Communication from January 30th, 2025
Greetings Marvellians,
I hope that the new year and new semesters finds everyone well even amidst what are, at the least, somewhat chaotic times.
I write with several updates on upcoming events and calls related to the Society. My apologies for putting so much information in one email, but I presume this format is preferable to multiple emails from the Society.
RSA/SAA Boston 2025 -March 20th-22nd
We have four wonderful panels on a range of stimulating topics scheduled across the three days of the conference. We hope to see you all there. At the moment, we are also planning a casual Happy Hour gathering after the 4:30-6pm Friday afternoon panels, location to be determined. I will follow up with an email with details on this gathering as we get closer to the conference date.
Here are the panels:
Thursday, March 20th
11AM-12:30PM
Andrew Marvell: The Labor of Poetry and the Poetry of Labor
“Marvell’s Sententiae,” Kartika Puri, Yale University
“Botanical ‘Rarities’: The Colonial Poetics of Marvell’s ‘The Mower Against Gardens’,” Gina Filo, Southeastern Louisiana University
“Marvell’s Mowers: Pastoral Without History,” Patrick Delehanty, UC-Berkeley
Friday, March 21st
9AM-10:30AM
Local and Global Networks in Andrew Marvell’s Poetry
“‘The Geometric Year’” Compassing Marvell’s Metaphors,” Lottie May Page, Princeton University
“Das’s Metaphysical Quest: Reimagining Marvell’s Legacy in a New Cultural Landscape,” Jahidul Alam, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
“Marvell, Pepys, and the Arts of Intelligence,” Matthew Augustine, University of St. Andrews
2:30PM-4:00PM
Marvell and Childhood
“Marvell’s ‘Nymph Complaining’ and Sexual Violence, Ann Huse, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Managing Children, Managing Time in ‘Appleton House’,” Margaret Summerfield, Boston College
“‘Women Must Not Teach Here’: Formation, Regression, and the Mother’s Tongue in Marvell,” Maral Attah-Zadeh, Trinity College, Cambridge
Saturday, March 22nd
4:30PM-6:00PM
Marvell and Theatricality
“Gender and the Performative in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Third Advice to a Painter’,” William Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
“Marvell and the Masque,” Blaine Greteman, University of Tulsa
“Theatrical Marvell: Personation, Depersonalization, and Textuality,” Brendan Prawdzik, Pennsylvania State University
Here is the link to the complete RSA program: https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0
Annual Meeting
Just as last year, we are planning on holding our Annual Meeting online after RSA sometime in April. I will write in late March with details and a Microsoft Teams link.
Marvell Studies
The next issue of Marvell Studies will feature articles on Upon Appleton House and land improvement and should appear by mid-year. The editor encourages and welcomes others submissions, of full-length articles, shorter notes, and reviews, for possible publication in 2025. In 2026, the journal anticipates publishing a special issue on the work of Nicholas von Maltzahn.
Call for Papers -British Milton Seminar (in Honor of Warren Chernaik)
Sorry for the late notice, but I just received this from the conveners of the British Milton Seminar.
The Spring 2025 meeting of the British Milton Seminar will be held on Zoom on Friday 14 March 2025. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm, and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. We currently intend that the first session will have two papers (of approx. 25-30 minutes each), for which proposals are invited.
The second session will be dedicated to the life and work of Professor Warren Chernaik (1931-2024), scholar, teacher, and longtime friend of and participant in the British Milton Seminar. He is the author of The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell (1983), Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature (1995), a study of The Merchant of Venice (2005), The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2007), The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries(2011), Milton and the Burden of Freedom (2017), and, to be published in the next year or two, Marvell and Milton: Poets of a Fallen World. We invite short papers (max. 5-10 minutes), notes, comments, tributes and reminiscences, however brief, that respond to and celebrate Warren and his work. Please send proposals to Professor Hugh Adlington ([email protected]) and Professor Sarah Knight ([email protected]) by no later than 31 January 2025.
I hope to see everyone soon in Boston!
Chris
Christopher D’Addario
Professor and Chair
Department of English
Gettysburg College