Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There was talk of this at the last REF. The idea that my monograph & first edited collection might have gone into the UoA of an institution that left me too numb to feel a sense of achievement in having published them (or to celebrate their publication) was a pretty horrible feeling. 021
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We won’t be stringent on the deadline, but it the official deadline is today! 053
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m very grateful to have a SCONUL card, ILL, etc., but the increasing move to electronic-only purchases is making it hard to fulfil some revisions — e.g., citing a poem from a particular edn that would cost £395 to purchase since none of the libraries in the region seem to have a hard copy. 170
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026👀 I spy @willtosh.bsky.social at Shakespeare North! If you can’t get to Prescot to nab a copy, you can now buy it in glorious paperback elsewhere: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/stra... 030
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🥰 if you were in @ellierycroft.bsky.social’s @saaupdates.bsky.social seminar a couple of years’ ago, you would have read an earlier draft of this. Glad to be in this volume, even if I’m a little intimidated by the excellence of the company I keep! 090
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Come one, come all! Shower us with your lovely abstracts! 097
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comKunal's Jerry Mouse Popcorn MomentALT: Kunal's Jerry Mouse Popcorn Moment 031
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think I’m on a mission to submit the weirdest paper titles for conferences ever. 270
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The winner of the article prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Jessica Maratsos!! For her article ‘From Asia to Iberia: The Mobility of #EarlyModern Reliquaries’. Congratulations Jessica! We award this prize annually to the best article that appeared in Renaissance Studies. rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-... 0238
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And the winner of the biennial book prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! 🎉 Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri... 06020
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026TODAY IS THE DAY! Come and join us in celebrating these five glorious shortlisted authors as well as the winner of our article prize! Join us here: www.crowdcast.io/c/festival20... #earlymodern #SkyStorianscrowdcast.ioSRS Prizes 2026Register now for SRS Prizes 2026 on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 18, 2026, 04:00 PM GMT+1. 086
Reposted by Rachel WillieLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Join us on Friday for this celebration of all the exciting #earlymodern research that’s being done! Your joyful way to get to know 5 excellent books, 2 brilliant post-doctoral projects, and the exciting articles we’re publishing in Renaissance Studies. Get some champagne and join us! #SkyStorians 0168
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026TWO SLEEPS! And then we get to hear about so much exciting research and celebrate extraordinary achievements! Do join us! #earlymodern #skystorians 064
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Only after I hit “send” did I realise I wrote “canonical” instead of “conical” in an email and now I am giggling the possibilities of this malapropism. 140
Reposted by Rachel WillieProf. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social Online registration available 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 @reedproject.bsky.social REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...share.googleRecords of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium - Centre for Renaissance and Reformation StudiesLocation Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 September 19–20, 2026University of Toronto Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures The internat... 01610
Reposted by Rachel WillieMarissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Time to send us your proposals for Stuart Drama! HT @racheljwillie.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social 01011
Reposted by Rachel WillieEmilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well what an unreal long run that was this morning in Trento along the river admiring the mountains. Also my first 15k since 2020 and all in aid of fighting dementia - so here is where I shake my tin again. £2 - less than your morning coffee - would mean the world! www.justgiving.com/page/emilie-... 1193
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comBand Of Misfits MonkeyALT: Band Of Misfits Monkey 010
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Having my bathroom refitted this week. I didn’t quite get what they were talking about when it came to the options for my bathroom door. They suggested I wait for my [imaginary?] husband to come home from work and then I can discuss it with him 🥴🫣🙄 180
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026👀 @aidannorrie.bsky.social & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!! 070
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Am failing to write a conclusion. Why is it that some essays just can’t be nicely tied up at the end? Where’s the big red bow? 110
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Am failing to write a conclusion. Why I’d it that some days just can’t be nicely tied up at the end? Where’s the big red bow? 250
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Oh my goodness! Too many potential avenues with this one! 121
Reposted by Rachel WillieSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Transphobia isn’t an opinion, for the same reason that its uncle, white supremacy, isn’t an opinion. Both are extremist ideologies based on dehumanisation. They must be addressed accordingly. Solidarity to parents now afraid for their child. Love to all those children, victims of hate. 113242
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s great there’s a campaign to get more progressive people on synod in the forthcoming elections but would it be so bad if there was also a schism? An inclusive & broad church isn’t inclusive if it tries to include people who question other people’s right to exist… togethercofe.org.uk/about-us/togethercofe.org.ukAbout us – Together for the Church of England 120
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026SEVENTY-ONE SUBMISSIONS. #Earlymodern studies alive and kicking. Our poor book prize committee slightly less so... 0255
Reposted by Rachel WilliePeter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Congratulations to the wonderful Mary Ann Lund (Leicester) on publication of her second (!) vol. in the Oxford Donne Sermons edition. Fantastic textual and critical scholarship on his mid-career at St Paul's. 26921
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Currently writing something and wondering if there will ever be a time when I’m not citing the brilliant @jennyrichards.bsky.social’s “Voices and Books”. I have read other scholarship, honest! 😳 170
Reposted by Rachel WillieSociety for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri... 46628
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Does OUP no longer sell copies of their books directly? I get a “forbidden” message when I attempt to use a url I’ve used before and the e-text url only seems to have the option to buy via Amazon. 🤨 410
Reposted by Rachel WillieMobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don’t know what the library equivalent of dimming our lights is but whatever it is, we should be doing it for Dolly because what that woman did for literacy deserves so much more recognition than it got 218841
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026www.ticketsource.com/thehopetheat...ticketsource.comThe Haunting of Verity Evans at The Hope TheatreTickets are now available for The Haunting of Verity Evans at The Hope Theatre, London between Tue 25 Aug 2026 and Wed 26 Aug 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets no... 010
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Who do we need to lobby for a vote of no confidence in Exeter’s Senior Management Team? 120
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Was just reading up on masques and music and then remembered the time when I worked at Bangor and taught a module with colleagues in Music and Modern Languages. Context: Modern Languages was on the floor above the English Corridor; Music had its own separate building. 140
Reposted by Rachel Williealice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I still have a lot of liverpool people on here so I’m boosting the arts emergency sign-up for merseyside they’re looking for mentors in the areas below — it’s lovely and rewarding and you get to meet some brilliant young people! www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved... 01111
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026When I went to a conference at Portsmouth a decade or so ago, I stayed at the pub Buckingham was assassinated in because, well…why wouldn’t you? www.yespotteddogge.co.ukyespotteddogge.co.ukHome - Ye Spotted Dogge, Accommodation in PortsmouthAccommodation in Portsmouth. Book direct for best prices guaranteed online. For great accommodation inchoose Ye Spotted Dogge 041
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s true Monmouth assizes were added to the Oxford circuit in the late seventeenth century, but… 120
Reposted by Rachel WillieJonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 22/08/2026PBSA is searching for an Editorial Assistant! Review of applications begins September 1 and goes through the 15th. Information & instructions to apply are at the link below. Position manages logistics of journal processes. $5000 annual honorarium, 1 year w possibility of renewal.docs.google.comEditorial Assistant job descriptionPBSA Editorial Assistant description and qualifications The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) seeks an Editorial Assistant. PBSA is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal published o... 01012
Reposted by Rachel WillieEmilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element... 58017
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Who’s a Wikipedia editor? I feel Helen Gardner’s entry needs updating to include this vital piece of information about her and the Spanish Steps. 242
Reposted by Rachel WillieSimon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A new post over on Substack: Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, and some change-ringing refrains voiceandverse.substack.com/p/the-woods-...voiceandverse.substack.com“The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring”Echoes, Refrains and Reverberation in Spenser 032