Here are the Spenser sessions that I could find in the program. If you
know of others, please add them to the list. Note: the main business of
our Friday night meeting will be reading aloud. This year's lection:
"Hero and Leander." We'll bring photocopies.
Thursday, 1:30: Session 71, Valley I, 106
New Perspectives on Spenser’s Natural World
Presider: Elizabeth Bradburn, Western Michigan Univ.
"Spenser’s Gnats," Adam Hansen, Queen’s Univ., Belfast
"Irish Woods and Oaten Reeds: Transforming Forests in Spenser’s Faerie
Queene," Peter Remien, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
"'How Doth the Little Crocodile / Improve His Shining [Tale]': Natural
History and the Mercenary Amphibians in Prosopopoia: or Dr. Mother
Hubbard’s Tale," Sean Henry, Univ. of Western Ontario
Thursday, 3:30: Session 115, Valley II, 201
Reading Spenser’s Genres
Presider: Paul Hecht, Purdue Univ. North Central
"Breaking the Pipe: Insufficient Elegy and the Retrieval of Sympathy in
Spenser’s Daphnaïda," Daniel Moss, Princeton Univ.
"Reading around Munera: Allegorical Violence and Female Transgressions
in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene," Sonya L. Brockman, Univ. at Buffalo
Friday, 10:00: Session 217, Valley I, 109
Spenser at Kalamazoo I: Medieval into Renaissance
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Clare Kinney, Univ. of Virginia; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–
Fredonia; and David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.
Presider: Jennifer Summit, Stanford Univ.
Opening Remarks, Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.
"The British Church in The Shepheardes Calender," F. W. Brownlow, Mount
Holyoke College
"The Shepheardes Calender and Early Old English Studies," Hannah
Crawforth, Princeton Univ.
"Novus Vates and Novus Poeta: Spenser’s Ad ornatissimum virum and
Harvey’s Gratulationes valdinenses," Michael Masiello, Rutgers Univ.
Response: John Watkins, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Friday, 11 May, 1:30: Session 274, Valley I, 109
Spenser at Kalamazoo II: Spenser’s Shaping Fantasies
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Clare Kinney, Univ. of Virginia; William A. Oram, Smith
College; and Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.
Presider: William A. Oram
"The Limitations of Concord in the Thames-Medway Marriage Canto of The
Faerie Queene," Rachel Hile Bassett, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne
"Dancing in Delight: Dance as Indicator of Cultural Change in the Poetry
of Edmund Spenser," Marianne Micros, Univ. of Guelph
"Spenser’s Ciceronian Defense of Exile: A New Argument for the
Structural Unity of Colin Clouts Come Home Again," Andrew Wadowski,
Univ. of Rochester
Response: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Fri., 3:30, Session 329, Valley I, 101
Early Modern English: Social and Political Dimensions
Presider: Anthony Ellis, Western Michigan Univ.
"The Medieval Tower of London on the Early Modern Stage," Kristen
Deiter, Marywood Univ.
"Monstrous Merchant Chivalry: Identity and Class Context in Thomas
Heywood’s The Foure Prentices of London," Heather K. Cyr, Queen’s Univ.,
Kingston
"A Republican Spenser," Theresa Kawin, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
Fri., 3:30, Session 333, Valley I, 109
Spenser at Kalamazoo III: Elizabethan Policy Debates
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Clare Kinney, Univ. of Virginia; William A. Oram, Smith
College; and Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia
Presider: David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.
"Conformity and Confession in The Shepheardes Calender," Joel Dodson,
Univ. of Notre Dame
"Back to the Future: Spenser’s Retrospective Fictions of Authenticity in
Virgils Gnat," Bruce Danner, Skidmore College
"Spenser’s Poetry and the Dream of the Godly Commonwealth," Scott Lucas,
The Citadel
"Spenser, Humanism, and Monarchy: Book V of The Faerie Queene as an
Affront to Elizabeth," Donald Stump, St. Louis Univ.
Closing Remarks: Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.
Fri. 8:00 p.m., Fetzer 2030
Spenser at Kalamazoo: Business Meeting with cash bar
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