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New ideas for teaching contemporary social justice through Shakespeare and Renaissance literature This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices. They model ways of mobilizing social justice with early modern texts and claim the intellectual benefits of integrating social justice into courses. The book reconceives the relationship between students and the Renaissance in ways that enable them-and us-to move from classroom discussions to real-life applications. Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now presents - Innovative teaching methods informed by recent cross-disciplinary scholarship - Strategies for effective advocacy amidst the growing complexities of higher education - Discussions of the relevance of historical literary study to contemporary cultural conversations - Multiple, multicultural, and accessible Shakespeares - Critical connections of Shakespeare's plays to democratic conversations and social justice Hillary Eklund is Provost Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Chair of the department at Loyola University New Orleans. Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College.
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Hillary Eklund is Provost Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Chair of the department at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of
Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic: Elegant Sufficiencies (Ashgate, 2015) and the editor of
Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science (Duquesne University Press, 2017). She has essays published or forthcoming in journals such as
Shakespeare Studies,
SEL, and
Criticism, and in essay collections on a variety of topics from Shakespeare and Spenser to the environmental humanities. Her book in progress investigates the representations, uses, and controversies surrounding wetlands in the early modern period. Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. She is author of the
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford UP, 2019), and editor of
The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature (Ashgate 2011). She has published essays on early modern mechanical birds, insect poetry and early modern microscopy, the inner lives of Renaissance machines, physics and metaphysics in early modern lyric, metaphoricity and science, jacquemarts and Jack Falstaff, Spenser's
Faerie Queene, Nashe's
Unfortunate Traveller, and the pedagogy of book history. Professor Hyman is at work on a second monograph, attending to the relationships among mimesis, myth, and other kinds of literary fictions in Shakespearean and Spenserian romance.
