It's 2:30 in the afternoon on the third day of Tuesday. Spouse just asked if I'd eaten lunch and I literally do not remember and honestly can not tell.

Collection I'm thrilled to be in reviewed by Katharine Craik in the TLS!

Excited for this!

Thank you, Modern Philology and Tessie Prakas for this generous, perceptive review of my monograph, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Arrived! A thing of beauty and a joy forever. So excited to read this brilliant book in its final form, @jessiehock!

I am so looking forward to speaking about Donne, visually, to the Donne Society tomorrow. My talk explains how his famous poem, "The Flea," influenced the scientific revolution. Sign up in advance if you're curious! The other speakers are all amazing, and the real reason to go.

Friends, Renaissance literature scholars, early modernists, poetry nerds, philosophy fiends, Lucretians, Shakespeareans, feminists, voluptuaries, macabre vanitas-loving goths: my book is currently half price ($41.38) on the 'zon! amazon.com/Impossible-Des…

My proposed SAA 2022 seminar on Invention has been accepted. Hope some of you will join me to talk about innovative contrivances of all kinds: from poetics to natural philosophy, stagecraft to intellectual history, curious gizmos to elaborate schemes.

Lots of timely and relevant books these days! But I am grateful for this review, for my boss coeditor Hillary Eklund, and above all our incredible contributors. Paperback, and free open access: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-teaching-…

The Autumn 2022 issue of ELR is a special one. Wendy Beth Hyman and Jennifer Waldron put together a collection of superb articles on modes and theories of Renaissance Fiction. We couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out. Thread follows, but: go read! journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/2022/5…

Issue 52.3 of ELR hosts (boasts?) Julie Orlemanski on Douglas’s Aeneid translation; Debapriya Sarkar on The Utopian Hypothesis; Colleen Rosenfeld on the Mood of Fiction; @urvashichakrav on Fictions of Race; Jenny C. Mann on artificial experience in The Dutchess of Malfi (cont.)

More work in ELR’s latest issue includes Suparna Roychoudhury on Artlikeness; Jennifer Waldron on The Politics of Scale in Henry V, @teeharizon on Fictions of Human Nature in poetry, and Dr. Wendy Beth Hyman on “Cymbeline, the Camera Obscura, and the Ontology of Elsewhere”.

In addition to being generally brilliant, this issue of ELR embodies what we strive to be: a home for work that ranges across genres in our period, across methods, across the boundaries of canon and discipline, making the forceful energies of early modern literature knowable.

#iwasanenglishmajor. Literature's complexity, beauty, multiplicity, depth, and difficulty are the best whetstone I know for living well with complexity, beauty, multiplicity, depth, and difficulty. Literature is good for thinking minds because it refuses to mean only one thing.

I’m delighted and humbled to share that I have been elected as Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Congratulations to @respinosa1564 for election to VP, and DREW DANIEL and Dr. Vanessa I. Corredera, also coming in as trustees. I ♥️SAA and I'm looking forward to serving.