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 030
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Revision to do list of an early modernist: - Greyhounds - Communion - Agrarian practice 020
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I 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'. 020
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. 25650
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksErika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Sat 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-...eventbrite.co.ukWomen and Their Books in Early Modern England and ScotlandA study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. 35528
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Satan 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 151
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Climate change is already here 68821
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What 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! 061
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A bounteous early modern book spring! Looking forward to delving into @laurenworking.bsky.social's latest soon. 1142
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The best way to start the weekend is with the arrival of @rentravailer.bsky.social's latest in the post 🎉 120
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026This is an absolute delight & I recommend you all go read it now as a pre-Bank Holiday treat. 211
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Tag yourself, 1615 edition. I quite fancy the look of 'A craftie Scriuener' 360
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026RIP Stephen, you would have loved the snooze button. 050
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...oajournals.fupress.net Vol. 15 (2026): Material Space and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe | Journal of Early Modern Studies 1127
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Featuring 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. 040
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksEmily 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/4rb7CiXbit.lyReading the Practical in Early Modern Literature | University of SheffieldThis two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for lit 01110
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026One 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 043
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Citing myself today, like an asshole, but the cat is keeping me humble. 0120
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Job! 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...jobs.ac.ukResearch Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of BirminghamAn 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 ... 01114
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Important to gently judge your EM playwrights in your note taking 000
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are! 020
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her 050
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksAmy 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...clioreframed.hcommons.orgCall for Papers 12421
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...fass.open.ac.ukThe Open UniversityThe 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... 021
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025FINAL 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...sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature 021
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Now 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...sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature 047
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Just 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...sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature 0116
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here. 120
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Favourite 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’) 🐻 010
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksKathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Call 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 01216
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025One 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...sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature 097
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksEmily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025The 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...sites.google.comSheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern LiteratureCFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature 0107
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Wonderful 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...cambridge.org‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025 093
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! 1107
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksHakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...hakluyt.comThe Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate studentsThe 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 088
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It'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. 3170
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺 020
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78) 161
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025My 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...academic.oup.comStaging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey BachrachHailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info 021
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksTom Gavin 🧈 @tomgavin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Short 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! 1104
Reposted by Chloe FairbanksPlants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · 23/01/2025We 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 🪴 15340
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Tfw you start your class on Restoration literature with the Horrible Histories Charles II song and the students start singing and dancing alongmedia.tenor.coma man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the airALT: a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air 020
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Great 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. 110