Thursday, October 14th

1:00

Registration, continuous

2:00‐3:15

1. Sexual Indeterminacies: Room 133: Chair, Laurie Fathe

• Victor Kulinski, University of Windsor “Hermaphroditism vs Androgyny: The Function of Cross‐dressing in Shakespeare’s As You Like It”
• Maria Bastien, University of Windsor, “Mixing Metaphors: Horses, Riders and Hermaphrodites in The Taming of the Shrew”
• Katherine Donovan, University of Windsor, “Twelfth Night: A Close Reading of the Plato‐Ovidian Characters”

2. Inwardness and Character: Room 135: Chair, Russ Bodi

• Charles Conaway, University of Southern Indiana, “Othello’s Other Visage”
• Donald Cleary, University of the West Indies, Mona, “The Fair Black Woman: The Politics of Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
• Andrew Hartke, Owens College, “Emelia: Iago’s Marionette or Fellow Puppeteer”

3:30‐4:45

3. Staging and Editing: Room 133: Chair, Gabriel Rieger

• Matthew Vadnais, The Ohio State University, “Shakespeare’s Stage Directions”
• Hsiang‐chun Chu, National Changhua University of Education, “From Man to Wolf: On Lycanthropic Ferdinand and Illicit Desire”
• Byron Bailey, University of Cincinnati, “’Hold thy stumps to heaven’: Should Lavinia Carry Titus’ Hand in Her Arms”

4. Interiority and Landscape: Room 135: Chair, Shelby Pierce

• Amy Horvat, Marietta College, “Playwright as Gardener: Planting Metaphors in The Winter’s Tale”
• Rachel Zlatkin, University of Cincinnati, “The Bear by Sea, by Land, by Sky”
• Robert Pierce, Oberlin College, “The Gaps in Shakespeare’s Marlovian Imitation”

5:00‐7:00

Dinner on your own

• Tony Packo’s anyone?

7:00

A Merry Regiment of Women, Toledo Repertory Players, Performing Arts Center Room 111 

• Reception following

Friday, October 15th

8:00 a.m.

Registration, continuous

8:30‐9:45

5. “He Never Blotted Out a Line!” : Room 133: Chair, Eva McManus

• Mira Assaf, The Ohio State University, “Caroline Shakespeare: A Reassessment of the Second Quarto of Othello (1630)
• Andrea Crow, The Ohio State University, “Reassessing Q1 Romeo and Juliet’s Stage Directions”
• Colleen Kennedy, The Ohio State University, “A/The Taming of the Shrew: Shakespeare’s Source and Revision”

6. “A Scholarly Conversation Concerning the Composition of the Shakespearean Corpus:

Twentieth Century Theatrical Practice Versus Conventional Literary Assumptions” : Room 135: Chair, Robert Pierce

• Norbert Wethington, Oberlin College
• Mark Wethington, University of Nebraska/Kearney
• Kristin Distel, Ashland University

10:00‐11:15 a.m.

7. Omissions and Potentialities: Room 133: Chair, David George

• William L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati, “Troilus and Cressida: No Sense of an Ending”
• Peter Byrne, Kent State University, Trumbull Campus “’I am dumb’ Comic Murders”
• Jim Lewin, Shepherd University, “Who Needs Shylock”

8. Gaps and Indeterminacies: Room 135: Chair, Joe Sullivan

• Robert Dugan, Keystone College in La Plume, Pennsylvania “The Distances Between Fathers and Daughters In Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragedies, and Romances”
• David George, Urbana University, “Political Backgrounds”
• Sandra Logan, Michigan State University, “Ten Plays in Search of Coherence”

11:15‐12:15

Plenary Session: ( Main‐stage Theater)

• Matthew Wikander, “’This is not the man’: Falstaff and Martrydom”

12:15‐2:00

Lunch, on your own

1:00‐2:00

Special acting workshop for scenes from Twelfth Night. Room 137 (Acting Studio): Chair, Jeremy Meyer

2:00‐3:15 p.m.

9. Identity: Room 133: Chair, Tim Francisco

• Steven Culbertson, Owens College, “Our British Cousin: Shakespeare in the American Stage and Imagination, 1860‐1865″
• Joy Ellen Parker, Owens College, “Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Shakespeare’s Mad Men and the Undecidability of Identity”
• Emily Sloan‐Pace, University of California at Santa Cruz “Banishing Plump Jack: A Reconsideration of Falstaff and Mistress Quickly”

10. Loose Ends and Film Adaptations: Room 135: Chair, Hillary Nunn

• Emily Detmer‐Goebel, Northern Kentucky University, “Lavinia as Loose End”
• Stephannie S. Gearhart, Bowling Green State University, “’For Every Generation There is a Gap’: Youth‐Elder Conflict in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet”
• Curtis Breight, University of Pittsburgh, “Whatever Happened to Lady Anne?: Some Cinematic Renditions of the Queen’s Disappearance”

11. Key Roles: Room 138: Chair, Sandra Logan

• Michael Mackey, University of Akron, “’I do but keep the peace’: Benvolio’s Dramatic Revealed”
• Geoffrey A. Johns, Michigan State University, “’The smallest monstrous mouse’: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Renaissance Theatrical Debate”
• Amrita Sen, Michigan State University, “Gaps, Indian Boy, and Changelings: Staging India in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

3:30‐4:45

12. History and the Histories: Room 133: Chair, Steven Culbertson

• Jennifer Whalen, Northern Kentucky University, “Repressed Conscience and Unsought
• Redemption: Uncovering the Tragic Protagonist in Richard III
• Wai Fong Cheang, Chang Gung University, Taiwan “Between Lion and Pupil: Gaps in Shakespeare’s Richard II”
• Kirstin Bone, Southern Utah University, “The Forgotten Fool: Geoffrey Chaucer”

13. Music and other Ornaments: Room 135: Chair, Susan Oldrieve

• Katherine Steele Brokaw, University of Michigan, “Shakespearean Musical Theater: The Winter’s Tale”
• Byron Nelson, West Virginia University, “’When I have required some heavenly music’: Marina’s Missing Song in Pericles”
• Carol Mejia Laperle, Wright State University, “William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and the Ornaments of Opacity”

14. Refiguring Comedy: Room 138, Chair, Joe Sullivan

• Jon Kamholtz, University of Cincinnati, “The Traffic in Men: The Problems in Comic Closure in All’s Well that Ends Well”
• Tony Tambasco, Mary Baldwin College, “Textual Necromancy: Conjuring a Fringe Festival Performance from the Corrupt and Contradictory Text of The Merry Devil of Edmonton”
• Gabriel Rieger, Concord University, “The Revenger’s Comedy: Feste, Malvolio and the Politics of Melancholy”

4:45‐7:00

Dinner, on your own

7:00 p.m.

Concert of Renaissance Music by Tapestry, Center for Performing Arts Atrium

7:30 p.m.

National Players in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Saturday, October 16th

8:00 a.m.

Registration, continuous

8:30‐9:45

15. Gaps and Authority: Room 133: Chair, Tim Francisco

• Megan D. (Urlage) Kessler, Northern Kentucky University, “Three Women in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam”
• Kathleen Davies, University of Pittsburgh, “Illegitimate Constructions: Bastardy, Authority, and Identity in Shakespeare’s King John”
• James Wells, Muskingum University, “Tantalizing Prospects in Shakespeare’s Hamlet”

16. Gender Issues: Room 135: Chair, Eva McManus

• Andrea Leslie, Cincinnati State Community College, “Melancholy, Gender, and Violence in ‘The Rape of Lucrece’”
• Mary Towers, University of Windsor, “Anxious Intuitions and Invisible Women: A Sociopolitical Reading of As You Like It and Twelfth Night”
• Kelly Park, Marietta College, “A Loosening of Vows, Bands and Beds: The Unresolved Idea of Marriage in Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well”

17. Reconsidering Gender Roles: Room 138: Chair, Susan Oldrieve

• Megan M. Inbody, Michigan State University, “Gender Controversy in England”
• Kate Hargreaves, University of Windsor “’Under Layers of Maiden Weeds’: Revealing Female‐Female Desire in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night”
• Cathrine Bonham, Owens College Graduate, “Lord Petruchio: Shakespeare’s Use of Meta Theater and Why Christopher Is Not the Star if The Shrew”

10:00‐11:15

18. Edition: Room 133, Chair, David George

• Leslie Anderson, Ohio University, “Illustrating Editorial Change: Gower and Pericles in the 1902 Chiswick Shakespeare Edition”
• Richard Dutton, Ohio State University, “A Jacobean Merry Wives of Windsor”
• Jonathan Holmes, Ohio University, “The Indeterminacy of Determinacy in Alexander Pope’s Edition of The Taming of the Shrew”

19. Staging the Unusual: Room 135: Chair, Robert Pierce

• Peggy Russo, Pennsylvania State University, “Hamlet the Dame: Actresses Who Presume Too Much?”
• Joseph Sullivan, Marietta College, “’Spell it Wrong to Read it Right’: Ariel as Surrogate Daughter/Wife in The Tempest”
• Amanda Devlin Knowlton, Mary Baldwin College, “Sweet Remembrancer: The Absence of Banquo’s Ghost in Macbeth”

11:15‐12:15

Plenary Session: (Main‐stage Theater)

• Katharine Maus, “The Properties of Friendship in The Merchant of Venice”

12:15‐1:30

Luncheon in the Center for Performing Arts Grand Hallway

1:30‐2:45

20. Comedy in Theory: Room 133: Chair, Richard Dutton

• James H. Forse, Bowling Green State University, “The Consistency of Inconsistency in the ‘Falstaff Trilogy’”
• Peter Kanelos, Loyola University Chicago, “What Should That Alphabetical Position Portend?: Language and Will in Twelfth Night”
• Jean‐Francois Bernard, University of Montreal, “The Last Laugh: Shakespeare’s Comic Ambiguity”

21. Gender and Interiority: Room 135: Chair, Joy Parker

• Lauren Shook, University of North Carolina‐Greensboro, “Julius Caesar and the Limitations of Feminist Politics”
• Hillary Nunn, University of Akron, “Barbary and Botany: Domesticating Desdemona’s Willow Song”
• Predrag Rogan, University of Windsor, “The Merchant of Venice and Jewish Identity: The Case of the Traded Ring”