The 37th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Hotel, 9–11 April 2009.

SAA
Georgetown University
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057-1131

NEW STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS
Twenty-five $300 awards will be given to dissertation-level students whose research will be most enhanced by seminar participation. See this website and the June 2008 bulletin for more information.

Applications are due 14 November 2008.

rogram Schedule


 

THURSDAY, 13 APRIL

10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Registration

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

Books Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Roundtable: Drafting Shakespeare: The Military Theater
Chair :Scott Newstok (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Kenneth Adelman (Movers and Shakespeares)

Steven Marx (California State Polytechnic University)

David Perry (U.S. Army War College)

Nina Taunton (Brunel University)

Risky Business: Early Modern England and Global Trade
Chair: Chair: Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University)

David J. Baker (University of Hawai’i, Manoa)
Doubly-Opaque: Mercantile Knowledge in Early Modern Britain

Jonathan Burton (West Virginia University)
“Our nation’s custom shall be awed by you”: Reciprocal Comparison, The Global Early Modern and Three English Brothers 

Robert Markley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Rich with Merchandise”: Shakespeare and the Spice Trade in the 1590s

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Shakespearean Idiom
Seminar Leader:  Sylvia Adamson
(University of Sheffield)

Festival Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Alan Armstrong
(Southern Oregon University)

Shakespeare and Modernist Performance
Seminar Leaders: Cary DiPietro (University of Toronto, Mississauga) and Paul Prescott (Oxford Brookes University)

Winter Tales: Shakespeare and the North
Seminar Leaders: Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Daryl Palmer (Regis University)

Spenser and Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Thomas Herron (East Carolina University) and Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State University)

Shakespeare Forums
Seminar Leaders: Matt Kozusko (Ursinus College) and Robert Sawyer (East Tennessee State University)

Early Modern Melancholies
Seminar Leader: Alan Lewis
(Vancouver, British Columbia)

Shakespeare’s Geezers
Seminar Leaders: Naomi Conn Liebler
(Montclair State University)

Science and Religion in the Early Modern Period
Seminar Leaders: Cristina Malcolmson (Bates College) and Sarah Rivett (Washington University)

Domestic/Civic/National Middleton
Seminar Leader: Jennifer Panek
(University of Ottawa)

King Lear
Seminar Leader: Richard Strier
(University of Chicago)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

Open to all registrants for the 34th Annual Meeting and their guests.

9:00 to 11:00 p.m.

PLAY READING

Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe

Sponsored by the Shakespeare Bulletin.

Open to all registrants for the 34th Annual Meeting and their guests.

FRIDAY, 14 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

Educating Shakespeare: Early Modern Pedagogy and its Discontents
Chair: Rebecca Bushnell
(University of Pennsylvania)

 Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University)
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom

Elizabeth Hanson (Queen’s University)
Gentlemen and Scholars                                    

Margaret Ferguson (University of California, Davis)
‘No Breeching Scholar’: Reflections on Gender, Class, and Educational Discipline 

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

PAPER SESSIONS

History/Literature/London
Chair: Jonathan Gil Harris
(George Washington University)

Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University)
Optimism of the Will

Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck College, University of London)
The Testimony of Testaments

Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)
Counter Narratives

Religion and Emotion in the Elizabethan Playhouse
Chair: Gail Kern Paster
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia)
Claudius at Prayer: Shakespeare and the Question of Repentance

Richard C. McCoy (Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Believing As You Like It: Faith in Shakespeare’s Theater

Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan)
The Reformation of Emotions                  

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: William C. Carroll (Boston University)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Presence of Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Susan Bennett
(University of Calgary)

Nature and Environment in Early Modern English Drama
Seminar Leader: Bruce Boehrer
(Florida State University)

The Scottish Play
Seminar Leader: A. R. Braunmuller
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Shakespeare and the Reformation, Part One
Seminar Leaders: Douglas A. Brooks
(Texas A&M University) and
Glyn Parry
(Victoria University)

Ben Jonson: New Directions
Seminar Leader: Martin Butler
(University of Leeds)

Shakespearean Sensations
Seminar Leaders: Katharine Craik
(Worcester College, Oxford) and
Tanya Pollard
(Montclair State University)

Renaissance Drama and the Roman Cultural Revolution
Seminar Leaders: Cora Fox
(Arizona State University) and
Curtis Perry
(Arizona State University)

TV Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Peter Holland
(University of Notre Dame)

Staging Justice in Early Modern Drama
Seminar Leader: W. David Kay
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Performance: Primary Sources, 1500-1642, Part One
Seminar Leader: Alan H. Nelson
(University of California, Berkeley)

Shakespeare and Cross-Racial Casting
Seminar Leader: Ayanna Thompson
(Arizona State University)

Teaching the “Bad” Quartos
Workshop Leader: Annalisa Castaldo
(Widener University)

8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

Shakespeare Behind Bars
Directed by Hank Rogerson.

Post-show discussion with film director and the director of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program, Curt L. Toftland.

SATURDAY, 15 APRIL

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

Information and Book Exhibits

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Romances of Trade and Trauma: The Open Submissions Panel
Chair: Tom Berger
(St. Lawrence University)

Patricia Cahill  (Emory University)
Atrocity in Arcadia: War Wounds and the Female Face of Trauma

Valerie Foreman
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
Tragicomic Redemptions and Discourses of “Free” Trade in the Early 1600s

Scholar in the Rehearsal Room
Chair: Andrew James Hartley
(University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Cary M. Mazer (University of Pennsylvania)
The Perils of Documentation

Genevieve Love (Colorado College)
Performing Academic Affect             

Steven Urkowitz (City College, New York)
That All Things Might Go Well

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WORKSHOP

Shakespearean Dynamics
Workshop Instructor:
Aaron Posner (Co-Founder, Arden Theatre Company), with the assistance of two professional actors. All registrants are welcome to attend. 

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

PAPER SESSIONS

The Logics of Shakespearean Penitence
Chair: Arthur F. Kinney
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Sarah Beckwith (Duke University)
“Repairs in the Dark”: Penance and Repentance in Measure for Measure

Elizabeth Fowler (University of Virginia)
“Do you confess the bond?”: Toward a History of Performativity

Heather Hirschfeld (University of Tennessee)
“Taking vengeance of our selves”: The Penitential Structures of Revenge Tragedy

Working-House of Thought: Shakespeare’s Desk, Marlowe’s Philosopher, Hamlet’s Brain
Chair: Rayna Kalas
(Cornell University)

Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania)
Staging Thought

John Guillory (New York University)
Marlowe, Philosophy, and the Death of Ramus

Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania)
Shakespeare’s Writing Table

1:00 to 3:30 p.m.

WORKSHOPS FOR AREA TEACHERS

Shakespeare Set Free:  An Active Workshop on Teaching Shakespeare
Workshop leader:
Jeremy Ehrlich (Folger Shakespeare Library)

2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Motley to the View: The Interaction of Lyric and Dramatic Elements in Shakespeare’s Texts
Chair: Valerie Wayne
(University of Hawai’i, Manoa)

Colin Burrow (University of Cambridge)
Lyric in its Settings: Multiple Voices and Narrative Contexts in Shakespeare       

Heather Dubrow (University of Wisconsin)
What Imports This Song?

Jennifer Lewin (University of Kentucky)
Lyric and Lyricism in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Play Reading: Second-best, Sublimation, or Art Form?
Chair: Audrey Stanley
(University of California, Santa Cruz)

Lois Potter (University of Delaware)
Reading in and of Shakespeare       

Ann Thompson (King’s College, London)
A Club of Our Own: Women’s Play Readings in the Nineteenth Century                         

Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago)
Reading, Recitation, and Entertainments: The Dunedin Shakespeare Club, 1877-1960


4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Literary Afterlives of Shakespearean Tragedy
Seminar Leaders: Mark Bayer (American University of Beirut) and Gretchen Minton (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Shakespeare and the Invention of the Quasi-Human
Seminar Leader: Lara Bovilsky
(Washington University)

Shakespeare and the Reformation, Part Two
Seminar Leaders: Douglas A. Brooks
(Texas A&M University) and
Glyn Parry
(Victoria University)

Recontextualizing Shakespeare (and others) on Film
Seminar Leader: Tom Cartelli
(Muhlenberg College)

Refiguring Shakespeare:
Questions of Canon and Theater in the Apocryphal and Collaborative Plays
Seminar Leader: John Jowett
(Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

’Tis Pity It’s Not Shakespeare: Rethinking John Ford
Seminar Leaders: Sonia Massai (King’s College, London) and
Catherine Silverstone
(Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge)

Performance: Primary Sources, 1500-1642, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Alan H. Nelson
(University of California, Berkeley)

Looking Sideways: Queer Perspectives on Heterosexuality
Seminar Leader: Kathryn Schwarz 
(Vanderbilt University)

Shakespeare and the Visual Sense
Seminar Leader: Stuart Sillars
(University of Bergen)

Shakespeare and the French
Seminar Leader: Deanne Williams
(York University)

Big-House Shakespeare
Workshop Leader: Amy Scott-Douglass
(Denison University)

7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet
Presented by the Quinnopolis Theatre Company. Post-show discussion with Director David Dalton and Quinnopolis cast members Christopher Patrick Mullen and Jeremy Beck.

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

SAA/MALONE SOCIETY DANCE

with live music by Tom Berger and the Hey Nonny Nonnies.