Enchantments, transformations and expressions of pop culture through literary works of the renaissance romance period will be discussed today.

Female authors during the renaissance romantic period were too few and only Lady Mary Worth was credited with being able to express different themes within her work.

Worth had a different “style” of writing and expressing more emotion through literary works than most male authors of her era.

These topics will be discussed at 5 p.m. today in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

English professor Julie Campbell will be discussing the “Writing Renaissance Emblem: Hearts on Fire in the First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania.”

Campbell will be speaking during the annual faculty lecture sponsored by the Eastern Humanities center.

This series allows faculty members to discuss subjects and themes the students would be interested in.

The theme in this year’s lecture is transformations and how Worth “transformed” different aspects of her own pop-culture through three key enchantment scenes in romance, Campbell said.

“A person has to almost be a history buff to understand the complex writings of the Renaissance romance,” Campbell said. “Students will be able to learn how the history and popular culture elements were written to be interconnected together.”

Campbell, like other faculty members, said she is working with the humanities’ center to help shed light on the fact that if students attend and participate in these lectures students will be able to understand the different disciplines within humanities.

Campbell said they also want to show that the different areas of humanities can work together and bring diverse elements of their areas together.

“The students won’t be disappointed if they attend the lecture because they will be able to gain an insight to understanding the Renaissance romance literature and it will also help students learn more about the humanities center and its hope for the students,” Campbell said.

Two other faculty members Dana Ringuette, department chair of English, and Jeannie Ludlow, assistant professor of English, agreed that this year’s lecture will be very interesting and beneficial to Eastern students.

“The lecture will absolutely be beneficial to the students because of two reasons. The first is that Dr. Campbell serves as a role model and someone for the students to aspire to because of the awards she has won for her research,” Ludlow said. “The second reason is that her research reaches across different areas of interests that students study and it reaches across the different boundaries grabbing students attention.”

Ringuette said students will get a chance to see Renaissance writings in a different light.

The learning and writing of Renaissance writers, especially women writers, was not given as much exposure as some of the men and Dr. Campbell’s work has been instrumental in changing that, Ringuette said. “Students will like it because it is a part history, literary interpretation, archival research and other interests that deal with humanities right now.”

Erica Aguilar can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].