Author: airigoyen
TUESDAY, May 23rd, Justin Shaw “The Complexion of the Church”: Witnessing Whiteness and Melancholy in Donne’s Sonnets and Sermons
Please join the Renaissance Workshop
TUESDAY, May 23rd, when
Justin Shaw
Assistant Professor of English
Clark University
presents
“The Complexion of the Church”: Witnessing Whiteness and Melancholy in Donne’s Sonnets and Sermons
TUESDAY, May 23rd
(note the day change)
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 301
*This event is co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center and the Black Baroque Project.*
The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and will be available on our website here under the password “melancholy.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu).
Image: John Donne’s effigy in St. Paul’s London, taken by Justin Shaw.
Protected: Materials for Mule Workshop
MONDAY, February 27th, Alyssa Mule, “Rewriting Humanism and Proto-Feminism in the Middle English Translation of De mulieribus claris”
Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, February 27th, when
Alyssa Mule
PhD Student, University of Chicago
presents the paper
“Rewriting Humanism and Proto-Feminism in the Middle English Translation of De mulieribus claris”
MONDAY, February 27th
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 301
*please note the room change*
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website here under the password “mulieribus.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu)
Protected: Materials for Lesley Workshop
MONDAY, January 23rd, Sarah-Gray Lesley, “Spenser’s ‘Monsterous Dyeats’: Allegorical Bodies and Borders in The Legend of Justice”
Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, January 23rd, when
Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD Student, University of Chicago
presents the paper
MONDAY, January 23rd
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 301 (Note the room change)
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website here under the password “invidia.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu).
Image: Jacques Callot. Invidia (1619), etching/engraving. Providence, RI: RISD Museum.
Renaissance Workshop Winter 2023 Schedule
Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year! We are happy to announce the Renaissance Workshop’s Winter 2023 schedule, which can be found in full below. The workshop will be held on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm, BUT PLEASE NOTE that our meeting room is Rosenwald 301. Our usual room, Rosenwald 405, is booked for a class during our workshop time this Winter. Should you like to join a meeting via Zoom, please email either Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu) or Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) for accommodation. In the event that the meeting switches to a virtual setting, we will notify you in the announcement a week in advance of the event.
Materials for the workshop, as well as the schedule and any updates, are available on our website. The Renaissance Workshop is free and open to the public, and we encourage those new to the workshop to attend.
We look forward to seeing you on Monday, January 9th when Timothy Harrison (Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago) and Jane Mikkelson (Lecturer & Associate Research Scholar of Classical Persian at Yale University) will present the paper “‘Worlds Together Shined’: Bidel, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison.”
Best,
Sarah-Gray and Andrés
WINTER 2023
January 9th | Jane Mikkelson
Lecturer & Associate Research Scholar of Classical Persian at Yale University
and Timothy Harrison
Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago
present the paper
“‘Worlds Together Shined’: Bidel, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison”
*This event is co-sponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop*
January 23rd | Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD Student, University of Chicago
“Spenser’s ‘Monsterous Dyeats’: Allegorical Bodies and Borders in The Legend of Justice”
February 13th | Alexa Herlands
PhD Student, University of Chicago
Title TBD
February 27th | Alyssa Mule
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“Rewriting Humanism and Proto-Feminism in the Middle English Translation of De mulieribus claris”
*This event is co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop*
Protected: Materials for Scodel Workshop
Monday, November 7th, Joshua Scodel

Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English, Comparative Literature, and the College University of Chicago