Asst Professor of English Literature + Director of New Variorum Shakespeare @TAMU
Houston, TX
Joined April 2013
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Probably my favourite version. It's much less bombastic than Olivier's or Branagh's.
#StCrispinsDay
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Thank you to everyone who came to yesterday’s book launch for ‘Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography’ and congratulations to its authors!
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🎭 A little taste of Shakespeare at Thirty, now up on @FolgerLibrary website
@princetonupress
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How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed?
At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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From James Merrill’s letters, as lovely a piece of art criticism as I know. “When I was little my mother used to say there was an animal heaven where pets went after death…Vermeer makes you believe in a heaven for things + textures—cracked leather, brass, paper, silk, + yarn.”
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Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder having lunch during filming "The Apartment," 1960.
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One week to go!
Our next NVS Seminar will be an online book launch for this new CUP Element!
Join us on Friday 23 October at 12 noon CT. Zoom link available here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/n…
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One week to go! 🗓️ Next Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK time: #Macbeth in the Shakespeare Exchange with Ewan Fernie and Alistair Wilkinson. Join live or watch the recording. Free, online: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/r… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth @Team_English1
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Meet Professor @EFernie, Chair of the Shakespeare Institute, academic anchor for BBC's Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius and co-author of Macbeth, Macbeth. Talking Macbeth with Alistair Wilkinson, Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK. Free: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth
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Unfinished Latin translation of Ibn ʿArabshāh’s biography of Timur, by Dionysius Vossius (1612-1633). Vossius studied Arabic with Jacob Golius, whose edition of Ibn ʿArabshāh was later published (without translation) in 1636. Amsterdam University Library, ms Bc 2
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Houston, the Bayou City Art Festival is back at Memorial Park this weekend! 🤘🎨 Explore hundreds of artists, live music, interactive activities, food and more!
📅 Oct. 9–11 | 10 AM–6 PM
📍 Memorial Park
🎟️ Tickets & info: bit.ly/47cO7ig
#ExploreHOU #VisitHouston
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We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.
granta.com/contributor/anne-…
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Heaney translating Beowulf on the felled Grendel, prophesying my state by Christmas - ‘He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,/limping and looped in it’
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Saw this at the NYPL's Berg Collection today--Nabokov's copy of The Metamorphosis with his lecture notes, drawings, and marginalia.
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Oct 6, 1599: William #Shakespeare is named in tax records for owing taxes in St. Helen's Parish, Bishopsgate. #OTD
bit.ly/37KsLen
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“The secret disease,” “the French disease,” “the pox”...whatever it was called, syphilis “ruined lives” in early modern London, and “not everyone had a rollicking good time on the way to getting it.” —Catherine Nicholson go.nybooks.com/4dj7VEc
