Cloning, organ farms, the completion of the Human Genome Project, recombinant DNA, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and other manufactured life forms, all suggest that, depending on one’s point of view, the twenty-first century opens onto a horizon of radical possibilities for the future or cataclysmic end of what is meant by “human.” UCSB’s Early Modern Center Winter Conference, “Limits of the Human,” turns back to the early modern period to ask: before we were posthuman, how did we become human? How and why do early modern representations of hybrids, animals, monsters, anomalies, race, gender, and automata define what is human and separate out what is not? How do those things classified as non-human construct, reflect, or refract humanness? What innovations in technology, botany, labor equipment, law, and mathematical notation helped to calcify the boundaries of the human? How did Cartesian, Newtonian and Leibnizian systems of the world shape the conditions that Michel Foucault argues, “made it possible for the figure of man to appear”? In what ways were the “limits” always permeable, and how did they invite transgression and mutation? The EMC’s one-day interdisciplinary conference provides a forum to explore early modern literary and cultural responses to the issues and questions that helped delineate the limits of being human.

The conference will consist of panel discussions, as well as keynote talks by Bruce Smith ( Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern California) and Richard Nash (Professor of English, Indiana University).

For more information on this free conference please visit the official website at Limits of the Human Conference

This conference will be a forum to showcase outstanding undergraduate work on the early modern period (1500-1800). The event will take place from 1-4 on June 5 in South Hall 2635, and will be followed by a reception.

On May 15, Angus Fletcher will present a talk entitled "Poetry, Environment, and the Protected Circle of Wonder." Fletcher is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School, author of A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination. According to Jonathan Bate, "Angus Fletcher is a highly distinguished critic and his New Theory for American Poetry is an appropriately distinguished contribution to the new wave of literary theory that restores the imagination, the aesthetic, the emotions and the natural world to critical discourse." Harold Bloom says, "Angus Fletcher and his work have strongly influenced the way I read poetry…His new book is the crown of his career: bold, original, brimming with imaginative energy on every page."

The Bliss-Zimmerman Seminar will take place at 2:00 in South Hall 2635 and will be followed by a reception. Please join us!

Ann Plane, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, will present a paper as part of the Early Modern Center's works-in-progress series. Her presentation, entitled, "'When I Awaked': Colonial Encounters, Gendered Meanings, and the Cultural Significance of Dream Reporting in Seventeenth-Century New England," explores the convergence of two distinctive 'dream cultures,' that of the Algonquian-speaking natives of the region and that of the seventeenth-century nonconformist English colonists. Her paper also considers how these dream cultures reveal the gendered dynamics of colonization, particularly focusing on the representation of masculinity among both colonizer and colonized. Her presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. This event will be on Wednesday, May 6 from 3:30-5:00 in South Hall 2510 (the Early Modern Center). Please join us!

The History of Reading Group and the History of Material Texts Research Focus Group are hosting a one-day, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading, with an eye toward investigating the technologies that shape reading as a social experience. The keynote speakers will be Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) and Elaine Treharne (Florida State University). The conference is supported by the University of California's Transliteracies Project.

In recent years, scholars have looked to the Renaissance and eighteenth century in order to better understand both the origins of our contemporary environmental crisis, as well as the emergence of modern environmental thinking. Works such as Robert Watson's Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance and Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism, have brought early modern literary studies into current ecocritical debate. As these and other works make clear, environmental issues such as air pollution, toxic waste, increased urbanization, deforestation, wetland loss, and radical changes in land use were surprisingly timely in Early Modern England, routinely making their appearance in the literature of the day. Indeed, by the time Milton was writing Paradise Lost it was already known that respiratory illness from urban air pollution was second only to the Plague as the leading cause of death in London. The EMC's one-day interdisciplinary conference will provide a forum to explore early modern literary and cultural responses to the environmental issues that preceded, and indeed gave shape to, modern environmentalism.

The conference will consist of panel discussions, as well as keynote talks by Carolyn Merchant (Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley) and Jill Casid (Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Visual Culture Studies Program, University of Wisconsin).

For more information, please see our conference website at Before Environmentalism Conference

Andras Kisery will give a presentation entitled "Politics from the Margins" at 3:30 pm on Monday, February 2 in South Hall 2635. His presentation will be followed by a question and answer session, and a wine and cheese reception. Please join us!

András Kiséry completed his Ph.D. in 2008 at Columbia on the circulation of political knowledge in early seventeenth-century English drama, and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. Rather than a return to “politics as usual,” Kiséry’s dissertation is a rethinking of politics that employs serious training in book history together with a pre-Habbermasian notion of communities of publics formed by participation in the performances and printed texts of the stage. Kiséry’s abundant publications (and language skills) emerge from his work in Hungary, England, and the U.S., as do his cosmopolitan interests, which complement his intensive training in English dramatic literature. His second book project continues his book history interests in questioning the emergence of the notion of “fictionality” in seventeenth-century England, which he pinpoints around the development of the distinctive feature of “uselessness.”

Mimi Yiu will present her talk, "Othello's Blackwork: Embroidering the Moor" at 3:30 pm on Thursday, January 29 in South Hall 2635. Her presentation will be followed by a question and answer session, and a wine and cheese reception. Please join us!

Mimi Yiu received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2005, held a one-year position as Postdoctoral Lecturer in English and Art History at USC in 2005-2006, and is currently in her second year as a tenure-track assistant professor at Georgetown. Her book-in-progress examines how the architectural discourse and practice of the “façade” impacts the development of an early modern subjectivity that is specifically theatrical. Carefully researched and extremely original, this is simultaneously an art historical as well as a theoretical, feminist, and drama project. Yiu’s second book project on the early modern arabesque continues her interest in the visual but this time focuses on Arabic designs (in knot gardens, textiles, stage architecture, etc.) as a way of accessing early modern importations and reworkings of Middle-Eastern Otherness. Yiu is remarkably productive—with six articles published or in press and others in the works—and she offers us extensive knowledge of drama, theory, gender, and visual culture.

Andrew Griffin will give his presentation, "Tragedy, History, and Marlowe's Dido" at 3:30 pm on Monday, January 26 in South Hall 2635. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session, and then by a wine and cheese reception. Please join us!

Andrew Griffin completed his Ph.D. in 2008 at McMaster on untimely deaths in Renaissance drama and is currently a lecturer in English at Wilfrid Laurier University. His work is a remarkably fresh and deep investigation into the meaning of early modern history that addresses both received notions of historicity, such as the de casibus tradition, and newer, “messier” ideas of history being made and unmade by changing urban conditions of early modern London. Griffin’s next project naturally evolves out of his first as an investigation of London in terms not of a single history or nation but of a conglomeration of fractured communities. His co-edition of a collection of essays on the Queen’s Men—a traveling company of players that toured the provinces—as well as his five articles and two editions of dramatic plays, show an active scholar deeply serious about thinking through the big picture and nitty-gritty details that make early modern drama in its own historical time.

Robert N. Watson is a Professor of English at UCLA, and author of Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (Pennsylvania UP, 2006), named the Best Book of Ecocriticism of 2005-2006 by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He was the winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the year's best book in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, by the editors of Studies in English Literature. Professor Watson's presentation for this EMC event is entitled "The Ecology of Self in 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'"

Beth Fowkes Tobin is a Professor of English at Arizona State University, and the author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Pennsylvania UP, 2005) and Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke UP, 1999). Professor Tobin's presentation for the Colloquium is entitled "The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting, Gender, and Scientific Practice."

• Christina Cheng (Comparative Literature), "Causes of the Plague in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year: The Devil's Work, God's Design, or Natural Origin"
• Liberty Stanavage (English), "Englishing Medea: Gender, Marriage and Elizabethan Anxieties in John Studley's Medea"
• Summer Star (English), "Anger and the Principle of Moral Regeneration in Mansfield Park"

Presenting work in progress by:

• Pax Hehmeyer, "Imagining Publication and the Elizabethan Female Complaint"
• Patrick Ludolph, "Gilbert Mabbott and the Narrative Project"
• Laura Miller, "Printing a System for the World: Extrapolation, Overload, and the Principia."

An event to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade, and to consider the centrality both of slavery and of the abolitionist project to the period 1500-1800.

The UC Transliteracies Project and UCSB Early Modern Center are pleased to announce that they are jointly hosting a Text Encoding Seminar at UCSB instructed by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of Brown University. (See here for full description and schedule, and a suggested advance reading list.)

Registration for the event is free (please register with Alan Liu). All presentations are open except for the two hands-on workshops, which have limited enrollment (if interested, request enrollment in the workshops at the time of registration). Events will be held in the UCSB English Dept. (South Hall, 2nd floor).

The goal of the Seminar is two-fold: first, to provide faculty and students in the humanities and other fields with an opportunity to examine the significance of text encoding as a scholarly practice, through a combination of discussion and practical experimentation. And second, to provide supporting resources for researchers who want to experiment with text encoding on their own, or would like to start or become involved with a digital research project. The resources and events on the schedule of the seminar are all aimed at faculty and students who have little or no technical experience but are interested in digital textuality. In addition to providing support in grappling with the technical topics, these resources also engage with the scholarly issues that surround these technologies.

Dr. Julia Flanders is Director of Brown University Women Writers Project; Associate Director of Brown Scholarly Technology Group; Editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly; and Vice-chair of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium. Syd Bauman is Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Brown University Women Writers Project. The bulk of funding for this Seminar is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which gave the Brown University Women Writers Project a grant to support a series of such seminars around the nation.

See here for general information about text encoding and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines (an international and interdisciplinary standard that enables libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent a variety of literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation).

Presenting work in progress by:

• Simone Chess, "Men in Drag, or Boys in Dresses? Boyhood, Masculinity, and the Male to Female Crossdresser";
• Kris McAbee, "'Daphne from the Delphic god': Aphra Behn's 'The Disappointment' and the Impotence of the Male Literary Tradition";
• Jessica C. Murphy, "Man in the Mirror: Why is Britomart so Sick?"

• Tassie Gniady, "'Finch Pulls a Milton': Resisting Authority in the Literary Sphere";
• Sören Hammerschmidt, "A Life in Transit: Travel, Maternity, and the Progress of Civilisation in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence";
• Megan Palmer, "Regarding Appropriateness: The Centrality of the Broadside Ballad Woodcut".

This conference features exceptional work by undergraduates at UCSB. Reception to follow.

Frank Lestringant, Professor of French Renaissance Literature at the Sorbonne, is the author of more than 30 books on travel, geography, religion, and many other aspects of the Renaissance. He has edited a book on French colonization of the Americas, Le France-Amérique (16th-18th centuries), and is author of Jean de Léry ou l’invention de sauvage, which examines representations of Brazilian Indians in Jean de Lery’s 16th century travel writings.

This event is co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies and the Department of French and Italian.

TIME: Tuesday, 24 April at 3:30 pm in HSSB 4020.

Professor Tuttle is an Assistant Professor of History at Kansas. Her current research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in the solidification and centralization of royal power in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France. The book project she is working on, tentatively titled "Sacred and Politic Unions: Natalist Policy in Absolutist France," examines Old Regime policies that accorded privileged status to men who married and fathered large families.

This event is sponsored by Renaissance Studies and the EMC.

Richard Halpern, professor of English at Johns Hopkins, is author of Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud and Lacan (Penn, 2002), which explores relations between sexuality and aesthetics. Previous books include Shakespeare Among the Moderns (Cornell, 1997) and The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital (Cornell, 1991).

An illustrated lecture and performance of seventeenth-century English broadside ballads by renowned British performer and BBC radio host, Lucie Skeaping, accompanied by instrumentalist Robin Jeffrey. For more infomation, visit www.lucieskeaping.co.uk (click on "Illustrated Lecture-Recital"). Reception will follow in the IHC.

This event is co-hosted with the Renaissance Studies Program.

2/8/2007 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Seminar at SH 2635

2/9/2007 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Lecture at State Street Room

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études in Paris, will direct the Everett Zimmerman Seminar, to be held February 8 and 9, 2007. Professor Chartier’s scholarship in early modern European history has been central to the study of print culture and the history of the book.

The Zimmerman Seminar, established in honor of Everett Zimmerman, Professor of English, brings a distinguished eighteenth-century scholar from a field such as literary studies, history, history of science, history of art, philosophy, law, religion, or music to campus to discuss his or her work with students and faculty. The Zimmerman Seminar is hosted by the Early Modern Center in the Department of English.

Paul Yachnin, Professor of English, McGill University; Title of talk: "Hamlet and the Social Thing in Early Modern England." Description: --"How can we best describe the socio-political dimension of the play Hamlet?" The ideas about artistic and intellectual works and public making that are emerging from the Making Publics project can yield an answer to this question likely to be more historically and critically illuminating than either old-style or new-style readings for ideological content. A focus on public making will be able to explain the play's socio-political dimension in terms of meaningful practices rather than textual meanings and in terms of the social agency of things such as performances and books rather than the agency of writers like Shakespeare. Such a focus is not at all to exclude textual meanings or artistic agency, but only to shift the interpretive task away from what could be called the imaginary field of literary public utterance."

Dena Goodman, Professor of History, University of Michigan; Title of talk: "Habermas and Feminist Scholarship: Going Beyond the Public Sphere" Description: Jürgen Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere has been informing scholarship in eighteenth-century studies for the past twenty years. German scholars took note of it when it appeared in 1962, but it was not until the French translation (1978) and especially the English one (1989) appeared, that it began to play an important role in the interdisciplinary and transnational field of eighteenth-century studies. The publication in 1988 – a year before the English translation of Habermas – of Joan Landes’s Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution meant that from the beginning, the question of gender has been central to debates about Habermas and the public sphere as these have developed in eighteenth-century studies, just as Habermas and Landes have been central to the “cultural turn” in the history of women and gender in the eighteenth century, and to the interdisciplinary “cultural” ground at the intersection of women’s studies and eighteenth-century studies as this has taken shape. In other words, as debates on Habermas and the public sphere have taken gender as a central topos and problematic, Habermas and the public sphere have been equally central to debates concerning women and gender in the eighteenth century. In this talk, I would like to give a brief account of where this interest in Habermas, the public sphere, and women and gender in the eighteenth century has taken us and to suggest where we should go from here. I will draw on my own current research on women and letter writing in eighteenth-century France for examples of how Habermas can take us in new directions. In particular, I will propose that we leave the public sphere behind and take more seriously what Habermas has to say about privacy.

Each presenter will speak for 40-50 minutes, with a 10 minute discussion after each talk; Ken Hiltner and William Warner will be our faculty respondents, and Eric Nebeker and Laura Miller will be the EMC graduate respondents. The colloquium will conclude with a roundable discussion followed by a reception.

Please bring your lunch to this showcase of EMC Graduate Students' work, including:

Each presenter will speak for 15-20 minutes and the event will provide ample time for response and discussion.

Friday, May 26, 2006, South Hall 2635, 1-4pm

1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks, Professor Robert Erickson

1:15-1:45 Arden of Tombstone
Viewing and Discussion with Sierra Christman,
Zia Isola’s Engl 157: English Renaissance Drama

1:45-2:00 “The Middle Passage Effect in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”
Susan Rosenfeld,
E. Heckendorn Cook’s Engl 102: English and American Literature from 1650-1789

2:00-2:15 BREAK

2:15-2:45 “The China Scene” from William Wycherley’s The Country Wife
Performance by: Danielle Allred, Luke Fretwell, Katie Desrochers, Niall Huffman, Stephanie Shenkman
Robert Erickson’s Engl 169: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama

2:45 Open Discussion

Reception to follow

Please join the long-18th-Century Reading Group for an informal discussion of William St. Clair’s book, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Thursday, May 4th, at 4pm in the EMC.

The readings—Chapter One (Chapter Two optional); “The Political Economy of Reading” (St. Clair’s Coffin Lecture for the School of Advanced Study, University of London); and Andrew Elfenbein’s very short review of the book—will be available shortly at the front desk in the department office in a file marked “18th-c Discussion Group.”

Please bring your lunch to this showcase of EMC Graduate Students' work, including:

· Mac Test, English: "Aztec Sacrifice in Spenser's Faerie Queene"

· Vanessa Coloura, English: "Science and Spectacle in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon"

· Maggie Sloan, English: "'My brain is on fire!': Aggression, Knowledge, and Mentorship in Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth"

Each presenter will speak for 15-20 minutes and the event will provide ample time for response and discussion.

The Woman Controversy of early modern England relied on a discourse about women that had been developed by humanist scholars of the late middle ages. Those humanist arguments seemed to argue for women's excellence and virtue but were often elaborate scholarly jokes, travesties of humanist discourse that demonstrated women's inferiority through the ironic and ultimately ridiculous display of rhetoric, argumentation, and biblical allusion. The early modern pamphlet debate about women relied on the very argumentative techniques and materials developed by late medieval scholars, but often (mis)used that discourse to argue earnestly for women's virtue. I suggest that early modern reliance on the inherited arguments can be fruitfully understood as a creative misreading of the humanist discourse.

This paper examines the relationship between the modern conceptual categories of "popular culture," "oral culture," and "oral tradition." For most English authors in 1700, the phrase "oral tradition" would have first brought to mind a Catholic theological notion considered suspect by Protestants, and our modern idea of "oral culture" did not exist. While much recent scholarly work has been devoted to exploring the interface of oral and print cultures, this paper also works to historicize the concepts themselves. Specifically, I argue that eighteenth-century authors' reflection on (and nervousness about) the spread of print was a key factor in the shaping of the modern intellectual category of "oral culture." Whereas early eighteenth-century authors such as Jonathan Swift in A Tale of A Tub typically understood cheap print and popular oralities as on a continuum (associating both with vulgarity, sedition, dissent, and a lack of culture in the sense of refinement, learning, or taste) later eighteenth-century authors increasingly posited a distinct "oral tradition" at once antithetical to and threatened by print commerce. Select oral forms, such as certain types of ballads, would be reconceptualized as purer, more authentic forms under threat of contamination by the vulgar products of the press. Ironically, later eighteenth-century sympathetic reassessments of oral traditions and practices in fact have much in common with earlier phobic depictions: both are part of a historic coming-to-terms with the power and spread of print.

Followed by a panel of respondents with Patricia Fumerton, William Warner, Jessica C. Murphy, and Maggie Sloan.

This event is sponsored by the Early Modern Center, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Departments of English, History, Music, and Women's Studies.

A selection of publications by Professors McBride and McDowell are available in the EMC to read on site.

Peter Stallybrass (Penn), "Technologies of Memory and Erasure in Hamlet"

After seeing the Ghost, Hamlet says:

Remember thee?
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmixed with baser matter. (1. 5. 95-105)

The questions I will be asking are: what kinds of writing can one "wipe away"? On what kinds of surface are they written and with what kinds of instrument? How do the material conditions of writing and erasure shape both our images and practices of remembering and forgetting from Plato to Freud and Derrida?

Jayne Lewis (UC-Irvine), "'Pictures Laid in Fading Colours'": Locke, Radcliffe, and the Shifting Spectra of Memory

The paper looks at the relationship between eighteenth-century constructs of the literary and Lockean memory, both of which are built around a culturally useful model of spectrality that is ultimately challenged via Radcliffe in late c-18 gothic fiction. The first part of the paper is a reading of Locke's proto-gothic description of memory (and, more accurately, of forgetting) in the Essay. I try to link that description to contemporary apparition narrative, whose unique symbolic and epistemological designs I believe Locke used to develop a fundamentally literary model of mind in its retentive mode . The second part of the paper briefly casts the history of the early novel as a perpetuation of that model, with gothic writing intervening in the latter part of the 18th century to exaggerate the complicity between the two. I've focused here on Radcliffe's enactment of a purely literary memory in her fictions, tracking the disproportionately large part played by conspicuously inaccurate memory and even amnesia. In linking literate experience with forgetting as opposed to recollection, Radcliffe undermines the Lockean model even though that model underpins her narrative and descriptive techniques. The third and final part of the paper identifies an emergent and alternative model of memory in Radcliffe's work, one drawn from contemporary watercolor aesthetics. This mode of memory begins, rather than ends, in obscurity, and is identified with transformation and desire as opposed to inscription and the transmission of a collectively available, culturally unifying past. I do not however use the word "sublime."

1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks – Patricia Fumerton

1:15-1:45 Brothers and Others
Julia Djeke, “A ‘Little Body with a Mighty Heart’: English Nationalism and the Role of the Boy in Henry V”
Emily Stegman, “The Mindset of a Moor”

1:45-2:15 Making a Home in a New World
Laura Aydelotte, “Satan and the Yahoos: New World Encounters in Paradise Lost and Gulliver's Travels”
Lauren Gustafson, “Milton and Rochester: Opposing Reasons”

2:30-3:15 The World in the Domestic Sphere
Thomas Flowers, “Mutable Identity in Cymbeline”
Corrin Osborne, “Public and Private Parts: A Unique Overlap of Public and Private Affairs in Henry IV, Part I”
Kelly Stambler, “Renaming the Soil: King Harry’s Linguistic Colonization of Catherine in Shakespeare’s Henry V”

3:15-4:00 Home and World: From a Lowly Perspective
Lisa La (as Alice, in Arden of Faversham).
Jessica Rondou (as Susan, in Arden of Faversham)
Margaret Drew (as Jack’s First Wife, in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury)
Tara Owens (as Barabas, in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta)
Lisa Englebrektson (as Abigail, in The Jew of Malta)
Melissa Maclaurin (as Portia, in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice)
Jill Staats (as Miranda, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
Diana Phan (as Caliban, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

4:00-5:00 Reception

Colonialism/Imperialism
Cosmopolitanism/Worldliness
Domesticity
Public vs. Private Spheres
Nationalism
The Other

Tuesday, February 17, at 4 p.m. in the English department seminar room, South Hall.

Professor Perez Fernandez is the author of an important article on the Earl of Surrey and Italian humanism in the court of Henry VIII forthcoming in Renaissance Studies. His work in progress includes a study of the dissemination of epic in the Early Modern period.

Paul Stevens (U of Toronto), "England in Moghul India: Historicizing Cultural Difference and its Discontents"

Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke U), "Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the English Novel."

Rountable Discussion after the talks headed by Adriana Craciun (U of Nottingham)

Schedule of Events:

1:00 Introduction, Patricia Fumerton, Director of Early Modern Center

1:15 Presentations by students of Richard Helgerson’s English 101s: “Norton Women”Magali Bourget Sofia CervantesAlexia FerracutiKristen GoldenLauren HarmonDrew Helms Hilary JohnsonKatie LandmanKaren LunaAlyson SmithVicky Springer

1:45 Presentations by students of Patricia Fumerton’s English 197: “Early Modern Women Writers, 1500-1800” Stephanie GrewalKristen McDevitt Jenna Reed

2:15 Presentations by students of Bob Erickson’s English 197: “The Poetry and Poetics of Ecstasy”Jonathan CornforthLauren HarmonEric Valansi Ashleigh WebbRyan Young

2:45 Break

3:00 Presentations by students of Lee Bliss’s English 157: “ Renaissance Drama: Gender, Genre, and the Representations of Women”Thomas FlowersMichelle Goldberk Jenna Reed

3:30 Presentations by students of Patricia Fumerton’s English 105AS: “Early Shakespeare’s Women”Ryan BatesChristina FrederickJames Howard Brooke ReedMeghann Williams

4:00 Open Discussion

4:30 Reception (refreshments will be served)

Joseph Roach, Department of English and Art History, Yale University,
"The Global Parasol: Accessorizing the Four Corners of the World"

Panel Discussion: Ann Bermingham, Robert Hamm, Mark Rose, Stephen Orgel, and Joseph Roach

Sheila Hwang, Department of English, UCSB,
"People, Places, and Things: Objects of Subjectivity in Emma"

Gina Shaffer, Department of English, UC Irvine,
"The Invocation and Domestication of Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Othello
and Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness"

Panel Discussion: Stephen Deng, Bob Erickson, Sheila Hwang, Michael
O'Connell, Gina Shaffer, and Anna Viele

Saturday, May 5 / 10 am to 3 pm
McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor HSSB

PROGRAM:

10 am
Welcome and Introduction / Richard Helgerson

10:15 am
"New Worlds" (grad students from Comp Lit 265: Elizabeth Freudenthal, Geoffrey Bateman, Jeannie Provost, Gina Valentino, and Jeen Yu)

10:45 am
Break

11 am
Keynote talk: "New Geographies of the Early Modern Stage," Jean Howard

Noon Catered lunch

1 pm
"The Old in the New: Medieval and Renaissance Drama" (featuring undergraduate and graduate students from Michael O'Connell's current English 197 and 230)

1:30 pm
"New Identities: Incorporation, Inscription, and Life Stories"
(presenting the work of David Marshall and Everett Zimmerman's English 232)

2 pm
Panel Discussion on the Early Modern "New" (Elizabeth Cook, Patricia Fumerton, Robert Erickson, Jean Howard, Mark Rose, and William Warner)