Lauren Silberman

Books

Silberman, L. (2018). Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (rpt.). Berkeley, CA, US, University of California Press.

Silberman, L., Cheney, P. G., Cheney, P., & Silberman, L. (2000). Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age . (p. 288). Lexington: U of Kentucky P.

Silberman, L. (1995). Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene. (p. 189). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Journal Articles

Silberman, L. (2024). "'Whence Comes This Restraint': The Perils of Political Theology in Measure for Measure". Renaissance Papers, 63-72.

Silberman, L. (2020). Growing Up in Epic: Transformations of the Doloneia. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, 34. 167-175.

Silberman, L. (2012). "Aesopian Prosopopoia: Making Faces and Playing Chicken in Mother Hubberds Tale". Spenser Studies: a Renaissance Poetry Annual, 27. 221-248.

Silberman, L. (2008). "'Perfect Hole': Spenser and Greek Romance". Spenser Studies: a Renaissance Poetry Annual, 23. 283-291.

Silberman, L. (2004). "The Faerie Queene, Book V and the Politics of the Text." Spenser Studies . AMS Press, 19. 1-16.

Silberman, L. (1993). Spenser's Faerieland Meets the Land of Oz." Studies in Popular Culture. Popular Culture Association of the South , 15. 29-33.

Silberman, L. (1990). "To Write Sorrow in Johnson's On My First Sonne." John Donne Journal . John Donne Journal, 9. 149-156.

Silberman, L. (1988). "Spenser and Ariosto: Funny Peril and Comic Chaos". Comparative Literature Studies/Pennsylvania State University , 25. 23-34.

Silberman, L. (1988). "Mythographic Transformations of Ovid's Hermaphrodite". The Sixteenth Century Studies/Northeast Missouri State University , 19. 643-652.

Silberman, L. (1987). "The Hermaphrodite and the Metamorphosis of Spenserian Allegory". English Literary Renaissance/University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 17. 207-223.

Silberman, L. (1987). "The Faerie Queene, Book II and the Limitations of Temperance". Modern Language Studies/Northeast Modern Language Association , 17. 9-22.

Silberman, L. (1986). "God and Man in Oedipus Rex". College Literature/West Chester State Coll., 13. 292-299.

Exposing Narratives of Coercion in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, 80 manuscript pages.

Book Chapters

Silberman, L. (2013). "Aesopian Prosopopoia: Making Faces and Playing Chicken in Mother Hubberds Tale". In Prescott, A. L., & Hadfield, A. (Eds.), Edmund Spenser's Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition New York, NY,USA. W.W. Norton.

Silberman, L. (2009). Taking Another Peek. In Levine, N., & Miller, D. L. (Eds.), Fordham University Press (pp. 104-114). New York, NY, USA. Fordham University Press.

Silberman, L. (1996). "Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book III of The Faerie Queene". In Hadfield, A. (Ed.), Longman Critical Reader on Spenser (pp. 134-148). Longman.

Silberman, L. (1996). "The Hermaphrodite and the Metamorphosis of Spenserian Allegory". In Suzuki, M. (Ed.), Critical Essays on Edmund Spenser (pp. 152-167). G.K. Hall.

Silberman, L. (1990). Hermaphrodite. In Hamilton, A. C., Cheney, D., Blisset, W., Richardson, D., & Baker, W. W. (Eds.), Spenser Encyclopedia Toronto, Canada. University of Toronto Press.

Silberman, L. (1986). "Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book III of the Faerie Queene." Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. In Ferguson, M. W., Quilligan, M., & Vickers, N. (Eds.), (pp. 259-271). U of Chicago P.

Presentations

Silberman, L. (2026, March 2). "The Comedy of Remarriage and the Conversion of the World in Shakespeare's Cymbeline". Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting/Shakespeare Society of America (joint conference). Boston, MA: Renaissance Society of America.

Silberman, L. (2026, September 2). "'Whence Comes This Restraint?" The Perils of Political Theology in Measure for Measure". Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Charleston, South Carolina: Southeastern Renaissance Conference.

Silberman, L. (2020, February 20). "Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece": Resisting the Narrative. Works-in-Progress. New York, NY: Baruch College English Department.

Silberman, L. (2020, March 10). "'Perchance his boast of Lucrece’sov’reignty': The Rape of Lucrece and the Political Subject". Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance. New York City: Columbia University--University Seminars.

Silberman, L. (2019, October 20). Chair of Session, Spenser and His Contemporaries. Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference. St. Louis, MO: Sixteenth Century Society.

Silberman, L. (2019, October 20). Personal and Political: Spenser vs. Marlowe in The Rape of Lucrece. Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference. St. Louis, MO: Sixteenth Century Society.

Silberman, L. (2018, October 27). "The Rape of Lucrece and the Sovereign Subject". Shakespeare and his Sources. Farleigh Dickinson University, Florham, NJ: Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare.

Silberman, L. (2017, May 13). Presider, Passionate and Penetential Instruction. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: Spenser Sessions at Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (2016, May 13). Celebration of Anne Lake Prescott. Spenser Sessions at Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: International Spenser Society/Spenser at Kalamazoo.

Silberman, L. (2014, March 28). Chair of "Sidney and Spenser Studies in Tribute to T.P. Roche III__Spenser's Poetics and its Influence. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. New York City: Renaissance Society of America.

Silberman, L. (2014, October 16). Shakespeare and Spenserian Monsters of the Mind. Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA: Sixteenth-Century Studies Association.

Silberman, L. (2014, May 9). Introduction of Kathleen Williams Lecture. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: International Spenser Society/Spenser Sessions at Kalamazoo.

Silberman, L. (2011, January 31). "Duelling Poets: Marlowe vs. Spenser in The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure". MLA. Los Angeles: MLA.

Silberman, L. (2009, May 31). "Aaron, the Brother Who Proves the Rule: Typological Negotiations in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus". Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance. Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa.

Silberman, L. (2008, March 31). "Redeeming Romance Time in Cymbeline". Shakespeare Association of America. Dallas, Texas: Shakespeare Association of America.

Silberman, L. (2007, March 31). Allegory and its Discontents in Titus Andronicus. Medieval/Renaissance Colloquium. Yale University , New Haven, CT: Yale Department of English.

Silberman, L. (2006, October 31). Taking Another Peek. Disturbing Complicities in honor of Harry Berger Jr.. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina.

Silberman, L. (2006, May 31). Spenser's Civilizations. Roundtable Discussion. University of Toronto, Toronto: International Spenser Society and Department of English.

Silberman, L. (2006, March 31). Humanities for Humans. Keynote lecture for "Being Human: Taking the Humanities Beyond the Classroom. Fredonia: SUNY.

Silberman, L. (2006, March 31). Greek Romance on the Renaissance Page and Stage. Panel on "Renaissance Prose Romance: Canon and Contexts". San Francisco: Renaissance Society of America.

Silberman, L. (2006, December 31). Augustinian Counter-history and the Massacre of Innocents in Titus Andronicus. MLA. Philadelphia

Silberman, L. (2005, May 31). Amoret's Perfect Hole: A Source for Faerie Queene 3.12.38.9 That Probably Has Not Occurred to You. Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI

Silberman, L. (2005, December 31). Making Faces and Playing Chicken in Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale. Hugh Maclean Memorial Lecture, MLA. Washington, D.C.: International Spenser Society.

Silberman, L. (2003, December 31). Shakespeare Reads Spenser in Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. MLA. San Diego

Silberman, L. (2002, May 31). Political Reading in Book V of The Faerie Queene. Kathleen Williams Memorial Lecture. Kalamazoo, MI: Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (2001, July 31). Chair of workshop on The Faerie Queene, Book III. Spenser 2000. Cambridge England: International Spenser Society.

Silberman, L. (2000, May 31). Why Does Spenser Matter. Medieval Institute. Kalamazook: Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (1999, December 31). Chair of Panel, Spenser and Scripture: Transaction of the Sacred and Secular. MLA. Chicago

Silberman, L. (1999, May 31). Spenerian Intertexts: Classical, Continental, English. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (1998, December 31). Chair of Panel, Spenser as Reader and Read. MLA. San Francisco: International Spenser Society.

Silberman, L. (1998, October 31). Sexual Politics and Political Constructions. Columbia Renaissance Seminar. Columbia University, New York, NY

Silberman, L. (1996, September 30). Co-chair session, "The Afterlife of the Poem". The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996: Edmund Spenser among the Disciplines. Yale University , New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art.

Silberman, L. (1993, April 30). Going with the Flow in Book IV of the Faerie Queene. Renaissance Society of America. Kansas City, MO

Silberman, L. (1993, May 31). Chair of Lecuture by Donald Cheney, "Spenser's Undergoing of Ariosto". Kathleen Williams Memorial Lecture. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (1992, May 31). Chair of Session, Looking Back: Vergil and Ovid. Medieval Institute. Kalamazook MI

Silberman, L. (1991, April 30). The Disappearance of Spenser's Hermaphrodite. Columbia Renaissance Seminar. Columbia University, New York, NY

Silberman, L. (1991, February 28). Spenser's Construction of the Feminine. Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.

Silberman, L. (1990, September 30). Teaching Spenser to Undergraduates. Spenser 400. Princeton: NEH.

Silberman, L. (1990, December 31). Cancelling the Hermaphrodite. MLA. Chicago

Silberman, L. (1988, March 31). Inscribing Loss in Jonson's 'On My First Sonne. SUNY, Albany: English Dept..

Silberman, L. (1988, March 31). Chair and response to session "Rome Translated". Renaissance Society of America. New York

Silberman, L. (1987, October 31). Response to Session, "The Faerie Queene and Mortal Woman". Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Tempe AZ: Arizona State University.

Silberman, L. (1986, February 28). Narcissus into Hermaphrodite: Spenserian Allegory Moralizes Ovid. Columbia Renaissance Seminar. Columbia University, New York, NY

Silberman, L. (1986, May 31). Britomart and Bradamante: Nihilism is Easy. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (1985, December 31). Spenser's Hermaphrodite: Ovid Moralized. MLA. Chicago: International Spenser Society.

Silberman, L. (1984, May 31). The Faerie Queene, Book II: A Surfeit of Temperance. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI: Spenser Sessions at the Medieval Institute.

Silberman, L. (1982, March 31). Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book III of the Faerie Queene. "Renaissance Woman/Renaissnace Man: The Creation of Culture and Society. Yale University , New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Silberman, L. (2013,April 1). Review of Victor Skretkowicz, European Erotic Romance: Philhellene Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics. The Spenser Review.

Silberman, L. (2005,January 1). Review of Andrew Escobedo. Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England. Renaissance Quarterly.

Silberman, L. (2004,January 1). Review of Bart Van Es. Spenser's Forms of History. Renaissance Quarterly.

Silberman, L. (1998,January 1). Review of Julia Lupton. Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature. Comparative Literature Studies.

Silberman, L. (1996,January 1). Review of John Watkins. The Spector of Dido, Spencer and Virgilian Epic.. The Sixteenth Century Studies.

Silberman, L. (1995,January 1). Review of Kari Weil. Andgrogyny and Denial of Difference. Comparative Literature Studies.

Silberman, L. (1995,January 1). Review of Robert Lane. Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's Shepheards Calendar and the Institutions of Elizabethan Society. Renaissance Quarterly.

Silberman, L. (1992,January 1). Review of David Miller. The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene. Renaissance Quarterly.

Research Currently in Progess

Silberman, L.(n.d.). Redeeming Lucretia: Political Theology and Salvation History in Shakespeare. In Progress.