it’s a good thing, given the choices I’ve made, that all I’ve ever really wanted do on any given Monday night is drink beer, eat fries, and read about pain on the early modern stage 😍

about this I’ll just say that there are some younger folks in my early modern lit seminar who did not stay up past 11 eagerly watching every offering of Comedy Central c. 2002 (due to being infants) and, well, they were a bit confused when they googled “Milton memes”

giving my first paper of my phd studenthood tomorrow "at" the Globe! 🥲

this CFP got me so excited when it came out 🤩 (can we start saying CFPs “drop,” like albums?) & it was so much fun to present this morning—even though I was as “fat and out of breath” as a fencing Hamlet after leaving laptop in hotel room

if I keep giving my twitter handle out after conference papers I should perhaps look halfway alive on here … it’s summer research season! thanks to the Fat Bodies in Early Modern Drama folks and BritGrad 2025 (+for the swag) for rounding out a ✨productive✨ June in the UK

really admiring the guts it takes to pick a reign name with a 50% incidence rate of abolishing the monarchy

So excited to present this Friday at the CMU English Bridges & Borders conference panel Laboring in Graduate School: Perspectives on Becoming Mothers and Academics, moderated by Stephanie Larson! The event is free, virtual, and open to the public! Register: eventbrite.com/e/bridges-and-…

Bridges and Borders: Laboring for Community starts tomorrow! Check out the amazing lineup of here: docs.google.com/document/d/1mD… Free, 100% virtual, and open to the public. Bring your friends as we talk about all things labor!

Pedro Pascal as medieval marginalia. A thread.

Join CMU Bridges and Borders Graduate Student Conference for Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social’s keynote “How (Not) to Do Things With Unfeeling: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Frigidity and Inscrutability” at 4:30 PM ET! All are welcome!

"'Ha ha' and 'he he' signify laughter in Latin and in English, because they are cried out when laughing." Wonderful evidence here in Ælfric's Grammar that 'ha ha' has been the sound and spelling of laughter in English since at least the 11th century and the Old English period.

this Note is out as of just last week in Shakespeare Quarterly! happily co-authored with the ✨Rdeam Team✨!! (aka #PrintandProbability gang) 📜 I had such fun spending last summer sleuthing old books for this project with Laura S. DeLuca &co. 🤩 academic.oup.com/sq/advance-art…

had a wonderful time this weekend at the MEMS Festival presenting on Webster and exploring lovely Canterbury!

Thys Barbie ys goinge to Caunterburye

now that Spring ‘24 is in the rearview, looking forward to teaching these classes in Summer & Fall in CMU English ! please send CMU undergrads my way a fine time writing, reading, and chatting all about themes domestic and political (& intersections thereof!) 🏠📐📍🎭📢

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.