Ari Friedlander

Cover of Early Theatre journal, Volume 28.1 (2025), featuring a red background with white illustrations of early modern figures in costume and an ornate theatrical arch above the title. The journal rests against a deep burgundy background patterned with faded line drawings of similar historical characters. Large text below reads "Early Theatre."

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)

We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
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This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.

Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

SEL poster announcement for the Living Discourse Initiative comprised by The Interview, The Exchange, and The Roundtable

📣 SEL is excited to announce our Living Discourse Initiative, scaling out in 3 new features: The Interview, The Exchange, & The Roundtable. The Initiative focuses on timely & field-leading thinking relevant to the study of English literature 1500-1900 👉Send proposals of 300-500wds to sel@rice.edu

Oooh a Shakespeare starter pack! go.bsky.app/BKaWcfr

In an effort to be the change I wish to see in the Bluesky world, here's an #AcademicCats starter pack. Let me know who else to add!

go.bsky.app/TmnzpN5

From The Sisters:

Seen some demand for a Shakespeare starter pack, so I’ve half-heartedly made one. I know I’m missing A LOT of people, so if you’re a scholar/student/practitioner working on/with/against Shakespeare, let me know and I’ll add you (someone else can do an early modern one!)

go.bsky.app/UrSRue1

Two elephants, Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594 (Rijksmuseum)

Fellowships and Grants

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Let's see if this site works the way the old one used to: I'm just starting to teach Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) to a class of high school seniors. Never taught it before, though a chapter of the abandoned diss is on it. Anyone have good resources for teaching it/productions to show? Thanks!

A few of these around now, and they're all good. Follow them one and all:

bsky.app/starter-pack...

I don't think I've seen one of these, so: my attempt at an early modern lit starter pack! (Plus some C18 people because I've decided to go on the offence and y'all are part of long C17 now.)

Apologies for any omissions / unwanted inclusions -- if you want on or off let me know!

go.bsky.app/Qd456bF

The book Rogue Sexuality propped up on a lime-green chair. the cover shows a woodcut illustration of a rabbit picking a lock

This new study by @arifriedlander.bsky.social explores Rogue Sexuality in #EarlyModern #EnglishLiterature - from criminals, beggars, the unemployed, to sex workers and... what looks like a lock-picking Easter bunny?! So that's how it hides those eggs! 🐰

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#GenderStudies

Yes! Perhaps this goes without saying but this also applies to professing and the pressure you describe here is the cause of many problems around how we talk/think about higher ed.

“Show Posts from My Feeds,” a switch in Settings under Home Feed.

I recommend turning this new switch on. (Go to Settings then “Home Feed.”) It subtly enriches your “Following” feed with samples of posts related to niche feeds that you may not have time to review often. Thx @pfrazee.com!

Publishers and Scholars, Unite! Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

Excited—& a bit nervous—to have this essay in the world. It started as an MLA talk—which I described at the time as the political unconscious of the usual How To Publish Your Book fare—& became much more thanks to the wonderful team at Public Books. Solidarity!
www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...

Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action - The Scholarly Kitchen Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.

Exciting to see momentum building to aggregate the different OA monograph efforts out there! The idea that collective action by the scholarly communication community is the way to square the circle of OA support and UP funding is very compelling!

Screenshot of the week

Faculty: we need more TT lines, better pay for grad students & support staff, research funds & money for the libraries

Chancellors: what I’m hearing is you want us to pay a consulting firm to do a climate survey, launch a new LMS, redo the uni website, & make every class hybrid

My new book is now available for pre-order. If it would be useful for your courses, please ask your library to request a copy *(it is very expensive so not sure anyone will be buying a personal copy)*

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

I really thought that Texas trying to remove transgender youth from their parents' custody would awaken more liberals to the fascist threat trans people are facing but I apparently underestimated their concern for the sanctity of women's swimming

Hello, Bluesky world! Happy to be here!

Thanks for checking!

No worries! I appreciate you checking! From what I gather, any kind of conversation makes it more visible on this platform, so hopefully other night still be prompted to reply!

Thank you!

Yeah, that would be fab

Still thinking about how a person my age (40+) asked me yesterday, “What does heartburn feel like? I’ve never had it,” as if that was a completely normal thing to say and not like saying, “What is gravity?” or “What does water feel like?”

After years of being locked on twitter, I unlocked tonight to write the following thread, which I'm copying over here for all you who have rightfully left that place behind.

A possum screaming because it’s Monday and he hates work

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY IT IS ONCE AGAIN MONDAY

Still thinking about this as I prepare to teach this morning

In the room where they came up with this idea: “what if, and hear me out, instead of really doing the work once or twice a week, we all just got together more often and did nothing?”