Ari Friedlander
arifriedlander.bsky.social
Ari Friedlander
@arifriedlander.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
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🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)

We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz

This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.

Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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📣 SEL is excited to announce our Living Discourse Initiative, scaling out in 3 new features: The Interview, The Exchange, & The Roundtable. The Initiative focuses on timely & field-leading thinking relevant to the study of English literature 1500-1900 👉Send proposals of 300-500wds to [email protected]
December 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Oooh a Shakespeare starter pack! go.bsky.app/BKaWcfr
November 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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In an effort to be the change I wish to see in the Bluesky world, here's an #AcademicCats starter pack. Let me know who else to add!

go.bsky.app/TmnzpN5
November 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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From The Sisters:
November 23, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Seen some demand for a Shakespeare starter pack, so I’ve half-heartedly made one. I know I’m missing A LOT of people, so if you’re a scholar/student/practitioner working on/with/against Shakespeare, let me know and I’ll add you (someone else can do an early modern one!)

go.bsky.app/UrSRue1
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Two elephants, Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594 (Rijksmuseum)
November 21, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fellowships and Grants
docs.google.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Let's see if this site works the way the old one used to: I'm just starting to teach Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) to a class of high school seniors. Never taught it before, though a chapter of the abandoned diss is on it. Anyone have good resources for teaching it/productions to show? Thanks!
November 12, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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A few of these around now, and they're all good. Follow them one and all:

bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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I don't think I've seen one of these, so: my attempt at an early modern lit starter pack! (Plus some C18 people because I've decided to go on the offence and y'all are part of long C17 now.)

Apologies for any omissions / unwanted inclusions -- if you want on or off let me know!

go.bsky.app/Qd456bF
November 11, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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This new study by @arifriedlander.bsky.social explores Rogue Sexuality in #EarlyModern #EnglishLiterature - from criminals, beggars, the unemployed, to sex workers and... what looks like a lock-picking Easter bunny?! So that's how it hides those eggs! 🐰

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#GenderStudies
March 31, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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I recommend turning this new switch on. (Go to Settings then “Home Feed.”) It subtly enriches your “Following” feed with samples of posts related to niche feeds that you may not have time to review often. Thx @pfrazee.com!
September 29, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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Excited—& a bit nervous—to have this essay in the world. It started as an MLA talk—which I described at the time as the political unconscious of the usual How To Publish Your Book fare—& became much more thanks to the wonderful team at Public Books. Solidarity!
www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...
Publishers and Scholars, Unite!
Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?
www.publicbooks.org
September 28, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Exciting to see momentum building to aggregate the different OA monograph efforts out there! The idea that collective action by the scholarly communication community is the way to square the circle of OA support and UP funding is very compelling!
Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action - The Scholarly Kitchen
Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
September 24, 2023 at 1:10 PM
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Screenshot of the week
September 23, 2023 at 11:43 PM
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Faculty: we need more TT lines, better pay for grad students & support staff, research funds & money for the libraries

Chancellors: what I’m hearing is you want us to pay a consulting firm to do a climate survey, launch a new LMS, redo the uni website, & make every class hybrid
September 13, 2023 at 12:45 PM
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My new book is now available for pre-order. If it would be useful for your courses, please ask your library to request a copy *(it is very expensive so not sure anyone will be buying a personal copy)*

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
September 21, 2023 at 9:54 AM
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I really thought that Texas trying to remove transgender youth from their parents' custody would awaken more liberals to the fascist threat trans people are facing but I apparently underestimated their concern for the sanctity of women's swimming
September 20, 2023 at 11:41 AM
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Hello, Bluesky world! Happy to be here!
September 19, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Still thinking about how a person my age (40+) asked me yesterday, “What does heartburn feel like? I’ve never had it,” as if that was a completely normal thing to say and not like saying, “What is gravity?” or “What does water feel like?”
September 5, 2023 at 12:38 AM
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After years of being locked on twitter, I unlocked tonight to write the following thread, which I'm copying over here for all you who have rightfully left that place behind.
September 1, 2023 at 11:44 PM
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GOOD MORNING BLUESKY IT IS ONCE AGAIN MONDAY
August 28, 2023 at 11:47 AM
Still thinking about this as I prepare to teach this morning
50 minute classes be like
August 28, 2023 at 12:08 PM
50 minute classes be like
August 28, 2023 at 1:21 AM