Up now abusablepast a new syllabus 'Trans Studies for Bullshit Times' a timely and necessary curation and contexualization of trans studies scholarship that helps makes sense of the history and present moment of global anti-trans violence radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/t…

Hey #earlymodern twitter: give me examples of a disguise revealed in EM drama that provokes characters' anger at having been deceived?

ONE WEEK to go until our Transgender Embodiment conference (June 2). There aren't too many spaces left, so do book now if you want to come! All welcome. eventbrite.co.uk/e/transgender-…

⚡️⚡️So excited to see you all at our 'Exclusion' conference tomorrow and to host our keynote speakers Dr Ezra Horbury Dr Anna Wall Dr Rosamund Oates and Dr Sonia Tycko! ⚡️⚡️

Had a great time at the Transgender Embodiment 1400-1700 conference last week in York! I heard lots of interesting papers and met some wonderful people. It was fab to feel part of pre-modern trans academic community. Many thanks to Dr Ezra Horbury and the others who organised it!

I’m ready to disclose the details of the prior restraint of my research. The culprit is University College London, whose lawyers instructed the executive editor of their online journal THINK PIECES to pull my essay. The essay is linked here. gracelavery.org/undermining-ac…

#CFP! Share your research on #Queer and #Religious identities! Join @mie_astrup and me as we dive into these intersections for Journal of Gender Studies 📝 Submit your abstracts by 15 Sept '23 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mry6bpvu 📅 Please RT and help us spread the word! 📢

I'm so proud of this piece and so nervous for people to read it. It is necessarily short and I know it won't please everyone, but I hope that it will do something for the people it's meant to. You can download it now for free digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol6…

June 20: We are delighted to welcome Richard Smyth, who will be discussing The Jay, the Beech, and the Limpetshell. Smyth weaves together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing. Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-smyt…

What’s this? Richard Smyth reading from & talking about his new nature memoir The Jay, The Beech & The Limpetshell in York on Tuesday? FREE, you say? It’d be rude not to. york.ac.uk/english/news-e…

TOMORROW (4pm June 20, Bowland Auditorium, Uni of York): Richard Smyth will be speaking about his new memoir, The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell. "Generous, moving and alive. A gift" (Tim Dee). Please register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-smyt…

Today at 4pm! Register below.

Had a really lovely time talking about my book with Anjali Vyas-Brannick at York Dept of English yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came, and to Dr Ezra Horbury for inviting me. Please enjoy my strong mansplaining energy in these images (courtesy of Sophie Coulombeau).

Fairies in stories today are often feminine and unthreatening. But in Early Modern literature, fairies were supernatural, gender-fluid beings. In today's episode for #PrideMonth, Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Dr. Dr Ezra Horbury: podfollow.com/not-just-the-t… Suzannah Lipscomb

Was overjoyed to hear the excellent Dr Ezra Horbury talking with Suzannah Lipscomb this week. Boydell & Brewer had the great pleasure of publishing their "extremely impressive" & "illuminating" monograph as part of our Studies in #Renaissance Literature series: bit.ly/2lvYEBI.

Early modern Bible people: I once read somewhere that if you open a Geneva/KJV, it will naturally fall open at the gospels due to having been opened there so many times. This makes sense and is probably true but I'd like a proper source for it. Any ideas?

Given the degradation of twitter's usability since the takeover and the new management's garbage attitudes, I aim to curb my use of this site. Please reach out via my work email if you need to contact me.

Hi twitter! While I can't say I've missed this site, I have missed getting the most up-to-date info on what everyone is working on. Can you rec me your fave medieval/EM trans studies pieces published in the last year? I try to read everything & I don't want to miss anything!

You can get my first book as ebook for a mere *£10* right now in the Boydell and Brewer sale! A slight cost indeed to read about spendthrift youths, riotous sex workers, and impotent old men. boydellandbrewer.com/9781787446069/… Use code BB024 at checkout. Boydell & Brewer