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Chloe Fairbanks

@fairbanc.bsky.social
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Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'When I became a [wo]man, I put away childish things'? Absolutely not, bc I still got the same rush of glee opening a new box of pens* that I did in elementary school. *huge plug here for my long-term fave pens, the Stabilo .88 fineliners
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Beautifully written, important note.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Revision to do list of an early modernist: - Greyhounds - Communion - Agrarian practice
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know that the word 'Sea' is cut off by the gutter, but I like the idea that William Hole's Poly-Olbion maps included some posing figures identified as 'THE FRENCH'.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sat 3 Oct 2026 at Christ Church Library, Oxford Univ - Women and Their Books: Women as Book Producers and Owners in Early Modern England and Scotland A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...
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Women and Their Books in Early Modern England and Scotland
A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Satan telling Pug in The Devil is an Ass that he's not good enough to corrupt souls in London, but that he might hack it in 'Lancashire...or some parts of Northumberland' is both savage and fascinating proof that EM Satan was a middle class southerner
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Climate change is already here
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What a brilliant time at the Global Renaissance workshop hosted by @cesrtours.bsky.social and organised by the inimitable @endeeekay.bsky.social and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. So many rich and thought-provoking discussions!
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A bounteous early modern book spring! Looking forward to delving into @laurenworking.bsky.social's latest soon.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The best way to start the weekend is with the arrival of @rentravailer.bsky.social's latest in the post 🎉
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is an absolute delight & I recommend you all go read it now as a pre-Bank Holiday treat.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Tag yourself, 1615 edition. I quite fancy the look of 'A craftie Scriuener'
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
RIP Stephen, you would have loved the snooze button.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
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Vol. 15 (2026): Material Space and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe | Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New address just dropped
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Featuring book reviews by myself and the inimitable @cazzert.bsky.social! Really enjoyed reviewing Scott Oldenburg and @pangallo.bsky.social's timely collection None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage.
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Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX
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Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature | University of Sheffield
This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for lit
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social! Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Citing myself today, like an asshole, but the cat is keeping me humble.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...
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Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job ...
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Marking my calendar now!!
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This was fabulous - very thought-provoking!
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Important to gently judge your EM playwrights in your note taking
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her
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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are! fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...
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The Open University
The 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Only Ben Jonson 😂
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of! www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78
Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Proofs looking goooood
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
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Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
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The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Another day, another
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike. academic.oup.com/sq/advance-a...
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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info
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Tom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!
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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴
A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany. 
 
Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions:
What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning?
What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge?
What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists?
How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries?

Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.
 
This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.
 
Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Tfw you start your class on Restoration literature with the Horrible Histories Charles II song and the students start singing and dancing along
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a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air
ALT: a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Great to start the term off with a wonderfully rich and thought-provoking paper by @harrymccarthy.bsky.social at the Oxford Early Modern Literature Seminar last night.
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