General Topics
Technology in Education* (see under Pedagogy)
Reading Popular/Consumer Culture* (see under General Topics)
Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film (see under Film Studies)
Women's Caucus Seminar (see under Gender Studies)
Mothers in Literature of Women of Color in the Twentieth Century* (see under Gender Studies)
American Humor (see under English-US & Canadian Studies)
Textual Depictions of American Polygamy* (see under English-US & Canadian Studies)
Spatiality: Open Spaces, Closed Spaces, Hybrid 'Third' Spaces'* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
Ethical Criticism* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
Rhetorical Criticism* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
Rhetorical Theory* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
Current Research in Literary Theory* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
The Event and the Space of Literature* (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)+ (see under Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies)
English Linguistics and ESL (see under Linguistics)
Auto/Biography Studies*
Helga Lenart-Cheng, 49 Estrella Avenue, Piedmont, CA 94611; 510-985-0390; helga@klarius.com
Description: Accepting papers on theories of auto/biographical self-representation or readings of individual auto/biographical texts
Badiou, Zizek, Lacan: Transcendental Materialism*
Paul Bryant, 8500 Timber Crest Court, Frisco, TX 75035; 214-705-6587; lprbryant@yahoo.com
Digital Rhetoric: Persuasion in the Internet Age*
Jeff Swift, 1725 Sego Ln, Provo, UT 84604; 801-494-4673; jswift@byu.net
Drama
John Antosh, SUNY-Fredonia, 2141 Fenton Hall, Fredonia, NY 14063; 716-673-3833; fax 716-673-3356; antoshj@fredonia.edu
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Popular Women's Fiction in English
Judy E. Sneller, Dept of Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines, 501 E St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701-3995; 605-394-1246; fax 605-394-6124; judy.sneller@sdsmt.edu
Fantasy Series: Harry Potter, Oz, Twilight, et al.*
Mimi R. Gladstein, Department of English, University of Texas, El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968; 915-747-6259; fax 915-581-5753; mgladstein@utep.edu
Description: Papers on any aspect (political, archetypal, and cultural) of popular fantasy series are solicited.
Folklore, Identity and Contemporary Fiction*
Judith Strathearn, 13468 Glen Circle, Broomfield, CO 80020; 303-646-7613; jstrathearn@gmail.com
Description: I am seeking papers that reflect a connection between folklore and contemporary (1970-2009) fictional texts and how we reconstruct individual and community identities by revisiting folklore of the past
Identity and Landscape*: Representing National Identity Through Landscape
E. Claydon, Dept. of Media and Communication, Univ. of Leicester, Univ. Road, Leceister, Leicestershire Leicestershire LE1 7RH; 116-252-2089; fax 116-252-5276; eac14@le.ac.uk
Description: Focusing on the way in which landscape is represented as an articulation of national identities.The media for analysis could include any of the arts but it is anticipated that the main foci will be film, art (including photography) and literature.
Literature and Aging*
Alan Goff, 2149 West Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021-2995; 602-870-9222; agoff@devry.edu
Description: Session will focus on literature about aging or aging characters. From Roth to Cervantes, what insights might we acquire about age?
Literature and Other Arts
Christine Gillette, 10873 North 127th Place, Scottsdale, AZ 85259; 480-767-0278; mgillette2@cox.net
Literature and Religion
Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue VMMC 24, Vancouver, WA 98686-9600; 360-546-9354; fax 360-546-9036; grenierj@wsu.edu
Literature and Science
John Slater, 126 McKenna Languages Building, CB 278, BOULDER, CO 80309-0278; 303-492-0309; john.d.slater@colorado.edu
Literature for Children and Young Adults
Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado, Candelaria Hall 275 B Campus Box 87, Greeley, CO 80639; 970-351-2162; fax 970-351-3823; joy.landeira@unco.edu
Medieval Romance*
Misty Urban, Humanities Division, 500 8th Avenue, Lewiston, ID 83501; 208-792-2167; fax 208-792-2324; murban@lcsc.edu
Promiscuous Ontologies: Object-Oriented Philosophy and the New Realism*
Paul Bryant, 8500 Timber Crest Court, Frisco, TX 75035; 214-705-6587; lprbryant@yahoo.com
Reading Popular/Consumer Culture*
Greg Grewell, 1532 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85719; 520-319-7080; ggrewell@email.arizona.edu
Description: Inviting papers that "read" popular and/or consumer culture. Texts need not be literary or print-based but may be; preference is for non-literary, non-traditional "texts." Any theoretical approach, methodology, and/or analysis will be considered.
RMMLA Poets Read their Works
Julie Steward, 800 Lakeshore, Birmingham, AL 35229-2260; 205-726-2035; fax 205-726-2112; jsstewar@samford.edu
RMMLA Prose Authors Read their Works
Julie Nichols, 338 East 4450 North, Provo, UT 84604; 801-863-6795; jjnphd@msn.com
Romanticism
Gloria Schultz Eastman, 2020 Julian Way, Denver, CO 80211; 303-556-3233; geastman@mscd.edu
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film
Kyle Bishop, 992 S Fountain Drive, Cedar City, UT 84720; 435-586-7804; bishopk@suu.edu
Sigma Tau Delta
Melissa Whitney, PO Box 1445, Bandera, TX 78003; 830-688-1132; Mayce-girl@hotmail.com
Description: Only members of the national English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, may apply.
Skin as Text*
Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Campus Box 32, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362; 303-556-8377; fax 303-556-6165; carlsonc@mscd.edu
Description: Papers should examine tattooing, body painting, piercing, scarring, or wrinkling as a text calling for decoding or interpretation. We are particularly interested in papers with a theoretical turn.
The Meaning of Food: Culinary Exchanges as Expressions of Cultural Values*
Christopher Bindel, 1790 Alder St, Eugene, OR 97401; 575-302-8649; paul.bindel@gmail.com
Description: The panel is open to discussions of the representation of food in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, and digital media or to comparative approaches that engage with the question of the meaning of food exchanges (or lack of exchanges).
Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
Ingo Stoehr, 2911 Dogwood, Nacogdoches, TX 75965; 936-715-0367; fax 936-715-0367; ingostoehr@aol.com
Visual Rhetoric*
Gary Hatch, 237 West 850 North, American Fork, UT 84003; 801-422-2402; fax 801-422-0221; gary_hatch@byu.edu
Description: Rhetorical approaches to images, including the visual representation of information, relationships among image and text, and visual argumentation
War in Literature and Film*
Jill Dahlman, 1652 Paula Drive, Honolulu, HI 96816; 808-988-1636; jilldahlman@yahoo.com
Writing Survival: Coping with and Learning from Violence in Literature*
Kim Fordham, 4901-46 Ave., Camrose, AB Canada T4V 2R3; 780-679-1162; fax 780-679-1590; kfordham@augustana.ca
Description: This session will focus on what we can learn from violence in literary texts written by women since 1960. I seek fellow scholars exploring the complex issues inherent in acts of violence as well as in the resolutions to violence offered by female authors
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