Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Cla – A Classroom Guide

Anna Wainwright is assistant professor of Italian Studies and core faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the coeditor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation and The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Matthieu Chapman is a theatre educator, scholar, theorist, director, and dramaturg. He is professor of theatre arts at SUNY New Paltz. He is the author of Antiblack Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other.”

• IntroductionMatthieu Chapman, SUNY New PaltzAnna Wainwright, University of New HampshireMapping Race in Early Modern EuropeMatthieu Chapman, SUNY New PaltzWhen Students Recognize Gender but not Race: Addressing the Othello-Caliban ConundrumMaya Mathur, University of Mary WashingtonSight-Reading Race in Early Modern Drama: Dog Whistles, Signifiers, and the Grammars of BlacknessMatthieu Chapman, SUNY New PaltzJoshua Kelly, University of WisconsinTeaching Spenser’s Darkness: Race, Allegory, and the Making of Meaning in The Faerie QueeneDennis Britton, University of New HampshireTeaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko as Execution NarrativeJennifer Lodine-Chaffey, Washington State University Tri-CitiesCausing Good and Necessary Trouble with Race in Milton’s ComusReginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire“The Present Terror of the World”: The Ottoman Empire in the English ImaginaryAmbereen Dadabhoy, Harvey Mudd CollegeWhen They Consider How Their Light Is Spent: Intersectional Race and Disability Studies in the ClassroomAmrita Dhar, Ohio State UniversityTeaching Race in Renaissance ItalyAnna Wainwright, University of New HampshireOgres and Slaves: Representations of Race in Giambattista Basile’s Fairy TalesSuzanne Magnanini, University of Colorado, BoulderThe Black Female Attendant in Titian’s Diana and Actaeon (c.1559), and in Modern OblivionPatricia Simons, University of MichiganWhitewashing the Whitewashed Renaissance: Italian Renaissance Art through a Kapharian LensRebecca M. Howard, University of MemphisGiovanni Buonaccorsi (fl. 1651–1674): An Enslaved Black Singer at the Medici CourtEmily Wilbourne, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBarbouillage and Blackface in the Classroom: Twenty Seventeenth-century Poems on an Enslaved Black WomanAnna Klosowska, Miami UniversityLearning to Listen: A New Approach to Teaching Early Modern Encounters in the AmericasCharlotte Daniels, Bowdoin CollegeKatherine Dauge-Roth, Bowdoin CollegeRacial Profiling: Delineating the Renaissance FaceNoam Andrews, Ghent UniversityContextualizing Race in Leonard Thurneysser’s Account of PortugalCarolin Alff, University of HamburgSettler Colonialism, Families, and Racialized Thinking: Casta Painting in Latin AmericaDana Leibsohn, Smith CollegeBarbara E. Mundy, Fordham UniversityTeaching Race in the Global Renaissance Using Local Art CollectionsLisandra Estevez, Winston-Salem State UniversityPodcasting Las Casas and Robert E. Lee: A Case Study in Historicizing RaceElizabeth L. Spragins, Washington and Lee UniversityAmerican Moor: Othello, Race, and the Conversations Here and NowAmy Rodgers, Mount Holyoke CollegeMarjorie Rubright, UMass AmherstMapping Race Digitally in the ClassroomRoya Biggie, Knox College(Re-)Editing the Renaissance for an Anti-Racist ClassroomAnn Christensen, University of HoustonLaura Turchi, University of Houston

"Comprised of twenty-three erudite, informative, and thought provoking contributions by scholars well versed in their subjects, Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and unreservedly recommended core addition to personal, professional, college, and university library European History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists."