2017 Grad Conference Schedule Thursday, January 26 11:30-12:15 Organizer’s lunch 12:30 Registration opens (Ruggles Hall) 1:00-2:30 Sessions 1-4 2:35-3:35 Collection Presentation/ “Meet A Newberrian: Brad Hunt” 3:40-4:40 Plenary : “Public Humanities and Early Modern Studies” 4:40-6:00 Opening reception Friday, January 27 9:00-9:30 Coffee 9:30-11:00 Sessions 5-8 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-1:00 Sessions 9-12 1:00-2:00 Luncheon 2:00-3:30 Sessions 13-16 3:45-4:45 Collection Presentation / “Meet A Newberrian: Lesa Dowd” Saturday, January 28 9:00-9:30 Coffee 9:30-11:00 Sessions 17-20 11:00-12:00 Collection Presentation / “Meet A Newberrian: Jill Gage” Thursday Morning Sessions 1 – B84 3 – B82 Reading, Editing and Adapting Milton in Conversation: Early Modern Verse Exploring Intertextual Chair: Sarah Iovan, The Newberry Relationships Library Chair: David Vaughan, Oklahoma Anne Boemler State University Paper Title: 'Baudy Balades' or 'Misticall Songe': Samuel Greer The Erotics of Devotion in the Renaissance Song Paper Title: Diffused Pride Solidified in Satan: of Songs An argument for literary-genealogical dependence on Spenser by Milton Elizabeth Kirby Paper Title: “Le langage Latin m’est comme Bosik Kim naturel”: Montaigne’s Reformation of Reading Paper Title: Defending the Tyrannicide and Literary Style: the Case of John Milton and Mary Kelly Masterson Cary Paper Title: “The ‘Two Gentlemen’ is Not a Piece to Take!”: Sexual Violence in Daly’s Jesse Martin Adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Two Paper Title: Farewel happy Fields: Utopia and Gentlemen of Verona Utopianism in John Milton's Paradise Lost 2 – B91 4 – B92 Leaks and Creaks: Illness and The Medieval World in Songs Infirmity in the Pre-Modern and Tales: Mobility, Body Transformation, and Cultural Chair: Jesse Dorst, University of Commentary Minnesota Chair: Karen Christianson, The Carly Boxer Newberry Library Paper Title: Fluid Color: Observation and Visual Kelli McQueen Comparison in Middle English Uroscopy Images Paper Title: Tune the Fiddle, Sharpen the Sword Christina Hildebrandt Paper Title: Making a Medieval Migraine: Maggie Rebecca Myers Reading William Dunbar’s “My heid did ȝak ȝester Paper Title: Transformation and Transgression: nicht” as a Narrative of Impairment The Book of John Mandeville’s Hippocrates’ Daughter as a Loathly Lady Dana Roders Leslee Wood Paper Title: Disability, Sin, and the Mutable Paper Title: In Love and War: Troubadours and Body in The Prick of Conscience the Albigensian Crusade Friday Morning Sessions 5 – B92 7 – B82 Law in Practice, in Art: Making Meaning in Performance, and in Process Theory and Practice Chair: Samantha Snively, University Chair: Emily Wood, Northwestern of California, Davis University Joan Jockel Barbara E. Dietlinger Paper Title: The Evolution of Rape Law in Paper Title: “Wishful Realism”: The Case of Early-Modern England: Developing Definitions, Music-Making Women in the Dutch Golden Age Declining Prosecution (1550-1700) Anna Dumont Ana Silva Paper Title: Decorative Truth: Mary Delany’s Paper Title: Permanence, Ephemerality, and the Flora Delanica as Epistemic Image Making of Cartagena’s Neighborhoods in the Seventeenth Century Christopher Thomas Paper Title: The Materiality of Scripture and the Anthony Troyke Body of Art: 'Meaning' in Scripture and Art in the Paper Title: Congreve’s Lex Machina: The Way Philosophy of Spinoza of the World 6 – B84 8 – B91 Global Exchanges: Desirable John Donne’s Poetics and the Objects in Commercial, Cross- Rhetoric of Change Cultural and Literary Chair: David Vaughan, Oklahoma Marketplaces State University Doug DePalma Chair: Davina Warden, Claremont Paper Title: “If By the Consideration of Graduate University Another’s Danger”: The Interruptive Rhetoric of Laurel Garber War in Donne's Satires Paper Title: The Dutch Home in Miniature: Global Trade and Domesticity in Petronella Lamanda Humphrey Oortman's Poppenhuis Paper Title: “Let not your hearts be troubled:” Body and Soul in John Donne’s Devotions Sunghoon Lee Paper Title: The Mobile Niño: The Introduction Arnaud Zimmern of the Santo Niño Image in the Philippines by Paper Title: Posture and Place: Donne Defends Spanish Sailors the Microcosmos Jen-chou Liu Paper Title: “A Lewd and Ungenerous Engraftment”: Samuel Richardson’s Grafting Metaphor of Authorship Friday Midday Sessions 9 – B92 11 – B82 Nation Building Before the Ghosts, Witches, Monsters: Nation-State Ambiguous Tropes of Alterity Chair: Emily Wood, Northwestern Chair: Mara Wade, University of University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana/The Kelsey Ihinger Newberry Library Paper Title: The Queen of Scots’ Spanish Ian De Jong Historian: Antonio Herrera y Tordesillas and his Paper Title: “From earth, from hell, or heaven”: Nation-Building Biography of Mary Stuart Marlowe and the Negotiable Monstrous Samuel Lasman Sarah Dunn Paper Title: The Poetics of Future History: Paper Title: The Body of a Witch: Examining Armes Prydein and Ayadgar-i Jamaspig Medical Evidence of Witchcraft in Late Renaissance and Early Modern Witch Trials Ashley Sarpong Paper Title: Land, History and the Stuff of David Macey National Fiction in Shakespeare’s Richard I Paper Title: Telling Ghost Stories to Save Souls 10 – B84 12 – B91 Women’s Powerful Pens Disruptive Bodies: Fluid Chair: Jesse Dorst, University of Minnesota Identities and Transgressive Keri Mathis Performance in Literature and Paper Title: Material Meaning-Making: Medium, Drama Genre, and Gender in Early Modern Letterwriting Practices Chair: Devon Borowski, University of Chicago Taylor Modrowski Johannes Frohlich Paper Title: The Power of the Pen at Port Royal: Paper Title: A Simple Hermaphrodite: Jupiter The role of women’s epistolary letters in the early and the Interplay of Sexuality, Alchemy, and modern Catholic Church Greco-Roman Gods in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Danielle Alesi James Seth Paper Title: ‘Teach Me How To Curse’: Female Paper Title: “I wish you a wave o’the Sea”: Community and Feminine Alliance in Fifteenth- Mermaids and Aquatic Bodies in The Winter’s Century England Represented in Shakespeare’s Tale and Pericles First Tetralogy Anna Jennings Paper Title: Queen Anne's Naked Breast: The Signification of the Female Body in the Jacobean Court Masque Friday Afternoon Sessions 13 – B92 15 – B82 Shakespeare A: Morals and Origin Stories: Genealogy and Madness in Shakespeare Influence Chair: Samantha Snively, University Chair: Christopher Albi, SUNY New of California, Davis Paltz/The Newberry Library Nicholas Grossman Ali Alsmadi Paper Title: Moral Panic and Divine Luck in Paper Title: Performance and performativity in Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, and Henry VIII the Libro del caballero Zifar (Book of the Knight Zifar) Vanessa Lim Paper Title: ‘Fashion it thus’: Shakespeare, Maximilian Martini Rhetorical Deliberation and Moral Reasoning Paper Title: Worth Inconceivably More to Hang: Martyrology and Abolitionism in Antebellum Elizabeth Lyle America Paper Title: “We’re All Mad Here”: The Language of Mental Illness in King Lear and Isidro Luis Jiménez Macbeth Paper Title: The Amazons: a Transatlantic myth 14 – B84 16 – B91 Imagined Cartographies: Space Touchable Saints: Reliquary and Place in the Early Modern and Materiality World Chair: Christopher Fletcher, The Chair: Davina Warden, Claremont Newberry Library Graduate University Claire Kilgore Paper Title: Seeing through Holy Windows: Kader Hegedüs Visibility and Transparency in Fourteenth Century Paper Title: John Donne and the Sacred Spaces Reliquaries from Aachen of Post-Reformation England Anne Maltempi Mark Summers Paper Title: Sicilianità: Sicilian National Identity Paper Title: Holy Molar! Christian/Muslim in the Writings of Humanists Tommaso Schifaldo Interchange in a Tooth Reliquary of St. John the and Lucio Marineo Siculo Baptist at the Art Institute of Chicago Madeline Whitman Paper Title: Nicolas de Nicolay & Leon Davent: Printed Peregrinations Between Sixteenth-Century France and the Ottoman Empire Saturday Morning Sessions 17 – B84 19 – B91 Teaching to the Text: Questioning Authority: Revolt, Language, Pedagogy and Resistance, Debate Digital Methodology Chair: Christopher Fletcher, The Chair: Lia Markey, The Newberry Newberry Library Library Patrick Mullen Nick Nash Paper Title: Moral Gower and Moral Chaucer: Paper Title: Following an Author’s Development An Examination of the Peasants’ Revolt in 14th Across Multiple Editions: The Lessons of Digital Century English Literature Text Collation Applied to Mary Astell’s The Christian Religion Bryan Laird Paper Title: “Church vs. State in the Morisco and James Owen Co-Patronage Debates” Paper Title: The pedagogy of Augustine's Confessions Jenny Smith Paper Title: Skipping Lent: Popular Resistance to Nisreen Yamany Lent in Tudor England Paper Title: Using William Blake’s Poison Tree to Teach Language 18 – B82 20 – B92 Colonial Vocality and Orality Shakespeare B: Shakespeare Chair: Devon Borowski, University of Chicago and Reproduction Jerusa Carvajal Chair: Jill Gage, The Newberry Paper Title: The representation of America and Library the Amerindians in six plays of the Golden Age of Kenneth Connally American theme. Paper Title: Unpeople the Province with Continency: Questioning Reproductive Logic in Marlena Cravens Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Paper Title: Orality in Translation—Portuguese Conversion in the New World Ann Wilson Green Paper Title: Memory, Mourning and Revenge in Angelica Serna Hamlet Paper Title: Huacas as Thoughtful Social Agents in the Manuscript of Huarochirí L. Claire Hansen Paper Title: From You I Am