SRC is proud to announce the release of Rachel M. De Smith Roberts’ new book Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age, co-authored by Rachel B. Griffis, and Julie Ooms. Dr. Roberts is Professor of English and Department Chair at North Greenville University and currently serves as SRC’s Read More …
Call For Papers SRC Member and Co-Editor of Renaissance Papers Lisandra Estevez is organizing a panel for the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in Boston, March 20–22, 2025. The panel is titled Voices in Iberian Global Art History;. The panel particularly welcomes submissions for new scholars (recent PhDs or PhD candidates). Read More …
SRC Member Joseph Ortiz, Department Chair and Dorrance D. Roderick Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, has recently published an edited collection of essays titled Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Professor Ortiz is the author of Broken Harmony and the Politics of Music (Cornell, 2011) and Gordon Merrick Read More …
SRC officer Scott Lucas was recently interviewed by the Director of Great Britain’s Beyond Shakespeare theater company on the topic of the influential Tudor best-seller A Mirror for Magistrates. The Beyond Shakespeare troupe is mounting a new stage presentation of the downfall of King Richard II as it is narrated in the Mirror. You can Read More …
SRC President Ward Risvold was recently named the Director of the AI Lab at the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business & Technology at Georgia College & State University. The lab prepares students and the public to use this developing technology, and serves as a resource for the Central Georgia community with workshops on artificial Read More …
Join us later this month for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC), which takes place at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on September 29th-30th. SRC 2023 is hosted by the Dorothy Ford Wiley Fund and UNC Chapel Hill’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program (MEMS). You can read the Read More …
Please join us in congratulating Professor Nathaniel Wallace for his latest accomplishment. Dr. Wallace was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to carry out research as a Lecturer in American Studies at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania for the 2021-2022 academic year. Congratulations, Professor Wallace!
Please join us in congratulating SRC Member Christopher Hodgkins for winning a prestigious $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Chris is a UNC Greensboro Professor and Director of the George Herbert Society. This will be his fourth NEH grant, and will finance production of the three-volume book series, George Herbert: Complete Works, Read More …
Please join us in congratulating SRC Member and 2020-2021 VP Lisandra Estevez on the publication of her edited collection Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South
A recent article in Volume 34 of Spenser Studies (2022) by SRC Member Scott Lucas considers the influence of William Oram’s generous and welcoming qualities as a scholar both on his critical writings and on his key role in creating the intellectually stimulating and tight-knit international community of Spenser scholars that arose in the late Read More …