Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference

New Orleans, LA 8–10 March 2012

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(Room locations indicated in parentheses)

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012

REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Queen Anne Mezzanine)

SESSION I: 1:30 – 3:15 p.m.

1. Renaissance Art History I: SRAH Open Session for Graduate Papers (Orleans)

Sponsor: the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Nicole Wankel (University of St. Thomas-St. Paul, MN):
“Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto: A New Reading of Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Painting”

2. Shakespeare I: Cross Dressing, Usury, Cuckoldry, and Homo-Social Bonds in The Merchant of Venice (Gallier)

Chair: Martha Oberle, Frederick (MD) Community College

Lindsey Bennett (Northeastern State University):
“Portia’s Agency: Modes of Cross Dressing”

Horacio Sierra (Saint Joseph College):
“Thrift is blessing, if men steal it not: Usury and Cuckoldry in The Merchant of Venice”

Katherine Gillen (University of New Hampshire):
“Commodifying the Human in The Merchant of Venice: Homo-Social Bonds, Chaste Rings, and Anxieties of International Trade”

3. QEIS I: Queenship and Variations on the Religious Context (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Brandie Siegfried, Brigham Young University, QEIS President

Welcoming Remarks: Renee Bricker, Mistress of the Revels, North Georgia College and University

Sarah Duncan (Spring Hill College):
“Heirs Apparent: Mary I and Elizabeth I as Princesses and Queens”

Tim Moylan (St. Louis College of Pharmacy):
“When the Political Intersects the Personal: Elizabeth, Montague, and the Recusant Problem”

4. Sonnets, Sex, and Poetic Discoveries (Pontalba)

Chair: Donald Stump, St. Louis University

Ilona Bell (Williams College):
“Wroth and Shakespeare—Sugared Sonnets among Their Private Friends”

David Sabrio (Texas A&M University-Kingsville):
“Sex, Sonnets, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Students”

Abigail Scherer (Nicholls State University):
“Margaret Cavendish’s Poetic Discoveries”

5. Marvell I: Marvell’s Mowers, Nymphs, and Gardens (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Joan Faust, Southeastern Louisiana University

Mira Sengupta (City College of New York):
“Grafting the Texts: An Intertextual Reading of Marvell’s Mower and Garden Poems”

Kora Vidnovic (Independent Scholar):
“Marvell’s Intellectualized Nymphs: A Reconsideration of Mary Fairfax and ‘The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn’”

6. The Epic Tradition (Beauregard)

Chair: Arlen Nydam, Independent Scholar

Phillip Donnelly (Baylor University):
“Homer Writes Back: Reconfiguring Justice in Paradise Lost, Books 1-2”

Steven Cowser (Queen Mary, University of London):
“‘Witness . . . that night / In Gibeah’ (PL I.503-504): Lucan, Belial, and the Lessons of History”

Barbara Brumbaugh (Auburn University):
“Prophecy and History in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Epic”

BREAK: 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. (Queen Anne Parlor)

FIRST PLENARY SESSION

THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
(Queen Anne Ballroom)

Welcoming Remarks:
Irving Kelter
President of SCRC
University of St. Thomas

Introduction of Speaker:
Susan Krantz
University of New Orleans

Speaker:
Sabine Mödersheim
University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Ut pictura poesis—Emblems and the Material Culture”

RECEPTION: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
(Bienville/Iberville Ballrooms)

DINNER (on one’s own): 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND DINNER: 6:00
(Royal Salon A)

UNO Jazz Ensemble will perform from 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at the Hotel Monteleone. No charge.

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012

REGISTRATION: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Queen Anne Mezzanine)

SESSION II: 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.

7. Special Session: Reaching New Audiences: The Translated Text as Cross Cultural, Trans-Historical Link (Beauregard)

Chair: Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans

Daniel Gullo (Columbus State University):
“Translating the Rule of St. Benedict for Female Religious Communities in late Medieval Catalonia”

Maria Stampino (University of Miami):
“Translating the Other Voice: Issues of Audience”

Susan Hrach (Columbus State University):
“Teaching the Target Text: Marlowe’s All Ovid’s Elegies and the English Renaissance Audience”

8. Marvell II: “The Gallery”: A Discussion (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell, Seattle University

Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University):
“Andrew Marvell’s ‘Gallery’ of Reflections”

George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University):
“Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Gallery’: Cora Comes Home”

9. Saints, Spiritual Conduct Books, and Religious Criticism (Pontalba)

Chair: Ken Kurihara, Fordham University

Edward Baenziger (University of St. Thomas-Houston):
“French Saints and Sanctity”

Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State University of Louisiana):
“Similitudes in English Reformation Spiritual Conduct Books”

Lindsay Sherrier (Tulane University):
“Religious Criticism in Robin Hood and the Bishop”

10. The Queen Elizabeth Society Keynote Speeches (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Marguerite Tassi (Martin Distinguished Professor in English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney):
“Avenging Daughter, Invading Queen: Cordelia’s Political Agency in King Lear”

Bernadette Andrea (University of Texas at San Antonio):
“Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, French Turks, and the Elizabethan Queen of Sheba”

11. Renaissance Art History II: Reading the Meanings of Renaissance Art in the Veneto (Orleans)

Sponsor: Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Margaret Flansburg, University of Central Oklahoma (Emeritus)

Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University):
“The Paired Altar Tombs of Bartolomeo Sanvito and Bartolomeo Urbino in San Francesco Grande in Padua and the Effigy in Tombs of the Veneto”

Jasmin Cyril (Benedict College):
“Carlo Crivelli’s Madonna of the Cucumber: Sacred Image and Morphology”

Francis DeStefano (Independent Scholar):
“Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love”

12. Shakespeare II: Politics and the Defense of the Faith (Gallier)

Chair: Martha Oberle, Frederick (MD) Community College

Hillary Eklund (Loyola University New Orleans):
“The Politics of Surfeit and Loss in Coriolanus”

Kerry Delaney Doyle (University of Iowa):
“Reformed and Recusant: Henry VIII’s Defense of the Faith”

BREAK: 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. (Queen Anne Parlor)

SESSION III: 10:00 – 11:30

13. Marvell III: Marvell in the 1670s (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Alex Garganigo, Austin College

Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa):
“Marvell’s ‘Maniban’ in a New Manuscript”

Brett Hudson (Middle Tennessee State University):
“Promiscuous Publishing and Diseased Polemic: Andrew Marvell’s Depiction of Lycanthropy in The Rehearsal Transpros’d”

14. Spenser: Female Sexuality & Human Agency in The Faerie Queene (Beauregard)

Chair: Thomas Herron, East Carolina University

Kristen Gipson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“Lost in the Gaze: Paralyzing Female Power in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene”

Brenna Heffner (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“‘That substance is Eterne’: Female Sexuality in Book III of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene”

Jessica Tooker (Indiana University-Bloomington):
“Oscillations of Human Agency and Divine Grace in Book VI, Canto X of The Faerie Queene”

15. Shakespeare III: History and Tragedy (Gallier)

Chair: Catherine Cox, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Martha Oberle (Frederick [MD] Community College):
“A War of Words: Shakespeare’s Tetralogy”

Michael Hays (Independent Scholar):
“Another Source of the ‘Other’ in Othello: From Textual Crux to Critical Conundrum”

Brad Campbell (Mississippi State University):
“The Dramatization of Identity and Desire: A Textual Analysis of Holinshed’s Chronicles and Shakespeare’s Macbeth”

16. Surrey and Sidney: Textual Criticism and Interpretation (Pontalba)

Chair: Arlen Nydam, Independent Scholar

Louis Maraj (Texas Tech University):
“Re-historicizing and Rethinking Surrey’s ‘Love that doth raine’”

Paul Stapleton (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill):
“The Pseudonym in Catullus and Sidney”

Donald Stump (St. Louis University):
“Sidney’s Great Turn: The 1580 Letters on Education and the Revised Arcadia”

17. QEIS II: Elizabethan Rhetoric, International Negotiations, and the Arts of Statesmanship (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Catherine Howey Stearn, Eastern Kentucky University

Catherine Medici-Thiemann (University of Nebraska at Lincoln):
“‘On Her Word Alone’: Mary Dudley Sidney’s Political Agency in Elizabeth I’s Marriage Negotiations with the Spanish Ambassador”

Erica Gruenewald (University of Delaware):
“Before the Black Legend: Gascoigne, Sir Bruse, and Elizabeth in the Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth Castle”

Daniel Ellis (St. Bonaventure University):
“Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Language of Estate Management, and the Foundations of English Rhetoric”

Margaret Oakes (Furman University):
“‘Their Scepters Stretcht from East to Western Shore’: Imagining a Global Queenship”

18. Blood-Drinking Sucklings, Ghosts, and Zombies (Orleans)

Chair: Dorothy Stegman, Ball State University

Elena Kazakova (Johns Hopkins University):
“Blood-Drinking Sucklings in Les Tragiques by Agrippa d’Aubigné”

Ken Kurihara (Fordham University):
“Angels or the Dead?: The Stories of ‘The Three Ghosts’ in Early Modern Germany”

Sean Benson (University of Dubuque):
“Zombies and the Shakespearean Undead”

LUNCH: 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. (on one’s own)

SESSION IV: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

19. Shakespeare and Marlowe: Constructions of Masculinity and Moral Spectacles (Beauregard)

Chair: Greg Bentley, Mississippi State University

Judith Coleman (University of Iowa):
“Powerless Tamburlaine: Customes, Oracles, and the Antinomian Question”

Jim Casey (High Point University):
“Dying Like a Man: Masculinity and Violence in Macbeth”

Caitlin McHugh (University of Minnesota):
“‘Perswasion must be joyn’d to Force’: Spectacular Morality and The Witches in William Davenant’s Macbeth”

20. Dante, Machiavelli, and the Fossilization of Understanding (Pontalba)

Chair: Patricia Garcia, University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Lee (University of Luxemborg and University of Warwick):
“Coluccio Salutati, Dante Alighieri and the Praise of Monarchy”

Sean Erwin (Barry University):
“The Metabolism of the State: Machiavelli’s Treatment of the Theme of Auxiliaries at Discorsi II.20”

Alexander McNair (University of Wisconsin-Parkside):
“Doré, Longfellow, iDante: A Nineteenth-Century Vision for Touch-Screen Technology”

21. Music, Dance, and Emblems of Desire (Orleans)

Chair: Jill Carrington, Stephen F. Austin State University

Timothy McKinney (Baylor University):
“Zarlino on Variety and Counterpoint”

Melissa Hudler (Lamar University and Anglia Ruskin University):
“Feats and Feet of Rhetoric in Ben Jonson’s ‘Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue’”

Dorothy Stegman (Ball State University):
“Perfection and the Coincidence of Opposites in Scève’s Délie”

22. Milton: Absence, Marriage, & Conversation (Cathedral Room)

Chair: Timothy Raylor, Carleton College

Christine Hoffmann (Georgia Institute of Technology):
“Nothing to See Here, Folks: Milton’s Art of Disappearance”

Sharon Hampel (University of Denver for Judaic Studies):
“Milton’s Marital Monism”

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University-San Marcos):
“Dangling Conversations: Adam and Eve Before the Fall”

23. QEIS III: Elizabethan Shadows: Torture, Masterful Deceit, and Emotional Manipulation (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Charles Beem, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Renee Bricker (North Georgia College and University):
“Tortured Bodies, Racked Souls”

Miranda Wilson (University of Delaware):
“The Poisoned Conscience: Catherine de Médici, Royal Suitors, and Political Upstarts”

Sarah Kelley (California State University, Fullerton):
“Wielding a Woman’s Power: Queen Elizabeth I’s Masterful Manipulation of Admiration”

24. Shakespeare IV: King Lear and Hamlet (Gallier)

Chair: Michael Hays, Independent Scholar

Nicholas Sheffield (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi):
“‘Those Wicked Creatures’: Gender and Family in William Shakespeare’s King Lear”

Benjamin Howard (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi):
“Ex Nihilo, nihil fit: Nihilism in Shakespeare’s King Lear”

Ryan Farrar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“‘A Foul and Pestilent Congregation’: Hamlet as an Ambiguous Dystopia”

25. Marvell IV: Marvell’s Influences: University Logic, Catholic Lyric (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University

Emma Annette Wilson (University of Western Ontario):
“Dialectic Between the Resolved Matter and Created Form: The Ramifications Of Marvell’s Education in Logic for his Dialogue Poems”

Sean McDowell (Seattle University):
“Catholicism at the Turning Point: Richard Crashaw and Andrew Marvell”

Greg Miller (Millsapps College):
“God’s Tended British Gardens: ‘The Coronet’ and ‘Upon Appleton House’”

BREAK: 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. (Queen Ann Parlor)

SESSION V: 2:45 – 4:00 p.m.

26. Special Session: Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Culture (Pontalba)

Chair: Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans

Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University, East Bay):
“Witchcraft and Magic in Jacobean Drama”

Carole Levin (University of Nebraska at Lincoln):
“The Witches of Macbeth: Dreams and Reality”

27. The Andrew Marvell Society Plenary Address (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University

Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University):
“The Impersonator”

28. The Picaresque Narrative Tradition (Gallier)

Chair: Sean Morris, East Carolina University

Catherine Cox (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi):
“Plague-time Anger and the Run-away Maker: Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller”

Daniel Gonzalez (University of New Orleans):
“Nashe & the Novel: The Fortunate Fate of The Unfortunate Traveller”

29. Renaissance Art History III: Special Session on Symbolism of Animals in Art (Orleans)

Sponsor: Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair and Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Maureen Pelta (Moore College of Art and Design):
“Of Sacred Stags and Harrying Hounds”

Tina Bizzaro (Rosemont College):
“Canines and Felines: Holy Dogs”

Yael Even (University of Missouri-St. Louis):
“The ‘Flea Hunt’ Reconsidered”

30. Shakespeare V: Shakespearean Adaptations (Ursuline)

Chair: Brad Campbell, Mississippi State University

Amy Drake (Ohio State University):
“From Acclaim to Arcane: Ducis’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth”

John Mercer (Northeastern State University):
“The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2011 Julius Caesar: A Timeless Parable of the Violent Legacy of Assassination”

BREAK: 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. (Queen Anne Parlor)

SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
(Queen Anne Ballroom)

THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE

DINNER: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (on one’s own)

Special Session: 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. (Bienville/Iberville Room)

“Dancing with Queen Elizabeth”
Yvonne Kendall (University of Houston-Downtown)

The Queen's Revels and Queen's Attic Auction

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA); transportation provided (leaving the hotel at 5:45 p.m. and returning at 8:30 p.m.). No charge.

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012

REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m. (Queen Anne Mezzanine)

Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 10:45 a.m. (Queen Anne Ballroom)

BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. (Queen Anne Ballroom)

South Central Renaissance Conference

BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Queen Elizabeth I Society (Bonnet Carre)

Society for Renaissance Art History (Orleans)

Andrew Marvell Society (Ursuline)

SESSION VI: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

31. Renaissance Art History IV: Art, Manner, and Motto (Orleans)

Sponsor: Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Matthew Knox Averett, Creighton University

A. Scott Pearson (Vanderbilt University):
“Anatomy and the Discipline of Art during the Renaissance”

Caroline Hillard (Wright State University):
“Vasari and the Etruscan Manner”

Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina):
“Michelangelo's Motto”

32. QEIS IV: Elizabeth’s Afterlife (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Catherine Howey Stearn, Eastern Kentucky University

Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University):
“‘ . . . that strange out-landish word Change’: The Death and Resurrection of Elizabeth I”

Grant Moss (Utah Valley University):
“Bardolatry and Elizabeth’s Body: Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous”

Susan Dunn-Hensley (Wheaton College):
“Reigning in a New Generation: Elizabeth I in Adolescent Literature”

33. Conceptualizing the Stage (Gallier)

Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University-San Marcos

Scott Oldenburg (Tulane University):
“A View of the Early English Stage by Way of Japan”

Daniel Mangiavellano (Tulane University):
“‘I dare not, for I cannot: I cannot, for I dare not’: Coleridge, Hamlet, and Dramatizing Habit”

Sandra Cox (Shawnee State University):
“The Black Arts Movement Colonizes Early Modern Drama: Shakespearean Antecedents in LeRoi Jones’ The Slave and Dutchman”

34. Renaissance Visionaries (Beauregard)

Chair: Thomas Herron, East Carolina University

Spencer K. Wall (University of Utah):
“More’s Artificial Island”

Jesse Russell (Louisiana State University):
“Edmund Spenser’s Uses of Virgil’s Imperial Vision”

Natalie Nations (Mississippi State University):
“The Politics of Desire: Phineas Fletcher’s ‘Venus and Anchises: Brittain’s Ida’”

Leonard Marsh (La Salle University):
“Significant Counsel: Reading Rabelais's Silent Sibyl”

35. Marvell V: Marvell and the Dutch Wars (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Greg Miller, Millsapps College

Martin Dzelzainis (University of Leicester):
“Marvell and the Dutch in 1665”

Alex Garganigo (Austin College):
“Marvell vs. Butler in The Last Instructions to a Painter”

Timothy Raylor (Carleton College):
“Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’”

36. Shakespeare VI: Sequential Art, Art Theory, and a Continuum of Events (Pontalba)

Chair: Horacio Sierra, Saint Joseph College

Russell McConnell (Louisiana State University):
“‘I stand here for law’: Reading The Merchant of Venice in Sequential Art”

Rebekah Smick (University of Toronto):
“‘Which pierces so’: Enargeia and Compassion in Shakespeare’s Tempest and Sixteenth-Century Art Theory”

Francis Bright (University of Redlands, California):
“A Continuum of Events: Corrozet’s Topographies”

BREAK: 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. (Queen Anne Parlor)

SESSION VII: 10:45 – 12:15

37. Devotion, Closure, and Meditation in Donne and Herbert (Bonnet Carre)

Chair: Joan Faust, Southeastern Louisiana University

Caitlin Holmes (Clemson University):
“‘That which makes all sounds music’: Donne’s Devotions and the Godly Community”

Raymond-Jean Frontain (University of Central Arkansas):
“‘When First and Last Concur: Closure in John Donne’s ‘The Annunciation and Passion’”

Patrick Perkins (Nicholls State University):
“Graveyard Meditations: On George Herbert’s ‘Church Monuments’”

38. QEIS V: Succession, Coronation, and the Question of Female Rule (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Margaret Oakes, Furman University

Katlyn Lewicke (Smith College):
“The Forgotten Heiress: Elizabeth Tudor’s Exclusion from the Mid-Tudor Succession Crisis”

Kyle Vitale (University of Delaware):
“Material Text as Tudor Actor: Modeling Reverence in Mulcaster’s Passage”

Elizabeth Downs (University of Delaware):
“John Aylmer’s Harbor for the Monarchy”

Charles Beem (University of North Carolina at Pembroke):
“William Fleetwood and the Itinerarium ad Windsor”

39. Renaissance Art History V: Renaissance Adaptations (Orleans)

Sponsor: Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Tina Bizzaro, Rosemont College

Deborah Cibelli (Nicholls State University):
“Regarding Women at the Casa Vasari”

Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack College):
“Style and Context: The Sculptures in the Choir of the Milanese Church of Santo Sepolcro”

Liana De Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts Lowell):
“Francesco Colonna and Edward Burne-Jones: Love Among the Ruins”

40. Shakespeare VII: Shakespeare’s Women (Gallier)

Chair: Nathan Martin, Charleston Southern University

Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University):
“Reading Titus Writing Lavinia: Hermeneutics and the Homo-Social Order in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”

Brian Brooks (Northeastern State University):
“Feminist Ambivalence in The Taming of the Shrew”

Raychel Reiff (University of Wisconsin-Superior):
“‘With as Little a Web as This’: Iago’s Web of Evil”

41. Female Agency in Early Modern Drama (Pontalba)

Chair: Flo Keyes, Castleton State College

Laura Flaspohler (Central Methodist University):
“Monstrous Isabella in Marlowe’s Edward II”

Beverly Van Note (St. Edward’s University):
“Tongues, Tombs, and Echoes of Agency in Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam”

LUNCHEON

12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (Queen Anne Ballroom)

Presiding:
Irving Kelter
SCRC President

THE KEYNOTE LECTURE

Introduction of speaker:
Oliver Hennessey
Xavier University of Louisiana

Speaker:
Sharon O’Dair
University of Alabama

“Exploring the Renaissance: Nice Work if You Can Get It”

BREAK: 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. (Queen Anne Parlor)

SESSION VIII: 2:45 – 4:30 p.m.

42. Marvell VI: Marvell and Genre: Ode, Epitaph, and Masque (Ursuline)

Sponsor: Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: George Klawitter, St. Edward’s University

Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale):
“‘She, having killed, no more does search’: Praise, Force, and Events in ‘An Horatian Ode’”

Kevin Laam (Oakland University):
“Time, Place, and Politics in Marvell’s Verse Epitaphs”

Amy Sattler (Washington University-St. Louis):
“The Masque in ‘Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax”

Gabriella Gruder-Poni (Independent Scholar):
“The Nymph’s Fawn and the Hewel: Transformations in Two Forests”

43. QEIS VI: Performing Queenship: Procession, Theatre, and Dramatic Narrative (Bonnet Carre)

Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Renee Bricker, North Georgia College and University

Catherine Campbell (Cottey College):
“Queen Elizabeth as Seen in France”

Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University):
“Memory and Mechanical Magic: Elizabeth I in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World”

44. Shakespeare VIII: Patriarchy and Cultural Attitudes (Gallier)

Chair: Sean Benson, University of Dubuque

Constantina Michalos (University of St. Thomas):
“Desdemona and Brabantio—Honor Thy Father”

Maureen Fox (California State University, Fullerton):
“‘Italophobia’: The Fear of Italy’s Influence as Portrayed in Ben Jonson’s Volpone”

Nathan Martin (Charleston Southern University):
“Shakespeare, the Death of a Queen, and Late ElizabethanCultural Attitudes from the Diary of John Manningham, 1602-1603”

45. Renaissance Art History VI: Renaissance Art Commissions: Moral and Religious (Orleans)

Sponsor: Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Ellen Longsworth, Merrimack College

Douglas Dow (Kansas State University):
“Penitential Prototypes: The Frescoes of the Martyrdoms of the Apostles at the Oratory of the Florentine Flagellant Confraternity of Santissima Annunziata”

Matthew Knox Averett (Creighton University):
“Architecture and the Politics of Utility in Barberini Rome”

Mitchell McCoy (Baylor University):
“Dialogues in Art and Literature in Renaissance Spain: Velasco’s Painting of La santa cena and Fray Luisa’s De los nombres de Cristo”

46. Gendered Performance on Stage (Pontalba)

Chair: Beverly Van Note, St. Edwards University

Jennifer Page (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“Gender Performativity in the Revenge Plays of Kyd and Shakespeare”

Sharon Emmerichs (University of Missouri):
“Shakespeare and the Transgendered Landscape”

Flo Keyes (Castleton State College):
“Would Renaissance Women Agree Middleton’s Bianca Was Not Raped?”

47. Shakespeare IX: Dreams, Madness, the Blues, and Directing the Play (Beauregard)

Chair: Debra Barrett-Graves, California State University, East Bay

Joshua Thompson (University of Texas-Brownsville):
“‘I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn’: The Horror of Waking in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Sonja Mayrhofer (University of Iowa):
“‘What Relish Is in This?’: Interrogating Madness in Twelfth Night”

Michael Berntsen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette):
“The Blues Aesthetic in Shakespeare’s Othello”

James Ortego (Troy University-Dothan):
“Ovid, Chaucer, or Shakespeare: Which Author is ‘Hang’d in Thisby’s Garter’”

Saturday Activities from 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Conference participants have a choice of two tours on Saturday afternoon from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: a literary walking tour of the French Quarter, or a tour of Mardi Gras World, a Carnival museum where many Mardi Gras floats are built and stored. There is a $20 charge for each tour, and participants must pre-register for these activities. The walking tour begins at the Hotel Monteleone; transportation will be provided to and from Mardi Gras World.

Museums within walking distance of the hotel include the following: The National World War II Museum; the UNO-Ogden Museum of Southern Art; and the Historic New Orleans Collection. The New Orleans Museum of Art can be reached by streetcar.

Family attractions within walking distance of the hotel include the following: The Louisiana Children’s Museum; the Audubon Aquarium; and the Audubon Insectarium. The Audubon Zoo can be reached by streetcar.

Registration packets will contain a detailed map showing these and other attractions.

Exploring the Renaissance:An International Conference