Iman Sheeha (she/her)
@drsheeha.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
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*New research*
'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D
'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
*New research*
'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D
'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D
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Geraldine Heng’s The Invention of Race in European Middle Ages is one of the most illuminating works on race. Ignore it at your peril. It’s the missing piece for construction of racialised imaginary wrt the Irish, Welsh, Jews & Muslims in Europe. And instructs us that race precedes eurocolonialism.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Geraldine Heng’s The Invention of Race in European Middle Ages is one of the most illuminating works on race. Ignore it at your peril. It’s the missing piece for construction of racialised imaginary wrt the Irish, Welsh, Jews & Muslims in Europe. And instructs us that race precedes eurocolonialism.
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Saffron in the big box with her wise mentor stare like:
“Listen, Hexa… the secret to box life is simple. Sit. Commit. And never let anyone tell you you’re too floofy for this.”
Meanwhile Hexa be like, “Sis, this box is… roomy?”
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
“Listen, Hexa… the secret to box life is simple. Sit. Commit. And never let anyone tell you you’re too floofy for this.”
Meanwhile Hexa be like, “Sis, this box is… roomy?”
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Saffron in the big box with her wise mentor stare like:
“Listen, Hexa… the secret to box life is simple. Sit. Commit. And never let anyone tell you you’re too floofy for this.”
Meanwhile Hexa be like, “Sis, this box is… roomy?”
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
“Listen, Hexa… the secret to box life is simple. Sit. Commit. And never let anyone tell you you’re too floofy for this.”
Meanwhile Hexa be like, “Sis, this box is… roomy?”
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
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New blog post up, in which I give up all the gory details on my devilish novel-in-progress, and give some extremely depressing statistics that demonstrate how little the experience of being a sexual assault survivor has changed in the past 400 years. #booksky #earlymodern #histfic
Research Diaries #2: Hell is empty & all the devils are here.
Hi. This is me poking my head out of my writing cave, wanting to talk about a work-in-progress for a minute. It’s Schrodinger’s book, as it stands. But with any luck – and a lot m…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New blog post up, in which I give up all the gory details on my devilish novel-in-progress, and give some extremely depressing statistics that demonstrate how little the experience of being a sexual assault survivor has changed in the past 400 years. #booksky #earlymodern #histfic
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{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...
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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
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I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
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Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
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On Shakespeare and Not Shakespeare
New writing about Shakespearean culture (and beyond), arising from new research projects...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c...
Many to thank ...
Many to thank ...
![Our first thanks must be to Eoin Price for organising such a important British Shakespeare (BSA) conference on "Shakespeare, Race, and Nation" at Swansea University in 2019, and to all the speakers and auditors at that event. We are especially grateful to all the speakers who took part in that conference's "Shakespeare and Translation" seminar, whose papers and discussion points helped shape the inaugural idea for [this book]: Luis J. Conejero-Magro, Carolina Conte, Coen Heijes, Marina Kitzma, Maureen McDonnell, Paulo da Silva Gregorio, Michael Slater, Kathryn Vomero Santos and Roberta Zanoni.
We are very appreciative of the time Preti Taneja spent talking to us about translation via Teams during the global pandemic, as this conversation helped to inspire new ideas and to consolidate others that have benefitted the collection well beyond the interludes themselves.
Thank you to Varsha Panjwani and Brandi Adams for their input during the essay collection's formation, and to Sijing Lu for taking the time to share her translation expertise as the volume neared completion.
Thanks also to Jessica Chiba and Tetsu Motoyama for their roles on the organising committee of the "Found in Translation: Understanding Shakespeare through Intercultural Dialogue" conference held at Waseda University in 2022, which included helping the delereach Tokyo at a time when the logistics were still rather challenging! The ideas discussed](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sk4gk3wc45jsdnkuer7bivqq/bafkreibkjdxcqhjtcgjpojaryhyfjobodjrqlvsr2muqjek7h6yv4h6el4@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c...
Many to thank ...
Many to thank ...
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Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern
Shakespeare
Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026.
This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026.
This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
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Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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Alas! Someone was actually taking notes!
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Alas! Someone was actually taking notes!
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Student life was basically boys wearing hats in lectures, according to this one source.
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Student life was basically boys wearing hats in lectures, according to this one source.
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The introduction, 'Stuff', is in some ways the story so far: the embeddedness of textiles in the language & culture of early modern England, stage costume, sumptuary laws, a bit of myth-busting, theoretical approaches, and some thinking with Hilary Mantel... 3/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The introduction, 'Stuff', is in some ways the story so far: the embeddedness of textiles in the language & culture of early modern England, stage costume, sumptuary laws, a bit of myth-busting, theoretical approaches, and some thinking with Hilary Mantel... 3/10
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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*TONIGHT*
ISLAM & MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Mon 10 Nov | British Library
What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? Join Medieval & Early Modern Orients & HistFest for a special event.
Book now events.bl.uk/events/islam...
ISLAM & MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Mon 10 Nov | British Library
What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? Join Medieval & Early Modern Orients & HistFest for a special event.
Book now events.bl.uk/events/islam...
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
*TONIGHT*
ISLAM & MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Mon 10 Nov | British Library
What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? Join Medieval & Early Modern Orients & HistFest for a special event.
Book now events.bl.uk/events/islam...
ISLAM & MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Mon 10 Nov | British Library
What was premodern England’s relationship like with the wider Islamic Worlds? Join Medieval & Early Modern Orients & HistFest for a special event.
Book now events.bl.uk/events/islam...
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An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open
An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open
Also: some maps, dropped on other maps.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open
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Weekend reading on #Shakespeare and teaching with some great articles to provoke thought and some great resources discussed too. #TeamEnglish
www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/u... New edition of Teaching Shakespeare magazine- some great articles. Useful perhaps for teachers but also to share with students. @britgrad.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @lateteachers.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social #TeamEnglish #edusky
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November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Weekend reading on #Shakespeare and teaching with some great articles to provoke thought and some great resources discussed too. #TeamEnglish
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Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work