Emily Rowe
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Early modernist and Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
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Emily Rowe
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
· Jul 10
So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!)
If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC...
#Shakespeare #skystorians
If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC...
#Shakespeare #skystorians
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Late Tuesday evening and I’ve just finished The Grapes of Wrath. What an ending. I feel emotionally SHATTERED
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Late Tuesday evening and I’ve just finished The Grapes of Wrath. What an ending. I feel emotionally SHATTERED
Late Tuesday evening and I’ve just finished The Grapes of Wrath. What an ending. I feel emotionally SHATTERED
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Late Tuesday evening and I’ve just finished The Grapes of Wrath. What an ending. I feel emotionally SHATTERED
No I did not mean…
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
No I did not mean…
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New publication out! You can read my open access article on the interwoven histories of early modern alchemical and linguistic satire (with plenty of Nashe, Jonson, even a bit of Tomkis, Bacon, and Sprat!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern
#historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern
‘Alcumists of eloquence’: The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core
‘Alcumists of eloquence’: The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England
www.cambridge.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New publication out! You can read my open access article on the interwoven histories of early modern alchemical and linguistic satire (with plenty of Nashe, Jonson, even a bit of Tomkis, Bacon, and Sprat!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern
#historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern
I was awarded a David Walker Fellowship in Early Modern History a couple of years back. It was a great experience and a useful stop gap between lecturing contracts. Happy to share my application with ECRs!
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I was awarded a David Walker Fellowship in Early Modern History a couple of years back. It was a great experience and a useful stop gap between lecturing contracts. Happy to share my application with ECRs!
Pleased to report my students were simultaneously amazed and horrified by Shakespeare’s handwriting
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Pleased to report my students were simultaneously amazed and horrified by Shakespeare’s handwriting
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I collaborated with cell biologist, Prof. Paul Martin to explore the relationship between early modern and modern wound healing through the lens of the Wound Man. Our article is available open access: www.jprasurg.com/article/S174... (first and likely last time I'll publish in a surgical journal!)
The Renaissance Wound Man: Parallels with today’s understanding of wound repair
The image of the “Wound Man” first appeared in surgical texts from the late fourteenth
century where it served as an illustrated guide to what medical practitioners might
be called upon to treat. Acro...
www.jprasurg.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I collaborated with cell biologist, Prof. Paul Martin to explore the relationship between early modern and modern wound healing through the lens of the Wound Man. Our article is available open access: www.jprasurg.com/article/S174... (first and likely last time I'll publish in a surgical journal!)
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Beautiful autumnal day. Run club bright and early this morning 🏃🏻♀️🌅… and now into a two-hour seminar on Sir Thomas More and collaborative playmaking 🎭🍂
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Beautiful autumnal day. Run club bright and early this morning 🏃🏻♀️🌅… and now into a two-hour seminar on Sir Thomas More and collaborative playmaking 🎭🍂
Beautiful autumnal day. Run club bright and early this morning 🏃🏻♀️🌅… and now into a two-hour seminar on Sir Thomas More and collaborative playmaking 🎭🍂
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Beautiful autumnal day. Run club bright and early this morning 🏃🏻♀️🌅… and now into a two-hour seminar on Sir Thomas More and collaborative playmaking 🎭🍂
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Great time this morning in the @qmullibrary.bsky.social with my third years exploring their collection of 16th/17th-century rare books
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Great time this morning in the @qmullibrary.bsky.social with my third years exploring their collection of 16th/17th-century rare books
Great time this morning in the @qmullibrary.bsky.social with my third years exploring their collection of 16th/17th-century rare books
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Great time this morning in the @qmullibrary.bsky.social with my third years exploring their collection of 16th/17th-century rare books
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Been experimenting a lot with pedagogy this semester and today students collaboratively live edited Othello. Wasn’t sure if it would work but it went down SO well!
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Been experimenting a lot with pedagogy this semester and today students collaboratively live edited Othello. Wasn’t sure if it would work but it went down SO well!
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
Been experimenting a lot with pedagogy this semester and today students collaboratively live edited Othello. Wasn’t sure if it would work but it went down SO well!
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Been experimenting a lot with pedagogy this semester and today students collaboratively live edited Othello. Wasn’t sure if it would work but it went down SO well!
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
#shakespeare #editing #pedagogy
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I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
Textile Shakespeare
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October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
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This stands out in an already maddening article. Gosh, are there any disciplines - perhaps ones that we’ve spent decades gutting because they encourage these very habits - that could effectively prepare students for this apparent Value(s?) Migration?
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This stands out in an already maddening article. Gosh, are there any disciplines - perhaps ones that we’ve spent decades gutting because they encourage these very habits - that could effectively prepare students for this apparent Value(s?) Migration?
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
Invited to speak at a Globe study day means I can bring together my two passions - Shakespeare and romcoms
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Invited to speak at a Globe study day means I can bring together my two passions - Shakespeare and romcoms
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Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
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Here's a roundup of our first monthly meeting from last week🤩
If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶
If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Here's a roundup of our first monthly meeting from last week🤩
If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶
If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶
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I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖
Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖