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Spenser’s Dream: The Lacanian Subject in The Faerie Queene: Spenser Studies: Vol 40 At the heart of Book V of The Faerie Queene, in the temple of Osyris, we find an allegory within the allegory. “The warlike Maide” and knight of Book III, Britomart, “rest[s] her heavy eyes” and begin...

I'm very excited to see the new issue of Spenser Studies is out because a former student of mine has an article in it, based on his UG dissertation. An amazing achievement! Congratulations, Jake!
You can read his article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. One major cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

The Poetry and the Poetics of Difficulty Date: 27 April 2026 Location: Sala de Video 2 (Mód. IV, 202) Fac. Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Visit website → madrid-ems.com The Road to a Critical Edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense (MHRA, 2026) A talk by the editor, Zenón Luiz-Martínez (Universidad de Huelva), of this important new edition of two early poems by George Chapman. Hosted by the Madrid Early Modern Seminar. 27 April 2026, Sala de Video 2 (Mód. IV, 202), Fac. Filosofía y Letras,Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Full details at the link. All welcome!

#EarlyModern #BookLaunch! The Road to a Critical Edition of George Chapman’s "The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense" (MHRA, 2026)

A talk by the editor, Zenón Luiz-Martínez, hosted by the Madrid Early Modern Seminar. 27 April 2026. All Welcome #Skystorians

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Poster for the launch event, titled 'The Poetry and the Poetics of Difficulty'

Spanish early modernists: Madrid Early Modern Seminar are hosting a launch event for our new edition of George Chapman's early poems on 27 April, with a talk by the editor, @zenon-l-m.bsky.social. Full details at the link. All welcome!

#earlymodern

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Staff working conditions are student learning conditions – why we are striking  — UCU Edinburgh Staff across the University are commencing strike action on Monday March 30, with additional industrial action to come, unless senior management can reassure staff that no compulsory redundancy notic...

We're on strike again! You can read more about why here: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/d8mewmx... University management not sticking to their word? Who would have thought it? Please spread the word!

This is a highly concerning move for the civic museums outside of London. Less popular with global tourists no doubt, but absolutely vital third spaces for locals, visitors, commuters, students, recent asylum seekers, and all those people who may not be able to prove UK residence easily.

Queer Shakespeare The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this…

Excited to hear that the 2nd edition of
"Queer Shakespeare" edited by Goran Stanivukovic
is forthcoming on 11 June 2026

This edition contains 5 new essays incl:

Lee Hansen
'Queer/Crip Ovidian (dis)inheritances in "Venus and Adonis"'

[posted with permission]

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-sha...

Horrific, and becoming the norm. Whatever @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social can do to help in the fight, let us know. So many senior managers are rushing through 'fire and rehire' or equivalent before the legislation to stop it kicks in. Which politicians speaking out against this? @labouruk.bsky.social

My School of Arts' colleague's cfp looks very exciting 👇

Readinge complex textes not for ynformacioun but for understandinge, writinge nuanced argumentes, reasoninge criticallye and also beinge critical of reasoninge when needid -- these are the vital technologyes taught by humanityes disciplines lyke literarye studyes, historye, and philosophye.

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

Tyme spent wyth a catte ys nevir a mistake.

Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line @northumbriauni.bsky.social yesterday. We're loud and proud in our fight for pay and pensions justice! @ucu.org.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row Durham University says the action, which could last for six months, is

It's ASOS time, everyone! We regularly hear from colleagues that they're working, to use a technical term, "silly hours"; way beyond what could be considered reasonable. It wasn't our first choice to end that via action short of strike, but it was clear SOMETHING needed to be done, so here we are.

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row Durham University says the action, which could last for six months, is

Reading the news today & came across this. To be CRYSTAL CLEAR, @ducu.bsky.social has REPEATEDLY raised workload problems to management and offered potential solutions for negotiation. In EVERY instance, management has refused to negotiate. “No” is not negotiation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row Durham University says the action, which could last for six months, is

Solidarity with colleagues at Durham

Durham University staff start industrial action in workload row - BBC News share.google/dFdh9caLfjIN...

✊✊👉@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are back on strike next week, all week. No-one wants to be, and no-one is asking for more than keeping what we have. For our communities, colleagues, and students, we will never accept the pay and pension injustice planned by management at @northumbriauni.bsky.social

No-one wants to go on strike, and no-one ever does it just for themselves. @jimdickinson.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @ukhenews.bsky.social @ucea.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social

Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.

Whose uni? Our uni! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk We are united, loud, and proud. We will never accept bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social stealing our pay and pensions, demoralising and demeaning staff and students. We are always ready to talk, listen, and negotiate. Let's fix this!

Replacing the flowers on St Valentine’s head The purported skull of St Valentine is displayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, where it is crowned with flowers. A reliquary is a fine eternity; plush interior, gilt frame, glass window, south facing, the rent paid in prayers and miracles granted. This saint, if that’s who he is, wears a crown of flowers. Daisies, pansies, stems thick and green, turning yellow, brown, dissolving into slime. Unlike stories no flowers last forever. Bone is an uncommon vase, the aura of sainthood no fertiliser. These flowers are replaced when required, their blaze not yet extinguished. Petals unaware — for now, at least — that they, like the saint, are dead.

"Unlike stories no flowers
last forever. Bone is an
uncommon vase, the aura of
sainthood no fertiliser."

- from 'The Vanishing Song'

Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)

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Caleb makes some really useful points here - the feeling that we need a new approach to workload in Durham is even more widespread than the raw ballot numbers suggest. We need to hear more from our employer than "We responded fully to [your] claims".

I was very pleased to find that my copy of The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Authorship had arrived when I got home today! I find myself in very good company, and I'm looking forward to reading more. @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe were great editors to work with 😊

Results are in regarding our local ballot.

63.3% of voters are prepared to take IA consisting of a strike action, and 75.6% are prepared to take ASOS. Return rate was 53.1%, comfortably clear of the Tory anti-trade union minimum.

In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

Thrilled for my colleague, Laurence Publicover, and his appearance on In Our Time today, joined by the brilliant @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @lucycmunro.bsky.social - what a trio! Have worked on H4 quite a bit and still learned lots! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

In which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, Laurence Publicover and I did a thing... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...