Jonathan Shelley

Assistant Prof. of English @FisherNews. Early modernist. @WhitingFdn Seed Grantee (2020). Former postdoc @GeorgiaTech and teacher with @CommonGoodATL. Wood Ox.

[Southeastern Renaissance Conference @srcrenaissance]

Deadline extended! If you were thinking of submitting a paper for consideration for the SRC's annual meeting in beautiful Charleston, SC, this September, please do so! The deadline has been extended until July 21. We'd love to have you join us! https://t.co/EvCA9lXEl5

[Chris Crosbie @Crosbie1564]

This is a really welcoming community of scholars. Do consider sending something in! The SRC is an affiliate member of RSA and one of the oldest regional scholarly orgs in the field. The conferences are always rewarding!

[Southeastern Renaissance Conference @srcrenaissance]

The 1 July deadline for proposed papers for the Southeastern Renaissance Conference's annual meeting in beautiful Charleston, SC, is just two weeks away! Come join us on Sept. 21-22 for the gathering! For the call for papers, just follow this link: https://t.co/ox86UxzOoZ .

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@nonmodernist Beautiful!

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

Amused at how Shakespeare pervades this “Plain English Handbook” from 1959 that is otherwise about things like sentence completeness and cover letters.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@bkadams Written a little on prisons. Some helpful resources might be:
-Matthew Ritger's work on the English "houses of correction"
-Lost Londons (2008) by Paul Griffiths
-Dangerous Familiars (1994) by Frances E. Dolan
-Jeffrey Wilson's article "When evil deeds have their permissive pass"

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

I’ll be there!

[Southeastern Renaissance Conference @srcrenaissance]

Come join us in September for SRC 2024 in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina! Here is the call for papers: https://t.co/EvCA9lXEl5 . We hope to see you there!

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Jaro_Hasek This reminds me of the line from The Simpsons "I think I read somewhere cows like being killed."

To recall having read something somewhere: automatic credibility increase.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 @PBS I used clips from this in my class this semester. It was hit.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@nonmodernist Best I got 🫤

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

04.08.2024

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

What would be a good name for a fictional academic superhero?

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@srcrenaissance @ProfQueue We're still wondering where Dr. Lucas stands on the issue of Thor vs. Superman.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 This count?
https://t.co/HohAsY2XZV

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 I'm going to teach it this semester and will keep this in mind! I think the most interesting thing to come out of the last time I taught it: the students found the multiracial casting and coding incoherent to the point of finding it borderline offensive.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 Did they find Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?

Full disclosure: I saw that on Broadway and loved it. Everything good about it had Taymor's fingerprints all over it.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@jshelat1 Good? I’m curious to know.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@mark_rice_ Specific language? No. General sense? Sure.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 All of this is up to change, especially since students have been telling me they are curious to read Shakespeare alongside his contemporaries. I told them that almost all of Shakespeare's plots aren't original and they went wild.

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 For my 300-level Shakespeare class:
1. 2
2. Mix based on student needs and day-of vibes. Students have at times been upfront and said, "can you just explain what happens, I'm really lost?"
3. 7

[Jonathan Shelley @jcshelle]

@Crosbie1564 For my 100-level intro course (think first-year seminar):
1. One *scene* per session (55 minute classes)
2. Even mix based on students needs/stated desires
3. 2, but the whole course wasn't devoted to Shakespeare