Free resources from Cassander Smith on the Black protest tradition, respectability politics, and race in early American lit. Syllabi, classroom activities, video lectures. Start with “Poetic voices across time”—students remix Wheatley and Hammon to address current events: https://ow.ly/8aCt50YLoXr
Did you catch the @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture from Emma Smith this weekend?
www.youtube.com/live/KZV-21r...
New and FREE to read online—'What Country Friends, Is This?' Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile. In their intro, editors Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton address our contemporary age of exile and what Shakespeare has to do with it. https://ow.ly/ykO250YLfTr
Need weekend plans? Emma Smith will be delivering the annual @folger.edu Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture "Shakespeare and Immigration" this Saturday 4/18.
www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...
Professor Cassander L. Smith offers an important reading the double-edged sword of respectability politics in the lives of Black Americans. This respectability can be found in the first memoir written in English by a Black African, Olaudah Equiano.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Shakespeare and the Senses by Holly Dugan is out this week! A fascinating new way to think about Shakespeare. What did early audiences hear, smell, and feel in the theatre? How did those sensations shape meaning? Read online for free or you can grab your own print copy: https://ow.ly/NuoS50YBqRy
We are thrilled to announce “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile—a new edited collection exploring how Shakespeare’s works engage with exile, edited by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton. Read free online: https://ow.ly/XIIO50YBpZT
Many congratulations to Amrita Dhar and Amrita Sen, winners of the SAA Innovative Article Award for their piece in Borrowers and Lenders, "Two Nations, Both Alike: Shakespeare in Bengal." You can read the article for free on the B&L site: https://doi.org/10.18274/659cc926
Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA
How did rare books become valuable? Emma Smith talked to us about the rare books market, Shakespeare's first folio, and their ties to sugar plantations and slave labor in the Caribbean. Learn more from Professor Smith for free at throughlines.org #Shakespeare #BookHistory
This Thursday! Hosted by the Department of English at ASU, actors with @playonshakes.bsky.social visit ASU's Tempe campus to give an inside look at what it takes to perform Shakespeare in the 21st century.
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Emma Smith traces how editorial traditions today are systems of value shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade. Find a snapshot of her work on Throughlines now.
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Happy Sun Devil Giving Day! Any support you send to ACMRS goes directly to public programs, open access publishing, and ensuring travel funds are available to scholars attending RaceB4Race. If you can, please consider supporting ACMRS this SDGD
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THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week.
ASU hosts a biennial Chaucer celebration, join us March 26-26 for Chaucer's Women!
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Congrats to @a-arvas.bsky.social for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity!
New Borrowers and Lenders out today! Vol. 17 No. 2 (2026): Borderlands
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Thinking about this clip from @nahir.bsky.social at #RaceB4Race Love last month on doing scholarship and research after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. What a gift.
ICYMI: Ayanna Thompson introduces the 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium channeling the legendary bell hooks. Find the whole playlist for Love on our YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9L...
Earlier this year we got to interview Carol Mejia LaPerle about Shakespeare, affect, and pedagogy. Find more of her insights on Throughlines.
throughlines-asu.webflow.io/scholars/car...
What books are the #RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reading this semester? Check out the reading list from Folger Shakespeare Library. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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Did you see Ian McKellen on The Late Show?? "But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountanish inhumanity."
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Throw back this piece from Ruben Espinosa from 2019.
tinyurl.com/s8nb6mww
Join our ASU colleague Michael Ostling and contributors today at 9 am MST for a webinar on Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft with UPenn Press 🧙♀️
www.pennpress.org/events/revit...
And the great Abdulhamit Arvas on Milton for our last talk of Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium before our keynote this evening! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive
It will! You should be able to view it on news.asu.edu/asulive for the next day or two, and we'll have it up sometime next week on our YouTube channel.
Zhang mobilizes similarities between her ESL confusion of closet/cabinet with early modern overlap of the two. shows in the escritorio a tension between devotional display and cabinetted violence.
We're starting back up after lunch with Yunning Zhang, asking the question, "how do you queer an early modern cabinet?" Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
Giving us a peek into her fabulous book, *The Other Faces of Arthur* Talk is combining rigorous close readings, pcrs, & terrific storytelling and clear LOVE for the work. Making me want to read the Yvain texts. (or maybe take a class from her 😂 )
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