Monday, August 4

9:00am -11:00am - Check In, Hunter Conference Center

10:15am - Utah Shakespearean Festival Back Stage Tour, Randall L. Jones Theatre Lobby

Panel 1 From Lier to Lord Hidetora: The Evolution of King Lear

12:30 pm- 2:15 pm Yankee Meadows Room

“They Die or They Die Not, That is the Question: Borrowing and Adapting the King Leir Legend in the Anonymous Chronicle History of King Leir and Shakespeare’s King Lear”
James Forse, Bowling Green State University

“Ennobled by Suffering?: Acceptance in King Lear”
Jeffrey Jones, Columbia University, New York, NY

“See Better: Resurrecting the Visual Life of Lear through the Afterlife of Ran”
Justin Kennington, Idaho State University

“Instruments to Plague Us’: the Link between Sexual Sin and Tragedy in King Lear”
Tom Flanigan, Idaho State University

Panel 2: Man, I feel like a Woman: Duality, Matrimony, and Patricharchy in Twelfth Night

2:30- 3:45 pm, Yankee Meadows

“Can She Talk the Talk?” What Speech Patterns Say About Viola/Cesario
Jean Reid Norman, University of Nevada

“Rings and Things in Twelfth Night: Gift Exchange and the Matrimonial Economy in Early Modern England”
Stephanie Chamberlain, Southeast Missouri State University

“Revealing Early Modern England’s Judeo-Christian Patriarchy as a Source of Power for Early Modern English Women”
Eve Speer, Mary Baldwin College

Panel 3: Magic, Medusa and Macbeth: Ancient Myths and Mysticism

4-5:15 pm, Yankee Meadows

"'I'll to my book:' Prospero's book and James I's Demonology."
Curtis Bostick, Southern Utah University

“Under the Eye of Gorgo: Apotropaic acts in Macbeth and King Lear”
Francois-Xavier Gleyzon, University of Manchester

Tuesday, August 7

Panel 4A: Undergraduate Panel

9-10:15 am, Yankee Meadows Room

“Cultural Capital and the Canon in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet”
Miranda Giles, Brigham Young University

“Enough of Excess: Portrayals of Twelfth Night’s Maria”
Sanner Garofalo, Pepperdine University

“Audiences and Fools”
Amber Fullwood, Southern Utah University

Panel 4B: Undergraduate Panel

9-10:15 am, Vermillion Cliffs Room

“Shakespeare’s Conviction of Ophelia”
Karen Walsh, Montana State University

“Idealism and Reality in The Tragedy of Coriolanus”
Jonathan Dorn, Erskine College

“Why Rome Cannot Succeed: The Failures of Education in Coriolanus”
Katherine Evans, Erskine College

Panel 5: A Feste-val of Fools: Clowning around in Twelfth Night

10:30-11:45 am, Yankee Meadows

“A Clown in the Dark House: Reclaiming the Comedy in Twelfth Night’s Act Four Scene Two”
Becky Kemper, Maryland Shakespeare Festival

“Shakespeare and his Actors: An Essay on Clowns, Fools, Tragedians, and Women And the Men and Boys Who Played Them”
William Babula, Sonoma State University

“Feste and Lear’s Fool: Different Genres, Same Function”
Bente Videbaek, Stony Brook University

Panel 6: Shipwrecks, Fortune and Fools: Juxteposition in Twelfth Night

1:00- 2:15 pm, Yankee Meadows

“Fabian as Quintus Fabius Maximus in Twelfth Night”
Frank Ardolino, University of Hawaii

“Hath He Not Reason to Turn Back an Hour in the Day?” Twinship in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and the Death of Hamnet
Immy Wallenfalls, Syracuse University

"You Kiss By the Book: Love and Textuality in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Twelfth Night."
Heather Donovan, California State University

Panel 7: Is it all There? Textual Approaches to Shakespeare Performance

2:30-3:45, Yankee Meadows

“Making Shakespeare Funny to Regular Folks”
Orson Scott Card

“The First Folio Phenomenon and the Bloodying of Mark Antony”
Margie Pignataro, Texas Tech University

“Punctuation as Stage Direction in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”
John Sullivan, Riverside Community College and Azusa Pacific University

Keynote Speaker

5:00 pm

“Overtures to Coriolanus and Lear”
Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University

Wednesday, August 8

Panel 8: Shaping Identity: Language and Myth in Coriolanus

9:30-10:45 am, Yankee Meadows Room

“Shakespeare’s Achillean Coriolanus and Heraean Volumnia: Textual Contamination and Crossing of Homer’s Iliad in Coriolanus”
Chikako Kumamoto, College of DuPage

“Though Thou Speakest Truth, Methinks Thou Speak’st Not Well”: Linguistic Vertigo in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”
Samuel Joeckel, Palm Beach Atlantic University

Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 am

King Lear Actors Panel

11:15 am -12:45 pm, Thorley Hall

Dan Kramer: King Lear
Carole Healey: Goneril,
Shelly Gaza: Cordelia
Carey Cannon: Regan
James Newcomb: Earl of Kent
Kieran Connolly: Gloucester
Tim Casto: Fool