We are SO proud of our SRC Vice President Alexis Culotta, who has recently published an article, “Reworking Religiosity: Raphael’s Late Altarpieces and the Workshop Perspective,” in an anthology titled The Mannerist Altarpiece: Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Brill, June 2026), edited by S. Cody and T. Lynn Hunt. Defined by their elegance and Read More …
We are pleased to announce that SRC Secretary Jesse Russell has a new article, “Edmund Spenser’s Stripping of the Altars: The Altar and Catholic Liturgy in The Faerie Queene” forthcoming in Renaissance Studies. Renaissance Studies is a cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to exploring the multifaceted nature of Renaissance history and culture. The publication treats the “Renaissance” Read More …
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference cordially invites you to the 2026 Conference to be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on October 23rd and 24th and hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. You can view and download the CFP by clicking on the title (above) to see this full post.
The SRC is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Arlin G. Meyer Book Award is Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age, co-authored by Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, and our own SRC Membership Chair, Rachel M. De Smith Roberts. This significant work offers a Read More …
SRC invites papers for an SRC-sponsored panel at the 2026 Sixteenth Century Society Conference, to be held from October 29-31 in Chicago, Illinois. Changeling stories are disability narratives. In traditional folklore across pre-modern Europe, families seemingly believed that small children, often babies, who exhibited non-typical behavior (muteness, excessive eating, howling), or non-typical appearance (large eyes, Read More …
We are pleased to announce that David Lee Miller will be the plenary speaker at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, to be held September 19th and 20th at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. David is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus at USC Columbia. He joined the University in 2004 after teaching Read More …
This year’s SRC President Jonathan Shelley of St. John Fisher University is the recipient of an MLA Pathways Step Grant for his project, “Developing Learning Communities with the Fisher Urban Scholars.The MLA Pathways grant is designed to enhance the capacity of humanities departments to foster student success throughout their academic journey and into their postgraduate Read More …
NCCU Professor Rachelle Gold has recently launched The Collected Lady Eagle Oral History Project-Training Research Acumen (CLEOPATRA) of Black women NCCU graduates with justice-based careers. The project was launched on March 1, 2025, and it is NCCU’s first oral history archive. Forty-three students have interviewed twenty-two women since October of 2023. You can read more Read More …
Eric Dunnum’s new book Middleton and Time: Clocks, Calendars, and Temporality was released earlier this year. The book seeks to broaden the discussion of temporality and the early modern stage by focusing on “our other Shakespeare” – Thomas Middleton, a writer preoccupied with issues of time, chronometry, and temporality. In this first book Read More …
SRC is excited to announce that Stephen W. May will be our plenary speaker at SRC’s 2024 conference at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. May is Professor Emeritus of English at Georgetown College, and Senior Research Fellow and the principal investigator of the “Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage” project at Read More …