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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

TIL that my phone corrects “prefatory” to “predatory,” meaning that I just sent a text to my co-editor about whether we might change our “predatory matter.” I liked that so much that needed you all to enjoy it too.

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gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

so delighted -- as I wing my way toward #shax2026 -- to see that LITERARY FORM AFTER MATTER is now published and available open access!!! all hail the brilliant Dianne Mitchell and Katharine Hunt!! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...

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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

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Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If you're at #shax2026 and you would like to write a performance review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, or you'd just like to find out more about it, then please come and say hello to me! I look like my profile picture (minus Paul Revere pointing at me) and I'd love to talk to you 🙂

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We have raised more than $7K to make our friend Meghan Andrews’s posthumous book open access. Getting closer and closer to our goal. Please help us share this Go Fund Me page far and wide! Donate if you’re able. #Shakespeare #academic

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jAy Ph.D. @jayrotoole.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A hardback copy of my academic book has finally arrived! Want to find out more about the desires of King James VI & I? - You can do from next Thursday! Release date: 11th December. #QueerLit #EarlyModern #History #EarlyModern

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Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Who's up for a pedagogy thread as I prepare my syllabi (read: procrastinate) ahead of tomorrow's deadline?

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Dear #academics, I am excited to be starting a yearlong #sabbatical. I have some pretty ambitious writing goals. Send me your best advice for making the most of this year!

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Join me for a VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH on WEDNESDAY at 11am CDT to celebrate a new book by Lara Dodds and Michelle Dowd! The book offers a terrific state-of-the-field assessment of scholarship on early modern women writers and important ideas for the future. Register at tinyurl.com/DoddsandDowd

Flyer: Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Future of Literary History by Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd. Use code AAFLYG6 at global.oup.com to save 30%.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection
30 Pages Posted: 19 May 2025
Simon Quach
University of Southern California

Zhengyi Yu
University of Southern California - Department of Economics

Date Written: May 15, 2025

Abstract
This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a differencein-differences approach, we compare faculty outcomes in Florida to nearby states. We find the policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers-indicating a brain drain rather than improved selection. Additionally, we detect no productivity gains among incumbents and observe a decline in the research output of new hires. Overall, the findings suggest that reducing tenure protections negatively affects the research capacity and competitiveness of public universities.

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Why I don’t teach middle school, as told by two messages from my kid’s band director. DO NOT GO IN THE BASEMENT!

Message telling students not to go to the basement unsupervised, using capital letters to seem like shouting

Message in all capital letters telling percussionists to put away their stuff

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

mashable.com

Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

That's a long time in the microwave.

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emer mchugh’s the devils @emer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨💚 SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND KLAXON 💚🚨 Are you someone who’s interested in Shakespeare and Ireland studies? Do you work in related areas? Do you want to find out about related work/events, & to ask research questions?

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 23/05/2025

Propaganda we’re not falling for: - “Cracking knuckles causes arthritis.” The noise of cracking joints is just nitrogen bubbles bursting in the synovial fluid and is not harmful. 🧵⬇️

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Learned about another just published digital resource at #Shax2025 and #RenSA25 "The Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth" (Cromwell) sites.bc.edu/court-and-ki...

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The Court & Kitchin of Elizabeth – A Digital Annotated Edition

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Miles Grier’s “I want to get to the thing I don’t know so I won’t be bored by my talk” is a perfect motto for this conference for me. #Shax2025 #RSA2025

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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tomorrow morning at 9 AM come and see me, Simon Smith, Lauren Robertson & Miles Grier talking about playgoing and privilege in early modernity. #Shax2025

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Same. Looking forward to using this approach later. #Shax2025 and #RSA2025

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Our fearless leader @erinannmcc.bsky.social speaking about STEMMA and 'AI and Early Modern Poetry' this morning at RSA! #RSA2025

(Right) Prof Erin McCarthy speaking at RSA conference 2025 (left) powerpoint presentation for talk 'AI and Early Modern Poetry'

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Moving speech by the thoughtful @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social during the #Shax2025 lunch- we know that teaching/studying the Early Modern has & can have real effects on our present moment. We have "a responsibility to bear witness" and to "be on the right side of history" based on our deep knowledges.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

re-upping this now that most are in situ in boston at #shax2025 and #RenSA2025— please get in touch if you would like to discuss an idea for the ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series with me & @loughnrv.bsky.social! we'd love to talk to you.

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Linked Early Modern Drama Online @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hi everyone heading to #Shax2025 and #RSA2025 - don't miss your chance to see Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy on Saturday afternoon, in a wild four-person (+puppets) adaptation by Streetlight Shakespeare Ensemble. Some pics to whet the appetite (Miscellaneous Media Photography) - hope to see you there!

A female-presenting actor lies on the floor, being sat on by a puppet chicken. An easel stands behind, with an arrow pointing down towards "Pit of Death"

An actor playing a guitar sings to another actor who looks away with an ambiguous expression.

An actor aims a chicken puppet at another actor in an intentful way.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you missed our March #Shakespeare webinar on the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Henry IV, Part 1 you can catch up now on our website. Browse upcoming webinars and scroll down to see recordings of past events. #HenryIV #TeamEnglish #EduSky

english.web.ox.ac.uk

English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@susananderson.bsky.social @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce a CfP for Shakespeare/Movement for the Arden Shakespeare Intersections series. More info attached but if you'd like to grab Susan or me for more details or to discuss ideas @saaupdates.bsky.social then please do!

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Friends, I won't be at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 after all. However, I would love to talk to you about your book MS for my series! Contact me or the acquisitions editor, Tyler Cloherty, to talk! #EarlyModern For books in the series & the description, "Late Tudor & Stuart Drama." wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

wmich.edu

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories | Western Michigan University

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

To kick off Women’s History Month, I’ll speak about Flora Carr’s The Tower tonight. It’s resilient women who suffer atrocities, and I’ve got things to say about that! Of course my daughter is home sick. Here is a peek at my practice run, with a small child in a fairy costume doing acrobatics.

Woman in foreground is speaking while a blur of a child in a pink fairy costume throws herself on the couch in the background

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What made me smile today: while discussing Hamlet, my students kept pointing out all the ways Hamlet sounds like Hester Pulter. My own tiny revolution! #Pulter #Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Attention #ShaxGrads! Don’t miss the FREE online session, Navigating SAA as a Grad, on February 21. Not a grad student? Share this post with the #ShaxGrads in your network! Follow the ShaxGrads account on Instagram & register for this panel discussion at buff.ly/3F488Kr

Image of a white square on a light teal background. Text reads “the new SAA graduate committee presents “navigating SAA as a grad,” a zoom event on February 21, 2025 at 2pm EST / 11am PST.” End ID.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Still thinking about this

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

At the end of Week 4, I asked my students to express how they’re feeling using one of Hester Pulter’s favorite words. There was “splendent” and “radiant,” but the clear winner was “dunghill.” 💩 #Pulter #earlymodern #womenwriters #17c

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🚨Latest pod drop - a tidied up version of our live streamed chat about Travelling Players with @drwillgreen.bsky.social - discussing the reality of touring, the spaces, the practical choices, all the things really. #drama #OnTheRoad #Players audioboom.com/posts/863622...

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Discussing: Travelling Players in Early Modern England

A chat about travelling players. Remember to pack your scripts!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I see authors sheepishly announcing books, or apologizing for good news. Friends: we’re enduring an onslaught of censorship and bigotry. I am PROUD that you wrote anything. Please yell about what you're doing. Art is a fuel to keeps many of us going.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/01/2025

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

teenvogue.com

People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years

It's nothing new.

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Your #Pulter poem of the day is “To Aurora [1].” To my students, it comments on the exploitation of women. The speaker sounds like a victim of trauma seeking help from an army of goddesses. And Pulter innovates by celebrating female nudity that has zero to do with male pleasure. #EarlyModern

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To Aurora [1] | Elemental Edition

A poem by Hester Pulter (ca. 1605-1678) concerning the topics of Aurora, night, light, and truth. Elemental Edition, edited by Leah Knight (Brock University) and Wendy Wall (Northwestern University).

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

One thing we can do right now — and those of us trained as researchers or journalists are especially equipped to do it — is to FACT CHECK what we read on social media. Don’t assume. Find the source. Remind others to do the same.

Cartoon image of a purple umbrella with a green handle. The words Media Literacy appear at the top of the umbrella. Under the umbrella are bubbles with text.

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Me, when I hear my 12yo say, “I don’t understand in-text citations.”

Woman wears a red cape and blue glasses with one hand on her hip and the other flexing a bicep muscle.

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🧐Trudy Lynn 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @tlt55.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Here is a word which I’ve been saving, so that I could use it today….

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

More writing on a snowy Sunday morning. Help me out #earlymodern folks: I'm looking for works that conceptualize/theorize what we mean when we say "household." I think we all have an idea of what it means as a convenient shorthand, but I want to unpack the idea a bit more. Readings, thoughts?

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

As you can tell, I thought my course on Pulter — my current favorite 17th c poet — would be a good chance to introduce #Pulter as a hashtag and share some of her poems that I like to teach. #PulterForAll !

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hester Pulter wrote emblems without illustrations. I asked students to find or make images for “View But This Tulip.” Many prompted AI, to terrific results. We had skulls, Christian iconography, representations of alchemy, fire, big and small tulips. I recommend this assignment! #Pulter #earlymodern

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View But This Tulip (Emblem 40) | Elemental Edition

A poem by Hester Pulter (ca. 1605-1678) concerning the topics of alchemy, ashes, body, and death. Elemental Edition, edited by Leah Knight (Brock University) and Wendy Wall (Northwestern University).

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Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I was honoured to contribute to Henry Woudhuysen’s festschrift, brilliantly edited by Daniel Smith and Hazel Wilkinson. My chapter, on the elusive Love’s Labour’s Won, is free to access until 13 February - check it out and the rest of the book too 👇 fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today’s Hester Pulter nugget: a lovely 25-min podcast from 2021 that models close reading and rich discussion. “Poetry for All” featuring Wendy Wall and Pulter’s Emblem 40: “View But This Tulip.” Alchemy, resurrection, formal innovation — and more! #Pulter #EarlyModern

poetryforall.fireside.fm

Hester Pulter, View But This Tulip

Wendy Wall joins us to discuss an extraordinary poet whose works went unknown for over three hundred years. Hester Pulter brought together science, religion, poetic traditions and so much more. Her 12...

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today my Pulter class dug into “Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined.” The students considered that the speaker might be confined by war, illness, grief, etc. but decided that she is trapped in a society that doesn’t value writerly ambition in women. I like it. #Pulter #EarlyModern

pulterproject.northwestern.edu

Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined | Elemental Edition

A poem by Hester Pulter (ca. 1605-1678) concerning the topics of body, freedom, confinement, and cannibalism. Elemental Edition, edited by Leah Knight (Brock University) and Wendy Wall (Northwestern U...

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

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Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press

What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

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