This celebratory event comprises two sessions:

As our SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-26 come to the end of their fellowships, they will each give a short presentation based on their research. Join us to celebrate their scholarship.

Nicole Maceira Cumming, 'Animals, the environment and the "Protestant" worldview in seventeenth-century Scotland, c. 1600-1660'

Serin Quinn, 'Gluttony and Lust: Foods as Aphrodisiacs in Early Modern England'

Hear from the authors of books shortlisted for the SRS Book Prize 2026 and learn more about their scholarship. The winner of the book prize will be announced at the end, along with the winner of the Renaissance Studies Article Prize 2026.

Presented by Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary, University of London) and Jill Burke (Edinburgh).

John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025)

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)

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SRS Festival 2026