Individual Session Listings with Chair Contact Information

Please note: An asterisk (*) after a session title indicates a Special Topic Session. A plus sign (+) indicates the meeting of an Affiliate Organization; these meetings are open to all RMMLA members.


English-US & Canadian Studies

Ethnic Studies (see under General Topics)

Italian-American Writers (see under Italian Studies)

Teaching English (see under Pedagogy)

Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges (see under Pedagogy)

Sigma Tau Delta (see under General Topics)

African American Literature
Stephen Macauley, 3195 South 300 East, Apt 18, Salt Lake City, UT 84115; 435-512-0183; nat_macauley@yahoo.com

American Humor
Jennifer Brady, 1303 Alpine Ave Apt 27B, Boulder, CO 80304; 303-337-2689; jennifer.brady@colorado.edu

American Literature after 1900
Martina Jauch, 2501 Soldiers Home Rd, Apt14C, West Lafayette, IN 47906; 765-464-8437; mjauch@purdue.edu

American Nineteenth-Century Literature
Jennifer Nader, University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico MSC 03 2170, Albuquerque, NM 87131; 845-222-0571; jennader@unm.edu

Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+
Alan Goff, 2149 West Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021-2995; 602-870-9222; agoff@devry.edu
Description: The increase in both authorship and readership of novels authored by Latter-day Saints poses an interesting recent literary development. The development seems to be in genre fiction rather than literary fiction.

Canadian Literature and Film
Gloria T. Gilmore-Hunt, 773 East 1000 North, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062; 801-808-7262; fax 801-863-6256; gloria.gilmore@uvu.edu
Description: Please send papers to Gloria Thomas Gilmore-Hunt, Ph.D., French Program Coordinator at Utah Valley University

Early American Literature
Keri Holt, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3200; 435-797-8946; kerin.holt@usu.edu

Flannery O'Connor
Donald Hardy, English 098, Reno, NV 895557-0098; 775-682-6368; donhardy@unr.edu
Description: General papers are welcome but in particular those which explore topics which might include (but are not limited to)O'Connor's fiction within the literary traditions of other countries.

Native American Literature
Li Guo, Cinema and Comparative Literature, Univ. of Iowa, E210A Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, IA 52242; 319-321-9647; li-guo@uiowa.edu
Description: This session will focus on oral traditions and the narrative, prose, and poetry of Native (North) Americans. Papers on any aspect of the topic will be invited.

Southern Literature
Tara Powell, Institute for Southern Studies, USC-Columbia, Gambrell Hall 107, Columbia, SC 29208; 803-777-4498; tfpowell@gmail.com
Description: Open topic, though special attention will be given to projects related to ideas about regional identity and southern writers outside the South. Please submit abstract and 2 page CV.

Textual Depictions of American Polygamy*
Jeniveve Wahlquist, 800 West University Parkway, Mail Stop 153, Orem, UT 84058; 801-863-8757; wahlquje@uvu.edu

Traumatic Memory and Narrative Memory in Ethnic American Literatures*
Raquel Kennon, 30 Cambridgepark Drive 3131, Cambridge, MA 02140; 310-200-9106; rkennon@fas.harvard.edu

Western and Southwestern Literature
Theda Wrede, 2049 S. 28005, St. George, UT 84790; 435-652-7821; wrede@dixie.edu

zz not in use
RMMLA Secretariat 2, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue, WSUV - VMMC 24, Vancouver, WA 98686-9600; 360-546-9354; fax 360-546-9036; rmmla@wsu.edu


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