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8th October 2025
Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Institute offers four Long-Term Scholarly fellowships at $70,000 for the 2026-2027 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work... Read More...
16th November 2022
The 33rd international SEDERI conference, entitled 'Early Modern English Culture in European Perspective: Relations Across the Channel', will take place on 3rd-5th May 2023 at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació (Universitat de València). The call for papers can... Read More...
15th December 2021
The BSA is delighted to have sponsored this new episode of Varsha Panjwani's 'Women and Shakespeare' podcast, available here: www.womenandshakespeare.com In this episode Varsha is joined by Sarah Olive (former editor of BSA's Teaching Shakespeare magazine), who discusses the role... Read More...
9th July 2021
The British Shakespeare Association is saddened by the passing of Professor Michael Hattaway, on Wednesday 7 July, after a courageous, nine-month struggle with cancer. The Shakespeare world has been enriched by his lively and accessible academic work, from the well-used Elizabethan... Read More...
18th June 2021
BSA members Raphaël Ingelbien and Carmen Reisinger tell us about their five-year research project at KU Leuven, which was launched last year. Translations of Shakespeare’s texts and their impact on the development of various literatures are well charted, but the... Read More...16th May 2021
Terra Nova Terra Nova, Northern Ireland’s only inter-cultural theatre company, has been busy with Shakespeare in recent months. Check out their wonderful ‘Intercultural Cohort’ project which includes ‘Shakespeare’s Monologues’ (22 April 2021), a series of five monologues from Shakespeare’s plays.... Read More...
6th March 2021
The 11th World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits. 18-24 July 2021. Online from Singapore. The quinquennial WSC will be virtual this year. It will include plenaries, panels and seminars and an array of Asian productions of Shakespeare available both during the... Read More...
25th January 2021
Congratulations to BSA member Dr Faith Acker on the publication of her first monograph, First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790 (Routledge, 2020). Read on to learn more from Dr Acker about her book and the process of adapting her doctoral... Read More...17th June 2016
Members of the BSA may be interested by the following event, which is part of the Books Unbound festival in Hammersmith on 25th and 26th June 2016. Shakespeare Now Saturday 25 June, 4pm Join Dr Pamela Bickley and Dr Jenny... Read More...1st December 2015
The BSA is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by one of our members, available from retailers now. Details and an extract from the book can be found below. Shakespeare Calling - the book Why Shakespeare? Who is... Read More...Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved