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Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

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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

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"The volume ... aims to showcase pedagogical strategies employed by the authors in their classrooms in colleges across the United States and Canada. ... it will serve as a tremendous resource for teachers of cross-cultural encounters ... . A list of suggested readings at the end of the volume helps instructors explore some of the primary and secondary sources discussed in the articles. Anyone teaching courses on premodern multicultural Europe will find something of interest in the volume." (Maya Soifer Irish, Speculum, A Journal of Medieval Studies, Vol. 91 (4), October, 2016)

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Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University, USA Ambereen Dadabhoy, Harvey Mudd College, USA Janice Hawes, South Carolina State University, USA Seth Kimmel, Columbia University, USA Lisa Lampert-Weissig, University of California, San Diego, USA Andrea Mirabile, Vanderbilt University, USA Megan Moore, University of Missouri, USA Elizabeth Pentland, York University, Canada Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida, USA Kyunghee Pyun, The Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University, USA Julia Schleck, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Barbara Sebek, Colorado State University, USA Jenna Soleo-Shanks, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

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