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 at the University of Alabama, where he designed and directed the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, and at the University of Kentucky. His publications include The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988); Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness (Cornell, 2003); and a number of edited collections and scholarly articles. His honors include teaching awards at the University of Kentucky and at the University of South Carolina, along with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. From 2013 to 2017 he served as editor of The Spenser Review, the online publication of the International Spenser Society; currently he is one of five general editors of “The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser,” a six-volume scholarly edition under contract to Oxford University Press. In 2024, the International Spenser Society honored him with its Colin Clout Lifetime Achievement Award.