Washington & Lee U. professor examines how ‘whiteness’ works in medieval literature

Washington & Lee U. professor examines how ‘whiteness’ works in medieval literature

‘Chaucer’s falcon is the mother lode of whiteness’ Arizona State U.’s Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies recently highlighted Washington & Lee University English professor Wan-Chuan Kao, who analyzes “how whiteness operates in medieval literature.” According to its website, the center “promotes work that is historically grounded and theoretically expansive, with the aim of […]