MLA Sessions Spring 1995

Looking Ahead: MRDS AT MLA

We have two very special sessions organized for this upcoming MLA Convention. Please note below!

Session 1. Teaching Early Drama With Modern Technology: The Message and the Media
Organizers: Sally-Beth MacLean (REED, Univ. of Toronto); Geoffrey Rockwell (Faculty of Humanities, McMaster Univ.)
"The Shakespeare Multimedia Project: Using Hypermedia to Teach Early Modern Drama," Leslie Harris (Susquehanna Univ.)
"The Democratization of Specialized Scholarly Resources: Putting the Tools of the Advanced Scholar in the Hands of the Beginner," David Z. Saltz (SUNY-StonyBrook)
"Macbeth: What can a Publisher Add?," Christina Merlo (Multimedia Evangelist, Voyager Company)
"Navigating through Data," Andrew Gurr (Univ. of Reading)

Session 2. Staging the Medieval Body: Modern Perspectives
Presider: Jody Enders (UC-Santa Barbara)
"Passionate Repulsion: Hrotswitha's Paphnutius," Anthony Kubiak (Harvard)
"When a Body Meets a Body: Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle," Ruth Evans (Univ. of Wales, Cardiff)
"Staged In-corporations and Urban Corporeality: Space, Community and Dramatic Activity in the Early Modern Town," Patricia Badir (Univ. of British Columbia)
Respondent: Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford)