English Faculty, 12 April 2019
Conference Programme:
Welcome remarks (10.20 – 10.30)
Panel 1: Taste and Sex (10.30 – 11.30)
Chair: Savannah Pine
Sarah Kennedy, “‘You should think love like Homer’s moly, a white leaf and a black root, a fair show and a bitter taste’: Sweet, Sour and Unsavoury Desires in John Lyly’s Comedies”
Kate Kinley, “Sex and Sugarplums: Sickly Excess in Shirley’s The Lady of Pleasure”
Laura Pupo Cheng, “Discourse Community in CUL Ii. vi. 33: Reading Shame and Disgust in 15th and 16th-century Gynaecological Treatises”
Break: 11.30 – 12.00
Panel 2: Women, Cults, and the Occult (12.00 – 12.45)
Chair: Joel Lipson
Louise Naude, “Editing Demon Porn: Merlin’s Conception in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace”
Rebekah Lippens, “Inverting the Eucharist: Christina the Astonishing, Mendicancy, and Gendered Control”
Lunch: 12.45 – 14:00
Panel 3: Bodies and Revulsion (14.00 – 15.00)
Chair: Rebekah Lippens
Sarah Lesley, “Jonson’s Bad Classicism: Epicurean Caricatures, Misreading, and Scatologic Materialism in The Alchemist”
Catherine Newman, “The Tasteless Adventures of Christian Davies: Woman Warriors and the Disgusting Ideology of Sport”
Lucy Smith, “Medieval Leprosy, Boils and Bloodbaths”
Break: 15.00 – 15.30
Panel 4: The Aesthetics of the Canon (15.30 – 16.30)
Chair: Louise Naude
Ruilin Fan, “Margaret Cavendish and ‘Badness’”
Hannah Burke-Tomlinson, “Innovation through Transgression: Ovid’s Abortive Materia in Amores 2.13 and 2.14”
Katie Mennis, “Taste the Difference? Reading ‘Bad’ Love Poetry ‘Aright’”
Break (with afternoon snack): 16.30 – 17.00
Keynote: 17.00 – 18.00
Dr Raphael Lyne
Closing Remarks (18.00 – 18.15)
Drinks: 18.15 – 18.45
Dinner: 19.00 (at The Copper Kettle restaurant)
