Rhema Hokama
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Asst prof @UW_Engl writing on the Reformation & global Renaissance! Formerly assoc prof @SUTDsg🇸🇬 Wrote Devotional Experience & Erotic Knowledge @OUPAcademic
Seattle
Joined March 2024
My book Devotional Experience & Erotic Knowledge (@OUPAcademic 2023) is more than 30% off on Amazon US! And it's 70% off on Amazon UK! Get your copy today! Amazon US: https://t.co/5t0OVq4XBB Amazon UK: https://t.co/NZimM5duoY
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My new piece on Othello is now online from Lit&Theology @OUPAcademic! Thanks to Patrick McGrath for his editing prowess & to @GaryKuchar, Ryan Netzley & Kenneth Graham for their spectacular chapters in the special issue on religion & the body! https://t.co/chXSlujMQ8
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Abstract. In this essay, I argue that it is possible to understand Othello’s demand for “ocular proof” as a response to early modern English devotional pra
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Thrilled to be sharing my new work on Milton's thinking about Asia this Thurs with my colleagues at @uw_glits - feat. talks by Nazry Bahwari, Heidi Pauwels, Brian Reed, & more! Come by Suzzallo Library for free food and new ideas in global lit! @UW @UWArtSci @UW_Engl @UW_AsianLL
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The podcast "Ways of Knowing” highlights how the humanities can reflect everyday life. In S2 Ep1, Anna Preus @UWArtSci discusses how she digitally streamlines the documentation of historical text. More: https://t.co/k62sTctjtl
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For the last event of the year, UW Textual Studies partnered with UW Global Literary Studies to host an event in which students learned to design, carve, and print their own “ex libris,” or bookplates using linocut printing techniques. Read more here: https://t.co/Nn7aVtptKp
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@RSAorg Paper Panel: Toleration and Cosmopolitanism II: English and European Literature in Global Contexts (with Tom Clayton):
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@RSAorg Paper Panel: Toleration and Cosmopolitanism I: English and Transnational European Literature (with Jonathan Koch):
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@RSAorg Paper Panel: The Asia-Pacific World in English and Global Literary History (with Yangyou Fang):
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@RSAorg Roundtable: East and Southeast Asia in Global Literary Studies (with Mihoko Suzuki):
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I'm very happy to share 4 CFPs for panels I'm co-organizing with 4 spectacular scholars for the 2026 @RSAorg in SF. These are guaranteed sessions sponsored by the RSA, which I'm organizing in my capacity as disciplinary rep for English lit. Please share & submit! Links below:
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During week 1, students in TXTDS 402 Book Arts: Proseminar in Printing, Bibliography, and Special Collections got an introduction to the world of early print in the west with Julie Tanaka, Associate Dean of University Libraries for Distinctive Collections.
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A reminder to send in an abstract for our 2025 conference! Deadline is 3 May!
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2026 “The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity” Summer 2026, University of Oxford Call for Papers to be released soon! . . . 2025 “Moral Education between East Asian and Greco-Roman Class…
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Something very interesting to argue about here. https://t.co/yn5frnAhsg
theguardian.com
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
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📚 In honor of National Library Week we spoke with Julie Tanaka, associate dean for Distinctive Collections at @uwlibraries, about the library's unique 1544 edition of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy." More: https://t.co/mJjS3RnNUj
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So excited to be organizing this roundtable at #RenSA25 in Boston on Asia & the Making of the #GlobalRenaissance w/ Andrew Hui, Stephen Greenblatt, @cindyliuwhooo, Ben Schmidt, Mark Valeri, Emily Teo, Hui-Hung Chen, Florin-Stefan Morar & @NipingY! Please come & join us! @RSAorg
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So happy to have seen some early modern Protestant bibles, a Book of Common Prayer, and a mini illuminated 15th c Flemish Book of Hours @uwlibraries - the only special collections that uses beanie babies as cradle support! @UW @UWArtSci @TextUW
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Excited to teach this new class at @UW_Engl next quarter on early modern literature inspired by global travel - esp. to East and Southeast Asia! #GlobalRenaissance @UW @TextUW @UWArtSci
New course alert in the TXTDS minor🚨 ENGL 322: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures of Encounter offers students the chance to explore cultural encounters across medieval and early modern worlds through travel writing, drama, and poetry: https://t.co/Pkxl6VRt7q
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Mark your calendars! @TextUW and UW GLITS are hosting a printmaking social on Thursday, Jan. 30 from 3:30 to 5pm in HUB 337 🎨All are welcome at this event! Grab your friends and join us for snacks and linocut printing. ... https://t.co/3ttg5HoMoR
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Course drop! Check out what the UW Textual Studies Program has in store for spring quarter 2025. You can explore all upcoming core and elective course offerings by visiting https://t.co/zTVNAtdoRW!
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My entry for “sanctuary / sanctuary-city” appears in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, which features timely content from top legal humanities talent. Published this month and available below. #sanctuary #sanctuarycity #asylum
https://t.co/fwybADGylo
e-elgar.com
‘This is an extraordinary book. It does much to refresh and revive law and literature as a field of inquiry. It does so by focusing on legal and cultural problems and bringing to bear the resources...
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