Ninth Annual Meeting of the
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference
Saturday October 15, 2011
Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 – 10:20 am
Panel One: Renaissance Drama in Performance and Production
Moderator: Prof. Jane Degenhardt
Nathaniel Leonard, UMass Amherst — Liminal Vengeance: Dramatic Layering and the Mitigation of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy
Gregory Sargent, UMass Amherst — ’A crash here in the yard’: Spatial Logic and Production in Heywood’s A Woman Killed With Kindness
Caitlin Klein, NYU — Immortality in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Necessity of Death for Festive Time
Josephine Hardman, UMass Amherst – Sincere and Performative Conversions: The Function of Spanish Desengaño in The Two Noble Ladies and Calderon’s El Mágico Prodigioso
10:20 – 10:30 Break for Coffee and Pastries
10:30 – 11:50 am
Panel Two: Poetics and Religious Devotion
Moderator: Prof. Joseph Black
Elizabeth Cantwell, University of Southern California — The Mathematics of Sonnet Coronas: John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth’s Infinite Poetics
Victoria Munoz, Ohio State – “Between Doctrine and Experience: Herbert’s Poetic Mechanisms of Devotion in The Temple.”
Phillip Cortes, NYU — Milton and the Voice of the Irreducible: Poetic and Demonic Creation in Paradise Lost
Andrew Naughton, Brown University — ’Re-membering the fragile body: a reading of early monism in “Lycidas”
11:50 – 12:45 LUNCH
12:45 – 2:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Prof. Nigel Smith, Princeton University — “The State of Imitation: Literature and
International Politics in Early Modern Europe”
2:00 – 3:20 pm
Panel Three: Fashioning and Performing Identities
Moderator: Prof. Adam Zucker
Simon Nyi, Northwestern University — “Thou dost speak masterly”: Crossdressing, Pedagogy, and the Fashioning of the Gendered Boy Subject in Twelfth Night
Devon Wallace, Loyola University Chicago — “Material Emotions: Humoral Theory and the Construction of Identity in The History of King Lear”
Thomas Hopper, UMass Amherst –
‘To Set a Pearl in Steel So Meanly Varnished’: Armor and Identity in The Arcadia
Christy Davids, Sonoma State University – “The Reinforcement of Misogyny and Gender Trappings within The Homosexual Discourse of Sidney’s Old Arcadia.”
3:30 – 4:35 pm
Panel Four: Religion, Politics, and Society
Moderator: Meghan Conine
Don Rodrigues, The University of Rhode Island — “Truth may seem, but cannot be”: Shakespeare’s “The Phoenix and Turtle” in Intellectual Context
Zoe Gibbons, Princeton University — Clement Ellis, Restoration Atheism, and the Virtues of Hypocrisy
Dawn Saliba, SUNY Binghamton — An Apparent Paradox- Tracing the Evolution of Witchcraft Ideology through the works of King James
4:35-4:45 Closing Remarks
