Saraya Haddad (she/her) (Shakespeare Institute) is joining us this Thursday afternoon to present her research on the ghostly world of Macbeth and the queering of time. See below for full details 👻

Absolutely thrilled to be told that I have won the Stanley Wells Prize for outstanding scholarly work in a MA dissertation. A tremendous honour - and also a great way to kick off the festive season 🎉 Thank you Shakespeare Institute!

We have been warning about this for years. There is so much evidence of what the humanities bring to the economy and society. See 🧵English Association University English IES Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) theguardian.com/education/2024…

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

It’s an honour to see Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials in The New Yorker as a recommended book of 2024 #history #witches

Here’s a thread of [most of the] things I made this year, it totals 50+ garments! 🧵

best news for best person!!!!! 🎉

1700 Kebab anyone? Always amazed at how international early modern diets were culturally and ingredient wise...MS.5431. #17thC #earlymodern

The Health and Safety Executive in its reply to Uni of Birmingham's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'. 'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'

Read more about Birmingham UCU's complaint from this Oct post: birminghamucu.org/2024/10/16/uni… 'Since 2020, stress has been the largest cause of illness-related absence at the Uni., with over 500 staff off sick directly as a result of stress, and over 17,000 days stress-related absence'.

Okay time to powerscale this Ghostface’s power level changes dramatically depending on which movie it is. Some of the Scream antagonists are certainly much more efficient than others, with the ghostfaces from the revival films being less bumbling 1/?

If you are going to #Shax2025 or indeed #RSA2025 please consider coming to our panel on Saturday morning (details below). Have slightly anxiety I will have to pay 5 million pounds to attend this conference and no-one will turn up! I am excited about this collection of papers!

𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 mourns the passing of Mary Beth Rose, editor of the journal from 1985-99. During a period of historicist, psychoanalytic, feminist, & textual innovation in the field, she published dozens of ground-breaking 𝘙𝘋 articles. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

BOOK GIVEAWAY - Things are Bad right now, so I will send a free copy of my book Glorious Bodies to one randomly selected person who makes an appointment to start HRT or get a trans surgery of any kind. Just DM me and let me know, and I will enter you in the drawing :)

NYU Langone is withdrawing care for trans patients under the age of 19. This is the letter I wrote to their director.

1/5 I've no words. This is truly devastating: '“All of the data for HIV is gone. Normally there’s a menu for medical professionals,” but that has disappeared, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan who says she was up until 2 a.m.

TOMORROW! Join If A Leaf Falls for the second event in the Small Press Takeover series. Doors open at 6.30, with readings due to start just after 7pm 🍃

On Friday 14th March, the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre is hosting a reading with Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout!

Not long until BritGrad 2025 closes its CfP! Please Share! Shakespeare Institute Cambridge Early Modernists UCL EarlyMod Xchange @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social #Shakespeare