REGISTRATION

Friday, March 21st, 8:00-9:30

SESSION 1:

Friday, March 21st, 9:00-10:00, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Mary Steible, SIUE

Margaret M. Borene, Southampton Community College. "Portraiture of Elizabeth R. and the Painted Life of Mary Ward"

Anna Riehl, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Portraits of Elizabeth I: Phasing the Young Queen's Faces"

SESSION 2:

Friday, March 21st, 10:15-11:45, Redbud Room

Session Chair: John Pendergast, SIUE

Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. "Jonson, Elizabeth, and the Essex Conspirators: Cynthia's Revels as Mediation"

John D. Staines, Earlham College. "Writing the Misfortunes of Elizabeth: Pathos and Politics in Endimion and The Misfortunes of Arthur"

Mary Anne Hutchinson, Utica College. "The Man They Loved to Hate: Contemporary Representations of the Earl of Leicester"

Lunch

SESSION 3:

Friday, March 21st, 1:00-2:00, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Carol Frick, SIUE

Stephanie Thompson, Utah State University. "'Your Queene is an hore': Accusation, Anxiety, and the Aging Body of Elizabeth I"

Christopher Martin, Boston University. "The Breast and Belly of a Queen: Elizabeth After Tilbury"

SESSION 4:

Friday, March 21st, 2:15-3:15, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Carol Frick, SIUE

Cora Fox, Arizona State University. "The Queen's Metamorphic Body: Ovidianism in the Court of Elizabeth I"

Rachelle Munkhoff, Tulane University. "Elizabeth Distending"

Session 5:

Friday, March 21st, 3:30- 4:45, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Johanna Schmitz, SIUE

Jessica Forbes, Columbia University. "Staging Elizabeth I: The Body of the Queen in Stuart Drama"

Ian Maclennan, Laurentian University. "Performing Queens: Masculinities as Femininities in Elizabeth I's England"

Session 6:

Friday, March 21st, 3:30- 4:45, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Isaiah Smithson, SIUE

Jenny Mann, Northwestern University. "Prince or Mother?: Re-Considering the Political Maternity of Elizabeth I"

Shawndra Holderby, Mansfield University. "The Faeries' Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Portrayal of Female Rulers in the Early Modern Fairy Tales"

Reception:

6:00-7:30

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Department of English

Session 7:

Saturday, March 22nd, 9:00-10:00, Redbud Room

Session Chair: John Pendergast, SIUE

Grant Moss, Virginia Tech. "Portrait of a Marriage? Gascoigne's Kenilworth Pageant and the Zuccaro Portraits of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley."

Rosemary Richards, Victorian College of the Arts. "Britten's Gloriana: Its Relevance and Resonance Today."

Session 8:

Saturday, March 22nd, 10:15-11:15, Redbud Room

Session Chair: John Savoie, SIUE

Clifton W. Potter Jr., Lynchburg College. "Undoubted Queen: Victorian Literary Perceptions of Elizabeth I."

Carmel Shachar, Fieldston School. "A Tale of Two Queens: The Rise of Modernity and the Reign of England's Two Golden Queens, Elizabeth I and Victoria."

Keynote and lunch

11:30-1:30

Session 9:

Saturday, March 22nd, 1:45-3:15, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Mary Steible, SIUE

Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia. "'nought but pressed gras": Absent Centres and the Depiction of Elizabeth's Body in The Faerie Queene"

Leslie A. Taylor, Independent scholar. "A Sacred History: The Legend of Chastity and Spenser's Reshaping of Renaissance Dynastic Epic"

Session 10:

Saturday, March 22nd, 3:30-4:30, Redbud Room

Session Chair: John Pendergast, SIUE

Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and John Morris Jackson, Troy State University. "Elizabeth I: An Intellectual Figure in Her Age"

Jeffrey H. Taylor, The Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Elizabeth and Boethius: Appropriating Philosophical Power"

Session 11:

Saturday, March 22nd, 3:30-4:30, Redbud Room

Session Chair: Paulette Marty, University of Wisconsin

Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. "Fairy Worlds and Old Queens: Resonances of Queen Elizabeth in Jonson's masque, Oberon the Fairy Prince"

Paulette Marty, University of Wisconsin. "Performing the 'Elizabethan' at Kenilworth, 1575"

Session 12:

Saturday, March 22nd, 4:45-5:45, Redbud Room

Marilyn Murphy Meardon. "Queen Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words"

Reception

6:00-7:00

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Department of English

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