About Elspeth Currie

Elspeth Currie is a PhD student in the Department of History at Boston College where she studies women’s intellectual history in early modern Europe.

NBN Episodes hosted by Elspeth:

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

September 10, 2023

Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Deanne Williams
Hosted by Elspeth Currie

Deanne Williams's newest book, Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy (Bloombury, 2023), is a groundbreaking study …

Owen Stanwood, "The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2019)

July 22, 2023

The Global Refuge

Owen Stanwood
Hosted by Elspeth Currie

Owen Stanwood's newest book, The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire (Oxford UP, 2019), places the history of Huguenot refugees in a global c…

Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)

December 10, 2022

Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period

Jane Stevenson
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Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the history and historiography of women Latinists in th…

Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)

July 18, 2022

Laughing Histories

Joy Wiltenburg
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Joy Wiltenburg's book Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by exploring moments of lau…

Virginia Reinburg, "Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

June 10, 2022

Storied Places

Virginia Reinburg
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Today I talked to Virginia Reinburg about her book Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France (Cambridge UP, 2019). …

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)

February 2, 2022

The Woman on the Windowsill

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Hosted by Elspeth Currie

On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight:…