2004 Renaissance Comparative Prose Participants and Schedule

November 4-5, 2004

Keynote Speaker: John Shawcross, University of Kentucky
Plenary Speaker: Neal Migan, Baker College

 

Thursday, November 4th

8:30 a.m.--Conference welcome with refreshments 

9-10:30 a.m.--Paper session one
Early Modern Education

Chair: Richard DuRocher, St. Olaf College
Jeffrey Gore, University of Illinois at Chicago
Gwynn Dujardin, Northwestern University
Judith Owens, University of Manitoba

11-12:30 p.m.--Paper session two
Bodily Narratives

Beth Bradburn, Western Michigan University
Dorothy Stegman, Ball State University
Stephany Fontanone, Hudson Strode Program for Renaissance Studies

 12:45 p.m.--Break for lunch

2-3:30 p.m.--Paper session three
Religious Prose: Voicing Anxiety

Paul J. Klemp, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Will Rogers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brooke Conti, Yale University

 4:30 p.m.--Keynote Address

Dr. John Shawcross, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kentucky
“Lost in the Valley: The Textuality of Some Renaissance Prose”

7 p.m.—Dinner hosted by the Renaissance Prose Committee

Friday, November 5
 

8:30 a.m.--Coffee and Juice

9:00 a.m.--Plenary Address

Dr. Neal Migan, Baker College
"Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Martyrdom in Donne's Prose."

10:30-12 p.m.--Paper session four
 Questioning Tradition: Prose Style and Genre

Julia Schleck, New York University
Denna Iammarino, John Carroll University
Andrea Walkden, Yale University
Elizabeth Gross, Penn State University

12:15 p.m.--Break for lunch

1:30-3:00 p.m.--Paper session five
Humanist Endeavors: Of Rhetoric and Reform

Angelica Duran, Purdue University
Jason Powell, Wake Forest University
John Schaeffer, Northern Illinois University