THURSDAY 10am (Fetzer 1010) Virgilian Territory: Spenser’s “Shepheardes Nation” and Munster Plantation Politics Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ. THURSDAY 10 am (Bernhard 213) English Reformation Literature and Spenser’s Late Work: A View of the Present State of Ireland and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe William Rhodes, Univ. of Virginia THURSDAY 1:30 (Schneider 1275) Edmund Spenser, His Works and His World Presider: Kristin M. S. Bezio, Univ. of Richmond “Vouchsafe Thy Noble Countenaunce”: Spenser, the Earl of Essex, and the Quest for Patronage in Book VI of The Faerie Queene Alzada Tipton, Elmhurst College “Lo, Colin, here the place”: Spenser’s Virtual Gardens and Contemporary Illustration Claire Eager, Univ. of Virginia Back to the Future: Delirious Milton versus Monumental Spenser John Mulryan, St. Bonaventure Univ FRIDAY 10 am (Fetzer 2030) Kicking Off (in) Spenser Studies Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo Organizer: David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.; Jennifer Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette; and Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia Presider: Alzada Tipton, Elmhurst College Opening Remarks: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College Death by Rhetoric: Seeking Silence in Spenser’s Daphnaïda Melissa J. Rack, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville Spenser’s Death Revisited Jean R. Brink, Huntington Library Astrophel: Annual or Perennial? Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria FRIDAY 1:30 (Fetzer 2016) “Feeling Words” and the “Mayd Martial”: Passions and Porous Bodies in Spenser’s Faerie Queene Amanda Taylor, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities FRIDAY 1:30 (Fetzer 2030) Spenserian Synesthesia: Words, Colors, Maps Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo Organizer: Rachel E. Hile, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne: Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria; and Jennifer Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette Presider: William Rhodes, Univ. of Virginia “A World of Words”: Spenser’s Language Lessons in The Shepheardes Calender David Hadbawnik, Univ. at Buffalo “Man is not like an ape”: Posthumanist Prosopopoeia in Mother Hubberds Tale Brad Tuggle, Univ. of Alabama “The pourtraict of so heavenly hew to paint”: Color Poiesis in The Faerie Queene Kristen L. Olson, Pennsylvania State Univ. Romancing the Map of Faerie in the Castle of Busyrane Kat Lecky, Arkansas State Univ. FRIDAY 3:30 (Valley I: Hadley 102) The Kathleen Williams Lecture Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo Organizer: Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; Rachel E. Hile, Indiana Univ.- Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; and Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria Presider: Lauren Silberman, Baruch College The Chastity of Allegory David Lee Miller, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia Closing Remarks: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College FRIDAY 3:30 (Schneider 2355) The Emblematics of Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender Tamara A. Goeglein, Franklin & Marshall College FRIDAY 8 pm (Fetzer 2030) Spenser at Kalamazoo Business Meeting: A Reading from the Shepheardes Calender SATURDAY 8pm (Fetzer 1045) International Porlock Society SUNDAY 8:30 am (Schneider 1350) “Doctrine by ensample”: Literature’s Ethical Problem and Spenser’s Aesthetic Solution Maria Devlin, Harvard Univ. -- Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask] English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet