Martin Elsky
Emeritus, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
Martin Elsky has served as Articles Editor of Renaissance Quarterly; as Coordinator of the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program (now the Global Early Modern Studies Program) and on the Executive Committee of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center; and on the Board of Directors of the Renaissance Society of America. He has published on seventeenth-century devotional poetry, Renaissance Humanist language theory, Early Modern print culture, and local and national culture in the seventeenth-century English country house poem. His current interest centers around the work of Erich Auerbach, the German reception of Dante in the wake of World War I, typological criticism in the US and Germany during and after World War II, and the migration of texts across cultural and religious lines. He has co-translated the work of Erich Auerbach, including a selection of his letters.
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