Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

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Foreword Lisa Lampert-Weissig Introduction Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters PART I: SYNCHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 1. Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature Seth Kimmel 2. Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean Megan Moore 3. A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom Kyunghee Pyun 4. Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present Elizabeth Pentland 5. Stranger than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom Julia Schleck 6. Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course Barbara Sebek PART II: SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 7. The Moor of America: Approaching the Crisis of Race and Religion in the Renaissance and the Twenty-First Century Ambereen Dadabhoy 8. 'Real' Bodies? Race, Corporality, and Contradiction in The Arabian Nights and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974) Andrea Mirabile and Lynn Ramey 9. Encountering Saracens in Italian Chivalric Epic and Folk Performance Traditions Jo Ann Cavallo 10. Beowulf as Hero of Empire Janice Hawes PART III: DIACHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 11. Resurrecting Callimachus : Pop Music, Puppets, and the Necessity of Performance in Teaching Medieval Drama Jenna Soleo-Shanks 12. Teaching Chaucer through Convergence Culture: The New Media Middle Ages as Cross-Cultural Encounter Tison Pugh