Made possible by the generosity of our members, our guest speakers have volunteered to speak virtually in members' classrooms. If you are an RSA member and would like a Renaissance studies scholar to come to your virtual classroom, please take a look below at the subject areas covered and contact the office to reserve your spot.
Early Modern Devotional Literature & Culture
Specific Subject Areas: Race and diversity in devotional literature; translations; hagiography; early modern English sermons; visual culture in the English Reformation; Protestant clergy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; loneliness and isolation in the academy
Italian Renaissance / Digital Humanities / Archival Studies
Specific Subject Areas: Italian academies; Medici history; archival studies; digital cultural heritage; digital humanities; a database on the printed books produced by early modern academies
Early Modern English Literature / Reformation / Humanism / Colonialism
Specific Subject Areas: Early stages of capitalism; Tudor expansion to Ireland and New World; promotional literature; Edmund Spenser; Georgic literature
Religious Conversion / Roman Baroque Art / Collecting
Jews in the Renaissance / Early Modern Magic
Specific Subject Areas: Early modern Kabbalah and its use in magic; magic and money in the Renaissance
History of Science / Science & Religion
Specific Subject Areas: Galileo; New Sciences and republics of letters; religious culture and science
Art in the Colonial Americas
Specific Subject Areas: Astrology in art of the Colonial Americas
Early Modern Death Culture
Specific Subject Areas: Executions; anatomies; biopower; biopolitics; the empirical turn in anatomical research and how it affected women
Medieval & Renaissance History / Reformation / Humanism
Specific Subject Areas: Renaissance humanism; Reformation history; Reformation theology; Christian humanism; the Council of Florence
Renaissance Automata & Water Culture
Specific Subject Areas: Renaissance automata & water culture; Villa Pratolino; Renaissance intersections with Yemen (Itinerary of Ludovico de Varthema); Francesco I de’ Medici court culture
History of Science / Medical Humanities / Digital Humanities
Specific Subject Areas: Galileo; mapping tools; quantitative text analysis
Early Modern Poland / English Civil War
Specific Subject Areas: Early modern Polish history; propaganda in the English Civil War; seventeenth-century religious issues; religious propaganda
Renaissance Papacy & Cardinals / The Borgias
Specific Subject Areas: Violence during sede vacante
Italian Renaissance / Religion
Specific Subject Areas: Rome; Bologna; Italy; ceremony; the papacy; Roman curia; the Reformation; ceremony and erudition in the Roman curia
Art History / Legal History
Specific Subject Areas: Art legal history; privileges history; pre-copyright era
Early Modern Architecture / The Baroque / Domestic Devotion
Specific Subject Areas: Architecture, fabrics, and gender issues; the exhibition of the cadaver of the princess Margherita Alliata (January 1700)
Shakespearean Drama / English Renaissance Literature
Specific Subject Areas: Shakespearean drama and ethics (esp. classical ethics); English Renaissance literature and intellectual history
English Music of the 16th and/or 17th Centuries
Specific Subject Areas: Current research on John Dowland, international musician
Italian Renaissance / Early Modern Art / Disability Studies
Specific Subject Areas: Venetian and Florentine art; sellers of artists’ materials; Venetian vendecolori; disability studies, especially as it relates to early modern Italian art and visual culture; current research focuses on visual impairments (blindness) and mental health challenges in early modern Venice
Art in Colonial Mexico
Specific Subject Areas: Agency of astrological images in colonial Mexico
Early Modern Translation / Neostoicism / Spanish Golden Age Literature
Specific Subject Areas: Translation in the Renaissance; multilingual texts; political biography
English Renaissance / Death Culture
Specific Subject Areas: Shakespeare; early modern English poetry; death; plague
Medieval and Northern Renaissance Portraiture
Specific Subject Areas: Portraiture in England before Hans Holbein the Younger; portrait and its prototypes in Western European art; Michel Sittow
Early Modern Science & Literature / Italian Studies / Digital Humanities / Medical Humanities
Specific Subject Areas: Galileo Galilei
