rogram Schedule

THURSDAY, 9 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

Presentism: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and Gender Now
Session Organizer: Evelyn Gajowski
Chair: Hugh Grady (Arcadia University)

Evelyn Gajowski
(University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Temporalities, Presentism, Politics

Arthur L. Little, Jr.
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Disappearing Acts: Shakespeare, History, and Queer Marriage

Phyllis Rackin (University of Pennsylvania)
The Presence of History in Feminist Shakespeare Criticism

Shakespeare’s History of Grace
Session Organizer: Lowell Gallagher
Chair: Lowell Gallagher (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ken Jackson (Wayne State University)
“Grace to Boot!”: St. Paul, Agamben, Messianic Time in The Winter’s Tale

Joseph Jenkins
(University of California, Irvine)
Macbeth and Last Will

Gary Kuchar (University of Victoria)
Eros and Agape in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

Offstage, Onstage: Inside the Stratford Festival
Directed by John N. Smith (2002)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The 1590s Style
Seminar Leader: Goran Stanivukovic
(Saint Mary’s University)

The Art of English Poesy: Rhetoric, Poetics, and Renaissance Celebrity
Seminar Leaders: Frank Whigham
(University of Texas at Austin) and Wayne A. Rebhorn
(University of Texas at Austin)

Audience and Audiences
Seminar Leader: Jennifer Low
(Florida Atlantic University)

England and the Islamic World: A Reassessment
Seminar Leaders: Linda McJannet
(Bentley College) and Bernadette Andrea
(University of Texas, San Antonio)

Henry V: Interpretations in their Historical Contexts
Seminar Leader: Jonathan Hart
(University of Alberta)

Intimacy and Interiority
Seminar Leaders: Will Stockton
(Ball State University) and James Bromley
(Miami University of Ohio)

“Jog on, jog on”: Mobility in Shakespeare’s England
Seminar Leader: Barbara D. Palmer
(University of Mary Washington)

Presenting Shakespeare: Making Public Sessions Work
Workshop Leader: Kirk Hendershott- Kraetzer
(Olivet College)

Reading Bodies
Seminar Leader: Heidi Brayman Hackel
(University of California, Riverside)

Rethinking Religion and Shakespeare, Part One
Seminar Leaders: Erin E. Kelly
(University of Georgia) and Mark Rankin
(James Madison University)

Shakespeare and Performance Studies
Seminar Leader: Stuart Hampton-Reeves
(University of Central Lancashire)

Shakespeare and the Organization of Knowledge
Seminar Leaders: William Germano
(Cooper Union) and Sarah Wall-Randell
(Wellesley College)

Shakespeare and Usury
Seminar Leader: David Hawkes
(Arizona State University)

Shakespeare Spin-offs, Part One
Seminar Leader: Amy Scott-Douglass
(Denison University)

Shakespearean Cinetextuality
Seminar Leader: Laurie Osborne
(Colby College)

Staging the Natural: Non-Human and Human in the Early Modern Theater
Seminar Leaders: Anthony Dawson
(University of British Columbia) and Vin Nardizzi
(University of British Columbia)

“That monster, custom”
Seminar Leader: Meredith Evans
(Concordia University)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

The National Building Museum
Open to all registrants for the 37th Annual Meeting and their guests. For security
reasons, each guest must have an SAA name tag.

8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

WORKSHOP

The Queen’s Men’s Theatrical Influence: Studio Experiments
Open to all registrants for the 37th Annual Meeting and their guests.

FRIDAY, 10 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

Directors from the World’s Stage
Chair: Peter Holland
(University of Notre Dame)

Antoni Cimolino
(Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario)
A Wooden O in Ontario: Shakespeare’s Other Stratford

Ong Keng Sen
(TheatreWorks, Singapore)
Shakespeare in Conversation with Asia: A Platform for Cultural Dialogue, Negotiation, and Reflection

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

PAPER SESSIONS

Shakespeare by the Numbers
Session Organizer: Shankar Raman
Chair: Elizabeth Hanson (Queen’s University)

Mary Thomas Crane (Boston College)
Commensurability and Magnitude in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Carla Mazzio (University at Buffalo)
Shakespeare’s Arithmetic

Shankar Raman
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Specifying Unknown Things: Algebra and Shakespeare’s Merchant

Un-Mooring the Moor across Cultural Borders
Session Organizer: Alfredo Michel Modenessi
Chair: Emily Bartels (Rutgers University)

Margaret Litvin (Boston University)
Unmoored Moors and Other Anthropophagi: How Arab Writers Cannibalize Othello  

Alfredo Michel Modenessi
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
“Is this the noble Moor?” Re-viewing Othello on Screen through “Indian” (and Indian) Eyes

Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University)
Othello: The Moor of Cyberspace              

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: Coppélia Kahn (Brown University)
Open to all registrants for the 37th Annual Meeting.

3:15 to 5:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

King Lear
Directed by Ong Keng Sen (1997)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Booking Shakespeare: The Bard in the Codex
Seminar Leaders: Gretchen E. Minton
(Montana State University) and A. E. B. Coldiron
(Florida State University)

Ethics and Economics in Shakespeare, Part One
Seminar Leader: Jim Kearney
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Experimental Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Thomas Cartelli
(Muhlenberg College)

Hamlet and Political Thought
Seminar Leaders: Conal Condren
(University of New South Wales) and Shannon Stimson
(University of California, Berkeley)

Nashe With or Without Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Stephen Guy-Bray
(University of British Columbia) and Joan Pong Linton
(Indiana University)

The Queen’s Men’s Theatrical Influence: Repertory, Dramaturgy, Performance
Seminar Leader: Helen Ostovich
(McMaster University)

Reading Voyages and Travels
Seminar Leader: Mary C. Fuller
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Reviewing Reviewed, Part One
Workshop Leader: Lois Potter
(University of Delaware)

Shakespeare and Cultural Value
Seminar Leaders: Sharon O’Dair
(University of Alabama) and Kate Rumbold
(Shakespeare Institute)

Shakespeare and Medieval Drama
Seminar Leader: Bradley Greenburg
(Northern Illinois University)

Shakespeare and the Bounded Self
Seminar Leader: David Hillman
(University of Cambridge)

Shakespeare Spin-offs, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Amy Scott-Douglass
(Denison University)

The Shakespearean Crux
Seminar Leaders: Stephen Merriam Foley
(Brown University) and Margaret Maurer
(Colgate University)

Shakespearean Keening: Dramatic Uses of Poetic Complaint
Seminar Leader: William Kerwin
(University of Missouri, Columbia)

Shakespeare’s Boys, Part One
Seminar Leader: Gina Bloom
(University of California, Davis)

Shakespeare’s Europe / Europe’s Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Andreas Höfele
(University of Munich)

“The Whole World is Become a Hodge-Podge”:
Generic Change in Context
Seminar Leader: Ed Gieskes
(University of South Carolina)

6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

STAGED READING

The Rape of Lucrece
Performed by the Taffety Punk Theatre Company

8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

King Lear
Directed by Ong Keng Sen (1997)

SATURDAY, 11 APRIL

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

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

1594
Session Organizer: Holger Schott Syme
Chair: Sally-Beth Maclean
(University of Toronto)

Roslyn L. Knutson
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
What’s So Special About 1594?

Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania)
1594: When Plays Became Playbooks

Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto)
The Meaning of Success

Shakespeare and Cruelty
Session Organizer: Douglas Trevor
Chair: Andrew Fleck (San Jose State University)

Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University)
Ethopoeia: On the Cruelties of Character

Bruce R. Smith
(University of Southern California)
The Linguistics of Cruelty

Douglas Trevor (University of Michigan)
Shakespeare and the Quality of Cruelty

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

PAPER SESSIONS

(In)famous Shakespeare
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submissions Committee for 2009
Chair: Ian Munro
(University of California, Irvine)

Sayre N. Greenfield
(University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
How Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” Soliloquy Became Famous

Michael Dobson
(Birkbeck College, University of London)
Shakespeare and the “Sods’ Opera”

Textual and Theatrical Spaces
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submissions Committee for 2009
Chair: Christy Desmet (University of Georgia)

Sonia Massai
(King’s College London)
Shakespeare, Text, and Paratext

Lina Perkins Wilder
(Connecticut College)
Shakespeare’s Memory Theater

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Epistemology of the Crux
Session Organizer: Jeffrey Masten
Chair: Penn Szittya (Georgetown University)

Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University)
The Passion of the Crux

Juliet Fleming (New York University)
On Not Understanding Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania)
The Rise of the Crux

Sleep and Dreams in Shakespeare’s England
Session Organizer: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Chair: Gail Kern Paster
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

William H. Sherman (University of York)
Revisiting the House of Sleep

Carole Levin (University of Nebraska)
Sexuality, Power, and Dreams of a New Dynasty

Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
(Pennsylvania State University)
“The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on”: Sleep, Genre, and the Human in 1 and 2 Henry IV

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS

Workshop Leaders: Robert Young and Michael LoMonico (Folger Shakespeare
Library)

Open to all registrants for the 37th Annual Meeting and their guests.

3:15 to 5:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

Macbeth
Directed by Aaron Posner and Teller (2008)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Disabled Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Allison Hobgood
(Spelman College) and David Wood
(Northern Michigan University)

Ethics and Economics in Shakespeare, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Jim Kearney
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

The “Fierce Particularities” of Early Dramatic Manuscripts
Workshop Leaders: Mary Polito
(University of Calgary) and Jacqueline Jenkins (University of Calgary)

High School Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Jonathan Burton
(West Virginia University)

The Marprelate Effect
Seminar Leaders: Joseph Navitsky
(University of Southern Mississippi) and Joseph Black
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
Seminar Leaders: Adam Zucker
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Mary Ellen Lamb
(Southern Illinois University)

Performing Shakespeare Now and Then
Workshop Leaders: Bridget Escolme
(Queen Mary, University of London) and Rob Conkie
(University of Winchester)

Rethinking Religion and Shakespeare, Part Two
Seminar Leaders: Erin E. Kelly
(University of Georgia) and Mark Rankin
(James Madison University)

The Return of the Early Comedies in Shakespearean Scholarship
Seminar Leader: William C. Carroll
(Boston University)

Reviewing Reviewed, Part Two
Workshop Leader: Lois Potter
(University of Delaware)

Shakespeare and the Postcolonial Condition
Seminar Leaders: Jyotsna G. Singh
(Michigan State University) and Gitanjali Shahani (San Francisco State University)

Shakespeare at the Limits of the Human
Seminar Leaders: Jean Feerick
(Brown University) and Holly Tucker
(Vanderbilt University)

Shakespeare Spin-offs, Part Three
Seminar Leader: Amy Scott-Douglass
(Denison University)

Shakespeare’s Boys, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Gina Bloom
(University of California, Davis)

Sites of Memory / Sites of Performance
Seminar Leaders: Kate Chedgzoy
(Newcastle University) and Julie Sanders
(University of Nottingham)

Staging Philosophy
Seminar Leader: Christopher Crosbie
(Trinity University)

Theatrical Law
Seminar Leader: Barbara Kreps
(University of Pisa)

8:30 to 10:00 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

Offstage, Onstage: Inside the Stratford Festival
Directed by John N. Smith (2002)

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

THE SAA / MALONE SOCIETY DANCE
Open to all registrants for the 37th Annual Meeting and their guests. Tickets may be reserved on page 11 of this bulletin or may be purchased at the door.