ISS Officers
Spenser Review—Issue Guest Edited by ISS Officers: Spenserians in Conference, 2022-23
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Laura Jayne Wright
Alex MacConochie, Staging Touch in Shakespeare's England
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Chloe Kathleen Preedy
Anita Gilman Sherman, Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature
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Todd Andrew Borlik
Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609
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Kevin Killeen
Debora Shuger, Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611
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Massimiliano Riviera
Heather James, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
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Laura Seymour
Helen Hackett, The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
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Abigail Shinn
Kenneth Borris, ed., Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender (1579): An Analyzed Facsimile Edition
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Giulio J. Pertile
Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett, eds., Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice
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Jan Purnis
Matt Williamson, Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage
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Ashley Buchanan
Sarah Neville, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany
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Scott Annett
Toria Johnson, Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
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David Wilson-Okamura (East Carolina University)
A Decade of Style
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Sean Henry (University of Victoria)
We’re meeting at Pondside: Kalamazoo, 2023
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Claire Falck (Rowan University)
Spenser at MLA 2023
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Scott Annett
Toria Johnson, Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
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Stephen Orgel (Stanford University)
Remembering Jonathan Crewe
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Todd Andrew Borlik
Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609
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Kevin Killeen
Debora Shuger, Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611
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Chloe Kathleen Preedy
Anita Gilman Sherman, Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature
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Jan Purnis
Matt Williamson, Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage
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Massimiliano Riviera
Heather James, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
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Laura Seymour
Helen Hackett, The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
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Current Issue
Volume 53 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Spring–Summer 2023
About this Journal
The Spenser Review is an online journal published three times each year, supported by the International Spenser Society. The Review publishes book reviews, essay-reviews and writing of various kinds on topics in and around the work of Edmund Spenser. The writing that appears in the journal ranges from historically and textually focused scholarship to a wide array of theoretical, experimental, collaborative, exploratory, and playful forms of writing. The mission of the journal is to complement, reflect and provoke exciting work being undertaken on (and adjacent to) Spenser's writings, and the changing intellectual, pedagogical, cultural and institutional structures in which they are read.
In 2023 The Spenser Review moved to its new online home, hosted by Janeway Systems. This transitional period in the journal's existence is being overseen by an editorial collective comprising the officers of the International Spenser Society and the editors of Spenser Studies, assisted by a newly constituted editorial board and a new Managing Editor.
The Spenser Review was founded in 1969–70 by Elizabeth Bieman and A. Kent Hieatt, and was originally published from the University of Western Ontario, with the endorsement of the Renaissance Society of America. Until 2001 its title was Spenser Newsletter. In 2008, Sheila Cavanagh at Emory University and David Lee Miller at the University of South Carolina saw the journal from print to digital publication. In 2013, the International Spenser Society restructured the journal’s management and format, and it has continued to develop under subsequent editors, becoming a widely recognized hub for a wide variety of Spenserian engagements.