Katherine Gillen
@katherinegillen.bsky.social
Prof at Texas A&M-San Antonio | Free Palestine, Sudan, and DRC | Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva: https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
SAA friends: please join me and Nora Galland for our seminar on White Sophistry and Epistemicide!
June 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
SAA friends: please join me and Nora Galland for our seminar on White Sophistry and Epistemicide!
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
We cannot believe it has been a year since our inaugural conference, “Translating, Adapting, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands”.
🤩 What was your favorite part of the conference?
youtu.be/N-rAZuTisiY?...
🤩 What was your favorite part of the conference?
youtu.be/N-rAZuTisiY?...
March 2024 Conference Recap
YouTube video by Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
youtu.be
March 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We cannot believe it has been a year since our inaugural conference, “Translating, Adapting, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands”.
🤩 What was your favorite part of the conference?
youtu.be/N-rAZuTisiY?...
🤩 What was your favorite part of the conference?
youtu.be/N-rAZuTisiY?...
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
no semblance of fairness or due process. Momodou is being hounded because he is suing them for their hounding of students like him.
This is such weak behavior.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is such weak behavior.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
no semblance of fairness or due process. Momodou is being hounded because he is suing them for their hounding of students like him.
This is such weak behavior.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is such weak behavior.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Friends who will be at SAA: If you are planning on being in Boston for the conference tomorrow, come join us for a special noon-o'clock lunch/gathering on Thursday: Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine. More info here: linktr.ee/Shakespearea...
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Shakespeareans, Renaissance scholars, & early modernists for a free Palestine.
linktr.ee
March 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Friends who will be at SAA: If you are planning on being in Boston for the conference tomorrow, come join us for a special noon-o'clock lunch/gathering on Thursday: Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine. More info here: linktr.ee/Shakespearea...
I'm proud to have joined this group of delegates in resigning from our positions because of the MLA's refusal to allow a vote on a BDS resolution. 🇵🇸https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/03/mla-and-bds-9-open-letter-from-mla.html
MLA and BDS 9: Open Letter From MLA Delegates Resigning To Protest Suppression Of Resolution 2025-1
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 To the Officers and Members of MLA Executive Council: We, the undersigned, resign from ou...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm proud to have joined this group of delegates in resigning from our positions because of the MLA's refusal to allow a vote on a BDS resolution. 🇵🇸https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/03/mla-and-bds-9-open-letter-from-mla.html
This Wednesday!
ICYMI: Join us for a virtual roundtable on Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine.
📆 March 5, 2025 (and the conversation will continue at #Shax2025)
⏰ 12:30 PM EST
📍 Zoom
Speakers range from #ShaxGrads to emerita faculty. Register at buff.ly/3F488Kr
📆 March 5, 2025 (and the conversation will continue at #Shax2025)
⏰ 12:30 PM EST
📍 Zoom
Speakers range from #ShaxGrads to emerita faculty. Register at buff.ly/3F488Kr
March 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This Wednesday!
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
Don't miss this pre-conference Zoom event for #ShaxGrads!
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at buff.ly/3DWfv91
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at buff.ly/3DWfv91
February 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Don't miss this pre-conference Zoom event for #ShaxGrads!
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at buff.ly/3DWfv91
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at buff.ly/3DWfv91
Join us!
Join us for a virtual roundtable on Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine.
📆 March 5, 2025 (and the conversation will continue at #Shax2025)
⏰ 12:30 PM EST
📍 Zoom
Speakers range from #ShaxGrads to emerita faculty. Register at linktr.ee/saaupdates
📆 March 5, 2025 (and the conversation will continue at #Shax2025)
⏰ 12:30 PM EST
📍 Zoom
Speakers range from #ShaxGrads to emerita faculty. Register at linktr.ee/saaupdates
February 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Join us!
Members of @saaupdates.bsky.social, please join us on Wednesday, March 5 (12:30pm EST) for an online roundtable “Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine.” There will be representation from grad students to emerita faculty in SAA, and we will lots of time for discussion.
February 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Members of @saaupdates.bsky.social, please join us on Wednesday, March 5 (12:30pm EST) for an online roundtable “Silencing Scholars: Academic Repression and Palestine.” There will be representation from grad students to emerita faculty in SAA, and we will lots of time for discussion.
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The remarks by the current president of the #MLA reveal just how morally bankrupt, cowardly, and unimaginative the organization is. Embarrassingly so. Cancelled my membership.
The remarks by the current president of the #MLA reveal just how morally bankrupt, cowardly, and unimaginative the organization is. Embarrassingly so. Cancelled my membership.
Denied vote on pro-BDS resolution, MLA members protest
The backlash continues to the Modern Language Association Executive Council’s fall decision not to let members vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution.
www.insidehighered.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The remarks by the current president of the #MLA reveal just how morally bankrupt, cowardly, and unimaginative the organization is. Embarrassingly so. Cancelled my membership.
The remarks by the current president of the #MLA reveal just how morally bankrupt, cowardly, and unimaginative the organization is. Embarrassingly so. Cancelled my membership.
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
IHE reported on protests at MLA over the Exec Council blocking a vote on a resolution. 2 things:
1) the MLA prez calling the EC suppression of a vote “bold” & “courageous” sets a terrible precedent—esp rn for AHA leadership debating their resolution
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
1) the MLA prez calling the EC suppression of a vote “bold” & “courageous” sets a terrible precedent—esp rn for AHA leadership debating their resolution
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Denied vote on pro-BDS resolution, MLA members protest
The backlash continues to the Modern Language Association Executive Council’s fall decision not to let members vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution.
www.insidehighered.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
IHE reported on protests at MLA over the Exec Council blocking a vote on a resolution. 2 things:
1) the MLA prez calling the EC suppression of a vote “bold” & “courageous” sets a terrible precedent—esp rn for AHA leadership debating their resolution
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
1) the MLA prez calling the EC suppression of a vote “bold” & “courageous” sets a terrible precedent—esp rn for AHA leadership debating their resolution
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Stay tuned for James Finley’s book, Free Soil Abolition: Race, Ecology, and Freedom in Antebellum America, coming soon from UNC Press! (I’m his publicist and manuscript submission party planner 🎉)
January 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Stay tuned for James Finley’s book, Free Soil Abolition: Race, Ecology, and Freedom in Antebellum America, coming soon from UNC Press! (I’m his publicist and manuscript submission party planner 🎉)
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
Israeli airstrikes have unleashed devastating attacks across Gaza, with 34 bombings in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. At least 71 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed so far in 2025.
January 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Israeli airstrikes have unleashed devastating attacks across Gaza, with 34 bombings in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. At least 71 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed so far in 2025.
Looking forward to chairing this session, sponsored by the Adaptation Forum!
Will you be at #MLA25? Tell me about your sessions! I'll be speaking on the "Reenvisioning Adaptation Studies: Recent Trends" roundtable (#s72) on Thursday, 1/9, at 1:45 PM. Otherwise, my schedule is quite open, and I hope to see you around!
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...
Reenvisioning Adaptation Studies: Recent Trends
Panelists explore recent trends in adaptation studies, addressing young adult adaptations; language, tradaptation, performance, and media; and the value of engaging with Black, Chicanx, feminist, and ...
mla.confex.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Looking forward to chairing this session, sponsored by the Adaptation Forum!
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
We're grateful to Jesus Montaño for this generous review of "The Bard in the Borderlands" in the latest issue of The Shakespeare Newsletter.
Read the entire review online: shakespearenewsletter.com/review-of-th...
Read the entire review online: shakespearenewsletter.com/review-of-th...
December 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
We're grateful to Jesus Montaño for this generous review of "The Bard in the Borderlands" in the latest issue of The Shakespeare Newsletter.
Read the entire review online: shakespearenewsletter.com/review-of-th...
Read the entire review online: shakespearenewsletter.com/review-of-th...
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
Today's Shakespeare play: Horacio Almada's Un Hamlet, Teatro Xola Julio Prieto.
November 23, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Today's Shakespeare play: Horacio Almada's Un Hamlet, Teatro Xola Julio Prieto.
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
The CEMS seminar back on Wed 27/11/24 w @bkadams.bsky.social on new approaches to bibliography/book history via understudied collections. Spread the word & email a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk to sign up. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks
www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/events/...
www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/events/...
Research Seminar: Dr Brandi Adams (Arizona State University) More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection
This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published b...
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
The CEMS seminar back on Wed 27/11/24 w @bkadams.bsky.social on new approaches to bibliography/book history via understudied collections. Spread the word & email a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk to sign up. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks
www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/events/...
www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/events/...
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
Can’t wait to talk about The Language of Flowers with my students tomorrow. Thank you, Borderlands team and ACMRS Press for this open access anthology!
November 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Can’t wait to talk about The Language of Flowers with my students tomorrow. Thank you, Borderlands team and ACMRS Press for this open access anthology!
Reposted by Katherine Gillen
Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!
November 15, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!