{"id":346,"date":"2013-03-07T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/?page_id=346"},"modified":"2013-03-26T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:07:59","slug":"2012-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsconf\/conferences\/2012-extremely-shakespearean\/2012-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 – Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 18th<\/span><\/h1>\n

Throughout the conference:\u00a0Check-in (Hermann Fine Arts Center Lobby)<\/span><\/h4>\n

2:30pm \u2013 3:45pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Gabriel Rieger, Concord University<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  • Larry L. Burriss, Middle Tennessee State University,\u00a0\u201cThe Bard at the Bar: William Shakespeare and the U.S. Supreme Court.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Tom Derrick, Indiana State University,\u00a0\u201cEdwin Abbott, Shakespeare\u2019s Grammarian: \u2018Always resolute in most\u00a0extremes.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Cynthia Bosley Smith, Owens College,\u00a0\u201cCountry Matters and the Bawdy Bard: A Poetry Reading of Her Own Work\u00a0by Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop Veteran.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 4:00pm \u2013 5:15pm<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Russ Bodi, Owens College<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Byron Nelson, West Virginia University,\u00a0\u201cHelena and Marina and the \u2018Rarest Argument of Wonder\u2019: All\u2019s Well That Ends Well and Peicles and the Romance Genre.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Joy Ellen Parker, Owens College,\u00a0\u201cTeaching the Tragicomic Romances: Extremely Shakespearean or Extremely UnShakespearean?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Beverly Hogue, Marietta College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • Emily Kennedy, Marietta College,\u00a0\u201cThe Power of Conformity: Katherine\u2019s Final Obedience Speech as Cunning Ironic Performance.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Michelle LaRue, Marietta College,\u00a0\u201cIdentity Formation in Shakespeare\u2019s Comedies.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      7:30pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

      The Baltimore Consort –\u00a0Alma McDonough Auditorium, McDonough Hall<\/span><\/h4>\n
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      • Doors will open at 7:00pm. This event is open to the public.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        10:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

        Coriolanus –\u00a0Friederich Theatre, Hermann Fine Arts Center<\/span><\/h4>\n

        Friday, October 19th<\/span><\/h1>\n

        9:00am \u2013 10:15am<\/span><\/h3>\n

        Roundtable Discussion –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Moderator: Kendra Preston Leonard<\/span><\/h4>\n
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        • Kevin Rich, Illinois Shakespeare Festival & Illinois State University,\u00a0\u201cInclusivity and the Spirit of Shakespeare.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Kevin P. Kern, University of Mount Union,\u00a0\u201cTeaching Shakespeare in the Extremes\u2014Primary Grades and State\u00a0Penitentiaries.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Aml Mahmoud, University of Zakho,\u00a0\u201cOthello: Delineating Identity through Two Postcolonial Concepts.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 308 –\u00a0Chair: Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer, Olivet College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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          • Alyssa McGrath, Marietta College,\u00a0\u201cShakespeare\u2019s Presentation of Ethnic Minorities.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
          • David Genualdi, University of Nebraska at Omaha,\u00a0\u201cBenjamin\u2019s Theory of \u201cAura\u201d and Titus Andronicus.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Veena Kasbekar, Ohio University-Chillicothe<\/span><\/h4>\n
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            • Rex Anthony Trogdon, Northern Kentucky University,\u00a0\u201cMacbeth and the Values of Masculinity.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Aaron Hubbard, University of Akron,\u00a0\u201cWhen Words Defile Things: Extreme Depictions of Hegemonic Masculinity in Shakespeare\u2019s Coriolanus and the Combat Sport of Mixed Martial Arts.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Derek Frasure, Marshall University,\u00a0\u201cSignifying Nothing: The Masquerade of Masculinity in Macbeth.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              10:30am \u2013 11:45am<\/span><\/h3>\n

              Roundtable Discussion: Coriolanus –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Moderator: Ed Taft, Marshall University<\/span><\/h4>\n
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              • David George, Urbana University<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Niamh O\u2019Leary, Xavier University<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Russ Bodi, Owens College<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Carolyn Hares-Stryker, Marietta College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                • Amy Drake,\u00a0\u201cMacbeth: Eighteenth Century Adaptation for a New Audience.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                • Lindsey Snyder, Gallaudet University,\u00a0\u201c\u2019Fellows of Infinite Jest:\u2019 A Commedia dell\u2019Arte Hamlet .\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                • James Wells, Muskingum University,\u00a0\u201cUnrehearsed Shakespeare\u2019s Race to the Sides.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                • Liz Kinsley, Northwestern University,\u00a0\u201cThis Island\u2019s Mine: Anglo-American Reception of Ethnic Shakespeare in Manhattan, 1890-1910.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 308 –\u00a0Chair: Jason Cohen, Berea College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                  • David Peterson, University of Pittsburgh,\u00a0\u201cFinding an \u201cExtremely\u201d Shakespearean performance mode through Mark Rylance\u2019s Clown Prince of Denmark\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Jessica Cheng, University of Pittsburgh,\u00a0\u201cMessengers, Servants, and the Socially Inferior: Their Importance in Shakespeare.<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Cordelia Zukerman, University of Michigan,\u00a0\u201cShakespeare the Chameleon: Elite and Popular Culture in Love\u2019s Labour\u2019s Lost.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    Lunch on your own.<\/span><\/h4>\n

                    1:30pm \u2013 2:45pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                    Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Rachel Zlatkin, University of Cincinnati<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                    • Hsiang-chun Chu, National Changhua University of Education,\u00a0\u201cThe Politics of Boundary-crossing: De- and Re-Territorialization in Chimes at Midnight.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • James Lewin, Shepherd University,\u00a0\u201cPlaying with Apocalypse.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • Lars Engle, University of Tulsa,\u00a0\u201cHenry VI and the Shakespearean Supernatural.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Nicole Livengood, Marietta College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                      • Brett Murphy, University of Massachusetts\u2014Boston,\u00a0\u201cSulphurous and Tormenting Flames: An Analysis of\u00a0How to Understand The Ghost in Hamlet.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Karley K. Adney, ITT Technical Institute,\u00a0\u201cThe Design of Ophelia\u2019s Death: Extreme Awareness or Extreme Error?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Richard Dutton, Ohio State University,\u00a0\u201cHamlet and the Extremes of Succession.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 308 –\u00a0Chair: David George, Urbana University<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                        • Kendra Preston Leonard,\u00a0\u201cOnstage Soundscapes: Live Music in Modern Shakespearean Productions\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                        • Jim Casey, High Point University,\u00a0\u201cSpeak the Speech: Quintessential Shakespeare.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                        • Eva McManus, Ohio Northern University,\u00a0\u201cYou would pluck out the heart of my mystery\u201d: Using RSC\u2019s Pan-African Julius Caesar and ASC\u2019s Twelfth Night to Define Essential Qualities of Shakespeare\u2019s Drama<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          3:00pm \u2013 4:15pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                          Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State University<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                          • Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, The College of Wooster,\u00a0\u201cRepresenting the Unrepresentable: Catherine of Aragon\u2019s Virginity, the Divorce Trial and Shakespeare\u2019s Henry VIII\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                          • Shannon Cummings, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, \u201cHamlet\u2019s Lover, Mother or\u00a0Monster?: Representations of Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet,\u00a0Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s 1990 Hamlet, and Laurence Olivier\u2019 1948 Hamlet.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                          • Lisa S. Starks-Estes, University of South Florida St. Petersburg,\u00a0\u201cBleeding Martyrs: The Body of the Tyrant\/Saint, the Limits of \u2018Constancy,\u2019 and the Extremity of Passions in Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caesar.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Byron Nelson, West Virginia University<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                            • Maryam Zomorodian, University of Notre Dame,\u00a0\u201c\u2019Is not the truth the truth?\u2019: Representing the Past in Shakespeare\u2019s Second Tetralogy.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • William R. Jones, Murray State University,\u00a0\u201cSatire\u2019s Intentional Imperative and Shakespeare\u2019s Extremists.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • Hillary Nunn, University of Akron,\u00a0\u201cStudents Reading Suicide in Julius Caesar: Past and Present.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              4:30pm \u2013 5:45pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                              Plenary Address, sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs –\u00a0Alma McDonough Auditorium, McDonough Hall – \u00a0Moderator: Janet L. Bland<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                              • Ralph Alan Cohen,\u00a0Mary Baldwin College and the American Shakespeare Center,\u00a0“Marked ye his words?”: Listenership and Leadership in Shakespeare.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Welcoming Remarks: Gama Perruci, Interim Provost of Marietta College<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Announcements concerning Selected Papers: Hillary Nunn, University of Akron<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Introduction for Ralph Alan Cohen: Sandra Logan, Michigan State University\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                8:00pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                Hamlet – Moderator: Andy Felt, Marietta College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                                • Keith Foster, Marietta College<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • Dennis Lee Delaney, Ohio University<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • Luke Eddy, Centenary College of Louisiana<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • Lisa Grande<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                  Hamlet will be a site-specific production staged both outdoors and indoors on campus.\u00a0 The outdoor location will be the area between Andrews Hall and Irvine Administration Building off of the red brick Mall (used for most of Shakespeare’s Acts 1-3 and 5) while the indoor location will be the Andrews Hall Great Room (for most of Shakespeare’s Act 4)<\/span><\/p>\n

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                                  • Anticipated run time of 3+ hours with two intermissions<\/span><\/li>\n
                                  • Post-performance Panel Discussion (Location TBA – most likely outdoor\/indoor production space depending on weather.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                    Saturday, October 20th<\/span><\/h1>\n

                                    8:30am \u2013 9:45am<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                    Paper Panel –\u00a0Friederich Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Elinor Hellis, Whatcom Community College<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                                    • Zackariah Long, Ohio Wesleyan University,\u00a0\u201cHow to Do the History of Early Modern\u00a0Trauma.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                    • Christopher Clay, Concord University,\u00a0\u201cRome\u2019s but a wilderness of tigers\u201d: Monarchy, (Contra) Machiavelli and Moderation in Titus Andronicus.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                    • Gabriel A. Rieger, Concord University,\u00a0\u201cCrawling between earth and Heaven\u201d: Hamlet and Self-Fashioning at the Extremes.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                      Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 101 Studio Theatre –\u00a0Chair: Maryam Zomorodian, University of Notre Dame<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                                      • Rachael Ryerson, Ohio University,\u00a0“Shakespeare’s Forgotten Fool: Moth in Love’s Labours Lost.”<\/span><\/li>\n
                                      • Bhaskar Lama, EFL University,\u00a0\u201cExtremity\u00a0in Depiction of Marginalized characters in Shakespeare’s Three plays.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                      • Russ Bodi, Owens College,\u00a0\u201cI am not what I am\u201d: The Playwright as Stage Devil.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                        Paper Panel –\u00a0HFAC 308 –\u00a0Chair: Hillary Nunn, University of Akron<\/span><\/h4>\n
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                                        • Heather Frazier, Concord University,\u00a0\u201cThen vail your stomachs, for it is no boot:\u201d Reciprocity and Domesticity in The Taming of the Shrew.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                        • Brittney Blystone, Northern Kentucky University,\u00a0\u201cSycorax as the Absent Other in William Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                                        • Kezia Vanmeter Sproat, Highbank Farm Peace Education Center,\u00a0\u201cThis Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son; Or, Why Shakespeare Became a Feminist.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                          10:00am \u2013 11:15am<\/span><\/h3>\n

                                          Plenary Address – Alma McDonough Auditorium, McDonough Hall – Moderator: Eva McManus<\/span><\/h4>\n