MLA Sessions Fall 2007

The Modern Language Association Convention

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Session 8 (MRDS)
Medieval Performance Studies
Thursday, 27 December
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Superior B, Sheraton Chicago

Presiding: Jody Enders, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

"The Offertory as Price of Admission,"
John L. Parker, Macalester Coll.

"The Queen's Understudy,"
Claire Sponsler, Univ. of Iowa

Respondent: Bruce Wood Holsinger, Univ. of Virginia

Session 207 (MRDS)
Medieval and Early Modern Drama: Performance and Pedagogy
Friday, 28 December
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Columbus A and B, Sheraton Chicago

Presiding: Elza Cheryl Tiner, Lynchburg Coll.

"Mankind for the Twenty-First-Century Student and Audience,"
Carolyn E. Coulson-Grigsby, Centenary Coll.

"Medieval Drama, Brecht, and the Teaching of Race,"
Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Bucknell Univ.

"If This Be Not a Good Class, the Devil Is in It,"
Regina Marie Buccola, Roosevelt Univ.

Other Sessions of Interest

Session 17
Laughter and Humor
Thursday, 27 December
3:30-4:45 p.m., Huron, Sheraton Chicago

Presiding: Jonathan Clark, Concordia Coll., MN

"The Fool and His World,"
Caroline Huey, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette

"Gpauern gschrai: On the Problem of Wittenwiler's Comic,"
Stephen Mark Carey, Georgia State Univ.

"The Transference of Humor: Shakespeare's Clowns Will Kemp and Pickelherring,"
John Alexander, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

Session 94
Poetry and Performance in Early Modern England
Thursday, 27 December
7:00-8:15 p.m., Skyway Suite 273, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Ann Baynes Coiro, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

"Spenser beyond the New Historicism: Patronage and Performance in The Shepheardes Calender,"
Ben LaBreche, Yale Univ.

"'My Lute Awake': Voices in Early Modern Aires,"
Sarah Iovan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

"Oral and Literary Epic in Milton's England,"
Anthony K. Welch, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

Session 177
The Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare
Friday, 28 December
8:30-9:45 a.m., Columbus Hall K and L, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Suzanne Gossett, Loyola Univ., Chicago

"How to Do Things with Variants: Text Visualization in the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare,"
Alan Galey, Univ. of Alberta

"Sums and Parts, in View of a Complex Whole: A Response to the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare Interface,"
Raymond G. Siemens, Univ. of Victoria

Session 206
Renaissance Drama Excluding the Public Theater: Court, Closet, City
Friday, 28 December
10:15-11:30 a.m., Columbus Hall G, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Margaret P. Hannay, Siena Coll.

"The Jacobean Court Masque: Anatomy of a Transformation,"
Leeds Barroll, Folger Shakespeare Library

"The Virtues of Conversation: Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies,"
Katherine R. Larson, Univ. of Toronto

"Mimetic Rivalry: Jonson's Late Masques and the Civic Pageants of Munday, Middleton, and Dekker,"
Aaron Kitch, Bowdoin Coll.

Respondent: Maureen Quilligan, Duke Univ.

Session 284
Shakespeare and Faith: Roman, English, or None?
Friday, 28 December
1:45-3:00 p.m., Crystal Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: John Cox, Hope Coll.

"Shakespeare, Catholic Writing, and the Rigorist Aesthetic,"
Alison Shell, Durham Univ.

"The Protesting Catholic Puritan Who Loved Shakespeare,"
Debora Shuger, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

"Atheistical Theology in Othello and King Lear,"
Richard A. Strier, Univ. of Chicago

Session 465
Sensational Effects and Cultural Anxieties on the Early Modern Stage
Saturday, 29 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Burnham, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Bruce Edwin Brandt, South Dakota State Univ.

"Marlowe's The Jew of Malta: Serial Killing and the Fantasy of Agency,"
Mathew Martin, Brock Univ.

"'Remember[ing] the Sins of the Cellar' in John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan,"
Sarah Kathleen Scott, Mount Saint Mary's Univ.

"Sensationalism and the Limits of Postmodernism: Dealing with Disgust in John Marston,"
Georgia Elizabeth Brown, London, England

Session 503
Shakespeare: Epistemology of the Crux
Saturday, 29 December
1:45-3:00 p.m., Columbus Hall C and D, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern Univ.

"Breeching Censorship: The Translingual Crux as Transgressive Instrument,"
Margaret W. Ferguson, Univ. of California, Davis

"Slubbering the Gloss and Other Crucial Pleasures,"
Timothy Billings, Middlebury Coll.

"The Crux of Performance,"
W. B. Worthen, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Session 593
What Does Science Have to Do with Shakespeare?
Saturday, 29 December
7:15-8:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom D North, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston Coll.

Speakers: Paula Blank, Coll. of William and Mary; Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Florida State Univ.; Scott Maisano, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston; Carla Mazzio, Univ. of Chicago; Henry S. Turner, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Session 683
Deviation, Variation, and Variety
Sunday, 30 December
8:30-9:45 a.m., Acapulco, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Paul Werstine, Univ. of Western Ontario

"Deviation, Variation, and Variety in Stanza 1 of Venus and Adonis,"
Stephen Booth, Univ. of California, Berkeley

"In the Cut: Editing Performance,"
Genevieve Laura Love, Colorado Coll.

"Postmodern Editing,"
Leah Sinanoglou Marcus, Vanderbilt Univ.

Session 697
Romantic Shakespeare
Sunday, 30 December
10:15-11:30 a.m., Truffles, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

"'My God, Madam, There Must Be Only One Black Figure in This Play': Hamlet, Ophelia, and the Romantic Hero,"
Karen R. Britland, Keele Univ.

"Marketing Shakespeare in the Romantic Period,"
Ann R. Hawkins, Texas Tech. Univ.

"'Yet There Is Method in 't': English Romanticism and the Birth of Hamlet('s) Psychology,"
Kristen Lacefield, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"The Historical Trauma of Revisiting Shakespeare on the Romantic Stage,"
Harold Aram Veeser, City Coll., City Univ. of New York

Session 716
Shakespeare: Friendship and Rivalry
Sunday, 30 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Grand Suite 3, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Lars Engle, Univ. of Tulsa

"Identity Theft in The Two Gentlemen of Verona,"
Tina Mohler, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

"Conatus, Caritas, and the Reconstitution of Friendship in The Winter's Tale,"
Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn Univ., Auburn

"Entertaining Friends: Shakespearean Parasitology,"
Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ.

Session 742
Rethinking Perceptions of Marlowe's Drama
Sunday, 30 December
1:45-3:00 p.m., Atlanta, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Roslyn L. Knutson, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock

"Marlowe, Alexander, and the Turks,"
Su Fang Ng, Univ. of Oklahoma

"'The Critical Aspect of My Terrible Countenance': Christopher Marlowe's Reputation with the 'Critical Mass,'"
Laura Grace Godwin, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces

"'Jigging Veins of Rhyming Mother-Wits, / And Such Conceits as Clownage Keeps in Pay': Marlowe, Clowning, and Dramatic Authorship,"
Kirk Melnikoff, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte