Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference
San Antonio, TX 8-10 March 2007
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(Room locations indicated in parentheses)
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007
REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Peacock Alley)
SESSION I: 1:45 – 3:30 p.m.
1. Women Authors of the English Renaissance (Alamo)
Chair: Nancy Bunker (Macon State College)
Bernadette Andrea (University of Texas, San Antonio): “Early Modern Scheherazades: English Women’s Responses to 1001 Nights”
Jennifer L. Heller (Lenoir-Rhyne College): “Praising the Lord’s Anointed: Anne Southwell’s Political Legacy”
Amy Larsen (Texas A & M University): “ ‘Charm’d with Wit and Beauty’: Romance Fiction and Representations of ‘True’ Love in the Life Writing of Anne Halkett, Mary Boyle Rich, and Elizabeth Delaval”
April Patrick (University of Houston): “A Would-Be Laura: Lady Mary Wroth’s Voice and Apostrophic Language”
2. Psychological Marvell (Midland)
Sponsored by The Marvell Society
Chair: Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottowa)
George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University): “The Subliminal Muse in Marvell’s ‘The Unfortunate Lover’.”
Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University): “Marvell’s ‘The Unfortunate Lover’: Welcome to My Nightmare”
Sean McDowell (Seattle University): “An Anatomy of Marvell’s ‘Smirke’”
3. The Renaissance Body (Graduate Student Panel) (Laredo)
Chair: Patricia M. Garcia (Our Lady of the Lake University)
Nicole Provencher (Our Lady of the Lake University): “Religious Sexuality and Science: the Joining of the Physical and Spiritual Worlds through the Ecstatic Experiences of Female Mystics in the Early Renaissance”
Linda Crippen (Our Lady of the Lake University): “For Love, Religion or Politics—John Donne’s ‘Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress’”
4. Jeanne Flore and Marguerite de Navarre (Houston)
Chair: Megan Conway (Louisiana State University, Shreveport)
Kathleen Bradley (University of Arizona): “Writing the Wrongs of the Clergy in the Heptameron”
Anja Schwalen (Texas A & M University): “Mysticism, Feminine Subjectivity, and Reformist Thought in Marguerite de Navarre and Aemilia Lanyer”
Megan Conway: “Magic and Eros in Jeanne Flore’s Comptes amoureux”
5. Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare (Ft. Worth)
Chair: Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University)
Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University): “The Falchion and the Phallus in Shakespeare’s ‘The Rape of Lucrece’”
Gina Guzman (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Rosalind’s Gender Performance”
Cathy Scott (Northeastern Oklahoma State University): “Hamlet: A Case of Gender Identity Confusion”
6. Imperfect Friendship: Amicitia amongst the Humanists (Dallas)
Organizer: Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas, Austin)
Chair: John Rumrich (University of Texas, Austin)
Dan Lochman (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Writing, Patronage, and Constructed Friendships: Colet, Linacre, and Erasmus”
Greg Chaplin (Bridgewater State College): “Right Healthful Caustics: Physiology, Masculinity, and Renaissance Friendship”
Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas, Austin): “Triangulation in Humanist Friendship: More, Erasmus, Giles.”
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:15 p.m. (Peraux)
Welcoming Remarks
Introduction of Speaker: Christopher Baker, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Speaker: Regina Schwartz, Professor of English, Northwestern University
“Sacramental Poetics”
RECEPTION: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. (Peacock Alley)
DINNER (on one’s own): 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING AND DINNER: 7:30 (Jefferson Manor)
SPECIAL SESSION: 9:00 – 10:30 p.m.
THE QUEEN’S REVELS (Peraux)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Reader’s Theatre Adaptation of The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (1680).
Appropriately brief selections from a true Restoration classic, with speeches by the Queen never before heard—and, for that matter, never since—and the inspiring account of the Queen’s rescue from assassins by Tim the Tinker. Guest appearances by the Pope and the Devil. Edifying for viewers of all ages.
The Queen’s Attic Auction
Spirited bidding on Elizabethan memorabilia that is guaranteed to baffle and delight you. Contributions from your own attic (including such apparently worthless items as old Earl of Essex Inaction figures and Walter Ralegh Search-for-Eldorado Comic Books) are welcome. Proceeds to benefit a most worthy cause.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2007
REGISTRATION: 7:30-5:00 PM (Peacock Alley)
SESSION II: 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.
7. Milton I (Alamo)
Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University): “Heroism, Humanism, and Milton’s Crisis of Imitation: Anxiety and the Symbolic in John Milton”
William Bouton (Texas Tech University): “Milton’s Liberty Religious and Always in Mind”
N. Rochelle Bradley (Texas A & M University): “ ‘Nor like I this uncouth dream’: Satanic Dreams and the Temptation of Man”
Sean Connor (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Necessary Imperfections: The Cognitive Neurobiology of Epistemology and Morality in Milton’s Comus”
8. Interfaces of Art, Music and Literature (LaFitte)
Chair: Katherine Powers (California State University, Fullerton)
John T. Brobeck (University of Arizona): “A Missing Portrait and Mathieu Gascongne’s Canonic Motet Ista est speciosa: New Evidence for a Reinterpretation of the Origins of Pepys MS 1760”
Timothy McKinney (Baylor University): “Some Thoughts on Bembo, Willaert, and the Notion of Quality.”
Felicia Yao Sailey (University of South Carolina): “Heavenly Muses: Stella and the Allegory of Inclination”
Katherine Powers: “Giovanni Bellini and his Recorder-Playing Angel”
9. The English Body Politic in History and Drama (Bowie)
Chair: Louis Charles Stagg (University of Memphis)
Melissa Monroe (St. Louis University): “Thomas More and the Case of Richard Hunne: the Changing Face of Conscience and Justice”
Yanmei Jiang (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): “The Violation of Edward II’s Two Bodies”
Jared Johnson (SUNY, Stony Brook): “ ‘That such a slave as this should wear a sword / Who wears no honesty’: Defamation and Debasement in English Renaissance Bastard Plays”
Mary Stripling (Dallas Baptist University): “ King John: Elizabeth’s History Play”
10. Blunders, Rivalry, and Rumors: The Court of Elizabeth I (Coronado)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Organizers: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University) and Carole Levin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Patricia Leppla (Arizona State University)
Opening Remarks: Carole Levin, Mistress of the Revels
Nathan Martin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “Courtly Blunder: The Anglo-Swedish Marriage Negotiations of Erik XIV and Elizabeth I”
Mark K. Reuter (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “Robert Dudley and William Cecil: Models of Masculinity in Early Modern England”
Keith Botelho (Kennesaw State University): “Elizabeth I as Fama?”
11. Themes in Religious Painting and Prints (Midland)
Chair: Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Brian Steele (Texas Tech University): “Magnificent in Her Repentance: Two Representations of the Magdalen”
Dawn Branscum (University of Oklahoma): “Eve and the Serpent: God’s Dangerous Creatures, An Engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1500-1550”
Liana De Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts, Lowell): “Giorgio Vasari’s Imagery for the Compagnia del Gesu”
Ashley Elston (University of Kansas): “Representation, Relics and Reassurance: Siena Duomo’s Reliquary Cupboard and Saintly Presence in the Early Fifteenth Century”
12. Marvell: The Poet among Poets (Laredo)
Sponsored by The Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell (Seattle University)
Matthew Harkins (St. John’s University): “Marvell, an English Youth at Rome”
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College): “Marvell, Waller, and Cromwell”
Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottowa): “Death by Drowning: Marvell’s ‘Lycidas’”
MORNING BREAK: 10:15 –10:30 a.m. East Wing Hallway
SESSION III: 10:30 – 12 Noon
13. Libraries, Publishers, and Literary Influence (Alamo)
Chair: Wooseong Yeom (University of Texas, Austin)
Elizabeth Bobo (University of Louisiana at Lafayette): “Approaching Seventeenth-Century Poetry through Publishing History”
Martha Oberle (Frederick Community College): “The Renaissance Books of Four Colonies”
Jean D’Amato Thomas (Northwestern State University): “Francescus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini) and the Libellus de mirabilibus Puteolarum et locorum vicinorum”
Julia Logan-Bourbois (Autry National Center): “Chasing Don Quixote”
14. English Shows and Stages I (LaFitte)
Chair: George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University)
Michael Joseph Berntsen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette): “The Specter Spectacle from Stage to Screen: Understanding Revenge Tragedies and English Renaissance Audiences”
J. Catilin Finlayson (University of Texas, Dallas): “Symbolic Design in London Lord Mayor’s Shows”
Sara Trevisan (University of Padua): “Mildmay Fane’s Masque ‘Raguaillo D’Oceano’ (1640): A Case Study in Seventeenth-Century Private Indoor Entertainment”
15. Shakespearean Tragedy I (Bowie)
Chair: Mary Stripling (Dallas Baptist University)
Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University): “Cordelia and the Old Testament Figure of Wisdom”
Sean Benson (Malone College): “ ‘Yet more strange’: Resurrectionary Failure in King Lear”
Clifford Ronan (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Tracing Threads between Montaigne and Shakespeare”
16. Memory and Myth: Looking Back on Elizabeth I (Coronado)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Shannon Meyer (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Joyce Frei (Berkeley College): “When Ladies Meet: The Media Myth of Two Queens in One Isle”
Grant Moss (Utah Valley State College): “Death and the Maiden: The Image of Elizabeth after 1603”
Brandie R. Siegfried (Brigham Young University): “As Queens Use Shadows and Veils: Bacon’s Mirror and Elizabeth’s Fine Conceit”
17. Artistic Precedents (Midland)
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack College): “Arnolfo di Cambio and Michelangelo Buonarroti: A Proposition”
Erika de Young (Texas State University): “Dürer’s Mark on Venice: Crosscurrents, Nationalism and Identity in the Feast of the Rose Garlands”
Dena Woodall (Case Western Reserve): “Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Veronica’s Veil: Religious Icons and their Impression on Portrait-Making made Double in Renaissance Italy”
18. Nature and Theology in English Poetry (Laredo)
Chair: Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University)
Arlen Nydam (University of Texas, Austin): “Painting and Protestant Theology in Sidney’s Arcadia and Astrophel and Stella”
Randi Marie Smith (University of Florida): “A Melancholic Nature: Nature and its Place in the Poetry of Francis Quarles and Robert Southwell”
Evan Getz (Baylor University): “Graces all, and is not anywhere”: Cosmology, Poetics and Beauty in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder”
LUNCH: 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. (on one’s own)
SESSION IV: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
19. Shakespearean Comedy (Coronado)
Chair: John Ford (Delta State University)
Robert Kellerman (University of Maine, Augusta): “ ‘Remember You Your Cue’: Ludus and Mimesis in The Merry Wives of Windsor”
LaRue Love Sloan (University of Louisiana, Monroe): “Off With Their Heads! Mummers’ Tricks in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well”
Mark Jones (Trinity Christian College): “National Imagining in Shakespeare’s Songs of Hiems and Ver”
Louis Charles Stagg (University of Memphis): “Shakespeare’s Cressida ‘Real’ but ‘Unwomanly’ vs. ‘Sneaking Fellow’ Troilus: Tragic Heroine in a Bitterly Ironic World”
20. Art and Authority in Florence and Paris (LaFitte)
Chair: Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack College)
Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina): “Art and Audacity: The Rhetorical Reach of Michelangelo’s David”
Ryan Gregg (The Johns Hopkins University): “Dürer’s Siege of a Fortress as a Source for a Topographical View in the Palazzo Vecchio”
Rhys W. Roark (Louisiana State U., Shreveport): “Linear Perspective: An Infinite Cosmological Space?”
Mark Schneider (Virginia Tech): “Self-Invention and Deviance: Philibert De l’Orme’s Role in the Creation of the Savant Professional Architect”
21. Portraits and Portraiture: Images of Elizabeth I (Midland)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Hanneke Ronnes (University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Castle Foundation)
Thomas Herron (East Carolina University): “Flourishing Empire: Reconceiving the Iris Portrait”
Anna Riehl (University of Illinois at Chicago): “Elizabeth I and the Heraldry of the Face”
Rhea Emery-Morris (Independent Scholar): “Aesthetics and the Style at Elizabeth’s Court: Resisting the Italian Bias in Criticism of Elizabeth’s Portraits”
22. Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (Alamo)
Chair: Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas, Austin)
Lacy Elwood (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Young maides eyes should like onely where their Father liked”: Arranged Marriage in Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania”
Adrienne Foster (Texas State University, San Marcos): “The Villainous Male: An Examination of Cruelty in the Arranged Marriages of Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania”
Tim Peoples (Texas State University, San Marcos): “Satire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania and the Problem of Female Authorship”
23. Spenser (Bowie)
Chair: Arlen Nydam (University of Texas, Austin)
Geoffrey B. Elliott (University of Louisiana at Lafayette): “Here There Be Dragons: Draconic Parallels between Beowulfand The Faerie Queene”
Denna Iammarino (Marquette University): “Fashioning a Reader: Edmund Spenser’s Inner Meditation Versus ‘outward shows’”
Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University): “Spenser’s ‘Swan Song’: The Unity of the Prothalamion”
24. French Connections in History and Literature (Laredo)
Chair: Megan Conway (Louisiana State University, Shreveport)
Christie Wilson (St. Edward’s University): “Imposition of Order: The Edict of Nantes and the Price of Stability”
Susan K. Silver (University of Memphis): “Monsters and Moral Decay in French Renaissance Literature”
Jonathan Kim-Reuter (Georgian Court University): “The Body’s Eye: The Origins of Self-Observation in Montaigne’s Essays”
AFTERNOON BREAK: 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. (Peraux)
SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
(Peraux)
THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE
Sponsored by The Marvell Society
Introduction of speaker: Nicholas von Maltzahn, University of Ottowa
Speaker: Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
“Marvell at the Heart of Parliamentary History”
DINNER: 5:15 – 7:00 p.m. (on one’s own)
EVENING CONCERT: 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
VOCI DI SORELLE
will present a concert of sacred Medieval
and Renaissance music entitled
"Laudate Dio"
Sacred Heart Chapel, Our Lady of the Lake University
(Shuttles will be provided)
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007
REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m. (Peacock Alley)
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m. (Peraux)
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. (Peraux)
South Central Renaissance Conference
BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Queen Elizabeth I Society (La Salle)
Society for Renaissance Art History (Coronado)
The Andrew Marvell Society (LaFitte)
SESSION V: 9:00 – 10: 30 a.m.
25. Mothers, Religion and Power: Issues of Authority in Shakespeare (Alamo)
Chair: Stephanie Chamberlain (Southeast Missouri State University)
Kathryn Carson (Southeast Missouri State University): “ ‘So I have heard and do in part believe it”: Hamlet’s Hybridized Religion”
Leslie Evans (Southeast Missouri State University): “Mommy Dearest: Richard III’s Relationship with his Mother”
Lindsay Sloas (Southeast Missouri State University): “Cleopatra and Elizabeth: Androgyny and the Female Throne”
26. Tudor Royal Power and Court Display (La Salle)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Organizers: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University) and Carole Levin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University)
Sarah Duncan (Yale University): “ ‘Fruit of my bodie: Fertility, Power, and Queenship during the Reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I”
Keynote Address: Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University, East Bay): “Elizabeth I and Court Display”
27. Milton II (LaFitte)
Chair: Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University)
Alex Garganigo (Austin College): “Imposing Oaths in Samson Agonistes”
Bethany Getz (Baylor University): “Transparent Rhetoric: The Son’s Restoration of Language in Paradise Regained”
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University, San Marcos): “What’s Tragic about Samson Agonistes”
28. Church Architecture (Bowie)
Chair: Brian Steele (Texas Tech University)
Jill Blondin (University of Texas at Tyler): “Shelter from the Storm: S. Maria del Buon Aiuto in Rome”
Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University): “A Quattrocento Venetian Church in Houston: Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church”
29. English Shows and Stages II (Coronado)
Chair: Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University)
John Ford (Delta State University): “Welcoming Strangers: Peter Brook and the Mixed Conventions of Theater and Film”
Wooseong Yeom (University of Texas, Austin): “Reassessing the Aside/Soliloquy Convention”
Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State University): “Rewriting Romeo and Juliet: Rebellion, the State, and the Family in Three Stuart Variations”
30. Contexts of Theology (Midland)
Chair: Jonathan Kim-Reuter (Georgian Court University)
Amy Gant (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “ ‘Beating a Path to Heaven’: Toward a Historical/Theological/Literary Context for Nathanael Ranew’s Solitude Improved by Divine Meditation”
Marian Hillar (Center for Philosophy and Socinian Studies): “The First Translation of De Trinitate, the First Part of Christianismi restitutio: An Evaluation of its Theology”
Alexander Lee (University of Edinburgh): “Stoicism and ‘Augustinianism’ in Petrarch’s Secretum”
MORNING BREAK: 10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
SESSION VI: 10:45 – 12:15 p.m.
31. Early Modern Women: Artistic Constructions of the Self (Alamo)
Co-sponsored by The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Rick MacArthur (St. Edward’s University)
Mary Brantl (St. Edwards University): “Constructing Christina: The Netherlandish Connections”
Louis A. Waldman (University of Texas): “Sophonisba Anguissola’s Self-Portrait in the Walters Art Gallery”
Edward Olszewski (Case Western Reserve University): “Bronzino’s London Venus for Catherine de’ Medici”
32. Elizabeth and Mary: Surviving as Princess, Ruling as Queen (La Salle)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University)
Keynote Address: Janel Mueller (University of Chicago): “Elizabeth I: Maidenhood in Crisis”
Keynote Address: Retha Warnicke (Arizona State University): “Elizabeth I Mary Stewart: Two British Queens Regnant”
Closing Remarks: Carole Levin, Mistress of the Revels
33. Dekker, Middleton, Webster, and Ford (LaFitte)
Chair: Greg Chaplin (Bridgewater State College)
Stephanie Eckroth (Texas Tech University): “Male Homosociality and Displacement of Plague Anxiety in Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday”
Lucas Peters (Central Washington University): “Beyond Theatrical Boundaries: The Echoing Carnivalesque of The Roaring Girl”
Beverly M. Van Note (Texas A & M University): “ ‘An you can cuck me, spare not!’: Moll’s Freedom of Discourse in The Roaring Girl”
34. Shakespearean Tragedy II (Midland)
Chair: Margaret J. Oakes (Furman University)
Susan Cosby Ronnenberg (Viterbo University): “The Paralytic Grief of Displaced Princes: Hamlet and Oroonoko”
Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University): “Death, Grief, Identity: Bereavement, Revenge and the (Re)Construction of the Self in Hamlet”
Margaret Oakes “ ‘First to be hanged and then confessed’: Interrogating Love and Law in Othello”
35. Catholicism in English Drama and Devotion (Coronado)
Chair: Cliff Ronan (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Katherine M. Carey (University of Georgia): “The Inquisition as Anti-Catholic Propaganda in John Webster’s The White Devil”
Susan Dunn-Hensley (University of Kansas): “Shakespeare’s Sacred Virgins: Shadows of Catholicism on the Early Modern Stage”
Patricia M. Garcia (Our Lady of the Lake University): “Voicing the Faith: Rosary Practices in Early Modern England”
36. Exporting the Renaissance (Bowie)
Chair: Patricia Brown (Independent Scholar)
Sharon Hampel (University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies): “The Great and Awesome Wilderness: Hebrew Covenant and the Puritan Jeremiad”
Hanneke Ronnes (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): “A Fashion for Dates and Names: A Study of 16th-Century Inscriptions Incorporated into Dutch, Irish and English Elite Architecture”
Lisa Wolffe (Northwestern State University): “French Women, a Not Entirely French Civil War, and the Reformation”
37. Marvell: Otium and Negotium (Laredo)
Sponsored by The Marvell Society
Chair: Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)
Noel Sugimura (Cambridge University): “The Glow-worms of Extinction: Marvell & ‘The Mower Against Gardens’”
Emma Annette Wilson (University of St. Andrews, Scotland): “The ‘The Mower Against Gardens’: Andrew Marvell and the Politics of Garden Maintenance”
Byron Nelson (West Virginia University): “Lord Fairfax and the ‘Wanton Mote of Dust’: Action and Indolence in ‘Upon Appleton House’”
38. English Rhetoric and Poetics: Bacon, Lily, and Lyly (Houston)
Chair: Dan Lochman (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Mike Clody (SUNY, Buffalo): “Baconian Natural Poiesis”
Phillip J. Donnelly (Baylor University): “Translation and Rhetorical Ends in ‘Lily’s Grammar’ (1542)”
Cinta Zunino-Garrido (University of Jaén, Spain): “Exploring Euphuism in the Plays: John Lyly’s Rhetoric of Character”
CLOSING LUNCHEON
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (Peraux)
Presiding: SCRC President
THE KEYNOTE LECTURE
Introduction of speaker: Patricia Garcia, Our Lady of the Lake University
Speaker: Asuncion Lavrin, Professor of History, Arizona State University
“Masculine and Feminine: The Construction of Gender Roles
In the Regular Orders in Early Modern Mexico”