60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Coeur d'Alene, ID ~ October 20-22, 2005

Preliminary Convention Program

We are looking forward to an exciting convention this year in Coeur d'Alene. The Executive Board and the Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved in making this a fantastic program and to all of 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).
• Room assignments may change, but every effort will be made to maintain the following assignments of session day/time. If a change is absolutely necessary, all concerned will be asked first.
• Edits to this program must be sent to us by AUGUST 1 -- the program goes to press after this date.
• An asterisk indicates a Special Topic Session; a plus sign indicates an affiliate member session.
• If you DON'T see your name or your session, please contact us immediately at rmmla@rmmla.wsu.edu.
• 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

REGISTRATION	CONFERENCE 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

REGISTRATION	CONFERENCE 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

EXHIBITS	CONFERENCE 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 PROGRAMS	BAY 5
Writing Programs - IWhen 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."

LINGUISTICS	BAY 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 STUDIES	BEAUTY 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 TOPICS	CABIN 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 TOPICS	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CASCO 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 STUDIES	KIDD 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 STUDIES	NORTH 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 TOPICS	BAY 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.."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 PROGRAMS	BAY 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 TOPICS	BEAUTY 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 TOPICS	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CASCO 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 STUDIES	KIDD 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 STUDIES	NORTH 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BEAUTY 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 PROGRAMS	CASCO 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 TOPICS	KIDD 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 STUDIES	NORTH 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 TOPICS	BEAUTY 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CASCO 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."

PEDAGOGY	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Teaching EnglishReaching 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 TOPICS	NORTH 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 TOPICS	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 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 COMMUNICATION	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BAY 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 STUDIES	BEAUTY 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 STUDIES	CABIN 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 STUDIES	KIDD 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 PROGRAMS	NORTH 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 EVENTS	BAY 6
Thursday Film Showing - I'm Not Scared

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "I'm Not Scared / Io non ho paura (Gabriele Salvatores, 2004; Italy. 100 min.)."

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 21

FRIDAY, 7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	CONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Friday

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration."

FRIDAY, 8:00AM - 6:00PM

EXHIBITS	CONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Friday

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.."

FRIDAY, 8:30AM -10:00AM

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 3
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX

Chair:	Maria-Leonilde Araujo-Grochenig, Georgia Southern University
Alternate Chair:	Lucero Flores, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Maria Francisca Paredes Mendez, Western Washington Universtiy. "La nación se hizo carne: El travesti como metáfora de la transición en Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera de Eduardo Mendicutti."
	Maria-Leonilde Araujo-Grochenig, Georgia Southern University. "The Search for Identity in La soledad era esto de Juan José Millás."
	Lucero Flores, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Tristana (sur) realista."
	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University. "La Reina de las Nieves de Carmen Martín Gaite: Una novela ecfrástica."

FILM STUDIES	BAY 4
Contemporary Film Theory and CriticismConceptions of Alienation

Chair:	Margaret E. Johnson, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair:	Susmita Mahato, University of Puget Sound
Presenters:	Graham Lyons, Simon Fraser University. "Benjamin’s Spiel, Whale’s Monster: Frankenstein and Mechanical Reproduction.."
	Carlen Donovan, Idaho State University. "'I Work Here Now': Normative Masculinity in the Films of John Dahl.."
	Susmita Mahato, University of Puget Sound. "Home as Box Office: The Treatment of the Sick Body in Mike Nichols’ W;t.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 5
Publishing ForumJournal Editors Profile their Journals and Offer Suggestions for Successful Submissions

Chair:	Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University
Presenters:	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University. "The Rocky Mountain Review."
	Tessa Joseph, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Carolina Quarterly."
	Sura Rath, Central Washington University. "Journal of Contemporary Thought."
	Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University. "Weber Studies."
	Mitch Wieland, Boise State University. "The Idaho Review."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BAY 6
Native American Literature

Chair:	Ron Fischer, Minot State University
Alternate Chair:	Christopher J. Thee, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Ron Fischer, Minot State University. "Rage and Grief in Sherman Alexie's 'Do Not Go Gentle.'."
	Heather Martin, University of Denver. "Fry Bread and Fried Bologna: Problematic Depictions, Community Revisions, and the Work of Sherman Alexie.."
	Whitney A. Myers, University of New Mexico. "'Lost Between the Words': Subversive Rhetorical Performance in Zitkala-Sa's 'Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians' and Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit.."
	Scott L. Rogers, University of New Mexico. "Samson Occom's Razor: The Thin Line Between Race, Religion, and Rhetoric.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BEAUTY BAY
French Literature since 1800

Chair:	Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair:	Julie A. Monty, University of Texas, Austin
Presenters:	Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Gardens, Parks, and Wilderness: Enchanted Spaces in Michel Tremblay's Works."
	Neli K. Koleva, Rice University. "When Excess Turns into an Art: Madness and Creativity in Le Ravissment de Lol V Stein by Marguerite Duras."
	Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado. "Annulling Gender in Two Short Stories by Monique Wittig."

GENERAL TOPICS	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
Literature and Fashion*The Subject of Clothing and Clothing the Subject in Literature

Chair:	Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters:	Patricia D. Catoira, Montana State University-Bozeman. "Undressing Cecilia Valdes from Exile: Reinaldo Arenas's La Loma del Angel."
	Paul L. Fortunato, University of Houston, Downtown. "Oscar Wilde as Popular Modernist: Fashion Culture, Popular Theater, & the Aesthetics of Surface."
	Priya J. Shah, University of California, Irvine. "Laden with 'Barbaric Pearl and Gold': The Policing of Colonial Desire in Two Victorian Texts."
	Sally Romotsky, California State University, Fullerton. "Clothing and Counterfeit in Shakespeare's 1Henry IV."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
Pacific Northwest Literature*

Chair:	Teresa Knudsen, Spokane Community College
Presenters:	Bill Doyle, University of Tennessee. "Making the Northwest Home: Richard Nelson and Rhetoric of Presence."
	Carey Voeller, University of Kansas. "'I have not told half we suffered': Suppression and the Performance of Durability in Overland Trail Women's Diaries and Letters."
	Virginia A. Dudek, Independent Scholar. "What Would Flannery Say? Finding Common Spiritual Ground in the Literature of the South and the Pacific Northwest."
	Teresa Knudsen, Spokane Community College. "Captain of Ye Galleon: Glen Adams and his Press."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 5ABC (7TH FL.)
Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions - I*

Chair:	Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University
Presenters:	Fernanolo Pezzino, Arizona State University. "Análisis comparativo: el minicuento y los dibujos de humor.."
	George Cole, Texas Tech University. "Los movimientos de vanguardia y la creación de la cultura cubana contemporánea: el impacto de las religiones afrocubanas.."
	Robert L. Colvin, Brigham Young University, Idaho. "The Semantics of Exile: A War of Words between Julio Cortázar and Liliana Heker.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	BOARDROOM 6 (7TH FL.)
Classical Language and Literature: Latin

Chair:	Victor Castellani, University of Denver
Presenters:	Kari Ceaicovschi, University of Washington. "Reading Rhodes: A Construction of Imperial Ideology and Identity in Cato the Elder's Speech Pro Rhodensibus.."
	Linda W. Gillison, University of Montana. "Cicero's De Officiis on 'Auctoritas': How to Earn It, How to Use It.."
	Janet Berardo, Kennedy King College. "'Pietas' in the Aeneid as Observed through the Paradigm of Generational Transcendence.."
	Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota, Vermillion. "Vesuvius and Volcanoes in Latin Literature.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BOARDROOM 7 (7TH FL.)
Literature and War*

Chair:	Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University
Presenters:	David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "Mr. Faulkner and the Long Grey Line.."
	Soeren A. Steding, Luther College. "German Expressionistic War Poetry during World War I.."

GENDER STUDIES	CABIN 4
African American Women Writers - I*Identity and Memory

Chair:	Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy
Presenters:	Leni Marshall, University of Minnesota. "'The grayer she do get, the blacker she do be': Theories of African American Aging and Identity, exemplified in Lucille Clifton's Poetry."
	Erin Mae Clark, Washington State University. "Windy City Memories: A Raisin in the Sun and Memory of Lynching Culture."
	Shari M. Evans, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. "Haunting Language: Locating Spectral Space in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	CABIN 5
English Eighteenth-Century Literature

Chair:	J. David Macey, Jr., University of Central Oklahoma
Alternate Chair:	Pamela J. Albert, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	George S. Erving, University of Puget Sound. "Coleridge and the Politics of Matter Theory."
	Martin Fashbaugh, Purdue University. "Internalizing the Prospect after Thomson: 'Literary Loneliness' in Thomas Gray and Charlotte Smith."
	Patsy S. Fowler, Gonzaga University. "Outside the Boundaries of the Play: The Destablization of Gender Politics in Eliza Haywood's Prologues and Epilogues."

PEDAGOGY	CASCO BAY
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language

Chair:	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Gloria T. Gilmore, University of Minnesota, Morris
Presenters:	Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Teaching Business / Professional Classes."
	Helene Ossipov, Arizona State University. "Movie Trailers and the Past Tenses in French."
	Karen Weathermon, Washington State University and Lisa Johnson, Washington State University. "Feeding Two Birds with One Crumb: Practical and Productive Strategies for Responding to Student Writing."

PEDAGOGY	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges

Chair:	Klint Hull, Lower Columbia College
Presenters:	Michelle Auerbach, Front Range Community College. "Your Magical Realism Is My Grandmother’s Life.."
	Alex Whitman, Lower Columbia College. "Harvey: A Paragraph Template."
	Jill Larsen, Brigham Young University. "Dynamics of the Mixed-Age Classroom: An Ethnographic Study.."

ASIAN STUDIES	NORTH CAPE BAY
Asian Comparative Literature and Film - I*War and Memory in Asian Literatures and Cultures

Chair:	David C. Stahl, State University of New York, Binghamton
Presenters:	J. Colleen Berry, University of North Dakota. "Victims of Atrocities and Victims of Victims in the Sino-Japanese War: Li Bihua’s View from Hong Kong."
	Eric Cunningham, Gonzaga University. "Making Peace with the Ghosts of War: Memory and Catharsis in Agawa Hiroyuki's Rei Sandai."
	Kyle Ikeda, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Recovering the Edge: Memories of the Battle of Okinawa in Medoruma Shun’s Fiction."
	Steve Riep, Brigham Young University. "A War of Wounds: Disability and Disfigurement in Contemporary Chinese Literary Treatments of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)."

FRIDAY,10:15AM -11:45AM

PEDAGOGY	BAY 3
Teaching Foreign LanguagesNew Approaches in Composition, Grammar, and Excellence Rewards.

Chair:	Eydie Fernandez, University of Florida
Alternate Chair:	David L. Nielson, Weber State University
Presenters:	Steve Hunsaker, Brigham Young University, Idaho. "Heating Up the Cognitive Economy: A New Approach to Learning in the Grammar and Composition Classroom."
	Thomas J. Mathews, Weber State University. "Teaching Poetry in Spanish: The Workshop Model."
	Elena Kostoglodova, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Rewarding Students for Excellence in Language Classes: A Capitalistic Approach."
	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University. "Integrating Professional-Content Based Learning to Conversation Courses."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	BAY 4
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom

Chair:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Jennings Mace, Eastern Kentucky University
Presenters:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University. "Revising Our Internship Program to Help Students Reflect Upon Their Experiential Learning Process.."
	Mali Subbiah, Weber State University. "Assessing Technical Writing Courses through Student Writing.."
	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University. "A Research Project Using Ethnographic Methods.."
	Alfred R. Boysen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "The Writing Portfolio in Technical Communications: Moving from Tradition through Technology to Tomorrow.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 5
Graduate Student ForumStudents Becoming Professionals: Everything I Didn't Imagine about Life on These Margins.

Chair:	Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Presenters:	Markus E. Muller, California State University, Long Beach. "Professional Development From Within: Teaching Assistants Learning From Teaching Assistants.."
	Heather Camp, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Writing in Graduate School: Carving out a (Discursive) Space in the Discipline.."
	Amy E. Weldon, Luther College. "Affect(ing) Lives: Personality, Vocation, and Teaching Fiction Writing."

GENERAL TOPICS	BAY 6
Ethnic Studies

Chair:	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Alternate Chair:	Domingo Gonzalez, University of Connecticut
Presenters:	Suzanne K. Pitre, University of Washington. "Blogs, Language and Culture.."
	Domingo Gonzalez, University of Connecticut. "Cuban Hip-Hop in the Ethnic Performance 'Algarahíbrido'.."
	Kate Dunsmore, University of Washington. "Voices of African American Youth: Aspiration and Struggle.."
	Andrea Hickerson, University of Washington. "Becoming Iraqi: The Kurds of Southern Kurdistan.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BEAUTY BAY
English Renaissance Literature

Chair:	Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University
Alternate Chair:	Leslie A. Taylor, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters:	Jessica Winston, Idaho State University. "Seneca and the Politics of Translation in Early Elizabethan England."
	Cynthia Williams, Tufts University. "Reading the Lactating Body in John Webster's The White Devil."
	Benjamin D. Deneault, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'The World runnes on Wheeles': Civic Identity and Early Coach Travel in London, c. 1590-c. 1640."

GENERAL TOPICS	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
Comic Books and Graphic Novels*Feminist Approaches

Chair:	Audrey Johnson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joshua Cozine, University of Southern California. "Inferential Sexism in the Film Adaptation of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
	Audrey Johnson, Washington State University. "A Dream No Longer Deferred?: Feminist Ethics in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman."
	Christine Hoff Kraemer, Boston University. "Most Her Own, Yet Most Taken Away: Sexuality and Desire in Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
Sports and American Literature*

Chair:	Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge
Presenters:	Zachary M. Hutchins, Brigham Young University. "Chosen People, Chosen Game: Baseball and Potok's Redefinition of the Jewish Culture.."
	Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge. "When Eustace Tilley Came To Madison Square Garden: Professional Hockey and the Editorial Policy of The New Yorker in the 1920s and 1930s.."
	Todd H. Starkweather, Whitworth College. "Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, and the Newly Visualized Athletic Male Body.."

LINGUISTICS	BOARDROOM 5ABC (7TH FL.)
Linguistics - General and Applied

Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Presenters:	Gwendolyn Lowes, University of Oregon. "Is There a Relationship Between Gemination and Tone? The Story of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec.."
	Tiffany C. Oaks, Brigham Young University. "An Examination of English in Viennese Advertising.."
	Nanette Wichman, Eastern Washington University. "From Homonyms to Synonyms: Whither the Written Word?."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 6 (7TH FL.)
Queer West: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Representation in the American West*

Chair:	Geoffrey Bateman, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Geoffrey Bateman, University of Colorado, Boulder. "No Account Men: Sentimental Deaths in Bret Harte's Homoerotic West."
	Emily Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Lynne Cheney's Sisters and the Threatening, Alluring Queer West."
	Justin O'Bara, California State University, Hayward. "Relocating: Transsexuality and Road Trips in Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 7 (7TH FL.)
Early Modern Spanish Writers*

Chair:	Eloy Gonzalez, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	William R. Cummins, Ashland University
Presenters:	Carrie L. Ruiz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Tras máscaras y fronteras: la monstruosidad en El valiente negro en Flandes."
	Elena Rodriguez-Guridi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La orilla, punto de génesis y destino en las Soledades de Góngora."
	Barbara Rodriguez-Guridi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "El escudero en el tercer tratado: ¿Otro Lázaro de Tormes?."
	William R. Cummins, Ashland University. "Light Sources and Casters of Shadow Behind the Sacramental Theater of Calderón."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	CABIN 4
African American Women Writers - II*

Chair:	Verena Theile, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy
Presenters:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University. "Two Humps or Three?: An Investigation of Desire, Passion, and Hate in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora."
	Harold Halbert, Valley Forge Millitary College. "'Like one awaking from a fearful dream': Wheatley, Language Acquistion, and the Beginnings of Place."
	Gloria Shearin, Savannah State University. "Searching for Self through Black and White: Reading Angelina Grimké’s Poetry as a Questioning of Racial Identity."
	Hilary Hawley, Washington State University. "'A Man Who Looked Just Like Love': Ways of Knowing in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day."

GENERAL TOPICS	CABIN 5
Literature of the Holocaust*

Chair:	Leonard Orr, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University. "Post-Traumatic Stress as Temporal Thief in Primo Levi's Writing.."
	Peter C. Weise, Boston University. "'That's Exactly How It Was--Just Worse, Much Worse': Reading Holocaust Autobiographies."
	Aukje Kluge, Emory University. "Now the Third Generation: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	CASCO BAY
Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature*

Chair:	Amalia Garzon, Arizona Western College
Alternate Chair:	Eva Nunez-Mendez, Portland State University
Presenters:	Lissette Ruiz, University of Utah. "Mujer, migración, identidad nacional y de género sexual en la escritura femenina latina de los Estados Unidos."
	Filemon Zamora, Pima Community College. "La Mujer revolucionaria en Un Soplo en el río de Héctor Aguilar Camín.."
	R. Joyce Z. L. Garay, New Mexico State University. "Crowbars, Peaches, and Sweat: Coming to Voice through Image in Under the Feet of Jesus."
	Pilar V. Rotella, Chapman University. "Re-inventing the Self: Domesticity and Creativity in Latin American Women Writers.."

GENERAL TOPICS	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and FilmThe Politics of Science Fiction

Chair:	Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
Alternate Chair:	Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University
Presenters:	Joseph F. Brown, Louisiana State University. "The Apocaplyptic Aesthetic."
	Ericka Ann Hoagland, Purdue University. "The Prime Directive in Star Trek and Stargate: SG-1."
	Diane Krantz, Weber State University. "Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth Series: Popular Culture As Validation of U.S. Imperialism."

ASIAN STUDIES	NORTH CAPE BAY
Asian Comparative Literature and Film - II*

Chair:	Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Marnie K. Jorenby, Grinnell College. "Role-Playing Hiroshima: Studying The Atomic Bomb Through Virtual Experience."
	Jeff E. Long, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. "Life after the Greater East Asian War: Hayashi Fusao."
	David C. Stahl, State University of New York, Binghamton. "Ironic Outcomes: Traumatic Loss, Compulsive Reenactment and Atrocious Repetition in Kawabata Yasunari’s House of the Sleeping Beauties."

FRIDAY,12:00PM - 1:45PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 1-2
Luncheon Banquet & Keynote Speech by Rey Chow (Brown University)

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Banquet, followed by Keynote Speech by Rey Chow (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University) - "European Theory in America"."

FRIDAY, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

LINGUISTICS	BAY 3
Linguistics-Spanish & Portuguese

Chair:	Scott M. Rex, Southern Oregon University
Alternate Chair:	Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglio, Meredith College
Presenters:	Samuel Francis, Colorado State University. "Toward a Reanalysis of Spanish /b, d, g/.."
	Eva Nunez-Mendez, Portland State University. "Fostering Questions in the Spanish Second Language class.."
	Teresa Oteiza-Silva, Eastern Washington University. "Bilingual Heritage Speakers: How Do They Evaluate their Own Academic and Colloquial Spanish?."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	BAY 4
Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond

Chair:	Randy Clark, Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.
Alternate Chair:	Christine Gajoli, San Diego State University
Presenters:	Susan P. MacDonald, California State University, Long Beach. "The Technical Communicator as Go-Between in a Manufacturing Plant."
	Angela Jones, Western Kentucky University and Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee and Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington. "Expanding our Professional Communication Communities: Creating Clients and Communities Beyond the Classroom."
	Matthew L. McCool, New Mexico State University. "Localizing Online Media."

ASIAN STUDIES	BAY 5
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - I*Center and Periphery

Chair:	Yibing Huang, Connecticut College
Presenters:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "Literature as Center; Nation as Periphery: Dislocation and Desire in Contemporary Chinese Narrative."
	Géraldine Schneider, Harvard University. "The Periphery of Feminine Reality in the City: Tracing the Consciousness of Self in Zhang Ailing’s Love in a Fallen City, Wang Anyi’s ‘Brothers’ and Love on a Barren Mountain."
	Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "A Clash of Cultural Allegories: Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s Hero."
	Rey Chow, Brown University. "Discussant.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 6
RMMLA Poets Read their Works - I

Chair:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Alternate Chair:	Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College. "Eating Lies and Other Poems.."
	Steven Salmoni, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "New Poems.."
	Geraldine Cannon Becker, University of Maine, Fort Kent. "Unnatural Cage and Other Poems.."
	Diana Dominguez, University of Texas, Brownsville. "Ancient Lives, Modern Voices.."
	William W. Wright, Mesa State College. "Poems About Naked.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BEAUTY BAY
Literature and Science

Chair:	Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair:	D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Dana M. Lawton, Boston College. "Blood as Visual Experience: The Manifestation of Blood in the Literature and Scientific Discourse of the Romantic Period.."
	Jennifer Boyd, Wayne State University. "Science Fictions?."
	Robin E. Calland, Southern Utah University. "Sporting her Speckled Stuff on the Fashion Runway: Pigeons, Poets and Poems as Aesthetic and Scientific Objects (and Subjects) in the Poetry of Marianne Moore.."
	Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado. "Medicine, Race, and Gender in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life.."

LINGUISTICS	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
American Dialect Society+

Chair:	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Alternate Chair:	Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University
Presenters:	Ray Villegas, Arizona State University. "An Analysis of Spanish Words Spoken and Compared in Rural and Urban Areas: Globe, Arizona/Metropolitan Area of Phoenix, AZ."
	David Robertson, University of Victoria. "Tolo: From European Gender-Switches to Northwest Indigenous Pidgin, and the Reverse."
	Janna Graham, Idaho State University and Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University. "'They was a-pulling them sand knolls down': Historical Syntactic Features of Southeastern Idaho."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts*

Chair:	Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Matt Schnackenberg, Washington State University. "What Contact, Conflict, and Combat Say About Kairos."
	Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado. "Al-Farabi's Reading of Aristotle's Rhetoric: A New Dimension for Reader-Response."
	William J. McCarthy, Catholic University. "Prefigurement of the Match Cut in Certain Juxtaposed Imagery in the Poetry of Horace."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 5ABC (7TH FL.)
African American Literature

Chair:	Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Alternate Chair:	Teresa Coronado, University of Oregon
Presenters:	Andrew B. Leiter, Lycoming College. "High Water: African American Writers and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927.."
	Cliff Toliver, Missouri Southern State University. "Albery Whitman: The Race of the Poet and the Poetry of Race.."
	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy. "Domestic Discomfort and Dinner Table Shenanigans: Catherine Beecher Dines In with Our Nig.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BOARDROOM 6 (7TH FL.)
English Seventeenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Todd Butler, Washington State University
Presenters:	Eileen Abrahams, University of Texas, Austin. "Contraryes meete in one: Petrarchan Ambivalence in Donne’s Holy Sonnets."
	Jessica E. Schubert, Washington State University. "As Beauty Does: Visions of Feminine Power in the Masques of Henrietta Maria."
	Paul J. Klemp, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "'I was an eare-witnesse of his sayings at his Death': The Cultural Reception and Interpretation of Archbishop William Laud’s Funeral Sermon and Prayers."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BOARDROOM 7 (7TH FL.)
CV Help Session (by reservation only)

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "CV Help Session."

GERMANIC STUDIES	CABIN 4
Germany since 1990*Social, Political, Cultural, and Financial Changes in the New German Republic

Chair:	Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University
Alternate Chair:	Katja Fullard, University of St.Thomas
Presenters:	David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona. "Cabaret in Germany since Reunification."
	Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University. "The Secret Agent as the Immortal Subject of German History."
	Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "Neo-Fascist Tendencies in Contemporary German Gothic Subculture."
	Katja Fullard, University of St.Thomas. "The Transparent German Past: Images and Symbolism in Tanja Dueckers' Novel Himmelskoerper."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	CABIN 5
Ecocriticism - I

Chair:	Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Charles Waugh, Utah State University. "Environmental Justice and the Literature of Agent Orange."
	Michael Mikulak, McMaster University. "Consuming McNature: Can I Supersize that Waterfall? The Ontology of the Wilderness Drive-thru."
	Brian C. Clark, Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston Center. "A Change in the Weather: Global Climate Change and the Development of the Gothic Novel."
	Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University. "‘Willing to work and to be wrought upon’: Wordsworth’s Interactive Relationship With Nature."

GENDER STUDIES	CASCO BAY
Women's Voices in Prose

Chair:	Victoria L. Defferding, George Fox University
Alternate Chair:	Melissa Hussain, Washington State University
Presenters:	Colleen Richmond, George Fox University. "Margery Kempe as 'Creature' and Preacher."
	Jenna Sciuto, Brown University. "Locality and Literature: The Effects of New England on the Life and Works of Edith Wharton."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Peninsular Spanish Literature - I

Chair:	John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Presenters:	John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. "Metaepistolarity in Juan de Segura's Processo de cartas de amores."
	Helen Cathleen Tarp, Idaho State University. "Grisel y Mirabella to Aurelio et Isabelle: A Case of Cultural Appropriation."
	Enric Mallorqui-Ruscalleda, Princeton University. "La contextura lúdica de Celestina."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	NORTH CAPE BAY
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean

Chair:	Maryann Weber, Missouri Southern State University
Alternate Chair:	Margaret Heady, Eastern Washington University
Presenters:	Maryann Weber, Missouri Southern State University. "Electoral Ironies in Francophone African Fiction."
	Margaret Heady, Eastern Washington University. "From Roots to Routes: Double Consciousness in the Francophone Caribbean Novel."
	Ramonu Abiodun Sanusi, George Mason University. "African Feminism / Western Feminism: Contradictory or Complementary?."

FRIDAY, 3:45PM - 5:15PM

PEDAGOGY	BAY 3
Technology and Distance Education

Chair:	A. James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University
Alternate Chair:	John Rothfork, Northern Arizona University
Presenters:	John Rothfork, Northern Arizona University. "Distance Education as Therapy.."
	Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University. "Developing Visual Thinking for E-Learning.."
	A. James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University. "Technology in the Redesign of a Humanities Class.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	BAY 4
Romania's Contributions to International Heritage

Chair:	Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University
Presenters:	Mircea Sabau, Independent Scholar. "Metaphysical and Visual Metaphors in the Poems of Lucian Blaga."
	Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "Geoge Bacovia, Cioran's Kindred Spirit?."
	Aurelien Demars, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, France. "L’impossible selon Cioran."
	Raymonde A. Bulger, Graceland University [Emerita]. "Les inédits de Cioran."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 5
Administrative Considerations in Tenure and Promotion*

Chair:	Dan R. Jones, Texas A&M International University
Presenters:	Lynn Briggs, Eastern Washington University and Sura Rath, Central Washington University and Dan R. Jones, Texas A&M International University. "Tenure and Promotion."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 6
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film

Chair:	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters:	Joanne Sellen, Washington State University. "Applying Cognitive Strategies to Media Instruction."
	Paul Brians, Washington State University. "Techniques for Mixing Text, Stills, and Clips in Computer-Based Film Lectures."
	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Music and Madness: Caroline Link and Elfriede Jelinek."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BEAUTY BAY
Latin American Literature and Film

Chair:	Graciela Garcia, National Cathedral School
Alternate Chair:	Fernando Valerio, Colorado State University
Presenters:	Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Arizona State University. "Maria Full of Grace or Marston Full of Gaze: Local Coproduction, World Consumption, Global Cultures.."
	Yudis Contreras, Indiana University. "Bolivar's Image as a Socio-Political Signifier."
	Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "Impossible Representations: Language and Image in Blow-up."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
Conseil international d'études francophones+Impact de l’environnement, la mémoire et la langue sur l’élaboration d'une identité francophone

Chair:	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame
Alternate Chair:	Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame
Presenters:	Catharine Randall, Fordham University. "Esprit 'vert': sentiment environnementaliste dans la littérature québécoise du début du XXe siècle.."
	Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame. "Nouvelles identités francophones: Brina Svit, écrivain européen de langue française.."
	Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College. "'Je parle, tu écris': Survivance de l'oralité dans l’écriture dans Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
Transatlanticism - II*Race and Material Culture

Chair:	Todd Butler, Washington State University
Presenters:	Ameer Sohrawardy, Rutgers University. "The Commodification of Difference in Raleigh's The Discovery of Guiana."
	Leslie M. Nelson, Washington State University. "'Infection' or 'Defect': Mapping Racial Difference in Early Modern England."
	Gwen Sullivan, Washington State University. "Marketing of a Panacea: Selling New World Tobacco to Old World England."

GENDER STUDIES	BOARDROOM 5ABC (7TH FL.)
The Rhetoric of Peace: Women Speaking from the Pulpit, the Podium,and in Protest*

Chair:	Shelly Richardson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Wendy Dasler Johnson, Washington State University, Vancouver. "'Battle Hymn' Writer Sings a New Song: Julia Ward Howe's Apostolate for Peace.."
	Shelly Richardson, Washington State University. "A Nation’s Nobel Peace Laureate or Unpatriotic Pacifist? Jane Addams Revisited.."
	Kris Kellejian, Washington State University. "CODEPINK: Women, War, and Peace in the Twenty-first Century.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 6 (7TH FL.)
Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*

Chair:	Lynda Hall, University of Calgary
Alternate Chair:	Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
Presenters:	Sarah A. Appleton, Murray State University. "Brainfrizz or Paradise Thawed?: A Parable of Psychoanalysis in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake."
	Lynda Hall, University of Calgary. "Unjust Violations of Social, Physical, and Metaphysical Boundaries in Alias Grace."
	Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island. "Survivalwoman, a Canadian Superhero."

ITALIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 7 (7TH FL.)
Italian-American Writers*

Chair:	Jon Hegglund, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Jessica L. Maucione, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Vardaro McMillan, San Jose State University. "I Due Principi.."
	Amina Ben Ezzeddine, Washington State University. "The Limits of Representation in Don DeLillo's Writing.."
	Jessica L. Maucione, Washington State University. "Geographical and Literary Little Italys: Tina DeRosa's Paper Fish and a New Italian American Imaginary.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	CABIN 4
American Literature after 1900

Chair:	Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University
Alternate Chair:	Julie Barak, Mesa State College
Presenters:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Saying the Unsayable: Sylvia Plath's Metaphors, The Feminine Mystique, and the 'Glass Coffins' of Mid-Twentieth-Century American Women.."
	Ann V. Bliss, University of California, Davis. "'My Mother-Stranger': The Cipher Mother in The Lovely Bones."
	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Flawed Family Function: Steinbeck's Perspective."
	Kerstin Schmidt, Weber State University. "The Theater of Transformation: Rep & Rev Postmodernism in African-American Drama."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	CABIN 5
Ecocriticism - II

Chair:	Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Paul S. Quick, University of Georgia. "Ecofeminism in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Outer Dark."
	Heather Krebs, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Geography of Place: A Marxist Approach to Space and Place."
	Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Language of Loving a Place: Rick Bass and The Book of Yaak."
	Chia-ju Chang, Trinity University. "The Haunting Voice of Mother Earth: An Ecofeminist Reading of Transnational Chinese Cinema."

LINGUISTICS	CASCO BAY
Linguistics - English

Chair:	Nanette Wichman, Eastern Washington University
Alternate Chair:	Dallin D. Oaks, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Dallin D. Oaks, Brigham Young University. "Clipping, Acronymy, and Structural Ambiguities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.."
	Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University. "'Basically, this doesn't make sense': The new functions of a sentence adverb and/or hedge.."
	Tim Conrad, Weber State University. "Discourse Analysis of a Dual-Language, Spanish-English Class.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Peninsular Spanish Literature - II

Chair:	John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Presenters:	Jose M. Garcia-Sanchez, Eastern Washington University. "Los discursos de reconocimiento de Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra."
	Curtis G. Wasson II, Ball State University. "On Literary Paternities: Becquerian Influences in the Work of Luis Cernuda."
	Amanda Petersen, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La hoguera violenta: La representación de la violencia en El resplandor de la hoguera de Ramón del Valle-Inclán."
	Jennifer Law, Washington State University. "The De-mythification of Woman, Sex, and Writing in Antonio Gala's La pasión turca."

GENERAL TOPICS	NORTH CAPE BAY
Romanticism

Chair:	David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College
Presenters:	Anita Aukee Johnson, Monterey Peninsula College. "'The Glowing Pencil of Fancy' : The Romantic Meets the Real in Kirkland's A New A New Home: Who'll Follow?."
	Karen Gasser, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Romanticism Comes of Age."
	Nicholas Wallerstein, Black Hills State University. "'Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!': Linguistic and Theological Backgrounds of Spirit in Romantic Poetry."
	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Claiming the Subject Position: Romantic Poets and Portraits."

FRIDAY, 9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 3
Friday Film Showing - Open your Eyes

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University. "Open your Eyes / Abre los ojos (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997; Spain. 111 min.)."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 4
RMMLA Poets Read their Works - II

Chair:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Presenters:	Leonard Orr, Washington State University. "Daytime Moon.."
	Elizabeth Robinson, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Counterpart.."
	J. Andrew Prall, University of Saint Francis. "Reading the Leaves: A Convolute of Poems.."
	Allene M. Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Calamity Jane's Cousin.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 6
Friday Film Showing - Picnic at Hanging Rock

Chair:	Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Presenters:	Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975; Australia. 115 min.)."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Video Documentary of Edwige Danticat

Chair:	Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University
Presenters:	Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University. "Video documentary of an interview with the writer Edwidge Danticat."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Friday Film Showing - Documentary on / Interview with Haitian Novelist, Edwige Danticat

Chair:	Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University
Presenters:	Geta LeSeur, University of Arizona and Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University. "Documentary Film/Interview with Haitian Novelist Edwige Danticat."

SPECIAL EVENTS	NORTH CAPE BAY
Chinese Poets Read from their Work*

Chair:	John A. Crespi, Colgate University
Presenters:	Yibing Huang, Connecticut College and Er Zhang, Evergreen State College. "Reading.."

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 22

SATURDAY, 7:30AM - 3:00PM

REGISTRATION	CONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Saturday

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration."

SATURDAY, 8:00AM - 3:00PM

EXHIBITS	CONFERENCE CENTER AREA
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Saturday

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.."

SATURDAY, 8:30AM -10:00AM

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BAY 1A
Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives*

Chair:	Jason Herbeck, Boise State University
Presenters:	Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University. "Smiling Madame Beudet Gets a Facelift: Claire Denis’s Modern Portrayal of Female Desire in Friday Night.."
	Sudarsan Rangarajan, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Rhetoric in Butor's L’Emploi du temps.."
	Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University. "The Reader as Detective in Andrée Michaud’s Le Ravissement.."
	Jason Herbeck, Boise State University. "Endeavors of Authenticity: Architectural/Architextual Expression in Traversée de la Mangrove.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 1B
Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+

Chair:	Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Eydie Fernandez, University of Florida. "La 'otredad' en Retahílas.."
	Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Pilar Miró y el cine español contemporáneo.."
	Liliana Dorado, Hope College. "La voz colectiva en Cárcel de mujeres de Tomasa Cuevas.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 2
Literature and National Identity*

Chair:	Matthew R. Bush, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Jimena Ugaz, Middlebury College. "Crimen e historia nacionales en Agosto (1990) de Rubem Fonseca."
	Elizabeth K. Goldberg, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Acercamiento posmoderno a una dictadura latinoamericana: Cola de lagartija de Luisa Valenzuela."
	Kerrie Wlad, De Pauw University. "Construction of the ‘Postmodern’ Memory in Por favor, rebobinar ."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 3
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature

Chair:	Bethany Blankenship, University of Montana, Western
Alternate Chair:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Rebekah Hamilton, University of Texas, Pan American. "Scripture as Ground: Teaching Biblical Variations in Modern and Contemporary Literature."
	George Greenlee, Missouri Southern State University. "The Notecard as the Bridge from Text to Student to Professor."
	Shubha Venugopal, Kutztown University. "The Pleasures and Perils of Teaching African American Literature."
	Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University. "Service Learning and Story in the Literature Class."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	BAY 4
Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication

Chair:	Henrietta N. Shirk, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Alternate Chair:	Kris Kellejian, Washington State University
Presenters:	Robin Ely, Montana Tech of the University of Montana. "Participant Observation in the Zambian Marketplace."
	Lyn F. Gattis, Oklahoma State University. "Two Roles, Two Worlds: The International Technical Communication Internship."
	James Melton, New Mexico State University. "You Got Skills: Global Competencies for Technical Communicators."
	Diana Wegner, Douglas College. "The Activist as Citizen: Discourse Boundaries and Audience Design."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BAY 5
Early American Literature

Chair:	Deborah Weagel, University of New Mexico
Alternate Chair:	Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University
Presenters:	Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University. "Philadelphia and its Influence on Early American Literature.."
	Deborah Weagel, University of New Mexico. "Representations of Native Americans in The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain.."

PEDAGOGY	BAY 6
Teaching English CompositionIntegrating Artistic Elements into the Composition Classroom

Chair:	Joanna N. Paull, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Alternate Chair:	Megan Doney, Landmark College
Presenters:	Robert Sargent Fay, Landmark College. "Integrating Artistic Elements into the Teaching of Written Composition to College Students with Dyslexia, ADHD, and Other Specific Learning Differences."
	Jennifer Driscoll, Yeshiva University. "Conscious Characters: Out/scripting the Self in the Classroom."
	Megan Doney, Landmark College. "Notes to Letters: Integrating Music into the Composition Class."
	Lorraine Genetti, Regent University. "Two Projects: Portraying Personality in Art and Writing and Storyboards as a Tool for Organizing Narrative.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BEAUTY BAY
Oral and Traditional Arts

Chair:	Domingo Gonzalez, University of Connecticut
Alternate Chair:	Ginger Knowlton, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Ginger Knowlton, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Impact of Maori Oral Tradition on Contemporary New Zealand Literature."
	Leonardo Palacios, University of Connecticut. "Adiós a Tarzán, un happening de Enrique Lihn: Estrategias orales de protesta contra el régimen militar chileno."
	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "Storytelling in the Isleño Community: Nobody's a Stranger Anymore."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
Owen Barfield

Chair:	Jeffrey Hipolito, Everett Community College
Alternate Chair:	David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College
Presenters:	David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College. "Barfield, Tripp, and the Perennial Tradition.."
	Terrance Hipolito, Independent Scholar. "Barfield's Epistemology of Equity.."
	Joseph E. Becker, University of Maine, Fort Kent. "Tolkien, Barfield, and the Language of Creation.."
	Jeffrey Hipolito, Everett Community College. "Singing Death: The Descent of Orpheus in Shelley, Barfield, and Blanchot.."

PEDAGOGY	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom

Chair:	Meredith McCarroll, University of Tennessee
Presenters:	Ellen Riek, Northern Arizona University. "Engaging First-Year Honors Students in Feminist Theory.."
	Jessica Ketcham, Louisiana State University. "Composing a Difference: Embodying Activism in a Composition Classroom."

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES	CABIN 4
Caribbean Literature (non-French)*

Chair:	Melissa Baty, State University of New York, Buffalo
Presenters:	Kathryn E. Caccavaio, Michigan State University. "The Mother of Antigua: An Analysis of Colonialism as Displayed Through Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Writings of Jamaica Kincaid.."
	Keilonne A. O'Brien, University of Texas, Austin. "Fanon, Gender, and Moving Beyond Wretchedness.."
	Lorna L. Perez, State University of New York, Buffalo. "Space of Memory, Houses of Alienation: On the Role of Community and the Urban/Suburban Divide in Judith Ortiz Cofer.."
	Melissa Baty, State University of New York, Buffalo. "'Islandness' and the Middle Passage in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven.."

GENERAL TOPICS	CABIN 5
Biography - I*(Re)locating the Position of the Biographer in Life Writing

Chair:	Jennifer Keys, University of California, Riverside
Alternate Chair:	Ivana Cikes, Brandeis University
Presenters:	Nathan E. Milos, University of California, Davis. "A Biographer is Born: An Examination of A.S. Byatt s Phineas Nanson and Pynchon's Herbert Stencil and Their Roles as Biographers.."
	Catherine Sprecher, University of Chicago. "Re-Inventing Goethe: Bettine von Arnim's Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (1835) as Biography.."
	Melissa Shields, Harvard University. "Novel Borrowings: Elizabeth Gaskell Writes a Father’s Life.."
	Crystal Alberts, Washington University, St. Louis. "After the Fall: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Fact into Fiction.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	CASCO BAY
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Open Forum & Business Meeting."

GERMANIC STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+

Chair:	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Alternate Chair:	Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters:	Lorenzo Bellettini, University of Cambridge. "Schnitler and Freud Revisited. A Study of Stylistic Influence."
	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "Models of Multiculturalism in Peter Henisch's Novel Schwarzer Peter ."
	Jeffrey Packer, Angelo State University. "Handke's Narrative Love Affair: Time and the Storyteller in Don Juan ."

ASIAN STUDIES	NORTH CAPE BAY
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - II*Center and Periphery in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Chair:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Oberlin College. "Re-imagining the Country: A Comparative Reading of Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress."
	Howard Y.F. Choy, Georgia Institute of Technology. "Revolution or Consumption? Political Jokes in Postcolonial Hong Kong."
	Scott Galer, Brigham Young University, Idaho. "Living a Dream: The Metropolitan Acme in Wei Wei’s 'A Foreign Land'."
	Shelley W. Chan, Wittenberg University. "Mu Zimei and Her Peers: A Sexual Liberation or A Commercialization of the Body?."

SATURDAY,10:15AM -11:45AM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BAY 1A
Mary Shelley

Chair:	Carolyn Weber, Seattle University
Alternate Chair:	Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University
Presenters:	Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University. "Reel Creatures: Frankenstein and Film."
	Carolyn Weber, Seattle University. "The Secret of the Magnet in Frankenstein."
	Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University. "'But White Paper to Be Written Upon': Imagining America in Mary Shelley's Lodore."
	Staci Stone, Murray State University. "A Romantic Scheherazade: Mary Shelley and The Arabian Nights."

GENERAL TOPICS	BAY 1B
Undergraduates Unplugged - I*Linguistic Boundaries - Movements Within & Without

Chair:	Josh Mondau, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Verena Theile, Washington State University
Presenters:	Matt Spears, California State University, San Marcos. "The Canonicity of Cliché: Idiomatic Language & Formulaic Diction in Beowulf and the Heaney Translation."
	Rachel Neff, Washington State University. "No me llame Señorita, soy una Señora: Rosario Castellanos' 'Cooking Lesson' as a Demonstration of the Other in a Mexican Marriage."
	Stephen Allen, Seattle Pacific University. "(In)justice: Transitional Identities in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace."
	Rebecca L. Schweitzer, University of California at Davis. "Prince Hal's Theatricality: A Mode of Political Power in Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 2
Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions - II*

Chair:	Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University
Presenters:	Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University. "'Nafteando': Sandra Cisneros and her Trade of the Free Word."
	Mercedes Juan-Saura, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Martí y los escritores cubanos."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 3
Interview Etiquette

Chair:	Maureen Smith, Washington State University
Presenters:	Maureen Smith, Washington State University. "Tips and Techniques for a Successful Interview."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	BAY 4
Forces of Change in Technical Professional Communication

Chair:	James Melton, New Mexico State University
Alternate Chair:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University
Presenters:	Earl McDowell, University of Minnesota. "A Curricular Profile of Technical Communication Departments during the First Decade of the 21st Century."
	Ryan Hoover, Sam Houston State University and Carroll F. Nardone, Sam Houston State University. "Responding to Forces of Change in Industry: Single Sourcing, Postmodern Theory, and Technical Writing Pedagogy."
	Henrietta N. Shirk, Montana Tech of the University of Montana. "A Rationale for Including “Gender & Technology” Courses in Technical Communication Programs."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BAY 5
English Literature since 1900

Chair:	Alan G. Johnson, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair:	Marianne Cotugno, Mt. Olive College
Presenters:	Elizabeth M. Myers, Texas Tech University. "Through the Ages: Archetypes of Madness in Eva Figes' The Seven Ages."
	Ross Gresham, U.S. Air Force Academy. "Kingsley Amis's Letters and Their Relationship to His Novels."
	Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University. "The Many Antecedents for the Only Solution to The Only Problem: An Analysis of the Cultural Precursors to Muriel Spark's Fictional Heterodoxy."
	Renee Dickinson, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Modernists Con(tra)ceptions: Olive Moore's Reluctant Husbandry.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BAY 6
Literature and Other Arts

Chair:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Alternate Chair:	Julie Steward, Samford University
Presenters:	Kiyoko Magome, University of Houston. "From American Musico-Literary Realism/Naturalism to Modernism.."
	Blake G. Hobby, University of North Carolina, Asheville. "Music and the Experience of Time: The Modernist Obsession with Consciousness.."
	Angela Frattarola, New York University. "Musical and Literary Sampling: The Aesthetics of the Phonograph and the Twentieth-Century Novel.."
	Jacob-Ivan Eidt, University of South Carolina. "Rilke's Angels and the Film Wings of Desire: Peter Handke and Wim Wenders' Film Adaptation of a Poetic Idea."
	Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University. "The Making of David: A Literary Paradigm.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BEAUTY BAY
Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Chair:	Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University. "Daughters of Bohemia: 1890s Novels of the Woman Artist."
	Leland Krauth, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and the Tactics of Reform."
	Chad May, University of Oregon. "The Romance of America: James Fenimore Cooper and the Leather-Stocking Tales."
	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Love, Laughter, and Loss in the Post-War South: Grace King's Balcony Stories."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 3 (7TH FL.)
French Literature before 1800

Chair:	James Mills, Southern Utah University
Alternate Chair:	Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, CUNY College of Staten Island
Presenters:	Sarah Massey-Warren, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Essaying to See Montaigne: Anamorphic and Ambient Writing in the Essais."
	James Mills, Southern Utah University. "Clément Marot and Robert Burns: Satirists of Religion or Religious Satirists?."

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES	CABIN 4
Caribbean Identity and the Diaspora*

Chair:	Patricia D. Catoira, Montana State University-Bozeman
Presenters:	Geta LeSeur, University of Arizona. "Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Politics of Sugarcane."
	Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Voicing A Lost Past: History and Revisionism in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting and Miguel Barnet's Biografía de un cimarrón."
	Guillermina Walas, Eastern Washington University. "Growing Up Caribbean-American: Five Narratives of Coming of Age."

GENERAL TOPICS	CABIN 5
Biography - II*Narratives in/between Auto/Biography

Chair:	Jennifer Keys, University of California, Riverside
Presenters:	Emily S. Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Surpassing Autobiographical Borders in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage.."
	Sonia Salinas, University of Texas, Pan American. "Americo Paredes: Uncovering the Ambiguity of His Multifaceted Life.."
	James M. Gossett, Pacific Graduate Institute. "Psycho-Poesis: Biography, Story, and Soul in Pychoanalysts.."
	Christy Russell, University of California, Riverside. "The Presence of Absence: Representation, Abjection, and Mobilization in the Photography of David Wojarowicz."

GENDER STUDIES	CASCO BAY
Women's Caucus SeminarWomen as Explorers/Authors of Exploration Narratives & The Gendered Nature of Exploration

Chair:	Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University
Alternate Chair:	Melissa Bostrom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Adrienne Victoria Ghaly, New York University. "Amelia Edwards, Literal Hieroglyphics and the Objects of Language."
	Bernadette H. Hyner, Washington State University. "Not A Grim(m) Tale: Female Agency in Marie von Olfers' Little Princess.."
	Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida. "Isabella Bird Bishop and Her Adventures in the Equestrian Kingdom of Hawaii."
	Elizabeth Tomlinson, Independent Scholar. "The Petticoat Vagabond: Writer, Adventurer, Philanthropist, Spy."

FILM STUDIES	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Australian Film and Literature: Beneath the Down Under

Chair:	Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Alternate Chair:	James J. Kirschke, Villanova University
Presenters:	Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Moderated Open Discussion of Picnic at Hanging Rock."

SPECIAL EVENTS	NORTH CAPE BAY
RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works*

Chair:	Jonathan Pitts, Ohio Northern University
Alternate Chair:	Fred Arroyo, Saint Louis University
Presenters:	Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College. "How We Talk: A Fiction."
	Diana J. Joseph, Minnesota State Universtiy. "A Beast with Two Backs."
	Paul J. Lindholdt, Eastern Washington University. "Three Coyotes (essay)."
	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Crossroads: A Novel (excerpt)."

SATURDAY,12:00PM - 1:30PM

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 1A
Ecos Visuales tra Moyas de la Memoria*Literatura Latinoamericana del siglo XXI

Chair:	Miriam Balboa Echeverria, Texas State University
Presenters:	Fernanda Bueno, University of Texas, Austin. "La historia globalizada:entretejidos de la memoria en Diarios de Motocicleta."
	Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "Palabra y representacíon plástica en poemas de Luisa Futoransky."
	Miriam Balboa Echeverria, Texas State University. "Antigona o el vuelo desangrado en Rosario Ferre."

GENERAL TOPICS	BAY 1B
Undergraduates Unplugged - II*Identity - Refashioning the Self

Chair:	Nicholas J. DeSelle, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Verena Theile, Washington State University
Presenters:	Melissa Forbes, Seattle Pacific University. "The Significance of Rupture: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and An Artist of the Floating World."
	Megan Jean Rea, Georgian Court University. "Placing Drama in Context: Exploring the Identity/Reality Paradigm of Language Patterns in Beckett, Pinter, and Stoppard."
	Olivia D. Everett, Fort Lewis College. "The Creation of the Huntress through Myth and Meaning."
	Rebecca Nisetich, University of Massachusetts. "Manhood and Masculinity in Morrison's Beloved."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BAY 2
Spanish American LiteratureColonial Spanish-American Literature

Chair:	Beatriz G. Loyola, Skidmore College
Alternate Chair:	Juan P. Dabove, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Fernando F. Sanchez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La virgen y el letrado: María de Guadalupe, la mujer águila.."
	Jesus E. Ortiz-Diaz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Entre las Cruzadas y el sueño/castigo de Dios: el otro y su espacio en El Brasil restituido y Sermão pelo Bom Sucesso das Armas de Portugal contra as de Holanda.."
	Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "La epopeya en Chile: Un estudio de La Aruacana de Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	BAY 3
Literary CriticismTragedy and Desire

Chair:	Daniel G. Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch
Presenters:	Lesley Broder, Stony Brook University. "The Pain of Desire: Strindberg's Miss Julie and Wilde's Salome as Death-Drive Tragedies."
	Keith Appler, Independent Scholar. "'Modern Tragedy' and Revolutionary Desire: The Case of David Mamet’s Edmond."
	Laurens De Vos, Ghent University. "The Decline and Resurrection of the Tragic Hero."

FILM STUDIES	BAY 4
Film (Open Topic)

Chair:	Robert C. Sickels, Whitman College
Presenters:	Daniel Steinhart, University of California, Los Angeles. "From the Printed Page to the Silver Screen: American Splendor, a Formal Hybrid.."
	Elizabeth Affuso, University of Southern California. "Negotiating Time, Memory, and the Spectator in Before Sunset.."
	Katrin Schroeter, University of New Mexico. "Crossing the Bridge: Sound-Images from Hamburg and Istanbul in Fatih Akin's Gegan die Wand (Head-On).."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BAY 5
Shakespeare

Chair:	Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University
Alternate Chair:	Jefferey H. Taylor, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters:	Kathy Greenwood, New Mexico State University, Carlsbad. "A Lion Among Ladies: Shakespeare’s Verbal Evocation of Animals."
	Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. "The Limits of Clowning in the Age of Marprelate: The Anti-Martinist Tracts and 2 Henry VI."
	Alan Lindsay, New Hampshire Technical Institute. "Escalus Winks: Nonritualized Sacrifice in Romeo and Juliet."
	Bobye M. Ruddell, Eastern Washington University. "Vehicle of Cultural Critique: Shakespeare's Works in Twenty-first Century Film."

GERMANIC STUDIES	BAY 6
German Literature since 1900

Chair:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, Columbia
Alternate Chair:	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters:	Roger Cook, University of Missouri. "Goodbye Lenin! Ostalgie Moves West.."
	Tim Gruenewald, University of Washington. "Whiteness and National Identity in German Cinema.."
	Edna Epelbaum, New York University. "Drama Queens of the 1990s.."
	Eva-Maria Metcalf, University of Mississippi. "Teaching German Literature Without Books.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BEAUTY BAY
Poetry and Poetics* (Open Topic)

Chair:	Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Presenters:	Cynthia Cavanaugh, Kean University. "Richard Wilbur and Italy.."
	Janna Knittel, St. Cloud State University. "Freedom in Confinement: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Form.."
	Siobhan Scarry, Sonoma Academy. "Objects and the Beyond: The Poetics of Charles Simic.."
	Amanda Golden, University of Washington. "Poetic Pedagogy: Sylvia Plath’s Teaching Notes."

LINGUISTICS	BOARDROOM 2 (7TH FL.)
Linguistics-Second Language Acquisition

Chair:	Eva Nunez-Mendez, Portland State University
Alternate Chair:	Samuel Francis, Colorado State University
Presenters:	Robert Sanders, Portland State University. "Redesigning Introductory Spanish."
	Elizabeth Siler, Washington State University. "Reading Spanish for Graduate Studies in English."
	Ekembe E. Enongene, University of Yaounde I. "Save English in Cameroon."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	CABIN 4
Western and Southwestern Literature

Chair:	Ann V. Bliss, University of California, Davis
Presenters:	Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado. "To Open My Senses: Writers Celebrating the West through Description."
	Ellen Malphrus, University of South Carolina, Beaufort. "A Long Day’s Dying: Achieving Existential Authenticity in William Eastlake’s Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-six Horses."
	Melanie Madden, University of California, Davis. "The Gothic Borderlands."

WRITING PROGRAMS	CABIN 5
Creative Writing: Pedagogy

Chair:	Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Alternate Chair:	Thomas Hawks, University of Utah
Presenters:	Elizabeth Robinson, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Making a Coherent Manuscript from Individual Poems.."
	Joddy Murray, Washington State University, Tri Cities. "Teaching Digital Poetry: Animating the 'Body Electric.'."

GENDER STUDIES	CASCO BAY
Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speaker+

Chair:	Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University
Alternate Chair:	Melissa Bostrom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Janice Harris, University of Wyoming. "Scholarly Explorations."

GENERAL TOPICS	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Drama

Chair:	Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Gregory Kable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Reading Tragedy."
	Raja Al-Khalili, Washington State University. "Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and American Folk Drama."
	John W. Stone, Independent Scholar. "Eye to Ear."
	Tiffany Boddie, Boise State University. "Anyone with Eyes: Looking at the Addition of Race to Marivaux's La Dispute."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	NORTH CAPE BAY
Women in French

Chair:	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Alternate Chair:	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters:	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Echoes of Sand's Isidora in Colette's Chéri and Fin de Chéri."
	Caren Barnezet Parrish, University of California, Davis. "Rewriting One’s Past in Linda Lê."
	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University. "Marguerite Duras and the Decline of the French Empire."

SATURDAY, 1:45PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	FRONT OF HOTEL @ 1:45 PM
Excursion #1 - Sandpoint, ID Shopping/Wine-Tasting/DinnerBy reservation only; space limited.

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Excursion to Sandpoint, ID (Depart 2 pm; Return approx. 9 pm) - Reservations req.."

SATURDAY, 2:00PM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	FRONT OF HOTEL @ 1:45 PM
Excursion #2 - Coeur d'Alene Area Historical SitesBy reservation only; space may be limited

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Excursion to Coeur d'Alene Historical Sites (Depart 2 pm; Return approx. 6 pm) - Reservations req.."

SATURDAY, 9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 3
Saturday Film Showing - Heimat

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University. "Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (excerpts) (Edgar Reitz, 1984-2004)."

WRITING PROGRAMS	BAY 4
Creative Non-Fiction - II*RMMLA Creative Nonfiction Writers Read Their Work

Chair:	Beth Simon, Indiana University, Purdue University
Presenters:	Ali Brox, University of Nevada, Reno and Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College and Tahseen Bea, Independent Scholar. "."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BAY 6
Saturday Film Showing - Blind Shaft

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "Blind Shaft / Mang Jing (Li Yang, 2003; People's Republic of China; 89 min.)."

SPECIAL EVENTS	KIDD ISLAND BAY
Saturday Film Showing - Look at Me

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Look at Me / Comme une image (Agnès Jaoui, 2004; France. 111 min.)."