rogram Schedule

THURSDAY, 5 APRIL

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

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

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Roundtable: Shakespeare’s Audiences Now
Chair: Charles Joseph Del Dotto
(Duke University)

Barbara Hodgdon (University of Michigan)

Ellen MacKay (Indiana University)

Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)

W. B. Worthen (University of Michigan)

Embodiment, Sexuality, and Cognition in the Renaissance
Chair: Valerie Traub
(University of Michigan)

Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame)
The Marlovian Sublime

Elizabeth D. Harvey (University of Toronto)
Imaginary Bodies

Gail Kern Paster (Folger Shakespeare Library)
The Pith and Marrow of our Attribute: Holbein, Hamlet, and the Force of Temperament

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Shakespeare and Southern Italy
Seminar Leaders: Catherine Canino (University of South Carolina Upstate) and
Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University)

(Beaumont &) Fletcher & Colleagues & Collaborators
Seminar Leader: Suzanne Gossett
(Loyola University Chicago)

Shakespeare, Appropriation, and the Ethical
Seminar Leaders: Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht University) and Alexander C.Y. Huang (Pennsylvania State University)

Drama and the Making of National Identity in Early Modern England
Seminar Leader: Lloyd Edward Kermode
(California State University, Long Beach)

The Semiotics of Stage Properties
Seminar Leader: Arthur F. Kinney
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Readings in Early Modern
Book History
Seminar Leaders: Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania) and Alan B. Farmer
(Ohio State University)

Shakespeare and Chaucer
Seminar Leader: Dieter Mehl
(University of Bonn)

Catholic Aesthetics and Early Modern Drama
Seminar Leader: Susannah Brietz Monta
(Louisiana State University)

Shakespeare and the Satiric Voice
Seminar Leaders: Tom Bishop
(University of Auckland) and Michael Neill
(University of Auckland)

Shakespearean Attachments, Part One
Seminar Leaders: Kristen Poole
(University of Delaware) and Douglas Trevor (University of Iowa)

Locating Performance
Seminar Leader: Robert Shaughnessy (University of Kent)

Twelfth Night, Part One
Seminar Leaders: Peter J. Smith (Nottingham Trent University) and
Greg Walker (University of Leicester)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual Meeting and their guests.

9:00 to 11:00 p.m.

PLAY READING

No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s
by Thomas Middleton

Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual Meeting and their guests.

FRIDAY, 6 APRIL

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

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION

Historical Formalism in Shakespeare Studies
Chair: J. Leeds Barroll
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

Lorna Hutson (University of St. Andrews)
“What do these facts mean?”: Judicial Narratio and Shakespearean Mimesis

Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Shakespeare’s Green Materials: Local Fantasy in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Heather James (University of Southern California)
Sentencing Ovid

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

PAPER SESSIONS

Trans-Shakespeare: Temporality and Identity
Chair: Jonathan Goldberg
(Emory University)

Karen Newman (New York University)
Vigny, Schakspeare’s Othello, and Cultural Translation

Marcie Frank (Concordia University)
Fairie Time: Ann Radcliffe’s Shakespeare

Madhavi Menon (American University)
Coriolanus and I

New Ways of Teaching Old Texts
Chair: Jeremy Ehrlich
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

Margaret Maurer (Colgate University)
Performance: Making the Best of a Good Idea

Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California)
Theory for Fun and Profit

Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology)
Using Technology to Teach Shakespeare

Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Planned Obsolescence

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: Georgianna Ziegler
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual Meeting.

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Shakespeare and Early Modern Textual Culture
Seminar Leaders: Patrick Cheney (Pennsylvania State University) and
Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)

The Presence of Shakespeare and War
Seminar Leader: Evelyn Gajowski
(University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Shakespeare and the Question of Time, Part One
Seminar Leader: Lowell Gallagher
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Talking About Sex
Seminar Leader: Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia)

Shakespeare Between Religion and Philosophy
Seminar Leaders: Ken Jackson (Wayne
State University) and James A. Knapp
(Eastern Michigan University)

Performance Criticism: The State of the Art
Seminar Leader: Jeremy Lopez
(University of Toronto)

Influence Studies after Post-Structuralist Theory
Seminar Leader: Shannon Miller
(Temple University)

Shakespeare and the Invention of a Mass Audience
Seminar Leader: Andrew Murphy
(University of St. Andrews)

Shakespearean Attachments, Part Two
Seminar Leaders: Kristen Poole
(University of Delaware) and Douglas Trevor (University of Iowa)

Representing Space on the Stage
Seminar Leader: Catherine Richardson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Foreign Objects
Seminar Leaders: Benedict S. Robinson
(SUNY, Stonybrook) and Daniel Vitkus
(Florida State University)

Twelfth Night, Part Two
Seminar Leaders: Peter J. Smith (Nottingham Trent University) and
Greg Walker (University of Leicester)

Editorial Theory and Practice in the Shakespeare Classroom
Workshop Leader: M. L. Stapleton (Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne)

6:00 to 7:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

The English Broadside Ballad: Street Songs of the Seventeenth Century
Performed by Lucie Skeaping with lutenist Robin Jeffrey.

SATURDAY, 7 APRIL

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

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Roundtable: Academic Publishing
Chair: Kathleen McLuskie
(Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Emma Bennett (Blackwell Publishing)

William Germano (Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)

Karen Henry (Bedford Books)

Andrew McNeillie (Oxford University Press)

Sarah Stanton (Cambridge University Press)

Early Modern How-To Books
Chair: Edward Pechter
(University of Victoria)

Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania)
Reading and Doing: Authority and Technical Knowledge in How-To Books

Susie Phillips (Northwestern University)
Multi-lingual wheeling and dealing: Dictionaries and the Early Modern Marketplace

Wendy Wall (Northwestern University)
Setting the Table of Contents 

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

PAPER SESSIONS

Thresholds of Experience in Early Modernity
Chair: Deborah Willis
(University of California, Riverside)

Harry Berger, Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Fenced ears”: The King’s Body Impolitic in Gorboduc, Richard II, and King Lear

Su Fang Ng (University of Oklahoma)
Piracy, Conversion, and Religious Heterodoxy: Twelfth Night in a Global Mediterranean

Adam Rzepka (University of Chicago)
“Rich eyes and poor hands”: Theaters of Early Modern Experience

Classical Associations
Chair: Raphael Falco
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Representing Helen of Troy; or, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

Henry S. Turner (University of Wisconsin)
Of Dramatology

Rebeca Helfer (University of California, Irvine)
Remembering Rome in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet

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

Shakespeare and the Trace of Theology
Chair: Valerie Wayne
(University of Hawai’i, Manoa)

Brian Cummings (University of Sussex)
Loving Lear

Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University)
Theocracy and the Bible in Measure for Measure

James Kearney (University of California, Santa Barbara)
A Surplus of Grace: The Impossibility of the Gift and The Winter’s Tale

Shakespeare, Law, and Genre
Chair: Martin Orkin
(University of Haifa)

Luke Wilson (Ohio State University)
Probability and Genre in the Age of Pre-Statistical Risk

Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta)
“The King is a thing”: Plowden’s Report of the “Case of Mines” and Shakespeare's Hamlet

Karen Cunningham (University of California,
Los Angeles)
“Grant me justice”: Ladies at Law in Shakespeare

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Beyond the Metropolis: Regional and Continental
Contexts for English Theater
Seminar Leaders: Karen Britland
(Keele University) and Clare McManus (Roehampton University)

Re-Sounding Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Leslie Dunn (Vassar College) and Wes Folkerth (McGill University)

Shakespeare and the Question of Time, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Lowell Gallagher
(University of California, Los Angeles)

The Varied Politics of Early Modern Historiography
Seminar Leader: Peter C. Herman
(San Diego State University)

Biography and the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leader: David Kathman
(Chicago, Illinois)

Shakespeare’s Antique Disposition: The Classical Tradition
in Renaissance England
Seminar Leader: Sean Keilen
(University of Pennsylvania)

Shakespeare and the Supernatural
Seminar Leader: Jesse M. Lander
(University of Notre Dame)

Shakespeare’s Comedy on Screen
Seminar Leader: Patricia Lennox
(New York University)

Richard Brome and Caroline Drama
Seminar Leaders: Eleanor Lowe (Royal Holloway, University of London) and
Lucy Munro (Keele University)

Letterwriting in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto) and Alan Stewart (Columbia University)

Representing the Renaissance in Modern Popular Culture
Seminar Leader: Gregory M. Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut)

Tudor and Jacobean Women’s Religious Writing
Seminar Leader: Micheline White
(Carleton University)

ShakespeareWiki:
A New Internet Tool for Teaching
Workshop Leader: Robin Farabaugh
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

As You Like It
Directed by Kenneth Branagh, produced by HBO Films.

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

SAA/MALONE SOCIETY DANCE

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