59th Annual RMMLA Convention, Coeur d'Alene, ID
October 20-22, 2005
Program Summary by Session Type
| Asian Comparative Literature and Film - I* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | North Cape Bay |
| Asian Comparative Literature and Film - II* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | North Cape Bay |
| Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - I* | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Bay 5 |
| Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - II* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | North Cape Bay |
| Modern Chinese Poetry* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Beauty Bay |
| Classical Language and Literature: Greek | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Casco Bay |
| Classical Language and Literature: Latin | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 6 (7th fl.) |
| Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts* | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 6 |
| English Eighteenth-Century Literature | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 5 |
| English Literature since 1900 | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 5 |
| English Renaissance Literature | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Beauty Bay |
| English Seventeenth-Century Literature | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Boardroom 6 (7th fl.) |
| Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 4 |
| Mary Shelley | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 1A |
| Milton* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Cabin 5 |
| Old and Middle English | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 1B |
| Owen Barfield | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Renaissance Hebraism* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Beauty Bay |
| Shakespeare | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 5 |
| Transatlanticism - I* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Cabin 4 |
| Transatlanticism - II* | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | | |
| Caribbean Identity and the Diaspora* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Cabin 4 |
| Caribbean Literature (non-French)* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 4 |
| Imaginary Dangers: Postcolonial Literature and U.S. National Security* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Casco Bay |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | | |
| African American Literature | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Boardroom 5ABC (7th fl.) |
| African American Women Writers - II* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Cabin 4 |
| American Literature after 1900 | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Cabin 4 |
| Association for Mormon Letters+ | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 2 |
| Early American Literature | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 5 |
| Flannery O'Connor* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Cabin 5 |
| Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts* | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Boardroom 6 (7th fl.) |
| Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Western US and Canada* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | North Cape Bay |
| Native American Literature | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 6 |
| Nineteenth-Century American Literature | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Beauty Bay |
| Pacific Northwest Literature* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| Queer West: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Representation in the American West* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 6 (7th fl.) |
| Southern Literature* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 1A |
| Sports and American Literature* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| True North: Cultured Spaces in Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Literature* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 2 |
| Video Documentary of Edwige Danticat | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Western and Southwestern Literature | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Cabin 4 |
| Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Friday | Friday, 8:00AM - 6:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Saturday | Saturday, 8:00AM - 3:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Thursday | Thursday, 8:00AM - 6:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Australian Film and Literature: Beneath the Down Under | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 4 |
| Film (Open Topic) | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 4 |
| Pulp Fiction, Pulp Film* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | | |
| Conseil international d'études francophones+ | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | North Cape Bay |
| French Literature before 1800 | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| French Literature since 1800 | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Beauty Bay |
| Friday Film Showing - Documentary on / Interview with Haitian Novelist, Edwige Danticat | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Cabin 5 |
| Revealing and Re-veiling Language: The Role of the 'Orient' in Western Fantasy* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 1B |
| Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 1A |
| Women in French | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | North Cape Bay |
| (In)Tolerance: Women Writers and Religion, 1780-1880* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 4 |
| African American Women Writers - I* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 4 |
| Gender and Race in Literature and Film* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Images and Identities of European Americans in Literature and Film* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 2 |
| Popular Women's Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Casco Bay |
| The Rhetoric of Peace: Women Speaking from the Pulpit, the Podium,and in Protest* | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Boardroom 5ABC (7th fl.) |
| Women in/and Literature | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 5 |
| Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speaker+ | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Casco Bay |
| Women's Caucus Seminar | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Casco Bay |
| Women's Voices in Poetry | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 5 |
| Women's Voices in Prose | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Casco Bay |
| Autobiography - I* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 4 |
| Autobiography - II* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Cabin 4 |
| Autobiography - III* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 1A |
| Biography - I* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 5 |
| Biography - II* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Cabin 5 |
| Comic Books and Graphic Novels* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Drama | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial - I* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Beauty Bay |
| Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial - II* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | North Cape Bay |
| Ethnic Studies | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 6 |
| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus Seminar | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Literature and Fashion* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Literature and Other Arts | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 6 |
| Literature and Science | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Beauty Bay |
| Literature and War* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 7 (7th fl.) |
| Literature for Children and Young Adults | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 3 |
| Literature of the Holocaust* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Cabin 5 |
| Literature of Trauma* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 3 |
| Oral and Traditional Arts | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Beauty Bay |
| Poetry and Poetics* (Open Topic) | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Beauty Bay |
| Popular Culture* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 4 |
| Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Beauty Bay |
| Romanticism | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | North Cape Bay |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Sigma Tau Delta | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 1B |
| Sociolinguistics in the Middle Ages* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 1B |
| Staging Culture in Musical Theater | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 6 |
| The Concept of Knighthood in the Literature of the Twelfth Century: A Comparative Study* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Cabin 5 |
| Undergraduates Unplugged - I* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 1B |
| Undergraduates Unplugged - II* | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 1B |
| German Literature before 1900 | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Cabin 4 |
| German Literature since 1900 | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 6 |
| Germany since 1990* | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Cabin 4 |
| Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+ | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Poetry Reading by German-American Poets* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 2 |
| Thursday Film Showing - Heimat | Thursday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 3 |
| Italian-American Writers* | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Boardroom 7 (7th fl.) |
| American Dialect Society+ | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Linguistics - English | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Casco Bay |
| Linguistics - Foreign Language | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 6 |
| Linguistics - General and Applied | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 5ABC (7th fl.) |
| Linguistics-Second Language Acquisition | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Boardroom 2 (7th fl.) |
| Linguistics-Spanish & Portuguese | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Bay 3 |
| Lunch Break - Thursday | Thursday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Bon Appétit! |
| OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES | | |
| Romania's Contributions to International Heritage | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Bay 4 |
| Scandinavian Literature* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 4 |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 2 |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Film | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Bay 6 |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Language | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Casco Bay |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 3 |
| Teaching English | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Teaching English Composition | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 6 |
| Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 3 (7th fl.) |
| Teaching Foreign Languages | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 3 |
| Technology and Distance Education | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Bay 3 |
| Visible Knowledge Project - I* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 3 |
| Visible Knowledge Project - II* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 3 |
| Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Friday | Friday, 7:30AM - 6:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Saturday | Saturday, 7:30AM - 3:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Thursday | Thursday, 7:30AM - 6:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Wednesday | Wednesday, 3:00PM - 6:00PM | Conference Center Area |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | | |
| Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 3 |
| Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+ | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 1B |
| Configuration of the Subject in Twenty-First Narrative* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 3 |
| Early Modern Spanish Writers* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Boardroom 7 (7th fl.) |
| Ecos Visuales tra Moyas de la Memoria* | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 1A |
| Latin American Literature and Film | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Beauty Bay |
| Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions - I* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Boardroom 5ABC (7th fl.) |
| Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions - II* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 2 |
| Literature and National Identity* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 2 |
| Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 1B |
| Mexico and Violence, Three Centuries* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 5 |
| Peninsular Spanish Literature - I | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Peninsular Spanish Literature - II | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Poetry and Narrative in Twentieth-Century Latin America* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 1A |
| Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Casco Bay |
| Spanish American Literature | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 2 |
| Administrative Considerations in Tenure and Promotion* | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Bay 5 |
| Chinese Poets Read from their Work* | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | North Cape Bay |
| CV Help Session (by reservation only) | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Boardroom 7 (7th fl.) |
| Excursion #1 - Sandpoint, ID Shopping/Wine-Tasting/Dinner | Saturday, 1:45PM - 9:00PM | Front of hotel @ 1:45 pm |
| Excursion #2 - Coeur d'Alene Area Historical Sites | Saturday, 2:00PM - 6:00PM | Front of hotel @ 1:45 pm |
| Friday Film Showing - Open your Eyes | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 3 |
| Friday Film Showing - Picnic at Hanging Rock | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 6 |
| Graduate Student Forum | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 5 |
| Interview Etiquette | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 3 |
| Luncheon Banquet & Keynote Speech by Rey Chow (Brown University) | Friday, 12:00PM - 1:45PM | Bay 1-2 |
| Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception | Thursday, 6:00PM - 7:30PM | Boardroom 5ABC (7th fl.) |
| Publishing Forum | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 5 |
| RMMLA Executive Board Meeting | Thursday, 8:00AM - 1:00PM | Boardroom 6 (7th fl.) |
| RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Casco Bay |
| RMMLA Poets Read their Works - I | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Bay 6 |
| RMMLA Poets Read their Works - II | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 4 |
| RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | North Cape Bay |
| Saturday Film Showing - Blind Shaft | Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 6 |
| Saturday Film Showing - Heimat | Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 3 |
| Saturday Film Showing - Look at Me | Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Kidd Island Bay |
| Thursday Film Showing - I'm Not Scared | Thursday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 6 |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | | |
| Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+ | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 4 |
| Forces of Change in Technical Professional Communication | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 4 |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 4 |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Bay 4 |
| Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 4 |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | | |
| Bibliography and Textual Criticism* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Bay 6 |
| Colonialism Has Gotten Your Mamma* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | North Cape Bay |
| Comparative Literature (Open Topic) | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Bay 6 |
| Derrida* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Cabin 4 |
| Ecocriticism - I | Friday, 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Cabin 5 |
| Ecocriticism - II | Friday, 3:45PM - 5:15PM | Cabin 5 |
| French Cultural and Literary Theory | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Beauty Bay |
| Literary Criticism | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Bay 3 |
| Postmodernism (Open Topic)* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Bay 1A |
| Rhetorical Approaches to Literature* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | North Cape Bay |
| Creative Non-Fiction - I* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Casco Bay |
| Creative Non-Fiction - II* | Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Bay 4 |
| Creative Writing - Issues* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | North Cape Bay |
| Creative Writing: Pedagogy | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Cabin 5 |
| Writing Programs - I | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Bay 5 |
| Writing Programs - II | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Bay 5 |
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