Illustration from the Library of Congress Exhibition,
"Creating
French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France"
Octavien de Saint-Gelais, translation of Ovid's Epistulae heroidim,
1496-1498
Karen
L. Nelson is associate director of the Center
for Renaiss
ance
& Baroque Studies in the College
of Arts and Humanities at the
University of Maryland. She received
her PhD from the Department of English
at Maryland in May 1998. Curriculum
Vitae.
She currently serves as the book review editor for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and co-edits the proceedings volumes for the Attending to Early Modern Women symposia series. She co-edited the 2006 proceedings with Amy E. Leonard (forthcoming 2010) and has started calling in essays and workshop summaries for the 2009 proceedings.
For the academic year 2009-2010, Center programs include Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord, November 5-7, 2009, along with a variety of discussion groups, lectures and special programs. Spring brings the Shakespeare Monologue Festival on February 11, 2010 and Maryland Day, April 24, 2010.
Summer 2010 features Re-Mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Islam and Europe, a summer seminar for college teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities; a summer institute for teachers exploring aspects of arts integration in 
seconday education; and Shakespeare
Camp for students ages 11 to 14.
See the Center's Calendar for a more complete listing of Center programs.
Recent past programs include A Semester on War and the Representation of War, Fall 2008;Teaching Chaucer, Elizabeth I, and Shakespeare, Fall 2008; Shakespeare Fest, a mini-symposium series; Shakespeare in Washington, organized by the Kennedy Center and the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, Spring 2007; and A Semester on Comedy and Humor, Fall 2006.
Resources
Google Search;
Early
English Books Online; Early
Modern Women database, by UM Humanities Librarians; Medieval
and Renaissance Studies in English at Maryland; Sixteenth
Century Studies; Society for the
Study of Early Modern Women; School-University
Partnerships links; state
and local statistical resources.
UM Bookmarks
Administrative Resources; ARHU
Remote Access; Blackboard.com; Catering;
Corporate Time; Faculty/Staff
Directory; Libraries;
PHR;
Mail@umd.edu (Mirapoint); Email@umd.edu (Microsoft Outlook); ELMS at Maryland
Shakespeare on Film: A Teaching Exercise; archive for Integrating the WWW into the Women's Studies Curriculum, a workshop for "Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries" sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, November 6-8, 1997. A beginner's guide to constructing web pages at UMCP from 1996. Family.
This page is maintained by Karen Nelson. Last updated April 13, 2010 .