First Annual Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

New England Conference 2003

(2004 and 2005 below)

Following are photos, the program, and titles from the 2003 conference.

*2003 Conference Program*

A Sample of Papers Delivered

Laura Lehuanani S. Yim
Brandeis University
Savage Salvage: Ambiguous Justification in Spenser’s Amidas and Bracidas

Brett Foster
Yale University
The “Swete Roaring” of Thomas Hoby, Tudor Translator

Katherine Kellett
Boston College
Prospero, Miranda, and Shakespeare’s Vision of Patriarchy in The Tempest

Rebecca Olson
Brandeis University
Milton's Singular Use of Ovid in Paradise Regained

Vanita Neelakanta
Brandeis University
Remembrance of Sins Past: Reading and Memory in Bunyan’s Grace Abounding

Patrick Redding
Yale University
Exile and Empire: Petrarch, Du Bellay, Eliot

Keith M. Botelho
University of New Hampshire
‘As Eye and Ear Witnesses declare’: Testimony, Credibility, and the Crisis of Truth in Aubrey’s Miscellanies

Andrea Walkden
Yale University
Life-writing in the Faerie Queene: The place of friendship in Scudamour’s narrative of experience.

Second Annual Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

New England Conference 2004

Following are the program and a sample of papers delivered from the 2004 conference.

*2004 Conference Program*

Rachel Kapelle, Brandeis University
“The ‘Appoynted’ Plot: Kenilworth’s Pageantry and the Use of Time”

Jane Grogan, Pennsylvania State University
"Titus’s ‘trunk’: a Greek source for Titus Andronicus"

Trevor Laurence Jockims, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Iago’s Rhetoric of Concealment”

Christopher Bond, Yale University
“Beguiling the Beguiler: The Harrowing of Hell, Piers Plowman, and Spenser’s House of Mammon”

Vanita Neelakanta, Brandeis University
Satanic Spectacle: The Anxiety of Theatricality in Paradise Regained

Elisa Oh, Boston University
“Love, and be silent”: Cordelia and the Chastity of Self-Representation

Gretchen Cohenour, University of Rhode Island
“Veronica Franco”

Third Annual Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

New England Conference 2005

(Professor Arthur Kinney delivering the keynote address)

Following are the program and a sample of papers delivered from the 2005 conference.

Roslyn Nicole Smith, Brandeis University
"Eve and Mary on the Early Modern English Stage"

Cynthia Williams, Tufts University
"Reading the Lactating Body in John Webster's The White Devil"

David Swain, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Combustion Engines: Cardiac Motion in Harvey and Descartes and the Problem of History"

Katherine Risse, Brandeis University
“Capitana y caudillo de los ejércitos”:
The Virgin Mary as Model Mother and Warrior

David Tennant, Boston College
"Consumed by Language: Semantic Accumulation in Shakespeare’s Richard II”

Andrew Griffin, McMaster Univeristy
“This untimely bier”: Death, history and narrativity in Richard II"

Michael Bennett, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Border Crossings in Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas and The Castle of Perseverance"

Cate Racek, Univeristy of Vermont
“'This Most Happy Wrack': Grief in the Comic World of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night"

Katherine Kellett, Boston College
“The Lady’s Voice: Invocation and Poetic Collaboration in Milton’s Mask"

Anne-Marie Strohman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Speech and Silence in Ovid's Metamorphoses"

Melissa Femino, University of New Hampshire
“'Looke in this Mirrour of a Worthy Mind': Aemilia Lanyer's Pursuit of Poetic Vocation in the Prefatory Dedications of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"