Ellen MacKay

Professor of Shakespeare, early modern theatre, theories of performance, U of Chicago. Interested in DH, heritage & reenactment, cryptoecology, forgery, sharks.

[Stefanie Jochman @MsJochman]

TSI 2014 was a truly transformational experience for me—in teaching and in life! If you’ve been looking for the PD that reminds you why you started this work and gives you the spark to keep on going in fresh and thrilling new ways, this is it.

[Folger Education @FolgerED]

The Teaching Shakespeare Institute is back! Join us for an NEH funded institute at the newly renovated and reopened Folger. You'll find all the details at this link https://t.co/MnfiftvPNZ

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@aktange @harris_duchess Amazing!!!! Congratulations 🎉🎈🎊

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@aktange This is correct. Just don’t exhume your crushes.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@andykesson Excellent! I will be watching in all domains.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@andykesson Will the production happen anywhere/ any time else? I would love yo see it!

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@kukukadoo Huge congrats! You are a master of many forms.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@DrKarrSchmidt @NewberryLibrary Congratulations!! This peek is thrilling.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@richardmpreiss You know you’ve really succeeded if they tear your limbs off.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

@helen_ostovich @andykesson @KayeMcLelland @amisamileandme Don’t they put bear in male-enhancing quack cures? Poetic justice!

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

But they added a satisfying bite to a course on domesticity and its discontents. #interpretivecookery #theresistancebaker

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

Today, for the final meeting of my Shrews! class, I did a prank. Technically, it was a counter-prank. I had asked students to demonstrate how they might engage taming tropes without retrenching them. They responded by making an elaborate bingo game out of my weird vocabulary.

[Ellen MacKay @EEllenMac]

I am not going to lie. These 'treats' not going to win any culinary awards. I would describe the taste as 'trashcan near a ballpark.'