Coordinator: Professor Amanda Wunder

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: renaissance@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/global-early-modern-studies

FACULTY

Molly Aitken, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Nebahat Avcioglu, Herman Bennett, Barbara Bowen, Monica Calabritto, Clare Carroll, Sarah Covington, Joseph Dauben, Mario DiGangi, Paolo Fasoli, William Fisher, Allison Kavey, Erec Koch, Miles Grier, Erika Lin, José Martínez Torrejón, Gerry Milligan, Tanya Pollard, Bernd Renner, Dennis Slavin, Domna Stanton, Justin Steinberg, Andrew Tomasello, John Van Sickle, Emily Wilbourne, Amanda Wunder

THE PROGRAM

The Certificate Program in Global Early Modern Studies is designed to enable students pursuing degrees offered at CUNY Graduate Center interested in any aspect of the Renaissance/Early Modern period (c. 1350–c. 1700) to expand their studies in an interdisciplinary way. The program’s main goals are to provide students with the opportunity (1) to acquire innovative methods of cross-disciplinary research, including the techniques of early modern cultural analysis, that will enhance both their scholarship and teaching; (2) to study with faculty outside their home discipline; and (3) to acquire a Certificate in Global Early Modern Studies as a credential. Participating programs include Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, History, Music, Philosophy, and Theatre.

Resources for Research and Training

New York is especially suited to serve students interested in Global Early Modern Studies. In addition to the Mina Rees Library of the Graduate Center and the libraries of the CUNY campuses, CUNY graduate students have access to a broad range of resources, including the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection and Library, the Hispanic Society of America, the American Numismatic Society, the Academy of Medicine Library, and the libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary. The certificate program in Global Early Modern Studies is an affiliate member of the Renaissance Society of America, which now has its offices at the Graduate Center. As a member of the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. (and, through it, of the Newberry Library in Chicago), the Graduate Center offers advanced students eligibility for funded participation in Folger Institute seminars and conferences. The Graduate Center hosts a Shakespeare Institute and the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, and the Certificate Program sponsors a Renaissance Colloquium. Visiting scholars give talks regularly at the program’s Renaissance Colloquium, and students regularly present portions of their work in progress at an Early Modern Dissertation Colloquium.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CERTIFICATE IN GLOBAL EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Requirements for the Certificate in Global Early Modern Studies include two core courses (Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies; Topics in Material History), two elective courses outside the home discipline (these may include special topic courses in the certificate program), demonstrated reading proficiency in a second language related to the student’s field of study, and a thesis, which need not be in the area of Renaissance Studies. Upon fulfillment of the requirements for the Certificate Program in Global Early Modern Studies, a Certificate in Global Early Modern Studies is awarded by the state of New York.

Courses

GEMS 72100 Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies

3–4 credits, 30 hours. Topics have included case studies of interdisciplinary Renaissance scholarship.

GEMS 74100 Readings in Global Early Modern Studies

3–4 credits, 30 hours

GEMS 82100 Topics in Material History

3–4 credits, 30 hours

GEMS 83100 Topics in Global Early Modern Studies

3–4 credits, 30 hours. Topics have included: “The Impact of the New World on Early Modern Ideology”; “Foolishness in Renaissance Literature”; “Florentine Renaissance Patronage”; and “Renaissance and Early Modern Cities.”

GEMS 85100 Workshop in Renaissance Studies

4 credits, 30 hours

GEMS 89000 Independent Study

1–4 credits

In addition, the various doctoral disciplines offer about 10 Early Modern Studies courses each semester.

Representative Courses

Art in Italy and Beyond 1500–1600

Caravaggio and International Caravaggism

Classical Bodies

Descartes

Early Modern Print Culture

European Art and Architecture: 15th-Century Fresco Cycles

German Printing and Graphics 15th and 16th Centuries

Interactions Between Italian and Northern European Renaissance Art

Italian Renaissance Drawings

Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture

Jews in Early Modern Europe 1492–1760

La Celestina

Literature and the 17th-Century Cultural Revolution

Literature of Early Modern European History 1550–1800

Lope de Vega and the Spanish Comedy

Milton Matters

The New Cosmology

Performing the Renaissance: Theatre and Theatricality in Art and Society

Poetry, Poetics, and Authority in Baroque

Queering the Renaissance

Rabelais and Humanism

Race in the Renaissance

Renaissance Poetry

Restoration Poetry and Prose

Rhetoric and Language Theory: Early Modern Humanism

Sacred and Profane in Early Netherlandish Painting

The Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Newton 1450–1700

Shakespeare and Sexuality

Spanish Literature of the Baroque

Spanish Literature of the Renaissance

Tragicomedy in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Velazquez

Words and Music in the Renaissance

Department: Global Early Modern Studies