The implication is that diversity and serious intellectual work are not compatible. It is not real research, say these racist white gatekeepers in Shakespeare Studies it’s politics and activism, aimed not just at the profession but the larger society as well. These white Shakespeareans suggest that such work is faddish, undisciplined. In “Race, Racism, and our Common Environments,” Espinosa complained about the ways white Shakespeareans continue to dismiss the work of Shakespeareans engaging in critical race theory. Ruben Espinosa shifted the discussion from literary works to the profession itself, the common environment we all share. Her method highlights, too, the potential for the Green Knight to reverse the colonization onto Camelot. Duperron offers a reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that invokes not just a tale of an “Indigenous” Green Knight fighting an “English” Sir Gawain but a proto-colonialist fantasy of a “supremacist” civilizations right to conquer. It allows practitioners to look for another perspective, different perspectives, and better ways of doing. Two-Eyed Seeing is about life: what you do, what responsibilities you have to live on Earth. Albert Marshall, etuaptmumk integrates Western academic norms with Indigenous ways of knowing. In “Unsettling Classrooms: Shifting the Landscape of Analysis,” she asks us to slow down and to learn from the Mi’kmaq theory of etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing. Three of the four panelists are not on a tenure ladder.īrenna Duperron proposed to counter the imperialist and colonialist leanings of medieval studies by reshaping methodology, how scholars learn to know and how they teach. Recognizing that public scholarship especially affects graduate students and early-career PhDs, the organizers solicited panelists at these stages of their careers. Panelists discussed their own public-facing research and theorized what such research is, and what it might be.
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In a time of ecological, institutional, and professional precarities, the webinar asked how public scholarship-in theory and praxis-fits into these contexts. Approximately twenty-five colleagues from around the country joined the discussion. Moderating the event was Courtney Barajas (Whitworth) and presenters were Brenna Duperron (Dalhousie), Ruben Espinosa (Texas, El Paso), Sarah-Nelle Jackson (UBC), and Jeffrey Wilson (Harvard).
On April 9, 2021, the Oecologies Research Cluster hosted a Zoom webinar on the topic of Common Environments: Public-Facing Research and Premodern Cultures.
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