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Iman Sheeha (she/her)
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Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
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histfest.bsky.social
*TONIGHT*

ISLAM & MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Mon 10 Nov | British Library

What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? Join Medieval & Early Modern Orients & HistFest for a special event.

Book now events.bl.uk/events/islam...
Event poster for Islam and Medieval England. Headshots of speakers on the right and the title on the left.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open
An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open
Also: some maps, dropped on other maps.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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myf1990.bsky.social
Weekend reading on #Shakespeare and teaching with some great articles to provoke thought and some great resources discussed too. #TeamEnglish
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
Posing ❤️🍂🎃
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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claireghansen.bsky.social
Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 13d
👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻

But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?

Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️

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Three woodcuts, on the left a black devil with horns, forked tail and hooves. Centre two angels waving their arms around. Right a ghost - a person in a white winding sheet - holding a flaming taper and pointing.
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
Loving this in our library! 🎃🍂
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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audioandrea.bsky.social
My chapter 'Shakespeare for Free: The Accessibility and Politics of Audio Shakespeare in Anglo-American Contexts' is out now in the book Translating Shakespeare Access and Mediation, edited by the brilliant pairing of Duncan Lees & @earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Here's the link: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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profkfh.bsky.social
Hey friends! Sweet 30% discount on my book!!
www.pennpress.org/978151282786...
The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press
A look at how seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization...
www.pennpress.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
Ready for my talk this afternoon 👀
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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ellierycroft.bsky.social
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.
September 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
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.
September 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Thank you @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social can't wait to read! 🔥
September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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cemskcl.bsky.social
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
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
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...
September 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Any Conference Questions?
#edchat #HigherEd #academia
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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siobhankeenan.bsky.social
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
September 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
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
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
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 ❤️
September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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claireghansen.bsky.social
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
September 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
drsheeha.bsky.social
When you're asked: what do early modern drama and Shakespeare have to do with racism? Writing ✍️👇
September 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
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
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Writing ✍️
September 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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 👀🔥🐈‍⬛
September 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM