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Shakespeare Association of America

rogram for the 2001 Annual Conference
of the Shakespeare Association of America

 


Thursday, 
12 April

12:00 noon to 5:30 p.m.

Registration and Book Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.


Paper Sessions

Retracing the Spirit: Shakespearean Reminiscences of Premodern Devotion and Postmodern Religion
Chair: Donna B. Hamilton (University of Maryland, College Park)

Paul White (Purdue University)
Drama, Identity, and Devotion in Early Modern England

Philippa Berry (Cambridge University)
'A salve in the mail': The Touch of the Text and the Paradox of Salvation in Love's Labour's Lost

Lowell Gallagher (University of California, Los Angeles)
Blood Memories

 


Feminist Historiography and Shakespeare's London: Rewriting Women's History
Chair: John Michael Archer (University of New Hampshire)


Margo Hendricks (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Shakespeare's Wives: A Problem of History

Karen Newman (Brown University)
Sex and the City


3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Seminars and Workshops

Stage Directions in Text and Performance
Seminar Leader: Roger Apfelbaum (Seton Hall University)

Shakespeare's Stationers, 1593-2001: Printers, Publishers, Booksellers
Seminar Leader: Thomas L. Berger (St. Lawrence University)

Food Studies/Early Modern Studies
Seminar Leaders: Anne C. Christensen (University of Houston) and Katherine Conway (Wheaton College)

Early Observers of the Shakespearean Stage: Reporters and Interpreters, 1576-1642
Seminar Leader: John D. Cox (Hope College)

Closet or Coterie Drama
Seminar Leader: Julie Crawford (Columbia University)

Normative Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Jonathan V. Crewe (Dartmouth College)

Women Reading and Being Read
Seminar Leaders: Melinda Gough (Oklahoma State University) and Susan O'Malley (CUNY Kingsborough and the Graduate School)

Getting Published
Workshop Leader: Jerome E. Singerman (University of Pennsylvania Press)

The State of Performance Criticism: Where Are We Today and Where Are We Headed?
Seminar Leader: Sarah Werner (George Washington University)

Early Modern 'Manuals' and the Scripting of Behavior
Seminar Leader: Frank Whigham (University of Texas, Austin)

Instructive Formations: Education, Rhetoric, and Renaissance Drama
Seminar Leader: Eric Wilson (Washington and Lee University)


4:00 to 9:00 p.m. (Dinner Break 6:00 to 7:00)

Workshop for Teachers

Teaching Outside the Curriculum: Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest

Workshop Leaders: Janet Field-Pickering (Folger Shakespeare Library), Miriam Gilbert (University of Iowa), and Jim Andreas (Florida International University)


6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Opening Reception at Vizcaya

Co-hosted by Florida International University, The University of Miami, and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

Open to all registrants for the 29th Annual Meeting and their guests


Friday, 
13 April

8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.


Registration and Book Exhibits


8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast for Graduate Students

Hosted by the Trustees of the Association


9:00 to 10:30 a.m.


Plenary Session

Not the New Criticism: Historicizing Shakespeare's Language
Chair: A.R. Braunmuller (University of California, Los Angeles)


Sylvia Adamson (University of Manchester)
The Urge to Self-Expression

Russ McDonald (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Playing Ercles

Lynne Magnusson (Queen's University, Canada)
Shakespeare with Words: Language and History


11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Paper Sessions

Knowing Bodies: Towards an Historical Phenomenology
Chair: Bruce R. Smith (Georgetown University)


Julian Yates (University of Delware)
Michel Serres and Early Modern Studies

Anston Bosman (Amherst College)
Nobody on Stage

Cynthia Marshall (Rhodes College)
Phenomenology in the Audience

Joan Pong Linton (Indiana University)
Agency of the Voice Withheld in Anne Askew's Examinations

Jesse G. Swan (University of Northern Iowa)
The Amphibolous and Other Positive Problems: Knowing Bodies Knowing Bodies


Performance as Critical Practice
Chair: Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)


Margo Jefferson (The New York Times)
Reader Or Spectator: Which Is To Be Master?

Kate D. Levin (City College, CUNY)
What's Performance Got to Do With It?

Joseph Roach (Yale University)
Pepys, Shakespeare, and the Performance of Everyday Life


1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Annual Luncheon

Presiding: Meredith Skura (Rice University)


Open to all registrants for the 29th Annual Meeting; to purchase a ticket for your guest's luncheon, see page 8 of the bulletin.

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Seminars and Workshops

Pornographic Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University)

Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Pedagogy of Film
Workshop Leader: Deborah T. Curren-Aquino (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Teaching through Performance: Hamlet, 3.1
Workshop Leader: Miriam Gilbert (University of Iowa)

Rivalry and Re-vision in English Drama, 1580-1642
Seminar Leader: W. David Kay (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Anger, Revenge, and the Gendering of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leaders: Gwynne Kennedy (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and Karen Robertson (Vassar College)

American Cultural Productions of Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Margaret Knapp (Arizona State University)

Personation
Seminar Leader: Cary M. Mazer (University of Pennsylvania)

The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Seminar Leader: Claire McEachern (University of California, Los Angeles)

Anatomizing the Renaissance
Seminar Leader: Shannon Miller (Temple University)

Corruptible Bodies
Seminar Leader: Simon Morgan-Russell (Bowling Green State University)

Working Women/Women's Work: The Role of the Working Woman in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leaders: Linda Vecchi (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Peter Ayers (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

New Economic Criticism
Seminar Leader: Linda Woodbridge (Pennsylvania State University)


8:00 p.m.

Performance

Much Ado About Nothing
(A WWII 'swing' version, set in the Pacific)


Ring Theatre, University of Miami

To purchase ticket(s), see page 8 of the bulletin.


Saturday, 
14 April


8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.


Information and Book Exhibits

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

Paper Sessions


Middleton: Men, Women, and Money
Chair: Susan Frye (University of Wyoming)


Valerie Wayne (University of Hawaii)
A Genealogy of Marital Impostures: Middleton, Mary Carlton, Aphra Behn

John Jowett (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Middleton and Debt in Timon of Athens

Gary L. Taylor (University of Alabama)
Middleton in Bed


Beyond Branagh: New Screen Shakespeare
Chair: Kenneth Rothwell (University of Vermont)


Lisa S. Starks (University of South Florida)
Powers of Horror in Julie Taymor's Titus

Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire)
Shakescorp Noir

Donald Hedrick (Kansas State University)
Shakespeare: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Shakespeareanism


11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Paper Sessions

Antiquarianisms: Past, Present, Future
Chair: Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University)


Henry S. Turner (Columbia University)
The Limits of Antiquarianism: The Example of Thomas Nashe

Jonathan Gil Harris (Ithaca College)
Shakespeare's Hair: Staging the Object of Material Culture

Hugh Grady (Beaver College)
Is 'Presentist' Historicism an Oxymoron?


Making Electronic Shakespeares
Chair: Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto)


Jessica Hodge (Ardenonline)
Electronic Shakespeares: Identifying Needs and Saving Trees

Michael Best (University of Victoria)
Seeking Simplicity in Multiplicity: Exploring Space in the Electronic Text

Gregory Crane (Tufts University)
The Variorum Idea in a Digital World


2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Paper Sessions


Shakespeare and Contemporary Post-Colonial Drama
Chair: Richard Paul Knowles (University of Guelph)


Nandi Bhatia (University of Western Ontario)
Staging Shakespeare / Reinventing Empire: The Shakespeare Wallah

Adrian Keirnander (University of New England in Australia)
Intestine Shocks, or Shakespeare's Other Eden: The Bell Shakespeare Company's Australian Henry IV and Henry V

Joanne Thompkins (University of Queensland, Australia)
Intercultural Shakespeare: Ong Keng Sen's Lear and Desdemona and the Reconfiguration of Asian Identities


Shakespearean Tragedy Revisited: Hamlet, Lear, Bradley
Chair: Peggy Endel (Florida International University)


Heather Hirschfeld (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Hamlet's 'first cors': Revenge, Trauma, and Typology

William O. Scott (University of Kansas)
Contracts of Love and Affection: Reading Lear Against the Grain

Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)
Shakespeare as a Force for Good


4:00 to 6:00 p.m.


Seminars and Workshops

Early Modern English Texts and the History of Sexuality
Seminar Leader: Rebecca Ann Bach (University of Alabama, Birmingham)

Girls in the 'Hood
Seminar Leaders: Lynda Boose (Dartmouth College) and Catherine Loomis (University of New Orleans)

Shakespeare on Film: An Electronic Seminar
Seminar Leader: Peter S. Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Literacies/Identities in Early Modern England
Workshop Leaders: Margaret W. Ferguson (University of California, Davis) and Eve Sanders (Concordia University)

Shakespeare and Latinities
Seminar Leader: Roland Greene (University of Oregon)

Titus in Our Time
Seminar Leader: Heather James (University of Southern California)

Acting Companies
Seminar Leaders: Scott McMillin (Cornell University) and Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto)

Spanish Culture and the Early Modern English Imaginary
Seminar Leader: Olga Valbuena (Wake Forest University)

Editing Early Modern Playtexts: Theory and Practice
Seminar Leader: Paul Werstine (King's College, University of Western Ontario)

The Pleasures of Patterns
Seminar Leader: Mark Womack (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Orality, Print, Performance
Seminar Leader: W. B. Worthen (University of California, Berkeley)


8:00 p.m.

Performance

Shakespeare's Journey

Written and directed by Leroy Clark


Wertheim Performance Arts Center, Main Stage, Florida International University

To purchase ticket(s), see page 8 of the bulletin


10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

The Dance

Sponsored by the Shakespeare Association of America and the Malone Society

To purchase ticket(s), see page 8 of the bulletin; tickets are also available at the door

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