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Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
A book salon for The Sweet Taste of Empire by @profkfh.bsky.social? Tonight? Yes please! Still time to get your tickets. See you there!
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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribb
Book salon for Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim F. Hall’s new book The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A book salon for The Sweet Taste of Empire by @profkfh.bsky.social? Tonight? Yes please! Still time to get your tickets. See you there!
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Applications are open for the RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes @acmrs.bsky.social. @mhanses.bsky.social and I took part in the 2024 Second Book Institute with our Cicero project, and we learned so much from early modernists. Cannot recommend enough! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
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RaceB4Race First Book InstituteThere is a glaring need to support early career premodern critical race scholars through the process of publishing their first book, a critical juncture in an academic c...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Applications are open for the RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes @acmrs.bsky.social. @mhanses.bsky.social and I took part in the 2024 Second Book Institute with our Cicero project, and we learned so much from early modernists. Cannot recommend enough! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...
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Monday, Oct. 20, ASU English professors Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe facilitate an evening of Indigenous stories: "Native Nation Project"—a book launch, reading and discussion of the collaborative work.
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Trio of Indigenous plays to debut at upcoming book launch | ASU News
On a crisp October evening, Indigenous stories will take center stage at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Monday, Oct. 20, ASU English professors Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe facilitate an evening of Indigenous stories: "Native Nation Project"—a book launch, reading and discussion of the collaborative work.
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Join us on Monday October 20 for an incredible book launch event with Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. And check out this interview with them about their work and an upcoming Oronooko adaptation... (!) news.asu.edu/20251016-art...
Trio of Indigenous plays to debut at upcoming book launch | ASU News
On a crisp October evening, Indigenous stories will take center stage at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.
news.asu.edu
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Join us on Monday October 20 for an incredible book launch event with Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. And check out this interview with them about their work and an upcoming Oronooko adaptation... (!) news.asu.edu/20251016-art...
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
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Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
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What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
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October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
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The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars.
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Latest Daedalus journal features ASU scholars, asks readers to think about our past and future | ASU News
“How will we think about the past in the future?” asks the latest issue of Daedalus.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars.
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social
"You should remember that students have led or been in solidarity with the most important struggles for a sustainable, equitable world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students have connected their ability to study power’s intentions to these global struggles." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You
At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"You should remember that students have led or been in solidarity with the most important struggles for a sustainable, equitable world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students have connected their ability to study power’s intentions to these global struggles." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This tragicomedy about life, love and transformation has been reimagined as a two-hour-long musical inspired by the gospel traditions of the American Black church, and presented by the Public Works program of the Public Theater.
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
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(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
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A New ‘Pericles’ Pairs Shakespeare With Black Gospel
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September 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This tragicomedy about life, love and transformation has been reimagined as a two-hour-long musical inspired by the gospel traditions of the American Black church, and presented by the Public Works program of the Public Theater.
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...
(Dramaturged by THE Ayanna Thompson)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/t...
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⌛ Fiction Friday: "Behaving like human beings are the center of everything doesn’t make it true."
From "Let’s Get Lost in the Cycle of Time Together" by ASU English professor @madelinesayet.bsky.social.
Read the play in Daedalus: ow.ly/AplZ50WMhFy #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Let’s Get Lost in the Cycle of Time Together" by ASU English professor @madelinesayet.bsky.social.
Read the play in Daedalus: ow.ly/AplZ50WMhFy #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⌛ Fiction Friday: "Behaving like human beings are the center of everything doesn’t make it true."
From "Let’s Get Lost in the Cycle of Time Together" by ASU English professor @madelinesayet.bsky.social.
Read the play in Daedalus: ow.ly/AplZ50WMhFy #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Let’s Get Lost in the Cycle of Time Together" by ASU English professor @madelinesayet.bsky.social.
Read the play in Daedalus: ow.ly/AplZ50WMhFy #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
"It’s a romp, a tonic, an escape from the clamorous world into a fantasy." Check out the review of Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night, dramaturged by Ayanna Thompson 👀
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‘Twelfth Night’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o in Illyria
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August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"It’s a romp, a tonic, an escape from the clamorous world into a fantasy." Check out the review of Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night, dramaturged by Ayanna Thompson 👀
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
Have you got your copy yet? Can't wait for this launch event for The Sweet Taste of Empire by the incomparable @profkfh.bsky.social
🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
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10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
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August 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Have you got your copy yet? Can't wait for this launch event for The Sweet Taste of Empire by the incomparable @profkfh.bsky.social
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This is fantastic news! One of the early postmedieval utopian texts that helped develop a French strand of utopian literature & that paved the way for the ambiguous & satirical approaches of Cyrano de Bergerac, Denis Veiras & Gabriel de Foigny. I'm really looking forward to reading it.
Happy pub day to The Island of Hermaphrodites, translated by Kathleen P. long.
Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today.
Access the full text for free online
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Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today.
Access the full text for free online
asu.pressbooks.pub/the-island-o...
The Island of Hermaphrodites – Simple Book Publishing
A scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless satire blends courtly decadence with political rebellion in an imagined world of unchecked power.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is fantastic news! One of the early postmedieval utopian texts that helped develop a French strand of utopian literature & that paved the way for the ambiguous & satirical approaches of Cyrano de Bergerac, Denis Veiras & Gabriel de Foigny. I'm really looking forward to reading it.
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This was one of my favorite projects to be a part of in recent memory. Get your syllabus ready for the fall. Check out Throughlines today.
Tomorrow is August 🤯 is your syllabus ready??
Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.org
Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.org
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
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August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This was one of my favorite projects to be a part of in recent memory. Get your syllabus ready for the fall. Check out Throughlines today.
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I really needed this today.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
www.throughlines.org
August 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I really needed this today.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
“'Classicism and Other Phobias,' contends with loss in its own way, by asking if classics might be used to combat forces, like racism, that give rise to profound losses... ” @newyorker.com @platanoclassics.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
The Princeton classicist shares works that informed his thinking on identity and world-building, and his book “Classicism and Other Phobias.”
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August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“'Classicism and Other Phobias,' contends with loss in its own way, by asking if classics might be used to combat forces, like racism, that give rise to profound losses... ” @newyorker.com @platanoclassics.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
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🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
Arden Shakespeare fourth series is coming! Read Titus 🥩 🥧 co-edited by Ayanna Thompson in May '26.
"A fourth? Start, eyes!"
The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming.
Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇
The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming.
Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇
August 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Arden Shakespeare fourth series is coming! Read Titus 🥩 🥧 co-edited by Ayanna Thompson in May '26.
Shout out to Throughlines scholar, collaborator, and friend of ACMRS @platanoclassics on his new book, Classicism and Other Phobias! Running to check out his book recommendations now 👀.
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
The Princeton classicist shares works that informed his thinking on identity and world-building, and his book “Classicism and Other Phobias.”
www.newyorker.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Shout out to Throughlines scholar, collaborator, and friend of ACMRS @platanoclassics on his new book, Classicism and Other Phobias! Running to check out his book recommendations now 👀.
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
Who's the grumpy uncle in your head 👴🏻? Patrica Akhimie joins Throughlines to talk about the importance of editing in Shakespeare.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Who's the grumpy uncle in your head 👴🏻? Patrica Akhimie joins Throughlines to talk about the importance of editing in Shakespeare.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...