Tarren Andrews

Yale University
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Indigenous women and the law in the Anglophone Empire

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.

Transtemporal medieval studies

Transtemporal medieval studies

Refusing disciplinary silos and thinking beyond periodization allows educators to connect the present realities of student's lives to the distant past.

Early medieval settler colonialism

Early medieval settler colonialism

The logics of settler colonialism emerged long before the colonial era. Studying these designs through law codes, chronicles, and religious texts, reveals how colonialism is an ongoing structure shaping both past and present.

Teaching law and literature across time

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.