BRITISH LITERATURE CONFERENCE

Conference Schedule

All Friday sessions are in the Terrace Room

8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Registration

8:30–10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Terrace Room: Lower Level Campus Center

9–10:15 a.m. Session 1: 16th Century

Welcome and Chair: Bob De Smith, Dordt College

Jason McCarty, Baylor University.“‘In vaine seeks wonders out of Magick spell’: Merlin as Redemptive Allegory in The Faerie Queene”
Mitchell Harris, Augustana College. “Spenser’s Maleger and Augustinian Body Ethics”
William Hodapp, College of St. Scholastica. “Reading Pleasure and Virtue in the Sixteenth Century: Early Printing History and Reception of Stephen Hawes’ Pastime of Pleasure and Example of Virtue”

10:15–10:30 a.m. Morning Break

10:30–11:45 a.m. Session 2: Mary, Milton, Marvell

Chair: Bruce Brandt, South Dakota State University

Stephen Hamrick, Minnesota State University. “‘Fatal Flowers...Shining in Excess’: The Precarious Position of Princess Mary in 1525”
Clay Daniel, University of Texas—Pan American. “Sight, Spite, and Milton”
Michael Kensak, Northwestern College. “What Transpires in Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’: A Pattern of Subversive Allusions”

Noon–12:45 p.m. Lunch: Dordt College Commons

1–2:15 p.m. Session 3: Shakespeare

Chair: Mary Dengler, Dordt College

Bruce Brandt, South Dakota State University. “Remaking King Lear”
Rachel De Smith, Baylor University. “‘Age is unnecessary’: Stages of Life in King Lear”
Gary Scott Groce, Black Hills State University. “A Reconsideration of the Potential Sources for Falstaff’s Rhetoric”

2:30-3:15 p.m. Session 4: Middle Ages

Chair: William Hodapp, College of St. Scholastica

Nicholas Wallerstein, Black Hills State University. “The Scheming Pardoner: Style in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale”
Michelle M. Sauer and Audrey D. Johnson, University of North Dakota. “After the Flood: The Noah Plays, Archontics, Authority, and Contemporary Fan Fiction”
Sean Gordon Lewis, Wyoming Catholic College. “English Comedy at the Close of the Middle Ages: Jan Van Doesborch's Contribution”

3:15–3:45 p.m. Afternoon Break

3:45–5 p.m. Keynote Address

John N. King. “The Reformation and the Book: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning”

5:30–6 p.m. Cash Bar: The Fruited Plain [171 N. Main Ave, Sioux Center]

6–7:30 p.m. Banquet: The Fruited Plain

All sessions are on the Third Level of the Campus Center

8:30–10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
President’s Lounge, Upper Level Campus Center

9–10:15 a.m. Session 5a (CA318): Tolkien and Medievalism

Chair: Michael Nagy, South Dakota State University

David Herbener, South Dakota State University. “Hidden Myths and Half Truths in Middle Earth”
Jacob Herrmann, South Dakota State University. “Tolkien’s ‘Evil’ Races: A Cross-Cultural Study of Orcs and Trolls”
Matthew Pullen, South Dakota State University. “Crossing Borders: Reassigning the Other in the Lord of the Rings and the Vinland Sagas”

9–10:15 a.m. Session 5b (Board Room): Sources

Chair: Stephen Hamrick, Minnesota State University

John Kerr, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. “‘Nor Shall Death Brag’: Life beyond the Zombies in Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth”
Gayle Gaskill, St. Catherine University. “Young Stephen Sondheim’s Classic Spin-Offs: West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
Art Marmorstein, Northern State University. “The Tragedy of the Common Cuckold: Richards’ Messalina and its Sources”

10–10:30 a.m. Morning Break

10:30–11:45 a.m. Session 6a (CA318): Middle Ages

Chair: Nicholas Wallerstein, Black Hills State University

Rachel Piwarski, University of North Dakota. “Structures of Power: Androgyny, Patriarchy, and Christ’s Love in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Divine Love”
Jason Miller, University of North Dakota. “Hybrid Monstrosity in Sir Gowther”
Kirby Lund, University of North Dakota. “Dreaming the Divine: Dream as Confession in Joseph’s Trouble About Mary”

10:30–11:45 a.m. Session 6b (Board Room): 18th Century and Beyond

Chair: Joshua Matthews, Dordt College

Douglas Northrop, Ripon College. “Castiglione in the Cloister”
Tim Decker, Minnesota State University. “Thomas Shadwell, Ben Jonson, and the Restoration Trope of Humility”
Susan Wood, Midland University. “Burney and the Anti-Captivity Narrative: A Reflection on Genre”
Jodi Napiorkowski, St. Cloud State University. “Elizabeth, Catherine, Fanny, and Emma: The Significance of Dance in the Novels of Jane Austen”

Noon–1:15 p.m. Business Lunch (Board Room)