This
message is aimed mainly at those member of the Medieval and Renaissance
Drama Society who work in early modern drama and rarely attend the
Kalamazoo Medieval Congress. Since the society holds its annual
business meeting at Kalamazoo, members who don't attend that conference
don't have much chance to participate in decisions, particularly about
the topics for paper sessions at conferences. MRDS sponsors
sessions not only at the medieval congresses at Kalamazoo and Leeds, but
also at each year's MLA Convention, the most likely venue for early
modern sessions.
Thus, I
would like to invite members specializing in the early modern to suggest
topics for the society to consider at the annual meeting at Kalamazoo
this May. If chosen by the membership, topics in early modern would
most likely be scheduled for the December 2006 MLA convention.
(Topics not chosen this year may be held over for subsequent years, and
some topics might turn out to be well suited to Kzoo or Leeds.) I
am currently a member of the MRDS council, and will be happy to bring
suggestions to the meeting. In order to be accepted a topic will
have to have a guaranteed organizer, but neither the suggester nor the
organizer need to be present at the meeting.
I hope
this invitation will generate some fascinating topics, and perhaps help
MRDS members working in the early modern period become more active in the
society. Yours,
Peter
Greenfield
Editor,
Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Department
of English
University
of Puget Sound
Tacoma,
WA 98416-1045
USA
