Faith D. Acker

Today is publication day for my monograph, /First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets/. It's rich in manuscript studies & I tried hard to make it conversational. The preface, intro, & c1 seem to be available on Google Books (US) if anyone is interested: books.google.com/books?id=NIXxD…

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Leaving Twitter with a bang! Very excited to announce that my article about a new manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access: academic.oup.com/res/advance-ar… @OUPAcademic

Now for our latest books give-away, the biggest for a while. 26 books on Latin & Greek literature, language & culture printed over the last 200 years (pics below). Draw open to all: just RT this message, follow us, and we will pick a random winner on Friday 22 Nov. Good luck all!

@Crosbie1564 My pleasure! Sonnets are so fun to teach.

@DoctaLectrix Another great one, thanks again!

Prepping a new unit on the sonnets. Do let me know if you've had success with any particular angle/activity/resource! Might lean heavily on David Tennant, Stephen Fry, and Olivier for day one, just to get them started.... sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the-s…

@Crosbie1564 Harryette Mullen's "Dim Lady" is great for discussion.

@Crosbie1564 Make them read some of the sonnets in the 1640 John Benson edition and discuss the titles!

@Crosbie1564 youtube.com/watch?v=-Xeu9H…

@aliciaandrz At my last school, I had to pay (albeit less than you) to park on campus. When my spouse joined the gym as just a local they offered him a parking voucher that let him park in any space on campus. Insult to injury: the "community" gym fee was lower than the faculty gym rate.

I pay $400 a year to park on campus & there have been no faculty spaces even near the vicinity of my building both times I've come to campus this week. I'm parked in a 2-hour parking spot & am praying something will open up. why do I have to pay to do my job in the first place?

@seeshespeak Loeb classics on one wall and SF paperbacks on the other would fit splendidly, I reckon.

Not books, because the shelves are clearly too short?

@wanderlanderr @britishlibrary @BL_EcclesInst Amazing! Congratulations!

Super excited to be taking up an Eccles Centre Fellowship @britishlibrary @BL_EcclesInst! Can't wait to get started on error and faulty colonial maps: 'The Wrong Way: Faulty Colonialism and Unreliable Maps' #twitterstorians

I'm so grateful to have known Dr Peter Beal as a grad student. He was generous & encouraging to me as a novice scholar, & much of my research relies on his groundbreaking, methodical research & detailed explanations & classifications. He will live on in our work for generations.

@aliciaandrz I know you love your breasts in part because they nurtured your daughter. Can you love the increasing curves on the rest of your body because they are nurturing your return to sobriety and wholeness? Your body is creating a new Alicia. It's ok if it changes in the process.

MAURICE SENDAK AND WILLIAM BLAKE May 8th, online 7.30pm (free). I've teamed up with Prof. Jason Whittaker for @Blake_Society to do an online event about the influence of William Blake on the life and work of Maurice Sendak. Find our more and register: blakesociety.org/product/blake-…

@torcheculs There's some great work on the dialogue in R&J as sonnets. Can't remember the article but will look and see if I can find it. Also, West Side Story.

Can anyone make me like Romeo and Juliet? Teaching it again this week, and I've never been a fan. Maybe an amazing bit of crit that will prove me wrong?

Medievalists and Early Modernists Rejoice! MEMS Fest 2024 Call for Papers is Now Open. For further queries please contact us at memsfestival@kent.ac.uk or visit our website at memsfest.wordpress.com 🎉

@philistella How's a walrus going to reach the doorbell? Fairies can fly.

So the current thing going around Tumblr is a poll where you're asked which you would be *more* surprised to see if you answered the door: a fairy or a walrus? Which got me curious about my own demographic here:

@_claire_turner_ Mine's Routledge, & I'm happy to share. But as someone who didn't know a lot about the process then, I wish I'd realized how expensive Routledge books are (& how inaccessible that would make it), & that because it's not a UP, I'd pay some crazy permission fees & never break even.

I'm back with another request! I'm now on the hunt for people who are happy to share book proposals with me, particularly for academic presses (Palgrave, Routledge, OUP, CUP, MUP, YUP, JHUP)! Can be history or further afield. Pls share widely!

@aliciaandrz We can always make our writing better--but done is better than "still in revision", & if I'm getting your stage of the process correct, I think you'll have another chance for tweaks later anyway. Send it out into the world! It will be the better for its exposure.

maybe the fight isn’t revising it, maybe the fight is letting it go.

@MiyamotoBen I'm so, so grateful to @FolgerLibrary not just for acquiring (& allowing visits to see) such an interesting manuscript, but for bringing me & @MiyamotoBen together as friends & eventual collaborators. Here B. celebrates (w/ cake) our @FolgerResearch fellowships (2019-20 cohort)!