Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social
Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
This was fabulous - very thought-provoking!
For anyone in Oxford, I'll be speaking at Lincoln at 5pm today. The paper is called 'Last words: migration, death, and language in early modern London' and I'd love to see you there!
February 13, 2026 at 9:47 AM
This was fabulous - very thought-provoking!
Important to gently judge your EM playwrights in your note taking
February 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Important to gently judge your EM playwrights in your note taking
I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!
Come join us in Marseille this September for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR ECR conference - details below ⬇️
Such a brilliant theme of Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation - looking forward to reading the submissions 👏
Such a brilliant theme of Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation - looking forward to reading the submissions 👏
You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation'
Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
February 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!
Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her
January 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her
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📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
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December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are!
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The Open University
The 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are!
fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...
fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...
Only Ben Jonson 😂
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Only Ben Jonson 😂
FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.
Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻
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Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!
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‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78
Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Proofs looking goooood
October 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Proofs looking goooood
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
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Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
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The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
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August 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.
The Trust is pleased to invest £15.5 million in supporting early career researchers. Projects funded this year include unifying glacier sliding theory to improve global sea level rise projections, and women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa.
Read more👉 tinyurl.com/year566p
Read more👉 tinyurl.com/year566p
August 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.
Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺
August 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺
Another day, another
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Another day, another
Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)
June 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)
My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.
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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info
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March 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.
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Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!
New issue of Phoenix Vol. 78, Nos. 1-2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54238 @projectmuse.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @tomgavin.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!