Critical Confessions Now

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.