Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 02/12

26 March 2025

Dr. Devani Singh, UNIGE

Dr. Charlotte Potter

Dr. Andy Reilly 

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.

Collaborative Workshop, ‘Sonnets at Random’, introduced by Charlotte Potter (UNIGE) and Andy Reilly (UNIGE)

Drawing its inspiration from the Spenser Society’s “Spenser at Random” meetings, this workshop will engage

participants in a collaborative close-reading of sonnets to be randomly selected from the work of a few

sonneteers across the centuries, from Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti (1595) and William Shakespeare’s Sonnets

(1609) to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). In addition to questions of

literary history, we will also reflect on the affordances of the sonnet form itself.

UNIGE

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