Kristen A Bennett
@earlymodconv.bsky.social
Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
TFW you get up at 3am on fire with an idea to improve a situation that you thought would be a lost cause. You write furiously to craft a well-balanced proposal and get it off at 6am. It is now 6:36 am ... and you are WAITING for a reply...
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
TFW you get up at 3am on fire with an idea to improve a situation that you thought would be a lost cause. You write furiously to craft a well-balanced proposal and get it off at 6am. It is now 6:36 am ... and you are WAITING for a reply...
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Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website!
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds
Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture
The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website!
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk
Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds
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Sep 20, 1592: Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and its derogatory reference to #Shakespeare is recorded in the Stationer's Register. #OTD
bit.ly/3ro2vhu
bit.ly/3ro2vhu
Greenes, groats-worth of witte: First printed allusion to Shakespeare as a playwright
Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sep 20, 1592: Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and its derogatory reference to #Shakespeare is recorded in the Stationer's Register. #OTD
bit.ly/3ro2vhu
bit.ly/3ro2vhu
Thrilled to see this out in the world and reaching a wider audience! Congratulations, Jamie!
I’m overjoyed to announce that my article “Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong” has been published open access in Literature Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #shakerace #adaptation #pedagogy
Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong
This article discusses Indigenous pedagogies and deep relationally Mohican playwright and educator Madeline Sayet's Where We Belong. The play challenges the idea that Shakespeare is settler property,....
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September 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thrilled to see this out in the world and reaching a wider audience! Congratulations, Jamie!
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Did you miss our recent #Shakespeare webinar on The Comedy of Errors? Watch the recording to catch up.
And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc
And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc
English Faculty Shakespeare Webinar with Emma Smith: The Comedy of Errors
YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Did you miss our recent #Shakespeare webinar on The Comedy of Errors? Watch the recording to catch up.
And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc
And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc
Congratulations, Doug! I look forward to checking this out!
Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org.
Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance
Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congratulations, Doug! I look forward to checking this out!
Here's Florimell and her new friend Waffles taking a break from getting covered in grass stains. 🐶💕
June 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Here's Florimell and her new friend Waffles taking a break from getting covered in grass stains. 🐶💕
I asked Copilot to generate an image based on my thoughts about this morning's writing efforts. I specifically mentioned fruit salad - perhaps because I dropped the plot, or I am hungry for breakfast. But the composition freakishly captures a hermeneutic crux I'm thinking about. I dig it. #amwriting
June 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I asked Copilot to generate an image based on my thoughts about this morning's writing efforts. I specifically mentioned fruit salad - perhaps because I dropped the plot, or I am hungry for breakfast. But the composition freakishly captures a hermeneutic crux I'm thinking about. I dig it. #amwriting
Tom Kyd holding down my Hinman edition as I shift back into working on my edition of Love's Labour's Lost. #helpingnothelping
June 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Tom Kyd holding down my Hinman edition as I shift back into working on my edition of Love's Labour's Lost. #helpingnothelping
Rabbit, Rabbit! It's the 1st of June and Shakespeare Association of America bulletin day! I hope you'll consider joining Emily Rowe's and my seminar as we go deep on the topic of "Unearthing" next April in Denver!
#Shax2006 #SAAUpdates
#Shax2006 #SAAUpdates
June 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Rabbit, Rabbit! It's the 1st of June and Shakespeare Association of America bulletin day! I hope you'll consider joining Emily Rowe's and my seminar as we go deep on the topic of "Unearthing" next April in Denver!
#Shax2006 #SAAUpdates
#Shax2006 #SAAUpdates
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The beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) datb.cerl.org/estc/ is online. More changes to come over time
English Short Title Catalogue
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May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) datb.cerl.org/estc/ is online. More changes to come over time
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Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
After hyperventilating through what may have been my busiest (and administratively stressful) semester (10 days to go!), I am pleased to inform you that I have opened my mail.
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
After hyperventilating through what may have been my busiest (and administratively stressful) semester (10 days to go!), I am pleased to inform you that I have opened my mail.
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You can now see the recording of @aarontpratt.bsky.social’s recent NVS Seminar, titled ‘Selling Your Play in Jacobean England’, on our website:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You can now see the recording of @aarontpratt.bsky.social’s recent NVS Seminar, titled ‘Selling Your Play in Jacobean England’, on our website:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
What joy to celebrate Emma's and Sofia's brilliant honors theses at last night's ceremonial dinner! From Penelope & Clytemnestra (Emma) to Avians & the Anthropocene (Sofia), working with these two has fed both my brain and my heart. 💜 #proudteacher #framinghamstate
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What joy to celebrate Emma's and Sofia's brilliant honors theses at last night's ceremonial dinner! From Penelope & Clytemnestra (Emma) to Avians & the Anthropocene (Sofia), working with these two has fed both my brain and my heart. 💜 #proudteacher #framinghamstate
Trying to put finishing touches on MS submission. As usual, this guy is monkeying up the works. #ihaveaNasheProblem #shouldhavelearnedbynow
April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Trying to put finishing touches on MS submission. As usual, this guy is monkeying up the works. #ihaveaNasheProblem #shouldhavelearnedbynow
My feline research assistants have abandoned me today, but Intern Florimell is hard at work as I copy edit my Element.
April 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My feline research assistants have abandoned me today, but Intern Florimell is hard at work as I copy edit my Element.
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Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by @callanjd.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social and many more #earlymodern folks! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
Shakespeare
Volume 21, Issue 1 of Shakespeare
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March 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by @callanjd.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social and many more #earlymodern folks! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
On the train heading to SAA/RSA to start the day with @nvshakespeare.bsky.social! Let the games begin!
March 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
On the train heading to SAA/RSA to start the day with @nvshakespeare.bsky.social! Let the games begin!
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I am honored to be part of this discussion celebrating my colleague Vandana Singh's brilliant new book 'Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice.' In addition to Vandana, our fellow interlocutors include Ben Alberti, Shade' Solomon, and Ishara Mills-Henry. Please join! Link in image.
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I am honored to be part of this discussion celebrating my colleague Vandana Singh's brilliant new book 'Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice.' In addition to Vandana, our fellow interlocutors include Ben Alberti, Shade' Solomon, and Ishara Mills-Henry. Please join! Link in image.
February 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The pleasure is ours! We're delighted to have the opportunity to contribute in a small way to such an exciting project!
We are very grateful to Prof. Kristen Abbott Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social for sending us two of her Framingham State University undergraduates to work as “digital humanities interns” on the New Variorum Shakespeare this academic year — thank you!
January 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The pleasure is ours! We're delighted to have the opportunity to contribute in a small way to such an exciting project!