucha gente?
Se me ocurre que podemos hacer un hilo cooperativo. Empiezo yo:
Una web con las primeras planas de la mayoría de los periódicos del mundo:
es.kiosko.net
Brilliant! Thank you very much for your prompt answer and solution.
Thank you!
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.
