VMI Undergraduate Research Shakespeare Conference 2006-2007

For the third annual conference, our keynote speaker is Dr. David Bevington, professor Emeritus of English at the University of Chicago and editor of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, among many other publications on early drama. Prof. Bevington's address is entitled "Shakespeare Faces Retirement."

Schools taking part this year are Bridgewater College, Christopher Newport University, Hollins University, James Madison University, Roanoke College, Virginia Military Institute, and Washington and Lee University.

FOR THE COMPLETE PROGRAM OF THE 2006 CONFERENCE, CLICK here.

Prizewinners for "Best Paper in Session" each received an autographed copy of David Bevington's Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience. The prize for "Best Paper in Conference" received an autographed copy of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, David Bevington, General Editor. The winners in 2006 are listed below, along with all the other presenters.

• Best Paper in Session 1:  Dane Boston, Washington & Lee University: "The Rise of Modernity and the Decline of Religion in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
  
  
• Best Paper in Session 2:  Victoria Crump, Hollins University: "'Let Us Speak Our Free Hearts': Spaces of Communication, Homoeroticism, and Gender as Performance in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Macbeth." 
  
  
• Best Paper in Session 3:  Sara Mueller, Washington & Lee University: "'Children of This Age': The Cycle of Violence in Ran"
  
  
• Best Paper in Session 4:  Ben Nicholson, James Madison University: "Renaissance Philosophy in Shakespeare's Hamlet"
  
  
• Best Paper in Conference:  Ben Nicholson, James Madison University: "Renaissance Philosophy in Shakespeare's Hamlet"

Other presenters and papers:

• Kathryn Britt, Roanoke College: "Viola and Olivia: Shakespeare's Salute to Elizabeth I in Twelfth Night"
  
  
• Amanda Cox, Hollins University: "Double Representation of the Feminine in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A MidsummerNight's Dream"
  
  
• Lora Dattilio, Christopher Newport University: "Material World, Material 'Girls': Ben Jonson's Epicoene"
  
  
• Rachel Doria, Bridgewater College: "The Types That Humor: Examining Character Types and Irony in Shakespeare's Comedies"
  
  
• Ginger Harris, Roanoke College: "'I Love Thee Against My Will': The Arduous Courtship of Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing"
  
  
• Amanda Hedrick, Christopher Newport University: "Manipulation and True Power: An Analysis of the Relationship between Richard and Lady Anne as Social Critique"
  
  
• Erin Herring, James Madison University: "Courtly Love: A Tainted Paradigm in Richard III and The Changeling"
  
  
• Brian Kim, James Madison University: "Falstaff and Feste as the Fools"
  
  
• Josh O'Donnell, Bridgewater College: "The Maturation of Prince Hal in 1 Henry IV"
  
  
• Addison Palanza, Virginia Military Institute: "'Passionate Friendship' in The Merchant of Venice"
  
  
• Chrystal Trapani, Christopher Newport University: "Death and Equality in Hamlet"