Critical Confessions Now

Abdulhamit Arvas Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAAfrodesia McCannon Liberal Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USAKris Trujillo Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

• Critical confessions now, Abdulhamit Arvas, Afrodesia McCannon, Kris Trujillo.- I can’t love this the way you want me to: Archival blackness, Kim F. Hall.- Walking the line: Unfaith in the Middle Ages, Amy Hollywood.- Chronic denial: When making change means saying the whole truth, Margaret E. Boyle.- The sign you must not touch: Lyric obscurity and trans confession, Colby Gordon.- Race, labour, and the future of the past: King Lear’s ‘true blank’ Urvashi Chakravarty.- Confessions of the half-caste, or wheeling strangers of here and everywhere, Amrita Dhar.- Queer and working class while reading The Second Shepherds’ Play, Jeffery G. Stoyanoff.- The unbearable whiteness of being (in) Shakespeare, Ambereen Dadabhoy.- The Aleph and the space of Shakespeare, Carla Della Gatta.- Mourner-confessors: The masala intercommunity of women in Rudaali and Hamlet, Tripthi Pillai.- The embarrassments of confession: Reading Margery Kempe today, Yea Jung Park.- The voice inside the wall: A muyto devota oração da empardeada as a confession of enclosure, Noel Blanco Mourelle.- The speaking wound: Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the ethics of listening in the #metoo era, Caitlin G. Watt.- Confessing in Old English: The Life of Saint Mary of Egypt and the problem with penance, Erica Weaver.- How to corner a poem (and watch it thrive): A timely confession, Ariel Zinder.- Finding Old Nubian, or, why we should divest from Western tongues, Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei.- Confession, counter-conduct, critique, Maureen Kelly.- The gift of shame, Suzanne Conklin Akbari.- A Game of Thrones: Power structures in medievalisms, manuscripts, and the museum, Larisa Grollemond & Bryan C. Keene.- Premodern race studies in academic country clubs, Ayanna Thompson & Jeffrey Cohen.- Confessions: The consolations of literature, Jyotsna G. Singh.