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Marissa Nicosia

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Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Sep 26

One year ago today, my first book _Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660_ was published by OUP (UK)
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Sep 26

Today is the official release day for _Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660_! 🎉
And I have a 30% discount code to share with you: AAFLYG6.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 4h

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 13d

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 5h

🗳️ Pennsylvania’s general election is Nov. 4.

For details on important dates and who’s on your ballot, from Philadelphia district attorney to the state Supreme Court, check out our Voters Guide 👇

Your guide to the 2025 general election in Philadelphia, from district attorney to Pa. Supreme Court

From important dates to who’s on your ballot.

www.inquirer.com

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 1d

Recent books on drama by Heidi Craig, Rachel Willie, Emma Depledge (& half of mine). I can’t think of a recent big book that hits anything like Hill or Sharpe (re other comments).

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 1d

Previous talks from this semester and earlier can be accessed on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...

Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts

Founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, the Workshop in the History of Material Texts has been influential in its broad approach to the topic. We are interested in all aspects of how texts take material...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 7d

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 8d

Check whether the AI dumb-dumbs stole your book & if they did, submit a claim!

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Submit a Claim

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 16d

Two years & one day ago & I am still so proud of this book ❤️

(Zine precis & discount codes in thread below. Generous reviews in pinned thread.)

Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Sep 26

One year ago today, my first book _Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660_ was published by OUP (UK)
Since then...... 1/

Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Sep 26

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 26d

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

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Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 27d

WPSU is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS.

“The news devastated me, it devastated all the employees,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director.

‘Never would have imagined it’: Pennsylvania NPR station set to be first to shutter following Trump’s cuts

WPSU, which has been broadcasting out of Penn State since 1953, will shut down following federal cuts to public media organizations

www.inquirer.com

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Sep 12

I had a lovely conversation with Sarah Kernan for The Recipes Project: Around the Table Podcast! recipes.hypotheses.org/26388

Around the Table Podcast: Cooking in the Archives with Marissa Nicosia

By Sarah Peters Kernan Listen here, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Sarah Kernan has a conversation with Marissa Nicosia, an Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at Penn State A...

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · Aug 26

All truths wait in all things,

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if:

(A) you are the legal copyright owner, and
(B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and
(C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and
(D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Aug 27

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · Aug 26

So to bed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · Aug 26

He and I by water to Deptford, and there found Sir G. Carteret and my Lady at dinner, and so we sat down and eat another dinner of venison with them.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”

The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Aug 21

I bet Hillary Nunn knows more about this. I'm very eager for my library to get me access to her new book: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America

Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one loca...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’m sure I have. Let me double check some things.

(Also, email me if I don’t get back to you in a few days.)

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · Aug 19

Today on Gone Medieval, I only got my girl Dr Carissa Harris to come talk about medieval obscenity. I hope you like dick chat, because boy oh boy do we ever have it.
open.spotify.com/episode/49Up...

Medieval Obscenity

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