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A 134Th MLA Annual Convention B Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Newsletter Fall 2018 a 134 th MLA Annual Convention b January 3-6, 2019 Sessions on Medieval and/or Renaissance Drama 261: Models of Caregiving 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 (MRDS is not sponsoring any sessions at MLA 2019.) Sheraton Grand - Michigan B 026: Performance Matters Presider: Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin C 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019 Hyatt Regency - Columbus AB Staging the Maternal: Mother Figures in Cervantes and in the Comedia nueva . Emilie L. Bergmann, U of California, Presiders: Susan M. Nakley, St. Joseph’s C, Brooklyn Campus; Berkeley. Nicole R. Rice, St. John’s U, NY. The Picaresque Women Caregivers of Calderón’s Short Theater. Elena Casey, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Historical Records of Fergus as Amputated Paratexts. Jennie Healing Voices and Communities of Care in Alonso de Castillo Friedrich, U of California, Riverside Solórzano’s Los alivios de Casandra . Victor Sierra Matute, U Performative Subjectivity and the Queerness of Anachronism in of Pennsylvania. The Second Shepherds’ Pageant . Catherine S. Cox, U of Raising the Outliers: Parenthood in Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza Pittsburgh. de la costumbre . Emily Tobey, Miami U, Oxford. ‘Putting on the Jew’: Performing Medieval Jewface. Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter C, City U of New York. Sessions Continued on Page 2 The Costumes of Racial Difference: Medieval Drama, Manuscript Art, and the Vernon’s Marian Lyrics. Miriamne Ara Krummel, U of Dayton. 128: Adaptation as Transaction in Early Modern Spanish Theater Contents 5:15 PM–6:30 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019. MLA Convention Sessions: Drama 1-2 Sheraton Grand – Mississippi. MLA Other Sessions and Papers of Interest: 2-3 MLA Special Performance 2 Agents of Empire: The Comedia , Then and Now. Robert Bayliss, Recent Publication 3-7 Forthcoming Conferences; Calls for Papers 9 U of Kansas. MRDS Awards: 2018 Citations 9-10 Siglo de Oro, Siglo de Ahora: Rewriting the Classics for the MRDS Awards: Call for Nominations 11 Twenty-First Century. Eva Santos Garcia, U at Buffalo, State MRDS Officers and Council 12 U of New York. Colophon 12 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Early Modern Adaptations of El Hamete de Toledo . Melissa Figueroa, Ohio U, Athens. 1 340: Shakespeare’s Transnational Poetics: Forms and Genres Black Magic, Necromancy, and Sainthood in Lope de Vega’s among Early Modern Literatures Vida y muerte del Santo Negro llamado San Benedito de 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Palermo (1612): The ‘Magical Negro’ in Early Modern Spain. Hyatt Regency - Grand Suite 5 Jorge Abril-Sanchez, U of New Hampshire, Durham Catalina de Erauso as a Figure of Immigration: From Page to Presider: Michelle M. Dowd, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Stage. Natalia Perez, U of Southern California. Panelists explore Shakespeare’s works in the ecology of the forms, genres, and conventions of vernacular as well as neo- General Session of Interest Latin early modern literatures. Instead of focusing on Shakespeare’s sources, panelists aim to discern how his writing 139: Doing “Relevance”: Medieval and Early Modern participated in—and was relevant to, in sync with, or perhaps at Perspectives odds with—contemporary European or Eurasian trends. 5:15 PM–6:30 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019 Hyatt Regency - Plaza Ballroom B Andrew Keener, Northwestern U Nigel S. Smith, Princeton U How do those of us who work on “old things” respond to the Anne E. B. Coldiron, U of St. Andrews real-world problems of today? What does ethical engagement Su Fang Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U with the now look like for those of us whose work is rooted in Ivan Lupic, Stanford U the not-now? How might we theorize or articulate our particular “relevance” in ways that can help us more 450: Music in Early Modern Iberia effectively communicate our currency to broader audiences? 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 What specific forms might this engagement take in the Sheraton Grand - Michigan B classroom, in our scholarship, or in our work as public intellectuals? Presider: Timothy Foster, West Texas A&M U David Sterling Brown, Binghamton U, State U of New York Musical Ethos and Performance in Spanish Golden Age Lyric. William E. Egginton, Johns Hopkins U, MD Lorena Uribe Bracho, City Colleges of Chicago. Dorothy Kim, Brandeis U ‘El oír es solo oír, y el escuchar atender’: The Sense of Hearing Nicholas Jones, Bucknell U in Calderón’s Musical Theater. Laura Ramiro Moreno, Purdue Sierra Lomuto, U of Pennsylvania U, West Lafayette Bradley Nelson, Concordia U Gaspar de la Cintera, Deprived of Sight: Blind Musicians and the Lucy Pick, U of Chicago Traditional Romancero . Victor Sierra Matute, U of John Slater, U of California, Davis Pennsylvania 477: Training: Negotiating Hierarchical Difference in the Special Event Early Modern English Theater A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Hyatt Regency - Randolph 3 Cultural Excursion: Chicago Shakespeare Theater 12:30 PM–4:30 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019 Presider: Karen L. Raber, U of Mississippi Enjoy a matinée production of A Midsummer Night’s Loving Wrong: Training and The Tempest ’s Critique of Mastery. Dream, directed by Joe Dowling, former artistic director Elizabeth Mathie, Tsinghua U. of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the Abbey ‘Zanthia, Undo Me’: Race, Service, and Training in The White Theater in Ireland. A post-show discussion moderated by Devil and Sophonisba . Elizabeth Rivlin, Clemson U. Marilyn Halperin, CST’s director of education and Ecologies of Skill: Aping and Acting in the Renaissance. Holly communications, will be followed by a private backstage E. Dugan, George Washington U. tour of the theater. Preregistration is required. 701: Performing Sovereignty and Migration 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019 Sheraton Grand - Erie Presider: Amy R. Williamsen, U of North Carolina, Greensboro. ‘Yo soy la infelice Dido’: Identity and Immigration in Lasso de la Vega’s Tragedia de la honra de Dido restaurada . David Reher, U of Chicago. Papers of Interest (Next Page) 2 Papers of Interest a Recent Publications b 151: Scholarly Making: Pedagogy, Printing, Publics Books, General 7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019 Hyatt Regency - Atlanta Jörn Bockmann and Regina Toepfer, eds. Ambivalenzen des geistlichen Spiels . Re-Visionen von Texten und Methoden. Medieval Drama on the Modern Stage: Reflections on Five Historische Semantik 29. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Years of Community Making. Ann Hubert, St. Lawrence U. Ruprecht, 2018. 187: Scripted Ontologies: Performance, Philosophy, and Estella Ciobanu. Representations of the Body in Middle English Theatrical Writing Biblical Drama . The New Middle Ages. New York: Springer, 8:30 AM–9:45 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan 2018. Hyatt Regency - Roosevelt 1 Susannah Crowder. Performing Women: Gender, Self, and Being Finite in Shakespeare. Emily Vasiliauskas, Williams C. Representation in Late Medieval Metz. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 279: Theater as Communication 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 Chanita Goodblatt. Jewish and Christian Voices in English Hyatt Regency - Columbus H Reformation Biblical Drama Enacting Family and Monarchy. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Performing Spectatorship in Early Modern Drama. Shiladitya Francis Group, 2018. Sen, Montclair State U. Lukas Lammers. Shakespearean Temporalities: History on the 518: Before Shakespeare Early Modern Stage . New York, London: Routledge, 2018. 1:45 PM–3:00 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Hyatt Regency - Michigan 3 Andreea Marculescu. Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in French Medieval Drama . New York: Peter Euph Culture Gone Global: Euphues, Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Lang Publishing, Inc. 2018 and Theater. Andy Kesson, U of Roehampton Gabriella Mazzon. Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama 708: Reading the Forms of the Early Modern Page and Art: A Communicative Strategy . Leiden: Boston: Brill 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019 Rodopi 2018 Hyatt Regency - Roosevelt 1 Peter Meredith . The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Play/Book: Book Format and Dramatic Form. Claire M. L. Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Bourne, Penn State U, University Park. Early English Drama Studies . Abingdon, Oxon: New York, ‘Then Made to Speak Thus’: Block-Quoting Early Modern NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Theater. Adhaar Noor Desai, Bard C 2018 710: Producing Global Performance Michael Lee Norton. Liturgical Drama and the Reimagining of 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019 Medieval Theater . Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Hyatt Regency - Randolph 3 Publications, 2017. Translation, Diaspora, and Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe. Emma Maggie Solberg. Virgin Whore . Ithaca, NY: Cornell Taarini Mookherjee, Columbia U University Press, 2018. Charlotte Steenbrugge. Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval a 134 th MLA Annual Convention b England Performance, Authority, Devotion . Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan University 2017 Alfred Thomas. Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights . New York: Springer, Palgrave Macmillan 2018. Meg Twycross. The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, January 3-6, 2019 Images, and Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies . Sarah Carpenter and Pamela M. King, editors. Abingdon, Oxon: New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. 3 Books, Editions Part I: Settings, Sources, Influences James Bednarz. Encountering the Elizabethan Stage. Christina M. Fitzgerald, ed. The York Corpus Christi Play: Robert Miola. Encountering the Past I: Shakespeare’s Selected Pageants: A Broadview Anthology of British Reception of Classical Comedy. Literature Edition . Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, Helen Cooper. Encountering the Past II: Shakespearean 2018. Comedy, Chaucer, and Medievalism. Kirk Melnikoff. Encountering the Present I: Shakespeare’s Early Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Books, Anthologies Satire. Andy Kesson. Encountering the Present II: Shakespearean Lesley A Coote and Alexander L. Kaufman, eds.
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