Today’s guests are Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles who have co-edited a special issue ofSpenser Studiesin 2021, on “Spenser and Race.” Dennis is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia; his previous bookBecoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance,was published through Fordham University Press in 2014. Dennis is the former board president of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire. Kim is Professor of English at the University of Maryland; she has publishedReligion, Reform and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England, with Cambridge University Press in 2008; andBad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England, with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2022. We will be discussing the impetus and contributions of this special issue, which features brilliant scholarship by Tess Grogan, Anna Wainwright, Ayanna Thompson, Melissa Sanchez, Eric Song, Urvashi Chakravarty, Ross Lerner, Andrew Hadfield, Thomas Herron, and Benedict Robinson. John Yargoholds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published inStudies in Philology,The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, andShakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry