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As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
Every time I see a post about Geese covering a song and how I should watch them do it, I am deeply disappointed to discover that it is not geese.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Every time I see a post about Geese covering a song and how I should watch them do it, I am deeply disappointed to discover that it is not geese.
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
We're HIRING: “The Dept of English at UMass Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2026, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora." See below for description, and please share the news.
Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We're HIRING: “The Dept of English at UMass Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2026, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora." See below for description, and please share the news.
Happy "I made the mistake of getting a haircut in the middle of the semester" day. And traditional apologies to my change-averse students.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy "I made the mistake of getting a haircut in the middle of the semester" day. And traditional apologies to my change-averse students.
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hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
I was told by my children to never use this, but what do they know about tapping into the energy of youth culture?? Locals - consider a Sunday evening music event? I wrote new songs. There is a boggle subtext to many of them. And Peter Mulvey - that guy is good.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I was told by my children to never use this, but what do they know about tapping into the energy of youth culture?? Locals - consider a Sunday evening music event? I wrote new songs. There is a boggle subtext to many of them. And Peter Mulvey - that guy is good.
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Pioneer Valley types - come out to the Odyssey next Wednesday to hear from the marvelous Erin White read from her new novel, and to hear her in conversation, as she often is, with Heather Abel.
Erin O. White in Person
Odyssey Bookshop in Western MA, a woman-owned indie offering primarily new books, gifts, and Mount Holyoke College merchandise.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Pioneer Valley types - come out to the Odyssey next Wednesday to hear from the marvelous Erin White read from her new novel, and to hear her in conversation, as she often is, with Heather Abel.
Doing some personal website freshening, I discovered that a youtube link I thought was connected to a Folger Ed. lecture on Macbeth actually sent people to an episode of The Midnight Special from 1973 I had watched featuring Gladys Knight and Chris Smither. Much better than the lecture!
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Doing some personal website freshening, I discovered that a youtube link I thought was connected to a Folger Ed. lecture on Macbeth actually sent people to an episode of The Midnight Special from 1973 I had watched featuring Gladys Knight and Chris Smither. Much better than the lecture!
We're just past the 1 year anniversary of Shakespeare Unlearned's UK publication date. I am celebrating by posting odd places it pops up when you run a search for it. We'll begin with a barely discounted copy on UK ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/p/12083690676
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October 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We're just past the 1 year anniversary of Shakespeare Unlearned's UK publication date. I am celebrating by posting odd places it pops up when you run a search for it. We'll begin with a barely discounted copy on UK ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/p/12083690676
You guys know I am married to a writer, correct?
The Emilys by Heather Abel: 9780593979532 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love's capacities in a changing world. “And...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
You guys know I am married to a writer, correct?
Not sure the Simpsons illustrators ever topped Zombie Shakespeare.
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Not sure the Simpsons illustrators ever topped Zombie Shakespeare.
I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.
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New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
It's my band! With a glowing mushroom that was the stage property of a different band. We're playing our first show in 18 months in Easthampton, MA at The Marigold, and Peter Mulvey be there, too. I for one am using this as motivation to stay on track until mid-November. No promises after that.
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's my band! With a glowing mushroom that was the stage property of a different band. We're playing our first show in 18 months in Easthampton, MA at The Marigold, and Peter Mulvey be there, too. I for one am using this as motivation to stay on track until mid-November. No promises after that.
Just accidentally replied-all to the department list-serv via email for the first time in my life. I feel like this should start the clock on forced retirement.
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just accidentally replied-all to the department list-serv via email for the first time in my life. I feel like this should start the clock on forced retirement.
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My university canceled its library subscription to Project MUSE, making it harder for me to do research, but enrolled all us faculty in Salesforce
People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My university canceled its library subscription to Project MUSE, making it harder for me to do research, but enrolled all us faculty in Salesforce
The school year begins and ends and begins again. But map content is forever. Here's a story in the @umassamherst.bsky.social magazine about the map at @folger.edu I helped to script. (A few obscure jokes made it onto the thumbnail!) -- www.umass.edu/magazine/ext...
All the world’s a… map? : UMass Magazine
A lighthearted reconstruction of Shakespeare’s world #umass @UMassAmherst
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August 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The school year begins and ends and begins again. But map content is forever. Here's a story in the @umassamherst.bsky.social magazine about the map at @folger.edu I helped to script. (A few obscure jokes made it onto the thumbnail!) -- www.umass.edu/magazine/ext...
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I think we can all agree that the extended discussion of Lacan’s analysis of “The Purloined Letter” was one of the low points of last summer’s Democratic convention.
August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I think we can all agree that the extended discussion of Lacan’s analysis of “The Purloined Letter” was one of the low points of last summer’s Democratic convention.
I did not think I would live to see a day when recalled radioactive shrimp and cash bribes inside of potato chip bags would come together in one glorious explosion of content, but I have.
August 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I did not think I would live to see a day when recalled radioactive shrimp and cash bribes inside of potato chip bags would come together in one glorious explosion of content, but I have.
Truly a satisfying documentary, btw. Such a literalist. "My wife, she told me it was crazy to drive my motorcycle in the rain. But I survived. And that's what inspired the song about me driving my motorcycle in the rain and surviving and my wife telling me I was crazy." Love it. A fan since age 6.
"My mother used to tell me, 'The quality of mercy is not strained.'" -- Billy Joel in the Billy Joel documentary, reflecting on life after he broke up with Christie Brinkley.
August 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Truly a satisfying documentary, btw. Such a literalist. "My wife, she told me it was crazy to drive my motorcycle in the rain. But I survived. And that's what inspired the song about me driving my motorcycle in the rain and surviving and my wife telling me I was crazy." Love it. A fan since age 6.
"My mother used to tell me, 'The quality of mercy is not strained.'" -- Billy Joel in the Billy Joel documentary, reflecting on life after he broke up with Christie Brinkley.
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"My mother used to tell me, 'The quality of mercy is not strained.'" -- Billy Joel in the Billy Joel documentary, reflecting on life after he broke up with Christie Brinkley.