We are getting ready for our Virtual Spring Orientation for our incoming fall class. It's very exciting to be welcoming another class of Shakespeare scholars and practitioners to our program!

Exciting work alert! As part of their dramaturgy course work under the instruction of @MoxyMolly, our students produced podcasts and now they are launching!

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful observatory ever launched. Here's the Carina Nebula, as captured by JWST.

If you are coming to Staunton for #QCMM look out for our MFA students who will be performing wand duels as well as selling from nifty Shakespeare merch!

PAPERBACK RELEASE DAY! Shakespeare's Audiences is now out from Routledge Books for a hair under $40, which is basically $3 per excellent essay and an extra dollar for mine and @dr_pangallo introduction surveying Shakespeare audience scholarship routledge.com/Shakespeares-A… /1

Professor Peter Kirwan just released a new scholarly book of essays. 🙌🙌 Congratulations!!! 🤟🤟

"Thanks, thanks, and ever thanks!" - 12th Night

The application portal for #FolgerInstitute short-term residential and virtual fellowships is now open! These fellowships are available for both scholarly & artistic research. Learn more & apply bit.ly/3RqLgaY

We are thrilled to have our own in house critic with Dr. Kirwan's joining of the S&P team!

Today’s the day!!!!!!

I'm sure we've got some folks in our network with tips and tricks! Let's hear 'em!

Tonight begins our annual #ThesisFest! The session spans from culinary practices of EM kitchens, to La Frontera as a lens to explore the romance genre, to the exploration in Shakespeare's political thrillers, to tracking how violence appears in Shax's work over his career!

From November 6-8, our Shakespeare and Performance Master of Letters students will gather for this semester's Thesis Festival! 🎭 Check out MBU Shakespeare and Performance to learn more about our Shakespeare & Performance students and their thesis topics! #thesisfest22

We are back at it again! This morning's presentations have covered cutting H5 as an epic, using devising for Shakespeare, modern use of regional accents on the Shakespearean stage, the effects of Shakespeare on Italian opera, and redefining the way we categorize Shax's plays.

Ahead of Shakespeare Association of America , I'm feeling reflective and celebratory of the fantastic work happening MBU Shakespeare and Performance , and excited to get to share some of it with colleagues old and new. Here are some highlights! /1 #shax2023

My fantastic colleague paul menzer publishes his new biography of Shakespeare today, which is without question the funniest (and therefore the best) Life of Shakespeare on the market. Whatever you do, buy! MBU Shakespeare and Performance

Have you heard? Faculty member paul menzer publishes a book today! If it is anything like his courses, it is sure to be an engaging, informative, and amusing read. Sound off with congrats and/or your favorite memory from a legendary Dr. Menzer lecture!

One of our MBU Shakespeare and Performance students is fundraising for a new bilingual English-Arabic production of Romeo and جولييت to take place in Prague this summer - donations invited but also work opportunities for Arab and Muslim artists. Read more and donate here gofundme.com/f/brand-new-ro…