What do we mean when we talk about classics or the classical? Dan-el Padilla Peralta deconstructs the history of the field of classics and its investment in hegemony, and how it carries with it an assignment of value.

Medieval African art demands to be understood, not in relation to Europe alone, but as part of a wider Afro-Eurasian world. Andrea Myers Achi discusses the interconnection across medieval North Africa and the Mediterranean and Africa’s cultural exchange and influence on medieval art history.

Teaching Chaucer's House of Fame alongside contemporary Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's The Place of Scraps allows students to consider the issues of source, adaptation, colonization, and race in our literary lineage.