Seminar Leaders:
Heather James, University of Southern California
Heidi Brayman, University of California, Riverside
Colleen R. Rosenfeld, Pomona College
2025-2026
Saturday, September 20, 2025
“‘Blotted Out’: Defacing Archives in London and Providence Island”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Saturday, December 13, 2025
“Sex and Race in Translation: The Case of al-Hasan al-Wazzan/Leo Africanus”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Saturday, January 31, 2026
“(In)Visibility and Mediation: Milton’s Eve”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Saturday, March 14, 2026
“Forged on the Anvil of the Mind: Publishing Women Playwrights in London, Amsterdam, and Paris”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
This EMSI Renaissance Literature seminar thanks Pomona College for their co-sponsorship.

Image Credit: Unknown. Devotions, in Dutch, c. 1485-1499. mssHM 1140. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
