Minutes 2011 – St. Louis, Missouri

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Andrew Marvell Society President Nigel Smith called the meeting to order at 8:35 a.m.

Members present

Nigel Smith (President), Timothy Raylor (Vice President), Sean McDowell (Past President), Joan Faust (Executive Secretary), George Klawitter, Alex Garganigo, Garbriella Gruder-Poni, Martin Dzelzainis, and Laurent Curelly.

Members were given copies of the meeting agenda and minutes of the March, 2010 Marvell Society Meeting held in Corpus Christi.

I. Previous Minutes

The 2010 minutes were approved unanimously.

II. Business arising from the minutes

The Vice President clarified that at the 2010 meeting, the Marvell Society had approved applying for affiliate status with the RSA; since then, our affiliate status has been confirmed and we will sponsor a session, organized by the President at this year’s RSA Meeting in Montreal later this month.

III. New Business

  1. The 2012 RSA Conference is set for March 22-24, 2012, in Washington, D.C. The Marvell Society will sponsor 1-2 sessions at the conference. The President and Vice President will confer on this matter and report back to the Executive Committee via email.
  2. The SCRC Conference is set for March 8-10, 2012, in New Orleans, LA.
    1. The following suggestions were approved for the CFP:
      1. Marvell’s Life and Biographical Interpretations
      2. Marvell and Religion
      3. Marvell and the Drama
        Executive Secretary will invite submissions on these topics, as well as encourage open submissions, on publicity relating to SCRC 2012.
    2.  The following works were chosen for two panel discussions at SCRC 2012:
      1. “Last Instructions to a Painter” (Verse Satire)
      2. “The Gallery” (lyric)
        The Executive Secretary will contact the membership for volunteers to present on these titles.
  3. Laurent Curelly and Christopher Orchard were unanimously approved as new members of the Executive Committee for 2012-14.

IV. Other Business

  1. The Past President explained that Thomas Herron, the new editor of Explorations in Renaissance Culture, has offered to devote another special issue to Marvell. The Past President asked whether the Society was interested and if anyone would like to edit the new edition. Members of the Executive Committee will discuss the matter via email.
  2. Sean also informed members that Thomas Herron and past-EIRC Editor Frances Malpezzi encouraged him to expand the 2009 Marvell issue of EIRC into an edited volume of essays. After discussion, consensus was that all contributors to the issue should be contacted for their opinion and permission for such a project. The Past President will contact contributors and report back to the Executive Committee by email. The Vice President and Executive Secretary will survey papers recently presented at SCRC to see which might fit within the general theme of the previous collection, The Social Character of Marvell’s Imagination; they will report back to the Executive Committee by email.

The President adjourned the meeting at 9:02 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Joan Faust (Executive Secretary)

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