Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference
Corpus Christi, TX 18-20 March 2010
Click on a name to view that presenter’s abstract.
(Room locations indicated in parentheses)
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010
REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Riviera Foyer)
SESSION I: 1:45 – 3:30 p.m.
1. Love, Marriage, and Scandal at Elizabeth’s Court (Riviera 4)
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin, President, Queen Elizabeth I Society
Sarah Gawronski (Utah State University):
“Robert Dudley: A Story of Scandal”
Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University, East Bay):
“Defamation and Representation: Mary Queen of Scots and the Placard Affair”
Amanda Kellogg (University of North Texas):
“A Grave Courtship: Queen Elizabeth's Marriage Question and The Merchant of Venice”
Jacqueline Vanhoutte (University of North Texas):
“Old Men in Love: Falstaff at the Court of Elizabeth I”
2. Milton Studies: Beyond Paradise Lost (Padre C)
Chair: Christina Iluzada (Baylor University)
J. Matthew Boyleston (Houston Baptist University):
“Lycidas Has a Ghost Behind its Canvas: Milton's Use of the Sonnet to Suggest Poetic Compassion in the Great Elegy”
Jaime A. Lara-Perez (University of Houston Downtown):
“Confessions: John Milton's Pastoral Elegy”
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University-San Marcos):
“Listening and Saving in Milton's Comus”
3. The Performing Arts (Padre B)
Chair: David Reinheimer (Southeast Missouri State University)
Jennifer Ezell (Missouri State University):
“From Courtesan to Commedia: The Rise of the Actress During the Italian Renaissance”
Yvonne Kendall (University of Houston-Downtown):
“Spain and its Overlooked Role in Renaissance Dance”
Timothy McKinney (Baylor University):
“Crosscurrents of Venetian Style and Patronage in Adrian Willaert’s Setting of Ne l’amar’e fredd’onde”
4. Marvell: Restoration Contexts (Riviera 5)
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Alex Garganigo (Austin College):
“Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transprosed”
Sean McDowell (Seattle University):
“Shadwell’s Shadow in Marvell’s ‘On Mr Milton’s Paradise Lost’”
5. The World of Learning (Riviera 3)
Chair: Irving Kelter (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Elizabeth Mackay (University of Dayton):
“Pedagogy, Paradox, and Possibility: The Sixteenth-Century Grammar School and Its ‘Good Mother’”
Paul Parrish (Texas A&M University):
“Learning and Literature at Little Gidding”
Murray Steib (Ball State Universtiy):
“The Multi-Authored Mass: Thoughts on Editorial Recomposition in the Renaissance ”
6. English Poetics and Literature (Padre D)
Chair: Arlen Nydam (Independent Scholar)
Arlen Nydam (Independent Scholar):
“The Unity of Sidney's Poetic Structures”
Randi Smith (University of Tennessee, Knoxville):
“Confessing Communication: Moments of Metapoesis in Francis Quarles' Emblems”
William Weaver (Baylor University):
“Corynna's Garden: George Chapman's Critique of the English Minor Epic”
Sarah Youree (Texas State University, San Marcos):
“Gascoigne's Master F.J.: Elizabethan Literature's Biggest Loser”
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. (Riviera Ballroom 1-2)
Welcoming Remarks:
Jill Carrington
President of SCRC
Stephen F. Austin State University
Introduction of Speaker:
Irving Kelter
University of St. Thomas, Houston
Speaker:
Sheila Rabin
Professor of History
St. Peter's College
Jersey City, NJ
“Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
and the Historiography
of Renaissance Astrology”
RECEPTION: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. (Marina View Room)
DINNER (on one’s own): 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND DINNER: 7:00 (Padre A)
Special Session: 9:00 – 10:30 p.m.
The Queen's Revels and Queen's Attic Auction (Riviera 1-2)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Presiding: Carole Levin, President
Performance of Carole Levin’s play, Elizabeth I and the Dating Game,
followed by our traditional auction—as mirthful as it is astounding.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
REGISTRATION: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Riviera Foyer)
SESSION II: 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.
7. Shakespearean Comedy I (Padre B)
Chair: Patricia Garcia (University of Texas – Austin)
Joshua Thompson (Mississippi State University):
“Floating ‘the Elephant’ in Twelfth Night”
Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State University of Louisiana):
“‘I am the dog’: Faulty Interpretation in Two Gentlemen of Verona”
Shelley Hazen (Northeastern State University):
“Female Resistance to Male Domination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
8. Marvell: His Sources and the Challenges of Editing (Padre A)
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Tim Raylor (Carleton College)
Alan Altimont (Saint Edward's University):
“Damon and the Deipnosophists: Andrew Marvell's Reading of Athenaeus of Naucratis”
Gabriella Gruder-Poni (Independent):
“A Forest of Meanings in ‘Upon Appleton House’”
Matthew Augustine (Washington University in St. Louis):
“Green Thoughts: An Argument against the Miltonizing of Marvell Studies”
9. The Many Facets of Queen Elizabeth (Riviera 5)
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Catherine Howey Stearn (Eastern Kentucky University)
Mary Villeponteaux (Georgia Southern University):
“A Goodly Musicke in Her Regiment: The Elusive Harmony of Mercy and Justice in Elizabeth's Reign”
Bernadette Andrea (University of Texas at San Antonio):
“Elizabeth I And Persian Exchanges”
Charles Beem (University of North Carolina, Pembroke):
“Elizabeth I: The Gender Queen”
10. Saints and Sainthood (Padre C)
Chair: Mary Sommers (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Sr. Paula Jean Miller (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“St. Bonaventure: a Meeting of East and West”
Christine Hoffmann (University of Arkansas - Fayetteville):
“Cheaters, Saints, and Simultaneous Narrative: Lessons from Thomas More’s History of Richard III”
Fr. Edward J. Baenziger (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“Saints in the Renaissance”
Evan Getz (Houston Baptist University):
“The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson as Hagiography: Lucy Hutchinson's Response to Courtly Romance”
11. New Perspectives on Shakespeare (Padre D)
Chair: James Ortego (Troy University – Dothan)
David Sabrio (Texas A&M University-Kingsville):
“Shakespeare in Love as an Introduction to Shakespeare Study”
Clifford Ronan (Texas State University-San Marcos):
“Longinus and Shakespearean Surprise”
John Mercer (Northeastern State University):
“A way of telling the truth: Shakespearean References in Bill Cain's Equivocation”
James Ortego (Troy University - Dothan):
“Did Shakespeare Contribute to the King James Bible? - The King, his Men, and the Passion of the Poet”
BREAK: 10:15 –10:30 a.m. (Riviera Foyer 1-3)
SESSION III: 10:30 – 12 Noon
12. Ireland in the Renaissance (Padre B)
Chair: Mary Sommers (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Joseph McFadden (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“The Spanish Armada and Ireland, 1588-89”
Lee Williames (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“The Galloglass”
13. Spenser Studies (Padre A)
Chair: Meg Lota Brown (University of Arizona)
Angela Bullard (Texas Christian University):
“Good Garden Management in Edmund Spenser’s Bower of Bliss and Garden of Adonis”
William Ferleman (Oklahoma State University):
“Virtu’, Fortuna’s Threat, and the Utopian Maintenance of the English State Apparatus in Spenser’s Bower of Bliss”
Vanelis Rivera (University of Louisiana at Monroe):
“‘For her purpose fit’: Britomart’s Armor and the Means by which She is Forced to Exist in and be Defined by the Patriarchal Role of Marriage ”
14. Façade Iconography (Padre C)
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Brian Steele (Texas Tech University)
Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University):
“Revisiting the Globes of the Tommaso Rangone Monument in Venice”
Max E. Grossman (University of Texas at El Paso):
“Art and Politics in Renaissance Siena: The Iconographic Program of the Piazza del Campo”
15. Royal Entertainments (Riviera 4)
Chair: Jacqueline Vanhoutte (University of North Texas)
Tim Moylan (St. Louis College of Pharmacy):
“Inflecting History: John Nichols’ Alteration of the Elvetham Pageant Woodcut”
Mark Reuter (University of Nebraska-Lincoln):
“Political Pageantry: Elizabethan Court Entertainments as Political Discourse”
Susan Dunn-Hensley (Wheaton College):
“Leaving London: Memory of Pilgrimage and the Sacred Feminine in Elizabeth I's Progress Entertainments”
16. Rhetoric and Logic in the Renaissance (Riviera 5)
Chair: Rollen Houser (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Charles Etheridge (Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi):
“Aristotle, Averroes, and Wilson”
Emma Annette Wilson (University of Western Ontario):
“‘What is a kiss?’ (Herrick): Early Modern Logic at Work in Herrick and Carew’s Pastoral Poetry”
Phillip Donnelly (Baylor University):
“History and Rhetoric in Areopagitica”
17. Milton Studies: Paradise Lost (Padre D)
Chair: Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University):
“Greedily she engorged: Eve's Satanic Sacrament”
Noah Dion (Yale University):
“Deceived by Satan: Readers Respond to Satan's Soliloquy”
Christina Iluzada (Baylor University):
“‘The Whole Creation Groaneth in Pain Together’: The Suffering and Redemption of Earth in Paradise Lost”
LUNCH: 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. (on one’s own)
SESSION IV: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
18. How to Read Marvell’s “The Definition of Love”: Three Views (Padre D)
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
George Klawitter (St.Edward's University):
“The Definition of Love: Marvell's Use of Donne”
Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University):
“Defining the Indefinable: Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love’”
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College):
“Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love’: A Definition of Love”
19. Beyond the World of the Natural? (Riviera 5)
Chair: H. Ashley Hall (Creighton University)
Ken Kurihara (Fordham University):
“Co-preacher sent by God: Celestial wonders and Lutheran clergy in 16th-century Germany”
William Korver (Northeastern State University (Oklahoma)):
“Shakespeare’s Fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Origins, Innovations and Legacy”
Louis Charles Stagg (Emeritus, University of Memphis (English)):
“Caliban, Son of Devil-God Setebos”
Miranda Wilson (University of Delaware):
“Uncertain Ghosts: Poisoning, Autopsies, and the Speaking Dead”
20. St. Mary Magdalen and St. John the Baptist in Renaissance Italy (Padre C)
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Lori Witzel (St. Edward's University):
“The Sites of Her Sin, the Sites of Her Salvation: ‘Verba Invisibilia’ in Donatello’s Penitent Magdalen”
Brian Steele (Texas Tech University):
“Leonardo's Angelic Baptist”
21. The Queen and Her Ladies (Padre B)
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
Kristin Bundesen (Walden University):
“Elizabeth I and her ladies; cocoon, staff or independent force”
Catherine Howey Stearn (Eastern Kentucky University):
“Ceremonial Queens and Queenly Ceremony: Court Women Representing Elizabeth I ”
First Keynote for Queen Elizabeth I Society
Janet Pollack (Colorado State University):
“Anne Boleyn: Women, Music, and Gender Politics at the Tudor Court”
22. Shakespearean Comedy II (Padre A)
Chair: Catherine Cox (Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi)
Robert W. Haynes (Texas A&M International University):
“The Malvolian Moment: Folly and Governance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night”
Maurice Hunt (Baylor University):
“Twelfth Night and ‘the pregnant enemy’: The Devil in What You Will”
Mickey Wadia (Austin Peay State University):
“Neither Ridiculous nor Incoherent: A Reassessment of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
Rezaur Rahman (Texas State University):
“Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and the Nihilist Self-Devouring Wolf”
23. Masculinity and Femininity (Riviera 4)
Chair: Elspeth Whitney (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Elspeth Whitney (University of Nevada, Las Vegas):
“Chaucer and the Complexions: The Case of the Pardoner”
Katherine Walker (Texas Christian University):
“Rue the Tears I Shed: Titus's Weeping Body ”
Beverly Van Note (Texas A&M University):
“Resisting Submission: Elizabeth Cary’s Articulation of the Forbidden Voice”
BREAK: 3:30 – 3:50 p.m. (Riviera Foyer 1-3)
SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
(Riviera 1-2)
THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE
Sponsored by The Andrew Marvell Society
Introduction of speaker:
Nicholas von Maltzahn
University of Ottawa
Speaker:
Martin Dzelzainis
Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Thought
Royal Holloway, University of London
“Andrew Marvell and George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham”
DINNER: 5:15 – 7:00 p.m. (on one’s own)
EVENING CONCERT: 7:30-8:45 p.m.
(Marina View Room)
Renaissance musical selections
Flicka Rahn – Soprano (Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi)
Jacob Porter – Classical Guitar (Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi)
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010
REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m. (Riviera Foyer)
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. (Marina View Room)
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. (Duval)
South Central Renaissance Conference
BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Queen Elizabeth I Society (Kleberg)
Society for Renaissance Art History (Riviera 3)
Andrew Marvell Society (Riviera 4)
SESSION V: 9:00 – 10: 30 a.m.
24. Shakespearean Tragedy (Riviera 4)
Chair: John Mercer (Northeastern State University)
Kara Northway (Kansas State University):
“‘[O]’er-hasty’ or “praise be rashness’?: The Value of Speed in Early Modern Hamlet Performances”
Sarita Rich (Brigham Young University):
“Dangerous Conceits: Perverse Alchemical Transmutations in William Shakespeare's Othello”
25. Marvell: Biographical and Intellectual (Riviera 5)
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell (Seattle University)
Nigel Smith (Princeton University):
“Andrew Marvell Senior”
Susan Clarke (Australian National University):
“The Concept of Neo-Stoic Retirement in Royalist Polemic and Poetry, 1647-48”
Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa):
“Marvell and the Regions”
26. New Studies on Medicean Art (Padre C)
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Yael Even (University of Missouri - St. Louis)
Liana De Girolami Cheney (UMASS Lowell):
“Giorgio Vasari's ‘Sala degli Elementi’: Symbolism of Fire”
Diana Presciutti (Rice University):
“Imaging Abundance at the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Medicean Siena”
Marie Ladino (University of Maryland, College Park):
“Florentine Grand-ducal Diplomacy in the Roman Art World: Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte as an Agent of Ferdinando de' Medici”
27. Late Antique and Medieval Queens and the Renaissance: Two Keynotes for the Queen Elizabeth I Society (Padre A)
Chair: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
Marguerite Tassi (University of Nebraska – Kearney):
“Wounded Maternity and Sharp Revenge: Shakespeare’s Representation of Margaret and Tamora in Light of the Hecuba Myth”
John Watkins (University of Minnesota):
“Drinking from Your Father’s Skull: Late Antique Pre-history of Renaissance Queenship”
28. The New World (Padre B)
Chair: Catherine Campbell (Cottey College)
Ann Louise Cole (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville):
“Valorous Ventures: The Renaissance Explorer as Epic Hero”
Lester Brothers (University of Central Missouri):
“A Mexican Tribute to a Renaissance Master: Missa Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui by Francisco López Capillas”
Martine Sauret (Macalester College):
“Le nouveau continent; nouveau centre, nouveau miroir, mire du nous dans Des Cannibales et Des Coches de Montaigne”
29. The Middle Ages in the Renaissance (Padre D)
Chair: Fr. Edward J. Baenziger (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Frederic Clark (Department of History, Princeton University):
“Medieval ‘Renaissance’ in Renaissance Europe: Early Modern Readings of the Carolingian Revival”
Mary Sommers (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“‘Out of the Fullness of Contemplation’: The Fate of Aquinas’ Innovations to the Concepts of the Vita Contemplativa and the Vita Activa”
Anthony Crifasi (Benedictine College):
“From the scholastics to the early moderns: paradigm shift or scientific proof?”
BREAK: 10:30 –10:45 a.m. Riviera 1-3
SESSION VI: 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
30. Miscellaneous Studies (Padre C)
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney (UMASS Lowell)
Matthew Knox Averett (Creighton University):
“Secrecy and the Renaissance Artist”
Yael Even (University of Missouri, St. Louis):
“Luca Landucci on Violence”
Mark Schneider (Virginia Tech):
“Flights of Transformation: The Contributions of Girard Desargues (1591-1661) to the Stereotomy of the French Baroque Staircase”
31. Final Keynote and Panel for Queen Elizabeth I Society (Padre B)
Chair: Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University, East Bay)
Catherine Loomis (University of New Orleans):
“‘Little Man, Little Man’: Early Modern Representations of Robert Cecil”
Panel Discussion: Janet Pollack, Marguerite Tassi, John Watkins, and Catherine Loomis
32. Shakespeare and the Other (Padre A)
Chair: Evan Getz (Houston Baptist University)
Gabriel Fernandez (Texas A&M University-Kingsville):
“At Charges for a Looking Glass: Richard III's Theatre of Mirror”
Margaret Peters (Northeastern State University, Tahlequah OK):
“Shylock as Malevolent Jew or Tragic Victim: The Merchant of Venice and Religious Turmoil in Renaissance England”
Michael Saenger (Southwestern University):
“Shakespeare and the Borders of English”
33. Eros in the Renaissance (Padre D)
Chair: George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University)
Brad Campbell (Mississippi State University):
“‘This is a match’: Eroticism and Psychic Coupling in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale”
Raymond-Jean Frontain (University of Central Arkansas):
“Donne, Tagore, and Love's Passing Moment”
Kimberley Hogan (University of Louisiana at Monroe):
“The Rape of Lucrece: Metamorphic ‘unlocked treasure’ ”
34. Studies in Donne and Herbert (Riviera 1)
Chair: Charles Etheridge (Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi)
David Strong (University of Texas at Tyler):
“‘As a Shadow, a light and body must be here’: Reading Donne Through Duns Scotus”
Katelynn Robinson (Emporia State University):
“Emptiness, Misery, and Death in John Donne’s ‘A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day’”
35. Religion in the Age of Humanism (Riviera 4)
Chair: Sr. Paula Jean Miller (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Rollen Houser (University of St. Thomas, Houston):
“Christian Conversion in the Humanist Age”
H. Ashley Hall (Creighton University):
“Scriptores Puriores: Philip Melanchthon’s Appeal to the Cappadocian Fathers”
Patrick McGrath (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
“Epitaphium Damonis: Bacchic Orgies and the Church Fathers”
36. Sin and Repentance (Riviera 3)
Chair: Paul Parrish (Texas A&M University)
Kelcey Ponder (Independent Scholar):
“Faustus: Too Obtuse to Know Better”
Martha Oberle (Frederick Community College):
“I Have Sinned”
Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University):
“‘let me taste of thy cup’: The Poetics of Penitence in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi”
CLOSING LUNCHEON
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (Marina View Room)
Presiding:
Jill Carrington
Stephen F. Austin State University
THE KEYNOTE LECTURE
Introduction of speaker:
Catherine Cox
Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi
Speaker:
Barbara K. Lewalski
William R. Kenan Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature
Harvard University
“Milton, Galileo and the Opening to Science”