Thursday, November 9th

2:00-6:00pm

• Conference Registration – The Fireplace Lounge, Andrews Hall 2nd Floor

3:00-4:15pm

Session A: Traveling Students to Shakespeare: Experiential Learning, A Roundtable Discussion – Rickey Science Center 141

• Susan Oldrieve, Baldwin-Wallace College, “Experiential Learning: Best Practices.”
• Eva McManus, Ohio Northern University, “Experiential Learning: Theory.”
• Steve Rader, Marietta College, “Experiential Learning: Taking Students Abroad.”

Session B: Cruelties, Curatives and Contradictions in The Taming of the Shrew – Chair, Carol Steinhagen, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 162

• Loreen Giese, Ohio University, “Deconstructing a Marital Construction: Marital Cruelty in the London Consistory Court Depositions and The Taming of the Shrew.”
• Megan Johnson, Urbana University, “Hit Me, Kate, to Kiss Me, Kate.”
• John Kelly, Xavier University, “Foul Mouths: Shakespeare’s Linguistic Violence, Power, and the Notion of Otherness.”

4:30-5:45pm

Session A: Infinite Variety: Generic Violence – Chair, Russ Bodi, Owens College – Rickey Science Center 141

• Kara Northway, Xavier University, “’Hurt in that service’: Early Modern Workers’ Compensation.”
• Debra Johanyak, University of Akron Wayne College, “Moors, Turks, and Barbarism in Shakespearean Tragedy.”
• Amelia Bitely, Marietta College, “Rage, Rebellion, and the Complication of the Humour Play.”

Session B: Issues of Corporality and Gender in Hamlet – Chair, Robert Pierce, Oberlin College – Rickey Science Center 162

• Edmund Taft, Marshall University, “Hamlet: An Anatomy of Violence.”
• Tiffany Lowden, University of South Florida, “‘Thou Art On Thy Deathbed’: The
• Destruction of Women in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Othello.”
• Rachel Zlatkin, University of Cincinnati, “’The Leprous Distillment’: The Violence to the Body and the Threat of Action in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”

6:00-7:15pm

Session A: Violence in the Greek Plays – Chair, William Godshalk, University of Cincinnati – Rickey Science Center 141

• Byron Nelson, West Virginia University, “’This World to Me Is a Lasting Storm’: Violence in Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles.”
• Miles Taylor, LeMoyne College, “’Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign’:
• Patriarchal Politics in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.”
• Russ Bodi, Owens College, “’Our most violent civility’: Timon, Ken Lay and Everyday Trauma.”

Session B: Race, Rape and Type in Titus Andronicus – Chair, Susan Oldrieve, Baldwin-Wallace College – Rickey Science Center 162

• Mark D. Stephenson, University of Western Ontario, “Colonialism, Typological Thinking, and the Legacy of Biblical Violence in Titus Andronicus.”
• Rebecca Lynn, Lehigh University, “Seeing Corruption: Violence Then and Now in Julie Taymor’s Titus Andronicus.”
• K.D. Wright, Marshall University, “Lavinia’s Lexicon: Understanding the Nature of Rape & Rome.”

7:30-8:30pm

Location TBA

• Advisory Board meeting

Friday, November 10th

8:30-11:30am and 1:30-4:00pm

• Conference Registration – The Fireplace Lounge, Andrews Hall 2nd Floor

9:00-10:15am

Session A: Verbal Violence in Henry VI – Chair, Eva McManus, Ohio Northern University – Rickey Science Center 285

• Brian Pietras, Bennington College, “Tiger’s Hearts and Foul Stigmatics: Shakespeare’s Monsters of Self-Making.”
• Heather Murray, Penn State University, “Vengeful Relations: Verbal Violence in Shakespeare’s Henry VI.”
• Kyle William Agar, Xavier University, “Artistic Patriarchal Violence.”

Session B: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries – Chair, Hillary Nunn, University of Akron – Rickey Science Center 141

• N.M. Imbracsio, University of New Hampshire, “Secular Relic: The Spectacle of Decay on the Early Modern English Stage.”
• Kristin M Smith, Boston University, “’Locked up in thy Blood’: Physical Violence and Blood-Contagion in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy.”
• Byron Bailey, University of Cincinnati, “’Stop her mouth’: Class Transgression, Female Sexuality, and Brotherly Violence in The Spanish Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi.”

10:30-11:30am

Plenary Address: Lisa Starks, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, “Transforming Trauma” – McDonough Hall Auditorium 1st Floor

• Opening Remarks from Sue DeWine, Provost of Marietta College
• Professor Starks introduced by Kara Northway, Xavier University

12:00-1:30pm

Ohio Shakespeare Conference Luncheon – Sponsored by the Marietta College Department of English – The Great Room, Andrews Hall 3rd Floor

• Welcoming Remarks by Jean Scott, President of Marietta College

2:15-3:30pm

Locating the Playwright and Labeling Rumour in the Histories – Chair, Edmund Taft, Marshall University – Rickey Science Center 143

• Richard Dutton, The Ohio State University, “Q1 Henry V and The Famous Victories.”
• David George, Urbana University, “Shakespeare’s Violent Apprenticeship: Henry VI, Part 1.”
• Keith M. Botelho, Kennesaw State University, “War Buzz: Rumor’s Violence in Shakespeare’s Henriad.”

3:45-5:00pm

Session A: Cycles of Verbal, Visual, and Visceral Violence in Titus Andronicus – Chair, K.D. Wright, Marshall University – Rickey Science Center 285

• Debra Charlton, Texas State University, “Signs of Violence: Beauty, Imagery, and Abstraction in Yukio Ninagawa’s Titus Andronicus.”
• Lesya Alexandra Moore, Trinity Western University, “Avenging Violence: the (Re)Embodiment of Suffering in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.”
• M. Stephanie Murray, University of Chicago, “’Thus speake and strike’: Violence, Rhetoric, and Register in Titus Andronicus.”

Session B: Violence and the Sacred – Chair, Lew Klatt, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 238

• Helga Duncan, Stonehill College, “Violence and Sacred Space in Titus Andronicus.”
• Brinda Charry, Keene State College, “Gender, Science, War: Discourses of Holy War in Early Modern England.”
• David Summers, Capital University, “’A murder, which I thought a sacrifice’: Violence and the Making of Sacred Space in Othello and Julius Caesar.” 

Session C: Religious Undercurrents and Bastardy in the Tragedies – Chair, Veena Kasbekar, Ohio University-Chillicothe – Rickey Science Center 239

• Druann Bauer, Ohio Northern University, “From Cordelia’s Lips: Death is an Exit from that ‘dark and painful prison.’”
• Kathryn Easter, University of Pittsburgh, “Behind the Whirling Words: A Closer Look at Hamlet’s Struggle with Violence.”
• Robert Fleissner, Central State University, “More Ado About the Edmunds.”

5:15-6:30pm

Session A: Does Man + Woman = Violence in the Comedies? – Chair, Sandra Logan, Michigan State University – Rickey Science Center 285

• Hsiang-chun Chu, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, “Taming Female Unruliness as Lacanian Castration: Rethinking the Taming Plot in The Taming of the Shrew.”
• Kezia Vanmeter Sproat, Highbank Farm Peace Education Center, “Killing Rosalind.”
• Melissa Albornoz, Ohio University, “Sham and Titular Marriages in Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew.”
• S. Joshua Wellen, St. Xavier High School, “The Systematic Undermining of Patriarchy.”

Session B: Violent Identities in Othello – Chair, Lesya Alexandra Moore, Trinity Western University – Rickey Science Center 238

• Jennifer Feather, Case Western Reserve University, “O blood, blood, blood’: Violence and Identity in Othello.”
• Beth Meredith, University of Akron, “Power Struggles, Violence, and Female Discourse in Othello.”

Session C: Formative Violence – Chair, Janet Bland, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 239

• Joy Ellen Parker, Owens College, “Maiming as Metaphor in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, King Lear and King John.”
• Michael W. Young, LaRoche College, “Harry’s Rules: The Art of War and Leadership from Richard II through Henry V.”

6:45-8:00pm

Ohio Shakespeare Conference Business Meeting – Chair, Kara Northway, Xavier University – Rickey Science Center 143

• Open to all conferees

Saturday, November 11th

8:30am-11:00pm

• Conference Registration – The Fireplace Lounge, Andrews Hall 2nd Floor

9:00-10:15am

Session A: Hannibal Lecter, Tarantino’s ‘Bride’, and V: Good Morning, OSC!!! – Chair, Beverly Hogue, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 285

• Curtis C. Breight, University of Pittsburgh, “Why Shakespeare Fills the Violent Bill in V for Vendetta.”
• Alex Morris, University of Akron, “Iago, Hannibal Lecter and the Discourse of Violence.”
• Jewel Aldea, East Tennessee State University, “’Upon these eyes of thine I’ll set my foot’: Shakespeare and Tarantino’s Use of Violence as a Medium.”

Session B: Stages of Shakespearean Violence – Chair, David Summers, Capital University – Rickey Science Center 238

• Blair Morris, McGill University, “Titus Andronicus and the Theatrical Value of Violent Early English Drama.”
• Jeffrey M. Cordell, Marietta College, “’Endangering his body for a girl who loves him not’: A Violent Production Choice Parallels Violent Student Responses to The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
• Ashley Duncan, Texas State University, “Interpretations of Modern Political Strife in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.”

Session C: Silence, Laughter, and Desperate Housewives: Manifestations of Titus Andronicus – Chair, Helga Duncan, Stonehill College – Rickey Science Center 239

• Aaron DeRosa, Boston University, “’Thy words are replete with offense and in need of consequence’: Fusillade in Titus Andronicus.”
• Amy S. Anderson, University of South Florida, “Desperate Women, Desperate Avengers.”
• Amanda N. Gass, Texas State University, “Approaches to Violence in Titus Andronicus.”

10:30-11:30am

Plenary Address: William Proctor Williams, University of Akron and Northern Illinois University, “Something for All the Family: Violence and Family Values in Titus Andronicus” – McDonough Auditorium 1st Floor

• Susan Oldrieve announces winner of 1st Smith Award for Graduate Student Scholarship
• Opening Remarks by Beverly Hogue, Marietta College English Dept. Chair
• Professor Williams introduced by Hillary Nunn, University of Akron

2:00-3:15pm

Session A: Violent Versification – Chair, David George, Urbana University – Rickey Science Center 141

• William Kerwin, University of Missouri-Columbia, “’To detraction I present my poesie’: John Marston’s Satire and a Culture of Verbal Violence.”
• Douglas Ryals, University of California-Irvine, “Brutus or Tarquin?: Imitation, the Essex Revolt, and Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece.”
• Elise Lonich, University of Pittsburgh, “’His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter’: Suicidal Despair in Spenser, Donne, and the English Renaissance.”

Session B: The Disparate Values of Violence for Titus, Hector, and Romeo – Chair, Gabriel Rieger, Case Western Reserve University – Rickey Science Center 162

• Erin Ashworth-King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Violence and Evil of Revenge: The Descent of Titus Andronicus.”
• Matthew Stallard, Ohio University, “The Bower of Tranquility: The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet.”
• Mark Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Seeing or Not Seeing Chivalric Violence: Staging the Tournament of Hector and Ajax.”

3:30-4:45pm

Session A: Violent Issues of Gender, Class, and Genre – Chair, Steve Rader, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 141

• Jonathan Kamholtz, University of Cincinnati, “Comic Violence: New Laughs for Old.”
• Sandra Logan, Michigan State University, “Forms of Naysaying: State Violence and Social Resistance in Shakespeare.”
• Paula von Loewenfeldt, University of Southern Indiana, “Malvolio’s 21st-Century Revenge: Reflections on the 2006 Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Twelfth Night.”
• Anna Beskin, University of South Florida, “Abigail and Jessica: The Role of Violence in The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice.”

Session B: The Makings of Violence: Motives, Means, and Masculinity – Chair, Carolyn Hares-Stryker, Marietta College – Rickey Science Center 162

• Gabriel A. Rieger, Case Western Reserve University, “Sympathy for the Devil: Reevaluating Iago’s ‘shows of service.’”
• Marisa Iglesias, University of South Florida, “Raced and Gendered: The Violence in Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth.”
• Mary Jane Chaffee, Campbellsville University, “By self and violent hands.”
• Lexi Stucky, University of Central Oklahoma, “What Makes a Man: Masculinity in Macbeth.”

Acknowledgements

The Ohio Shakespeare Conference Advisory Board would like to thank the following individuals and groups for their assistance:

• Donna Bentley, Administrative Assistant for the Marietta College Department of English
• Tim Catalano, van driver extraordinaire
• Beverly Hogue and the faculty of the Marietta College Department of English
• Sue DeWine, Melody Miko and the Marietta College Office of the Provost
• Jean Scott, Jan Vaughan-Graham and the Marietta College Office of the President
• Steve Rader, Jeffrey Cordell and the Marietta College Department of Theatre
• Frank Diller, Marietta College Web Designer and real force behind the OSC web page
• Chef Walter Miller and the Staff of Marietta College Dining Services by Chartwells
• Mark Miller, Jacquelyn Lane, Todd DeLong and the faculty and Staff of the Marietta College Rickey Science Center
• Tom Perry and the Marietta College Office of College Relations
• Traci Perry and the Marietta College Business Office
• Howard Korn, Lois Arnold and the Marietta College Office of Conference Planning
• Fred Smith, Marilyn Pottmeyer and the Marietta College Office of the Physical Plant
• Amy Bitely, artist responsible for this year’s Lady Macbeth sketch
• Jordan Blackstone, Sigma Tau Delta Chapter President and spreadsheet/conference badge expert
• The Washington County Convention & Visitors Bureau
• The 2006-2007 Ohio Shakespeare Conference Advisory Board:
• Russ Bodi, Owens College
• David George, Treasurer, Urbana University
• Kara Northway, Chair, Xavier University
• Hillary Nunn, The University of Akron
• Susan Oldrieve, Baldwin-Wallace College
• Robert Pierce, Oberlin College