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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 6d

I LOVE Taylor and the new album has been on repeat for me but… Tay: please call me to dramaturge the next time you want to write a song with a Shakespeare reference so we can get the facts right. It tweaks me every time you say Ophelia was “the eldest daughter.”

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 8d

Did I spend a chunk of yesterday making a murder board to visualize and prep my tenure case? ….maybe.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 14d

In other news: COVER REVEAL! The next book is on its way! I was so lucky to be able to edit this collection with the incomparable Valerie Clayman Pye. This was the only image I wanted for the cover, and we were ECSTATIC to be able to use it.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 14d

Tenure dossier preparation is upon me. Accordingly: if you've taught any of my articles/books/chapters/podcasts/blogs, used any material I've created in classwork, or have spotted a review of any of it, could you please reach out and let me know? Thank you.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!!! It was fun! I sense more projects in my future.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 24d

I converted a commercially bound paperback, so I didn’t technically bind it myself but I did everything short of the actual binding.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · 24d

It is totally normal to spend a weekend converting your book into an epic bespoke leather-bound tome of awesomeness, right? @sunypress.bsky.social made me an amazing cover, but this one is also pretty cool.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Aug 31

After pointing out that Mike has left our DSLR camera sitting on the bed.
Mike: what could possibly happen?
Me: really? You don’t think Felix is fully capable of pulling a Venkman?

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Aug 26

Me: I'm just trying to write a lesson plan for my directing class, guys.
The internet: TAYLOR AND TRAVIS GOT ENGAGED OMG ENGAGEMENT PICS!
Me: later, please bring me pics of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen's beard first. It's more important right now.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Aug 7

Things I have said to my cat and maybe also to my students: “dude, do not put the sword in your mouth. Stop chewing on my sword.”

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Jul 24

Does new course syllabus prep engender crippling imposter syndrome in everyone or is it just me?

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Jul 22

We gotta teach em if we wanna make the world better.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Jul 22

Syllabus prep: Directing. Never have I put a book down so quickly and omitted it from consideration as the Directing textbook I just dropped like a bad habit when it had a full page describing how to stage character deaths by firearm and blade without a single reference to using a fight director.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · May 30

Is there a better day than new book cover day? (No we’re not ready to release it yet but TRUST ME IT’S GORGEOUS!!!)

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · May 5

Come join us at the early modern working group at ASTR 2025. I am always happy to answer questions, or float soft pitches.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Apr 26

Tfw: the Globe knows you’re coming and puts out the sign specifically for you.

A woman in a blue skirt, white tee shirt, and black jacket is standing in the gift shop at Shakespeare’s globe. She is holding a large sword and standing next to a sign that says “no sword-fighting in the shop.”

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Apr 2

Felix would like to know if you’ve done your self care today.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 23

I think they missed me.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 20

Ahhhhh! Kate! Omg! I can’t wait to see you!!!!!

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 17

Girl same.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 17

Yes please!!!!

Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 17

Yay! I’ll be around Thursday Friday, let’s find each other.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 17

Who will I see at #shax2025?

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 8

I aspire to this level of malicious compliance.

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social · Mar 7

Spent last week at a fight direction intensive where I engaged with colleagues old and new as we worked on refining our crafts. I would love to work on more local projects in the coming year. Buffalo theatres: need a fight director? I would be so excited to work with you! www.daniellerosvally.com

Danielle Rosvally, Ph.D.

www.daniellerosvally.com

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