I’m delighted and humbled to share that I have been elected as Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Congratulations to @respinosa1564 for election to VP, and @DDDrewDaniel and @vicorredera, also coming in as trustees. I ♥️SAA and I'm looking forward to serving.

#iwasanenglishmajor. Literature's complexity, beauty, multiplicity, depth, and difficulty are the best whetstone I know for living well with complexity, beauty, multiplicity, depth, and difficulty. Literature is good for thinking minds because it refuses to mean only one thing.

In addition to being generally brilliant, this issue of ELR embodies what we strive to be: a home for work that ranges across genres in our period, across methods, across the boundaries of canon and discipline, making the forceful energies of early modern literature knowable.

More work in ELR’s latest issue includes Suparna Roychoudhury on Artlikeness; Jennifer Waldron on The Politics of Scale in Henry V, @teeharizon on Fictions of Human Nature in poetry, and @wbhyman on “Cymbeline, the Camera Obscura, and the Ontology of Elsewhere”.

Issue 52.3 of ELR hosts (boasts?) @julieorlemanski on Douglas’s Aeneid translation; @debapriya_s on The Utopian Hypothesis; Colleen Rosenfeld on the Mood of Fiction; @urvashichakrav on Fictions of Race; @jenny_c_mann on artificial experience in The Dutchess of Malfi (cont.)

The Autumn 2022 issue of ELR is a special one. Wendy Beth Hyman and Jennifer Waldron put together a collection of superb articles on modes and theories of Renaissance Fiction. We couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out. Thread follows, but: go read!

Lots of timely and relevant books these days! But I am grateful for this review, for my boss coeditor @hillaryeklund, and above all our incredible contributors. Paperback, and free open access:

https://t.co/B25mbzYwPA

My proposed SAA 2022 seminar on Invention has been accepted. Hope some of you will join me to talk about innovative contrivances of all kinds: from poetics to natural philosophy, stagecraft to intellectual history, curious gizmos to elaborate schemes.

Friends, Renaissance literature scholars, early modernists, poetry nerds, philosophy fiends, Lucretians, Shakespeareans, feminists, voluptuaries, macabre vanitas-loving goths: my book is currently half price ($41.38) on the 'zon!

I am so looking forward to speaking about Donne, visually, to the Donne Society tomorrow. My talk explains how his famous poem, "The Flea," influenced the scientific revolution. Sign up in advance if you're curious! The other speakers are all amazing, and the real reason to go.

Arrived! A thing of beauty and a joy forever. So excited to read this brilliant book in its final form, @jessiehock!

Thank you, Modern Philology and Tessie Prakas for this generous, perceptive review of my monograph, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry.

Excited for this!

Collection I'm thrilled to be in reviewed by Katharine Craik in the TLS!

It's 2:30 in the afternoon on the third day of Tuesday. Spouse just asked if I'd eaten lunch and I literally do not remember and honestly can not tell.

“No! Definitely not!” “Great! Then it was OK!” “Oh good!” They both said. And went off up the street.

“That’s right! Did you guys have other questions?” “So it was definitely OK?” “Well,” I said, “just let me ask, to make sure I’m not missing something: did she touch you, or did anything happen that made you feel unsafe in any way?”

“I told you!” Second boy says to the first, satisfied. They are relieved: the adult world has not in fact mislead or mistreated them. “Did you guys understand what she told you? You remember the part about pinching off the bit of—“ “Yes! Pinch off the bit of air at the tip!”

I'm worried I'm about to be the butt of prepubescent humor. No. "I just wanted to know, when she showed us how to put a condom on a banana: was she allowed to do that?” Blink. “Yes,” I tell them. “That's definitely considered a helpful way to demonstrate proper condom usage.”