RMMLA Annual Conventions RMMLA: 2005 Coeur d'Alene Convention Program


59th Annual RMMLA Convention
Coeur d'Alene, ID ~ October 20-22, 2005

Convention Program

We had an exciting convention this year in Coeur d'Alene ~ thanks to all who made it happen and especially to our local hosts for their generous support.

Scroll down to see the schedule, but PLEASE note:

  • Room assignments appear ABOVE the session title.
  • The easiest way to find one's name on the program is to do a FIND (hit CTRL F and type in the first or last name **OR** choose FIND from the EDIT pull-down menu and type in a portion of the name).
  • An asterisk indicates a Special Topic Session; a plus sign indicates an affiliate member session.
  • To view a presentation abstract, click on the hyperlinked presentation title (however, not all presenters have submitted abstracts).

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 19

WEDNESDAY, 3:00PM - 6:00PM
 
REGISTRATIONCONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Wednesday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration."

THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 20

THURSDAY, 7:30AM - 6:00PM
 
REGISTRATIONCONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Thursday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration." 

THURSDAY, 8:00AM - 6:00PM
 
EXHIBITSCONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Thursday
Chair: Sabine Davis, Washington State University 
Presenters: Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "View the books/media we have received from publishers & sign up to do a review.." 

THURSDAY, 8:30AM -10:00AM
 
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESBAY 1A
Southern Literature*
Chair: Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 
Alternate Chair: Maria Hebert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
Presenters: Maria Hebert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Among Louisiana Women: Homosociality in The Awakening and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.." 
 Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida. "The Emigrants: A Utopia in Kentucky.." 
 Cara L. Cardinale, University of California, Riverside. "'The phrases shaped from her fingers': Sign Language in Carson McCullers' Short Stories.." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESBAY 1B
Old and Middle English
Chair: Rebecca Miller, University of Kansas 
Alternate Chair: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University 
Presenters: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "Waciað georne: Earnest Vigil in Old English Prayer and Elegy." 
 Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Favors for Friends in Troilus and Criseyde." 
 William D. Netherton, Amarillo College. "Sensuality and the Feminine Voice in the Writings of Richard Rolle, the Bride of Christ." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESBAY 2
Association for Mormon Letters+
Chair: Stanley J. Thayne, Brigham Young University 
Presenters: Jordan T. Watkins, Brigham Young University. "Joseph Smith’s Political Body: The Council of Fifty in Mormon Ideology.." 
 Philip Webb, Brigham Young University. "Defending Paul and the Intitiated: Esoteric Tradition in Early Christianity and Baptism for the Dead.." 
 Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University. "Tragic Marriage among Us: Two Recent Conference Addresses by Gordon B. Hinckley.." 
 Stanley J. Thayne, Brigham Young University. "Covenant and Academia: Faith and Scholarship in Mormon Studies." 

GENERAL TOPICSBAY 3
Literature for Children and Young Adults
Chair: Lance Weldy, Western Michigan University 
Alternate Chair: Holly Savage, University of Iowa 
Presenters: Debra Mitts Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Rehabilitating the Wolf: Intertextuality and Visual Allusion in Geoffrey de Pennart's Picture Books." 
 Eimear R. Hegarty, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. "Outback Animals: Bush Experiences and Colonialism in Dot and the Kangaroo and The Rabbits ." 
 Ruth P. Feingold, Saint Mary's College of Maryland. "Gardening in Eden: Mahy's Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape." 
 Beth Cooley, Gonzaga University. "Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl as Contemporary Gospel." 

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIESBAY 4
Scandinavian Literature*
Chair: Michael Thomas Hudgens, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 
Presenters: Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University. "Women’s Anger in Hanne-Vibeke Holst’s Recent Novels." 
 Michael Thomas Hudgens, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Tolerable Liberties Taken by Richard Wagner With the Women of Fate." 

WRITING PROGRAMSBAY 5
Writing Programs - I
When the Other Discipline Nourishes Comp
Chair: Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado 
Presenters: Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado. "Mathematics and Composition.." 
 Katheryn Crane, Western Oregon University. "Comparing Cinematic and Composition Types.." 
 Margaret Tomlinson Rustick, California State University, East Bay. "Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines.." 
 Jill E. Strnad, Univeristy of Northern Colorado. "Finding Philosophy in the Composition Classroom." 

LINGUISTICSBAY 6
Linguistics - Foreign Language
Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University 
Alternate Chair: Arthur Dolsen, Idaho State University 
Presenters: Fify Juliana, Arizona State University. "Politeness in Indonesian Oral Discourse: An Analysis." 
 Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University. "How Germans Negotiate: A Sociolinguistic Analysis." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESBEAUTY BAY
French Cultural and Literary Theory
Chair: Joel Daehnke, University of Northern Colorado 
Alternate Chair: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley State College 
Presenters: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley State College and Debra J. Drummond, Utah Valley State College. "French Theorists and California Vampires: Poststructuralist Theory for English Majors with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Illumination.." 

GENERAL TOPICSCABIN 4
Autobiography - I*
Chair: Karen Lee, Villanova University 
Alternate Chair: Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge 
Presenters: Philip Genetti, Regent University. "The Honesty of the Transparent Soul: Self-Deprecation in the Spiritual Autobiographies of John Bunyan and C.S. Lewis." 
 Walt Nott, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. "Biography, Autobiography, and Anti-biography: Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' and the Discourse Community of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine." 
 Karen Lee, Villanova University. "Translating the Self: A Look through Rousseau, Wordsworth and Borges." 

GENERAL TOPICSCABIN 5
The Concept of Knighthood in the Literature of the Twelfth Century: A Comparative Study*
Chair: Raja Al-Khalili, Washington State University 
Presenters: Verena Theile, Washington State University. "Shape-shifting in The Lais of Marie de France." 
 Ma'en A. Al-Magableb, Independent Scholar. "The Concept of Arabian Knighthood at the Time of the Crusades." 
 Ben Bunting, Washington State University. "Two Deaths and Three Sins in The Pardoner's Tale." 

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIESCASCO BAY
Imaginary Dangers: Postcolonial Literature and U.S. National Security*
Chair: Holly Campbell, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair: Melissa Hussain, Washington State University 
Presenters: Melissa Hussain, Washington State University. "Homeland (in)Securities: Reading Postcolonial Literature in the Post-September-11 World." 
 Holly Campbell, Washington State University. "Defining Freedom: An Examination of Public Discourse and Postcolonial Literature." 
 Michael J. Palatta, Hofstra University. "The Postcolonial Aftermath: Deconstructing Mohamed Choukri's For Bread Alone." 
 Lauren Serotoff, Hofstra University. "Analyzing Naji al-Ali Utilizing Psychoanalysis to Understand his Perspective on Palestine and Western Imperialism through Use of Pictorial Devices." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESKIDD ISLAND BAY
Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture*
Chair: Jimena Ugaz, Middlebury College 
Alternate Chair: Leonardo Palacios, University of Connecticut 
Presenters: Raul Rosales-Herrera, Columbia University. "Autobiographical Acts and the Symbolic Acting-Out of the Marginalized Self in Cuban Exile Literature of the Mariel Generation." 
 Carimer Ortiz, Columbia University. "El que ríe al último: humor y estrategias discursivas en Historia de Cronopios y Famas de Julio Cortázar." 
 Aileen El-Kadi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La ausencia del estado y el espectáculo de la violencia criminal en Cidade de Deus." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESNORTH CAPE BAY
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*
American (un)commonplaces
Chair: Lynda Walsh, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 
Alternate Chair: Raymond Craig, Kent State University 
Presenters: Raymond Craig, Kent State University. "The Rhetorical Construction of the Reader in Early America.." 
 John D. Miles, University of New Mexico. "Mapping an American Indian Feminist Rhetoric in the Poetry of Nora Naranjo-Morse and Esther Belin.." 
 Lynda Walsh, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Not-so-commonplaces: Koinoi topoi in the Literature of American Experimental Science.." 

THURSDAY,10:15AM -11:45AM
 
GENERAL TOPICSBAY 1B
Sociolinguistics in the Middle Ages*
Medieval Languages from a Linguistic Perspective
Chair: Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University 
Alternate Chair: Diane Krantz, Weber State University 
Presenters: Jeanne I. Lakatos, Graduate Center, City University of New York. "Communication: A Rose, Duality in Public Discourse of Gui de Mori's and Christine de Pizan's Responses to Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose.." 
 Rebecca June, Fordham University. "Gated Communities: Translating Social Boundaries in L'Espurgatoire Seint Patriz.." 
 Jolyon T. Hughes, Colorado State University. "Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Critical Vernacular." 
 Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University. "Language and Power in Cologny-Geneva, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Bodmer Codex 113.." 

PEDAGOGYBAY 2
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture
Chair: Catherine Lasswell, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Ludmila Prednewa, University of Montana. "Russian: An Inter-active Approach to the Teaching and Study of a Non-western Culture." 
 Joanna N. Paull, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "I Can See Clearly Now...: Using Photographs and Videos to Examine American Cultures." 
 Tony Ruiz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Picturing Writing in the Classroom: Experimentalism and Social Change." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBAY 3
Configuration of the Subject in Twenty-First Narrative*
Paradigms of Instability in Spain and Latin American Literary Discourse
Chair: Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico. "Diablos de la subjetividad contemporánea." 
 Martha Osorio-Cediel, Edward Waters College. "Normalizing the Stranger in Angie Cruz’." 
 Derrin Pinto, University of St. Thomas and Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Un sujeto en construcción: La contra-nostalgia y la falta de agencia en un espacio narrativo español de comienzos del siglo XXI." 
 Julie Lirot, Miami University, Oxford. "Identidad femenina: entre Colombia y España." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESBAY 4
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
Chair: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University 
Alternate Chair: Ruben Espinosa, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Tara J. Hayes, Wayne State University. "Comical Satire, Merchant and Merry Wives and Jonson's Playful Gender." 
 Sarah Angela Wray, University of South Florida. "The Shame of all her Kind: Patriarchal Anxieties of the Female Sexual Body in The Faerie Queene." 
 Johnnie R. Blunt, American Library Association. "Angelo Tricked: The Bed-Trick as Site of Male Prostitution in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure." 
 Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "The Feminist Fisherwoman in El Burlador de Seville." 

WRITING PROGRAMSBAY 5
Writing Programs - II
Chair: Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado 
Presenters: Karin Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Laughter and Composition." 
 Jeffrey A. Runyon, University of Northern Colorado. "The American West and College Composition." 
 Cathy Spidell, University of Akron. "Calling All Bloggers: Engaging Student Writers with Technology." 
 Sabrina Gaskill, Coconino Community College. "Left Behind: Technology Practices in Developmental Writing Courses." 

GENERAL TOPICSBAY 6
Staging Culture in Musical Theater
Chair: Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri, Kansas City 
Presenters: Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri, Kansas City. "Recreating the Middle Ages: Romantic Productions of the Roman de la Violette." 
 William A. Everett, University of Missouri, Kansas City. "Staging France on Broadway during the 1920s: Rudolf Friml’s The Vagabond King and The Three Musketeers." 
 Robert L. A. Clark, Kansas State University. "‘Jewishness in Music’ Revisited: Jews and Judaism in Opera from Meyerbeer to Strauss." 

GENERAL TOPICSBEAUTY BAY
Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial - I*
Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair: Shanna Knight, Washington State Universtiy 
Presenters: Heide Crawford, University of Kansas. "How Evil was Faust really?: Early Modern Demonization of Magic as it is Represented in the Spiess-Faustbook." 
 Hilda Ma, State University of New York, Buffalo. "The Medicalization of 'Midnight Hags': Macbeth and Witchcraft in Early Modern England." 
 Maria Frangos, Unversity of California, Santa Cruz. "Monstrosity, Sexuality, and Evil: Early Modern Witch 'Identity' in Spenser and Tasso." 

GENERAL TOPICSCABIN 4
Autobiography - II*
Chair: Sarah A. Hanselman, Simmons College 
Presenters: Stephanie Snyder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "'You were only being true to yourself': Subjectivity, Truth and Illness in Lauren Slater's Lying." 
 Kathleen Flacy, Texas A & M University. "The Redemption of Witnessing in Memoir." 
 Sarah A. Hanselman, Simmons College. "The Personal in the Public: Autobiographical Strains in the Writings of Florence Nightingale." 

GENDER STUDIESCASCO BAY
Popular Women's Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries*
Chair: Katherine T. Meiners, Minnesota State University, Moorhead 
Alternate Chair: Robin A. Werner, University of New Orleans 
Presenters: Katherine T. Meiners, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "Mrs Gaskell's Gothic Revival: Women Not Tame to Their Imprisonment." 
 Sharon M. Scapple, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "Eighteenth Century Propriety Fictionalized in Maria Edgeworth's Parent's Assistant." 
 Pamela T. Washington, University of Central Oklahoma. "'This was a queer wooing, you'll admit': the Economies of Pre-Civil War Marriage in Southworth and Heintz." 

FILM STUDIESKIDD ISLAND BAY
Pulp Fiction, Pulp Film*
Chair: Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley State College 
Alternate Chair: Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College 
Presenters: Stephen B. Armstrong, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. "Frankenheimer and Film Noir." 
 Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College. "Kill Bill, Art, God, and Other Things That May or May Not Exist." 
 Rick B. McDonald, Utah Valley State College. "'But Down These Mean Streets a Monk Must Go': Medieval Noir." 
 Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley State College. "Jazz and Cocktails: The Black and White Mix in Film Noir." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESNORTH CAPE BAY
Colonialism Has Gotten Your Mamma*
Comparative Theory and Practice from Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives
Chair: Melissa Hussain, Washington State University 
Presenters: Azfar Hussain, Washington State University. "Rereading Modern Arabic Poetry: Mahmud Darwish and Nizar Qabbani in the Post-September 11 World.." 
 Christina Vala, Washington State University. "Art is Not a Luxury: Women of Color Artists as Activists.." 
 Sky Wilson, Washington State University. "Diversity as Diversion, or Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Inclusion.." 
 Siskanna Naynaha, Washington State University. "Amerikan You: Chicanas/os in (Post?)Colonial U.S.." 

THURSDAY, 1:00PM - 2:30PM
 
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESBAY 1A
Postmodernism (Open Topic)*
Chair: Brian Donahue, Eastern Washington University 
Presenters: Brian Donahue, Eastern Washington University. "Postmodernism and Neoconservatism." 
 Jessica Durgan, Central Washington University. "Demystifying the Created Art of Film in Gravity's Rainbow." 
 Kalev Kristjuhan, Independent Scholar. "The Dark Tower Crumbles: Romantic Depth, Postmodern Pastiche, and the Maintenance of Patriarchy." 
 Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Garbage Games: Postmodern Play in Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye Lenin!." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESBAY 1B
Revealing and Re-veiling Language: The Role of the 'Orient' in Western Fantasy*
Chair: Fazia Aitel, Claremont-McKenna College 
Alternate Chair: Michel Valentin, University of Montana/Alliance Française 
Presenters: Michel Valentin, University of Montana/Alliance Française. "The Veil in Nineteenth-Century French Textuality: Arabesque of Incestuous Desire." 
 Andrew Long, The American University of Beirut. "Going Arab or Berber: The Use of Disguise by Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British and French Travelers to North Africa." 
 Fazia Aitel, Claremont-McKenna College. "Representation of the Berbers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century French Literature." 

GENDER STUDIESBAY 2
Images and Identities of European Americans in Literature and Film*
Chair: Jessica L. Maucione, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University 
Presenters: Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University. "Liberation through Production: A Marxist Feminist Approach to the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson.." 
 Billy Merck, Washington State University. "Crescent City Croatians: Representations of Women from Folklore to Fiction in New Orleans Literature.." 

GENERAL TOPICSBAY 3
Literature of Trauma*
Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal Perspectives
Chair: Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona 
Presenters: Joy Viveros, University of California, Berkeley. "Mystical Sacrifice in the Contact Zone: Black Elk Speaks of the Encroachment of the Wasichus 'Little by Little and Step by Step'." 
 Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University. "Silko's Tayo: PTSS, Witchery, and Healing in Ceremony." 
 Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona. "'el brujo es un coyote': Taxonomies of Trauma in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." 

GENDER STUDIESBAY 4
(In)Tolerance: Women Writers and Religion, 1780-1880*
Chair: Donelle R. Ruwe, Northern Arizona University 
Presenters: Julie Straight, Northwest Nazarene University. "Religious Toleration in Eliza Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo Rajah." 
 Pamela Plimpton, Warner Pacific College. "'[T]he pleasure derived from objects of terror': Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld's Gothic Negotiates Reason and Revelation." 
 Donelle R. Ruwe, Northern Arizona University. "Zenobia, (the Christian) Queen of Palmyra: The Violent Conversion of the Rational Dame." 
 Pamela Corpron Parker, Whitworth College. "Anna Leonowens, the King of Siam, and the White Woman’s Burden." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBAY 5
Mexico and Violence, Three Centuries*
Chair: Elizabeth K. Goldberg, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Vanessa Holanda Gutierrez, San Diego State University. "La transgresividad del discursoépico y la doble identidad femenina en Terramara de Estela Alicia López Lomass 'Esalí'.." 
 Itza A. Zavala, Wake Forest University. "Días de guardar: el sujeto intelectual en la vida política y sociocultural a partir de 1968." 
 Matthew R. Bush, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Corruption and Collapse of Filial Norms in Heriberto Frias’ Tomochic." 

CLASSICAL STUDIESBAY 6
Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths
Chair: Hardy Fredricksmeyer, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Alternate Chair: Alena Allen, University of New Mexico 
Presenters: Lisa B. Hughes, Colorado College. "Cherchez la femme: Penelope, Klytaimnestra, and Film Noir.." 
 John Thorburn, Baylor University. "Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and the Homeric Tradition.." 
 Susan F. Joseph, Howard University. "New York 'Mythos': Oedipus Rex as Attic Revival.." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESBEAUTY BAY
Renaissance Hebraism*
Chair: Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming 
Presenters: Sharon Hampel, University of Denver. "Milton, Luria, Ebraeo, and the Perfectible World." 
 Benjamin G. Ortiz, University of Wyoming. "Américo Castro on Teresa la Santa." 
 Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming. "Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Hebrew Scripture." 

GERMANIC STUDIESCABIN 4
German Literature before 1900
Chair: Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University 
Alternate Chair: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona 
Presenters: James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "Illness as Metaphor in the Middle Ages." 
 Evelyn K. Moore, Kenyon College. "The Look of Love (or the Loving Look?): Deadly Functions of the Lacanian Gaze in Kleist's Penthesilea." 
 Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, Columbia. "Mel's Muses: The Passion of the Christ by Anna Katharina Emmerich and Clemens Brentano." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESCABIN 5
Flannery O'Connor*
Chair: Ann M. Pelelo, University of Dubuque 
Alternate Chair: David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point 
Presenters: Irwin Streight, Royal Military College of Canada. "The Ghost of Flannery O'Connor in the Songs of Bruce Springsteen.." 
 Aaron Hillyer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "A Clash of Spaces: O'Connor, Lefebvre and a Modernizing South.." 
 Gretchen Dobrott, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. "The Challenging Task of Translating Flannery O'Connor into Spanish.." 
 Lamata Mitchell, Rock Valley College. "Flannery O'Connor's 'Nigger': Blurring the Boundaries of Racial Tolerance.." 

WRITING PROGRAMSCASCO BAY
Creative Non-Fiction - I*
Mapping Truth(s)
Chair: Beth Simon, Indiana University, Purdue University 
Presenters: Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College. "Truths Unheard, Lives Unseen: Stories of the Unsheltered Homeless." 
 Ali Brox, University of Nevada, Reno. "Truth in Memoir." 

GENERAL TOPICSKIDD ISLAND BAY
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus Seminar
Chair: Lewis H. Whitaker, Georgia State University 
Presenters: Jennifer M. Wing, Georgia State University. "Derrida and the Future of Sexual Difference." 
 Victor M. Arrocha, Northcentral University. "Neal Cassady, The Beat Generation's Macho, Macho Man." 
 Waldemar Matias, Chicago City Colleges, Olive-Harvey. "Bloomsbury, A Bisexual Literary Heritage." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESNORTH CAPE BAY
Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Western US and Canada*
Chair: Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar 
Presenters: Allene M. Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Ella Clah: Many Worlds Warrior." 
 Philip D. Castille, Eastern Washington University. "Death and the Good Life: Alluring Killers in Richard Hugo's Only Novel." 
 Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College. "Gatsby Goes West--Malleable Identity in James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss." 

THURSDAY, 2:45PM - 4:15PM
 
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBAY 1A
Poetry and Narrative in Twentieth-Century Latin America*
Chair: Fernando F. Sanchez, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Alma Alfaro, Walla Walla College. "Mi noche oscura: Estableciendo una conciencia femenina en la obra de Lety Elvir." 
 Sharon Lynn Sieber, Idaho State University. "Continuums, Simultaneity and Politics in Contemporary Latin American Authors." 
 Beatriz G. Loyola, Skidmore College. "El cuerpo como mercancía en la era de la globalización en Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBAY 1B
Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature
Chair: Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado 
Alternate Chair: Kerrie Wlad, De Pauw University 
Presenters: Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Luís Vaz de Camões’s Recognition in American Letters." 
 Bryan L. Kennedy, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. "Crime Novels That Actually Teach Something: Juva Batella’s O verso da língua and Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESBAY 2
True North: Cultured Spaces in Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Literature*
Chair: Suzanne Forster, University of Alaska, Anchorage 
Alternate Chair: Cheryl M. Hansen, Weber State University 
Presenters: J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University. "Writers in Search of Subjects: Families in Search of Identity through Cultural History." 
 Jacqueline Cason, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Fossicking on the Border: Liminal Zones of Creativity in the Canadian Landscapes of Don Gayton." 
 Suzanne Forster, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Intersections: North, West, and East in the Work of Alaskan Poet Tom Sexton." 

PEDAGOGYBAY 3
Visible Knowledge Project - I*
Chair: Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University 
Presenters: Susan Kilgore, Washington State University. "Visible Knowledge in the American Studies Classroom.." 
 Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University. "Visible Knowledge in the Shakespeare Classroom.." 
 Collin Hughes, Washington State University. "Visible Knowledge and Quantitative Literacy." 

GENERAL TOPICSBAY 4
Popular Culture*
Chair: Ann M. Ciasullo, Spokane Falls Community College 
Alternate Chair: Andrea Reid, Spokane Community College 
Presenters: Kimberly Crowley, University of North Dakota. "What's So Simple About It? Representations of Rural Women on The Simple Life.." 
 Susan Nyikos, Utah State University. "Vampires in Crisis: Influence and (Mis)Representation of Folklore in Hollywood Horror Movies.." 
 Andrea Reid, Spokane Community College. "Coming of Age in the Classroom: Using Contemporary Film to Explore James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.." 
 Ann M. Ciasullo, Spokane Falls Community College. "Girly Girls and Desperate Housewives: The New Feminism.." 

GENDER STUDIESBAY 5
Women's Voices in Poetry
Chair: Sandra I. Dillon, University of Oregon 
Alternate Chair: Arianne Burford, University of Arizona 
Presenters: Erin Rokita, University of Oregon. "The Mestiza Subject and the Path to Emancipation in Anzaldúa's 'To live in the Borderlands means you'." 
 Helen Lovejoy, University of California, Riverside. "'The room with the staring windows will again closet you': Containment and Subversion of Female Spaces in Cold War Sestinas by Women." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESBAY 6
Bibliography and Textual Criticism*
Chair: Ryan Muckerheide, Arizona State University 
Presenters: Dana Symons, Simon Fraser University. "Receiving Malory's Morte Darthur.." 
 Gabrielle Dean, University of Washington. "Figure of Transformation: The Pirate on the Border and on the Page." 
 Lisa A. Makros, Arizona State University. "Twenty-five Years of 'Dreaming In Digital': The Politics of Authorship and Ownership for Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Texts." 
 Barbara G. Nelson, Arizona State University. "Looking for a Few Good Women: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women and Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames." 

GENERAL TOPICSBEAUTY BAY
Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages
Chair: Edith Borchardt, University of Minnesota, Morris 
Alternate Chair: Stacy Southerland, University of Central Oklahoma 
Presenters: Maria Lightner-Ferrer, Pacific Lutheran University. "Self-Translation: The Creation of a New Text?: Carme Riera's Self-translated 'Jo pos per testimoni les gavines'." 
 James A. Wojtaszek, University of Minnesota, Morris. "Translating Race in Lazarillo de Tormes." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESCABIN 4
Derrida*
Chair: Joel Daehnke, University of Northern Colorado 
Alternate Chair: D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado 
Presenters: Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University. "Flirting With Power." 
 Joel Daehnke, University of Northern Colorado. "After Wrighting this Imperfect Discription." 
 Jason Cootey, Utah State University. "Poe Purloins the Reader." 
 Chris Hadley, Gonzaga University. "Responsibility and the person in Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESCABIN 5
Milton*
Chair: Todd Butler, Washington State University 
Presenters: Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan American. "Husband/Wife Political Imagery in Samson Agonistes." 
 Lewis H. Whitaker, Georgia State University. "Destroying the Temple of Dagon: Iconoclasm in John Milton’s Samson Agonistes." 
 Caitlin Cornell, Washington State University. "A Double Standard in Reflexivity: Mirror Imagery in Samson Agonistes." 

CLASSICAL STUDIESCASCO BAY
Classical Language and Literature: Greek
Chair: Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota, Vermillion 
Alternate Chair: John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University 
Presenters: Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Parties in the Achaean Camp: Divine Allegiances and Enmities." 
 Arthur Dolsen, Idaho State University. "The Athenians and the Spartans Decide to Go to War." 
 Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Sappho and Sara Teasdale." 

PEDAGOGYKIDD ISLAND BAY
Teaching English
Reaching Today's Students -- Innovative Solutions
Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University 
Presenters: Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University. "Teaching William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.." 
 Robin Somers, San Jose State University. "An All-American Indian Pedagogy for Teaching English 1a: Native American Learning Strategies to Help Other Marginalized Groups.." 
 Debi Sheridan, Weber State University. "U2 Can Take the Sting Out of English!." 
 John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "News Flash: Walt Whitman Advises Teens to 'Skip Poetry'?." 

GENERAL TOPICSNORTH CAPE BAY
Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial - II*
Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair: Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joseph Sterrett, Lancaster University. "'If we Shadows have Offended': Sacramental Prayer in A Midsummer Night's Dream." 
 Logan Greene, Eastern Washington University. "Weird Sisters: The Evolution of the Witch in Early Modern Imagination." 
 Shanna Knight, Washington State Universtiy. "Naming Witchcraft: From Cunning Folk to Witches." 
 Todd Butler, Washington State University. "Performing Law, Performing Witchcraft." 

THURSDAY, 4:30PM - 6:00PM
 
GENERAL TOPICSBAY 1A
Autobiography - III*
Chair: Fred Arroyo, Saint Louis University 
Presenters: Guilan Siassi, University of California, Los Angeles. "Itineraries of Desire and the Excesses of 'Home': Assia Djebar's Cohabitation with 'la langue adverse'." 
 Gustav Arnold, University of North Dakota. "Roland Barthes and the Aesthetics of Insight: The Pre-Oedipal Son and Photography." 
 Fred Arroyo, Saint Louis University. "What Runs/Corrers in Families:Geography, Memory, and Writing in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and John Phillip Santos’s Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation.." 

GENERAL TOPICSBAY 1B
Sigma Tau Delta
Chair: Laura J. Bloxham, Whitworth College 
Alternate Chair: Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver 
Presenters: Gina M. Sully, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Motherhood and Feminine Identity in 'He' and 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall'.." 
 Ryan Hackenbracht, Whitworth College. "The Pursuit of Knowledge in Cain and Frankenstein.." 
 Rachel Christina Miller, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Drowning in No Answers." 
 Tana Young, Whitworth College. "Lessons in Leaving.." 

GERMANIC STUDIESBAY 2
Poetry Reading by German-American Poets*
Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University 
Presenters: Christiane S. Seiler, Emerita Scholar and John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia and Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University and Edith Borchardt, University of Minnesota, Morris. "Poetry Reading by German-American Poets." 

PEDAGOGYBAY 3
Visible Knowledge Project - II*
Chair: Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University 
Presenters: Carol Anelli, Washington State University. "The Eugenics Movement in the U.S. and Germany, Part I.." 
 Raymond Sun, Washington State University. "The Eugenics Movement in the U.S. and Germany, Part II.." 
 Lydia Gerber, Washington State University. "Homework Posted in a Class Online Forum." 

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONBAY 4
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+
Special Session on Professional Technical Communication
Chair: David A. Sapp, Fairfield University 
Presenters: Teena A.M. Carnegie, Eastern Washington University. "Gestalt in the Technical Communication Classroom." 
 Patricia Ericsson, Washington State University. "Improving Technical Writing Instruction: Teaching Concepts of Visual Design." 

GENDER STUDIESBAY 5
Women in/and Literature
Chair: Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College 
Alternate Chair: Claire Norris, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 
Presenters: Jennifer R. Stanley, Boise State University. "Questioning Gender Labels in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body and Aphrodite Jones’ All She Wanted." 
 Julie Barak, Mesa State College. "Kenya Women Building Nation: Bridging Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marjorie Oldhe Macgoye's The Present Moment." 
 Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado. "Female Characters in Chang Rae Lee's Novels: Native Sealer, a Gestured Life and Aloft." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESBAY 6
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)
Chair: Sura Rath, Central Washington University 
Alternate Chair: Roberta Di Carmine, University of Oklahoma 
Presenters: Laura Sager, University of Texas, Austin. "Films about Novels about Paintings: Ekphrasis and the Public vs. the Private Role of Art in Girl with a Pearl Earring and Brush with Fate (Girl in Hyacinth Blue)." 
 Andrea M. Lee, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Fictioning, Gesture, Immanence and Truth in Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers." 
 Jamie Johnson, Florida Atlantic University. "Joseph Cornell's Box Constructions: A Heideggerian Framing of Phenomena." 

ASIAN STUDIESBEAUTY BAY
Modern Chinese Poetry*
Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University 
Presenters: Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Un-belating Modernism: Dis-locating Ji Xian’s Poetry." 
 Yibing Huang, Connecticut College. "Searching for a Counter-Tradition: Lu Xun's Prophecy of Modern Chinese Poetry." 
 John A. Crespi, Colgate University. "Things from the Past: Revolution Remembered in the Poetry of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo." 
 Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar. "Discussant." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESCABIN 4
Transatlanticism - I*
Visions and Paradises
Chair: Todd Butler, Washington State University 
Presenters: Linda Tredennick, Gonzaga University. "Transatlantic Purtinanisms: The Interesting Narrative of Elizabeth White." 
 Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University. "(De) Constructing Utopia: Slaves, Surveillance, and Suppression in More’s Utopia ." 
 Stephanie Graham, Washington State University. "Powering the Iconographic Message: More's Utopia and Accounts of the 'New World'." 
 Nina Chordas, University of Alaska Southeast, Juno. "French Jesuits among the Huron: Martyrdom and Discipline as Utopian Signs." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESCABIN 5
Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction*
Chair: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University 
Alternate Chair: Robert E. Ziegler, Montana Tech 
Presenters: Pierre Michel, Université d'Angers. "Octave Mirbeau et la négritude." 
 Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta. "Entre naturalisme et frénétisme: l'impossible lisibilité du feminin." 
 Robert E. Ziegler, Montana Tech. "Toward Death and Perfection in Mirbeau's Sébastien Roch." 
 Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Offensive Moves, Defensive Modes: Le Duel de Pescaire et de Cassaire." 

GENDER STUDIESKIDD ISLAND BAY
Gender and Race in Literature and Film*
Chair: Gloria Monti, Independent Scholar 
Presenters: Hazel Retzlaff, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "When Race is a Choice: Novels by Mary Wilkins Freeman and Pauline Hopkins.." 
 Lauren E. Davis, Western Washington University. "'The rash and lawless girl:' Race, True Womanhood, and Female Heroism in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.." 
 Gloria Monti, Independent Scholar. "Going Places: Rethinking Racial Identities.." 

WRITING PROGRAMSNORTH CAPE BAY
Creative Writing - Issues*
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia 
Presenters: Kelan L. Koning, California State University, Northridge. "No One Here Gets Out Alive: Voice, Silence and Creative Writing Out of the Institution.." 
 Tessa Joseph, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "'All One's Contemporaries': Poetry, Community, and the American Avant-Garde.." 
 Mary Elizabeth Pope, College of Notre Dame of Maryland. "It's Up to 'You': Using the Second Person Point of View in Creative Nonfiction." 

THURSDAY, 9:00PM -11:00PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSBAY 6