8:30a–9:00a Registration
9:00a Opening Remarks
Tanya Pollard, The Graduate Center, CUNY
9:15a–10:30a Transformative Potential: Affect, Subjectivity, Identity
Chair: Lorena Uribe Bracho, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Amelia Worsley, Princeton University
Milton’s Loneliness
Michael Shelichach, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Being Nothing”: Subjectivity and the Virtual in Shakespeare’s Richard II
Joseph Bowling, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“This fortress built by nature for herself”: Material Agency and
Political Affect in Richard II
10:30am-11:30am Identity in Motion: Early Modern Travel Writing
Chair: Gavin Hollis, Hunter College, CUNY
Lea Puljcan Juric, Independent Scholar
Transforming the Illyrian body: Slavery and Piracy in the Eastern Adriatic
Eva Johanna Holmberg, University of Helsinki & Queen Mary, University of London
Beyond ethnographies: Depiction of Eastern Christians in early modern English travel writings
11:30am-12:30pm Break for Lunch
12:30pm-1:30pm Subject Interrupted: Temporality, Suspension, Transformation
Chair: Linda Neiberg, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sarah Lewis, University College Dublin
‘[P]uffed and reckless’ prodigality: the actions and delays of masculinity in Hamlet
Catharine Gray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Marvel, Militarism, and the new Commonwealth
1:30pm-2:30pm On Paper: Political Identity & Textual Production
Chair: Will Fisher, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Michael Durrant, University of Manchester
“Flesh Prevailing Over the Spirit”: Henry Hills’ Adultery and The Prodigal’s
Polemical Purpose
Julie Crawford, Columbia University
Margaret Cavendish, Orator
2:30pm-2:45pm Coffee Break
2:45pm-4:00pm Working Boys: History, Class, Performance, Identity
Chair: Shiraz Biggie, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ronda Arab, Simon Fraser University
Apprenticeships for Gentlemen: Transforming Young, Male Subjectivities
Pamela Allen Brown, University of Connecticut, Stamford
Glamour at Work: English Boys, Foreign Actresses, and Italian Dressing
Nancy Selleck, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Making Shift with Boys: Revisiting the work of the boy-heroine
4:00pm Keynote Address
Hannah Crawforth, King’s College London
“A Father to the Soul and a Son to the Body”: Transforming Family Relationships in Early Modern England
5:00pm–6:00pm Reception (Room 4406)