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Conference Program

Tue. 4 June

2 pm - 6 pm: Registration (front entrance of the Performing Arts Center)
6 pm: Reception (Anchorage on Bay Street)

Wed. 5 June

9:00-10:45: Welcome and Plenaries 1 & 2 (AUDITORIUM)

Chair:  Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University

Thomas Corns, University of Wales, Bangor: "Milton and History"
John Hale, University of Otago: "Tribal Latin: Milton's Cambridge Performance"

10:45-11:15: Coffee (Room 105)

11:15-12:45: Parallel Sessions 1-4

1. Created Beings (Room 101)

Chair: Katsuhiro Engetsu, Doshisha University

Gardner Campbell Mary Washington College	'Though I uncircumscribed myself retire': Alterity and Creation in Paradise Lost 7.162-173.
Andrew Barnaby University of Vermont	Cringing Before the Lord:Satan, Samuel Johnson, and the Anxiety of Worship
Maggie Kilgour McGill University	One Flesh, One Subtext: Ovid's Narcissus in Paradise Lost
Feisal G. Mohamed University of Toronto	Morning and Evening Knowledge in Miltonic Angelology

2. Economics (Room 100)

Chair: John Leonard, University of Western Ontario

Lynne A. Greenberg Hunter College	Paradise Enclosed and the Feme Covert
David Hawkes Lehigh University	The Concept of the "Hireling" in Milton's Theology
Kimberly Latta University of Pittsburgh	"Gums of Glutinous Heat": Usury in Milton's Maske
Shigeo Suzuki Nagoya University Japan	"Auri Sacra Fames": Forbidden Capitalism in Paradise Lost

3. Hebraic Materials (Room 103)

Chair: Michael Lieb, University of Illinois, Chicago

Noam Flinker Dept. of English University of Haifa	Kabbalisitic Exile and Redemption Ironically Reversed in Milton's Paradise Lost and Joyce's Ulysses
Shari Zimmerman Hofstra University	'Breaking while Seeming to Keep' and 'Keeping while Seeming to Break': Polluted Covenants, the Pretense of Faith, and Relations that do not Stand
Kirsten Uszkalo Edmonton, Alberta	These and these are the Words of the Radical Milton
Beth Quitslund Ohio University	Sacred Truths and Old Songs: Milton's Metrical Psalms

4. The Passions (Room 201)

Chair: Karen Edwards, University of Exeter

Ittamar Avin University of Natal South Africa	'Bliss,' 'Delight,' and 'Pleasure' in Paradise Lost
Seth Lobis Yale University	Milton and the Rhetoric of Natural Sympathy
Anita Gilman Sherman University of Maryland	Milton and the Attractions of Austerity
David Houston Wood Purdue University	"All Passion Spent": Milton's Samson and the Melancholic Trajectory

1-2:15: Lunch

2:15-3:45: Parallel Sessions 5-8

5. Paradise Lost (Room 100)

Chair: Caroline Hunt, College of Charleston

Jean R. Brink Arizona State University	Paradise Lost and the Sixteenth Century Philosophical Poem
Peter Herman San Diego State University	The Elevation of the Son and the Miltonic "Or": Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude
Su Fang Ng University of Oklahoma	Execrable Sons and Second Adams: Family Politics in Paradise Lost
Albert C. Labriola Duquesne University	The Son as an Angel in Paradise Lost

6. Milton and Early Modern Nationalism (Room 101)

Panel Co-Organized by Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein

David Loewenstein University of Wisconsin-Madison	"A Nation Rent and Torn in Spirit and Principle": Religion, Politics, and Nationhood from Areopagitica to the Second Defence
Regina M. Schwartz Northwestern University	National Religion and Religious Nationalism in Milton
Paul Stevens Queens University	Milton's Nationalism and the Modernization Theories of Gellner and Anderson
Nicholas Von Maltzahn University of Ottawa	Miltonic Blank Verse and the Nation, 1660-1714

7. Religion and/or politics (Room 103)

Chair: Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis

Andrew Escobedo Ohio University	Millenarian Progress and the Body of Truth
Ken Simpson The University College of the Cariboo	Reading and Writing the Church in Areopagitica
Kathryn Gucer English Department Northwestern University	'The Dread Voice is Past:' The Fate of prophecy in Milton's Early Polemic

8. Milton's critics (Room 104)

Chair: Arlene Jacquette, University of South Carolina

Derek Wood St. Francis Xavier University	Aristotle, Milton and Dr. Johnson: Unity, Necessity, and Probability in The Tragic Plot
Charles Huttar Hope College	C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and the Milton Legacy: The Nativity Ode Revisited
Jackie Di Salvo CUNY	Milton and Toni Morrison
John Leonard University of Western Ontario	There Is Such a Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too: Areopagitica and Stanley Fish

3:45-4:15: Tea

4:15-5:45: Parallel Sessions 9-11

9. Milton and the Natural World #1 (Room 100)

Chair: Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College

Alan Rudrum Simon Fraser University	"Not destroyed but hidden": Paradise Lost, Edenic consciousness, and British Radicalism
June Sturrock Simon Fraser University	Birds and Flowers, Adam and Eve, Milton and Blake
Diane McColley Rutgers University	Milton's Eden and the Ecocentric Self

10. God the Father (Room 101)

Chair: Christopher Baker, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Kristin Pruitt Christian Brothers University	"For trial only brought": Divine Omniscience and Education in Paradise Lost, 8.338-451
Michael Lieb University of Illinois at Chicago	Milton's Heretical God
Margaret Thickstun Hamilton College	God as Father in Paradise Lost (Milton and Education)

11. Ideal Love (Room 103)

Chair: Rachel Trubowitz, University of New Hampshire

Thomas Luxon Dartmouth College	Marriage as Friendship: Milton, Diodati, and Divorce
Stella Revard	Milton and the Language of Love
Hiroko Sano Aoyama Gakuin University	Milton's Sonnet 23-"Yet Once More"

12. Reading The Bible (Reading 104)

Chair: Lawrence Rhu, University of South Carolina

Jameela Lares University of Southern Mississippi	The Other 47 Chapters: Paradise Lost Books 11-12 and Genesis Commentary
Michael Bryson Northwestern University	"Though ye rebel": The Motivation for Satan's Rebellion in Paradise Lost
Balanchandra Rajan University of Western Ontario	Paradise Lost: The Two Creations
Kristine Haugen Princeton University	Prophetic Performance and Interpretation in the Epics

5:00 pm: Reception (Tidalholm)

8:00 pm: Comus performance (AUDITORIUM)

Thurs. 6 June

9:00-10:30: Parallel Sessions 12-15

12. Selfhood (Room 103)

Chair: Warren Slesinger

David Sassian CUNY Graduate Center	"Where Before * an Empty Space": on interiority in Paradise Lost
Lauren Shohet Villanova University	"My Destin'd Urn": Subjects and Objects in Lycidas
Ching-ying Wang National Taiwan Normal University	The Confessional Argumentation in Paradise Lost
James Dougal Fleming Simon Fraser University	"Who otherwise would know me not": Prophylaxis, Pro Se

13. Desire in A Maske (Room 101)

Chair: Stella Revard, University of Southern Illinois

Louis Schwartz University of Richmond	Hutching the Ore: The hidden Logic of Reproductive Imagery in the Ludlow Masque
Catherine E. Thomas Penn. State University	Chaste Bodies, Poisonous Desires: The (Un)Contained Eroticism of Milton's Maske
Jennifer Lewin University of Kentucky	Leading Ladies: Milton and the poetics of Dream Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century England

14. Polemics 2 (Room 100)

Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University

Martin Dzelzainis Royal Holloway University of London	Milton and the law in Pro populo Anglicano defensio
Joad Raymond University of East Anglia	Changing his Constant Mind: Milton, Cromwell and Sincerity
Laura Knoppers Penn. State University	Seeing Double: Milton, Martyrdom and Anamorphic Art

15. Restoration Culture (Room 104)

Chair: Joseph Wittreich, CUNY Graduate Center

Margaret J. Arnold University of Kansas	Home and Exile in Milton's Samson and the Renaissance Euripides
Galen Johnson McLennan Community College	Things Already Attempted in Prose or Rhyme: Echoes of Paradise Lost in John Bunyan's The Holy War
Andrew Shifflett University of South Carolina	Form and Polemic in an Early Interpretation of Milton's Sonnet to Vane
Margaret Kean St. Hilda's College Oxford	Milton's 'Letter to the Hebrews': Poems 1671

10:30-11: Coffee (Room 105)

11-12:30: Plenaries 3 & 4 (AUDITORIUM)

Neil Keeble, University of Stirling: "Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation and Trial in Paradise Regain'd"

David Norbrook, University of Maryland, “Republican Poetics and Republican Politics in Milton and Lucy Hutchinson”

Chair: Laura Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University

1:00-2:15 Lunch (Room 105)

3:00-5:15 Excursions
(1) gather at the Beaufort Chambers Park wharf, to take a trip on the Islander, a river boat 
leaving at 3 pm;
(2) gather at the side parking lot of the Performing Arts Center to be taken by limousine to Hunting
Island, where you will be let loose to enjoy wild nature;
(3) starting from the PAC building lobby, take a guided walking tour of various historic homes on 
the Old Point, where you will be greeted by local gentry in their native habitat. 

8:00 pm: Comus performance (AUDITORIUM)

Fri. 7 June

9-10:30: Parallel Sessions 17-20

16. Comus (Room 100)

Chair: Tom Luxon, Darthmouth

Tom Bishop Case Western Reserve University	"How was A Masque at Ludlow Staged? Evidence from other masques."
Margaret J. Dean Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, KY 40475	Umasking Shepherds in Comus
Martin Kuester Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Philipps-Universitat Marburg	Comus-An Educational Godgame

17. The public sphere (Room 101)

Chair: Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia

Katsuhiro Engetsu Doshisha University	The Concept of the Book in Areopagitica
Peter Lindenbaum Indiana University	Brabazon Aylmer, John Milton, and Authorship in the Public Sphere
Kosei Ono Naruto University of Education	Milton's Observations Upon the Article of Peace and the Nascent Public Sphere
Rob Browning Indiana University	Immota Triumphans: Corruptions of Triumph in Paradise Lost and the Caroline Court

18. Satan (Room 103)

Chair: Carl Eby, University of South Carolina

Neil Forsyth University of Lausanne	Follow the Leader
Yuko Kanakubo Noro Tokyo Seitoku University	The Making of Satan, Milton's Old Enemy-from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio to Paradise Lost
Stephen B. Dobranski Georgia State University	Pondering Satan's Shield
John McWilliams University of Bristol	Milton "of the Devil's Party" in Marvell's "On Paradise Lost"

19. The Created World (Room 104)

Chair: Richard Rambuss, Emory University

Coburn Freer University of Georgia	"'Prodigious Births of mind': Thinking about Paradise." (revised title 12/11)
Catherine Gimelli Martin University of Memphis	Epic Anthropology: The Extra-Biblical Background of Milton's Civilized Eden
Boyd Berry Virginia Commonwealth University	Milton and vegetarianism (and writings of Crab and Tryon)
Jeffrey S. Theis University of Wisconsin-Madison	Eden's "Woody theatre": Pastoral Spaces and Architecture in Paradise Lost

10:30-11:00: Coffee (PAC Lobby)

11:15-12:45: Parallel Sessions 21-24

20. Milton and the Natural World #2 (Room 100)

Chair: Diane McColley, Rutgers University

Ann Torday Gulden University of Oslo	A Walk in the Paradise Garden: Eve's Influence in the Tryptich of Speeches, Paradise Lost IV 610-688
Ken Hiltner Rutgers University	Confusing Paradise Regained
Karen Edwards University of Exeter	Lycanthropy, or the Un-English Disease

21. Intolerance (Room 101)

Chair: Paul Stevens, Queen's University

Mary Fenton Western Carolina University	Milton's View of Ireland in the 1649 Tracts: When All Liberty is Not Created Equal
Elizabeth Sauer Brock University	Cultures of Intolerance: Re-reading Milton's "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
Jesse G. Swan University of Northern Iowa	Milton's Engagement of Early Modern White Supremacy
Anne-Julia Zwierlein University of Bamburg Germany	"The Land of their Captivity": Milton and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

22. Roundtable on Recent Biographies of Milton (Room 201)

Moderator: Sharon Achinstein

John Shawcross, University of Kentucky

Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University

Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester

23. Milton's Afterlife: 18th and 19th Centuries (Room 103)

Chair: Nicholas Van Maltzahn, University of Ottawa

Linda C. Mitchell San Jose State University	"Corrected" Syntax: Milton at the Hands of Eighteenth-Century Grammarians
Paul A. Parrish Texas A & M University	Of Education and the Eighteenth-Century Reader
Dr. Leslie E. Sheldon University of Ottawa	"'Altered from a genuine original': Miltonic Influences in Moby Dick"
Gregory Wilson Waltham, MA 02451	"As Milton Sings": The Nature of Miltonic Allusions in The Prelude

1-2:15: Lunch (Room 105)

2-3:45: Plenaries 5 & 6 (AUDITORIUM)

Chair: Roy Flannagan, University of South Carolina, Beaufort

Nigel Smith, Princeton: "Milton and Memory"

Annabel Patterson, Yale University: Milton's Negativity"

3:45-4:15: Tea (Room 105)

4:15-5:30: Parallel Sessions 25-27

24. Death (Room 100)

Chair: Andrew Shifflet, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Robert Dulgarian	Lucan, Tacitus and the efficacy of Elegy in Milton's Lycidas
Rachel Trubowitz University of New Hampshire	"Too dark for day to know": The Reformation of Death in Milton's Writings
Mary Pollard Murray Yale University	Samson Agonistes and the Christus Patiens of Hugo Grotius

25. Aesthetic and other structures (Room 101)

Chair: Margaret Kean, Oxford University

Kay Gilliland Stevenson University of Essex	Beyond "no end": The Shape of Paradise Lost X
Diana Benet University of North Texas	Innocence and Soliloquy in Paradise Lost
Kent Lehnhof Duke University	"Intestine War": Troping the Digestive Tract in Paradise Lost
Pitt Harding Georgia State University	"Satan's Undoing: Paganizing Allusions in the Temptation of Eve"

26. Biography (Room 103)

Chair: Sheila Tombe, University of South Carolina

Hugh F. Wilson SUNY at Plattsburgh	The Date of Milton's Marriage: The Case Re-Opened
Edward Jones Oklahoma State University	The Miltons at Hammersmith: Assessing the Extant Evidence

5:45: Business Meeting (Room 105)

6:00 Tour of St. Helena's Episcopal Church (led by a docent)

7:00: Reception and Banquet (historic St. Helena's Episcopal Church)

Banquet Speech: Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester, "Milton and the Water Supply of Cambridge"

8:00 pm: Comus performance (AUDITORIUM)

Sat. 8 June

9-10:30: Parallel Sessions 28-31

27. Education (Room 101)

Chair: Gordon Haist, University of South Carolina, Beaufort

Angelica Duran Purdue University	"Captain or colonel," educator or scientist: The angels of Paradise Lost
David Gay University of Alberta	"All Our Law and Story": The Politics of Learning in Paradise Regained
Greg Semenza University of Connecticut	"Heroic Games" and "Idle pastimes": Milton's Ambivalent Uses of Sport and Recreation
Richard Watkins St. Hughes College Oxford	Learning in Paradise: Milton and Education

28. Visual culture (Room 100)

Chair, Efram Burke, University of South Carolina, Beaufort

Joan Blythe University of Kentucky	Milton and the Flight into Egypt: Theology and Landscape Art
David Boocker Tennessee Technological University	"Fit audience find, though few[er]": Seeing Milton in Contemporary Fiction and Film
Wendy Furman-Adams Whittier College	"Earth Felt the Wound: Three Artists' Re-visions of Milton's Fragile Paradise"

29. Republicanism (Room 103)

Chair: Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University

Walter S.H. Lim National University of Singapore	The Temptation of Rome: Bacon, Milton, and Republican Poetics in Paradise Regained
Christophe Tournu University of Grenoble	John Milton, the English Revolution and the dynamics of the French Revolution
Hong Won SUH Yonsei University	Defeat and Triumph in The Readie and Easie Way: The Intentional Irony of the Title in the Second Edition

30. Roundtable: New Findings: Christian Doctrine (Room 203)

Thomas Corns, University of Wales, Bangor
John Hale, University of Otago 
Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky

10:45-11:00: Coffee (Room 105)

11:15-1: Plenaries 7 & 8 (AUDITORIUM)

Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley: "Aesthestics as Critique in Samson Agonistes"

Joseph Wittreich, CUNY Graduate Center, "Shifting Contexts: Reinterpreting Samson Agonistes"

Chair: Diana Benet, University of North Texas

1-2:15: Lunch (Room 105)

2:15-3:45: Parallel Sessions 32-34

Sat. 8 June

32. Milton's Sonnets: Puritan Contexts, Parabolic Identities, and Epic Rewritings (Room 100)

Panel Organized by David Urban, Oklahoma Baptist University

Leland Ryken Wheaton College	Standing and Waiting: Milton's Sonnet 19 in its Puritan Contexts
David Urban Oklahoma Baptist University	The Lady of Christ's College, Himself a "Virgin Wise and Pure": Parabolic Self-Reference in John Milton's Sonnet 9
Anna Nardo Louisiana State University	Milton's Rewritten Sonnets

32. The New media: Roundtable 4 (Room 102)

Helen L. Hull Meg Pearson Erin Sadlack University of Maryland	The Future of Milton on the Web?: Comus.edu
Thomas Luxon Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755	The Milton Reading Room: Teaching Milton in a Virtual Library

33. Male and Female (Room 103)

Chair: Hiroko Sano, Aoyama Gakuin University

Gina Hausknecht Coe College	Effeminacy and the Feminine in Eden and at Gaza
Erin Murphy Rutgers University	The Power of Subtle Women: John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson and the Form of Gender
Hideyuki Shitaka Hiroshima Prefectural Women's University	"Home to His Father's House": The Meaning of Samson's Homecoming in Milton's 1671 Poetic Volume

3:45-4:15: Tea (Room 105)

4:15: Formal Farewell (AUDITORIUM)