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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 6d

last day, people!

Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 9d

3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text

TEXT:
Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture
13th January 2026
Lincoln College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough
Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers

John Donne’s Architecture

Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025

Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford

Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough.

We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory.
Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art.
The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work.
Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe.
The relationship of literary to architectural form.
Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 9d

3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 15d

thanks, Carlisle! yes, I think they can change it for the online version and future printings, so it's actually mostly fine i guess

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 16d

Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...

Hamlet’s Garbage

In Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, the prince Nanki-Poo, disguised as a wandering minstrel, terms himself ‘a thing of shreds and patches’, adapting and

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Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · 16d

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

Geplante Forschungsprojekte

Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.

www.lmu.de

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 20d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 21d

I am writing a book about ideas about/theories of performance in some weird/great 16c. plays that are not often taught etc. – I would love to hear what you would hope to find in such a book to matter for your research/teaching in early modern drama!

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 29d

🌟Publication Day!🌟

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe

For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 29d

Does anyone have easily to hand: William Proctor Williams, 'F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in 17th Century Binding', Shakespeare Newsletter 16 (1966)?

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 8

pure magic!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 8

it was so fascinating & joyful! just a bunch of teenagers having fun with the text, interesting gender stuff bc they only had two boys who wanted to do theatre & some amazing DIY prop work — i was sitting there, open-mouthed, thinking "this is what it must have felt like to watch a play in 1602

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 8

maybe not "top", but ones that changed the way I view things & think about theatre:

*2023 titus at the sam wanamaker
*2022 soho place as you like it
*2008 (and still running) schaubühne hamlet
*a 2025 production of twelfth night at my old high school
*the merry wives currently at the globe

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 8

maybe not "top", but ones that changed the way I view things & think about theatre:

*2023 titus at the sam wanamaker
*2022 soho place as you like it
*2008 (and still running) schaubühne hamlet
*a 2025 production of twelfth night at my old high school
*the merry wives currently at the globe

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 5

congrats, Claire!

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 15

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.

what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Aug 11

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

[ SEMINAR • SAA 2026 ]
SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES
This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles-at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton's books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like-and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare's death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 2

i spent my last day of work at the university of lausanne in london with students on the yearly shax trip and saw a surprisingly tender production of merry wives at the globe. i'm not really a good new historicist so i'cant really spin a meaningful anecdote out of this, but i was very happy!

picture of the stage of shakespeare's globe in london, floral wallpaper and curtains on the back of the stage and the pillar in the right side of the picture; members of the audience stand in front of the stage

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm organizing a seminar on "climate fictions before climate change" for next year's acla in montréal. if you have sth: pls submit; if you know someone: pls share widely!

www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

www.acla.org

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · Aug 31

🥳 Announcing our reading group!

Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble
Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us!
Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble

Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz

GQEM Reading Group Registration

The second Thursday of each month, from 4-5:30pm EST. September 11th, Sex Lives, by Joseph Gamble October 9th, Glorious Bodies, by Colby Gordon November 13th, The Kinky Renaissance, edited by Gillian ...

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edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social · Aug 27

The 2026 World #Shakespeare Congress takes place in Verona, & @gemmaallred.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social & I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their 21st-Century Reverberations - come join us! #WSC2026 Register at www.wsc2026.org

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · Aug 25

ICYMI: The SAA Graduate Committee is looking for new members! These collaborative roles are open to any current Ph.D.-level SAA graduate students. Find more information and apply online by September 2: linktr.ee/saaupdates

Image of a woman standing on a brick wall and writing on a chalkboard while holding a book. Text next to the woman says “we are looking for up to five new members” and outlines the specifications for applying, also found on the SAA website. Apply by September 2. End ID.

Image of a woman sitting at a desk and working on a laptop. Text around the woman reads “apply now! As a committee member, you will represent grad student interests in the organization, gain professional experience, develop relationships with students and scholars in the field, and much more.” End ID.

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Aug 25

so many things i want to write instead of my book proposal

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Aug 21

honestly sounds like a simpsons episode

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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Have you registered yet for this year's #Globe4Globe? Join us for 24 hours of Shakespeare and environmental justice, with a brilliant line-up of speakers! Free and online. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

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