UVA-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXI (September 2007)

On the weekend of September 20-22, 2007, six of our majors and I traveled to Wise, VA, where the students presented papers developed during my Spring 2007 Renaissance Literature class. The students revised and polished their papers over the summer until they had true presentation-quality work. The trip provided them with the opportunity to share their ideas with a scholarly audience, interacting with their peers and more advanced scholars at a well-established, discipline and period-based regional conference.  We also had a nice ride through the Smoky Mountains.


From left to right: Shane Bell, Tyanna Jones, Emily Camp,
 Jason Joiner, Laurissa Wolfram, Anna King

  

Our presenters were:

  • Shane Bell—MALS (History)
  • Anna King—MALS (English)
  • Emily Camp—BA (English)
  • Jason Joiner—BA (English)
  • Tyanna Jones—BA (English)
  • Laurissa Wolfram—BA (English)


Jason Joiner presenting his paper


UVA-Wise Campus Coverage of the Conference

Thanks

To our kind hosts at UVA-Wise, especially Dr. John Adrian and Dr. Ken Tiller

and

This trip would not have been possible without our sponsors at Clayton State University:

Language and Literature: Dr. Susan Hunter
MALS: Dr. Tom Barnett
College of Arts and Sciences: Dr. John Campbell
Student Affairs: Dr. Elaine Manglitz
School of Graduate Studies: Dr. Tom Eaves
The presentations were as follows:

Renaissance Drama & Gender

Jason Joiner, Clayton State University, "Female Transvestism and Sexuality in The Roaring Girl"

Brittany Harris, University of Virginia's College at Wise, "Lady Macbeth: Secret Desires for Masculinity"

MicKenzie Fasteland, Hamline University, "Educating Juliet: the Impact of Shakespeare, Pedagogy, and Patriarchy on Teenage Girls."

Shakespeare

Emily Camp, Clayton State University, "Authority and Editorial Voice in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Reading the Arden Three"

Christopher J. Stoots, Emory and Henry College, "Shakespeare and the Ascension of the Art of Magic"

Sir Philip Sidney - (a Clayton State panel)

Tyanna Jones, "Recovering Stella: a Feminist Approach to Astrophil and Stella"

Shane Bell, "Sir Philip Sidney's Unfulfilled Expectations"

Laurissa Wolfram, "Astrophil and Stella: Love or Lust?"

Anna King, "The Gravity of Masculine Order: Virility and Servility in Sidney's New Arcadia"

For Clayton State University press coverage of this event, see excerpts from the August 17, 2007 and September 20, 2007 Campus Review.

 

Last updated December 27, 2007
by Greg McNamara