Patrick Durdel
@pdurdel.bsky.social
climate fictions 1500-1800, postdoc at oxford. first book project on "writing performance: early modern drama and the work of interpretation." other things on intention, non-performance, plot, mistakes, pig bladders.
https://patrickdurdel.org
https://patrickdurdel.org
today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!
I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
i spent my last day of work at the university of lausanne in london with students on the yearly shax trip and saw a surprisingly tender production of merry wives at the globe. i'm not really a good new historicist so i'cant really spin a meaningful anecdote out of this, but i was very happy!
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
i spent my last day of work at the university of lausanne in london with students on the yearly shax trip and saw a surprisingly tender production of merry wives at the globe. i'm not really a good new historicist so i'cant really spin a meaningful anecdote out of this, but i was very happy!
so so excited that this will be out in the world soon!! (in this year's shakespeare survey)
June 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
so so excited that this will be out in the world soon!! (in this year's shakespeare survey)
oh that's odd, I put screenshots here
June 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
oh that's odd, I put screenshots here
I thought I'd do before and after pics, but I looked so so done after the viva there's no chance i'm putting that online, so only before (aka GRWM to do some defending)
June 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I thought I'd do before and after pics, but I looked so so done after the viva there's no chance i'm putting that online, so only before (aka GRWM to do some defending)
Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)
May 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)
omw to my viva apparently
March 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
omw to my viva apparently
this apparently has a cover and pub date now!! I have a little thing on non-performance and genre in the collection
February 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
this apparently has a cover and pub date now!! I have a little thing on non-performance and genre in the collection
also not quite merch but the tokyo disney sea park has this:
January 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
also not quite merch but the tokyo disney sea park has this:
from jasper heywood's thyestes translation:
January 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
from jasper heywood's thyestes translation:
my university has a weird system with two vivas/defenses so there's still a long road ahead but i DID just submit this to my examiners:
January 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
my university has a weird system with two vivas/defenses so there's still a long road ahead but i DID just submit this to my examiners:
ending a month of no news bad news diss stress etc with something that makes me incredibly excited about the new year!
December 31, 2024 at 1:29 PM
ending a month of no news bad news diss stress etc with something that makes me incredibly excited about the new year!
it makes me so happy to see them every day now
March 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
it makes me so happy to see them every day now
in an unexpected turn of events my kindle (usually reserved for fun fun fun reading) keeps refusing an ebook of guillory's cultural capital
December 31, 2023 at 7:56 PM
in an unexpected turn of events my kindle (usually reserved for fun fun fun reading) keeps refusing an ebook of guillory's cultural capital
my first article, in the most recent issue of JMEMS, is free to download for a couple more days with this link. ghosts, intention, translation, judgment (all the good stuff).
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
December 16, 2023 at 1:21 PM
my first article, in the most recent issue of JMEMS, is free to download for a couple more days with this link. ghosts, intention, translation, judgment (all the good stuff).
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
i still think this is the funniest powerpoint slide I ever made (and then didn't use because av equipment was too expensive for acla)
October 6, 2023 at 7:21 PM
i still think this is the funniest powerpoint slide I ever made (and then didn't use because av equipment was too expensive for acla)
somehow very fitting that I need bourdieu's outline of a theory of practice to use my mouse on the new glass table
September 27, 2023 at 8:36 PM
somehow very fitting that I need bourdieu's outline of a theory of practice to use my mouse on the new glass table
