Herron Delivers Spenser Lecture in France

Dr. Thomas Herron presented a public lecture on “Edmund Spenser and the medieval Irish landscape: old and new approaches” at the Centre d’études supérieures de la civilisation médiévale (CESCM) in Poitiers, France.

Also, Herron just published an article on a related topic, on teaching Renaissance poetry using VR in the classroom: “The Place of Reading in VR: Pedagogy, Spenser’s Kilcolman Castle and Amoretti 65,” in New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies IV: the Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies. Ed. Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter (Toronto: Iter, 2025). Both the talk and the article feature recent work on the website Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle, which has been built and is supported at ECU. The website was recently reviewed positively in the online publication Reviews in Digital Humanities.