Dear colleagues,

Just a reminder of our celebration in honor of Phyllis Rackin, who is
retiring this year.  If you're planning to attend, please do register in
advance so we know how many lunches to order!  Just drop us a line at
[log in to unmask] with your name, institutional affiliation
(if any), and your email address; the $10 registration fee will be payable
at the door.

Looking forward to seeing some of you on April 6th!

Best,
Erika Lin


CONTESTATION AND RENEWAL IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES:
A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PHYLLIS RACKIN

Saturday, April 6, 2002

University of Pennsylvania


After forty years of teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor
Phyllis Rackin will be retiring at the end of the 2001-2 year. The
University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a conference to honor her on this
occasion.

A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, Professor
Rackin has written such influential books as _Stages of History:
Shakespeare's English Chronicles_ and _Engendering a Nation: A Feminist
Account of Shakespeare's English Histories_ (with Jean Howard), and has
published numerous important articles in journals such as _PMLA_ and
_Shakespeare Quarterly_. Over the years she has made a lasting impact on
the lives of thousands of students, and her insightful scholarship, love
of teaching, and personal warmth will be remembered for generations to
come.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM -- Registration and Breakfast

10:00 AM -- Opening Remarks

        Jean Howard (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM -- Session 1: Sexual Differences

        Chair: Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania)

        Julie Crawford (Columbia University), "Ladies' Cabinets"

        Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY), "'That Codpiece Ago':
        Codpieces and Masculinity in Early Modern England"

        Valerie Traub (University of Michigan), "The Joys of Martha
        Joyless"

11:30 PM - 12:30 PM -- Plenary Session

        Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County and
        Shakespeare Association of America), "Making Space for Women in
        History: The Case of Alice Barnham"

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM -- Lunch

        Speaker: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania)

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM -- Session 2: Racial Histories

        Chair: Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania)

        Rebecca Ann Bach (University of Alabama at Birmingham),
        "Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Othello: Race and Emerging
        Heterosexuality"

        Kim Hall (Fordham University), "Race and Geography in the Early
        Modern Carribean"

        Rachana Sachdev (Susquehanna University), "Circumcising Turks"

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM -- Session 3: Performing Gender

        Chair: Cary Mazer (University of Pennsylvania)

        Peter Parolin (University of Wyoming), "Cooks, Books, and Bodies:
        Preparing Food, Producing Gender on Early Modern Stages"

        Sarah Werner (George Mason University), "Arming Cordelia"

        Barbara Hodgdon (Drake University), "The RSC's 'Long Sonata of
        the Dead': Shakespeare-History and Imagined Community"

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM -- Session 4: Women Writing

        Chair: Sean Keilen (University of Pennsylvania)

        Gwynne Kennedy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Writing
        Women's Anger and Revenge"

        Lisa A. Freeman (University of Illinois at Chicago), "The Woman
        Writer as Public Paradox"

        Wendy Wall (Northwestern University), "Household 'Writing,' or
        the Joys of Carving"

6:15 PM -- Closing Remarks

        David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM -- Reception

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The conference will take place on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
The registration fee is $10 and includes a continental breakfast, a
box lunch, and the evening reception.  To register, please send your name,
e-mail address, and institutional affiliation (if any) to:

        [log in to unmask]

The registration fee will be payable at the door.  Please register in
advance to guarantee that a lunch will be available for you.  The
registration table will be located in the Schneidman Lobby of Logan
Hall.  All paper sessions will take place in Room 17, Logan Hall.  Lunch
will be served in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall, and the evening
reception will be in the Rosenwald Gallery on the sixth floor of Van Pelt
Library.

If you do not have access to e-mail, you may register by sending your
name, phone number, and institutional affiliation to:

        Phyllisfest
        c/o Erika Lin
        119 Bennett Hall
        Department of English
        University of Pennsylvania
        Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273

More information about the conference can be found at:

        http://www.english.upenn.edu/Conferences/Phyllisfest/

This conference is sponsored by the Department of English, the
Medieval-Renaissance Discussion Group, the School of Arts and Sciences,
the Provost's Office, the University of Pennsylvania Library, the
Women's Studies Program, the Comparative Literature and Theory Program,
and the General Honors Program.