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Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I loved writing about Safiya Sinclair and her poetry of linguistic rebellion for the catalog accompanying To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, an upcoming exhibition curated by the amazing Patricia Akhimie for the Folger Shakespeare Library. I can’t wait to see it in person!
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 6h
ACMRS is hiring! We are seeking a program manager to join our ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded RaceB4Race initiative. Find the full position listing below and apply today! asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASU…
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Program Manager
Job Profile: Administrative Operations Specialist 3 Job Family: Administrative Operations Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved. Job Profile Summary: Supports and instructs those served by the department with complex queries, applies specialized knowledge of multiple standards, policies...
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Four centuries of Black women have loved, performed, rewritten, and reclaimed Shakespeare. To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library) is the first exhibition to gather their record, and its catalog is free to read online today: ow.ly/ZVQJ50ZSIA7
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our very own Madeline Sayet directed the first Tlingit opera in recorded history this month. "The opera is performed in the Tlingit language and include a score grounded in Tlingit musical and performing arts traditions and events." ow.ly/zgYc50ZPO9h
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Sealaska Heritage Institute & Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre Give World Premiere of First Tlingit Opera - OperaWire
On Sept. 11, Sealaska Heritage Institute and Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre co-produced “Kutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles,” the first Tlingit opera in recorded history.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The attacks on Shakespeare and on contemporary humanistic endeavors more broadly are a recognition of the power of humanist work to slip the leash of authoritarian control and to give rise to exciting and joyful new ways to understand and inhabit the world. - Jean E. Howard ow.ly/cIxl50ZPKja
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Democratic Shakespeare | 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 explore. Join us online, on the road, or in Washington, DC.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you find yourself at Ohio University this week, you're not going to want to miss this event with the brilliant Suzanne Coley—these books are art objects beyond description. woub.org/event/coded-threads-transl…
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Coded Threads: Translating Shakespeare Into Material Form, a Talk by Artist Suzanne Coley - WOUB Public Media
Suzanne Coley is a book artist, printmaker, and writer whose work engages textile art, printmaking, and embroidered bindings as forms of literary interpretation. Through a signature process she defines as Material Excavation, she recomposes fabric through stitching, layering, and formal transformation, treating material process as a rigorous method of reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. Her bespoke textile books translate the structural complexity of the sonnets into tactile, page-based narratives.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31aIvWah-eA
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 14/09/2026
"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...
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The Bard in the Borderlands | Folger Shakespeare Library
From a re-imagining of The Tempest set in a Houston school gymnasium to Macbeth's Weird Sisters practicing brujería, the three-volume anthology The Bard in the Borderlands compiles fantastic transform...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What can Canacee and the falcon from The Squire’s Tale teach us about whiteness, empathy, and racial belonging? Watch the full talk from Wan-Chuan Kao on Throughlines today. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/…
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The lap of whiteness in The Squire's Tale
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mark your calendars for 9/20: @madelinesayet.bsky.social's Where We Belong will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Where We Belong
A Mohegan artist retraces ancestral journeys while studying Shakespeare.
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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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!
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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ASU English professor Brandi K. Adams has found what might be the earliest use of the term “artificial intelligence” in a 1588 book by English physician and astrologer John Harvey. Time to update the Oxford English Dictionary? 🤔😜 Learn more: ow.ly/o1i150ZL3jk #ASUHumanities
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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...
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The Bard in the Borderlands | Folger Shakespeare Library
From a re-imagining of The Tempest set in a Houston school gymnasium to Macbeth's Weird Sisters practicing brujería, the three-volume anthology The Bard in the Borderlands compiles fantastic transform...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ICYMI: Borrowers and Lenders the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation Vol. 18 No. 1 is now live! Ballet! Forged relics! Space musicals! Web-series! Muppets! Find these and more in B&L's fall '26 issue. borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrower…
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Early modern race and disability is just one week away! Be sure to register for this panel and join us online September 2 at 9 am MST. na.eventscloud.com/race-and-disabil…
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We're thrilled to be supporting Across Two Seas, a symposium put together by Denva Gallant at Rice University. This lineup is incredible, and there is travel funding for folks in the @folger.edu Institute consortium! Don't sleep on this one: acrosstwoseas.com #RaceB4Race
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Across Two Seas
A Symposium at Rice University
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rough Magic imagines The Tempest through Hurricane Harvey, brujería, queer Latinx love, grief, and the power of memory. Read it and other appropriations of Shakespeare en La Frontera, in The Bard in the Borderlands, Vol. 3 asu.pressbooks.pub/bard-in-the-bord…
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Chaucer's resourceful and unsettled Middle English is a place of inspiration for artists globally. On Throughlines, Jonathan Hsy teaches global Chaucer adaptations as sites of linguistic belonging.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In 1685, a slave ship exploded off the coast of Ghana, killing 135 enslaved Africans. The court records blame one woman who "carelessly" dropped her pipe into the gunpowder. But what if it wasn't an act of carelessness? Jennifer L. Morgan on rereading the archive and more at throughlines.org.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Happy fall from Throughlines! This month, we're sharing new contributions from Jonathan Hsy 許維成, on teaching Chaucer through adaptations, and Jennifer L. Morgan, on reading the resistance of enslaved women in the historical archive. Find their videos, resources, and syllabi at Throughlines.org
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Save the date! Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond 9/2/26. A webinar that puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation. Learn more about the speakers and register here: na.eventscloud.com/race-and-dis...
An image of Prospero and Caliban pointing at one another with the text Early modern race and disability intersections and beyond over the image
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What's in the Venn diagram of true crime and 16th century English pamphlets? "The Bloody Mother" offers insight on men narrating women's lives, spectacle, the longevity of lurid media. Read the full excerpt in He Words Me by Katherine Loomis ow.ly/MCnR50ZmfKI
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Whether Rowlands intended it, “A Courtesan’s Humor” (1607) offers a portrayal of sex work as labor governed by market forces, professional risk, and the pragmatics of survival. Read more works of women's voices penned by male authors in HE WORDS ME free from ACMRS Press: ow.ly/Z4uz50Zjklc
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Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The open access version is available here: asu.pressbooks.pub/bard-in-the-...
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The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3
This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives.
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Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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...
The cover image for Volume 3 of The Bard in the Borderlands, featuring Celeste De Luna's 2022 linocut print titled Healing Borderland Hand.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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: ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
To understand our libraries and editorial traditions today, Emma Smith argues we must confront how deeply these systems of value were shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. throughlines.org/suite-content/slav…
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How lucky are we to call Ty Defoe a colleague and friend? Check out his interview with KJZZ on his multimedia, one-person puppet show SKELETON CANOE: www.kjzz.org/the-show/2026-06-18/sk…
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'Skeleton Canoe' is a multimedia, one-person puppet show. This ASU professor helped write it
An interdisciplinary artist with ties to Arizona State University will be performing this weekend at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Join the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network to develop your research and academic career alongside a leading scholar in premodern critical race studies. Mentees are matched with a mentor for two semesters of virtual meetings. Applications due June 26!: acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/mentorship…
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RaceB4Race Mentorship Network - Apply now
Building the field of premodern critical race studies will depend on new ideas and new practitioners. RaceB4Race is pleased to offer a dynamic mentorship network, connecting established career scholars with early career scholars. The networ…
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 06/05/2026
Female, queer, non-academics, in a world dominated by male editors with university affiliations, Helen Clarke and Charlotte Porter were outliers in the world of Shakespeare scholarship. The Folger's Curator of Manuscripts Heather Wolfe explores their life and work: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
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The American Women Who Transformed Shakespeare Editing | 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 explore. Jo...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy birthday Shakespeare! Who wants a triple-serving of Titus to celebrate? Ayanna Thompson has three new pieces on Throughlines unpacking the deep questions that arise when you wipe away all the blood in Shakespeare's goriest tragedy. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Throughlines contributors @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social and Dennis Britton will be presenting at the Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies seminar at Columbia University on Friday. Keynote with Madeline Sayet and Scott Manning Stevens universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/enviro...
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Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies | Welcome to The Columbia University Seminars
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Free resources from Cassander Smith on the Black protest tradition, respectability politics, and race in early American lit. Syllabi, classroom activities, video lectures. Start with “Poetic voices across time”—students remix Wheatley and Hammon to address current events: ow.ly/8aCt50YLoXr
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Poetic voices across time
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Did you catch the @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture from Emma Smith this weekend? www.youtube.com/live/KZV-21r...
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Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New and FREE to read online—'What Country Friends, Is This?' Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile. In their intro, editors Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton address our contemporary age of exile and what Shakespeare has to do with it. ow.ly/ykO250YLfTr
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‘What Country, Friends, Is This?’: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile
An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Need weekend plans? Emma Smith will be delivering the annual @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture "Shakespeare and Immigration" this Saturday 4/18. www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...
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Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Shakespeare and Immigration" with Dr. Emma Smith | Folger Shakespeare Library
Join us for the Folger Institute's annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture with Dr. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Professor Cassander L. Smith offers an important reading the double-edged sword of respectability politics in the lives of Black Americans. This respectability can be found in the first memoir written in English by a Black African, Olaudah Equiano. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Shakespeare and the Senses by Holly Dugan is out this week! A fascinating new way to think about Shakespeare. What did early audiences hear, smell, and feel in the theatre? How did those sensations shape meaning? Read online for free or you can grab your own print copy: ow.ly/NuoS50YBqRy
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We are thrilled to announce “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile—a new edited collection exploring how Shakespeare’s works engage with exile, edited by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton. Read free online: ow.ly/XIIO50YBpZT
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Many congratulations to Amrita Dhar and Amrita Sen, winners of the SAA Innovative Article Award for their piece in Borrowers and Lenders, "Two Nations, Both Alike: Shakespeare in Bengal." You can read the article for free on the B&L site: doi.org/10.18274/659cc926
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
How did rare books become valuable? Emma Smith talked to us about the rare books market, Shakespeare's first folio, and their ties to sugar plantations and slave labor in the Caribbean. Learn more from Professor Smith for free at throughlines.org #Shakespeare #BookHistory
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This Thursday! Hosted by the Department of English at ASU, actors with @playonshakes.bsky.social visit ASU's Tempe campus to give an inside look at what it takes to perform Shakespeare in the 21st century. asuevents.asu.edu/event/play-s...
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Play on Shakespeare Workshop | ASU Events
Hosted by the Department of English at ASU, actors with Play On Shakespeare visit ASU's Tempe campus to give an inside look at what it takes to perform Shakespeare in the 21st century. The event will ...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Emma Smith traces how editorial traditions today are systems of value shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. Find a snapshot of her work on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Happy Sun Devil Giving Day! Any support you send to ACMRS goes directly to public programs, open access publishing, and ensuring travel funds are available to scholars attending RaceB4Race. If you can, please consider supporting ACMRS this SDGD acmrs.asu.edu/give
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ASU hosts a biennial Chaucer celebration, join us March 26-26 for Chaucer's Women! english.asu.edu/chaucer-cele...
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Chaucer Celebration | Department of English
The ASU Department of English's biennial Chaucer Celebration commemorates the life and work of medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer with events such as film festivals, concerts, performances, and academic...
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congrats to @a-arvas.bsky.social for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity!
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Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity
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