Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Grateful and excited to have been included in this fantastic @folger.edu series! 074
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ACMRS is hiring! We are seeking a program manager to join our ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded RaceB4Race initiative. Find the full position listing below and apply today! asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASU…asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comProgram ManagerJob Profile: Administrative Operations Specialist 3 Job Family: Administrative Operations Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved. Job Profile Summary: Supports and instructs those served by the department with complex queries, applies specialized knowledge of multiple standards, policies... 036
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...asu.pressbooks.pubAcknowledgments – To Hear Her SpeakRecovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors. 12621
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Early modern race and disability is just one week away! Be sure to register for this panel and join us online September 2 at 9 am MST. na.eventscloud.com/race-and-disabil… 063
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We're thrilled to be supporting Across Two Seas, a symposium put together by Denva Gallant at Rice University. This lineup is incredible, and there is travel funding for folks in the @folger.edu Institute consortium! Don't sleep on this one: acrosstwoseas.com #RaceB4Raceacrosstwoseas.comAcross Two SeasA Symposium at Rice University 0119
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Professor Cassander L. Smith offers an important reading the double-edged sword of respectability politics in the lives of Black Americans. This respectability can be found in the first memoir written in English by a Black African, Olaudah Equiano. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten... 082
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How did rare books become valuable? Emma Smith talked to us about the rare books market, Shakespeare's first folio, and their ties to sugar plantations and slave labor in the Caribbean. Learn more from Professor Smith for free at throughlines.org #Shakespeare #BookHistory 1166
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week. 0328
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaRachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms. 1412760
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaTerence Towles Canote @mercurie80.bsky.social · 27/08/2024The Bard in the Borderlands' celebrates, critiques Shakespeare through a Chicano lens www.kjzz.org/kjzz-news/20...kjzz.org'The Bard in the Borderlands' celebrates, critiques Shakespeare through a Chicano lens“The Bard in the Borderlands” is a collection of Shakespearean adaptations reflecting the culture and history of this region of the world — both critiquing and celebrating the bard in the process. 043
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaShakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 27/01/2026All SAA members are encouraged to vote in the election of new Trustees! Vote by February 15 to help shape the future of the SAA. Bios and candidate statements are available on our website, linktr.ee/saaupdates 034
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Beyond excited that Dan-el will be joining us next fall! 🔥🔥🔥 050
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaDavid McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6bgofund.meDonate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah NevilleShakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph 02114
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social! “Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU. news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d... 13713
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaShakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Looking for assistance to attend #Shax2026 in Denver? Check out our Travel and Dependent Care grants — applications are due November 1. Find out how to apply on our website: shakespeareassociation.org/awards-prize... 032
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025“What’s less clear is how a man with no private-sector resume, no known business ventures, and no discernible talent outside of writing xenophobic policy memos, ended up in a multimillion-dollar property in one of Arlington’s wealthiest enclaves.” dailyboulder.com/sidewalk-cha...dailyboulder.comSidewalk Chalk Messages Force Stephen Miller to Flee Arlington, Put Home Up for SaleStephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and architect of some of the Trump administration’s most hardline immigration policies, has listed his Arlington home for $3.75 million — just two yea... 67641
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Just arrived and I absolutely can’t wait to dive in!! Congratulations, @profkfh.bsky.social!!! 🔥🔥🔥 293
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace 10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...bcrw.barnard.eduThe Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on WomenKim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura 49031
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Happy pub day to The Island of Hermaphrodites, translated by Kathleen P. long. Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today. Access the full text for free online asu.pressbooks.pub/the-island-o...asu.pressbooks.pubThe Island of Hermaphrodites – Simple Book PublishingA scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless satire blends courtly decadence with political rebellion in an imagined world of unchecked power. 0117
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Tomorrow is August 🤯 is your syllabus ready?? Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.orgthroughlines.orgThroughlines — Race in the premodern classroomCreated by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom. 0115
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025👀 Is that our executive director Ayanna Thompson hanging out with the absolutely STACKED cast of The Public Theater's 12th Night?? 041
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaKathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025As I finished Shakespeare in Tongues in 2024, I could sense that my chapter on The Tempest and the 2012 outlawing of the Mexican American Studies curriculum in Tucson, AZ, would become increasingly relevant in this new era of epistemic violence, so I wrote a short piece about it for The Sundial. 254
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics: 185
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Congratulations to @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social!! Order your copy asap! This book is 🔥🔥🔥 121
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaKathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Shakespeare in Tongues is officially available for pre-order today! If you would like to order a copy for yourself or your library, please use the discount code 25AFLY2* for 20% off. www.routledge.com/.../Vomero..... 33110
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Looks like the @pennpress.bsky.social off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!pennpress.orgThe Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn PressHow seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slave... 23618
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#earlymodern #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Blackademics 0145
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaFaculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Don't miss our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on JULIUS CAESAR with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams 2 June 6-7.15pm Online via Zoom All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk #juliuscaesar #historyplays 0125
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Are you an early career scholar? Apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. 2-3 mentees are matched with expert scholars in premodern critical race studies. Discuss career development, collaboration, and publishing in the field of PCRS. Apps close 5/15 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 079
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaShakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Travel grants, awards and prizes, and #ShaxGrads programming offer essential support for and recognition of professional development. Support the future of our field (both research and researchers!) by making a gift to the SAA Annual Fund: linktr.ee/saaupdates 063
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/03/2025This is pure unadulterated evil www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...huffpost.comTrump Strips Legal Representation From Thousands Of Unaccompanied Migrant ChildrenThe Trump administration has canceled the funding for legal representation for 26,000 children — and lawyers are calling it a "heartless" move. 13324162
Reposted by Ruben Espinosa祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Hey journals? This is bad 1177
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation. 2145576
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaKatherine Gillen @katherinegillen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Members of @saaupdates.bsky.social, please join us on Wednesday, March 5 (12:30pm EST) for an online roundtable “Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine.” There will be representation from grad students to emerita faculty in SAA, and we will lots of time for discussion. 053
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025SAA and #ShakeRace friends — if you have not yet voted for new trustees and VP, please do so ASAP! You have 2 more days! The candidates are 🔥🔥🔥! 055
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaShakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Don’t forget: registration for our joint conference with RSA closes on March 1! If you’re planning to join us in Boston, register today at buff.ly/3F488Kr 052
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Excited to be in conversation with Tommy Orange this Saturday! If you’re in the Phoenix area, please join us! 🌵☀️ If not, you can livestream the event (registration link below). Free and open to the public. 110
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025👇🏽 Check out this review of Throughlines! If you haven’t visited Throughlines.org, you should!!throughlines.orgThroughlines — Race in the premodern classroomCreated by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom. 072
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025“Everyone has a role. Stand upright in yours.” ✊🏽 061
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Is it norovirus or just my body’s visceral reaction to this awful day? 170
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025? 060
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 25/12/2024I initially thought you were going in the direction of Donne and “Batter my person, three person’d God” with this, but, yeah, horror works too, @mdbell79.bsky.social . 020
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024How we do it out West. Arizona tumbleweed Christmas tree. 🎄 130
Reposted by Ruben EspinosaShakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Can we get SAA to 1000 followers on Bluesky before the end of 2024? Share and comment below and one lucky follower will get to pick our next #ShaxPets post! (This is the only “prize” I’m authorized to offer, but it’s pretty good, I think?) 4145
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Do yourself a favor—take a few minutes to read this fantastic new essay on Antony & Cleopatra by @miramiraculous.bsky.social!! 🔥 www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...folger.eduConvivial Cleopatra | Folger Shakespeare LibraryFolger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explor... 192
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024“It is best if we, as educators, question the long tradition of propping up this play because of the perception that Hamlet’s worldviews are somehow universal. They are not, and as such we need to look beyond him. Indeed, there is so much more to _Hamlet_ than Hamlet.” New essay! ✊🏽 Just got my copy! 1223
