8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WITTENBERG, GERMANY (2018)
The Marlowe Society of America's 8th International Conference will be held in Wittenberg, Germany, from 10–13 July, 2018. Home to Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, and Lucas Cranach (elder and younger), Wittenberg was a hugely important center of both religion and culture in sixteenth-century Germany. On the door of its Cast Church, Luther nailed his 95 Theses in 1517, and its university (now known as the "Leucorea") was made the alma mater of Shakespeare's Hamlet ("Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: / I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg."). The town also serves as backdrop for the B-Text Doctor Faustus, the locale where Faustus first "surfeits upon cursed necromancy" and where his life ends "All torn asunder by the hand of death!"
Hosted by MSA President Kirk Melnikoff, the conference will feature keynote presentations by Lukas Erne (University of Geneva), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), and Holger Syme (University of Toronto). Tours of the Luther House, the Melanchthon House, the Castle Church, and Cranach Studios will complement special events, workshops, screenings, and productions designed specially for conference attendees.
[ Please note that registration for the conference is now closed, and accommodation at the Leucorea Foundation is fully booked. If you have any questions about registration, accommodation, or any other logistical matters relating to the conference, please contact Claire Bourne (claire.bourne@psu.edu). You may also email Claire to be put the accommodation waitlist. All questions about MSA membership should be directed to Helen Hull (hullh@queens.edu). ]
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
MARLOWE SOCIETY OF AMERICA • 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE • WITTENBERG • JULY 2018
MONDAY, JULY 9
Registration
2:00 – 5:00 p.m., Leucorea Foyer
TUESDAY, JULY 10
Registration
8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[PANEL] MARLOWE & THE CLASSICAL WORLD
12:30 – 1:45 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Dido, Queen of Carthage: Epic Instrumentality and General Economy of Sacrifice
Barbara Correll, Cornell University
False Aeneas, Faith-Breaking Theseus, and Asinine Heroism in Marlowe and Shakespeare
Loren Cressler, University of Texas at Austin
What Else is Marlowe? Reading Beyond Pastoral
Joshua Calhoun, University of Wisconsin,
Marlowe’s Mural and a Paradox: the Virgilian-ness of the Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage
Lucy Potter, University of Adelaide, South Australia
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[PANEL] MARLOWE & SHAKESPEARE
12:30 – 1:45 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
Marlowe and Shakespeare, Co-Authors
Rory Loughnane, University of Kent
Revaluing Faustus in Romeo and Juliet
Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield
"Enter to the battle": On- and Offstage Combat in Marlowe and Shakespeare
Gillian Woods, Birkbeck, University of London
The Influence of Royal(ties): On Marlowe, on Shakespeare, and on Us
Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University
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Kaffeepause
1:45 – 2:00 p.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[PANEL] TAMBURLAINE BEFORE MARLOWE: AUTHORSHIP, READING, & THE BOOK
2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Biblioclasm and Book-Props in Tamburlaine
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mending Tamburlaine (1606)
Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University
1 & 2 Tamburlaine and the Troublesome Division of Plays
Tara L. Lyons, Illinois State University
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[PANEL] MARLOWE'S AFTERLIVES
2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
The Ravishing Magic of Poetry: Marlowe in Recent Speculative Fiction
Craig Brewer, Western Governors University
Kit’s Afterlife in Cinema: Shakespeare in Love, Cradle Will Rock, and Only Lovers Left Alive
Sae Kitamura, Musashi University
Marlowe in Love: Faustus in Lovely Little Losers
Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College and State University
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Freizeit (Free Time)
3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Visit Lutherhaus Museum, Stadtkirche Sankt Marien, Schlosskirche, Melanchthonhaus, Cranachhaus
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Welcome Address
5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Schlosskirche
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Opening Reception
7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Lutherhaus Refektorium
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
[PLENARY PANEL] MARLOWE & CULTURES OF COLLABORATION
9:00 – 10:15 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Defining Collaboration / Defining Marlowe
Emma Smith, Oxford University, Hertford College
Marlowe and Nashe
Laurie Maguire, Oxford University, Magdalen College
Shakespeare's (And Marlowe's?) Most Important History Play
Gary Taylor, Florida State University
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Kaffeepause
10:15 – 10:30 a.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[PANEL] COLLABORATION & AUTHORSHIP
10:30 – 11:45 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Thomas Nashe and Dido Queene of Carthage
Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, Australia
Who Wrote Dido, Queen of Carthage?
Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia
The Craftsmanship of the Additions to Faustus-B
Bruce Brandt, South Dakota State University
"Call thy wits together": Marlowe’s Co-Authorship of the Henry VI Plays
Ros Barber, Goldsmiths, University of London
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[PANEL] GENDER, SEXUALITY, & THE BODY
10:30 – 11:45 a.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
The Poetics of Opacity in Hero and Leander: Early Modern Traditions of Sensuous Grief
Douglas Clark, University of Manchester
Deception and Desire: Queering Ovid in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander
Daniel G. Lauby, University of New Hampshire
Topping Marlowe, Queering Nashe
Corey McEleney, Fordham University
Ovidian Theatricality, Masculinity, and the Protean Stage-Jew in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
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Mittagspause (Lunch Break)
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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[KEYNOTE] "GENIUS OF A NAIVE, UNCOUTH TIME": MARLOWE ON THE GERMAN STAGE, FROM BRECHT TO PALMETSHOFER
Holger Schott Syme, University of Toronto
1:00 – 2:00 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
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Freizeit (Free Time)
2:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Visit Lutherhaus Museum, Stadtkirche Sankt Marien, Schlosskirche, Melanchthonhaus, Cranachhaus
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[PANEL] PASSIONS, PROMISES, & PRONOUNS
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
"What passions call you these?": Language of Desire and Violence in Marlowe’s Edward II
Emily Atkinson, Smith College
Seeking "Coverture": The Legitimacy of Promise in Dido, Queen of Carthage
Helen Hull, Queens University of Charlotte
Pronouns in Performance
Leslie Thomson, University of Toronto
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[PANEL] BEGINNINGS & ENDINGS
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
"Tell me who made the world?": Origins in Doctor Faustus
Chloe Porter, University of Sussex
The Brazen Serpent: Wittenbergian Characters between Marlowe and Shakespeare
Viola Timm, Independent Scholar
Christopher Marlowe’s Portrayals of Mortality
Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford
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Wittenberg (Staged Reading)
CAST: Sara Muson Deats, Joyce Karpay, Daniel Lauby, Lagretta Lenker, Lisa Starks
7:30 – 9:00 p.m., Rathaus (Wittenberg Town Hall)
THURSDAY, JULY 12
[PANEL] HENSLOWE BY THE NUMBERS
9:00 – 10:00 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Henslowe By Three
Roslyn Knutson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
"Titus & Andronicus": One or Two?
Misha Teramura, Reed College
"My name is odious": One Opaque Play Title, Zero Progress
David McInnis, University of Melbourne
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[PANEL] MARLOWE WITHOUT MARLOWE: THE CASE OF "THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE"
9:00 – 10:00 a.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
Making Shakespeare Making Marlowe
Adam G. Hooks, University of Iowa
"Another of the same nature, made since": The History of "The Passionate Shepherd" in Collection
Megan Heffernan, DePaul University
What are "a thousand fragrant posies"?
Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia
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Kaffeepause
10:00 – 10:15 a.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[KEYNOTE] MARLOWE & BIBLICAL TIME
Kristen Poole, University of Delaware
10:15 – 11:15, Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
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Mittagspause (Lunch Break)
11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Freizeit (Free Time)
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Visit Lutherhaus Museum, Stadtkirche Sankt Marien, Schlosskirche, Melanchthonhaus, Cranachhaus
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[PANEL] MARLOVIAN FORMS
3:00 – 4:15 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Timur the Lame: Marlowe, Disability, and the Politics of Form
Andrew Bozio, Skidmore College
Marlowe’s Material Characters
Megan Snell, University of Texas at Austin
"and in the chronicle, enroll his name": Marlowe as Historical Dramatist
Ed Gieskes, University of South Carolina
Marlowe, Du Bartus, and Elizabethan Biblical Drama
Paul Whitfield White, Purdue University
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[PANEL] TEXTUAL TRANSACTIONS
3:00 – 4:15 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
"Instead of Troy shall Wittenberg be sacked": What Hamlet and Hoffman say about Doctor Faustus
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Did Marlowe’s Faustus Really Study in Wittenberg?: An Overlooked Mistake in the English Faust Ballad and in Marlowe’s Tragical History
Frank Baron, University of Kansas
Doctor Faustus and Bruno’s Oratio valedictoria (1588) to Wittenberg
Roy Eriksen, University of Agder, Norway
William Parry, Traitor and Spy: An Afterlife in Print
Annaliese Connolly, Sheffield Hallam University
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Kaffeepause
4:15 – 4:30 p.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[PANEL] MARLOVIAN ENVIRONMENTS
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
"Sooner shall the sea o’erwhelm my land": Water in Edward II
Andrew Duxfield, University of Liverpool
Blowing on the Wind: Marlowe’s Aerial Technologies and The Jew of Malta
Chloe Preedy, University of Exeter
Edward II, Ireland, and the Sea: Marlowe’s History of Desire
Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University
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[PANEL] FORMS OF VIOLENCE
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
Marlowe and the Invention of Rape Culture in "Hero and Leander"
Eric Dunnum, Campbell University
Marlowe’s Critique of Religious Violence in The Jew Of Malta and The Massacre at Paris
Amelia Price, University of Huddersfield
Marlovian Echoes in The Massacre at Paris
Rachel Wifall, Saint Peter’s University
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Lust’s Dominion (Staged Reading)
7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Brauhaus
FRIDAY, JULY 13
[ROUNDTABLE] EDITING MARLOWE
9:00 – 10:00 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham
Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia
Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin University
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[PANEL] CONTEXTUALIZING EDWARD II
9:00 – 10:00 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Marlowe and the Parker Library
Meadhbh O’Halloran, University College, Cork
Marlowe’s Edward II and Early Modern Historiography
Kit Heyam, University of Leeds
Restaging Edward II: From Medieval Constitutional Crises to Twenty-First-Century Performance
Diana E. Henderson, MIT
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Kaffeepause
10:00 – 10:15 a.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[PANEL] MARLOVIAN PERFORMANCES
10:15 – 11:30 a.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Becoming Animal in Early Modern Drama: Tamburlaine, Nebuchadnezzar, and the Abhominable Acting of Edward Alleyn
Todd A. Borlik, University of Huddersfield
Valdes and Cornelius are Dread: Paying Witness to Quantum Space in Doctor Faustus
Robert Darcy, University of Nebraska, Omaha
The Devil and Doctor Faustus
Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin University
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[PANEL] DANGEROUS PLEASURES
10:15 – 11:30 a.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
Swimming and Sensuality in Hero and Leander
John Garrison, Grinnell College
The Pleasure of Commodification in Doctor Faustus
Bradley Ryner, Arizona State University
The Erotics of Reading in Marlowe’s Elegies
Benjamin C. Miele, University of the Incarnate Word
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Mittagspause (Lunch Break)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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READING MARLOWE
1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
Marlowe, Chapman, and Charles I’s Hero and Leander Tapestries
Christopher Matusiak, Ithaca College
"Some fond and friuolous Iestures": Publishing Tamburlaine for an Upwardly Mobile Readership
Carla Baricz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Drayton’s Marlowe and the Place of the Stage
Meghan C. Andrews, Lycoming College
After Parnassus: Marlowe In and Out of School
Joel M. Dodson, Southern Connecticut State University
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[PANEL] RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS
1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Leucorea, Conference Room
Tamburlaine the Preacher
Alex Garganigo, Austin College
From Paradise to Purgatory: Marlowe’s Spatial Imagination in Edward II
Helga Duncan, Stonehill College
Machiavelli among the Nicodemites: Dissembling Faith in The Jew of Malta
Kilian Schindler, Fribourg University
Tamburlaine’s Failed Revelation
Matt Carter, UNC Greensboro
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Kaffeepause
2:15 to 2:30 p.m., Leucorea Foyer
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[KEYNOTE] DISINTEGRATING MARLOWE
Lukas Erne, University of Geneva
2:30 – 3:30 p.m., Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum
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Freizeit (Free Time)
3:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Visit Lutherhaus Museum, Stadtkirche Sankt Marien, Schlosskirche, Melanchthonhaus, Cranachhaus
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Closing Banquet
6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Brauhaus