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Marissa Nicosia
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Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
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It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Shakespeare in the Kitchen
Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I'm so excited for this!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I loved working on this project with @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social for so many reasons, but most of all bc we agreed that any styling tricks had to leave the food edible at the end—and I got to taste all the recipes 🤤🤤🤤
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Gorgeous photo on the cover taken by the brilliant photographer @gaypanek.bsky.social ! It was fantastic collaborating with her on the design, food styling, and photos.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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So exciting to see a new book in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series. I can’t wait to read it!
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Shakespeare in the Kitchen
Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...
www.routledge.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New recipe up on Cooking in the Archives! hou to bake Quinoces, a delicious quince pie 🥧 rarecooking.com/2025/11/17/h...
hou to bake Quinoces
I always buy too many quinces. I am so excited when I first encounter them at the market in the autumn. I fill my bag. (I’ve written about my love of quinces here before.) So it was a good th…
rarecooking.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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
Get out and vote today, Philly & everywhere!
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Election day is here! Don't know who to vote for? Our procrastinator's guide can help.
billypenn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Procrastinator’s Guide to the 2025 general election in Philly
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 4. Judicial candidates — especially retention votes for state Supreme Court justices — have drawn extraordinary attention.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I had a lovely time writing about sometimes icky possets for Jessica Rosenberg & Jen Jahner's special issue of @postmedieval.bsky.social on technique! Open access essay published today: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
How to enjoy a posset - postmedieval
Where does failure fit into embodied humanities research practices like cooking? This skill-share documents attempts to prepare (and enjoy) possets (hot medicinal beverages that usually include alcoho...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word
The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🗳️ Pennsylvania’s general election is Nov. 4.

For details on important dates and who’s on your ballot, from Philadelphia district attorney to the state Supreme Court, check out our Voters Guide 👇
Your guide to the 2025 general election in Philadelphia, from district attorney to Pa. Supreme Court
From important dates to who’s on your ballot.
www.inquirer.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Previous talks from this semester and earlier can be accessed on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...
Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, the Workshop in the History of Material Texts has been influential in its broad approach to the topic. We are interested in all aspects of how texts take material...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them
October 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
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
bcrw.barnard.edu
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Two years & one day ago & I am still so proud of this book ❤️

(Zine precis & discount codes in thread below. Generous reviews in pinned thread.)
One year ago today, my first book _Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660_ was published by OUP (UK)
Since then...... 1/
Today is the official release day for _Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660_! 🎉
And I have a 30% discount code to share with you: AAFLYG6.

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September 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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WPSU is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS.

“The news devastated me, it devastated all the employees,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director.
‘Never would have imagined it’: Pennsylvania NPR station set to be first to shutter following Trump’s cuts
WPSU, which has been broadcasting out of Penn State since 1953, will shut down following federal cuts to public media organizations
www.inquirer.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I had a lovely conversation with Sarah Kernan for The Recipes Project: Around the Table Podcast! recipes.hypotheses.org/26388
Around the Table Podcast: Cooking in the Archives with Marissa Nicosia
By Sarah Peters Kernan Listen here, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Sarah Kernan has a conversation with Marissa Nicosia, an Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at Penn State A...
recipes.hypotheses.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM