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Courtney Naum Scuro
@drcourt.bsky.social
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Corporate job by day, Shakespeare scholar by night. Obsessed with time, monsters, weird 16th c. ephemera. Advocate for public humanities. Starting a book on Time Troubles in Shakespeare’s England and Today. English PhD from UCR. (she/her)
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Jun 26
Academic article proofs: does anybody else experience intense terror-laced-regret about your decision to write anything about any topic ever…with just a whiff of joy/relief mixed in… upon receipt of these things? Or just me?!
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · Jun 3
Meritocracy |
Dr.Daniel Markovits |
Author of The Meritocracy Trap | Professor at Yale Law School | Clip from a public interview/ talk.
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · May 7
Perspective from this Shakespeare scholar turned office worker: lit class is still off-beat training for other skills (not that this connection is being convincingly claimed, from what I’ve seen).
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · Mar 31
ICYMI. In response to the EO that conflates Confederate monuments with “history,” @uncpress.bsky.social is offering my book on the history of these statues for FREE until April 11th. Here’s the link!

www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
No Common Ground (full reading copy) : The University of North Carolina Press
www.book2look.com
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Mar 20
#shax2025 —wonder what it’s like to work in the corporate world while still endeavoring to actively research & publish in the field? I’m doing it (admittedly imperfectly) and happy to talk. Let’s connect in Boston!
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · Mar 18
GOOD morning! 🦋☀️
A little levity to lift your sprits... The Macbeth!
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Mar 18
Ahhhh! So jealous you saw it live! Yes, Indira Varma was stellar, especially in Banquo ghost scene.
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Mar 17
#shax2025 PSA: flying United? Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth is on the in air entertainment. 😱 Please watch. And then find me in Boston so we can break it down with the kind of exhausting granularity only a couple of Shakes-nerds would enjoy.
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Jan 12
As if Jeffrey Cohen hasn’t given us enough reasons to admire him as a scholar and academic leader, now this!

Love the honesty…as I read his post right after I started a list of words from my earlier writing I hope never to catch myself using again!

#1 : concomitant

What’s on your list???
jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Jan 12
been thinking abt why I used such a difficult vocabulary when I wrote "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" 30 (!!!) years ago

partly it was bc I was so immersed in what was called critical theory at that time

partly it was bc I wanted an unserious subject taken seriously

mostly tho imposter syndrome
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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · Dec 4
Universities are in crisis. We have forgotten that the only way to prepare for the future is to imagine the human in situations yet unknown and to explore the boundaries of the human condition. A focus on economic gain loses sight of all that might be possible.
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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · Nov 25
This has to be one of the coolest things I’ve heard of
henninghansen.bsky.social Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · Nov 25
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall
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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 16
Need some reading this weekend? Highly recommend the inaugural issue of PUBLIC HUMANITIES -- and especially "The Necessity of Public Writing" by @devoney.bsky.social

emphasis on NECESSITY
#humanities
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Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Public Humanities - Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Jeffrey R. Wilson
www.cambridge.org
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