ACMRS is hiring! We are seeking a program manager to join our ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded RaceB4Race initiative. Find the full position listing below and apply today! https://asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASUStaffCareers/job/Program-Manager_JR127481-1

ImPRESSed Yet?

I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social,
thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
#CoverReveal
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Four centuries of Black women have loved, performed, rewritten, and reclaimed Shakespeare. To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library) is the first exhibition to gather their record, and its catalog is free to read online today: https://ow.ly/ZVQJ50ZSIA7

Our very own Madeline Sayet directed the first Tlingit opera in recorded history this month. "The opera is performed in the Tlingit language and include a score grounded in Tlingit musical and performing arts traditions and events." https://ow.ly/zgYc50ZPO9h

The attacks on Shakespeare and on contemporary humanistic endeavors more broadly are a recognition of the power of humanist work to slip the leash of authoritarian control and to give rise to exciting and joyful new ways to understand and inhabit the world. - Jean E. Howard https://ow.ly/cIxl50ZPKja

If you find yourself at Ohio University this week, you're not going to want to miss this event with the brilliant Suzanne Coley—these books are art objects beyond description. https://woub.org/event/coded-threads-translating-shakespeare-into-material-form-a-talk-by-artist-suzanne-coley/

Thrilled to see the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands in PBS Uncovered's Latinx/Hispanic Heritage month lineup! The episode for this month's books goes live today at 8pm EDT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31aIvWah-eA

"The Bard in the Borderlands" (@acmrs.bsky.social), a three-volume anthology of plays by Chicanx and Indigenous playwrights, explores the possibilities of retelling Shakespeare through the culture, language, and traditions of “the borderlands.” More on the podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

What can Canacee and the falcon from The Squire’s Tale teach us about whiteness, empathy, and racial belonging? Watch the full talk from Wan-Chuan Kao on Throughlines today.
https://www.throughlines.org/suite-content/the-lap-of-whiteness-in-the-squires-tale

Mark your calendars for 9/20: @madelinesayet.bsky.social's Where We Belong will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

ASU English professor Brandi K. Adams has found what might be the earliest use of the term “artificial intelligence” in a 1588 book by English physician and astrologer John Harvey. Time to update the Oxford English Dictionary? 🤔😜

Learn more: https://ow.ly/o1i150ZL3jk #ASUHumanities

Read all three volumes of The Bard in the Borderlands on ACMRS Press
Vol 1 acmrspress.com/9780866988926
Vol 2 asu.pressbooks.pub/bard-in-the-...
Vol 3 asu.pressbooks.pub/bard-in-the-...

Did you see the new Shakespeare Unlimited episode? Amazing conversation from Bard in the Borderlands editors K@@katherinegillen.bsky.social, @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social, and featured playwright @mexicancryptid.bsky.social.
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

ICYMI: Borrowers and Lenders the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation Vol. 18 No. 1 is now live! Ballet! Forged relics! Space musicals! Web-series! Muppets! Find these and more in B&L's fall '26 issue.
https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/index