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Ruben Espinosa
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Chicano | Professor of English
at ASU | Director, ACMRS | President, Shakespeare Association of America | All views my own.
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Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Looking for assistance to attend #Shax2026 in Denver? Check out our Travel and Dependent Care grants — applications are due November 1. Find out how to apply on our website: shakespeareassociation.org/awards-prize...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“What’s less clear is how a man with no private-sector resume, no known business ventures, and no discernible talent outside of writing xenophobic policy memos, ended up in a multimillion-dollar property in one of Arlington’s wealthiest enclaves.”

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Sidewalk Chalk Messages Force Stephen Miller to Flee Arlington, Put Home Up for Sale
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and architect of some of the Trump administration’s most hardline immigration policies, has listed his Arlington home for $3.75 million — just two yea...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Just arrived and I absolutely can’t wait to dive in!! Congratulations, @profkfh.bsky.social!!! 🔥🔥🔥
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🚨🚨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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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 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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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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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 7:54 PM
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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 — 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
July 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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👀 Is that our executive director Ayanna Thompson hanging out with the absolutely STACKED cast of The Public Theater's 12th Night??
July 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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As I finished Shakespeare in Tongues in 2024, I could sense that my chapter on The Tempest and the 2012 outlawing of the Mexican American Studies curriculum in Tucson, AZ, would become increasingly relevant in this new era of epistemic violence, so I wrote a short piece about it for The Sundial.
acmrs.bsky.social Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · Jun 26
"In giving voice to resistance in the face of dispossession and enslavement, Caliban disrupts the hierarchical, colonial world order that is invested in keeping him at the bottom and Prospero on top."

Read more from ‪@kathrynvsantos.bsky.social‬ new piece in The Sundial
What’s Past Is Prologue: Repression, Resistance, and the Present-Future
by Kathryn Vomero Santos
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June 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
July 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Congratulations to @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social!! Order your copy asap! This book is 🔥🔥🔥
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Shakespeare in Tongues is officially available for pre-order today! If you would like to order a copy for yourself or your library, please use the discount code 25AFLY2* for 20% off. www.routledge.com/.../Vomero.....
Cover image for the book Shakespeare in Tongues by Kathryn Vomero Santos. The cover features a colorful mixed-media collage by artist Fausto Fernandez.
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Looks like the ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬ off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!
The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press
How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slave...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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#earlymodern
#ShakeRace
#RaceB4Race
#Blackademics
triciamatthew.bsky.social Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Jun 9
I preordered @profkfh.bsky.social’s

THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE

40% off until June 20th!

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June 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Don't miss our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on

JULIUS CAESAR

with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams

2 June
6-7.15pm
Online via Zoom

All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk

#juliuscaesar #historyplays
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Are you an early career scholar? Apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. 2-3 mentees are matched with expert scholars in premodern critical race studies. Discuss career development, collaboration, and publishing in the field of PCRS. Apps close 5/15

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April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Travel grants, awards and prizes, and #ShaxGrads programming offer essential support for and recognition of professional development. Support the future of our field (both research and researchers!) by making a gift to the SAA Annual Fund: linktr.ee/saaupdates
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April 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#RaceB4Race
emilyctamkin.bsky.social Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · Mar 27
I really want to stress that it is not possible to teach about antisemitism without also teaching about, say, racism and xenophobia.
jewishcurrents.bsky.social Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · Mar 27
SCOOP: The ADL quietly sunsetted its flagship anti-bias program and is shifting its educational material to an emphasis on antisemitism only amid broad right-wing attacks on DEI. Senior Reporter Alex Kane spoke to multiple former ADL education employees: jewishcurrents.org/adl-shutters...
March 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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This is pure unadulterated evil

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Trump Strips Legal Representation From Thousands Of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration has canceled the funding for legal representation for 26,000 children — and lawyers are calling it a "heartless" move.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Hey journals? This is bad
zsamudzi.bsky.social Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐

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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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March 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year.

Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.
Dear Dr. (redacted) Many thanks for the kind invitation to serve as a panelist for this year's NEH fellowships and summer stipend competitions. I have recently seen the revised guidelines for applications to a number of other NEH grants, which restricts research on the following topics: • promotion of gender ideology • promotion of discriminatory equity ideology • support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities • environmental justice initiatives or activities While I see that the guidelines for the 2025 Fellowships and Summer Stipends programs have not been revised (yet), I do not wish to support an organization that preemptively complies with the discriminatory dictates of an administration that has repeatedly defied the law and flouted the norms of democratic governance in the first month of its installation. I value the support that the NEH offered me to conduct research free from such ideologically motivated restrictions, and I hope that my refusal to serve and support an esteemed organization may convince those in charge of crafting future application guidelines to resist what one can plainly see is an abuse of power. To comply would be nothing less than a dereliction of our responsibility as scholars in the humanities. Respectfully, Sonja Drimmer
February 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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
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SAA and #ShakeRace friends — if you have not yet voted for new trustees and VP, please do so ASAP! You have 2 more days! The candidates are 🔥🔥🔥!
saaupdates.bsky.social Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · Feb 12
Voting for new trustees and officers closes on February 15! Log in to the member portal to cast your ballot today: buff.ly/3F488Kr
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February 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Don’t forget: registration for our joint conference with RSA closes on March 1! If you’re planning to join us in Boston, register today at buff.ly/3F488Kr
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February 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Excited to be in conversation with Tommy Orange this Saturday! If you’re in the Phoenix area, please join us! 🌵☀️ If not, you can livestream the event (registration link below). Free and open to the public.
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM