Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference
St. Louis, MO 3-5 March 2011
Click on a name to view that presenter’s abstract.
(Room locations indicated in parentheses)
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011
REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (BSC 173)
SESSION I: 1:30 – 3:15 p.m.
1. Shakespeare's Women (BSC 253B)
Chair: John Mercer, Northeastern State University
Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University):
“Emilia and the Politics of Cuckoldry”
Selina Souza (University of Louisiana at Monroe):
“The Power of Marginal Feminine Discourse: Queen Margaret in Richard III”
Marguerite Tassi (University of Nebraska):
“Mistresses of Revenge: Feminine Vindication and Social Drama in The Merry Wives of Windsor ”
Michael Reese (Northeastern State University):
“Falcons and Fables and Floggings, Oh My! Finding Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew”
2. Elizabeth I, Literature, and Other Queens (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin, University of Nebraska
Welcome: Charles Beem, Master of the Revels, University of North Carolina–Pembroke
Amanda Kellogg (University of North Texas):
“"Divers schedules of my beauty": Portraiture as an Allusion to Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night”
Glenn Schudel (Mary Baldwin College):
“Maiden, Mother, Warrior, Witch: Renaissance Representations of Margaret of Anjou”
Andrea Nichols (University of Nebraska):
“"I was not I?": Tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama, 1592-1626”
3. The Art and Music of Devotional Practice (BSC 254)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Caroline Hillard, Washington University
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives (Missouri State University):
“Iconic Narratives and Narrative Icons in Netherlandish Art and Devotional Life”
Katherine Powers (California State University, Fullerton):
“Fra Serafino, the Lauda, and Contemplazione”
Margaret Flansburg (University of Central Oklahoma):
“The Augustinian Oratory at Sant’ Agostino in Fabriano”
4. Prostitutes, Disease, and Consumption (BSC 353)
Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University-San Marcos
Hristomir Stanev (University of Louisville):
“On Brothel Alimentary Consciousness and the City Devoured on the Early Modern Stage”
Meg Lota Brown (University of Arizona):
“Bodies in Labor: Female Prostitutes, Healers, and Midwives in Early Modern Europe”
Samantha Murphy (University of Tennessee-Knoxville):
“Charles I, John Ford, and the Pathology of Incest”
Lauren Coker (Saint Louis University):
“There is no suff'ring due: Undressing the "Sick Dress" in Volpone”
5. Restoration Marvell (BSC 351)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Joan Faust, Southeastern Louisiana University
Sean McDowell (Seattle University):
“Marvell in the 'Tiring-room'”
Alex Garganigo (Austin College):
“Marvell as Miltonist”
Brett Hudson (Middle Tennessee State University):
“Competing Idioms: Andrew Marvell's "On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost" and the Restoration Reader”
Martin Dzelzainis (University of Leicester):
“‘The Sport of Bishop Hunting’: Marvell’s Anticlericalism”
6. Catholicism, Recusancy, and Double Justification (BSC 253A)
Chair: Rebecca Schisler, Saint Louis University
Catherine Cox (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi):
“Plague like Cats: Our First Gothic Novel, William Baldwin's Beware the Cat”
Marlo Belschner (Monmouth College):
“The Alternative Spiritual Authority of Mary Ward”
Daniel Crews (University of Central Missouri):
“Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lazarillo de Tormes, and Charles V's Conciliar Diplomacy, 1541-1554”
7. English Drama and Religious Belief (BSC 251B)
Chair: Sean Benson (University of Dubuque)
Kerry Delaney (University of Iowa):
“Bedeviling the Zealots and Lauding the Fools: Staging Right Belief in The Witch of Edmonton.”
Judith Coleman (University of Iowa):
“‘The motion’s good / And of the spirit’: Antinomian Puritans in Thomas Middleton’s The Puritan.”
Shannon Meyer Jones (University of Nebraska, Lincoln):
“Fallen Angels: The Origin of the Demonic Familiar.”
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
(Père Marquette Art Gallery, DuBourg Hall)
Welcoming Remarks:
Brian Steele
President of SCRC
Texas Tech University
Introduction of Speaker:
Thomas Herron
East Carolina University
Speaker:
Kevin N. Moll
East Carolina University
“Some Straight-Shooting Observations on
the Early L’homme armé Masses”
RECEPTION: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
(Sinquefield State Room, 4th floor DuBourg Hall)
DINNER (on one’s own): 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND DINNER: 6:00
(Mary Bremer Conference Room, 404 DuBourg Hall)
University Theatre Performance: 8:00 p.m.
Much Ado About Nothing
(Xavier Hall theater)
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
REGISTRATION: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (BSC 173)
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 10:00 a.m. (BSC 173)
SESSION II: 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.
8. Special Session: Nuns as Patrons of Art and Theatre in Renaissance Italy (BSC 253A)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Katherine McIver, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Cynthia Stollhans (Saint Louis University):
“Spiritual Patronage and Intellectual Identity: Benedictine Nuns and the Fresco Cycle of St. Catherine of Alexandria at Sant'Agnese”
Marilyn Dunn (Loyola University):
“Defining Themselves or Defined by Others?: Nuns' Art Patronage and the Construction of Identity ”
Elissa Weaver (University of Chicago):
“Theater and Music in the Florentine Convent of San Girolamo”
9. Marvell in Yorkshire: Hull and Nunappleton (BSC 351)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: George Klawitter, St. Edward’s University
Nigel Smith (Princeton University):
“Andrew Marvell and Hull Radicalism”
Julianne Werlin (Princeton University):
“Marvell and the Art of Fortification”
Mira Assaf (Ohio State University):
“"He Called Us Israelites": The Jewish Threat in Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House”
10. Early Modern French Literature (BSC 251A)
Chair: Laurent Curelly, Université de Haute Alsace
Dorothy Stegman (Ball State University):
“Density and Scève's Durable Love for Délie”
Francis Bright (University of Redlands):
“Undressing Emblems: Anacharsis, Angerona, Harpocrates”
Julie Singer (Washington University in St. Louis):
“Windmills and Wordmills”
11. Elizabeth and Statecraft (BSC 254)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: John Watkins, University of Minnesota
Cassandra Auble (University of Nebraska):
“Bejeweled Majesty: Queen Elizabeth, Precious Stones and Statecraft”
Charles Beem (University of North Carolina–Pembroke):
“Why Elizabeth Never Left England”
Tim Moylan (St. Louis College of Pharmacy):
“From Queen's Champion to "She 'threatens a progress': Sir Henry Lee and Elizabeth”
12. The Play of Geography in Early Modern Literature (BSC 253B)
Chair: Rebecca Schisler, Saint Louis University
Caitlin McHugh (University of Minnesota):
“The Unnamed Island: Prospero, Caliban, and Possession in The Tempest”
Spencer Wall (University of Utah):
“Tamburlaine's Chaotic Geography”
Dana Schumacher-Schmidt (University of Minnesota):
“Remembering the Fear of Tangier in Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson”
13. Shakespeare and the Elements (BSC 251B)
Chair: Maurice Hunt, Baylor University
Thomas Herron (East Carolina University):
“An Elemental-Purgatorial Scheme in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus”
Kara Northway (Kansas State University):
“'The hazeard of w[hi]ch Scylla to incur': Drama and Determination on the Brink of Disaster at Sea”
Louis Charles Stagg (University of Memphis):
“But Why Did Ophelia Drown Herself?”
BREAK: 9:45 –10:00 a.m. (Coffee Service in BSC 173)
SESSION III: 10:00 – 11:30
14. Spenser I (BSC 353)
Chair: Patricia Wareh, Union College
Jessica Dell (McMaster University):
“Divided They Fall: (De)constructing the Triple Hecate in Spenser's Cantos of Mutabilitie”
Lise Mae Schlosser (Northern Illinois University):
“A Happy New Year? Spenser's Shepheardes Calender ”
Andrea Hewitt (Saint Louis University):
“Hearing Britomart's Call in The Princess and Aurora Leigh: Spenser Among the Victorians”
15. Shakespeare in Performance (BSC 253A)
Chair: David Reinheimer, Southeast Missouri State University
John Mercer (Northeastern State University):
“The Making of a Terrorist: Universalizing Shylock in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Merchant of Venice”
Anita Hagerman (Washington University):
“Henry V, "This England," and the Anxiety of Opposition”
Michael Kelley (Saint Louis University):
“Richard and the Camera: A Monstrous Marvel”
16. Reconsiderations (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Jill Carrington, Stephen F. Austin State University
William Levin (Centre College):
“Toward a Fuller Understanding of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise”
Brian Steele (Texas Tech University):
“Reframing the Context: Giovanni Bellini's Frari Triptych (1488) as Salvific Wisdom”
Frank DeStefano (Independent Scholar):
“Giorgione's La Tempesta”
Ryan Gregg (Webster University):
“The St. Louis Art Museum's Reclining Pan as Eclogue”
17. Philip Sidney, Rhetoric, and Performance Anxiety (BSC 251B)
Chair: Arlen Nydam, Independent Scholar
Matthew Turner (Saint Louis University):
“"Having No Law But Wit": Lying Pictures and Visual Rhetoric in Sidney's Arcadia ”
Ryan Farrar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“The Power of Absence and Contradiction in Sidney's New Arcadia”
Randi Marie Smith (University of Tennessee, Knoxville):
“Performance Anxiety: Sidney, Donne, and the Criteria for Poetry”
18. Elizabeth and Other Women (BSC 253B)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Mary Villeponteaux, Georgia Southern University
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (Ohio State University – Mansfield):
“Elizabethan Women and the Politics of Royal Entertainment”
Catherine Medici-Thiemann (University of Nebraska):
“"A Very Goddess of Persuasion": Representations of Elizabeth's Privy Chamber Woman, Mary Sidney”
Nathan Martin (Charleston Southern University):
“Friendship of Consequence: The Relationship of Helena Snakenborg and Elizabeth I, 1565-1603”
19. The Turn to Religion in Early Modern Literature (BSC 254)
Chair: Jennifer R. Rust, Saint Louis University
James Lambert (University of Iowa):
“Joyful Ornament: Spenser's Epithalamion and the Expression of Religious Joy”
Frances Malpezzi (Arkansas State University):
“Anne Bradstreet and the Greening of the Heart ”
Maurice Hunt (Baylor University):
“Shakespeare's The Tempest and Human Worth”
LUNCH: 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. (on one’s own)
SESSION IV: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
20. Literature and the Middle East (BSC 353)
Chair: Caitlin McHugh, University of Minnesota
Sharon Hampel (University of Denver):
“Leone Hebreo and Hebraic Desire”
Joan Wedes (Wayne State University):
“Ducats and Bags or Daughters and Wives: Sustaining an English Christianity While away on Business in the Mediterranean ”
Nabil Matar (University of Minnesota):
“Henry Stubbe and the Arabic Christian Portrait of Muhammad (c. 1671) ”
21. Marvell in the Revolution: Heroes, Politicians, and Exiles (BSC 253A)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Alex Garganigo, Austin College
Christopher Orchard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania):
“The Marvel of Peru': "The Mower against Gardens," Horticultural Politics and the Legitimacy of the Republic in 1649-1650 England”
Greg Miller (Millsaps College):
“Andrew Marvell, Lyric Vision, and the Heroic: "An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" and "On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost"”
Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute of Netherlands History):
“A man with a mission'. Richard Flecknoe in Service of Béatrix de Cusance, Duchess of Lorraine”
22. Vasari and Florence (BSC 253B)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Ryan Gregg, Webster University
Liana De Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts, Lowell):
“Giorgio Vasari's "Sala degli Elementi": Symbolism of Richness”
Jasmin Cyril (Benedict College):
“Portraits of Bianca Capello, True Daughter of Venice and Grand Duchess of Florence: Identity by Design”
23. The Old in the New: Shakespearean Adaptations (BSC 251B)
Chair: Catherine Cox, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Beverly Van Note (St. Edward’s University):
“Embodying the Female in Love's Victory”
Barbara Cobb (Murray State University):
“As You Like It As They Like It: Shakespeare for Sixth Graders and Others”
Brett Foster (Wheaton College):
“Shakespearean Presences in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem”
24. Milton (BSC 351)
Chair: Joe Loewenstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University-San Marcos):
“Meet and Happy--and Unhappy--Conversations in Paradise Lost”
Julie Newberry (Texas A&M University):
“Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Its Contraries in A Mask and Paradise Regained”
David Cormier (Saint Louis University):
“"Why don't you kill yourself?": Samson's Search for Meaning”
25. Elizabeth’s Body (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Nate Probasco, University of Nebraska
Susan Dunn-Hensley (Wheaton College):
“Real Presences: Protestantism, the Body, and the Virgin Queen”
Renee Bricker (North Georgia College and State University):
“Queen Elizabeth I in Pungent Times”
Laura Mucenski (Ohio State University):
“Deadly Beauty: Cosmetics in Early Modern England”
26. Theoretical Perspectives on Early Modern Literature (BSC 254)
Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University-San Marcos
Zsolt Mohi (University of Kansas):
“A Crisis in Vision: Division and Unity in Gammer Gurton's Needle”
Dave Reinheimer (Southeast Missouri State University):
“Done in by Color: Deconstructing Shakespeare's Sonnet 130”
Terry Gamel (Northeastern State University):
“The Dog's Bite: Usury and Foucault's "Resemblance" in The Merchant of Venice”
BREAK: 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. (Coffee Service in BSC 173)
SESSION V: 2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
27. Special Session: Staging Much Ado About Nothing (BSC 353)
Chair: Nancy Bell, Saint Louis University
Panel discussion: “Much Ado As Averted Tragedy: A Director and Designer’s Approach to Staging the Play in the Italy of the 1930s.”
Tim Ocel, Saint Louis (Visiting Director for the University production)
Louis Bird, Saint Louis University (Costume Designer)
James Burwinkel, Saint Louis University (Set Designer)
Mark Wilson, Saint Louis University (Lighting Designer)
Rice Allen, Saint Louis University (Sound Designer)
28. Reading Mary Wroth (BSC 351)
Chair: Barbara Cobb, Murray State University
Rahel Orgis (University of Neuchâtel):
“"[A] story very well woorth readinge": Why Early Modern Readers Enjoyed Lady Mary Wroth's Urania”
Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University):
“Constancy and Faithlessness: The Female Lover in Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus”
29. Politics and Patronage in the Arts (BSC 253A)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Matthew Knox Averett, Creighton University
Marie Ladino (University of Maryland):
“Western Imagery in the Ottoman East: Süleyman the Magnificent's Combination of Politics and Art”
Martha Oberle (Frederick Community College):
“Leonardo's Bridge”
30. Poetry and Elizabeth (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Brandie Siegfried, Brigham Young University
Katlyn Lewicke (Smith College):
“The Moon Above and the Water Below”
Mary Villeponteaux (Georgia Southern University):
“"Proud and Pitilesse": Elizabethan Mercy and the Sonnet Tradition”
31. Marvell: Entry into Service (BSC 254)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University
Steven Zwicker (Washington University in St. Louis):
“Secrecies and Disclosures”
Derek Hirst (Washington University in St. Louis):
“Entry into Service”
32. Elizabeth Then and Now (BSC 253B)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Debra Barrett-Graves, California State University – East Bay
Grant Moss (Utah Valley University):
“Sexy Tudors and The Real Housewives of Windsor: Elizabeth I in Twenty-first Century Media”
Laura Flaspohler (Emporia State University):
“The Creation of an Icon”
33. Re-mediating the Renaissance (BSC 251B)
Chair: Sara van den Berg, Saint Louis University
Scott Howard (University of Denver):
“E-Journals & Interactive Design: Re-mediating Renaissance / Early Modern Literary & Cultural Studies”
Sean Benson (University of Dubuque):
“A Local Habitation Lends a Name: Thomas Arden's Tragic Stature”
BREAK: 3:45 – 4:15 p.m.
SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
(Père Marquette Art Gallery, DuBourg Hall)
THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE
Sponsored by
The Society for Renaissance Art History
Introduction of speaker:
Liana Cheney
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Speaker:
Diane Cole Ahl
Lafayette College
“'This splendid, noble art’:
Re-Viewing Fifteenth-Century Painting in Italy”
DINNER: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (on one’s own)
Special Session: 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
The Queen's Revels and Queen's Attic Auction
(Lower level of Hotel Indigo)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Presiding: Carole Levin, President
Amy Keller (professional musician, Lincoln, Nebraska), songs she has composed about the Renaissance and Queen Elizabeth.
Debra Barrett-Graves and Charles Beem (auctioneers), items of value and mirth from Queen Elizabeth I’s attic.
University Theatre Performance: 8:00 p.m.
Much Ado About Nothing
(Xavier Hall theater)
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m. (BSC 173)
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 10:45 a.m. (BSC 173)
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. (BSC 254)
South Central Renaissance Conference
BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Queen Elizabeth I Society (BSC 251B)
Society for Renaissance Art History (BSC 253A)
Andrew Marvell Society (BSC 251A)
SESSION VI: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
34. Reconstructions (BSC 253A)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Matthew Averett, Creighton University
Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack College):
“The Remarkable Tomb of Abbot Meli”
Zbynek Smetana (Murray State University):
“Titian's Triumph”
Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University):
“The Raniero degli Arsendi Professor Tomb in Context”
35. Patriarchy and Politics (BSC 353)
Chair: Martha Oberle, Frederick Community College
Kelcey Lamer (Independent Scholar):
“Female Subjugation in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew”
Iva Thompson (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale):
“Ideological Worlds at War: Exploring the Political Implications of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies”
Brad Campbell (Mississippi State University):
“'Hide, hide thy snaky head!': Reconstructing the Medusa Narrative in The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois”
36. “The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers”: A Panel Discussion (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Gabriella Gruder-Poni, Independent Scholar
George Klawitter (St. Edward's University):
“Little T.C.: Just an Ekphrastic Poem or Another Political Commentary?”
Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University):
“'Carpe ante diem': Marvell's 'The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers'”
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College):
“The Socio-Literary Context of Marvell's "Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers"”
37. The Educated Queen goes on Progress (BSC 251B)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University
Margaret Oakes (Furman University):
“Consolation and Confirmation: The Dual Role of Elizabeth's Translation of Boethius”
Keynote: Linda Shenk (Iowa State University):
“Elizabeth’s Most Internationally Powerful Persona and Her Progress to Norwich”
38. Sovereignty in Measure for Measure (BSC 254)
Chair: Rebecca Schisler, Saint Louis University
Stephanie Christodoulou (Northeastern State University):
“Measure for Measure as a Reflection of a Dynastic Shift”
Craig Bertolet (Auburn University):
“"Mortality and mercy in Vienna / Live in thy tongue and heart": The Problem of Sovereignty and Exception in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure”
Heather Aziere (Northeastern State University):
“Divine Right and Machiavellianism in Measure for Measure”
39. Religion and Political History (BSC 253B)
Chair: Paul Parrish, Texas A&M University
Ken Kurihara (Fordham University):
“Georg Major as Comforter: Pastoral Cares and Eschatology in 16th-century Wittenberg”
Kinda Skea (University of Leicester):
“Identities and Networks of Restoration Nonconformist Ministers (1658-1674)”
Brian Kett (University of Colorado):
“Tom of All Trades: The Writings of Thomas Powell as a Tool for Lower Branch Lawyers in Early Modern England and Wales”
BREAK: 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. (Coffee Service in BSC 173)
SESSION VII: 10:45 – 12:15
40. New Angles on Marvell’s Lyric Strategies (BSC 251A)
Sponsor: the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell, Seattle University
Kevin Laam (Oakland University):
“Andrew Marvell's Ovidian Consolations”
Emma Wilson (University of Western Ontario):
“Looking for Logic in All the Wrong Places: A Quest for Andrew Marvell's Use of Early Modern Logic in his Poetry ”
Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute Alsace):
“'These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears': The Language of Tears in Seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poetry”
41. Donne, the Orality of Salvation, and Cosmic Order (BSC 253A)
Chair: Brett Foster, Wheaton College
Raymond-Jean Frontain (University of Central Arkansas):
“The "change to evennesse": Donne's A Litanie and the Orality of Salvation”
Melissa Hudler (Lamar University and Anglia Ruskin University):
“"Weaving and Unweaving": Rhetorical Failure and Success in Sir John Davies' Orchestra ”
Randi Pahlau (Malone University):
“Bread from Heaven: Manna as Symbol in the Work of Donne and Marvell”
42. Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, and the Duke of Alençon (BSC 254)
Sponsor: the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin, University of Nebraska
Ilona Bell (Williams College):
“Elizabeth and Alençon—From Myself Another Self I Turned”
Anna Riehl Bertolet (Auburn University):
“'But Yet a Union in Partition': Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart”
43. Art and Literature (BSC 253B)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Liana Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina):
“Titian and Petrarchan Painting”
A. Scott Pearson (Vanderbilt University):
“Iconography in the Anatomical Art of Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
Debra Murphy (University of North Florida):
“The Holy Family with the Young St. John the Baptist in The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens: Context and Meaning”
Yael Even (University of Missouri–St. Louis):
“Bacchus and the Florentine Commoners”
44. Spenser II: The Faerie Queene (BSC 353)
Chair: Thomas Herron, East Carolina University
Jonathon Lux (Saint Louis University):
“Infants and the Battle for the Future in The Faerie Queen”
Patricia Wareh (Union College):
“Spenser's Metatheatrical Conclusion to The Faerie Queene”
Claire Bordelon (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“The Aged Sire, the Despairing Pastor, and the Divine Lady: the Many Faces of Contemplation in Spenser's The Faerie Queene”
45. Rebirthing the Classical (BSC 251B)
Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Greg Bentley, Mississippi State University
Madhuparna Mitra (University of North Texas):
“The Legends of Amity: Three Versions of the Titus and Gysippus Story”
Anthony Cirilla (Saint Louis University):
“The Ebbing Neptune: Shakespeare's Rejoinder to Virgil and Ovid in The Tempest”
Joshua Thompson (Independent Scholar):
“Ovid’s Elegies and Christopher Marlowe’s Erotic Verse beyond the 'funeral fire'”
CLOSING LUNCHEON
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (BSC 3rd Floor, St. Louis Room)
Presiding:
Brian Steele
SCRC President
THE KEYNOTE LECTURE
Introduction of speaker:
Donald Stump
St. Louis University
Speaker:
Ralph Alan Cohen
American Shakespeare Center
and Mary Baldwin College
“‘An Actor Prepares’ . . . through an Early Modern Process”
MUSEUM OUTINGS 3:00-5:00
(prior reservation on conference registration form required)
St. Louis Art Museum (Forest Park, shuttle provided), OR
City Museum (Delmar and 15th Street, shuttle provided)