Throughlines

A dynamic pedagogical resource for engaging premodern critical race studies in the classroom.
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Throughlines offers a variety of freely accessible teaching materials to help you incorporate premodern critical race studies into your teaching. Specifically designed for use in higher education, the materials on Throughlines include lectures, pedagogical approaches, exemplar syllabi, classroom discussion models, an annotated bibliography and more.

Throughlines will continue to grow over time. So be sure to check back regularly or join our mailing list to stay in the loop on content related to your research and teaching.

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Our scholars

Throughlines materials are developed by cutting-edge scholars in the fields of premodern studies, in collaboration with the Throughlines team.

Contributors include Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Kim F. Hall, Cord J. Whitaker, Chouki El Hamel, Leslie Alexander, Margo Hendricks, and more.

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Essay
Scott Manning Stevens

The resources of sovereignty on Caliban’s island

Close reading opportunities to engage students in discussions of sovereignty and self-determination in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Video
Kyle Grady

Racial divides in The Merchant of Venice

Using The Merchant of Venice to demonstrate an early modern interest in maintaining racial divides, particularly in a context where those boundaries regularly collapse.

Video
Tarren Andrews

Teaching law and literature across time

Tarren Andrews teaches law and literature as a pedagogical exercise in transtemporality. This approach resists rigid periodization and instead traces how legal and literary forms resonate across centuries.

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