MRDS Sponsored Sessions: MLA 2012

Conference: 
MLA
Conference Year: 
2012

We hope you'll join us at the following session, part of the annual meeting of the MLA in Seattle, Washington, January 5 to 8, 2012. The MRDS is pleased to sponsor the following session:

 

Session 102. Medievalism and Marlowe

Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 PM 

Location: 613, WSCC

Program arranged by the Marlowe Society of America and the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

Presiding: Robert Alexander Logan (University of Hartford)

  • “Marlowe’s Ars Moriendi,” Andrew D. McCarthy (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
  • “A Medieval Tamburlaine: Marlowe and the Legacy of the Crusades,” Lee Manion (Yeshiva University) 
  • “Marlowe and Medieval Albania,” David McInnis (University of Melbourne)

 

Session 211. Performativity versus Theatricality

Friday, 6 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m.,

Location: Seneca, Sheraton

Chair: Robert L. A. Clark (Kansas State University)

Performativity has become a key concept in literary studies of the medieval and early modern periods, but its relationship to the theater is ill defined. This roundtable brings together specialists of French and English medieval and early modern theater to examine the application of these critical terms to early drama. Aspects to be discussed include rhetoric, tensions about feigning or counterfeiting of the self, anthropological considerations, and queer performativity. 

Participants

  • Garrett P. J. Epp (Univ. of Alberta)
  • Mario Longtin (Univ. of Western Ontario) 
  • Ineke Murakami (Univ. at Albany, SUNY)
  • Jefferey H. Taylor (Metropolitan State College, Denver)