From Tar to Tartar: The Sedimented, Nay, Sedimenting, Legacy of The King of Tars
Listen to me, young and old, for the Love of Mary, and I’ll tell you about the sedimented, nay, sedimenting, legacy of conversion fantasy, racial/religious...
Selective Memory
By demonstrating the ways in which famous historical figures such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington used medieval histories as part of their techniques...
Race in/from the Middle Ages: Confronting a Double-Edged Sword by Opening up Margins of Hope
Geraldine Heng, Adam Miyashiro, and Cord Whitaker each confront the double-edged sword that traditionalists have wielded to keep race and the Middle Ages separate (and...
Foray into Archival Research
For my Field Report for the course I am taking on literary theory and the archives, I submitted a request form online to view the...
Dogs, Love, Brain Scans, and the Long Eighteenth Century
Human subjects climbed in an fMRI to have their brains scanned while reading a Jane Austen novel for an article published by a literary scholar...