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Faith Acker

@doctalectrix.bsky.social

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Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Delighted to see that the Department of Homeland Security acknowledges that their immigration laws are "endangering American communities." Less delighted to see that nobody who publishes to the DHS webpage can write a grammatically correct sentence. I guess we only teach those to immigrants.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Library Day 9 of 10, Beinecke 2024, & really regretting only asking to come for 2 weeks. This morning I hit 1400 entries in my database: I now have recorded 1404 MS copies of 654 disparate EM poems on servants & tradesmen in 220 (or so) different trades, including at least 347 distinct epitaphs.

Morning sun sends strips of light across a wooden surface in the Beinecke Library reading room, a circular marble sculpture just visible out the window, but still in shade. Blue sky with glowing clouds trims the top of the photo.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm so grateful to have gotten to spend all last week (& next) at the Beinecke, staffed with some of the world's friendliest and most helpful librarians, guards, & facilities staff. Readers no longer have access to in-building coffee, but the fellowships folks have really stepped up their swag game.

Pale blue sky with streaks of pink surrounding the Beinecke Library building on a winter afternoon. Tungsten lights already glow beneath the building.

Black cloth bag and translucent blue leakproof water bottle, both branded "Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Fellowships."

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm the only one in the house awake right now, but out of consideration for the other human, this is the only photo I'll share.

Two cats curled up, asleep, on a towel in a window: a tabby on the left, tail touching nose, and a black one (really just a blob) on the right in the same position.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My followers have doubled overnight, so I guess I'm one of the cool kids at last! Hi, new people! I have a book on readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, my current research project is on epitaphs about 17th century servants and tradesmen, & I live with the two best cats in the world.

Black cat sitting on a paper bag in front of a brick wall, backlit with sunshine so that her whole front is gleaming.

White-pawed, white-chested tabby cat sleeping in a pool of sunshine, which illuminates her whiskers.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

If I read enough epigrams in a row, I start to read the period and slash at the end of each one as a cymbal crash: "Such Malsters as ill measure sell for gaine / are not meere knaues, but also knaues in graine." Ba-dum-TSS. Does this happen to anyone else? (Folger MS V.a.339, 220r or 226r).

Five epigrams from Wits Recreations copied into Folger manuscript V.a.339.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

I like his tuft of white at the throat! My cat has a similar marking.

Black cat with a tuft of white on his chin sits in a large bookcase.

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Faith Acker @doctalectrix.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Thanks also to @FolgerLibrary for acquiring (& allowing visits to see) such an interesting manuscript, & for bringing me & @MiyamotoBen together as friends & eventual collaborators. Here B. celebrates (w/ cake) our @FolgerResearch fellowships (2019-20 cohort)!

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