I am still here, never you worry — just very very busy. I’ll get back to blogging soon, because there are exciting new developments in my (academic) life that I need to tell you all about. The picture is of one of the things that have kept me from blogging lately: editing the latest [...]

Anne Galloway has started a new weblog Lost in Dissertation, where she will chart her progress during the final two months of writing her PhD thesis. Anne makes dissertation writing fun by following Jane McGonigal ’s idea of posting her best sentence of the day on her blog. I think it is a wonderful idea [...]

Brett has his own weblog! I am thrilled to announce: Sound and Fury, Brett’s “medium for publishing self-indulgent, relentless rants and ramblings on all things English Renaissance.” Since he is a regular commenter here, I can assure you that his ramblings are very informed and up-to-date, always abreast of the latest publications in the field [...]

Medieval and early modern (literary) scholars out there — I could use your help. I have been asked to contribute a lecture to an interesting interdisciplinary BA-course on the question: how sharp is the dividing line between the medieval and the early modern period? After a general introduction that questions the traditional notion of the [...]

I sometimes wish I could beam myself over to the UK for one-day events such as this one: on 21 June the Early Modern Research Centre at Reading University hosts a seminar by Arnold Hunt on the subject of:
“Hat Honour in Early Modern England”
With an honourable tip of the hat to Renaissance Lit.

Time for an update on the gender of reading post. There have been many comments, some of which on other blogs, so I’ll attempt a summary here. In the original post, I jotted down some thoughts on the function of books in paintings or photos, elaborating on the Dutch sociologist Jolande Withuis’s observation that women [...]

I often use Gabriel Egan’s online database of early modern drama, and today I noticed that not only has the layout of the site changed, it also brings news of Gabriel Egan’s new book, Green Shakespeare.
After Jonathan Bate’s two influential works Romantic Ecology (1991) and The Song of the Earth (2000), ecocriticism has now [...]