Program Thursday, 20 November Noon- 5 REGISTRATION - COMMONWEALTH FOYER, 2ND FLOOR (Note: Registration will be available throughout the

conference. Please see the Schedule for specific times each day.) 1.45-3.15 COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Student Session: Special Topics in Early Modern Texts Chair: Adam Max Cohen (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Jennifer Elward (Misericordia University), The Human Appetite for Insanity in Titus Andronicus Pramod Dibble (Misericordia University), A Guilty Conscience, A Dangerous Mind: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Shakespeares Antony Carly Hale (Shippensburg University), O Tempora! O Mores!: Domestic Capitalism and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Marissa Miller (Misericordia University), Indulging in Acting: Men Playing Women On and Off Stage Steven Wieser (Misericordia University), The Naked Truth: Sexual Desire in Early Modern British Pornography Jedidiah Carr (Misericordia University), Emmas Entrapments ************************************************************************ 3.30-5 COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Workshop: Whither Renaissance Studies? Chair: Ellen MacKay (Indiana University) Constance Furey (Indiana University) Holly Dugan (George Washington University) Will Stockton (Ball State) Elliott Visconsi (Yale University) ************************************************************************ Libations at the City Tavern 5:30 --Please join us for Happy Hour in Philadelphias historic watering hole. If you would like to walk en masse, please meet at the Registration Table at 5.10. ************************************************************************ Friday, 21 November 8-4 8-5 REGISTRATION COMMONWEALTH FOYER, 2ND FLOOR PUBLICATIONS DISPLAYS PARLORS P1 AND P2, 3RD FLOOR

9:30-10 Coffee/Tea will be served 8.30-9.45 Going Green: Early Modern Gardens COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Marcia Littenberg (State University of New York at Farmingdale) Kristen Aldebol (University of California, Davis), The Garden of delights: Wild Above Rule or Art Cheryl D. Clark (University of Southern Mississippi), Ornamental Desire: Fashioning an Empowering Gaze in Englands Pleasure Gardens Saskia Cornes (Columbia University), The Phallus in the Asparagus: Country Matters and the Commodification of the Rural in Richard Bromes Sparagus Garden

Marisa Huerta (University of Texas at San Antonio), Place, Desire and the Brutish Nation-Family in Aphra Behns Love Letters Marcia Littenberg, Gargantuan Pleasures in Contained Spaces: the Gardens of Celia Thaxter and Mary Treat ******************************************************************** Early Modern Wonder: the Secular and the Sacred WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Adam Max Cohen (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Adam Max Cohen, Ghosts that Matter and the Raising of the Undead: Shakespeares Wondrous Pseudo-Resurrections Andrew Barnaby (University of Vermont), Mine Own and Not Mine Own: Wonder in Twelfth Night M. G. Aune (California University of Pennsylvania), The Wonder of It All: Enumeration, Relics, Curiosities, and Antiquities Regina Schwartz (Northwestern University), Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World ************************************************************************ Networks, Ecologies, Humanists COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Joshua Calhoun (University of Delaware) Joshua Calhoun, Reading Matter; or, Ecologies of Early Modern Reading Vincent Nardizzi (University of British Columbia), Networks of Timber in Early Modern England Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), The Theological Survey: The Trinitarian Landscape in Early Modern England Thomas Ward (University of Pennsylvania), Echo-logies of Spensers Epithalamion ************************************************************************ Sexual Transgressions I: Women and Authority WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Teresa Saxton (University of Tennessee) Jessie Hock (University of California at Berkeley), The Failure of Masculine Authority, Feminine Jouissance, and Poetic Currency in Dunbars Tretis Katherine Robbins (Piedmont Virginia Community College), Three Degrees of Aretino: A look at references to Pietro Aretino in Jonsons Volpone Ashley Denham (The George Washington University), Veiling Transgressions: Sacred Sex and Profane Pleasure in Richard Crashaws The Flaming Heart Michael Rex (Cumberland University), When is a Slut, a Slut?: Female Sexual Excess in Early Modern Plays by Women Misty Krueger (University of Tennessee), Being wanton in the kinder joys of Love: The Consequences of Aphra Behns Queen Isabellas Sexual Transgressions ********************************************************************** Intellectual Excess: Rereading, Misreading and Over-reading in Early Modern Literary Culture TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Jason Powell (St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia) Jason Powell, Mores Anemolian Ambassadors and the Diplomatic Frame of Utopia Paul J. Patterson (St. Josephs University), Reading Excessively: The Influence of Cambridge on Editing Chaucer Joel B. Davis (Stetson University), Pity and the Aristocratic Ethos in Sidneys Old Arcadia Jeremy A. Kiene (McDaniel College), Imperfect moniment: Commemoration of Sidney in The Faerie Queenes Garden of Adonis Lisa Walters (St. Josephs University), Chastity, Slavery and Tyrannical Pleasures: ReReading the Politics of Margaret Cavendishs Assaulted and Pursued Chastity **********************************************************************

Georgic Desires WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi) Courtney Weiss (Washington University), The Georgic Genius of the Epistle to Burlington Tobias Menely (Willamette University), Georgic Biosemiotics Brian Glover (Union College), Joseph Warton and the Pleasure of Agricultural Instruments Nicolle Jordan, Pleasure and Danger in Elizabeth Montagus Pastoral and Georgic Personae ************************************************************************

******************************************************************** Violent Desires, Carnal Cravings, and the Instinctive Appetites of Thomas Nashe ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Joseph Navitsky (University of Southern Mississippi) Joseph Navitsky, Spirit for the Encounter: Reconsidering Thomas Nashes Appetite for Destruction Melissa Hull (Tennessee State University), The Begetting of Thomas Nashe Kris McAbee (University of California, Santa Barbara), Poetry and Perversion: The Violent Desire of Thomas Nashes Unfortunate Traveller Liam Meyer (Boston University), G(Nashe)ing of Teeth: Hunger, Gluttony, and the Discourses of Class Conflict *********************************************************************** Cannibalistic Thinking in Early Modern Drama, Travel Narratives, Liturgical Texts, and Medical Practices ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR Chairs: Colleen Kennedy (Monroe Community College) and Christopher Madson (University at Buffalo) Lizz Angelo (University of South Florida), In/di/gestion: On the possibility of Eating Well at the cannibal banquet Colleen Kennedy, Early Modern Medicinal Cannibalism Christopher Madson, Eating the Body in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Scott Manning Stevens (University at Buffalo), Savage Theater and the Specter of New World Cannibalism ************************************************************************

10-11.15 What Does it Mean to be Me? Constructing Gender COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Christopher Orchard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Penelope Anderson (Indiana University, Bloomington), A Strange Increase: Rhetorical Excess and Lesbian Consequences in Katherine Philips Poetry

Benjamin Davis (University of Illinois), Gendered Geography: Negotiating Anxious Masculinity in Simplicissimus Edisa Denic (University of Illinois), Fortunatus Gets Lucky: Money, Sex, and Gender in the Chapbook Fortunatus Jennifer Mi-Young Park (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Gendered Pleasures of Epistemological Exploration: Creation and Discovery in the Utopian Fictions of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish ************************************************************************ Read All About it!: Print Culture COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Dannie Leigh Chalk (Pennsylvania State University) Dannie Leigh Chalk, Functionaries of Church and State: Midwives in English Texts, 1540-1588 Lee Kahan (Indiana University South Bend), Selling Suspense: The Pleasures and Profits of Seriality in the Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Katherine Mannheimer (University of Rochester), Competing Cannibalisms: Prints Devourment of performance (and vice versa) in the work of Fielding and Pope Joel Slotkin (Towson University), This wonderfull manifestation of Gods anger: The Appetite for Monsters and God as MonsterMaker in Early Modern Popular Print Nathanial B. Smith (Indiana University, Bloomington), Fashioning Tongues and Hammering Subjects: Spensers Ate and Niccoletta da Modenas Lingua Pravorum Peribit ******************************************************************** ************************************************************************ The Valiant Taste Death but Once: Early Modern Taste(s) WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Don Hedrick (Kansas State University) Marianne Klemun (University of Vienna), Treasure pleasure and taste: The Royal Natural History Collections in Vienna (18 th century) From Possessing Nature as Treasure to the Consciousness of Minerals All Over the State Don Hedrick, Entertainment News of 1630: Promoter Cancels London Opening of Excessive Eating Without manners Reality Show Starring Famed Gourmandizer Ruth Mack (State University of New York at Buffalo), Pleasurable Culture Natalie Eschenbaum (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), Outrageous Grossness: A taste of Robert Herrick *********************************************************************** JEMCS Special Session I: Comparing the Empires: Spain and England COMMONWEALTH B, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Brian Lockey (St. Johns University) Jason Eldred (University of Virginia), English Mercantile Relations with Spain and the Aftermath of Drake's Circumnavigation Eva Botella Ordinas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Debating Empires: Building British and Spanish Imperial Legitimizations in America. 1670-1714 Brian Lockey, Equitie to measure: Conscience and Imperial Mimicry in Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene Eric Griffin (Millsap College), Spain is Portugal and Portugal is England: George Peele, Thomas Kyd, and the Attractions of Empire ************************************************************************ Temperance, Trade & The Tragicomic Turn WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Jean Howard (Columbia University)

Jean Feerick (Brown University), Tragicomic Minglings: or, Rising Blood in Fletchers Island Princess Jane Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Greenes Orlando Furioso Amanda Bailey (University of Connecticut), Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country Gitanjali G. Shahani (San Francisco State University), Of barren islands and cursd gold: Worth, Value, and Womanhood in The Sea Voyage ************************************************************************ Are We Not Men? Gesture, Appetite and the Definition of Man, 1598-1854 WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Maria Prendergast (The College of Wooster) Maria Prendergast, Men are Such Dogges: Animal Appetites and the Appetite for Print in Early Modern Misandronic Pamphlets Stephen Cohen (Central Connecticut State University), As Luscious as Locusts: Consuming the Other in Othello Scott Juengel (Michigan State University), From Gestus to Anthropometamorphosis David Hawkes (Arizona State University), Lady John: Bestial and Human Sex in Miltons Latin Verse Neil Matheson (University of Texas, Arlington), Beastly Appetites: Sex, Diet, and Animal Life in Thoreau and Graham ******************************************************************** The Turn to the Post/human: Desires, Bodies, Selves, Histories COMMONWEALTH C, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Sponsor: The BABEL Working Group Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University), Trick of Singularity: Twelfth Night, Stewards of the Post/human Desire, and the Problem of Aesthetics John Twyning (University of Pittsburgh), The Last of the Motley Fools Anna Klosowska (Miami University at Oxford, Ohio), Madeleine de lAubespines Post-Human Desire: The Instrument, the Animal, and the Landscape, Lyric and Pornographic Eileen Joy, Where Is It that We Were Together? Nomads, Combinards, and the Queer Knight with Two Swords ************************************************************************ Narrative & Desire in Early English Novels COMMONWEALTH D, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Ray Ricketts (Bryn Mawr College) Anna Foy (University of Pennsylvania), Forms of Desire in Gullivers Travels Melissa Mowry (St. Johns University), Defoes Roxana and the Politics of Her Endings Kathleen Lubey (St. Johns University), "The Forms of Clarissa's Rape" Joseph Drury (Wesleyan University), Driving Briskly in a Post-Chaise: Desire and Digression in Tristram Shandy *********************************************************************** 11.30-12.30 Marketing Excess TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: John Garrison (University of California, Davis)

Maya Mathur (University of Mary Washington), To hinder generation: Capitalist Fantasies and Fiscal Responsibilities in Thomas Middletons A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Barclay Green (Northern Kentucky University), This Multitude of Idle Writers: Samuel Daniel, the Appetites of the Marketplace, and the Desire for National Identity John Garrison, Marketing Excess, Marketing Restraint *********************************************************************** Forms & Rhetoric ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Pat Gill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Pat Gill, Rhetoric and the Art of Composure Joseph M. Ortiz (State University of New York, Brockport), Marlowe and the Pleasure of Form Lina P. Wilder (Connecticut College), My Exion is Entered: Obscenity and Epistemology in 2 Henry IV ************************************************************************ Sacred Desires: Metaphysical Poets ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Catherine Doubler (Emory University) Julie Bowman (Carnegie Mellon University), The Progression of Desire in John Donnes The Ecstasy Christopher D Addario (Towson University), Donnean Perambulations Catherine Doubler, Comments Would the Text Confound: The Return to Christs Corpus in Herberts The Sacrifice ********************************************************************* PlayBill JEFFERSON BOARD ROOM, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Christopher Orchard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Suzanne Tartamella (Gettysburg College), Playing Shakespeares Will: Theater and Sexuality in the Dark Lady Sonnets Terri Bourus (Indiana University-Purdue), There Shall Be Pippens and Cheese to Come: Early Modern London's Appetite for Theatre ************************************************************************ 2-3.15 Memorial Session for Hans Turley COMMONWEALTH B, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Robert Markley (University of Illinois at Urbana) Rajani Sudan (Southern Methodist University) Thomas DiPiero (University of Rochester) Tita Chico (University of Maryland) ************************************************************************ Performing Gender and Desire in Middletons Drama WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Gary Taylor (Florida State University) Mary Bly (Fordham University), Prostituted for a Petticoat: Middletons Sex/Clothing Trade Regina Buccola (Roosevelt University), "Giving Revenger's Its Due" Lars Engle (University of Tulsa), Mimetic Middleton Trish Thomas Henley (University of Cincinnati), I shall then have a clean sheet: Feminine Integrity and Volubility in Middletons Tragi-comedies

************************************************************************ Jesuit Journeys WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Nancy Bradley Warren (Florida State University) Brian Lockey (St. Johns University), The Jesuit Republic of Letters: Transnational Identity and the English Nation, 1577-1603 David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), Jesuitesses Nancy Bradley Warren, Soldados doncellas: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, the Society of the Sovereign Virgin Mary Our Lady, and Anglo-Spanish Politics George Vahamikos (Duke University), Jane Dormer, the House of Feria, and Jesuit Affairs, 1554-1612 ************************************************************************ Desiring Shakespeare COMMONWEALTH C, 2ND FLOOR Chair: William Spates (Haverford College) Louis F. Martin (Elizabethtown College), Much Ado about Nothing: An Evolutionary Fable of Desire Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University), Divine Slime: Shakespeares Neo-Paganism in Antony and Cleopatra Donna Woodford Gormley (New Mexico Highlands University), Devouring Shakespeare: Caliban and Sycorax in Cuba William Spates, Breaking the Libidinal Bank: The Limits of Desire in Troilus and Cressida ************************************************************************ Paradise by the Dashboard Lights: Religion & Morality I COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: David Wright (Misericordia University) Matt Laferty (Binghamton University), Confessional Sores: Reading the Tokens of the Plague of 1665 Gabriel Rieger (Concord University), Am I Not an Ass: Masochism and Reprobation in The Changeling Paul Rosa (SUNY/ Nassau Community College), Joy Unspeakable: The Sweet Doctrine of Predestination Judith C. Mueller (Franklin & Marshall College), Animal Desire and Radical Grace in Blake Kir Kuiken (State University of New York-Albany), Blake, Sovereignty and Desire ********************************************************************** Editional Meanings: The Politics of Reprinting in Early Modern England WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Rachel E. Clark (Ohio State University) Rachel E. Clark, Ghosts and Cony-Catching Strumpets: Robert Greene and the Discourse of Roguery in Caroline England Fran Connor (University of Virginia), Samuel Daniel and the Nature of The Book Lara Hansen (University of Nevada, Reno), Editing and Marketing of Shakespeares Second Folio Adam G. Hooks (Columbia University), The Royalism of Lucrece: Banishing Tarquin in the Interregnum Anne-Marie E. Schuler (Ohio State University), The Printing and Reprinting of Shakespeares Richard II and the Effect of the Deposition Scene on Readership of the Text *********************************************************************** The Presence of Pain: Language, Bodies and Interiors TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Rachel Ablow (State University of New York at Buffalo) Gerry Milligan (College of Staten Island), Born of Tears: Womens war poetry in the Italian Renaissance

Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University of Ohio), The Hand of the Surgeon Bridgette Sheidan (Framingham State College), Pain and the Midwifes Expertise Rachel Ablow, The Victorian Truth of Torture ********************************************************************* Cadaverous Appetites: Negotiating Sidney's Legacy ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Julian Koslow (Virginia Tech) Sarah Rodgers (Rutgers University), The fresh bleeding smart of [f]estered wounds: Philip Sidneys body in poetry Stephanie Pietros (Fordham University), [G]reat with Childe to speake: Poetry as Progeny, Literary Legacies, and Political Succession in Sidneys Astrophel and Stella Scott Trudell (Rutgers University), Caused to be Song: Answering Sidneys Arcadia in Plainsong Debapriya Sarkar (Rutgers University), From [making] many Cyruses to a world as might best be: Spensers revision of Sidneys poet-maker ************************************************************************ 3.20-4.40 The Fruits and Flowers of Empire WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania) Madera Gabriela Allan (Lawrence University), The Dubious Fruits of Empire Rachel Burk (University of Pennsylvania), The Butcher Shop: Food Preparation and Minority Populations in the Hapsburg Empire Cathy Nicholson (Yale University), Tamerlanes and Tamer-Chams: Poetics, Empire, and the Problem of Measure Miriam Jacobson (Wake Forest University), Dyes and Dissimulation in Chapmans Hero and Leander texts Benedict Robinson (Stony Brook University), Simple, Sensuous, and Passionate *********************************************************************** Scholarly Publishing: A Roundtable with Journal Editors COMMONWEALTH B, 2ND FLOOR Organizer: Robert Markley (University of Illinois) (Part One: Publishing in Scholarly Journals) This workshop continues a tradition at GEMCS conferences of providing a forum for journal editors to comment on the policies and procedures involved in reviewing articles for publication. Each editor will offer opening comments, and then the session will be open to questions and discussion. Some of the topics that will be covered will be special issues of journals, book reviews, and how to read and respond to readers and editors suggestions for revision. (Part Two: From Articles to Books) This part of the workshop will deal with questions about the all important transition from writing articles and dissertation to producing a first book manuscript for publication. Melissa Mowry (St. Johns University). Editor, Genders Tita Chico (University of Maryland). Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Tom DiPiero (University of Rochester). Editor, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Cynthia Klekar (Western Michigan University). Associate Editor, Comparative Drama Robert Markley (University of Illinois). Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation

************************************************************************ Feasts and Famines: the Early Modern Politics and Poetics of Food TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University) Crystal Bartolovich, "Going to Rat and Ruin: Famine in Colonial Bermuda" Ann Baynes Coiro (Rutgers University), "Food and Loathing in Milton's Poetry" Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), "Vegetarianism and Philology" Juliet Fleming (New York University), "'Break a Sarcel, Wing a Partridge': the Terms of Carving in Early Modern England" *********************************************************************** Wily Women Writers ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Thomas Hajkowski (Misericordia University) Devoney Looser (University of Missouri-Columbia), Feminist Pleasures: Jane Porter and the School of Eloquence in the 1790s Chris Foss (University of Mary Washington), Streams and Showers, Dreams and Flowers: Desire in British Romantic Womens Poetry Druann Bauer (Ohio Northern University), Obstacles to Wealth: How Censorship Constricted the Money-Making Power of the Late Eighteenth-century Female Playwright ********************************************************************** Global Early Modernity WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Walter Cohen (Cornell University) Jose Cardenas (Yale University), Approaches to the Foundation of Political Modernity: Las Casas and Seplvedas Debate on the Extent of Universal Powers Walter Cohen, Out of India Yuming He (University of Chicago), Chinas Early Modern Global Thinkers Carmen Nocentelli (University of New Mexico), Race, Sexuality, and Early Modern Globalization David Porter (University of Michigan), Late Ming England, Restoration China, and the Problem of Global Early Modernity *********************************************************************** Murder Most Now COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Melissa Jones (Eastern Michigan University) Holly Dugan (George Washington University), Historical-Odorama: Multi-Sensorial Adaptations of Perfume: A Story of a Murder Melissa Jones, Big Screen Henrys: Loining Up to Make a Killing Andrew Tumminia (Fordham University), Parallels and Paranoia: Strange Brew and Hamlet Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University), For The Reign it Raineth Every Day: Shekhar Kapurs Elizabeth: The Golden Age ********************************************************************* Excess of the Imagination ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Misty Krueger (University of Tennessee) Hilary Binda (Tufts University), Imagining Astonishment in The Faerie Queene Susan OHara (Georgian Court University), Pamphilias Autoerotism: Seeing and Sexual Excess

Diana Miller (New York University), Polite Imagination: Addison and Steeles Regulation of Science and the Imagination in The Tatler and The Spectator Teresa Saxton (University of Tennessee), Seeing the Sublime: Imaginative Excess in 18th Century Drama Zak Watson (University of Missouri-Columbia), Imaginations Excess from Ancient Greece to the Gothic Revival ********************************************************************** Desire Embodied WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Rebecca Stark-Gendrano (Fordham University) Kirk Quinsland (Fordham University), Out, damned spot!: The Marked Body and the Physical Trace of Sin Rebecca Stark-Gendrano, Violent Delights: An Appetite for Dismemberment on the Early Modern Stage Stephanie Pietros (Forham University), [F]ree from eyes: The Blazon, Female Desire, and Subjectivity in Lady Mary Wroths Pamphilia to Amphilanthus John Ziegler (Fordham University), Multiplying Women in Fletcher's The Pilgrim

************************************************************* Moveable Feast: Pre-paid pre-registrants only meet in the Lobby of Loews at 4:40. We will walk over together to the first restaurant on the itinerary. We must be there by 5:00, so we will leave Loews promptly at 4:45. All other conference attendees: please consult the restaurant guide included in your registration packet for a wide range of culinarily diverse and delicious options that Philadelphia offers you for dinner! ****************************************************** Saturday, 22 November 8.30-3.30 REGISTRATION COMMONWEALTH FOYER, 2ND FLOOR 8-5.30 PUBLICATIONS DISPLAYS PARLORS P1 AND P2, 3RD FLOOR 8:45-9:15 Coffee/Tea will be served 9-10:15 Bacon & Eggs: A Philosophical Scramble TUBMAN, 3rd FLOOR Chair: James Williams (Washington University in St. Louis) Jason E. Cohen (Berea College), Appetitive Knowledge in Bacons New Organon Marjorie Levinson (University of Michigan), A Motion and a Spirit: Romancing Spinoza Toria Johnson (Washington State University), Sexuality as Sovereign: Rochesters Bastardization of Hobbes Leviathan James Williams, Endless Interpretation: Erasmus De Copia and the Pleasures and Pains of Humanist Reading ********************************************************************** Paradise by the Dashboard Lights: Religion and Morality II COMMONWEALTH A2, 2nd FLOOR Chair: Eric B. Song (Queens College, City University of New York) Eric B. Song, The Redemption of Eating in Paradise Regained Edward Simon (Point Park University), Sacred Intoxication, Profane Drunkenness: Textual Evidence of the Reformation Shift in Attitudes Surrounding Alcohol Michael Behrens (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sentimentality, religion and sources of pleasure in Sarah Fieldings David Simple (1744)

Kyle Painter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sneaking Most Puritanically: Middletons Staging of Religious Identity in The Puritan Javier Irigoyen-Garcia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eating Wild Boar in the Arcadia in Expulsion de los moriscos rebeldes de la Sierra y Muela de Cortes (1635) ************************************************************************ Gluttony ANTHONY, 3rd FLOOR Chair: Nate Eastman (Earlham College) Nate Eastman, Gluttony and Adequation in Taylors Great Eater of Kent Joshua B. Fisher (Wingate University), We had much more monstrous matter of feast: Eating Amiss on the Early Modern English Stage Melanie Karsak (Mercyhurst College, North East), A Fish Head, a Parasite, and a Misogynist Walk into a Bagnio: Tracing the Sins of the Flesh in Beaumont and Fletchers The Woman Hater Christa Mahalik (Quinnipiac University), The Rising Gorge: Poison, Gluttony, and Hamlet Emily Speller (University of Dallas), Deep-Throated Engines: Devilish Gluttony in Paradise Lost ********************************************************************** Appetite for Production: Bodies of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature ADAMS, 3rd FLOOR Chair: Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Pennsylvania) Ari Friedlander (University of Michigan), Sexual Appetite and Communal (Re)Production in The Winters Tale Urvashi Chakravarty, Flattery and Feasting: Parasitical Appetite in Plautus and Jonson Stephanie Elsky (University of Pennsylvania), Proprietary Passion: Books, Bodies, and Land in Lady Anne Cliffords Diaries Cody Reis (New York University), Jonsons Passion: Rhetoric, Physiology, and Personality ************************************************************************ Desiring the Past: Feminist Theory and Early Modern Culture WASHINGTON A, 3rd FLOOR Chair: Melissa E. Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania) Phyllis Rackin (University of Pennsylvania), The Present Tense of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania), Feminism, Race, and Method Melissa E. Sanchez, Women, Property, and Politics in Early Modern England Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania), Translating History, Queerness, and the Case of a Chinese Amazon Toni Bowers (University of Pennsylvania), Amatory Fiction and Tory Partisan Identity ************************************************************************ The Pleasures and Pains of Loneliness: Versions Solitude in Early Modern England WASHINGTON B, 3rd FLOOR Chair: Andrew Strycharski (Florida International University) Arlen Nydam (University of Texas at Austin), Solitude and Catholic Sacramental Thought in Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia Carmela Pinto McIntire (Florida International University), Solitude and Melancholy in Milton's Il Penseroso and Albrecht Durers Saint Jerome in His Study

Matthew Bucemi (Cornell University), Alone he enter'd/ The mortal gate: Autarchic Individuality and Psychosexual Submission to the State in Shakespeare's Coriolanus Andrew Strycharski, Solitary Places: Guilt, Shame, Inwardness and Poetic Production in the Old Arcadia *********************************************************************** Pondering Pedagogy: Education in the Early Modern Classroom COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Jad Smith (Eastern Illinois University) Sheree L. Meyer (California State University, Sacramento), To thine own self be true: The Failure of Paternal Advice & Humanist Pedagogy Shannon Reed (Cornell College), An Appetite for English Words: The Commonplace-book and English Authority in the Eighteenth Century Amy K. Hermanson (Texas Christian University), Crafting Little Bibles: The Edification of Reading Jad Smith, Teaching Ephemera ************************************************************************ 10.30-11.45 Gendered Consumption COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Rebecca Steinberger (Misericordia University) Huey-ling Lee (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan), Woman, Conspicuous Consumption and the Making of Man in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Volpone Edmund Campos (Northwestern University), The Pleasures of the Pipe: English Women and Tobacco in the Seventeenth Century Catherine Keohane (Montclair State University), Controlling consumer appetites: charity, consumption, and 18th-century polite women Alison Stewart (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Women Drink Sometimes, Too ************************************************************************ Drinking I: Politics and Print COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: David Swain (Southern New Hampshire University) Timothy Zajac (University of Massachusetts Amherst), The Materials of Drinking Culture in Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middletons The Honest Whore, Part One Janet Bartholomew (Albion College), Woman and Wine: The Role of Judith in Early Modern English Temperance Tracts David Swain, Loathsome Drink: Reginald Scot and the Beer and Ale Debates Simone Chess (Wayne State University), Drinking and Good Fellowship: Beer, Ale, and Alehouse Communities in the Pepys Ballad Collection *********************************************************************** English Thresholds of Personhood TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Lara Bovlisky (University of Oregon) Lara Bovilsky, English Depersonification Aaron Kunin (Pomona College), Hobbes Creativity Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia), Personhood, Personal Identity, and Personification Wolfram Schmidgen (Washington University in St. Louis), Mixture and Identity in Early Modern Science

*********************************************************************** Spatial Constructions of Desire ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Jennifer Feather (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Catherine Thomas (College of Charleston), Courting the Basilisk: Poisoning and Political Access in The Revengers Tragedy and The Changeling Jennifer Feather, If the maie be called men: Roman Lust and English Fortitude in Holinsheds Chronicles and Shakespeares Roman plays Helga Duncan (Stonehill College), The Hole in the WallSacred Space and Outsized Spectacle in The Family of Love Kimberly Reigle (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Veiled and Virginal Authority: Marlowes Abigail and Shakespeares Isabella ********************************************************************** New Approaches to Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century COMMONWEALTH B, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Cynthia Klekar (Western Michigan University) Robert Markley (University of Illinois at Urbana), Rethinking Political Economy: Adam Smith and the Biocultural Sublime Elizabeth Veisz (University of Maryland), Tenants, Heirs and Absentees: Colonial Wealth and the Anglo-Irish Novel Laura Yoo (University of Maryland), Tradeswoman of Amorous Intrigues: Redefining Virtue in Eliza Haywoods Anti-Pamela (1741) Natalie Roxburgh (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), The Baleful Economy of Friendship in Sarah Fieldings David Simple ************************************************************************ Pleasures & Pain: Bodies and Empire in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Ryan Prendergast (University of Rochester) Ryan Prendergast, Facets of Picaresque Excess in Lazarillo de Tormes Guillermo de los Reyes (University of Houston), Holy Pleasures and Infamous Desires: Sexuality, Punishment and Persecution under the Catholic Roof in Early Modern Spanish America Lucas A. Marchante-Aragn (CUNY- College of Staten Island), Cervantes, Marriage, and Empire Asima F. X. Saad Maura (University of Delaware), Accusing Imperial Power: A New(er) Edition of Lazarillo de Tormes ********************************************************************* Early Modern Voyeurism WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Deborah Montuori (Shippensburg University) Derek Alwes (Ohio State University), Voyeurism as Authority in Robert Greene's Fictions" Paxton Hehmeyer (University of California, Santa Barbara), Through Crannies and Crevices: Voyeurism in Nashe and Shakespeare Barbara Mather Cobb (Murray State University), Who sees Ophelia drown? Voyeurism and Verisimilitude in Hamlet Patricia Cahill (Emory University). Voyeurism and Vertigo: Traumatic Visuality in Marlowes Verse Matthew C. Augustine (Washington University in St. Louis), The Politics of the Gaze in Marvells Last Instructions to a Painter Kristi Krumnow (Utah State University), Que ce fut long: acts never seen before and Justine's encounter with homosexuality **********************************************************************

1-2.15 Appetite & Otherness: Consumption, Colonialism, and the Circulation of Narratives in the Early Modern World COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Gitanjali Shahani (San Francisco State University) Brinda Charry (Keene State College), Devouring Time: Temporality and the Other Marianne Montgomery (East Carolina University), Sir John Falstaff of Amsterdam: Consumption, Torture, and Theatricality in Drydens Amboyna Jennifer Mylander (San Francisco State University), Markhams English Housewife in Virginia: English Appetites and the Atlantic Tobacco Trade in the Years Leading to Bacons Rebellion Laura Lehua Yim (San Francisco State University), Of Devouring Seas and Seisin: Property Problems in Book V of Spensers Faerie Queene ************************************************************************ Clothing, Gender & Identity WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Michael Pressler (Shippensburg University) Alaina Pincus (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Performative Paradigms, and the Limits of Identity in Eliza Haywoods Fantomina Valerie Billing (University of California, Davis), Anxieties of Power, Desire, and Pleasure: Cross-dressed Heroines in Don Gil de las Calzas Verdes and Twelfth Night Rachel Poulsen (Edgewood College), Female Masquing and Courtly Pretension in Richard Bromes The City Wit Elizabeth Savage (Lynchburg College), Phallic Nationalism: Cross-dressing and the limits of male homosocial desire in A Spy on Mother Midnight Miruna Stanica (George Mason University), Structures of Desire: Zeugma and Early Modern Fetishism ********************************************************************* The Politics of Playing: Publicizing, Harmonizing, Owning & Sharing TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta, Canada) Andras Kisery (Columbia University), Publishing Political Intelligence James J. Marino (Cleveland State University), Owning Ben Jonson Allison Deutermann (Amherst College), Ben Jonson's Polyphonic Printing Carolyn Sale, The Pleasures of Sharing ************************************************************************ The Pleasures of Loss ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Lauren Shohet (Villanova University) Alice Dailey (Villanova University), Suffering and Sovereignty in Eikon Basilike Nora Johnson (Swarthmore College), The Pleasures of the Stage and Fallen Adam: Shakespeare in Paradise Lost" Lauren Shohet, Early-Modern Womens Elegy: the Spoils of Loss ************************************************************************ Pleasure in the Garden: Appetite, Erotics, and Meaning ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Amy L. Tigner (University of Texas, Arlington)

Lynne Bruckner (Chatham University), Eco-Eroticism: the Pleasured Earth in Agrarian Manuals Amy L. Tigner, Eating with Eve: Horticulture and Harvest in Eden Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), First Mother of Science: Miltons Eve, Women, and the Natural World ************************************************************************ Moving Violations: Between Bodies, Books, and Theatres in Early Modern England COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chairs: Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) and Richard Preiss (University of Utah) Richard Preiss, Hand to Mouth Sarah Wall-Randell, A booke layd by, new lookd on: Reading Romance and the Romance of Reading in Wroths Urania Scott Black (University of Utah), Parthenia Reading Chariclea David Glimp (University of Colorado at Boulder), The Constancy of Romance ********************************************************************* Roundtable: Different Renaissance Difference JEFFERSON BOARDROOM, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) Madhavi Menon (American University) Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington University) Stephen Guy-Bray ********************************************************************* 2.30--3.45 Working, Witty Women COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Elizabeth Patton (The Johns Hopkins University), Alexsondra Hultquist (University of West Georgia), Eliza Haywoods Erotic Reasoning Jennifer Frangos ( ), Restraint in Excess: Companionate Marriage and Desiring Female Bodies in Eliza Haywoods Love in Excess (1719) Rachel Greenberg (Canisius College), Lacking Leisure, Spending Pretious Time: Isabella Whitney and the Dilemma of Working Women Writers Elizabeth Patton, That was oft my walk: negative space in Isabella Whitneys The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London Megan Moran (Vanderbilt University), A Desire for Gossip: Constructing Family Networks in Early Modern Italy ************************************************************************ Exotica WASHINGTON A, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Marina Brownlee (Princeton University) Parmita Kapadia (Northern Kentucky University), The Wealth of the East: An Appetite for Travel and the Construction of the East Amrita Sen (Michigan State University), To meet old Nereus, with his fifty girls/From aged Indus laden home with pearls: foreign goods, desire and race in Stuart court masques Maura Tarnoff (Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain), Luxury Consumption and Colonial Domesticity in Spensers AMORETTI and Epithalamion

I-Chun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), Claiming Space and Collecting Objects: Mercantile Culture and Colonial Expansion in Early Modern Dramas Marina Brownlee, Torquemadas Exotica and the Politics of Collecting ************************************************************************ Drinking II: Masculinity and Social Bonds WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Gina Bloom (University of California, Davis) Rebecca Lemon (University of Southern California), Merry Comrades: Drinking and Masculinity in the Early Modern Tavern Laurie Ellinghausen (University of Missouri-Kansas City), University of Vice: Drinking, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London Gina Bloom, Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play Stella Achilleos (University of Nicosia, Cyprus), Silencing Bathyllus: Drinking and Male Homo-erotic/social Bonding in Early Modern Versions of the Anacreontea ***********************************************************************Precarious Biospheres: Medical Science, Human Being, and the Problem of Species TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Richard A. Barney (University at Albany, SUNY) Lucas Hardy (University at Albany), What is a Man, That is a Worm?: The Problem of the Human Being Wormed in Cotton Mathers Medical Writing Richard A. Barney, Exquisite Nerves, Frogs, and the Physiological Dilemma of Sensibility Dana M. Lawton-Balejko (University at Albany), Keatss Poetic Necrosis: Snakes Poison, This Living Hand, and the Death of the Other in Me ************************************************************************ Magic Man: Masculinity Imagined on the Stage, Page, and through Occult Philosophy ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Allison Kavey (CUNY John Jay College) Randolph Trumbach (CUNY Baruch College and Graduate Center), David Garrick, Fribble and Daffodil: Sodomitical Characters on the Mid-Eighteenth Century London Stage Thomas Lolis (University of Miami), Imagined Geography, Magical Theology: Esotericism, Gender, and Imperialism in Book II of Spensers Faerie Queene Margaret Mikesell (CUNY John Jay College), Fathers and Sons in Hamlet Allison Kavey, Nature Revived: Gender and the Natural World in Agrippas Three Books of Occult Philosophy *********************************************************************** Longing For Things Unknown WASHINGTON C, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Jane Hwang Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts) Susannah Rutherglen (Princeton University), The Painted Unknown: Lorenzo Lottos St. Jerome in the Desert Colleen Rosenfeld (Rutgers University), Spensers Labours Anna Swartwood (Princeton University), Surface Tension: The Painted Faade in Sixteenth-Century Italy Kevin Peterson (George Mason University), The Allure of the Unknown: Failure of Precedent in Late Elizabethan Poetry J. K. Barret (University of Texas, Austin), Performing the Unknown: Julius Caesar and the Rhetoric of Futurity ************************************************************************ Appetites for Destruction: Revenge Drama and the Body Politic ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR

Chair: Jennifer R. Rust (St. Louis University) and Nichole E. Miller (Temple University) Sheri McCord (St. Louis University), Tituss Kitchen: The Remedy and Poison of Sacred Killing in Titus Andronicus Nichole E. Miller (Temple University), The Revengers Decision Jason R. Denman (Utica College), Unruly Members: The Insatiate Countess as Revenge Tragicomedy Catherine Winiarski (Pomona College), Abundance Made Me Poor: Adultery and Mate-Idolatry in Websters The White Devil ************************************************************************ Imagination, Humor & Wit in the Writings of Thomas Middleton COMMONWEALTH D, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University) Douglas Bruster (The University of Texas at Austin), Middletons Imagination Molly Hand (Florida State University), It will be exceeding good this year: Skepticism in Middletons Mock-prognostications Kirk Quinsland (Fordham University), I thought he would never ha'took the Latin Tongue: Middleton's Latin Jokes ********************************************************************* Women A-part: The Delectation of Womens Bodies in Early Modern Texts and Images COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Susan Shifrin (Ursinus College) Nancy Zaice (Francis Marion University), Both Emblem of and Portal to the Divine: The Female Body in the Poetry of Lord Edward Herbert of Chirbury Matthew McIntyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sex, Excess, Burlesque: The Delectation of Womens Bodies in Thomas Middletons The Revengers Tragedy Trudi Van Dyke (William Patterson University and Ramapo College), Beauty Scarce Endures A Day: Satirizing the Myth of Societal Artifice in Jonathan Swift's Poetry Julie Harper Elb (Lausanne Collegiate School), Taming of the Stew: Food and Femininity in Early Victorian England ************************************************************************ 4-5.15 JEMCS Special Session II: Exchange, Influence, & Translation: Spain & England COMMONWEALTH B, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Brian Lockey (St. Johns University) Respondent: Barbara Fuchs Miguel Martinez (City University of New York), Translatio Imperii: Cames, Fanshawe, Mickle and Colonial India Maria Pando Canteli (Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain), Martyrdom Politics and the Political Mystique: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, a Spanish Woman in Jacobean England Elizabeth Bearden (University of Maryland), Sidney's Celestina: Mongrell Tragicomedie and Romance Paintings of Iberia in the New Arcadia ********************************************************************** Bloody Shakespeare COMMONWEALTH A1, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Scott Blanchard (Misericordia University) Christine Sukic (Universit de Reims Champagne-Ardenne), Now could I drink hot blood: cannibalistic revengers on the early modern stage Nil Palabiyik (Kadir Has University: Istanbul, Turkey), More Stern and Bloody Than the Centaurs Feast: Carnivalesque Banqueting in Titus Andronicus Andrea Silva (Wayne State University), The Pleasures of Sacrifice: Aaron, Tamora, and the moral tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Brooke Stafford (Creighton University), A natural Taste for Revenge: Nature Imagery in Titus Andronicus *********************************************************************** Metaphors Back, and Youre Gonna Be in Trouble TUBMAN, 3RD FLOOR Chair: James McCabe, Independent Scholar Donovan Sherman (University of California, Irvine), The Absent Elegy: Devouring Theatricality in The Winters Tale Brooke Conti (State University of New York at Brockport), The Mechanical Saint: Early Modern Devotion and the Rhetoric of Automation Wendy Hyman (Ithaca College), Metal Poets Sarah Covington (Queens College, City University of New York), The Wounds of Eros: The Body and Desire in SeventeenthCentury England ************************************************************************ Domestic Devotions: The Changing Nature of Love and Marriage in Early Modern Drama ANTHONY, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Ann Christensen (University of Houston) Paula McQuade (DePaul University), Dearer than all is my husbands life: Marriage and Motherhood in A Yorkshire Tragedy (1606) Deborah Montuori (Shippensburg University), For Love nor Money: Will and Want in the Witch of Edmonton Christine M. Varholy (Hampden-Sydney College), Gifts That Keep on Giving: Spousal Gifts and Domestic Harmony in The Shoemakers Holiday and Othello Ann Christensen, Men Dont Leave: Aeneas as Departing Husband in Dido, Queen of Carthage *********************************************************************** Sexual Transgressions II: Blurring Masculine and Feminine WASHINGTON B, 3RD FLOOR Chair: Teresa Saxton (University of Tennessee) Deirdre ORourke (University of Pittsburgh), Hoes before Bros: Cross-Dressing and Male Erotic Friendship in Shakespearean Comedy Teresa Lopez (University of Tennessee), Compromising Cross-Dressing: Humor and Gender Identity in Jonsons Epicene Jessica Landis (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Homoeroticism, Sodomy and the Cross-dressed Woman in The Roaring Girl Defne Turker Demir (Halic University, Turkey), Gender Transgressions for Sale: Charlotte Charkes A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke Christina Furtado (Fordham University), Monstrous Incest and Commodity Fetishism in Early Modern Plays and Print ************************************************************************Eat Your Words: Appetite COMMONWEALTH A2, 2ND FLOOR Chair: Kathryn Vomero (New York University) William Germano (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art), Nuts Kathryn Vomero, Overroasted Flesh: Heat and Meat in Shakespeares Shrew Nova Myhill (New College of Florida), Several Appetites: Jonsons Audiences and the Construction of Taste Ray Tumbleson (Kutztown University), A Hunger for Incest: Tom Jones and How Being Oversexed Is Good for You ********************************************************************** Social Distortion: Politics & Policies ADAMS, 3RD FLOOR

Chair: David Wright (Misericordia University) Elyssa Cheng (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan), The Needle and the Tramp: Vagrancy and Displacement in Gammer Gurtons Needle Emily Wilkinson (Stanford University), The Regicide in a Soup Plate: Swifts Tale of a Tub and the Politics of Ragout Natalie Inman (Vanderbilt University), Fulfilling Political Desires: Securing Land and Resources through Intercultural Networking on the Southeastern Frontier John Michael (University of Rochester), John Adams and the Appetite for Approval, or Preudence and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty Sallie Anglin (University of Mississippi), Pleasures of the City: Corporeal Corruption and the Geo-humoural Subject in Early Modern City Comedy

6.30-8.30 RECEPTION MILENNIUM HALL, 2ND FLOOR Eat, drink, and be merry! Please join us for tasty treats and luscious libations at the historic Loews Hotel. The University of Pennsylvanias English Department will generously sponsor a Beer Tasting for all GEMCans at our Gala. Be prepared to sample some fine brews from Stoudts Brewery in nearby Lancaster County. Please refer to the site for questions: http://www.stoudtsbeer.com/brewery.html.

Sunday, 23 November 10-Noon BRUNCH (Room TBA) Whet your appetites one more time and join us for brunch as we discuss GEMCS at Sweet 16: Back to the Future. 3pm Ancient Voices

All GEMCans are invited to attend the University of Pennsylvanias Early Music Choir Ancient Voices, which features Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Music. The concert will be housed in the Amado Room of Irvine Auditorium on UPenns Campus.