Via Renaissance Lit comes the news of The Shakespeare Post, a new site on Shakespeare. It promises to bring you the latest news on all matters Shakespearean, gathered from the net and based on the editor’s own journalism. In the latter category, the site features a podcast of an interview with archeologist Jo Lyon about [...]

The 42nd Carnivalesque (early modern edition) is up at Early Modern Notes. It’s a great edition, with a section on ‘Writers and Readers’ that includes a link to this interesting post on modern and early modern information overload.

More on readers: Paper Cuts, the NY Times blog on books, has a review of Norton’s reissue of André Kertész’s 1971 On Reading, [...]

Riddle machines, virtual codexes and algorithmic criticism - it’s all in Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007). I am slowly making my way through its 620 pages printed on good old-fashioned non-digital paper, to review it for The European English Messenger. 
I started, of course, with Matthew Steggle’s chapter surveying the field of early modern literature [...]

At the close of summer, I wrote a post on my plans to use a weblog in my MA course on gender theory in the first semester (see also this later post). I received a lot of very useful and encouraging comments, and took the plunge. The semester ended just before Christmas, student essays are [...]