Thursday, 10 am: Romancing Islam
Session 10 (Valley I, room 101)
Sponsor: Medieval Romance Society
“Allegorizing Islam in Book II of The Faerie Queene”
Dennis Austin Britton, Univ. of New Hampshire
Thursday, 10 am: Early Modern English Literature
Session 13 (Valley I, room 104)
“Protestantism, Despayre, and Reading in Book I of Faerie Queene”
Stephanie M. S. Bahr, Univ. of California–Berkeley
Friday, 10 am: Futures of Allegory: Medieval and Modern (A Collaboratory)
Session 223 (Schneider 1360)
“Speculative Allegories: Objects and Ecologies in Langland and Spenser”
William M. Rhodes, Univ. of Virginia
Friday, 10 am: Spenser at Kalamazoo I: Poet, Giant, Bishop, Sheep
Session 235 (Bernhard Brown & Gold Room)
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.
Presider: John Walters, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Opening Remarks: William A. Oram, Smith College
“Revisiting the Bibliographical History of Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland”
Jean R. Brink, Huntington Library
“Rough and Harsh Terms: The Shepheardes Calendar and ‘Bad’ Poetry”
Matthew Harrison, Princeton Univ.
“Prophesying and ‘Uncontrolled Freedome’: Edmund Spenser, Archbishop Grindal, and the Episode of the Egalitarian Giant”
Denna Iammarino, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Friday, 1:30 pm: Spenser at Kalamazoo II: The Nature of the Beast
Session 244 (Valley I, room 101)
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Rachel E. Hile, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; Jennifer Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia
Presider: Kristen L. Olson, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Beaver
“They Behead Horses, Don’t They? Spenser’s Boring Animals and the Subject of Allegory”
Chris Barrett, Louisiana State Univ.
“Reconsidering the Blatant Beast’s Relation to Malory”
Kenneth Hodges, Univ. of Oklahoma
“Poetical Matters in The Faerie Queene”
Debapriya Sarkar, Rutgers Univ.
Friday, 3:30 pm: Spenser at Kalamazoo III: Delaying the Inevitable
Session 302 (Valley I, room 101)
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria; Rachel E. Hile, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; and Jennifer Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Presider: Ann Higgins, Westfield State Univ.
“Apocalypse on Hold: Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight and the Inconclusive Death of Two Dragons”
Donald Stump, St. Louis Univ.
“On Not Committing Suicide”
Andrew Escobedo, Ohio Univ.
“Mirabella’s Penance and Compassion in The Faerie Queene, Book VI”
Sara Saylor, Univ. of Texas–Austin
Closing Remarks: William A. Oram, Smith College
Friday, 3:30 pm: Medieval Medievalisms
Session 335 (Schneider 1335)
Sponsor: Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley
“Streaming the Medieval Historical Consciousness in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s Richard II”
Russell L. Keck, Purdue Univ.