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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 9d

During the course of this year, I am available to give invited talks at Departmental seminars, symposia and the like. My research is now developed enough to shed new light on the role of walking in theatre history, but still pliant enough to benefit from the input of scholarly conversation.

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 14d

Giving a boost to our Call for Papers for the 2026 Forum on early modern women and migrancy. Deadline October 15!

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy. In keeping with the Journal's tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women's experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-
assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. I
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social can't wait to read! 🔥

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 15d

CEMS events for semester 1! We have three events in the calendar for this term.

Firstly, on October 3rd, we'll be hosting a welcome event for early modernists across King's. Join us at 10:30 for a networking brunch.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/welco...

Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch. — CEMS KCL Blog

Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 16d

I was so honoured when Professor @oldfortunatus.bsky.social invited me to write this piece. I've been working on this most excellent of domestic tragedies for 15 years and feel emotional that I got to share my thoughts on it with such a wide readership.

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 16d

Look who has a gorgeous cover now!! Arden of Faversham introduced by moi will be published as part of the Oxford World’s Classics series in April 2026.

Look at that cover! ❤️❤️🔥

Publication date is 9 April 2026. You can pre-order your copy here: global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 19d

Bernard Capp

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 25d

Any Conference Questions?
#edchat #HigherEd #academia

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siobhankeenan.bsky.social @siobhankeenan.bsky.social · 22d

If you're interested in learning more about Richard Burbage's impact on Shakespeare, you might enjoy the piece I've just written for The Conversation @uk.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/richard-burb...

Richard Burbage: the Elizabethan De Niro to Shakespeare’s Scorsese

Inhabiting some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, this Elizabethan actor deserves some proper recognition for inspiring the Bard.

theconversation.com

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 21d

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

theconversation.com

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 22d

My Author Copies have arrived. My book is out on September 30th🔥 thank you, @routledgelit.bsky.social and thank you to my readers and friends ❤️

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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 25d

It's not too late to join #Globe4Globe 2025 live and hear from the world's leading minds on Shakespeare and environmental justice. All details here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

events.humanitix.com

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 29d

When you're asked: what do early modern drama and Shakespeare have to do with racism? Writing ✍️👇

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature

University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026
Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin...
#SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Call for Papers

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for literary criticism. In a period best known today for its poetry and drama, practical texts such as Gervase Markham’s The English Husbandman were ‘almost literally read to pieces’, Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ‘led the market’ as ‘a Tudor best-seller’, and cookery books enjoyed a staggering 70% reprint rate. That these texts occupied such a prominent position in the publishing industry is testament to their importance in early modern life. Yet despite this, literary criticism has been slow to embrace such texts as more than merely contextual sources for canonical texts by poets and dramatists such as Shakespeare and Spenser. Critics continue to frame Tusser’s work as an agricultural manual or almanack rather than a book of poetry, for example, while literary scholars tend to note his significance in the same breath as they denigrate the quality of his verse: an ‘agrarian book of jingles’ or ‘collection of doggerel’. Other practical texts such as receipt books and surveying texts have been interrogated primarily as a means of understanding early modern culture and society. Less common are studies of practical texts as works of literature, studies that centre the practical text rather than positioning it as context for the work of more canonical writers. This symposium seeks to address this gap, and invites contributors to consider how studying non-traditionally canonical texts can help scholars to reassess established positions. It is designed to lead to an edited collection, provisionally aimed at Routledge’s Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series, so speakers are encouraged to propose papers suitable for extension into a 6000-8000 word chapter.

Recent scholarship by Katarzyna Lecky, Jessica Rosenberg, and Kyla Tompkins has begun to demonstrate

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations!

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Sep 3

She says any time 😸

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Mm interesting question! Not sure, but I loved thinking quite a bit recently about Gib, Gammer Gurton's cat!

Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Sep 2

Writing ✍️

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Sep 1

What a brilliant chat! I'm buzzing with ideas...congrats @irburrows.bsky.social! You can see Amber was super intrigued! She had a question about cats in The Comedy of Errors but didn't get a chance to ask! @oldfortunatus.bsky.social 👀🔥🐈‍⬛

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · Aug 30

'note sandwich' 🤣

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · Aug 30

Gravediggers, continued...
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
The gravedigger (Mark Hadfield) holds forth to his sidekick (Sam Alexander) here imagined as a council officer signing off on a potentially illegal burial, in the film of @the-rsc.bsky.social Hamlet 2009, dir Greg Doran. Note sandwich.

A still from a film. In the angle formed by two walls of a brick building, a grave is being dug. There is a mound of earth with a shovel in it, and a neat grave with planks down its long sides and a ladder. A man wearing a jacket, tie, flat cap is standing in it with a skull by his right hand, in which there is a sandwich. A younger man wearing a dark suit with a high vis vest is standing next to the grave making a note on a clipboard.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · Aug 29

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀

(this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.)

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