Program Schedule

The schedule for each Annual Meeting is posted on 1 January of the year of the Meeting. The schedule from the previous year's meeting is posted for reference.

Schedule from the 2011 Meeting in Bellevue

Thursday, 7 April

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Registration

12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m.

Book Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Actors as Shakespeare Critics
Session Organizer: Richard Schoch
Chair: Michael Shurgot (South Puget Sound Community College)

Gail Marshall (University of Leicester)
Victorian Actresses as Shakespeare Critics

Denis Salter (McGill University)
Terrorizing the Subject: Henry Irving’s 1895 Address to Columbia College on The Character of Macbeth

Richard Schoch (Queen Mary, University of London)
The Grimaldi Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Ethical Skepticism
Session Organizer: Lars Engle
Chair: Katherine Eggert (University of Colorado)

Douglas Trevor (University of Michigan)
Skeptical Theology

David B. Goldstein (York University)
“Faithful Feeders”: Eating and Skeptical Ethics in As You Like It

Lars Engle (University of Tulsa)
Shame and Ethical Skepticism in Antony and Cleopatra

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Book on Stage
Seminar Leader: Charlotte Scott (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Figures of Speech
Seminar Leaders: Lara Bovilsky (University of Oregon) and Aaron Kunin (Pomona College)

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

Green Scenes in Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Sharon O'Dair (University of Alabama)

Hear Here: Shakespeare's Sound and Collective Listening
Workshop Leader: P. A. Skantze (Roehampton University)

Intertexuality, Audiences, and Memory
Seminar Leaders: Allison Machlis Meyer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and
Lori Humphrey Newcomb (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Lacunae in Theater History, Part One
Seminar Leader: Leslie Thomson (University of Toronto)

Liberty and Bondage on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leaders: Oliver Arnold (University of California, Berkeley) and Bernadette A. Meyler
(Cornell University)

Mary Wroth and Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Ilona Bell (Williams College) and Mary Ellen Lamb (Southern Illinois University)

(Re)Imagining Europe through Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin)

Shakespeare and Early Modern Pauline Discourses
Seminar Leader: Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick)

Shakespeare and Political Theology
Seminar Leaders: Jennifer R. Rust (Saint Louis University) and Nichole E. Miller (Temple University)

Shakespeare and the Actress
Seminar Leader: Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa)

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

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
Seminar Leader: Lisa Myobun Freinkel (University of Oregon)

Shakespeare and the Rejection of Sexuality
Seminar Leader: Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University)

Staging Torture, Staging the World
Seminar Leader: Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

8:00 to 10:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

BOND

Adapted from The Merchant of Venice by Ching Hsi-Perng and Chen Fang.

Presented by the Taiwan Bangzi Company. Thanks to grants from the Taiwanese government and an anonymous donor to the SAA, the performance is open to all registrants for the 39th Annual Meeting and their guests. See pages 6 and 7 of the January 2011 bulletin for further details.

10:00 to 11:00 p.m.

Post-performance discussion with members of the cast of Bond.

Friday, 8 April

8:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m.

Registration and Book Exhibits

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast for Graduate Students
Hosted by the Trustees of the SAA.

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PLENARY PAPER SESSION

The Stories Texts Tell
Session Organizer: Stephen Orgel
Chair: Paul Yachnin (McGill University)

Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford)
Hail, Muse! et cetera

Bradin Cormack (University of Chicago)
Q: A Love Story

Stephen Orgel (Stanford University)
Textual Narratives

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

PAPER SESSIONS

Depicting the Subject in Early Modern Drama
Session Organizer and Chair: Leeds Barroll (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Joel B. Altman (University of California, Berkeley)
“Your sorrow was too sore laid on”: Shakespeare and the Subject of Ekphrasis

Harry Berger Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Silent Complicity: The Subjectivity of Emilia in Othello

Lorna Hutson (University of St. Andrews)
Subjects, Selves, and Circumstances

Memorializing Shakespeare
Session Organizer: Karen Newman
Chair: Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Posthumous Love: The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet

Karen Newman (Brown University)
Memorizing Shakespeare

Alan Stewart (Columbia University)
The Actor and the Bad Poet: The Memorial Reconstruction of Shakespeare

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Film Screening

Prince of the Himalayas
Directed by Sherwood Wu (2006).

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Character of Reported Speech in Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: Ruth Morse (Universite Paris Diderot) and David Schalkwyk
(Folger Shakespeare Library)

Delinquent Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Michelle M. Dowd (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Diet and Identity in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leaders: Kimberly Coles (University of Maryland) and Gitanjali Shahani
(San Francisco State University)

Drama and/of the Reformation
Seminar Leader: James D. Mardock (University of Nevada)

Gender and Song in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: Leslie C. Dunn (Vassar College) and Katherine R. Larson (University of Toronto)

Henry IV, Part Two
Seminar Leader: James C. Bulman (Allegheny College)

Jests in Early Modern Culture
Seminar Leader: Adam Smyth (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Lacunae in Theater History, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Leslie Thomson (University of Toronto)

Macbeth: The State of Play, Part One
Seminar Leader: Ann Thompson (King's College, University of London)

The Politics of Female Alliance
Seminar Leaders: Elizabeth Zemen Kolkovich (Ohio State University, Mansfield) and Niamh O'Leary (Xavier University)

Prosthetics and Performance
Seminar Leaders: Genevieve Love (Colorado College) and Andrea Stevens (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Shakespeare and Classicism: Redux
Seminar Leader: Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University)

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Workshop Leaders: Jim Kuhn (Folger Shakespeare Library) and Carter Hailey
(College of William and Mary)

Stratford
Seminar Leader: Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota)

Teaching Our Other Shakespeare (Middleton)
Workshop Leader: Gary Taylor (Florida State University)

The "Ungodly" in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leader: Tiffany Werth (Simon Fraser University)

Violent Masculinities
Seminar Leaders: Catherine Thomas (College of Charleston) and Jennifer Feather
(University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

The Winter's Tale
Seminar Leaders: Peter G. Platt (Barnard College) and Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University)

8:00 to 10:00 p.m.

DEMONSTRATION

Skits in the style of traditional Chinese opera, performed by members of the Taiwan Bangzi Company.

Saturday, 9 April

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Information and Book Exhibits

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Editing Shakespeare
Session Organizers: Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine
Chair: Barbara Mowat (Folger Shakespeare Library)

A. R. Braunmuller (University of California, Los Angeles)
Editing Measure—a View from the Trenches

Alan Galey (University of Toronto)
The Shakespearean Archive: Critical Prehistories of Digital Editing

Paul Werstine (University of Western Ontario)
Alfred W. Pollard Redux

Experimental Shakespeare in Theory and Practice
Session Organizer: Thomas Cartelli
Chair: Gina Bloom (University of California, Davis)

Susan Bennett (University of Calgary)
Historicizing the Experimental

Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College)
High-Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe

W. B. Worthen (Barnard College)
"What light through yonder window speaks?" Dedramatizing Shakespeare

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS

From Script to Performance
Workshop Leaders: Katherine Lamoreaux (Battle Ground High School, Oregon) and Michael Shurgot (South Puget Sound Community College)

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

PAPER SESSIONS

Black Studies in the English Renaissance
Session Organizer: Imtiaz Habib
Chair: Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta)

Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University)
The Reasonables of Boroughside, Southwark: An Elizabethan Black Family near the Rose Theater

Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester)
Othello and Assimilation

Margo Hendricks (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“I saw him in my visage”: Problems with Race Studies in Early Modern English Literature

Decoding Playwrights' Options and Choices
Session Organizers: Members of the Open Submissions Committee for 2011
Chair: David Bevington (University of Chicago)

Richard Abrams (University of Soutehr Maine)
The Name of Prosper

Matteo Pangallo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Mayn’t a Spectator Write a Comedy?” Playgoer-Playwrights in Shakespeare’s Theater

Jacqueline Vanhoutte (University of North Texas)
“Shew Him in Love”: Falstaff among the Minions of the Moon

2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Beyond Playbooks
Session Organizer and Chair: Barbara Hodgdon (University of Michigan)

Richard Preiss (University of Utah)
What Audiences Did

James J. Marino (Cleveland State University)
Shakespeare After Editing

Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford)
Marts and Fairs: Shakespeare and Mass Entertainment

Marlowe's Vitality
Session Organizer: Garrett Sullivan
Chair: Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside)

Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University)
Edward II: Queer Theories, Vital Signs

Lucy Munro (Keele University)
Language, Temporality, and the Vitality of Marlowe’s “Mighty Line”

Garrett Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
Vitality, Spirit, and Oblivion in Tamburlaine the Great

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

Prince of the Himalayas
Directed by Sherwood Wu (2006).

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Cosmopolitans and Barbarians
Seminar Leaders: Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles) and Catherine Nicholson (Yale University)

Early Modern Women and the Discourse of Death
Seminar Leader: Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey)

Hot Protestant Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: Claire McEachern (University of California, Los Angeles)

Likeness in Shakespeare's England
Seminar Leader: Marjorie Rubright (University of Toronto)

Macbeth: The State of Play, Part Two
Seminar Leader: Ann Thompson (King's College, University of London)

Memory Culture in Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: J. K. Barret (University of Texas, Austin) and Lina Perkins Wilder
(Connecticut College)

Performing Shakespeare for Popular Audiences
Workshop Leader: Stephen Purcell (Southampton Solent University)

Queer Theory Now
Seminar Leaders: Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) and David L. Orvis
(Appalachian State University)

Redefining Theatrical Culture: The Theater of the Streets
Seminar Leader: S. P. Cerasano (Colgate University)

Sanctity
Seminar Leaders: Alice Dailey (Villanova University) and Kristen Poole (University of Delaware)

Shakespeare and Opera
Seminar Leader: William Germano (Cooper Union)

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ideas of a Life
Seminar Leader: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University)

Shakespeare and Science
Seminar Leader: Rebecca Lemon (University of Southern California)

Shakespeare for Sale
Seminar Leader: Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa)

Shakespearean Fetish
Workshop Leader: Mark Johnston (University of Windsor)

Shakespeare's Poetry
Seminar Leaders: Patrick Cheney (Pennsylvania State University) and Michael Schoenfeldt
(University of Michigan)

Silenced Shakespeare Films
Seminar Leader: Courtney Lehmann (University of the Pacific)

6:15 to 7:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

Ophelia, From Song to Stage

Music for Ophelia by William Linley, Johannes Brahms, Jake Heggie, and others, performed
by Megan McCauley (soprano) and Daniel Overly (piano).

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

THE SAA/MALONE SOCIETY DANCE