Congrats to @a-arvas.bsky.social for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity!
New Borrowers and Lenders out today! Vol. 17 No. 2 (2026): Borderlands
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Thinking about this clip from @nahir.bsky.social at #RaceB4Race Love last month on doing scholarship and research after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. What a gift.
ICYMI: Ayanna Thompson introduces the 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium channeling the legendary bell hooks. Find the whole playlist for Love on our YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9L...
Earlier this year we got to interview Carol Mejia LaPerle about Shakespeare, affect, and pedagogy. Find more of her insights on Throughlines.
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What books are the #RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reading this semester? Check out the reading list from Folger Shakespeare Library. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online!
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Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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Did you see Ian McKellen on The Late Show?? "But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountanish inhumanity."
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Throw back this piece from Ruben Espinosa from 2019.
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Join our ASU colleague Michael Ostling and contributors today at 9 am MST for a webinar on Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft with UPenn Press 🧙♀️
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And the great Abdulhamit Arvas on Milton for our last talk of Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium before our keynote this evening! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive
It will! You should be able to view it on news.asu.edu/asulive for the next day or two, and we'll have it up sometime next week on our YouTube channel.
Zhang mobilizes similarities between her ESL confusion of closet/cabinet with early modern overlap of the two. shows in the escritorio a tension between devotional display and cabinetted violence.
We're starting back up after lunch with Yunning Zhang, asking the question, "how do you queer an early modern cabinet?" Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
Giving us a peek into her fabulous book, *The Other Faces of Arthur* Talk is combining rigorous close readings, pcrs, & terrific storytelling and clear LOVE for the work. Making me want to read the Yvain texts. (or maybe take a class from her 😂 )
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“The Freedom to do research gives me a place to plant my feet” 🥹🥹
I would go to any Happy Hate Party she throws!
#ShakeRace
Tune in now for Nahir Otaño Gracia on Chivalric whiteness—it's day 2 of #RaceB4Race Love! news.asu.edu/asulive
Sanchez uses Xandra Ibarra to think outline the ways Queer Feminist of Color/Queer of Color critique is read (or not) "We relegate them to the ashes of history rather than learn from them." #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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Getting started now with Melissa Sanchez on race and queer studies. Tune into Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium now! news.asu.edu/asulive
If you missed yesterday online, it's available now at news.asu.edu/asulive be sure to tune in at 10 for the first talk of the second day of Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium!
Denva Gallant talked to KJZZ 91.5 FM The Show about #RaceB4Race Love and about representations of Blackness in the Middle Ages. "How does race inform the way we conceive of love? And how do we love in times of turmoil?"
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“The labia vibes might not be as present” Love watching the medievalists at work. 😂 #RaceB4Race
So wonderful!
Amazing talk, elegantly delivered. You can feel
the love and fierceness through the screen. Powerful reading blackness as fundamental and necessary in the book’s cosmology. I’ve been waiting years for someone knowledgeable enough to wade the thicket of alchemy and race. 🥹🖤🖤🖤
And now the incredible Denva Gallant on race in medieval alchemy! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
We're back with our next speaker, Thelma Trujillo, who is reminding us how bonkers medieval saint narratives are. You can tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
"I believe *Othello* should be a Black play." That is the only way we can perform it without subjecting Black actors to the violence of the play.
We need more "only answer if it's fun" questions at conferences!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
De'Aris Rhymes asking how the Black arts movement influences and reshapes our understanding of contemporary Shakespeare productions. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
A complete reframing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by the incredible Thai-Catherine Matthews 🤯. We’re just getting started, too. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race
