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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is this….is this what brings me back to the church???? (Spoiler: it’s not, but I’m so very here for Pope Bob)

Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know I can’t be the only one disappointed that @thepwhl.com keeps hiring (white) men to coach these amazing female and nonbinary athletes.

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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You there! Yes, you! Are you an actor or performer, or do you teach drama, theatre, or acting? I want to hear from you for my new project that's all about *care* in relation to performer training. Details in the slides; Link is below Thank you in advance for taking part 🤗

Calling actors and theatre teachers!

I'm sharing a short survey that will ask you open-ended questions about how you experienced care (or didn't) in your training, and -- if you teach -- how you show care for your students now.

This image includes a QR code that links to https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/H1WcrYxN2z

About the project: Embodied Archives & Communities of Care in Actor Training. Scholar Virginia Held says that “Care is both a value and practice” (2006, 9). In the training of actors, particularly in conservatoire and other intensive environments, theories and practices of care have evolved rapidly over the past twenty years. At the same time, however, the physical and psychological demands on performers of classical texts such as Shakespeare’s have remained high. Educators of actors may now find themselves having to re-examine the embodied knowledge built up from their own training and professional experiences, in order to care more effectively for students as they build the literal and metaphorical musculature required of a classical performer. Trainee actors still depend very much on the relational communities of care in which they train, rehearse and perform, while at the same time being encouraged to envision themselves as a highly individualised neoliberal product.

About the Project (continued)
“Embodied Archives and Communities of Care…” therefore considers the extent to which care is a key component of actor training, and the ways that definitions of ‘care’ in relation to the classical performer have shifted over the past two decades. Through this project, I aim to explore the extent to which communities of care constitute an embodied archive; how replication and innovation interact in the enactment of care; and how definitions of “care” in a training context shift and evolve over time.

Here's where you come in!

I'll be so grateful if you take a few minutes to complete the survey.

At the end of the survey is an invitation to volunteer for a more in-depth interview, if you're open to it.

When I write up this research, all responses from both the survey and the interviews will be anonymised.

If you're able and willing, I would be thrilled to have your responses as part of the research. I would be equally grateful if you could please share the survey link with anyone else in your network who may be interested in taking part. The survey will be open until the end of January 2027.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching the Wishbone episode about David and Goliath in my Bible as Lit class this afternoon. Hashtag praxis!

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The real heroes of #FatBearWeek are whoever’s in charge of the livestream cameras. Bravo for always finding the bears and serving up stunning scenic shots!

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m terrified to watch it because I love the book so so much. 🙈

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have seen a job ad for the “long 19th century” and like wow no thank you why must every century now be long

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a double meaning in that. 😏

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t know how I’m supposed to wait another two months for the PWHL season to start. I need hockey NOW!!

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ooooh I would like to hear more about this!

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Letter of recommendation: roast a bunch of garlic heads and blend them into a potato soup. 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s me, I’m people. 💁🏻‍♀️

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spending my afternoon setting up my spring Canvas courses because I'm just wacky like that.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyway, consider this a letter of recommendation for co-teaching with a colleague outside your discipline. It’s the freaking BEST.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Buried in Exodus 4:25ish is a throwaway line about Moses’s wife (he was married!!) circumcising their son (they had a baby!!!) and then applying the foreskin to Moses’s feet!!! WHY????? For secret reasons!!!! Learning is so cool.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I haven’t given the Bible any serious consideration in probably 25 years or more, so every single class day brings so many new ideas to me and I am learning so much! This week is 1998’s THE PRINCE OF EGYPT + Exodus, and y’all, the story of Moses is WILD.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m team-teaching a Bible as Literature course with a theologian colleague this semester, and I am having the absolute BEST time of my entire career. I was raised Catholic but have never held any sort of religious conviction, and market myself as an atheist these days.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Went and got my Covid/flu shots and they didn’t even give me a cool bandaid???? Just a regular boring skin colored one???? HATE CRIME.

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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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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bookmarking this for the next time I teach my Women's Bodies course!!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

The Payback is out in paperback today, it’s the same great student loan industry heist novel in a smaller size and lower price. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

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Jada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size but exactly what style they need to transform their life. Too bad she's no longer using this superpower as a wardrobe designer to Hollywood stars but for minimum wage plus commission at the Glendale mall.

When Jada is fired yet again, she is forced to outrun the newly instated Debt Police, who are out for blood. But Jada, like any great antihero, is not going to wait for the cops to come kick her around. With the help of two other debt-burdened mall coworkers, she hatches a plan for revenge. Together, the three women plan a heist to erase their student loans forever and get back at the system that promised them everything and then tried to take it back.

Kashana Cauley is the author of The Payback and The Survivalists, which was named a best book of 2023 by the BBC, Today, Vogue, and more. Cauley is also a television writer, having worked on The Great North, Pod Save America on HBO, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Her writing has
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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Out now! My take on the definitive version of A Christmas Carol, and the Muppety bust of Shakespeare that governs us all. borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...

borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org

The Muppet Christmas Carol , by William Shakespeare | Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There were audible gasps and groans from the faculty at convocation this year when the speaker welcomed the class of 2030. 😵

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On Tuesday after taking attendance for the first time I hopped up to sit on the table at the front of the room and introduce myself, and the table (which was apparently broken!!!) collapsed and deposited me squarely on the floor. Thank goodness I wasn’t in a skirt.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s the end of the first week of the fall semester, and today I finished my syllabi for my spring courses. Jess Hamlet is always gonna Jess Hamlet, but yeah, sometimes I hate myself too. 🤣

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just a tour de force of a performance. 😭 Remember, kids, communism is just a red herring.

Still of Tim Curry at the end of Clue, explaining how all the murders happened.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Double feature tonight of Muppet Treasure Island and Clue 😭😭

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But WHY are there no textbooks in the bookstore?

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hung it on my office door—resident departmental reply guy poked his head in this morning like "this has nothing to do with AI!! this is just a guide for life!!!!!! you're being disingenuous!!!!!!" MY GUY. 🙄

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Used my grown up money to buy a vacuum sealer and I am going to be UNSTOPPABLE.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Had a truly horrific teaching nightmare last night, which can only mean that classes start on Monday 🙃

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the beginning of a very specific horror movie. Like Veggie Tales: Revenggie Tales 🔪

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don’t worry, our program’s outcome will be “students know how to think and write without AI”

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Every program here has to deliver AI “competency outcomes” by the end of the AY. 🙃

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On this, the last day I can possibly consider "summer", I'm revisiting Joshua Tree, which I haven't listened to in its entirety in probably 15 years or more. And damn, it's so good.

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Anywhere in the US, but probably a smaller town; yes

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Career milestone unlocked: asked to blurb a (very exciting and cool) book! 🎉

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