Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference
Saturday October 2, 2010
Frontispiece, John Taylor, “Mad fashions, od fashions, all out of fashions, or, The emblems of these Distracted times,” (1642)
2010 MCRS Graduate Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION
Coffee and Pastries
9:05-10:45 PANEL ONE
Reading and/or Writing Religion in History, Science, and Belief
“Antinomian Heralds: Marlowe’s Faust and the Early Modern—an Essay Concerning Heresy, Philosophy, Satanism, and the Birth of Modernity,” Jeremy Valentine Freeman (Concordia University, Montreal)
“Gathering the Waters: An Ecocritical Reading of John Calvin’s Theology and Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” John Dryden (University of Louisville)
“Allegorized Colonial Discourse in Spencer’s Mutability Cantos,” Anna Zoeller (The Citadel)
“Villains by Necessity, Fools by Heavenly Compulsion,” David Katz (UMass, Amherst)
10:50-12:15 PANEL TWO
Deconstructing the Body and the Image, Reconstructing Space
“The Walking Dead: An Application of Corpse Theory to John Donne’s Monument and Lavinia in Titus Andronicus,” Jeremy Killian (University of Louisville)
“In the Spirit of Carnival, Marlowe’s Jews are Devils,” Ryan Farrar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
“‘She’s Plagued in Art’—Reshaping the Ideal: Confinement, Patriarchal Control, and the De(con)struction of the Female Body in The Duchess of Malfi,” Jennifer L. Lozier (The University of Toledo)
12:15-1:00 LUNCH
1:05-2:20 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Prof. Jeff Dolven, Princeton University
“A Feeling Skill”
2:25-3:45 PANEL THREE
Shakespeare, Performativity, Intertextuality, and Form
“Intertextuality in Adaptation: Shifts in Genre in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Lope’s Castelvines y Monteses,” Sarah Brew (UMass, Amherst)
“It’s Insane to Remain on Just One Plane: Evaluating the Self/Other and Intermediary Identities in Coriolanus,” Amanda C. Boyd (University of Southern California)
“Refining the ‘Mongrel’: John Marston’s The Malcontent, Antonio and Mellida, and the Development of English Early Modern Tragicomedy” Nathaniel Leonard (UMass, Amherst)
3:45-4:00 CLOSING REMARKS
