Emily Bryan

I am so excited for this article to come out, and so grateful to Early Theatre for publishing it. This has been a long journey, but a testament to the fact that scholarship can be a slow process and that the archives still have so much to tell us.

Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: @ebryan.bsky.social analyzes the connections between the conscription of boys by early modern English choirs and theatre companies and how the Virginia Company prompted authorities to take Powhatan children to populate Henerico College.
#EarlyModern #Drama

I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Two women holding a sign at a rally. Says hands off our country, support our veterans, save education

People standing holding signs at a Hands Off Rally.

Hands off Rally. people standing with signs. Sign on the right says Save our Democracy

People standing at a rally, American Flag in the Background

#handsoff2025

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Book Review: Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly - Motif When Amie Souza Reilly and her family buy a New England home in August 2014, the real estate agent forewarns them about the two brothers next door. They were “nosy […]

@coopnytimes.bsky.social Read this book and tell LEAH too - she will love it!! @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social motifri.com/book-review-...

Call for papers on Health Humanities and Maternal Imagination. MLA 2026.

CFP for MLA 2026: Health Humanities and the Maternal Imagination. We welcome 300-word proposals that explore narratives about the maternal imagination in relation to health humanities. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
@shnidhi.bsky.social

❤️#shakira

Thrilled to be offering Untitling Shakespeare Workshop (69) at the Shakespeare Association of America on Saturday, March 22 4:30-6:30 PM. Keith Hamilton Cobb, Jessica Burr and participants will be looking at the beginning of 12th Night. Auditors Welcome! shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

Dogs of December

Whoa.

“But when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black and Hispanic scholars surfaced—especially for women. In those situations, “underrepresented minorities, particularly women of color, are held to a different standard,” Madera says.”

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I would love to read this! My email is bryane@sacredheart.edu. It looks very interesting!

Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones.
Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register:
websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...

spread the word / vertel het rond:

Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

The so-called “Surgeon’s Photo” of the Loch Ness Monster, published in the Daily Mail in 1934.

Hello, lovely new followers. I write novels, often historical. THE CONTINUITY GIRL was published by Unbound in 2018. It is set to be released again by @breakthroughbook.bsky.social in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a follow up in which the plot revolves around the creation of this indelible image.

What Could Happen in Higher Education During a Second Trump Term? Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.

I feel like this article is late to the game. And I wish that more news outlets had been highlighting this inevitability all along. Every single proposal mentioned is harmful to education and human beings. 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/u...

On Citational Justice - S Y N A P S I S In my course rotation, I typically teach my introduction to Health Humanities and Disability Studies, Literature, Medicine, and Culture, at least once a year. Part of the work of the survey is to expo...

"On Citational Justice"

Essential reading for all scholars of health and medical humanities, by @travisclau.bsky.social for Synapsis Journal

This article has already stimulated such great discussion at IMH, I recommend it without hesitation!

medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/08/o...

It’s important to push back on the entire framework wherein individual academic programs are evaluated based on cash flow. Universities are *nonprofits* and the goal is to provide excellence in an educational and research ecosystem. This means some subunits *should* subsidize others.

Author event: Shakespeare's White Others, by David Sterling Brown Come along to hear David Sterling Brown talk about his brilliant new book, Shakespeare's White Others

Or see David in Derby or Stratford 2/16 and 2/19

16 Feb, Derby, 1623 and QUAD Anti-Racist Workshop: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/white...

19 Feb, Stratford Library Conversation Event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

Author event: Shakespeare's White Others, by David Sterling Brown Come along to hear David Sterling Brown talk about his brilliant new book, Shakespeare's White Others

Friends in England - David Sterling Brown has a series of events on his fabulous new book, Shakespeare’s White Others

15 Feb, Cambridge UP Bookshop Author Event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-eve...

Cover art for book Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, black cover with decorative embroidery of flowers, hearts and leaves with interconnected vines.

Just finished this powerful book. Every page is brilliant! I loved listening to Patty Krawec’s voice while walking and thinking about the land.