We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 14.2, Shakespeare Performance Through a Trans Lens. This special issue, guest edited by Alexa Alice Joubin proposes “trans” as method and as a social practice in performance.

Hey look! Our piece is out in @ShaxandApp !!

We so excited for this amazing new issue!

We are so thankful to Matt Kozusko for his dedicated work to keep B&L brilliant.

If you are interested in applying, please send a short statement of interest and your current CV to the Borrowers and Lenders editorial team at borrowersandlenders@asu.edu by June 30th, 2023.

Borrowers and Lenders is a peer-reviewed, open access, multimedia journal that features original scholarship on and reviews of the afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, cinematic, multimedia, and critical histories.  Section editors receive a $500 honorarium.

The ideal candidates are early career PhDs in Shakespeare studies or adaptation studies, with experience in both writing scholarly reviews and editing academic prose. Experience with OJS and html markup is a bonus but not necessary.

Section editors have flexibility to adjust their workload to a large extent, choosing to publish fewer reviews (one per issue, with two issues a year) or more reviews (up to four per issue, with two issues a year) as they prefer.

Section editors will guide reviews through the editorial process using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) journal manager platform, and are also responsible for following up with tardy authors and reviewers as needed.

Section editors are responsible for soliciting and developing reviews from qualified authors on their given subtopic while also developing a pool of potential reviewers that demonstrates gender, racial, national, and generational diversity.

B&L is seeking a Digital Appropriations editor! The Digital Appropriations section editor works with authors to develop short thesis-driven reviews on specific digital appropriations of Shakespeare, including websites, video games, podcasts, and social media accounts.

We are delighted to welcome Vanessa in this new role, and the entire journal editorial team offers our heartfelt gratitude to Matthew for his years of dedicated service to the journal.

Vanessa will be replacing Matthew Kozusko, who is stepping down from his role as general co-editor of the journal after 17 years with B&L (serving as our Appropriation in Performance section editor from 2006-2018 before stepping into the role of general co-editor in 2018).

Vanessa joins the editorial team as an established scholar of contemporary appropriation and B&L team member, currently serving as our Digital Appropriations section editor.

Borrowers and Lenders welcomes new general co-editor! Borrowers and Lenders is excited to announce that @vicorredera will be stepping into a new role with our team as a general co-editor for the journal.

Our apologies for tagging the wrong handle @allo_nothing! You can check out Bridget's excellent note on Macbeth's Idiot and Faulkner's Compsons here:

We close with Shakespeare in Shang-Chi by @mccqua

Savannah Jensen reviews Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now, edited by Hillary Eklund and @wbhyman.

Next, Philip Smith reviews Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube by Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens.

As always, we also have reviews. Here, Robin Kello reviews @TrevorBoffone and @CarlaDellaGatta's book, Shakespeare and Latinidad.

The final interview, with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s film The Tempest.