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Created by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Throughlines offers approachable and practical methods for incorporating premodern critical race studies in the classroom.
09/11/2026
What can Canacee and the falcon from The Squire’s Tale teach us about whiteness, empathy, and racial belonging? Watch the full talk from Wan-Chuan Kao on Throughlines today.
The lap of whiteness in The Squire's Tale Kao, Wan-Chuan. "The lap of whiteness in The Squire's Tale." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/the-lap-of-whiteness-in-the-squires-tale. [Date accessed].
08/12/2026
Whether your syllabus is ready to go or you're still tweaking it, Throughlines has a vast trove of teaching resources guaranteed to enrich your class discussions. This month, we're sharing new contributions from Jonathan Hsy, on teaching Chaucer through adaptations, and Jennifer L. Morgan, on reading the resistance of enslaved women in the historical archive.
Jonathan Hsy offers his approach to expanding Chaucer across time and contexts in his video "Teaching the Wife of Bath's Tale through adaptation ." Hsy explores how contemporary adaptations of Chaucer can open new conversations about gender, power, justice, performance, and cultural context. By examining adaptations by artists including Joanna Quinn, Patience Agbabi, and Jean “Binta” Breeze, Hsy shows how encountering The Wife of Bath's Tale across different media, places, and moments can challenge what students think they know about a familiar medieval text.
In "Reading resistance in the archive," Jennifer L. Morgan reads the archive of Atlantic slavery against the grain to recover what its authors worked to bury: the everyday resistance of enslaved women. For teachers of early modern literature, history, gender studies, and Black studies, Morgan's approach opens direct conversations about power, evidence, reproductive labor, and the resistance that shaped the Black Atlantic. It's a starting point for a question that matters in every classroom: whose stories does the record preserve and whose must we work to hear?
Professor Cassander L. Smith offers an important reading the double-edged sword of respectability politics in the lives of Black Americans. She explores how this respectability is centuries old and can be found in the first memoir written in English by a Black African, Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.
Find her full talk on Throughlines.
https://www.throughlines.org/suite-content/olaudah-equiano-and-the-mirage-of-respectability-politics
As a curator, Andrea Achi learned that accepting museums don’t always have all the facts can actually create a better space for learning. Good curation is about creating an environment that invites questions, not just answers.
https://www.throughlines.org/suite-content/curating-from-the-lens-of-critical-race-studies
03/19/2026
Smith traces the linages of libraries and rare book collections and their direct links to sugar plantations and the history of enslavement. To grapple with and fully understand our editorial and curatorial traditions today, we must confront how deeply these systems of value were shaped by the economics and injustices of the transatlantic slave trade.
https://www.throughlines.org/suite-content/slavery-sugar-and-the-value-of-shakespeare
Earlier this year we got to interview Carol Mejia LaPerle about Shakespeare, affect, and pedagogy. Find more of her insights on Throughlines.
https://throughlines-asu.webflow.io/scholars/carol-mejia-laperle
In early modern Europe theatre was the mass media. From street performances to court theaters, early modern plays laid the groundwork of racializaiton and what Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix." Find her full talk on Throughlines.
https://www.throughlines.org/suite-content/race-and-early-modern-performance-culture
End of semester quiz: what’s the through line between a renaissance pope and the 21st-century US Supreme Court? See the full video on The Doctrine of Discovery on
What connects a Renaissance Pope with the 21st-century Supreme Court?
The Doctrine of Discovery is one of the oldest and most enduring legal precedents in the Western Hemisphere. Originally issued as a series of papal bulls to resolve territorial disputes between Spain and Portugal, its influence spread across colonial legal systems for centuries.
Scott Manning Stevens provides not only a clear and concise history of this doctrine, but also situates it within the broader context of medieval conquests and intellectual traditions. His full video on Throuhglines highlights how these early frameworks became the epistemic foundation for settler colonial rule.
https://throughlines-asu.webflow.io/suite-content/the-doctrine-of-discovery
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator for Byzantine and North African art Andrea Myers Achi literally goes the extra mile to build her exhibitions. She was gracious enough to offer Throughlines her insights and expertise on curation as pedagogy, the foundational value of North and East Africa in medieval art history, and more.
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