he Shakespeare Association of America celebrates an anniversary on Easter weekend of T 2007. The Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting will be held in sunny San Diego at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina. The SAA program opens at noon on Thursday, 5 April and closes Saturday night, 7 April. Seminars and workshops are now open for registration.
SCHEDULED PAPER SESSIONS
■ Historical Formalism in Shakespeare Studies, the 2007 Plenary Session with Lorna Hutson (University of St. Andrews), Heather James (University of Southern California), and session organizer Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
■ Classical Associations, with Rebecca Helfer (University of California, Irvine), session organizer Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), and Henry S. Turner SHAKESPEARE (University of Wisconsin).
■ Early Modern How-To Books, with Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania), Susie Phillips (Northwestern University), and session organizer Wendy Wall (Northwestern ASSOCIATION University). ■ Embodiment, Sexuality, and Cognition in the Renaissance, with Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame), Elizabeth D. Harvey (University of Toronto), Gail Kern Paster OF AMERICA (Folger Shakespeare Library), and chair Valerie Traub (University of Michigan). ■ New Ways of Teaching Old Texts, with Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology), Margaret Maurer (Colgate University), Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California), and chair and ses- sion organizer Jeremy Ehrlich (Folger Shakespeare Library).
JUNE 2006 ■ Shakespeare and the Trace of Theology, with session organizer Brian Cummings (University of Sussex), Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University), and James Kearney (University of California, Santa Barbara).
■ Shakespeare, Law, and Genre, with session organizer Karen Cunningham (University of BULLETIN California, Los Angeles), Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta), and Luke Wilson (Ohio State University).
■ Shakespeare’s Audiences Now, with Barbara Hodgdon (University of Michigan), Ellen MacKay (Indiana University), Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College), W. B. Worthen (University IN THIS ISSUE of Michigan), and chair and session organizer Charles Joseph Del Dotto (Duke University). Seminars and Workshops ■ Trans-Shakespeare: Temporality and Identity, with chair and session organizer Presented in San Diego 3 Jonathan Goldberg (Johns Hopkins University), Marcie Frank (Concordia University), Madhavi Menon (American University), and Karen Newman (New York University). Student Travel Awards 7 ■ A Roundtable on Academic Publishing, with participants to be announced. Planning for San Diego 8 ■ The Open Submissions Session, with speakers to be announced following the Fall 2006 Attractions and Special Competition. Events 8 Seminar and Workshop Registration Form 9 Membership Dues Form 10 Meeting Protocols 11 Call for Papers 12
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hiladelphia provided a warm welcome for Shakespeare Association members this year; the weather was perfect spring and the friendly staff of The Loews Philadelphia Hotel lived up to the city’s rep- OFFICERS Putation for congeniality. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting saw nearly 650 members gather in the art- deco halls of Philadelphia’s historic PSFS Building. This National Landmark, designed by George Howe OF THE and William Lescaze in 1932, cleverly displays many of the building’s original fixtures, such as the old SAA bank vault doors that line a wall in Millennium Hall and the original teller station that serves as the Loews reception desk. These items and the hotel’s magnificent views of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Logan Circle, and the Center City skyline were the backdrop to this year’s Association exchanges. PRESIDENT Conversations in Reading Terminal Market had never been quite so Shakespearean as they were Easter Georgianna Ziegler weekend. Folger Shakespeare Library The Annual Meeting began Thursday afternoon with two well-attended paper sessions, followed by meetings of eleven research seminars. Participants continued their discussions through the city on open air trolleys and tour buses en route to the Opening Reception at World Cafe Live, site of numer- VICE-PRESIDENT ous NPR broadcasts of international music. The walls were decked with pop art depictions of music Peter Holland legends and works by local artists. The day’s events concluded with a reading of Christopher Marlowe’s University of Notre Dame Doctor Faustus hosted by The Shakespeare Bulletin. Friday morning’s activities featured the 2006 Plenary Session on “Educating Shakespeare: Early Modern Pedagogy and its Discontents,” followed by two concurrent paper panels. At the Annual TRUSTEES Luncheon, President William C. Carroll educated us all on early American stagings of Shakespeare and William C. Carroll the key role Philadelphia played in theatre history (in spite of the first Continental Congress’s reso- Boston University lution against such exhibitions). The city was the site of numerous productions of Shakespeare, Lars Engle including the first American production of Hamlet in 1759 presented by the touring company of David University of Tulsa Douglass. It was oddly fitting that another touring Hamlet (of sorts) would be presented Saturday at the Annual Meeting by David Dalton’s Quinnopolis Theatre Company. Friday afternoon’s ses- Diana E. Henderson sions concluded in time for SAA members to enjoy live jazz in the Loews SoleFood bar and restau- Massachusetts Institute of rant. In the evening, a film screening of Shakespeare Behind Bars was hosted by Amy Scott-Douglass. Technology The inspiring 90-minute documentary was a stirring account of prisoners’ engagement with The Tempest. The post-screening discussion with film director Hank Rogerson and Curt L. Tofteland, director of Kentucky’s Mary Ellen Lamb Shakespeare Behind Bars Prison Program, lasted nearly as long as the film. SAA members expressed their Southern Illinois University admiration for both visitors’ work and inquired about the future of the prison program and its participants. On the final day of the conference were four paper sessions, including the 2006 Open Paper Session Marianne Novy featuring papers by Valerie Forman and Patricia Cahill. (A call for papers for the 2007 meeting appears on University of Pittsburgh page 12 of this bulletin.) Saturday also saw the meeting of ten seminars and one workshop, along with two Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. special programs. These included a workshop for area high school teachers and a workshop on performance Pennsylvania State University led by local theater director Aaron Posner. Assisted by two professional actors, Posner introduced members to his directorial strategies of “Active Amazement” and “Actually, Actually” in approaching Paul Yachnin Shakespeare’s texts. The skills of SAA members were featured from beginning to end of this year’s meeting: McGill University Tom Berger and The Hey Nonny Nonnies provided stellar tunes for the SAA and Malone Society Dance.
Outgoing Trustees: Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis), Kim F. Hall (Fordham EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR University), and Roslyn L. Knutson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock). Lena Cowen Orlin University of Maryland, Program Committee for 2006: Chair Paul Yachnin (McGill University), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan Baltimore County University), Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto), and Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai’i).
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Local Arrangements Directors: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania) and Margreta de Michele Osherow Grazia (University of Pennsylvania). University of Maryland, Baltimore County Sponsors of the 2006 Meeting: Allegheny College, Arcadia University, Bryn Mawr College, Chatham College, City College of New York Theatre Department, Columbia University, University of Delaware, PROGRAM COORDINATOR Duquesne University, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, New York University, University of Lee Tydings Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Department of English, Pennsylvania State University’s University of Maryland, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pittsburgh Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Baltimore County Literature Program in the English Department of the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University Department of English, Princeton University Council of the Humanities, Rutgers University, Temple University, Villanova University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of English.
2 Conference Administration: Program Coordinator Lee Tydings, with Jackie Hopkins and Julie Morris. 2007 SEMINARS AND ORKSHOPS
Registrants in Shakespeare Association programsW are expected to complete significant work in advance of the meeting: research papers, common readings, and bibliographic compilation, in the case of seminars; and pedagogic, scholarly, or theatrical exercises or exchanges, in the case of workshops. Seminars and workshops are appropriate for college and university faculty, inde- pendent scholars, and graduate students in the later stages of their doctoral work.
RESEARCH SEMINARS 1. Beyond the Metropolis: 3. Shakespeare and Early Modern Regional and Continental Textual Culture Contexts for English Theater Seminar Leaders: Patrick Cheney Seminar Leaders: Karen Britland (Pennsylvania State University) and (Keele University) and Clare McManus Lukas Erne (University of Geneva) (Roehampton University) This seminar investigates the complex position This seminar will reinterpret English theater Shakespeare occupies within early modern by reading England itself as open to continen- textual culture, as evidenced by both the tal and regional influences. Papers are invited intertextual awareness of his poems and plays on topics including local or marginal figures and their early dissemination in print and man- such as mummers or traveling players; women uscript. Papers are invited on all aspects of players; civic and other patrons; foreign play- “Shakespeare and early modern textual cul- ers and poets; forms such as school or church ture,” including Shakespearean authorship plays, ceremony, and pageantry; the role of (but not “the authorship question”), the early cultural geography in the legitimation of the- life of his texts on the page, Shakespearean ater-going. The aim is a more nuanced under- paratext, the role of lyric poetry in his dra- standing of the transmission of ideas, matic texts, and specific textual models relat- dialects, playtexts, stories, and theatrical ing the literary and the theatrical. forms in London and throughout England. 4. Re-Sounding Shakespeare 2. Shakespeare and Southern Italy Seminar Leaders: Leslie Dunn (Vassar College) Seminar Leaders: Catherine Canino and Wes Folkerth (McGill University) (University of South Carolina Upstate) and Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State This seminar will consider how the “acoustic University) world” of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has been re-imagined for the voices, instru- The kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were pow- ments, spaces, and media of subsequent eras, erful cultural centers in the Renaissance, yet as well as through critical studies of music and they have been overshadowed in scholarship sound on the early modern stage. Papers might by northern Italian states such as Venice and address experiments with period pronuncia- Florence. This seminar invites papers dealing tion or music; the acoustic effects of the New with any aspect of the representation of Globe; Shakespearean film soundtracks; radio southern Italy in the literature of early mod- Shakespeare; recordings of famous actors; ern England. A Catholic stronghold, a mixing transnational re-soundings; pseudo-Shake- place of Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Muslim spearean language in popular culture; the traditions, how did southern Italy affect Eng- incorporation of voice, music, and sound in lish notions of travel, religion, gender, and teaching early modern literature. ethnicity? How does it affect our reading of Shakespeare?
3 5. The Presence of Shakespeare 8. Talking About Sex 11. Shakespeare Between Religion and War and Philosophy Seminar Leader: Stephen Guy-Bray Seminar Leader: Evelyn Gajowski (University of British Columbia) Seminar Leaders: Ken Jackson (Wayne (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) State University) and James A. Knapp Research on sex in Renaissance literature has (Eastern Michigan University) Military conflict is a subject Shakespeare constantly come up against the question of terminology and methodology: how do we dramatized time and again, particularly in the The recent “turn to ethics” in continental phi- describe the sorts of sexuality we see in these histories and the tragedies. How do his repre- losophy and literary studies has contributed to texts? What counts as sex? What is the role of sentations of war strike us—embedded, as we a reassessment of the category of religion (or biography? How do we distinguish between are, in the twenty-first century? How do con- the sacred). This seminar will explore friendship and sexuality (if at all)? For this temporary lived experience and representa- Shakespeare’s negotiation of the often fraught seminar, two kinds of papers are especially tions of war shape the meanings we construct middle space between institutional religion welcome: those that look at sexuality in in Shakespeare? How does he gender military and western philosophy. How do Shakespeare’s Renaissance texts and those that look at crit- experience? How do we? All theoretical per- works refuse the dichotomy? How does the spectives are welcome, especially those inter- ical assessments of Renaissance sexuality. Or, indeed, papers that do both. religious exceed philosophical explanation, or rogating how our moment (in)forms Shake- philosophy reject the sacred as a valid object speare, as well as how his moment (in)forms of inquiry? Papers are welcome on these and us. 9. The Varied Politics of Early other ways of advancing the current conver- Modern Historiography sation concerning religion and critical thought. 6. Shakespeare and the Question of Time Seminar Leader: Peter Herman 12. Biography and the (San Diego State University) Early Modern Stage Seminar Leader: Lowell Gallagher (University of California, Los Angeles) While earlier treatments of early modern his- torical writing depicted these texts as essen- Seminar Leader: David Kathman (Chicago, Illinois) This seminar will consider the compatibility tially conservative and elitist, recent scholar- and productive friction that can be found in ship has opened up this model considerably. This seminar intends to collect work on early The early modern theater required many peo- the diverse ways of marking or apprehending ple to operate smoothly: actors, playwrights, time in Shakespeare’s plays. Possible frames of modern historical writing that explicitly engages the chronicle tradition as multivocal, musicians, bookkeepers, wardrobe keepers, reference include: theological, political, and ideologically capacious, and sympathetic to scribes, gatherers, playhouse owners, playgo- materialist considerations of sacred vs. ordi- “instances of active social protest.” Papers are ers, patrons, and various others. Who were nary time, depictions of messianic temporal- welcome on specific historical works (e.g., these people? Where did they come from, how ity, arrested time, time as an economic system, Hall and Holinshed), as well as on how drama- did they live, and how did they interact with agrarian time, the relation between time, tists, including but not exclusively Shake- each other? This seminar will explore biogra- affect, and gender. The seminar also welcomes speare, engaged and adapted the chronicle phical questions relating to the early modern methodological considerations of time in tradition to their own purposes. stage. Papers may range from examinations of Shakespeare studies—e.g., presentist, neo-for- primary documents, to biographical treat- malist, phenomenological, philosophical ments of particular people or playing compa- approaches. Is there a Shakespearean history 10. Shakespeare, Appropriation, nies, to musings on the place of biography in of time? and the Ethical theater history. Seminar Leaders: Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht 7. (Beaumont &) Fletcher & 13. Shakespeare’s Antique Colleagues & Collaborators University) and Alexander C.Y. Huang (Pennsylvania State University) Disposition: The Classical Tradition Seminar Leader: Suzanne Gossett in Renaissance England In what ways have the fields of Shakespearean (Loyola University Chicago) interpretation, appropriation, translation, Seminar Leader: Sean Keilen performance (film, theater, online, TV, in This seminar invites new approaches to the (University of Pennsylvania) English and worldwide, then and now) been relations of Fletcher, his collaborators (includ- informed by ethical questions? Are there pat- ing Shakespeare), and his colleagues broadly The seminar will address the importance of terns in the invocation of ethical concerns? conceived. Topics might include the place of the Classical Tradition to the development of What resources are available in critical theory Beaumont and Fletcher in the repertories of England’s vernacular literature and Shake- that we might bring to bear on ethics and spearean writing. Papers are welcome on theaters and companies; friendship and com- questions of authority, authenticity, and aes- Shakespeare and the full range of classical petition in the theaters; generational change thetics? Participants may address these theo- genres, including prose genres; Shakespeare’s in the drama and on the stage; redefinitions retical and other relevant questions, or prob- Latinity, especially in regards to the linguistic of Fletcherian tragicomedy and tragedy; rela- lematize the ethical presumptions of all modes and rhetorical curriculum of the humanist tions between contemporary dramatic and of confrontations, including literary criticism grammar school; notions of poetic authority, prose forms; the collaborators and their polit- as an act of appropriation. ical contemporaries; delayed and posthumous imitation, influence, and tradition; and the colleagueship (e.g., Walkley’s quartos, the tension between the prestige of pagan litera- 1647 and 1679 folios, Restoration revivals). Seminar and workshop registrations may ture and the imperatives of a Reformation cul- now be submitted online at ture that was hostile to Rome and inclined
Seminar Leader: Arthur F. Kinney What is the relationship between book history Seminar Leaders: Lynne Magnusson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and the more traditional literary-critical (University of Toronto) and Alan Stewart “reading”? How can we negotiate the shifts in (Columbia University) Shakespeare introduces properties which are scale—common in book history—between mass seen but not necessarily described—the mirror and particular, typical and idiosyncratic, quan- As the most common textual transaction in Richard II; the map in Lear—as well as those titative and qualitative, historical and literary? between individuals, the early modern letter unseen—the crown in Julius Caesar; Leah’s ring How do these shifts enable or interfere with played a significant role in both everyday life in Merchant—or those that may or may not be various forms of literary criticism, history, and and the drama. This seminar welcomes papers seen—the asp in Antony and Cleopatra—and theory? Papers are welcome across a range of on letters—their rhetoric, contexts, material yet all carry significant weight. They influence topics and theoretical questions, including practices, circulation, and literary affilia- character and scene interpretation, advance ones related to drama, poetry, women’s writ- tions—and on letters in plays by Shakespeare themes and ideas, and direct audience ing, religious writing, cheap print, manuscript, and others. How do English letters relate to response. Papers are invited that address and the structure of the book trade. classical and humanistic models? What hap- these issues or that theorize the semiotics and pens when a letter appears on stage? When a cognition of properties. 19. Performance Criticism: stage letter is printed? What roles are played The State of the Art by scribes and letter-bearers? Did letters open 16. Shakespeare and the Supernatural opportunities for women? Seminar Leader: Jeremy Lopez Seminar Leader: Jesse M. Lander (University of Toronto) 22. Shakespeare and Chaucer (University of Notre Dame) Performance criticism has become so much a Seminar Leader: Dieter Mehl This seminar will take up and extend recent part of the discourse in Shakespeare studies (University of Bonn) work on religion in early modern England by that we now take it for granted. Is this a good turning to the category of the supernatural. thing? What are we learning from modern per- Chaucer was, for Shakespeare, perhaps the As classical theories of secularization and disen- formances and criticism of them, and where is most important and influential British author, chantment have fallen into disrepute, argu- that learning valuable? This seminar invites but, mainly due to our strict dividing line ments for the postsecular and re-enchantment papers dealing with topics such as: the rela- between “Medieval” and “Renaissance” litera- have emerged. These developments make a tionship between theater history and perform- ture, and despite important work by Talbot return to the early modern supernatural—in all ance criticism, the enterprise of theater Donaldson and Ann Thompson, many Shake- its vexed complexity—especially timely. Con- reviewing, the pedagogical utility of the mod- speareans are not as familiar with Chaucer tributors might address supernatural entities ern performance tradition, the effect of the and his time as would seem desirable. This and operations in the plays or take up the the- “original practices” movement on perfor- seminar invites fresh investigations of rele- oretical questions raised by a focus on the cat- mance criticism and theory. vant texts and questions about the direct and egory of the supernatural. indirect impact of Chaucer’s writings on Shakespeare, in terms of story material, liter- ary traditions, techniques of presentation, and ideas of authorship.
5 23. Influence Studies after 26. Shakespeare and the 28. Representing Space Post-Structuralist Theory Satiric Voice on the Stage
Seminar Leader: Shannon Miller Seminar Leaders: Tom Bishop Seminar Leader: Catherine Richardson (Temple University) (University of Auckland) and Michael Neill (Shakespeare Institute, University of (University of Auckland) Birmingham) Traditionally, literary criticism considered lit- erary influences as an important approach for Unlike some of his prominent contemporaries, Ways of understanding the textual, physical, interpreting Renaissance texts. Yet central Shakespeare is not a dramatist who is often and imaginative manifestations of a sense of tenets within post-structuralist theory, partic- associated with the satiric tradition.Yet two of space on the stage have been changing in rela- ularly those critiquing the notion of authorial his most remarkable plays, Troilus and Cres- tion to spatial theories that encourage interest control, agency, and the notion of an sida and Timon of Athens, have strong affini- in, for instance, its symbolic construction, its “author,” have challenged the theoretical and ties with Jacobean satire, and there are use and its boundedness. This seminar methodological premises upon which studies individual scenes and characters throughout explores modern and early modern ways of of influence rested. What does it mean to his oeuvre which exploit satiric conventions. staging space, encouraging theoretical and undertake a study of influence after post- This seminar invites papers from scholars inter- more practical and descriptive contributions. structuralist theory? This seminar will consider ested in exploring this aspect of his work and Issues to be considered might include the this question in papers focused on method- its relationship with the wider satiric tradition. influence of genre; the impact of theater ological issues or papers employing influence buildings; the spatial imagination of audi- as a central component in interpreting texts. ences; the typicality or otherwise of Shake- speare’s practice. 24. Catholic Aesthetics and Early Modern Drama 29. Foreign Objects
Seminar Leader: Susannah Brietz Monta Seminar Leaders: Benedict S. Robinson (Louisiana State University) (SUNY, Stonybrook) and Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University) This seminar will focus on representations of Catholicism and on what has been called the Early modern England witnessed an influx of “aesthetics” of Catholic dramatic culture as imported goods such as tobacco, tulips, cur- they are present—or challenged—on the early rants, sugar, feathers, and silk, all of which modern stage. Where might we locate conti- helped transform English material culture and nuities and ruptures between late medieval English tastes. This seminar will consider im- religious drama and early modern drama? Does ported objects and the cultures of consump- the theater resist or enable the Reformation tion that evolved around them. Papers might project of relegating Catholicism to England’s explore the staging of foreign objects in past? How might we characterize the evolving, drama or the elaboration of various dis- still intensely contested relationship between courses—literary, economic, technical, reli- “Protestant” and “Catholic” dramatic practices— gious, racial—around these strange new things in terms of rivalry, reform, amalgamation? and the systems of trade and consumption that brought them into England. 25. Shakespeare and the Invention of a Mass Audience 30. Representing the Renaissance in Modern Popular Culture Seminar Leader: Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews) Seminar Leader: Gregory M. Colón Semenza
Photo courtesy of San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau courtesy of San Diego Convention and Visitors Photo (University of Connecticut) This seminar will focus on the reception histo- ry of Shakespeare’s text and, in particular, on 27. Shakespearean Attachments A seminar exploring how the concept of the the emergence of a mass audience in the nine- Renaissance is adapted, appropriated, or teenth and twentieth centuries (though papers Seminar Leaders: Kristen Poole transformed by modern popular culture. How addressing earlier versions of popular (University of Delaware) and Douglas Trevor is London depicted, for instance, in films like Shakespeare would also be welcomed). (University of Iowa) Shakespeare in Love or Elizabeth? How are General issues pertinent to the session will concepts like “Reformation” or “humanism” include: Shakespeare and popular publishing; Recent literary scholarship on subjectivity has communicated visually or musically? In what Shakespeare and class; Shakespeare and popu- tended to analyze a “self” that is conceived as ways have adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays lar culture (broadly defined); Shakespeare in a more or less autonomous unit. In contrast to informed or infected ideas about what the contemporary media (particularly film). The this approach, this seminar invites papers period was like, and how have they impacted seminar will also consider the gradual erosion addressing the notion of “attachment” in early our teaching? Participants should consider of Shakespeare’s mass audience as the twenti- modern culture—that is, the ways in which how the “Renaissance” is represented in film, eth century progressed. early modern individuals perceived themselves television, music, advertising, popular litera- as inhabiting a world of connections and con- ture, and the visual arts. nectivity. We welcome essays that consider such modes of connectivity in a variety of dis- courses that interpenetrate the literary and dramaturgical, including religious, philosophi- cal, cosmological, and medical.
6 2007 31. Locating Performance WORKSHOPS Graduate Student Seminar Leader: Robert Shaughnessy 34. ShakespeareWiki: (University of Kent) A New Internet Tool for Teaching Travel Awards This seminar will investigate relationships Workshop Leader: Robin Farabaugh Graduate student members of the SAA are between Shakespearean performances and (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) encouraged to apply for $300 travel subven- the environments in which they take place. It tions. Twenty-five awards will be made to will invite participants to consider how Shake- For new media-raised students, early modern support graduate student participation in speare is made in contingent and specific local English and its contexts can seem unfath- the 2007 Annual Meeting in San Diego. Pref- circumstances, in the context of, for example, omable. Online tools, used to bridge the gap, erence will be given to dissertation-level particular architectures, communities, built or are often overly structured, interfering with students whose research will be most natural environments, institutions and market- the connections the reader and text develop. enhanced by seminar participation. Stu- places. It will explore the ways in which per- In this workshop, participants will explore a dents should submit the following materials formance configures the shifting relations wiki, a collaborative discussion webpage that to the SAA office by 15 November 2006: between the local, the national, the intercul- offers versatility for posting various visual tural and the global; and how the meanings of and aural materials as well as the capacity 1. A letter, not to exceed two pages, stat- performed Shakespeare are shaped by its vari- for short intensive writing assignments. ing the seminar in which the student is ous locations. Self-made hyperlinks enable users to cre- enrolled, and how this seminar relates to the student’s dissertation in progress. ate their own connections and to shape 32. Twelfth Night their own relationship to Shakespeare’s work. 2. A letter from the Director of Graduate Studies or Chair of the student’s department Seminar Leaders: Peter J. Smith (Nott- 35. Editorial Theory and Practice providing the following information: date of ingham Trent University) and Greg Walker in the Shakespeare Classroom approval of the student’s dissertation topic; (University of Leicester) expected date of dissertation completion; Workshop Leader: M. L. Stapleton (Indiana date when all other degree requirements Papers may address any aspect of Twelfth University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne) were completed; statement of departmen- Night. They could be about its text or perfor- tal policy on granting travel support to grad- mance history (stage or film), its themes and This workshop will explore the relationship uate students and amount of funding concerns, its theatrical relevance or canoni- between textual editing and pedagogy. applicant will receive (if any) toward the cal significance. Such topics might include sad Experienced editors are welcome, as are 2007 Annual Meeting. and merry madness; identity; gender and sex- non-editors concerned to include editing uality; domestic spaces; social status; the sea Materials should be submitted together to: issues in classroom discussion. Should tex- and location; the variety of the play’s lan- tual matters play as large a role in the guages; music and singing; the title and sub- The Shakespeare Association of America Shakespeare class as poststructuralist criti- title. The seminar will offer a forum in which Graduate Student Travel Awards cism and performance theory? On what to explore one of Shakespeare’s most lyrical University of Maryland, Baltimore County basis should instructors choose from the and entertaining comedies. 1000 Hilltop Circle many editions available for course selec- Baltimore, Maryland 21250 tion? How does one approach annotations 33. Tudor and Jacobean Women’s that seem arcane to students? Participants Awards will be announced by 1 March 2007. Religious Writing are encouraged to write short essays, share Students may not receive the award more syllabi and handouts, and describe relevant than twice and are expected to attend the Seminar Leader: Micheline White classroom exercises. full conference. Only members in good (Carleton University) standing are encouraged to apply. For more information, contact the SAA offices at Papers on any aspect of Tudor and Jacobean 410.455.6788 or
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Herbert B. Berry, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Saskatchewan, OW TO GET ON THE PROGRAM died suddenly in his home on March 11. H Berry received his B.A. from Furman Uni- versity and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the AT THE University of Nebraska. From 1967 to 1989 For SAA 2007 Berry taught at Saskatchewan, where he 1. Submit a Paper in the Open Competition SAA served as Head of English and Acting Head Each year an open competition is held for at 2. Propose a Paper Panel of Drama; prior to that he was a faculty least two paper presentations. Papers submis- A session proposal may come from either a member at the Universities of Ontario and sions for the 2007 meeting must be received in potential speaker or session chair and should Western Ontario. He is the author of The the SAA offices by 1 October 2006. Papers include a roster of speakers; their brief biog- Boar’s Head Playhouse (1986), Shake- must be short (twelve pages) for a reading raphies; and titles and descriptions for all speare’s Playhouses (1985), The Noble Sci- time of no more than twenty minutes. Five papers. Most panels have three twenty-minute ence (1991), and other texts. His numerous copies should be submitted with identifica- papers, but larger roundtable panels are also articles have appeared in Shakespeare tion of the author provided only in a cover welcome. Paper panels may include graduate Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Modern letter (not on the paper). Blind readings are students. The “two-year” rule (see above Philology, Medieval and Renaissance undertaken by a committee headed by a under seminars and workshops) applies. Drama in England, and English Literary member of the Board of Trustees. Authors of Review. He is survived by his wife Eliza- papers selected by this committee will be 3. Accept an Invitation from the SAA beth, their four children, and twelve asked to withdraw from other commitments on grandchildren. the program, including seminars and workshops. Trustees to Take a Leading Role The Trustees work to achieve a program with Peggy Endel, Associate Professor of English a range of topics and approaches, as well as a 2. Register for a Seminar or Workshop at Florida International University, died of balance of gender, age, and geography among Every member of the Association is entitled to cancer on December 17. She received her paper presenters and seminar and workshop participate in a seminar or workshop. Seminars B.A. magna cum laude from Smith College, leaders. For this reason they sometimes sup- and workshops are filled by open enrollment, on and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell Univer- plement proposals received by issuing invita- a first-received, first-registered basis. No mem- sity. Endel began her career at FIU in 1982 tions to fill gaps in the program. ber can hold more than one position on the pro- teaching Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other gram; paper presenters, for example, will not English Renaissance dramatists and poets. be given places in seminars or workshops. The Contact Information She won FIU’s TIP award for teaching in registration deadline for 2007 seminars and for the 2008 Program Planning Committee 1994. Endel’s writing and research have workshops is 15 September 2006. Only mem- been sponsored by fellowships from the bers in good standing (i.e. those who have paid Proposals may be submitted to any member American Council of Learned Societies, the their 2006-07 membership dues) are eligible to of the 2008 Program Planning Committee for Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the register for 2007 sessions. Enrollments are con- a 28 February 2007 deadline. National Endowment for the Humanities. firmed with a formal letter of invitation in early She has published articles in Shakespeare October. To register, see page 9. Lars Engle, Chair Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, and The E-Mail [email protected] Shakespeare Newsletter. SAA members will Phone 918.631.2807 For SAA 2008 Fax 918.631.3033 recall her outstanding service as co-chair A substantial proportion of each year’s pro- Post Department of English of the local arrangements committee for gram originates in proposals submitted by University of Tulsa the Annual Meeting in Miami in 2001; she individual members of the Association and 600 South College Avenue was responsible for the splendid reception approved by the Trustees. Nominations and Tulsa, OK 74104 at Vizcaya. Endel is survived by her hus- self-nominations for lead roles in paper ses- band Barnett Guttenberg and daughters sions, seminars, and workshops must be Anthony B. Dawson Lisa Orfaly and Anne Lord. received by 28 February 2007. Only mem- E-Mail [email protected] bers in good standing are eligible to propose Phone 604.822.4075 Harvey Scott McMillin, Jr., Professor of paper sessions, seminars, and workshops Fax 604.822.6906 English at Cornell University, died March for the 2008 Annual Meeting. Post Department of English 29. McMillin received his M.A. from George University of British Columbia Washington University and his Ph.D. from 1. Propose a Seminar or Workshop #397-1873 E. Mall Seminar and workshop proposals should open Stanford. During his twenty-two years at Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 CANADA a number of pathways into a subject, recog- Cornell, McMillin twice received the Clark nizing that the seminar meeting is an occasion Distinguished Teaching Award and was co- Julia Reinhard Lupton for focused but open discussion among junior recipient of the Sohmer-Hall Prize for his E-Mail [email protected] and senior scholars and advanced graduate Post Department of English work The Queen’s Men and Their Plays, students. The proposal should come from the University of California, Irvine 1583-1603 (1998). He also authored Shake- potential leader(s) with a program title; Home 28 Virgil Court speare in Performance: Henry IV, Part One description of objectives, issues, and poten- Irvine, CA 92697 (1991) and The Elizabethan Theatre and the tial audiences; and a brief academic biogra- Book of Sir Thomas More (1987). In recent phy of the leader(s) that indicates previous Laurie Shannon years McMillin’s areas of research extended experience of SAA seminars and workshops. beyond Elizabethan and modern drama to Graduate students are ineligible to direct E-Mail [email protected] seminars and workshops, and no one may take Phone 919.684.2741 American musical theater. His The Musical a major role as paper presenter, seminar Fax 919.684.4871 as Drama will appear in fall 2006. McMillin leader, or workshop leader at two consecutive Post Department of English served as a Trustee of the SAA from 1988 to meetings (i.e., those who play such a part in Duke University 1991. He is survived by his wife Sally, three San Diego in 2007 are ineligible for the pro- Box 90015 sons, and three grandchildren. gram in 2008). Durham, NC 27708 11 Photo at right: The Albin O. Kuhn Library, home of the SAA office on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
C ALL FOR PAPERS One session on the 2007 Annual Meeting program is reserved for papers selected, in a blind competition, by a committee headed by a member of the Board of Trustees. Papers must be short (twelve pages) for a reading time of no more than twenty minutes. Five copies should be submitted with identification of the author provided only in a cover letter (not on the paper). See guidelines on page 11 of this bulletin. Papers must be received in the SAA office by 1 October 2006.
O NLINE REGISTRATION SAA members may submit seminar and workshop registrations online at
N OMINATIONS TO OFFICE The 2007 Nominating Committee is chaired by Trustee Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., who wel- comes suggestions at
G RADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS Graduate-student members of the SAA are encouraged to apply for $300 travel subven- tions for the 2007 Annual Meeting. Twenty-five awards will be made to support graduate- student participation in San Diego. Preference will be given to dissertation-level students whose research will be most enhanced by seminar participation. Students may not receive this award more than twice and are expected to attend the full conference. The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2006. See page 7 for more information and for the names of graduate student winners in 2006.
SAA IN 2008 To submit proposals for the 2008 program, see guidelines on page 11. All proposals must be submitted by 28 February 2007.
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