More from SRC 2025! The second panel of the conference focused on art history. It began with Jasmin Cyril, who spoke on the iconography of the plague _gonfaloni_ (banners) in Umbria.

More from SRC 2025! In the second session, devoted to art history, Erzsebet Strobl of Karoli Gaspar University delivered the presentation "A Jacobean Image of Queen Elizabeth."

Rounding out the second session of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference 2025 meeting was Shepherd Aaron Ellis (seated in the middle), who presented the paper "Madrid's Unknown _Lady with an Orange_: The Case for Mary, Princess Royal."

More from SRC 2025! Scott Lucas of The Citadel began session three of the conference with his paper "_Thomas of Woodstock_ and the Tudor Commonwealth Tradition."

Scenes from SRC 2025! On the panel "Ideologies and Technologies," historian Elisa Jones of the College of Charleston presented the paper "Pamphlets and Publics: Cheap Print and Public Discourse in the French Wars of Religion."

Rounding out the second session at SRC 2025 was Steven May, who spoke on the revolutionary changes wrought by the increasing ability to access paper as a writing medium in his talk "Scribal Culture: Medieval vs. Renaissance."

The SRC capped the first day of its annual meeting with a banquet and the George Walton Williams Plenary Lecture, delivered by eminent literary scholar David Lee Miller. The 18th-century McCutchen House on the campus of the University of South Carolina was a perfect setting!

The second day of papers at SRC 2025 started off with long-time SRC member Robert Lanier Reid (better known to his many friends as Robin Reid) and his presentation "Making a Masterpiece from a Train Wreck: _The Faerie Queene_'s Twelve Virtues of Perfection."

On the panel "Epic Traditions" at SRC 2025, Jesse Russell of Georgia Southwestern State University presented "Edmund Spenser, John Dee, and the Making of the Poet-Magus."

At SRC 2025, Robert Epstein of Fairfield University rounded out the "Epic Traditions" panel with his paper "John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's _Squire's Tale_: An Overlooked Epic of Stuart Absolutism."

SRC 2025 ended on a high note with the closing panel "Negotiating Sovereignty." Fayaz Kabani of Allen University opened the session with his paper "'No Sovereignty' or 'No, Sovereignty!': Stabilizing the Masculine Self in _The Tempest_."

More from SRC 2025! In the concluding panel of the conference, Ilenia Colón Mendoza of the Univ. of Central Florida presented "The Use of Sculpture in the Theater of Calderón de la Barca."

Helen Hull of Queens University brought SRC 2025 to a stimulating conclusion with her presentation "'My sovereign mistress clouded so': Sovereign Bodies and Sovereign Texts in Shakespeare's _The Winter's Tale_." We look forward to next year for SRC 2026 at the U. of Tennessee!

A belated congratulations to SRC member Jesse Russell, who presented the paper "Rejecting Giordano Bruno's Cosmology in Edmund Spenser's 'Two Cantos of Mutabilitie'" at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Portland, Oregon!

The new issue of the SRC's official journal, _Renaissance Papers_, is out! Featuring the best papers presented at the 2024 conference (held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina), it is a great way to start off the new year!

Meet the 2026 officers of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference! This year's president is Dr. Matthew Carter of Clayton State University. Matt is a specialist in English Renaissance drama and co-editor of the collection _Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England_.

Meet the 2026 officers of the SRC, part II! This year's Vice-President is Professor Alexis Culotta of Tulane University. Dr. Culotta is a scholar of Renaissance art history. Her most recent monograph is _The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture_ (2025).

Meet the 2026 SRC officers! Dr. Jonathan Shelley of St. John Fisher Univ. now moves into the Past President office. Jonathan will spend time this year overseeing work on his MLA-funded Pathways Step project, which assists students from groups underrepresented in the humanities.

Meet the 2026 officers of the SRC! Dr. Eric Dunnum of Campbell University continues as the SRC Treasurer this year. Eric is a scholar of English Renaissance drama. His latest monograph is _Temporality and Alienation in the Works of Thomas Middleton_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Please welcome the 2026 officers of the SRC (cont.)! Jesse Russell continues this year as SRC Secretary. Jesse is a specialist in Renaissance English literature at Georgia Southwestern University. His most recent publication appears in _Renaissance Papers 2024_ (2025).