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Chloe Fairbanks

@fairbanc.bsky.social

Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.

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I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!

03.02.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her

20.01.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Papers

πŸ“’ Excited to announce this Call for Papers for β€˜Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

09.12.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Open University The 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...

#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are!

fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...

04.12.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only Ben Jonson πŸ˜‚

03.12.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

24.11.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

20.11.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of Β£75 each.

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

14.11.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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This one's for you, @tomgavin.bsky.social

07.11.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making this red wine drinker chuckle, thanks William.

07.11.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Other highlights include 'What is the vse of beere?' and 'What is the beΕΏt drink?'

07.11.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.

07.11.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, β€˜English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻

06.11.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

24.09.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

24.10.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So thrilled for you Callan, really well deserved!

21.10.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

πŸ“… Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

15.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78 Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025

Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

14.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Proofs looking goooood

03.10.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Registration is free for self-funded PGR students and non-waged ECRs, and we can offer six travel bursaries, so there's no reason not to apply!

26.08.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

26.08.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of Β£1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

18.08.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you!!

08.08.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!!

08.08.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.

08.08.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺

06.08.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another day, another

23.07.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)

17.06.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tragedy of Mariam and Revenger's Tragedy, hands down

03.04.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a β€œhistorically info

My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.

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14.03.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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