Past Seminars
“Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, and Milton’s Sin and Death”
Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University
“Juegos and Jinetes: Romance and Material Culture in the Guerras civiles de Granada, 1595”
Barbara Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania
“Drinking from Your Father’s Skull: The Medieval Prehisotry of Renaissance Dynastic Marriage”
John Watkins, University of Minnesota
“ ‘Perhaps’: Narrator and Narratee in Paradise Lost”
William Flesch, Brandeis University
“Did Shakespeare Write Epic?”
Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University
“Of Women and War: Moderata Fonte’s ‘Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro’ and the Seduction of Chivalric Romances”
Valeria Finucci, Duke University
“Thought and Thinking in the Faerie Queene”
Gordon Teskey, Harvard University
“The 1590 Faerie Queene in the History of Sexuality”
Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University
Formerly Johns Hopkins University
“An Aethiopian Sodomite in Paris: Love and License in the Orlando furioso,”
Heather James
University of Southern California
“The Specter of Romance in Sixteenth-Century Epic Theory”
Daniel Javitch
New York University
“Romance Images of the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese Discovery: Huon of Bordeaux and Others”
Michael Murrin
University of Chicago
“Ovid and Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Paul Alpers
University of California, Berkley, Emeritus
“Classical Epic and Early Modern Political Thought in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy”
Mihoko Suzuki
University of Miami
“Spenser, Consideration, and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyence in The Faerie Queen and the View of Ireland,”
Charles Ross,
Purdue University
“Fear of Falling: A Lucretian Epic Motif from Virgil to Tasso to Milton”
David Quint,
Yale University
“Disposition”
Elizabeth Fowler
Yale University now University of Virgina
“Gates of Horn, Gates of Ivory”
Allen Mandelbaum
Wake Forest University and Turin University
“Revisiting Cissie and Flossie–and Other Choice Bits of Gynephobia in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Harry Berger, Jr.
Emeritus. University of California, Santa Cruz