Figure 1. Ruins of Kilcolman Castle from the northwest, c. 1996. Image credit: Thomas Herron.

Figure 2. Overhead view from the south of the reconstructed Kilcolman Castle, from the digital model on the Centering Spenser website. Note both the tower house as well as surrounding buildings and garden within a bawn, or fortified yard. Image credit: Thomas Herron, Laurie Godwin, and East Carolina University.

Figure 3. Pop-up version of Amoretti sonnet 65 in facsimile, as located in Spenser’s bedroom in the prototype WondaVR castle “Kilcolman Foundation Tour.” The viewer can hear a mechanized voice-over of the sonnet and can also activate the “Modern Text” function to read it in typed transcription instead. Image credit: Thomas Herron, Doug Barnum, and East Carolina University.

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• Thomas Herron, (2026), "Supplementary Material of ‘The Place of Reading in VR: Pedagogy, Spenser’s Kilcolman Castle, and Amoretti 65.’", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.25547/T3CB-P834)

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1. digital early modern studies

Herron, Thomas. 2025. “The Place of Reading in VR: Pedagogy, Spenser’s Kilcolman Castle, and Amoretti 65.” In New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies, edited by Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter, 381–95. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12. Iter Press. https://iterpress.org/9781649591197/new-technologies-and-renaissance-studies-iv/.