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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 14d

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 16d

With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"

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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 16d

A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube

In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...

www.youtube.com

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University of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social · 23d

Hello 👋

We're the official #UniMelb account!

Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 16d

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 19d

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 19d

Brilliant!!! Congratulations!! (…now sleep!)

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 21d

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 22d

We’re doing a staged reading of *Volpone* next year! 🦊

Put it in your diary, Melbourne folk!

Wednesday 18 November, 6:30pm

www.bellshakespeare.com.au/events

Ad for Bell Shakespeare’s staged reading series, Play In A Day, which will be Jonson’s Volpone next year in Melbourne.

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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social · 27d

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

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Letter in support of Meanjin’s future

As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940.

We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage.

We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves.

Signed by:

Sybil Nolan
Tim Coronel
Matt Holden
LJ Maher
Fiannuala Morgan
Sharon Mullins
Beth Driscoll
Claire Parnell
Nicola Redhouse
Hollen Singleton
Bec Kavanagh

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 26d

That was a particularly great session

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 26d

Listening in to this now -- such inspiring papers...!

Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 26d

Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice!

Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals

Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares

Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare

#G4G2025

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 27d

The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin.

12 September 2025

A way forward can and must be found that allows Meanjin to continue its important work, in consultation with the University’s most affected communities, disciplines, and concentrations of expertise—including creative writing, literature and theatre studies, publishing and editing.

We call on the University of Melbourne’s leadership and the board of Melbourne University Publishing to work together to preserve Meanjin’s future on grounds that take into account its ongoing cultural value, whether in Naarm or Meanjin.

Dr Sarah Balkin, A/Prof Justin Clemens, Prof Deirdre Coleman, Dr Sara Fernandes Crouch, Dr Michael Falk, Dr Lindsay Goss, Dr Margaret Harvey, Dr Joe Hughes, Dr Ryan Johnson, Dr Jessica Marian, Prof David McInnis, Dr Beth McLean, Dr Marc Mierowsky, Dr Lynda Ng, Prof Peter Otto, Dr Elliot Patsoura, Prof Paul Rae, Dr Miranda Stanyon, Dr Mairi Stirling Hill, Prof Stephanie Trigg, Prof Clara Tuite, Prof Denise Varney

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Sep 5

@quaritch1847.bsky.social's new catalogue of annotated books might just be the greatest bookseller's catalogue of all time. Just sayin'.

Take a moment to appreciate the fun they clearly had:
www.quaritch.com/wp-content/u...

screenshot of Quaritch's new catalogue of annotated books; the bookseller's description of each item is itself annotated, highlighted, and adorned with manicules pointing out significant features

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Sep 1

What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare.
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academic.oup.com/sq/pages/cal...

CFP for special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly on Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century.
What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare.
3 Oct 25
https://academic.oup.com/sq/pages/call-for-papers-shakespeares-twenty-first-century

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Two things could and should be done to restore Marlowe to his rightful place. The first, obviously and simply, is to study and produce his plays more.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

www.theguardian.com

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Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...

Edward II

Critically, theatrically, and politically, the time is ripe for a new edition of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Critically, the play has come to be, in the pa…

www.bloomsbury.com

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you! 😊 My entire front yard is native Australian plants; the winter flowers are amazing…

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 19

First page of our chapter on Australian Indigenous Shakespeare, pictured alongside flowering Swan River Pea (Gastrolobium celsianum)

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies… in the ‘post’colonies!

So grateful to Amrita Dhar & Amrita Sen for the chance to write about Australian Indigenous Shakespeare with my wonderful new colleague Margaret Harvey 🙂

Photo of newly published scholarly collection “Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies”, pictured against a backdrop of heavily flowering Leafless Rock Wattle (Acacia aphylla)

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 18

If Shakespeare had named other plays the way he named The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Two Noble Kinsmen:

The Two Teenagers of Verona
The Two Sisters of Padua
The Two Guys in a Pie
The Two Twins (...and Another Two)
The Two Henrys
The Two Friends and Three Witches

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s getting real…!

The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · Aug 14

"A fourth? Start, eyes!"

The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming.

Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Jul 31

It’s Melbourne Rare Books Fair time! 🙂

A book Walter Raleigh had with him in the Tower, anyone…?

(Maggs brought it out; I didn’t ask the price.)

rarebookfair.com

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Jul 30

#TeamDekker

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