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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 16h

My review of Rhae Lynn Barnes’s “Darkology” is out in Theatre Journal:

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My entire first book functions as a debunking of the Chortlemuffin Effect in the historiography of blackface minstrelsy.

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@zunguzungu.bsky.social This is where I trace the likely theatrical origins of a British racist slur.

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My essay “Intertheatrical Things” is now available open access: www.jstor.org/content/pdf/...

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“What times are these, in which A conversation about trees is almost a crime For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!”

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s always some version of, “But AI helped me do this thing that I would normally have needed to interact with another person to accomplish, and so it is therefore intrinsically valuable.”

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Surely there are no unforeseen consequences to adopting concepts that rely on viewing all interpersonal relationships as competitions measured only by one’s feelings of relative superiority or inferiority.

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!

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Multimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance data

Early detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s...

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy to announce that my new essay “Intertheatrical Things” is out in the book “Theatre Things”!

The cover of “Theatre Things: Material Theories & Histories,” edited by Andrew Friedman and Eero Laine

The first page of “Intertheatrical Things” by Kellen Hoxworth

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Freedom, historically, was a racial property of whiteness…

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Humbled to receive an Honorable Mention for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2026 Outstanding Article Award for my essay “Alice Childress’s Troubling Method: Theatrical ‘Truth’ and the Cold War Politics of Rehearsing Racial Authenticity.” www.athe.org/page/article...

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ATHE 2026 Outstanding Article Awardees - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My new essay is out in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre’s special issue on “100 Years of Du Bois.” It’s open-access, so you can read it here:

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An Expansive “Us”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Pan-Negro” Theatrical Vision

Kellen Hoxworth

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The worst is when they lie to you. I once got duped because a guy offered an aisle seat for aisle seat trade, and only after I’d moved did he tell me he actually had the middle seat.

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A significant amount of the popularity of blackface minstrelsy stems from this proslavery anxiety about interracial sexuality. Almost everything written about Othello for two centuries is dripping with proslavery anxieties and fears about amalgamation. For more:

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Transoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University Press

A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra...

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🎃 a very frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This special section runs alongside Camille Owens's review of "Transoceanic Blackface," which shares a review essay with Chinua Thelwell's "Exporting Jim Crow," Bethany Hughes's "Redface," and Danielle Roper's "Hemispheric Blackface."

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Reorienting Blackface | TDR | Cambridge Core

Reorienting Blackface - Volume 70 Issue 1

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