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A Vision for The Sundial

A Vision for The Sundial

a digital publication of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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What Things of Darkness Taught Me About the World

What Things of Darkness Taught Me About the World

by Mira Assaf Kafantaris | When Brandi Adams invited me to reflect on Things of Darkness, I pondered the moment I became aware…
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Required Reading: Kim F. Hall’s Things of Darkness at 25

Required Reading: Kim F. Hall’s Things of Darkness at 25

by Ambereen Dadabhoy | The Modern Language Association’s annual meeting in January 2020 featured several panels on race…
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We Acknowledge Ours: Celebrating Kim F. Hall and Things of Darkness at 25

We Acknowledge Ours: Celebrating Kim F. Hall and Things of Darkness at 25

by Brandi K. Adams | This collection of essays confirms and celebrates the foundational, wide-ranging scholarship of Kim F. Hall…
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Ecocriticism and the Geographies of Race

Ecocriticism and the Geographies of Race

by Debapriya Sarkar | I sit with Kim F. Hall’s Things of Darkness as I conduct research on a project on early modern islands and shores…
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Kim F. Hall and the Mountain of Evidence

Kim F. Hall and the Mountain of Evidence

by Miles P. Grier | In her 1995 monograph, Things of Darkness, Kim Hall threw open the archive doors, exposing dark foils…
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Making “Things” Through Darkness: Black/White Binarism in Popular Culture

Making “Things” Through Darkness: Black/White Binarism in Popular Culture

by Vanessa I. Corredera | I have a distinct recollection of sitting in my interdisciplinary science class in college…
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October 2020
Death and Revolution: Thinking with Hester Pulter

Death and Revolution: Thinking with Hester Pulter

by Dyani Johns Taff | Hester Pulter and I don’t share many biographical details. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1605 and lived in…
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Seeking Bargain Miracles: The 1665 Plague and America’s COVID Knowledge Crisis

Seeking Bargain Miracles: The 1665 Plague and America’s COVID Knowledge Crisis

by Devori Kimbro | A cursory glance at any social media platform now yields a dire epistemological battle. “Keyboard warriors,” as they…
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Teaching Race: Preparing Students and Creating a Safe Environment

Teaching Race: Preparing Students and Creating a Safe Environment

by Nahir Otaño Gracia | Medieval studies, and academia in general, continues to be a predominantly white space. Although many academics…
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Toni Morrison’s Desdemona and #BlackGirlMagic

Toni Morrison’s Desdemona and #BlackGirlMagic

by Marissa Joseph | Shakespeare has a complicated relationship with black America. Many black intellectuals reject or reluctantly engage…
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