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.

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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
Dennis Britton

Religious conversion(s)

Teaching Jewish-to-Christian conversion helps broaden the understanding of religious and theological conflicts that characterize the Protestant Reformation.

Video
Patricia Akhimie

Editorial influence in Othello

How have editors shaped the way Shakespeare is read? Teaching students how to detect editorial choices across different editions of Shakespeare’s Othello offers a way into understanding how the canon is created.

Syllabus
Tarren Andrews

Indigenous women and the law in the Anglophone Empire

Tarren Andrews offers insights and methods on her class about on the law as linguistic technology, the history of personhood and belonging.

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