This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:

• Animal studies/posthumanism
• Ecology, geography, and environment
• Time, temporality, history
• Natural philosophy and science
• Classical philosophy or Neoplatonism
• Faculty psychology (will, wit, understanding, judgement)
• Phenomenology and epistemology
• Cosmology, globality, and the world
• Affect
• Lanyer’s theology

Proposals should include the following:

• Paper title (15-word maximum)
• Abstract (200-word maximum)
• Brief CV (1 page maximum)
• PhD or other terminal degree completion year (past or expected)
• Full name, current affiliation, and e-mail address

Please send proposals or queries to Brice Peterson (brice_peterson@byu.edu) no later than July 30, 2025. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by August 5, 2025.