WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE SERIES
IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES

At Lafayette, Louisiana, in April, 2000, South-Central Renaissance Conference's executive board voted to recognize one outstanding scholar of Renaissance studies each year. William B. Hunter (1915-2006) was a former president of SCRC and a distinguished Renaissance scholar. The Hunter Lecture Series is supported by the generosity of St. Edward's University.

PREVIOUS LECTURERS

2007: Regina Schwartz, Professor of English, Northwestern University on "Sacramental Poetics" (March 8, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas)

2006: Paul Alpers, Class of 1942 Professor of English Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and Professor-in-Residence, Smith College on "Renaissance Lyrics and Their Situations" (March 9, 2006 in Houston, Texas)

2005: Andrew Ladis, Professor of Art History, University of Georgia on "Giotto and That Obscure Object of Desire" (March 3, 2005 in Malibu, California)

2004: Rebecca Wagner Oettlinger of the University of Wisconsin on "Public Relations in the Sixteenth Century: Luther's Image in Popular Songs." (April 1, 2004 in Austin, Texas)

2003: Russ McDonald of the University of North Carolina (Greensboro) for "The Elizabethan Shakespeare." (March, 2003 at New Orleans, Louisiana.)

2002: Ingrid Rowland of the American Academy, Rome, author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome. (April, 2002 at St. Louis University.)

2001: The first honoree in the SCRC William B. Hunter Lecture Series in Renaissance Studies was Michael Schoenfeldt of the University of Michigan. (April, 2001, at the Texas A & M Conference.)

Professor Schoenfeldt received his graduate training at the University of California at Berkeley and has published widely in Renaissance studies. His first book, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (University of Chicago Press), appeared in 1991. His second, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Cambridge University Press) appeared in December, 1999.