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Jemma Forster

@jemlf.bsky.social

AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in early-modern Europe https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster

225 Followers | 487 Following | 6 Posts | Joined: 19.11.2024 | 1.5747

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Me too, that’s my girl 🫶

29.01.2026 11:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.

22.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 6997 🔁 2591 💬 203 📌 1047

every time someone hears my expertise is in queer Shakespeare they’re like, “oh so he was gay?”

first of all, Shakespeare doesn’t need to be queer for his plays to be queer—or for us to read & interpret his plays queerly.

second of all, yes. yes he was.

19.01.2026 13:14 — 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thoroughly enjoying this

14.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our precious #Shakespeare first folio of 1623 recently underwent some conservation treatment. Read all about it in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31272

13.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Took my embryonic Spanish speaking skills out for a test drive at the Oxford Golden Age Symposium. ¡Qué delicia!

05.12.2025 12:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Practicing microfeminism on Duolingo

23.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.

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

11.11.2025 11:20 — 👍 245 🔁 91 💬 16 📌 11

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

27.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 45 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 4

Made a metric tonne of soup today with King Lear on in the background #cordeliasmith

25.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference in beautiful Porto

18.07.2025 10:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@jemlf is following 20 prominent accounts

Dr Nicola Clark
@nikkiclark86

Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.

Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛
@cristinalalfar

Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈‍⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."

Douglas Clark
@disfordiscourse

Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.

Tamara Mahadin
@tammykm

PhD Candidate at @OhioState. Early Modernist. Research Interests: women, science, book history. { وَقُلْ رَبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا } 🇯🇴

Cameron Hunt McNabb (she/her)
@chmcnabb

Medieval/early modern, drama, disability, pedagogy. Dramatic Prosthesis: Disability and Drama. Editor of Medieval Disability Sourcebook.

Dr Maria Shmygol
@mariashmygol

MSCA Research Fellow (University of Galway) | Joint Chair (British Shakespeare Association)

ValerieMFazel
@veefaz

ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.

Emilie K. M. Murphy
@emiliekmmurphy

🗃️ Early Modern History, Director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ✊🏼 Secretary for Advocacy & Public Engagement @royalhistsoc.org 🎶 Music & post-Ref Catholicism 📚 Exiled Lives: English convents in Catholic Europe 👂 Listening to Travel Writing (CUP, Forthcoming)

Travis Knapp
@tknapp

Erstwhile early modernist. Current instructional designer.

Kat Lecky
@katlecky

Endowed at Loyola Chicago; seventeenth-century cheap print publics and common medical / botanical knowledge, weeds, and acts of general naturalization. Book: Pocket Maps and Public Poetry (OUP 2019).

Adam Zucker Again
@adamzucker

As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.

Ambereen Dadabhoy
@drdadabhoy

Anglophile, Ottomaniac, Fangirl, Early mod prof. One of these is not like the others.

Jim Marino
@jamesjmarino

early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer living the good life in Cleveland

Emily Loney
@emilylylo

Visiting Asst Prof in English. Early modern literature | gender & sexuality studies | disability studies. Also reality tv, genre fiction, board games, and knitting. She/her

Laura Ingallinella
@lauraingalli

Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse

Paula Krebs
@paulakrebs

Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership

Thea Buckley
@thea987

Rhymes w Leia. Doc of Shakespeare, Keralan, She / her. bham.academia.edu/TheaBuckley

Ashley Howard
@ashleydhow

“I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree” PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia Ecocriticism | Early modern poetry | Editing 🌻

Curtis Perry
@curtisperry

Professor of English lit; anti-Zionist Jew; amateur of song; watcher of myriad kdramas; introvert; featherless biped; he/him.

Jonathan Willis
@drjpw

Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.