2008 Annual Conference
April 3-5, 2008
Vancouver, British Columbia
The Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PNRS) was held from April 3-5, 2008 in downtown Vancouver at the Hyatt Regency. The theme was "Renaissance In-Betweenness," and the plenary speakers were Fran Dolan (University of California, Davis) and Elizabeth Harvey (University of Toronto).
The 2008 conference was held as part of the Annual General Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration (Georgia Foyer)
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Book Exhibit (Georgia B)
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Cash Bar Reception (Mosaic Bar)
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Friday, April 4, 2008
8:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibit (Georgia B)
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration (Georgia Foyer)
8:45 am – 10:00 am Three Concurrent Sessions
Epistemological Confusion and Rhetorical Dilation
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia
“In-Between Epistemologies: Vasari’s Andromeda and Conceptual Problems in Early Modern Science Studies,” Shannon Ciapciak, Duke University
“‘Turned to a Nunnery’: Playing with Prescription in The Jew of Malta,” Vanessa Rapatz, University of California, Davis
Translation, Transition, and Transformation
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Tiffany Alkan, Simon Fraser University
“Imagining the In-Between: Reading Fictional Narratives as Translations,” Belén Bistué, University of California, Davis
“‘Languishing twixt hope and fear’: Poetic Authority, Cupid, and Discourses of Female Desire in Transition in Book III of Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” Alison Tymoczko, University of Southern California
“‘What shall I do to shewe my self a man?’: Masculinity and Liminal Space in Nashe’s Choice of Valentines,” Edel Semple, University College Dublin
Mixed Modes and Aesthetic Hybridity
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia
“Finished, Unfinished, or Something In-Between: Conflicting Aesthetics in 16th c. French Chanson,” Chantal Phan, University of British Columbia
“What Happened to Beginnings: In Medias Res and Displaced Origins in Protestant Epics,” Linda Tredennick, Gonzaga University
“The Similes in Paradise Lost: Lyric Visions in an Epic Form,” Julia Staykova, University of British Columbia
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Coffee Break (Georgia Foyer | Plaza Highway)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Three Concurrent Sessions
Communications and Instrumentality
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University
“Robert Burton’s Melancholic Hypochondria and the Poetics of Mimetic Sympathy,” Stephanie Shirilan, Brandeis University
“Rubies for Pearls: Approaching the Divine through Possession and Exchange in Richard Crashaw’s Poetry,” S. Johnson, McMaster University
“Getting Used and Liking It: Go-Betweens and Erotic Instrumentality on the Early Modern Stage,” Christine Varnado, Columbia University
The Margins and the Materials of Early Modern Worship
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia
“Gospel Portraits in Early Modern Printing,” Katie Robbins, Mary Baldwin College
“‘Ay Madam, Tis Common’: The Shared Habits of Early Modern Worshipers and Poets,” Daniel Swift, Skidmore College
“‘Shop-Full of Poisons, Pistols, Daggers, Gunpowder-Traines’: Materializing the Catholic,” Andrew Tumminia, Fordham University
The Thresholds of Bureaucracy and Diplomacy
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Anthony Dawson, University of British Columbia
“‘Dost Thou Not Suspect My Place?’: Negotiating Between Crown and Community in Much Ado About Nothing,” Brandon Christopher, University of Winnipeg
“Diplomats and International Book Exchange,” Joanna Eastwood, University of Cambridge
“Sir Thomas More and the Thresholds of the Early Modern World,” John Jowett, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch and Plenary Address (English Bay | 34th Floor)
“Reading Between and Across,” Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Three Concurrent Sessions
Gender Oscillation
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Lesya Moore, University of British Columbia
“Finding Mermaids: The Politics of Representation in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl,” Tara Pederson, University of California, Davis
“‘Silken Lines, and Silver Hookes’: Angling and Gender in Early Modern British Literature,” Anne E. McIlhaney, Webster University
Time’s Continuum
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Julia Staykova, University of British Columbia
“A Chip Off the Old Block: Architecture and Genealogy in The A Tous Nobles Manuscripts,” Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University
“Dekker’s Gods Tokens and the Present of Early Modern News,” Andrew Griffin, McMaster University
Between the Demonic and the Divine
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Dennis Danielson, University of British Columbia
“A Tradition of Temptation: John Bale and The Temptation of Our Lord,” Valerie Dennis, University of California, Davis
“The Sybils: Negotiations of the Demonic and the Divine,” Jessica Malay, University of Huddersfield
“The Place of Hell in Paradise Lost,” Annette Stenning, Simon Fraser University
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break (Georgia Foyer | Plaza Highway)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Three Concurrent Sessions
Volatile Affect and Memory
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Cliff Werier, Mount Royal College
“Shakespeare and the Production of Disappointment,” Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia
“Shakespeare’s Romances and In-Between Emotions,” Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University
“Performance Commentary: Between Memory and Absence,” J. Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia
Social Exchanges
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia
“Rehabilitating the Shepherd: Ambiguities of Identity and Class in Giotto’s Arena Chapel, Padua,” Efrat El-Hanany, Capilano College
“Medieval Guild Theatre and Commercial Theatre in Early Modern London: Exploring a Lineage,” Ronda Arab, Simon Fraser University
“Saying Farewell With Shoes: The Gift Cycle and Unfulfilled Class Fantasies in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” Andrea Lawson, University of California, Davis
“Masque Upside Down in Richard Brome’s A Jovial Crew,” Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta
Species Borders
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Gretchen E. Minton, Montana State University
“In-Betweenness at Table: Sotelties, Entremets, and the Art of Culinary Transgression,” Melitta Weiss Adamson, University of Western Ontario
“Chastity in Errour: Paradoxes of Sex, Gender, and Species in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene,” Kristen A. Bennett, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“The In-Between in Outer Space: Alien Life in Ben Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon,” Gabrielle Sugar, York University
“Military Trauma and Hybrid Forms in Margaret Cavendish’s Utopian Prose,” Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University and Sharon Alker, Whitman College
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
8:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibit (Georgia B)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration (Georgia Foyer)
9:00 am – 10:15 am Three Concurrent Sessions
Gates, Roads, and Bridges
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: J. Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia
“Of Islands and Bridges: Empire’s Dreams of Separation and Relation,” Sarah Hogan, University of Buffalo
“Gates and Boundaries in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” Ken Simpson, Thompson Rivers University
“Celia Fiennes’ Journeys and the English Highway: At the Crossroads of the Road Itself,” Trevor Speller, SUNY, Buffalo
Traversing London
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Kate Sirluck, University of British Columbia
“Civic Pageantry and National Politics,” J. Caitlin Finlayson, University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Contaminated London,” Ginger Jurecka, Carnegie Mellon University
“Passing Through: Staging the City in Transition for King James,” Heather C. Easterling, Gonzaga University
Double Discourse, Middle Grounds: Literature and Religion in Early Modern England
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia
“Prophetic Poetics in Early Modern English Literature,” Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British Columbia
“‘Denominating Such A Discourse As This’: The Natural Theologies of Henry More and John Ray,” Katherine Calloway, University of British Columbia
“Publishing the Anglican Via Media, 1660-1689,” Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia
10:15 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break (Georgia Foyer | Plaza Highway)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Three Concurrent Sessions
Death and Mourning
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University
“Je Meurs Doulcement Sans Mourir’: Love’s Limbo in Maurice Scève’s Délie,” Brooke Donaldson, University of Mary Washington
“Taylor Maid for Mourning,” Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia
“‘There Were Things Met Upon the Stairs, That Could Not Be Seen’: Ghostly Encounters in Late Seventeenth-Century England,” Amanda McKeever, University of Sussex
Narrative Technologies, From Old To New
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Patrick Finn, St. Mary’s University College
“Can We Really ‘Digitize’ Early Books?: From Script to Print to Byte Me,” Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary
“Bridging Manuscript to Digital: An Approach Towards Early Writing System Analysis,” Kenna L. Olsen, St. Mary’s University College
“From Dominic Cook to Mary Zimmerman: The Difficulties of Staging Arabian Nights in a Western Context,” Samer Al-Saber, University of Washington
Means and Temperance
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Maryam Jahanmardi, University of British Columbia
“Fictions of Sufficiency in Mammon’s Cave,” Hillary Eklund, Duke University
“How Petruccio is DomestiKated: Revisions of Moderation in The Taming of the Shrew,” Unhae Langis, University of Southern California
“Rite Reading: Masque and the Public Sphere in Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News,” J. Robert Browning, University of Montana
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch and Plenary Address (English Bay | 34th Floor)
“The Liminality of the Senses in Samson Agonistes,” Elizabeth D. Harvey (University of Toronto)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Three Concurrent Sessions
Cross-Dressers and Epicenes
(Cavendish | 4th Floor)
Chair: Samer Al-Saber, University of Washington
“‘With A Beard Half Off, Half On’: The Epicene Genders and Genres of Marston’s Antonio and Mellida and Antonio’s Revenge,” Mark Albert Johnston, University of Windsor
“Sexual In-Betweenness in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Love’s Cure,” Rachel E. Poulsen, Edgewood College
Liminalities in Hispanic Renaissance Literature
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Mike Hammer, San Francisco State University
“Body and Knowledge in Teresa of Avila’s Meditaciones,” Paola Marín, California State University, Los Angeles
“Cervantes’ ‘La Gitanilla’: A Renaissance Parody of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” Eric D. Mayer, Central Washington University
“Inca Garcilaso’s Platonic Alternative,” Damian Bacich, San José State University
Development and Metamorphosis
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Scott MacKenzie, University of British Columbia
“Then a Soldier’: Maturity and Military Service in Early Modern England,” Bill Blake, Carnegie Mellon University
“Wilton in Purgatory,” Will Stockton, Ball State University
“‘For Mine’s Beyond Beyond’: Liminality and Metamorphosis in Cymbeline,” Anna Marutollo, McGill University
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee (Georgia Foyer | Plaza Highway)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Two Concurrent Sessions
Women’s Writing and Discourses of the In-Between
(Prince of Wales | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Ronda Arab, Simon Fraser University
“Between the Sheets: Joyce Hales’ Unexplored Writings about the Marian Martyr John Bradford,” Gretchen E. Minton, Montana State University
“Between Heaven and Hell: Writing Remembrance Across a Divide,” Anne Cotterill, Missouri University of Science and Technology
“Common and Closeted Prayer: the Via Media of Lady Anne Halkett,” Sara A. Murphy, Columbia University
Figures of the Early Modern East
(Oxford | 3rd Floor)
Chair: Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia
“‘Thou Parti-Jew, and Parti-Edomite’: Celebrating ‘Mongrel’ Identities through Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedie of Mariam,” Lesya Moore, University of British Columbia
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Business Meeting (Sales Boardroom A)