Early Modern Reading Group

Contacts:
Elizabeth Tavares, English (tavares1@illinois.edu)
Carla Rosell, English (rosell2@illinois.edu)

Focusing on the early modern archive, the EMRG will read a generically-circumscribed set of texts curated to recreate their potential intertextualities and interrogate literary canonicity. Participants meet monthly to discuss one primary and secondary reading’s discussions which culminate in a graduate student conference. The 2015-16 academic year will focus on the popularity for sonnet cycles in England after Dante and Petrarch, and its relationship to what Guido Ruggiero calls “Rinascimento” or Renaissance poetry in Italy.

For more information about IPRH, their programs, and other readings groups, visit iprh.illinois.edu.