Friday, May 12, 10 am

Session 216

BERNHARD 212: Green Spenser

Presider: Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ.

Opening Remarks: David Lee Miller, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia

1.      “And straight they saw the raging surges reard”: Watery Wildernesses and Narratives of National Self in Spenser’s Book II of The Faerie Queene—Amber N. Slaven, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette

2.      Moving Metaphors: Spenser’s Clouds—Archie Cornish, Univ. of Oxford

3.      “Seeking for Daunger and Aduentures” in Spenser’s Gardens—Christine Coch, College of the Holy Cross

Friday, 1:30 pm

Session 225

VALLEY III, STINSON 306: Passionate and Penitential Instruction

Presider: Lauren Silberman, Baruch College

1.      Counseling Endings in The Faerie Queene—John Walters, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington

2.      Exemplary Feeling: Guyon’s Encounter with Amavia—Judith Owens, Univ. of Manitoba

Friday, 3:30 pm

Session 323

SCHNEIDER 2345: Medieval Literature as Children’s Literature: Studies in Adaptation II Presider: Bruce Gilchrist

3.      Children’s Literature and Canonical Adaptation as Resistance Literature: The Case of Spenser’s Faerie Queene—Charlotte Speilman, York Univ

Friday, 3:30 pm

Session 333

BERNHARD 212 Interpersonal Affairs

Presider: William A. Oram, Smith College

1.      “That lothly uncouth sight / Of men disguiz’d in womanishe attire”: The Gender, Politics, and Justice of Spenser’s Loathly Ladies—Megan Herrold, Univ. of Southern California

2.      On Not Plucking Out the Heart of Amoret’s Mystery: Epistemological Graciousness and Interpersonal Knowledge in the House of Busirane—Brad Tuggle, Univ. of Alabama

3.      Five Familiar Letters: The Harvey-Spenser Correspondence—Joseph Loewenstein, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Closing Remarks: David Lee Miller, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia

Friday, 8 pm: International Sidney Society Business Meeting, Fetzer 1060 (with cash bar)

Saturday, May 13, 10 am

Session 391

BERNHARD 212: Sidneian Endings and Reinventions

Presider: Brad Tuggle, Univ. of Alabama

1.      “Love Is Not Love”: A Lyric Exchange among Pembroke, Wroth, and Shakespeare—Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale

2.      Endings and Reinventions in Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus—Ilona Bell, Williams College

3.      The Defense of Astrophil and Stella—Roger Kuin, York Univ.

Saturday, 1:30 pm

Session 443

BERNHARD 212: The Sidneys and the Sister Arts

Presider: Timothy D. Crowley, Northern Illinois Univ.

1.      Familiar Sonnets? Astrophil and Stella and the Ars Dictaminis—Andrew Strycharski, Florida International Univ.

2.      Mary Wroth and the Female Baroque—Gary Waller, Purchase College

3.      Desire, Artistic Representation, and the Limits of Agency in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella—Kathleen Hines, Southern Methodist Univ

Saturday, 3:30 pm

Session 494

BERNHARD 212: The Van Dorsten Lecture

Presider: Donald Stump, St. Louis Univ.

Playing, Singing, Speaking Things Gavin Alexander, Univ. of Cambridge

Saturday, 8 pm: International Porlock Society Business Meeting, Fetzer 2016 (with cash bar)