March 2026 - SRC: The Southeastern Renaissance Conference

SRC Membership Chair Rachel Roberts wins the Arlin G. Meyer Book Award

Posted onMarch 16, 2026April 24, 2026

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 at SCSC 2026 Call For Papers: The Changeling Narrative and Disability

Posted onMarch 16, 2026April 24, 2026

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 …