rogram Schedule
THURSDAY, 13 MARCH
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
Shakespearean Sexualities: Citation, Dislocation, Trace
Session Organizer: Kathryn Schwarz
Chair: Amy L. Tigner (University of Texas, Arlington)
Carla Freccero (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Against Identity
Richard Rambuss (Emory University)
Kubrick’s Shakespearean Juvenilia
Francesca T. Royster (DePaul University)
“The Uses of the Erotic” and the Politics of Flesh: Presentism and the Early Modern Performance of Sexuality
Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University)
Shakespeare and the History of Misogyny
When Manuscripts Go to the Playhouses
Session Organizer: Paul Werstine
Chair: A. R. Braunmuller (University of California Los Angeles)
S. P. Cerasano (Colgate University)
“. . . Indebted unto Philip Henslowe”
James Purkis (University of Western Ontario)
Foul Papers, “Prompt Books,” and Textual Sufficiency
Paul Werstine (King’s University College, University of Western Ontario)
Page-Turners in the Playhouses
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Shakespeare and Moral Agency, Part 1
Seminar Leader: Michael Bristol (McGill University)
Shakespeare’s Mental Life
Seminar Leaders: Douglas Bruster (University of Texas) and
Nicholas Moschovakis
“Womanhood Denies My Tongue”: Lucrece Revisited
Seminar Leaders: Sheila Cavanagh (Emory University) and
Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney (University of Lódz)
Shakespeare and the Court
Seminar Leaders: Kevin Curran (Washington and Jefferson College) and
Richard Dutton (Ohio State University)
Working Subjects in Early Modern Drama
Seminar Leader: Michelle M. Dowd (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Originality and Technology
Seminar Leaders: David B. Goldstein (University of Tulsa) and
James J. Marino (Cleveland State University)
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Seminar Leaders: Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland) and
Ruth Morse (University of Paris)
Religion and Economics in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: Blair Hoxby (Harvard University) and
Aaron Kitch (Bowdoin College)
Lady Macbeth’s Children, Again; Or, The Return of Character Criticism
Seminar Leaders: Yu Jin Ko (Wellesley College) and
Michael Shurgot (South Puget Sound Community College)
Mediatizing Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire)
Romance on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leader: Melissa E. Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)
Shakespeare’s “Creation” of Language: Poetry in the World of Play
Seminar Leader: David Schalkwyk (University of Cape Town)
Richard III Now, Part 1
Seminar Leaders: James R. Siemon (Boston University) and
Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)
Domestic Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Jessica Slights (Acadia University)
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
OPENING RECEPTION
The Nasher Sculpture Center
Open to all registrants for the 36th Annual Meeting and their guests.
FRIDAY, 14 MARCH
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
Urban Economies and the New Theater History
Session Organizer: Amanda Bailey
Chair: Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Natasha Korda (Wesleyan University)
Dame Usury: Gender and Credit in Early Modern English Drama
Amanda Bailey (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Bound Bodies: The Early Modern Theater of Debt
Mary Bly (Fordham University)
Circulating Desire: Petticoats, Plays, and Fine Suits at Paul’s and Whitefriars
11:00 a.m.to 12:30 p.m.
PAPER SESSIONS
Making Theatrical Publics in Early Modern England
Session Organizer: Paul Yachnin
Chair: Meredith Skura (Rice University)
Kate McLuskie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
The Country and the City: Conflicting Publics for the Early Modern Theater
Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan)
What’s Hamlet to Habermas? Theatrical Publics and the Elizabethan Stage
Paul Yachnin (McGill University)
Shakespeare and the Spaces of Publicity
Untimely
Session Organizers: Frances E. Dolan and Jonathan Gil Harris
Chair: Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University)
Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington University)
Untimely Matter
Sadia Abbas (Williams College)
Untimely God: Theodicy’s Challenge to History, or Why Christianity Comes to the New World
Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis)
Untimely Relations: Monarchy, Monogamy, and Tragic Form
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
ANNUAL LUNCHEON
Presiding: Peter Holland (Notre Dame University)
Open to all registrants for the 36th Annual Meeting; to purchase a ticket for your guest’s luncheon, see page 11 of the bulletin.
3:15 to 5:30 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
Maqbool (2003), directed by Vishal Bharadwaj
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Medieval Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Joyce Boro (Université de Montréal)
Shakespeare and Moral Agency, Part 2
Seminar Leader: Michael Bristol (McGill University)
Revenge in the Twenty-First Century
Seminar Leaders: Georgia Brown (Cambridge University) and
Sara Deats (University of South Florida)
What Can Scholars Learn from Play Directors? /
What Can Directors Learn from Scholars?
Seminar Leader: John Russell Brown (Middlesex University)
Shakespearean Scripture: Biblical Contexts for Reception and Transmission
Seminar Leaders: Alan Galey (University of Alberta) and
Travis DeCook (University of Alberta)
Shakespeare in the Home
Seminar Leaders: Susanne Greenhalgh (Roehampton University) and
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota)
Flora’s Court
Seminar Leaders: Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado) and
Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
“Forms of Life” in Shakespearean Drama
Seminar Leaders: Jacques Lezra (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and
Philip Lorenz (Cornell University)
Theatrical Conventions and Conventions of Theater History
Seminar Leader: Lawrence Manley (Yale University)
Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: Kathryn R. McPherson (Utah Valley State College) and
Kathryn M. Moncrief (Washington College)
Richard III Now, Part 2
Seminar Leaders: James R. Siemon (Boston University) and
Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)
Figure, Form, and Color: Race and Genre in Early Modern Literature
Seminar Leader: Elizabeth Spiller (Florida State University)
Shakespeare’s Stationers
Seminar Leader: Marta Straznicky (Queen’s University)
A Plague on Both Your Houses
Seminar Leader: Rebecca Totaro (Florida Gulf Coast University)
Close Reading without Readings, Part 1
Workshop Leader: Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley)
8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
Ye Yan (The Banquet, 2006), directed by Xiaogang Feng
SATURDAY, 15 MARCH
8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Information and Book Exhibits
9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
PAPER SESSIONS
Unpredictable Histories: Cultural, Material, Recursive
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submiss ions Committee for 2008
Chair: Roslyn L. Knutson (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
Nora Johnson (Swarthmore College)
Edwin Booth and Melodrama: Writing the History of Cultural Elitism
Jeffrey Knight (Northwestern University)
Making Shakespeare’s Books
Scott Maisano (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Prospero’s Monster: The Masculine Birth of Science Fiction in The Tempest
Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis
Session Organizer: Steve Mentz
Chair: Dieter Mehl (University of Bonn)
Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University)
Homeostasis in Shakespeare
Julian Yates (University of Delaware)
What was Pastoral (again)? More Versions
Steve Mentz (St. John’s University)
Strange Weather in King Lear
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
PAPER SESSIONS
New Electronic Shakespeares: Digital Archives, Synthetic Worlds
Session Organizer: Peter S. Donaldson
Chair: Ann Christensen (University of Houston)
Richard Burt (University of Florida)
Conjuring Shakespeare Up Automatically from the Archive: From Seance to Cyberspace
Linda Charnes (Indiana University)
Shakespeare and the Meaning of Second Life
Peter S. Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video Clips in Popular and Scholarly Archives: From YouTube to the Asian Shakespeare in Performance Archives
World Enough and Time: Anti-Imperialism and Shakespeare Studies
Session Organizer: Crystal Bartolovich
Chair: Michael Holahan (Southern Methodist University)
Walter Cohen (Cornell University)
Shakespeare and World Literature
Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Race, Literature, and Early Modern Global Relations
Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University)
Commonplaces
2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
PAPER SESSIONS
Shakespeare and Technology: A Roundtable
Session Organizers: Wendy Hyman and Jonathan Sawday
Chair: Lisa S. Starks (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)
Adam Max Cohen (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Nick Davis (University of Liverpool)
Wendy Beth Hyman (Ithaca College)
Justin Kolb (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Jonathan Sawday (University of Strathclyde)
Complete Authors?
Session Organizer: Gary Taylor
Chair: Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago)
Martin Butler (University of Leeds)
Not So Rare Ben Jonson
Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno)
Not without mustard (’tis a color she abhors): Covering the RSC Complete Works
Gary Taylor (Florida State University)
Human Object: An ABC of Reading Thomas Middleton
3:45 to 6:00 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
Ye Yan (The Banquet, 2006), directed by Xiaogang Feng
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
London and Beyond: Foreign Traffic of the English Stage
Seminar Leaders: Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University) and
Christopher Hodgkins (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Shakespeare and Milton: The Reunion
Seminar Leader: Matthew Biberman (University of Louisville)
Slubbering the Gloss: Or, Much Ado about Noting
Seminar Leader: Timothy Billings (Middlebury College)
Ephemeral Materials: Embodying Faith on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leaders: Jane Hwang Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and
Elizabeth Williamson (Evergreen State College)
Shakespeare and Sacrifice
Seminar Leaders: William Flesch (Brandeis University) and
Christopher Pye (Williams College)
Detractors of Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Donald Foster (Vassar College) and
Zoltán Márkus (Vassar College)
Politics and Bodily Life in Early Modern Drama
Seminar Leaders: Daniel Juan Gil (Texas Christian University) and
David Glimp (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“Would I were satisfied!”
Seminar Leader: Heather Hirschfeld (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Histories and Methodologies
Seminar Leaders: Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario) and
William Ingram (University of Michigan)
Representing Selves: Archive, Theory, Stage
Seminar Leaders: Kathleen Lynch (Folger Shakespeare Library) and
Adam Smyth (University of Reading)
Shakespearean Procedure
Seminar Leader: Bernadette Meyler (Cornell Law School) and
Kenji Yoshino (Yale Law School)
“Original Practices” in Shakespearean Performance
Seminar Leader: Don Weingust (Tufts University)
Shakespeare’s Girls
Seminar Leader: Deanne Williams (York University)
Close Reading without Readings, Part 2
Workshop Leader: Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley)
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Hosted by Oxford University Press
8:00 to 10:15 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
Maqbool (2003), directed by Vishal Bharadwaj
10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
SAA/MALONE SOCIETY DANCE
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