Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 01/12

26 February 2025

Dr. Devani Singh, UNIGE

Prof. Kirsten Stirling (UNIL)

The fortnightly Geneva workshops, which have been in existence for some time and are attended and regularly contributed to by PhD students and staff from all CUSO universities and CUSO associated universities, respond to the need, expressed by PhD students, for regular, short bursts of training and a structure to which they belong. They cover practical topics such as using digital resources in medieval and early modern English studies; focused discussion of key medieval and early modern texts (e.g., Chaucer, Shakespeare) or scholarly issues (e.g., codicology, bibliography); and work-in-progress papers. The workshops usually last two-to-three hours.

Kirsten Stirling (UNIL), 'Who from the Picture would avert his eye?': John Donne, Visual Art, and the Cross

This workshop will present some of the findings from Prof. Stirling's recent monograph Picturing Divinity

in John Donne's Writings (Boydell & Brewer, 2024), focusing on previously unidentified sources which

illuminate the way Donne makes use of references to visual art in his work. In the second part of the session

we will look together at Donne's poem "The Cross" in the light of another new source to be proposed-one

which clarifies some aspects of the poem but complicates others.

UNIGE

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