Rebeca HelferAssistant Professor, English |
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Research Interests |
Renaissance literature and Culture; Spenser; Art of Memory | |
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Research Abstract |
I work on Renaissance literature and culture. My manuscript in progress, "The Art of Recollection: Ruin and Cultural Memory in Edmund Spenser's Writing," explores the art of memory as a model for literary and cultural transmission. | |
| Publications | "Arts of Memory and Cultural Transmission" in Translatio, or the Transmission of Culture, ed. Laura H. Hollengreen, ACMRS 13 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepolis, 2008). | |
| "Remembering Sidney, Remembering Spenser: The Art of Memory and *The Ruines of Time* in *Spenser Studies,* v. 22 (2007). | ||
| "Falling Into History: Trials Of Empire in Spenser's *Faerie Queene* in *Fantasies Of Troy: Classical Tales And The Social Imaginary In Medieval And Early Modern Europe,* CRRS Texts And Studies, 4 (Toronto: Centre For Reformation And Renaissance Studies, 2004). | ||
| "The Death Of The 'New Poete': Virgilian Ruin And Ciceronian Recollection In Spenser's *The Shepheardes Calender* in *Renaissance Quarterly*, volume 56:3 Autumn, 2003. | ||
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Professional Societies |
Renaissance Society of America International Spenser Society Modern Language Association |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5133 | |
| Last updated | 08/25/2009 | |