Kathryn Vomero Santos
Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues (2025).
kathrynvomerosantos.com
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- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosEducation is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santos"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosTomorrow, we stand together and demand an end to censorship at Texas A&M. No more bans. Students deserve to learn without uncertainty, and faculty deserve to teach without retaliation. Join us. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAll SAA members are encouraged to vote in the election of new Trustees! Vote by February 15 to help shape the future of the SAA. Bios and candidate statements are available on our website, linktr.ee/saaupdates
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
- Claiming a desire for “transparency,” TAMU administrators are acting as though administrative review isn’t the first step toward censorship.
- Texas A&M canceled Dr. Bright’s Ethics in Public Policy course a day after he appeared on local television criticizing the institution’s banning of Plato & other academic texts. @drleonardbright.bsky.social #academicsky
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosDelighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosThis is really great news, both because it's a wonderful project and because @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is a brilliant advocate for our subject.
- Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’. Find out more about the project on our website:
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosWe’re so excited for our hybrid conference in Denver - have you registered for #Shax2026 yet? Linktr.ee/saaupdates
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosEvery paragraph of this describes a situation that just gets more and more bonkers. Texas A&M is not a university. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosIn the past month two essays of mine on Measure for Measure have appeared in the world. They are very different & politely act like they don’t know each other. One is in this (fabulous-looking) issue of Shakespeare Studies
- Outrageous.
- Did you publish a book about or adjacent to #Shakespeare since the 2024 meeting of @saaupdates.bsky.social? Please fill out this Google form to provide information about your book and join us for a celebration at #Shax2026 in Denver on Friday, 4/3, from 10:30-11am. forms.gle/aTKJdQZniypr...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santoskind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santosoh shit tomorrow is circle back day already
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAll of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
- Merry COVIDmas. 🤒😷😩
- This is just the sweetest thing. I love the San Antonio Public Library! 📚 💝 guides.mysapl.org/gift
- If you’re in San Antonio, I’ll be reading from Shakespeare in Tongues tonight at Trinity University alongside Texas Poet Laureate Emeritus and Librotraficante co-founder Lupe Mendez, whose new collection Prayer Holding Night was just published. Join us! luma.com/s93fnvjk
- My dad happened to be visiting me in June when my book arrived in the mail, so I gave him a copy. When I saw him again this week at my brother’s house, he said, “I read it cover to cover, and there’s only one thing wrong…you didn’t sign it, so I brought it with me.” 🥺
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosLet's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAs we look ahead to #GivingTuesday, remember the SAA Annual Fund in your philanthropic plans. Gifts to the Annual Fund support grants for contingent faculty, members without funding, & grad students, plus special events, awards, & prizes. Give at linktr.ee/saaupdates
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosGet set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists... edin.ac/32O7hNr
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosWhike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c... Many to thank ...
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- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosGot a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts. First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj... Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
- So exciting to see a new book in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series. I can’t wait to read it!
- It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosMary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally. A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!) Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosA dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas. "It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.” — Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
- Agreed. It’s a deeply moving film. I also loved hearing her talk about it on WTF with Marc Maron.
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosIf you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosThe Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
- Last night, I had the chance to meet the amazing Iris De Anda, whose poem “To be a Pocha or not to be” is the subject of the third chapter of my book. Tomorrow, we’re going to be on a panel about poetry and protest for the El Mundo Zurdo conference. What a gift!
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosMamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosMajor in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santos[Exit Clown.]
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosActually remembered to schedule a haircut this AM for tonight’s launch, but of course it’s pouring & I have multiple stops while I’m out. Will it look nice or like a crow’s nest? Hop on YouTube @6:30 TONIGHT to find out! #SweetBook #RaceB4Race www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
- I don't pretend to know every line in Shakespeare, but I definitely know an AI-hallucinated quotation from The Tempest when I see one. 😩
- So very proud of our Trinity community for coming together and standing in solidarity against the Trump compact. Check out the coverage in today’s Trinitonian. 🔥✊🏻 trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...
- Happening today!
- @borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us! www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
- @borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us! www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
- Nothing compares to the random conversations one has with strangers in New York City. It’s always so great to be back.
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosI’ll be speaking at The Henry Ford Theater on November 8 to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media.” Register and get tickets:
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosHigher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good bit.ly/3WbZv8K
- What a lovely photo to receive from my former neighbor, whom I miss dearly. I’m so touched! ❤️
- I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!
- Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social 🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time 🔹Online 👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosHello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you: 1 Event or 1 Organization or 1 Person Here's what we mean...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosWant a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
- October 5-11 is Banned Books Week. To be sure, we have seen an alarming rise in book banning in recent years, but this is not new, and neither are the powerful forms of resistance against such epistemological violence. (1/2)
- Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. ala.org/bbooks.
- In honor of the Librotraficante movement that emerged in response to the 2012 outlawing of Tucson's enormously successful Mexican American Studies curriculum, I'm making the 4th chapter of Shakespeare in Tongues available to anyone who wants to read it. Send me a message if you'd like a PDF. (2/2)
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosA jazz vocalist from Mexico is giving a new romantic and modern spin to the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, a crying female spirit who is said to take children, amid mass deportations in the U.S. www.axios.com/2025/10/05/m...
- Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded of our sweet Lexington, who went to his final rest on Thursday. He was with me from dissertation to book(s) and everything in between. Thank you for a beautiful sixteen years together, my handsome lovebug. 🖤🤍
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santos“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAll across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.
- Today is a National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools. (1/3)
- In honor of the Native children who were taken from their families and those who still feel the painful impacts of this horrific and unjust system, I urge you to spend some time with the website for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (boardingschoolhealing.org). (2/3)
- There you will find educational resources, opportunities to donate, and calls to action. It is our shared responsibility to learn about this history and to support ongoing Native-led efforts toward truth-telling, healing, and reconciliation. (3/3)
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosWe're honored that The Bard in the Borderlands is featured on this reading list highlighting books by and about Hispanic individuals and communities from a range of countries and traditions. 🤩 Use the code HERITAGE30 to take 30% off through October 15th. pressblog.uchicago.edu/2025/09/15/w...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosThe next set of #Shax2026 deadlines are fast approaching! Find more information on our website or visit our linktree: linktr.ee/saaupdates
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santos"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero Santos🚨I've been timid to announce the exhibition "Weaving Dreams" which centers my #quilts as well as work by my Mom and alumna Carter Watson. The opening on 10/3 features an excerpt of the choreopoem, PURPLE, by SLMDances w/a talkback. Pls RSVP by 9/29 library.barnard.edu/events/weavi...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosA massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- I am thrilled to welcome artist and activist Natalia Ventura to Trinity University as the first speaker in our Lennox Seminar Series on Borders and Belonging. Join us for her talk titled "Border Alchemy: Healing Through Ancestral Artistic Practice” on Weds, 9/24 at 6:30pm in Chapman Auditorium.
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAbsolutely terrible, terrible news. Trinity University has announced that Trinity University Press will close at the end of the fiscal year--described by one author as a "South Texas outlet for stories and culture" for which there is no replacement frankly. Awful. www.tpr.org/arts-culture...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosRegister here! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...
- I’m glad I deleted my account a couple months ago when they started posting AI summaries of my articles. No thanks.
- I’m just devastated by this decision. TU Press has published many wonderful and beautiful books and has played a vital role in our community.
- The highly regarded academic press affiliated with the private liberal arts college in San Antonio is closing, Trinity University confirmed Wednesday. bit.ly/48mgwnL
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosJust arrived and I absolutely can’t wait to dive in!! Congratulations, @profkfh.bsky.social!!! 🔥🔥🔥
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosAt least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosGlobe4Globe 2025 is only a few days away! We've added more exciting names and screenings to the line-up - you can check the program and register (free) here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosIf *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
- Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology." Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"? www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosI refuse to give em dashes to the AI
- Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosThis holiday weekend, take some time to finalize your enrollment in #Shax2026 seminars and workshops - closing Sept 15. Already submitted your enrollment? Encourage the #ShaxGrads in your life to apply to join the graduate committee before Sept 2! Linktr.ee/saaupdates
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - who would have predicted the Guardian to have a view on Christopher Marlowe? - Reposted by Kathryn Vomero SantosICYMI: The SAA Graduate Committee is looking for new members! These collaborative roles are open to any current Ph.D.-level SAA graduate students. Find more information and apply online by September 2: linktr.ee/saaupdates
