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PROGRAM
 

8:30

(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)

Registration and Seating 

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9:15

(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)

OPENING REMARKS

Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania

9:30-11:00

(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)

FEMINISMS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Chair: David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

Respondents: Emily Weissbourd, University of Pennsylvania

Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania

 

Coppélia Kahn, Brown University

“Feminist Criticism in Shakespeare Quarterly, 2000-2010”

 

Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

“The Literacy of Shakespeare’s Daughters” 

 11:15-12:45     

(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)

RELIGION, NATION, AND SEXUALITY

Chair: Marissa Nicosia, University of Pennsylvania

Respondents: Bronwyn Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania

 

Richard Halpern, Johns Hopkins University

“Samson’s Gospel of Sex: Failed Universals in Milton and Freud”

 

Richard Rambuss, Emory University

 “Cosmopolitan Crashaw: A Study in Style” 

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12:45-2:00

LUNCH

(Lunch will not be provided, but a list of nearby restaurants will be available at the conference.) 

 2:00-3:30

(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)

WRITING RACE AND GENDER

Chair: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania

Respondents: Kelly Rich, University of Pennsylvania

Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania 

 

Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University

“Queer Philologies: Editing Sex and Race in Othello” 

 

Patricia Parker, Stanford University

“Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Religion, and Race: 

Nervous Masculinity, Black Hamlet, Spelling Backwards, and Asiatic Style”  

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3:45-5:15

(McNeil Center)

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Moderator: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants: Dympna Callaghn, Richard Halpern, Coppélia Kahn, Ania Loomba,

Jeffrey Masten, Patricia Parker, Richard Rambuss, and Melissa Sanchez

5:15

CLOSING REMARKS

Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania

5:30

RECEPTION