ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Thanks Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Unlimited for chatting with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa about Throughlines—discussing the origin of the project and how we are supporting a next generation of educators!

Throughlines, with Ayanna Thompson and Ruben Espinosa | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Join us online, on the road, or in Washington, DC.

Join us on September 20 for a conversation on the role of the humanities in imagining different, more inclusive, futures—with Throughlines scholars Leslie Alexander, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Ian Smith, Dennis Britton and Ruben Espinosa (and support from the Humanities Institute!). Register now: https://ow.ly/Jxm350Ta21U

'The Bard in the Borderlands' celebrates, critiques Shakespeare through a Chicano lens “The Bard in the Borderlands” is a collection of Shakespearean adaptations reflecting the culture and history of this region of the world — both critiquing and celebrating the bard in the process.

In line with ACMRS’ mission, the ACMRS Short Term Residencies are designed to be as inclusive as possible and allow maximum flexibility. ACMRS is proud to announce the two Short Term Residents for this year.

Sierra Lomuto is an Assistant Professor of English and Global Medieval Literatures at Rowan University. She is the editor of The Medieval Undone: Imagining a New Global Past (2023), a special issue of boundary 2; and she is co-editor of the Speculum centennial issue, Speculations (forthcoming 2026). Her research focuses on race and medieval literature, for which she is completing her first monograph, Exotic Allies: Mongols and the Production of Race in Medieval Literature. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she held an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship for Assistant Professors (2023-2024).

P. A. Skantze is a theatre director, writer and composer and the author of Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre (Routledge 2003) and Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle (Punctum 2013). Based in Italy and working internationally staging work by the poets Anne Carson and Matthew Fink, inventing forms of staged textual interventions for the opera Falstaff at the National Theatre of Croatia and currently planning a production of her musical.

She has been teaching across the disciplines of theatre history, theatre practice, writing and performance since her postgraduate study at Columbia University. Her method has always been one of engaged translation between practice, practitioners and theorists, theorists in the most joyous sense of that word, working with thinkers such as Blake [Eubie and William] and Billie Holiday, Fred Moten and Isaac Hayes.

"...humanities is built on expanding your world. Someone who studies the humanities does serious work in the study of a culture that isn’t your own. ...Your horizons will broaden as a result." Dean Jeffrey Cohen in ASU News today! We're proud to be part of the humanities at ASU!

How the humanities can prepare students for jobs in any field | ASU News As the dean of humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, Jeffrey Cohen knows better than most the value of humanities training.How it helps prepare students for a variety of careers.How it teaches students to have empathy and to be good listeners. How it giv...

If you happen to be in New York in September, you'll want to check out the Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Romeo + Juliet, with dramaturgy and textual consultation from our very own Ayanna Thompson!

‘Romeo + Juliet’ revival sets full cast and creative team Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler are headlining the upcoming Broadway production.

Happy pub day to The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 2, edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos.

An anthology that reimagines Shakespeare’s works from the perspective of the United States–Mexico Borderlands.

For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theater-makers have worked to repurpose the plays of William Shakespeare to reflect the histories and lived realities of the United States–Mexico Borderlands, or La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume, open-access scholarly edition, creating space to tell stories of and for this complex and important region.

This second volume continues to celebrate the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, situating geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare’s global afterlives.

Read it here: https://acmrspress.com/9780866988483/the-bard-in-the-borderlands/

Bard in the Borderlands Volume 2 comes out August 13 in both print and open access! Check out this new piece in The Sundial by the editors on Shakespeare's comedies as a site of collaboration, solidarity, and hope en La Frontera.

La Comedia of Errors and the Possibilities of Comic Endings en La Frontera By Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos

Resistance: a Call and Response discussion.

July 23, 2024 | 1:00 pm MST | Zoom webinar

In the face of oppression, we cannot look away. In the words of bell hooks, “By courageously looking, we defiantly declared: ‘Not only will I stare. I want my look to change reality.’” This conversation aims to shed light on the histories of resistance—tracing a lineage to how resistance is mobilized in our current moment. Where does resistance begin? How do we gauge its efficacy? And what is our obligation as scholars to foster, support, engage in, and/or challenge forms of resistance?

Resistance: a Call and Response discussion will be held on zoom and is free for anyone to attend. It is scheduled for July 23, 2024 at 1:00 pm MST (4:00 pm EST).

An email with instructions on how to join the Zoom webinar will be sent to the email you registered with.

The event will be recorded and shared on the ACMRS YouTube channel in the weeks following.

Featuring speakers Tarren Andrews, Eric De Barros, and Farah Karim-Cooper.
https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=801878&f

Two short weeks until Throughlines is live! Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race into college courses on premodern subjects. With lectures, activities, exemplar syllabi, and more, Throughlines brings the study of the premodern literature, history, religion, culture, and more into the 21st century.

The Kinky Renaissance, edited by Gillian Knoll and Joseph Gamble, is now available and in print! This collection is a groundbreaking exploration of kink as theoretical analytic, historical formation, and aesthetic mode. Check it out: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/the-kinky-renaissance/

Join the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network and have the chance to work with some of the leading scholars in PCRS! Early and mid-career scholars are invited to apply. Graduate students seeking a PhD in a premodern field who have achieved candidacy are eligible. Applications close July 26. Apply today.

https://acmrs.submittable.com/submit/299964/2024-raceb4race-mentorship-network

Only 1 week left! We are accepting applications for the ACMRS 2024-25 Short Term Residencies! This flexible residency offers a $7,500 stipend. Applications are due July 8, get yours in! Learn more and apply now—link in bio.

Join us online on July 23 for Resistance: A Call and Response Discussion. This conversation aims to shed light on the histories of resistance—tracing a lineage to how resistance is mobilized in our current moment. Where does resistance begin? How do we gauge its efficacy? And what is our obligation as scholars to foster, support, engage in, and/or challenge forms of resistance? Join the webinar for a conversation between Tarren Andrews, Eric De Barros, and Farah Karim-Cooper, moderated by Ruben Espinosa.

https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=801878&

Always an honor to work with field leading scholars! Thank you, Kyle Grady. More from coming soon!