Exploring the Renaissance 2016 - South

Exploring the Renaissance 2016
An International Conference
The South-Central Renaissance Conference
In affiliation with
The Society for Renaissance Art History
The Queen Elizabeth I Society
The Andrew Marvell Society
March 24, 25, 26, 2016
Hosted by
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
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South Central Renaissance Conference Executive Committee (2015-16)
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, President
Texas State University-San Marcos
Tim Moylan, Past-President and Local Host 2016
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Sean McDowell, Vice President
Seattle University
Joan Faust, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Southeastern Louisiana University
Thomas Herron, Editor, Explorations in Renaissance Culture
East Carolina University
James Conlan, Editor, Discoveries
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Christopher Baker
Armstrong State University
Program Chair 2016
Irving Kelter, At-Large until 2016
University of St. Thomas
Kevin Moll, At-Large until 2016
East Carolina University
Pat Garcia, At Large until 2017
University of Texas at Austin
Raymond-Jean Frontain, At-Large until 2017
Archivist
University of Central Arkansas
Ellen Longsworth, At-Large until 2018
Merrimack College
Katherine Powers, At-Large until 2018
Webmaster
California State University, Fullerton
Brian Steele, SRAH Representative until 2016
Texas Tech University, Visual and Performing Arts
Alex Garganigo, Marvell Society Representative until 2018
Austin College
Jacqueline VanHoutte, QEIS Representative until 2018
University of North Texas
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SCRC Program
March 24-26, 2016
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Special Panel @ St. Louis University, Pius Library
Transportation to and from the St. Louis University Library
will be provided beginning at 10:20 a.m. from the Parkway Hotel lobby.
Panel #1, Pius Library Ramism
Chair, Sara van den Berg, St. Louis University
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University
“The Middle Term: Ramus, Invention, and Milton’s Art of Logic”
Emma Wilson, University of Alabama
“Nouns and Verbs: The Differences and Similarities Between English
Aristotelians and Ramists”
Jennifer Lowe, St. Louis University
“Acquiring Understanding: Ong, Ramus, and the Rare Book Collection
at Saint Louis University.”
To be followed by an exhibit in the Rare Books Reading Room (Pius Library 307)
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Session I
Panel #2, Rm. 305
Re-perceiving English Theatre
Chair: Angela Bullard, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County
Lisa Sikkink, University of Memphis
“Vanquished by a Maid: Women Waging War in Elizabethan History
Plays”
Lauren Coker, Delta State University
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“Early Modern Disability Performance and Theatrical Space in The
Knight of the Burning Pestle”
Beverly M. Van Note, Temple College
“Repainting the Wicked Queen in Cary’s Mariam”
Martha Oberle, Independent Scholar
“Mak: The Plastic Shepherd”
Panel #3, Rm. 304
Elizabeth I’s Court and Beyond
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair, Mistress of the Revels Miranda Wilson, University of Delaware
Jonathan Lux, St. Louis University
““Strange and Wondrous Newes” China at the Court of Elizabeth I “
Danielle Alesi, Hartwick College
“Patronage in the Privy Chamber: Elizabeth’s Ladies and their Influence
On Personal Politics”
Alyson Alvarez, University of Nebraska
“The Lennox Widow: Margaret Douglas and the Conflicts with Queen
Elizabeth”
Panel #4, Rm. 354
Drawing and Artistic Intention
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Universidad de Coruña
Emily J. Hanson, Washington University in St. Louis
“Le opere non finite di Michelangelo: A New Interpretation of a Drawing
for the Laurentian Library”
Caroline Hillard, Wright State University
“Leonardo and the Etruscan Tomb”
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Panel #5, Rm. 355
Marvell Plenary Session
Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester
“Printing Marvell’s Miscellaneous Poems”
3:15 – 5:00
First Plenary Session: Auditorium, 1st floor entrance
Welcome: Dr. Kim Kilgore, Dean of Liberal Arts, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Hunter Lecture: “The ‘recovered’ poems of Matthew Hale”
Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery
5:00 – 6:00
Reception: ARB, 2nd floor lobby area
Entertainment: St. Louis College of Pharmacy Chorale and Theatre
6:00
Dinner (on one’s own)
6:00
Executive Committee Dinner: Residence Hall Small Group Dining Room
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
7:15 – 8:15
Continental Breakfast: ARB, 3rd floor common area.
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
8:15 – 9:45
Registration
SESSION II
Panel #6, Rm. 354
Themes in Religious Painting
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Jill Carrington, Stephen F. Austin State University
William Levin, Centre College, Emeritus
“Pax et Bonum: Evidence for Franciscan Influence on Charitable
Practices at the Early Florentine Misericordia”
Brian Steele, Texas Tech University
“Giovanni Bellini, the Madonna of the Meadow and Devotional Currents
in Venice c. 1500”
Liana de Girolami Cheney, Universidad de Coruña
“Giorgio Vasari’s St. George: A Christian Liberator”
Panel #7, Rm. 305
God Save the Queen: Queenship and Powerful Prayer
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Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Donald Stump, St. Louis University
Margaret Oakes, Furman University
“God Save the Queen: Queenship and Prayerful Power”
Renee Bricker, North Georgia College and University,
“Handmaids of the Lord: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots as
Queens at Prayer”
Sarah Duncan, Spring Hill College
Panel commentator
Panel #8, Rm. 355
Marvell 1: Miscellaneous Poems (1681)
Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Alex Garganigo, Austin College
Stephanie Coster, University of Leicester
“Robert Boulter and the Publication of the Miscellaneous Poems (1681)”
Nigel Smith, Princeton University
Panel Discussant
Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester
Panel Discussant
Panel #9, Rm. 336
Marlowe, Webster, and Montaigne
Chair: Timothy Ponce, University of North Texas
Judith Coleman, Delta State University
“Magic, Law and the Terrible Power of Tamburlaine’s Words”
Greg Bentley, Mississippi State University
“Ferdinand as Name-of-the-Father in John Webster’s The Duchess of
Malfi”
Dorothy L. Stegman, Ball State University
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“From Hyperbole to Moderation: Montaigne’s Alteration of Bouchet’s
Annales”
Panel #10, Rm 337
English Renaissance Drama and the Plasticity of Genre
Chair: Stephen Schillinger, Oberlin College
Amy Drake, Independent Scholar
“Public versus Private Perceptions of Marriage in Early Modern Drama:
A Contrast of Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres and Cary’s The Tragedy of
Mariam”
Khristian Smith, University of Virginia
“Tragic Mirrors and Re-Conceptualizing Genre: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
the Great”
Vanessa M. Braganza, University of Virginia
“Ciphers in Rich Place: Creating Tragic and Comic Outcomes Ex Nihilo in
The Winter’s Tale”
9:45 – 10:00
Break
10:00 – 11:30 SESSION III
Panel #11, Rm 304
Elizabeth and Mary I
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Jacque Vanhoutte University of North Texas
Carole Levin, University of Nebraska,
“Pregnancy, False Pregnancy, and Questionable Heirs: Mary I and her
Echoes”
Jessica Walker, Johns Hopkins University
“ ‘True Daughter of Mine: the Memory of Catherine Aragon as a Model
of Queenship for Mary I”
Tamara Shovelton, University of North Carolina - Wilmington
“The Lessons of a Future Queen”
Panel #12, Rm. 355
Marvell 2: Marvell and Place
Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
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Chair: Nicholas von Maltzahn, University of Ottowa
Sean H. McDowell, Seattle University
“Place Foolishness in Marvell’s Urban Satires”
Russell Hugh McConnell, University of Alabama
“Here and There: Shakespearean Locative Adverbs in Marvell’s
‘Bermudas’ “
D. Geoffrey Emerson, University of Alabama
“Imagination and Description of the Natural World in ‘The Garden’ and
‘Damon and the Mower’ “
Panel #13, Rm. 354
Elite Religious Patronage in Sixteenth-century Italy
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Ellen Longsworth, Merrimack College
John Alexander, University of Texas at San Antonio
“Urban Design for the Tridentine Church”
Marilyn Dunn, Loyola University Chicago
“Colonna Family Nuns as Patrons within the Artistic and Religious
Landscape of Rome and its Environs”
Panel #14, Rm. 305
Tudor-Stuart Poetry and Prose
Chair: John Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
James Hicks, Independent Scholar
“The Book as Phenomenon in Stephen Hawe’s The Pastime of Pleasure
and John Skelton’s The Bouge of Court”
Amanda Lehr, Vanderbilt University
“Cannibal Crashaw: Language of Flesh in the Epigrams and Sospetto
d’Herode”
Kyle DiRoberto, University of Arizona South
“Generic Conventions in Puritan and Popular Pastoral”
Panel #15, Rm. 336
Shakespearean Comedy
Chair: Christopher Baker, Armstrong State University
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John Mercer, Northeastern State University
“ ‘To glad your ear, and please your eyes’: The 2015 Production of
Pericles at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival”
Barbara Cobb, Murray State University
“Flat Kate, Superhero: The Pivot-Point in The Taming of the Shrew”
Ryan Klerekoper, Northeastern State University
“Malvolio’s Maltreatment in Twelfth Night”
11:30 – 1:00
Lunch (on one’s own)
1:00 – 2:30
SESSION IV
Panel #16, Rm. 354
Medici patronage in Florence and France
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Brian Steele, Texas Tech University
Ryan E. Gregg, Webster University
“City Views and the Grotesque in the Palazzo Vecchio: Constructing
Ducal and Imperial Dominion”
Yael Even, University of Missouri at St. Louis
“Medicean influence on French Architecture Reconsidered”
Panel #17, Rm. 304
Primate Politics, Amazons, and Acrostics
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Catherine Campbell, Cottey College
Michael A. Winkelman, Owens Tech
“Elizabeth Queen of the Jungle: Prehistoric Primate Politics in
Renaissance England”
Margaret Oakes, Furman University
“A Godly Queen / A Woman of Faith: Religious Books and Queen
Elizabeth”
Jane Lawson, Emory University
“ ’E’ is for Eternal, Exalted, Eloquent, etc: Acrostics on the name
Elizabeth Regina”
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Panel #18, Rm. 355
Marvell 3: Marvell and Satire
Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester
Alex Garganigo, Austin College
“Menippean Ekphrasis in the Painter Poems”
Nicholas von Maltzahn, University of Ottawa
“Satire on a Satirist: ‘A Love-Letter to the Author of the Rehearsall
Transpros’d (1674)”
Panel #19, Rm. 305
Revisiting the Shakespeare Lexicon
Chair: James S. Baumlin, Missouri State University
Courtney Price, Missouri State University
“An Infinite Variety of Meaning: The Language of Conquering in “Antony
and Cleopatra”
Shelby Preston-Conrad, Missouri State University
“Competing Temporalities in Romeo and Juliet”
Tita French Baumlin, Missouri State University
“ ‘Nobody: I myself’ “: Desdemona’s ‘Lie’ in Othello”
James S. Baumlin, Missouri State University
“A Silent Invocation of Magna Carta: ‘Commodity’ in King John”
Panel #20, Rm. 336
Milton 1
Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University
Sharon Hampel, University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies
“ ‘I waked, she fled’: Dreaming of Loss in Paradise Lost”
Sean Benson, University of Dubuque
“ ‘with unsparing hand’: Cooking as Creation in Paradise Lost”
William Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University
“Temptation, Theodicy, and the Fall in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and
Charles Chesnutt’s House Behind the Cedars”
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2:30 – 2:45
Break
2:45 – 4:15
SESSION V
Panel #21, Rm. 304
Tudor-Stuart Affairs of State
Chair: Renee Bricker, University of North Georgia
Brett Hudson, Middle Tennessee State University
“Villains and Heroes in Venner’s Rebellion: Textual Responses to
Political Violence”
Nathan Martin, Charleston Southern University
“Marriage Considerations of Erik XIV of Sweden, and Mary Queen of
Scots”
Megan Pearson, Texas A&M University
“The Textual Authority of Cabala: sive, Scrivina Sacra”
Panel #22, Rm 305
Spenser
Chair: James Conlan, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Thomas Herron, East Carolina University
“Centering Spenser: a literary-archaeological website”
Donald Stump, St. Louis University
“Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight and the Bewildering Search for the One
True Church”
Marion Hollings, Middle Tennessee State University
“Ye daynte Nymphs, that in this blessed Brooke doe bathe”: Rivers,
Muses, and Celebration of Sorority in Spenser’s Poems and Dedications”
John Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
“Spenser’s Heroic Chaucer”
Panel #23, Rm. 354
The Role of Prints in English and Spanish art
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: John Alexander, University of Texas at San Antonio
Allyson E. Hitte, Florida State University
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“The World Upside Down: Including an Imaginative World in Early
Modern England”
Mitchell A. McCoy, Belmont University
“Painting, Religious Literature and Belief: Spanish Last Supper Paintings”
Panel #24, Rm. 336
Renaissance Music
Chair: Martha Oberle, Independent Scholar
Lester Brothers, University of North Texas, Emeritus
“Step by Step: Josquin and the Scale”
Timothy McKinney, Baylor University
“Subject and Subjectivity in Andrea Gabrieli’s Ecco l’Aurora”
Kelly Huff, Washburn University
“Tomás Luis de Victoria: Businessman and Composer”
Panel #25, Rm. 355
Aspects of Shakespeare 1
Chair: James Hicks, Independent Scholar
Patrick Harris, Mary Baldwin College
“The Merchants of The Merchant of Venice”
Dustin Meyer, Purdue University
“ ‘I once did lend: Towards a Recovery of Debt in The Merchant of
Venice”
Elizabeth Labiner, University of Arizona
“The time shall not go dully by us”: Practical Jokes as Pastime in
Shakespeare’s Plays”
Panel #26, Rm. 337
Remembering Elizabeth and Seventeenth-century Queens I
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Nancy Hayes, St. Ambrose University
Miranda Wilson, University of Delaware
“ ‘Remembering Elizabeth’: Political Nostalgia and Erotic Imaginaries in
Jacobean Performance”
Thomasin Bailey, University of Warwick
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“The Poet Queen: Elizabethan Nostalgia in Wroth’s Urania”
4:15 – 4:30
Break
4:30 – 5:45
Second Plenary Session: ARB Auditorium, first floor entrance
Martz Lecture: Carlo M. Bajetta, Università della Valle d’Aosta
“ ‘Nella lingua sua naturale’: Elizabeth’s Italian Letters”
5:45 – 7:30
Dinner (on one’s own)
8:00 – 10:00
Queen’s Revels and Auction: ARB Auditorium, first floor entrance
Entertainment: short play, “Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth” by Carole Levin in
celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
SATURDAY, MARCH 26
7:30 – 9:00
Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30
Business Meeting: SCRC: Rm. 212
8:30 – 9:00
Business Meetings Affiliated Societies:
Marvell Society, Rm. 355
Society for Renaissance Art History, Rm. 354
Queen Elizabeth I, Rm. 304
9:00 – 10:30
SESSION VI
Panel #27, Rm. 354
Pagan and secular themes
Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Caroline Hillard, Wright State University
Micah-Shea C. McKibben , University of Alabama
“Botticelli’s Isis”
Deborah H. Cibelli, Nicholls State University
“The Hypnerotomachia as a Renaissance Source for Beardsley’s
Graphic Art Representing Strife for Love”
Jill Carrington, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Vera Barnett’s Appropriation of Masaccio, Botticelli, Bosch and
Bruegel”
Panel #28, Rm. 355
Marvell 4: Marvell’s Patronage Work
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Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell, Seattle University
Joan Faust, Southeastern Louisiana University
“ ‘Sounding to present occasions’ and then some: Andrew
Marvell’s ‘Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg
and the Lady Mary Cromwell’ ”
Brendan Prawdzik, Pennsylvania State University
“Similitude, Deception, and the Reader of Marvell’s ‘Upon
Appleton House’ ”
Panel #29, Rm. 336
Aspects of Shakespeare 2
Chair: John Mercer, Northeastern State University
James Conlan, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
“Shakespeare on Drugs”
Chahra Beloufa, Paul Valéry University
“Playing with Doubled and Redoubled ‘thanks’ in Shakespeare:
Ironic Manipulation, Meaning and Action”
Amina Tajbhai, Fordham University
“Roses, Crowns and the Politics of Memory”
Panel #30, Rm. 305
Hamlet
Chair: Marion Hollings, Middle Tennessee State University
Angela Bullard, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County
“ ‘Canon ‘Gainst Self-Slaughter’: Prince Hamlet’s Culpability in
his Own Death”
Erich Freiberger, Jacksonville University
“Time and Action in Hamlet and Plato’s Statesman”
Panel #31, Rm. 304
Remembering Elizabeth and Seventeenth-century Queens II
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin, University of Nebraska
Courtney Herber, University of Nebraska
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“Living in the Queen’s Shadow: How Anna of Denmark and
Henrietta Maria of France Redefined Queenship in Early M
Modern England”
Elizabeth Ann Mackay, University of Dayton
“Early Modern Women Writers’ Rhetorical (Re) Imaginings of
Elizabeth I’s Life and Legend”
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 SESSION VII
Panel #32, Rm. 305
Milton 2
Chair: Sean Benson, University of Dubuque
Christopher Baker, Armstrong State University
“Satanic Sprinkling: Liturgical Parody in Milton’s Prose”
Steven Cowser, Delta State University
“ ‘He unobserved / Home to his mother’s house private
returned” (PR IV. 638-39) : the Final Temptation to Eisegesis in
Paradise Regained”
Travis Knapp, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Saint Raphael? A Closer Look at Milton’s ‘Winged Saint’ “
Panel #33, Rm. 355
Marvell 5: Marvell’s Dialogic Lyrics
Sponsored by the Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Joan Faust, Southeastern Louisiana University
Amy Sattler, West Chester University
“ ‘Ametas and Thestylis’ and the Politics of Opposition”
Matt Smith, University of Alabama
“Logic in Marvell’s ‘Dialogue between a Soul and a Body’ “
Aurora Faye Martinez, University of Birmingham
“Adapting Marvell’s Lyrics: Historical Context and Reception in
the Haward Manuscript”
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Panel #34, 304 Shakespearean Tragedy
Chair: Lisa Sikkink, University of Memphis
Timothy Ponce, University of North Texas
“Textual Author(ity) in Titus Andronicus”
Kerry Lambert, Northeastern State University
“Antony and Cleopatra at the 2015 Oregon Shakespeare Festival”
Kate Downey Hickey, Grand Valley State University
“ ‘Sharp-toothed Unkindness’: Mouth Imagery in William Shakespeare’s
King Lear”
Panel #35, Rm. 336
Queen Elizabeth I Society Keynotes
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair:
Carole Levin, University of Nebraska
Sarah Duncan, Spring Hill College
“Impotent Kings, Virgin Queens: Fertility, Legitimacy, and the
Quest for a True Heir”
Teresa Grant, University of Warwick
“Watch and Learn: Anne of Denmark and the Dramatic
Immediacy of Tudor Queenship”
12:30
Luncheon: ARB Rm. 212, second floor
Keynote Lecture: Sara van den Berg, St. Louis University
“Personal Milton”

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