Mira ‘Assaf
@miramiraculous.bsky.social
Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Very grateful to the OHio Valley Shakespeare Conference for inviting me to present a plenary on my new work: “Arab Cleopatra: Conviviality and Queerness at Cleopatra’s Court.”
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Very grateful to the OHio Valley Shakespeare Conference for inviting me to present a plenary on my new work: “Arab Cleopatra: Conviviality and Queerness at Cleopatra’s Court.”
Same person. New middle name and reclaimed last name. New email.
October 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Same person. New middle name and reclaimed last name. New email.
This is too good not to be shared here.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have foreseen the conservative’s darling, the Ur-misogynist žižek quoting my viral tweet from 2020 in his latest book.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have foreseen the conservative’s darling, the Ur-misogynist žižek quoting my viral tweet from 2020 in his latest book.
December 31, 2023 at 5:23 PM
This is too good not to be shared here.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have foreseen the conservative’s darling, the Ur-misogynist žižek quoting my viral tweet from 2020 in his latest book.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have foreseen the conservative’s darling, the Ur-misogynist žižek quoting my viral tweet from 2020 in his latest book.
Comrades,
The GREAT and my beloved friend Miles Grier’s book Inkface is in my hands. It’s an essential read for everyone invested in the enmeshment of book history in the politics of race through the lens of Shax’s Othello. What joy! What luck! Kids, our field is ALRIGHT!
The GREAT and my beloved friend Miles Grier’s book Inkface is in my hands. It’s an essential read for everyone invested in the enmeshment of book history in the politics of race through the lens of Shax’s Othello. What joy! What luck! Kids, our field is ALRIGHT!
December 10, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Comrades,
The GREAT and my beloved friend Miles Grier’s book Inkface is in my hands. It’s an essential read for everyone invested in the enmeshment of book history in the politics of race through the lens of Shax’s Othello. What joy! What luck! Kids, our field is ALRIGHT!
The GREAT and my beloved friend Miles Grier’s book Inkface is in my hands. It’s an essential read for everyone invested in the enmeshment of book history in the politics of race through the lens of Shax’s Othello. What joy! What luck! Kids, our field is ALRIGHT!
Delighted to be serving my field as an editorial board member of The Sundial from ACMRS. I’m filling in the shoes of the GRAND @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social & @bkadams.bsky.social —a tough, innovative, & brilliant act to follow! And I’m so happy to be working with @gway.bsky.social in this capacity!
September 3, 2023 at 8:19 PM
Delighted to be serving my field as an editorial board member of The Sundial from ACMRS. I’m filling in the shoes of the GRAND @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social & @bkadams.bsky.social —a tough, innovative, & brilliant act to follow! And I’m so happy to be working with @gway.bsky.social in this capacity!
Anyhow, I looked cute.
August 26, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Anyhow, I looked cute.
New email signature just dropped. *on leave* for the first time in ten years.
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*On Leave: 2023-2024*
Dr Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris (She/They)
Assistant Professor, English and Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2023-2024 Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Fellow
Section Editor, The Sundial: Premodern Pasts, Inclusive Futures. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).
Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Henry VIII | Shakespeare & Race (2022) | Shakespeare's Globe
Special Issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on Women: Race-ing Queens
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Butler University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208
GO DAWGS!
Butler University is located on the traditional homelands of the still-living, still-sovereign Miami, Wea, Piankashaw, Shawnee, Eel River, Delaware and Potowatomi peoples,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:srzzhslguxvq4vwpdyqfs6rq/bafkreia47hfek3pxdcmr4dw2is7gjcvattubat3bb37qb73pddhvypdydq@jpeg)
August 23, 2023 at 3:01 PM
New email signature just dropped. *on leave* for the first time in ten years.
Happy to report that Beirut and Athens share parking protocols. Here, a diligent employee saved a spot for his boss as soon as a parked car cleared the space.
August 13, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Happy to report that Beirut and Athens share parking protocols. Here, a diligent employee saved a spot for his boss as soon as a parked car cleared the space.
Windswept on the Aegean
August 4, 2023 at 10:23 AM
Windswept on the Aegean
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals:
July 3, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals: