Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel)

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Louise Geddes and I are excited to share this call for essay proposals for a proposed new volume, "Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama". Deadline to submit a proposal is August 31, 2026! See the attached call for more information. #earlymodern #drama #theater

Fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, 2026–2027

THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowships.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/9428-2/

Cover of Early Theatre journal, Volume 28.1 (2025), featuring a red background with white illustrations of early modern figures in costume and an ornate theatrical arch above the title. The journal rests against a deep burgundy background patterned with faded line drawings of similar historical characters. Large text below reads "Early Theatre."

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)

We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
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This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.

Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

Congress 2026 | Congrès 2026 Announcement: 2026 CSRS/SCÉR 50th Golden Anniversary Conference Call for Article Abstracts In celebration of its golden anniversary, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienn…

2026 CSRS Conference, June 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. 2026 SCÉR colloque, juin 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. Announcement with Call for Article Abstracts / Annonce avec Appel à communications: csrs-scer.com/congress-202...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...

ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

"A fourth? Start, eyes!"

The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming.

Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇

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.

I really needed this today.

Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social

You can get lost in it.

A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

Excited to have a new article out in Renaissance Drama! This one traces how early modern clowns relied on disability imitation. So much familiar clowning activity appropriates disabled performance, behavior, or positionality that the distinction between "artificial" and "natural" fools is tricky.

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare

This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!

More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.

Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Come visit our table in the RSA/SAA Exhibit Hall in Boston. We'll be sharing the table with Digital Renaissance Editions. #SHAX2025

B&L is starting a search for new general editors! Please share widely and reach out with any questions. The editorial team will be at #shax2025 and happy to talk about your vision for this amazing journal.

More thoughts on Eleanor Rykener in the BL's #MedievalWomen exhibition.

Her inclusion is majorly important, not just because of *her* importance as a beacon of trans visibility in the historical record, but also the current anti-trans environment in the UK & elsewhere

*Out now*

'The Winter's Tale: A Critical Reader' edited by @drpetekirwan.bsky.social & Todd Borlik contains cutting-edge essays covering critical and performance history as well as new scholarship on themes of ecology, hospitality, childhood, and racialisation in the play.

bit.ly/4b3D2kN

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, now voted one of the most influential minds in the world…

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Anthony Trollope reads Christopher Marlowe | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explor...

✨ It was such a delight to stumble upon Anthony Trollope's notes on Christopher Marlowe's plays last October at the Folger! Even better was collaborating with the brilliant @lauraestill.bsky.social on our Collation post, "Anthony Trollope Reads Christopher Marlowe"!
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Cover image for the book Shakespeare in Tongues by Kathryn Vomero Santos

Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!

I see that it's finally Business Time on Bluesky. So: I speak for the Program Committee for the 2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social conference, in Denver. We're accepting proposals for seminars, panels, and workshops: Questions? Ask me, or my committee-mates in next post. And please spread the word!

tl;dr: They can't.

LLMs aren't peers and will make mistakes that alter good work done by actual humans.

Please stop trying to make already difficult things even worse, tech bros.

Starter pack image from Bluesky that says "join the conversation," features six profile pics, and is titled "Premodern Trans Studies"

I've made a starter pack for academics who work in Premodern Trans Studies: go.bsky.app/RihBQMi

There used to be more of us on the old site, but if I'm missing anyone, at any career stage, please let me know and I'll add them. Thanks!

We have always been here.

Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies A Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies This list builds on the works of several other great queer lists, namely: Lucy Allen's "A 'Queer Medieval' Reading List," Jeanne de Montbaston: Reading Mediev...

I added half a dozen new entries to the Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies, with a shoutout to @tswingard.bsky.social who added a few things recently as well. (Thank you!!)

There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.

None a Stranger There None a Stranger There offers a collection of wide-ranging essays that explore the creation and understanding of English identity through the lens of early modern drama. Drawing together a rich array o...

Publication day is here! I am excited to announce that my chapter “Astonished and Amazed” has been published in None A Stranger There. The chapter thinks about Middleton’s Triumph of Truth, Black Christianity, and respectability politics. #shakerace #raceb4race books.google.ca/books?hl=en&...

Isabella from the Cheek by Jowl production of Measure for Measure in a white nun’s habit, leaning away from and looking up toward someone out of shot. The background is bright red. Sans serif text says “Canonical Misogyny, Shakespeare and Dramaturgies of Sexual Violence, Nora J. Williams”

Hello, haven’t been here in a while but we’re gonna try again.

Here’s my gorgeous book cover. I am obsessed. She’s due in December !

Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!

An open box on a table containing copies of the book Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Shakespeare Special issue on 'Shakespeare in Action', guest-edited by Eleanor Rycroft and Maria Shmygol. Volume 20, Issue 2 of Shakespeare

Really delighted to share my and Maria Shmygol's special issue of Shakespeare on 'Shakespeare in Action' with outstanding contributions from our authors. Hope that you enjoy!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

Logo and title for The Endings Project: Building Sustainable Digital Humanities Projects

Most current formats for digital humanities projects only have an expected lifespan of 10 years. Our answer? The Endings Project!

The Endings Project has developed a set of principles for sustainable digital humanities projects from start to end.
Learn more about this project at endings.uvic.ca

Trans misogyny has a long history, but so does trans world-making in its face. And almost always at its centre, the sex worker 💅

Join me for my (first!) visiting lecture on Tuesday, March 5th at the University of Toronto or online 💘

Register for free here: tinyurl.com/sexworkersco...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race is here! There are so many brilliant chapters for you to read including one I wrote entitled Editing Shakespeare and Race. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...