RMMLA Annual Conventions

60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006

Preliminary Convention Program

We are looking forward to an exciting convention this year in Tucson. The Executive Board and the Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved in making this a fantastic program and to our local host, the University of Arizona, for its 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@wsu.edu.
To view a presentation abstract, click on the hyperlinked presentation title (however, not all presenters have submitted abstracts).

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 11
3:00PM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION BALLROOM FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Pick up your badge, program, tickets."
THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 12
7:30AM - 5:00PM

REGISTRATION BALLROOM FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Pick up your badge, program, tickets."
8:00AM - 5:00PM

EXHIBITS BALLROOM FOYER
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Thursday
Chair: Sabine Davis, Washington State University
Presenters: Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Come and see the books that we have available for review.."
8:30AM -10:00AM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BONSAI
Comparative Hebraism*
Chair: Kathleen Flacy, Texas A & M University
Presenters: Sharon Hampel, University of Denver. "What Sort of World before Them?: Paradise Lost and the Song of Moses."
Aliza Atik, Stony Brook University, SUNY. "Shame, Disgust, and the Female Body: Amos Gita�s Kadosh."
Holli G. Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University. "The Fidelity of Memory: Nostalgia, Narration, and Sentimentality."
Jack H. Kunin, Art Historian. "The Ark of the Covenant in the Jewish and Christian Traditions."
ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES BOOJUM
Caribbean Literature (non-French)*Caribbean Conversations
Chair: Keilonne A. OBrien, University of Texas, Austin
Presenters: Keilonne A. OBrien, University of Texas, Austin. "Diasporic Conversations: The 1930's and the Discourse of Caribbean Self-determination."
Kelly Elizabeth Buchta, Ramapo College of New Jersey. "Haitian Female Identity in the Works of Edwidge Dandicat."
Andrea A. Davis, York University, Toronto. "Caroni Dub: Rhythm and Memory as Recovery in Ramabai Espinet's."
Sharon Morgan Beckford, York University, Toronto. "Is (Re)invention Possible?: Myth and Identity in Tessa McWatt's Out of My Skin."
ASIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD
Asian Comparative Literature and Film*Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, New York: Gender and Identity in New Asian Urban Literature
Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame
Presenters: Lena Maria Scheen, Leiden University. "Stone Gates and Lane Houses: Against Urban Transformation?."
Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Coming Home to the City: Four Forms of Return in Contemporary Chinese Painting and Poetry.."
Chao-Mei Tu, Purdue University. "Gendered Cites, Gendered Histories: A Comparison of Hong Kong Trilogy and Reality and Fiction.."
GENERAL TOPICS IRONWOOD
Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial*
Chair: Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University
Presenters: Verena Theile, Washington State University. "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Enter the Discourse of Demonology.."
Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University. "'For ye are like unto whited sepulchres': Witchcraft in Webster's White Devil.."
Tara E. Lynn, University of Tennessee. "'Villanies both by land and water': The Witch Detector, 'Dr.' John Cotta.."
Maggie E. Gover, University of California, Riverside. "Editing Witchcraft: Modern Reproductions of Early Modern Witchcraft Pamphlets."
CLASSICAL STUDIES PALO VERDE
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts*
Chair: William J. McCarthy, Catholic University
Presenters: Robert M. Mello Jr, Independent Scholar. "The Rhetoric of Plagiarism."
Mary G. Economou, Seneca College and Sheridan College. "The Meeting of Penelope and Odysseus."
Susan F. Joseph, Howard University. "Singing Instructions and Delights: Medea's Rhetorical Purpose in the Design of French and Italian Baroque Operas (Lully, Charpentier, and Handel)."
William J. McCarthy, Catholic University. "Ventum erat ad Thebas: Misprision of the Medea Legend in Dracontius' Romulea X and Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts."
GENERAL TOPICS REDWOOD
Literature and Religion*Pluralism and Fundamentalism
Chair: Esra Mirze, University of Tampa
Presenters: Brian Yothers, University of Texas, El Paso. "Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Pluralism in Herman Melville's Later Poetry."
Sarah Lynn Turner, Northwestern University. "Shantih, shantih, shantih: Global Consciousness in The Waste Land."
Esra Mirze, University of Tampa. "Fundamental Differences in Zadie Smith's White Teeth."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON A
Medieval Spanish Literature*
Chair: John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Presenters: Carrie L. Ruiz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Las serranas y la sierra: peregrinaci�n a un espacio y tiempo liminal."
Paul Siegrist, Fort Hays State University. "Abstraction, Anthropomorphism and Hyperbole: Reality versus Fantasy in the Portrayal of Creatures and Beasts in Medieval Adventure Texts."
Helen Cathleen Tarp, Idaho State University. "Legal Fiction: Law and Literature in Grisel y Mirabella."
Anthony J. C�rdenas-Rotunno, University of New Mexico. "Lasses and Asses in the Medieval Spanish Aesopic Fables."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON B
Monique Wittig's Legacy*Thinking beyond the Category of Sex
Chair: Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Julia T. Balen, California State University, Channel Islands. "Annulling Gender."
Dominique Bourque, University of Ottawa. "Strat�gies de neutralisation du sexe social: Le d�-marquage dans l��uvre de Monique Wittig."
Namascar Shaktini, Florida Atlantic University. "Decomposing and Recomposing 'The Lesbian Body'."
Pamela J. Stewart, Arizona State University. "1871 Parisian Gu�rill�res."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Oral and Traditional Arts
Chair: Ginger H. Knowlton, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Maha Baddar, University of Arizona. "Oral Narratives as a Means of Resisting Oppression: The Case of Greco-Roman Egypt."
Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "In Spite of Plato: Poetry Public Readings as Traditional Rhetorical Texts."
Kimberly A. Habegger, Regis University. "The Narrative Function of the Iconography of the New Mexican Santos."
LINGUISTICS SALON D
American Dialect Society (ADS)+
Chair: Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: Janna Graham, Idaho State University
Presenters: Janna Graham, Idaho State University. "'Oh for' as a Scandinavian-influenced Linguistic Feature of Minnesota and Utah."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON E
Drama
Chair: John W. Stone, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters: Lesley Broder, Stony Brook University, SUNY. "Phantoms, Strays and the Walking Dead: The Problem with Feminism for American Drama."
John W. Stone, Independent Scholar. "Hearing a Graphic Novel: The Challenges of Adapting Persepolis for Audio Presentation."
Tony J. Stafford, University of Texas, El Paso. "Shattering the Glass Walls (Ceilings): Mirrors and Glass Walls (Ceilings) in Shaw's Plays through Misalliance."
WRITING PROGRAMS SALON F
Teaching Creative Writing in China*
Chair: Hua Li, Renmin University of China
Presenters: Yongxian Zhang, Renmin University of China and Hong Sun, Renmin University of China and Hua Li, Renmin University of China. "Teaching Creative Writing in China."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON G
Early American Literature
Chair: Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University. "Domesticated and Devotional: Anne Bradstreet and the Ironic Rebelliousness of Puritan Women Poets."
Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University. "The Autobigraophy of Ben Franklin: The View from the Tercentennial."
Sharon Kathleen Higby, Louisiana State University. "Morton's Salt: Satire at the Service of the American Convivium."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON H
English Renaissance Literature
Chair: Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Tufts University
Presenters: Susan E. Harlan, New York University. "Accessing the Biographical Subject in Sir Fulke Greville's The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney.."
McKenna Suzanne Rose, University of Nevada, Reno. "Like Plato's Republic, Only Better: The Transformation of Domestic Space in Utopia.."
Anupam Basu, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "'Rabblement of Rascals': Historicizing the Early Modern Rogue.."
10:15AM -11:45AM

GERMANIC STUDIES BASSWOOD
German Literature before 1900-II*Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters: James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "Der von Stauffenberg: Elemental Spirits, Matriarchs, and Walkueren."
Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona. "Neither Man nor Woman: Disguises, Gender-Bending, and Clothing Symbolism in Dietrich von der Gletze's Der G�rtel."
Robert John Alexander, Arizona State University. "Jean Potage: Shedding Light on the French Connection of an Early Modern German Clown Persona."
GENERAL TOPICS BOARDROOM
Autobiography*
Chair: Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge
Presenters: Matthew V. Wells, University of Oregon. "The Master Embracing Obfuscation: Subjectivity and Self-Narrative in Ge Hong's Baopuzi."
Mary DeForest, University of Colorado, Denver. "Odysseus as the Self-made Man."
Carrie Yvonne Mott, University of Arizona. "Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's Deliverance from Error."
PEDAGOGY BONSAI
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture
Chair: Ann V. Bliss, University of California, Davis
Alternate Chair: Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University
Presenters: Daniel J. Keller, University of Louisville. "Considering Alternatives: The Dilemmas and Possibilities of the Image.."
Deborah L. Bridges, University of Houston. "Using Images and a Personal Voice to Teach and Understand Culture and Intercultural Communication.."
Ann V. Bliss, University of California, Davis. "Teaching the Culture of War: Using Tim O�Brien and Louise Erdrich in the Composition Classroom.."
GENERAL TOPICS BOOJUM
Literature and Other Arts
Chair: Blake G. Hobby, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Presenters: Catherine M. McCandless, University of Pennsylvania. "Singspiel as Therapy in Goethe's Laune des Verliebten."
Andrew J. Albin, Brandeis University. "Salome at the Loom: Defiance of the Mediating Voice in Wilde and Strauss."
Joseph Harrington, University of Kansas. "Memories Are Pictures of Stories You�re Not: Tale, Text, and Image in a Multi-Media Life-Story."
PEDAGOGY COTTONWOOD
Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges
Chair: Michelle Auerbach, Front Range Community College
Alternate Chair: Jill Larsen, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Leah R. Rogin-Roper, Northern Arizona University. "Rapping it Up: Hip-Hop in the Classroom.."
Mark Saunders, Front Range Community College. "Saving Lives, Plagiarism, and Doing the Right Thing: A Community College Instructor�s Role in Helping Students Make Healthy Life Choices."
Daniel P. Sargent, Colorado School of Mines. "Creative Networks and Writing Pedagogy."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES IRONWOOD
Old and Middle English
Chair: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University
Alternate Chair: Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "��onne cym� se Antecrist�: Apocalyptic Theology in �lfric�s Catholic Homilies."
Robyn Malo-Johnston, Ohio State University. "Devotion and its Discontents: Relics in the Canterbury Tales."
Jennifer A. Palmgren, Saint Paul College. "Packaging the Middle Ages for Young Virginians."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES PALO VERDE
Association for Mormon Letters+Living a Faithful Life: Some Mormon Women's Stories
Chair: Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Laura L. Bush, Arizona State University. "Deconversion Stories in Mormon Women's Life Writing.."
Jana Lloyd, Brigham Young University. "Finding Power in the Prosaic: Editing the Diaries of Rhoda Ann Dykes Burgess.."
Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College. "Forever Damned and Damaged.."
Tessa Meyer Santiago, Independent Scholar. "Un-Set in Stone.."
GENDER STUDIES REDWOOD
African American Women Writers*
Chair: Margaret A. Urie, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: Erin Mae Clark, Washington State University
Presenters: Habiba Ibrahim, University of Washington. "'The Past and Present of the Cultural Mulatto' in The New Black Aesthetic and Sarah Phillips."
Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder. "White Drag and its Discontents: Gender and Race Performance in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye ."
Johanna Wagner, Arizona State University. "Mimesis, Architecture, and Aesthetics: Clare as the Gothic in Nella Larsen's Passing ."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON B
English Nineteenth-Century Literature-II*Victorian Transformations
Chair: Bianca Page Tredennick, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University. "'A Perilous New Bible': Poetry and Power Politics in Thomas Carlyle's Rule-Changing Religious Semiosis.."
Courtney A. Weikle-Mills, Ohio State University. "'Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face': The Seduction Plot and the Sympathetic Gaze in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.."
Scott L. Rogers, Weber State University. "The Fallen Woman and the Problem of Complete Reclamation in Adelaide Anne Procter's A Legend of Provence."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON C
Deadwood: Critical Responses*
Chair: Kyle Wiggins, Brandeis University
Alternate Chair: David Thomas Holmberg, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Brad Benz, Fort Lewis College. "The Dialects of Deadwood.."
Mark L. Berrettini, University of Northern Colorado. "Deadwood, the Western, and Subjectivity.."
Kyle Wiggins, Brandeis University and David Thomas Holmberg, Independent Scholar. "Amalgamation and Capital in Deadwood.."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON D
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
Chair: Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair: Maryann Weber, Missouri Southern State University
Presenters: Christine Duverge, University of California, Riverside. "Deux versions de La Br�lure de Renée Asgarally."
Sarah Elizabeth Mosher, University of Arizona. "Writing on Stone and Paper: Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison and l'Amour, la fantasia."
Monique M. Manopoulos, Idaho State University. "G�ographie marseillaise et g�ographie migrante dans M�chamment berb�re de Minna Sif.."
PEDAGOGY SALON E
Teaching English Composition
Chair: Megan Doney, Landmark College
Presenters: Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "Critical Pedagogy and Writing-As-Process: Locating an Interstice between Elbow and Bartholomae."
Vivette R. Milson-Whyte, University of Arizona. "Linguistic Diversity in College Composition Classes: Some Pedagogical Ramifications."
Katie L. Retzinger, New Mexico State University and Polina Chemishanova, New Mexico State University. "Reshaping the Way We Think about Narratives: Stories from the Composition Classroom."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON F
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*
Chair: Nina Chordas, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau
Alternate Chair: Raymond Craig, Kent State University
Presenters: Dennis Williams, College of Charleston. "Reconsidering Rhetoricity: Paul de Man and Melville's Pierre."
Raymond Craig, Kent State University. "Souls, Tomahawks, and Moveables: Social Practices on Early American War Narratives."
Nina Chordas, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau. "The Rhetoric of Pastoral in Early Modern New World Ethnography."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON G
Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+Women, Literature and Society
Chair: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: Liliana Dorado, Hope College
Presenters: Sara Munoz, Arizona State University. "El travestismo literario como ocultaci�n de la identidad.."
Maria-Carmen Riddel, Marshall University. "La feminidad y la escritura en La trampa de Ana Mar�a Matute.."
Iv�n P�rez-Daniel, El Colegio de M�xico. "Acad�micas, narradoras y poetas: Las mujeres en la primera �poca de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1955-1957).."
Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Deseo y tragedia en Te tratar� como a una reina de Rosa Montero.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON H
Deleuze and Guattari*
Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, University of Idaho
Presenters: Daniel G. Anderson, University of Idaho. "Toward a Schizoanalytic Theory of Tragedy."
Milena Dobrich Marinkova, University of Leeds. "�A falling together of accomplices�: Michael Ondaatje, Deleuze, Guattari, and Micro-political Art."
Paul D. Knox, University of Nevada, Reno. "Becoming a Subject without Identity: Individuality and Subjectivity in Postmodern Fiction."
12:00PM - 1:30PM

NO GROUP ---
Lunch Break - Thursday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Lunch on your Own - No Sessions."
SPECIAL EVENTS CACTUS ROSE RESTAURANT
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed to all but members of the RMMLA Executive Board)."
1:30PM - 3:00PM

GERMANIC STUDIES BASSWOOD
German Literature before 1900
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Heide Crawford, University of Kansas
Presenters: Steven D. Martinson, University of Arizona. "Constructing Bridges: G. E. Lessing 2000."
Heide Crawford, University of Kansas. "Smokescreens, Mirrors, and Bloody People in Chimneys: Secrecy and Mystery in Schiller's Masonic Novel."
Yasser Derwiche Jazaerly, Sam Houston State University. "Jacob Burckhardt's Anxiety of Influence."
GENERAL TOPICS BOARDROOM
Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages
Chair: Stacy Southerland, University of Central Oklahoma
Alternate Chair: James A. Wojtaszek, University of Minnesota, Morris
Presenters: Lahcen E. Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado. "Teaching the Arabic Literary Imagination in Translation: Challenge and Response.."
Ingo R. Stoehr, Kilgore College. "Translation as a Collaborative Endeavor.."
Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University. "Pragmatics and Literary Translation.."
GENDER STUDIES BONSAI
Gender and Race in Literature and Film*
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Presenters: Laura Gronewold, University of Arizona. "Dr. Herzog's Frankenstein: Splicing Masculinity on to Grizzly Man."
Anne Helen Petersen, University of Oregon. "'Lovely and Expensive and About Nineteen': Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, and the Cinematic Shopgirl as Cultural Barometer."
Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University. "Performing Race, Class, and Gender in Three Kings."
ASIAN STUDIES BOOJUM
The Theme of War in Japanese Literature and Film*Memory and Repression
Chair: David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY
Alternate Chair: Eric Cunningham, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Karen L. Thornber, Harvard University. "Responsibility and Japanese Literature of the Atomic Bomb.."
Mark B. Williams, University of Leeds. "'Don't mention the war!': Shiina Rinzō and the 'Missing Years', 1937-45."
John D. Swain, University of Pittsburgh. "The War Out There: Hirata Oriza's 'War' Plays.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION COTTONWOOD
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom
Chair: Jennings R. Mace, Eastern Kentucky University
Alternate Chair: David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters: Amy C. Kimme Hea, University of Arizona. "Understanding the Client Perspective: A Discussion of Client Motivations for Working with Business and Technical Writing Students in Service-Learning Projects."
Nicole Brown, Western Washington University. "Legitimizing Service: Establishing Civic and Disciplinary Associations in Technical Communications."
Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University. "Technical Poster Sessions: An Effective Tool for Teaching Technical Communication."
Sandra Hill, University of Louisiana, Monroe. "Teaching Workplace Skills, and More, through Service-Learning Projects in Technical Writing Courses."
PEDAGOGY IRONWOOD
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language
Chair: Gloria Thomas Gilmore, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair: Helene Ossipov, Arizona State University
Presenters: Eva-Maria Metcalf, University of Mississippi. "Can Translation Enhance Communicative Teaching?."
Zheng-Min Dong, Washington State University. "Grammatical and Logical Subjects in Russian."
Mary A. Thrond, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "Dismantling Racism in the Language Classroom."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES PALO VERDE
Sympo(e)sium: Poe's Influence on Writers & Artists, Contemporary/Subsequent, American/International
Chair: Cliff Toliver, Missouri Southern State University
Presenters: George Greenlee, Missouri Southern State University. "Michael Chabon: Has He Brought Edgar Allan Poe Kicking and Screaming into the Twenty-first Century?."
Paul Milton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan. "The Fall of the House of Lisbon: Poe and The Virgin Suicides."
Jose Maria M. Villar, University of Jaen. "Damozels, Mystical Maidens and Baleful Sirens: The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe's Revenants on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Works."
ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES REDWOOD
Caribbean Identity and the Diaspora*
Chair: Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Ime A S Kerlee, University of New Mexico. "Re/Defining Race and Gender in the Dominican Diaspora."
Isabel Carolina Caballero, Regis University. "�Madre mía! The Mother Figure in Pedro Monge Rafuls�s Se ruega puntualidad."
Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College. "Between the Islands and the U.S. Mainland: The Making of Bicultural Identities in Silent Dancing and How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents."
Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Contemporary Remnants of Slavery: Re-claiming the Island and Nullifying History in Austin Clarke�s Polished Hoe ."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON A
Monique Wittig: Former Students Share their Experiences*
Chair: Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. "Monique Wittig et l'enseignement de la litt�rature."
Eli S. Evans, ArtCenter College of Design. "The Weight of the Air: Monique Wittig and the Writer's Work."
Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado. "Lessons Learned."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON B
Early Modern Spanish Writers*
Chair: William R. Cummins, Ashland University
Alternate Chair: J. Michael Fulton, Wake Forest University
Presenters: J. Michael Fulton, Wake Forest University. "The Lonely Scholar: Psychological and Physiological Effects of Long-term Social Isolation on Fray Luis de Le�n."
Frederic Conrod, Creighton University. "Between Jansenists, Jesuits and Jacobins: Cervantes' Don Quixote as Revolutionary Symbol in French Enlightenment."
Maria Cecilia Herrera Astua, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Figurar como hombre: la caracterizaci�n de la mujer disfrazada en algunas obras de Mar�a de Zayas y Sotomayor."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON C
English Nineteenth-Century Literature
Chair: Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Bianca Page Tredennick, Gonzaga University. "The Importance of Being Ernest: Escaping Death by Escaping the Text in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.."
Rachel Ablow, University at Buffalo, SUNY. "Romola and the Torturer's Apprentice.."
Mary E. Bell, University of Arizona. "'Making a Goblin of the Sun': Shame in D.G. Rossetti�s 'Jenny' as a Subterranean Sub-text for 'Goblin Market'.."
Minu Tharoor, New York University. "The Custom of the Country: From Empire to Native Lands in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON D
Undergraduates Unplugged*
Chair: Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Hilary Hawley, Washington State University
Presenters: Laura Brooke Staley, Lenoir-Rhyne College. "Dante�s Hell: Just or Generous?."
Jake F. Sigman, Lenoir-Rhyne College. "Blood and Salvation: The Significance of Ritual in The Sun Also Rises.."
Anthony Carlton Cooke, City College of San Francisco. "Let's Make the Myths: Literature vs. Real Life."
Katie S. Homar, John Carroll University. "'Passions that were not my own': Critique and Preservation of True Pastoral Life in Wordsworth's 'Michael'.."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON E
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus Seminar
Chair: J. David Macey, Jr., University of Central Oklahoma
Alternate Chair: Jennifer M. Wing, Georgia State University
Presenters: Bret l. Keeling, Northeastern University. "From Clich� to Queer: The Radical Reorganization of Richard Dalloway.."
Jonathan R. Cordes, University of Toledo. "Liberating American Literary History: The Assertion of a Post-Stonewall Gay Identity in Dancer from the Dance and Faggots.."
Blaire Roice Notrica, Independent Scholar. "Something's Queer Here: The Advocate and the Ethics of Outing.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON F
Seeing the Work before Us*Interconnections between Physical Work, Class Hierarchy, and Social Mobility
Chair: Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University
Presenters: Linda J. Sumption, Eastern New Mexico University. "'Reading with all my might': Labor and Narrative in Richard Heny Dana's Two Years before the Mast."
Carol J. Erwin, Eastern New Mexico University. "Civilized Individualism: A Retelling of Loss in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations."
Mary Fanelli Ayala, Eastern New Mexico University. "The Mark of the Beast: The Creation of a Cultural 'Final Narrative' in Ermilo Abreu G�mez� Canek."
Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University. "Washing One�s Hands of Labor: Upward Mobility in Denise Giardina�s Storming Heaven."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON G
Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions*
Chair: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University
Alternate Chair: Mercedes Juan-Saura, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Presenters: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University. "Cuerpos Cabales: Embodiment in Helena Maria Viramontes' Oeuvre."
Leonardo Palacios, University of Connecticut. "La revista Manuscritos y los cambios en la produccion cultural durante la dictadura militar en Chile.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON H
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
Chair: Ruben Espinosa, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Tara J. Hayes, Wayne State University
Presenters: Ann McCauley Basso, University of South Florida. "Bel-Imperia: The (Early) Modern Woman in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.."
Troy Urquhart, Independent Scholar. "The Subversive Text of the Female Body in Titus Andronicus.."
Janna G. Segal, University of California, Irvine. "'And browner than her brother': Transvestism and 'Misprised' Celia's Transversality in As You Like It.."
Nicole E. Batchelor, Lehigh University. "Monstrous Female Self-fashioning in Thomas Middleton's The Changeling.."
3:15PM - 4:45PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BASSWOOD
English Literature since 1900
Chair: Ross Gresham, U.S. Air Force Academy
Presenters: Katie O'Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University. "Photography, Post-Impressionism, and Modernist Visual Representations of Gender in Virginia Woolf�s To the Lighthouse."
D. S. Butterworth, Gonzaga University. "Complexity Theory and the Moral Imperative in Cloud Atlas."
Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University. "Dating Yeats: His Placement and Re-placement in Cultural History."
ITALIAN STUDIES BOARDROOM
American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)+Italian Literature and Cinema
Chair: Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Presenters: William Van Watson, University of Arizona. "Pasolini's Pigsty in Relation to Ridley Scott's Hannibal."
Joan Vardaro McMillan, Independent Scholar. "The Strega's Story: A Journey Back to Family."
GENDER STUDIES BONSAI
Gender and Race in Literature and Film-II*Race in Contemporary Film*
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Presenters: Jenny Whisenhunt, Texas A & M University. "The Alienated Metropolis: Cinematic Urban Paranoia in Paul Haggis' Crash."
Tru Leverette, University of North Florida. "Guess Who's Welcome to Dinner: Contemporary Interracial Romance and the New Racism."
Damian Stocking, Occidental College. "To Ponder Long on the Wreck of Human Lives: Race, Tragedy, and Community in Paul Haggis' Crash.."
DoVeanna S. Fulton, Arizona State University. "Racial Obscurity and Cultural Elision in Transforming Page to Screen, or Why Oprah�s Their Eyes Isn�t Zora�s Their Eyes."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES BOOJUM
Flannery O'Connor*
Chair: David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Alternate Chair: Irwin H. Streight, Royal Military College of Canada
Presenters: Margaret Frances Shannon, Long Beach City College. "The Gift of Grace-ful Violence in the Age of Information and Terror: O'Connor's Oppositional Model for Communal Redemption.."
Irwin H. Streight, Royal Military College of Canada. "Flannery O'Connor and Bruce Springsteen: Telling Violent Stories Quietly.."
Gretchen Dobrott, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. "The 'Artificial Niggers' in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor."
David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "Medium Irksome: Flannery O'Connor's Battle with Gender.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION COTTONWOOD
Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond
Chair: David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Alternate Chair: Carroll Ferguson Nardone, University of Houston Downtown
Presenters: Maria E. Cochran, Iowa State University. "Contrasting Traditional and Alternative Models of On-Line Scientific Authority: Analysis of Two National Labs� Web Sites."
Sipai Klein, New Mexico State University. "Exploring the Hypothesis in College Scientific Texts."
Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University. "The Rhetoric of Black Holes across Genres."
James Melton, New Mexico State University. "Beyond Standard American English: Language Use in Globally Networked Learning Environments."
LINGUISTICS IRONWOOD
Sociolinguistics in the Middle Ages*
Chair: Jolyon T. Hughes, Colorado State University
Alternate Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University
Presenters: Loreto Barbara Catoira, University of New Mexico. "When Scholarship Goes Bad: (Mis)interpretations of Language Use in Medieval Iberia."
Jolyon T. Hughes, Colorado State University. "Wolfram von Eschenbach's Use of Foreign Vernacular."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES PALO VERDE
French Literature before 1800
Chair: William Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair: Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Presenters: Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University. "Fabliaux and the Trickster Figure: The Example of Trubert ."
Markus I. Cruse, Arizona State University. "Emblems of Poetry: The Iconography of a Fourteenth-Century Writing Tablet."
Elizabeth Chesney Zegura, University of Arizona. "Representations of Community in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES REDWOOD
Ecocriticism
Chair: Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: Charles Waugh, Utah State University
Presenters: Tom J. Hillard, University of Arizona. "Fear and Loathing in American Nature Writing."
Melinda Ann DiStefano, Duke University. "A New Crop of Stories from the Earth: Contemporary Storytelling in the Fight for Environmental Justice."
Chris Robertson, Great Basin Institute. "B.C. Place Writing: Beyond the Super, Natural."
Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno. "In Wild Domesticity is the Preservation of the World."
CLASSICAL STUDIES SALON A
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths
Chair: Lisa B. Hughes, Colorado College
Alternate Chair: Susan F. Joseph, Howard University
Presenters: Victoria A. Pedrick, Georgetown University. "A Hunger for Trees: Trees and their Desecration in Ancient Mythic Thought."
Keith Dickson, Purdue University. "Enki, Kronos, and the Therapy of the World."
Hardy Fredricksmeyer, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Oedipus Noir: The Logos/Ergon Theme in Memento."
Richard Poss, University of Arizona. "Stealing Fire: Prometheus and the Acceleration of Advanced Technologies."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON B
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and FilmThe Frontier in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Chair: Joseph F. Brown, Louisiana State University
Alternate Chair: Ericka Ann Hoagland, Purdue University
Presenters: Rich Paul Cooper, Louisiana State University. "Cowboys and Thaumaturges: The Old West in China Mieville's Iron Council.."
Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University. "High Noon on the Red Planet: The Changing Text of Mars in Science Fiction."
James W. Long, Louisiana State University. "Where All the Cowboys Have Gone: The Western's Significance in Science Fiction Cinema."
PEDAGOGY SALON C
Teaching English
Chair: Robin Somers, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alternate Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters: Breyan N. Strickler, Rockford College. "Teaching the Rhetoric of Healing and Community Activism."
Jack W. Shear, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Process This Classroom: Contexts and Opportunities in the Writing Classroom."
Philip Zwerling, Ursinus College. "Teaching Community Writing in an Intergenerational Classroom."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON D
RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works*
Chair: Fred Arroyo, Saint Louis University
Alternate Chair: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters: Robert G. Davidson, California State University, Chico. "First Position.."
Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College. "What We Find in Baja.."
Stephen D. Gibson, Utah Valley State College. "If You're Ugly.."
Paul Acker, Saint Louis University. "Mondrian Manhattan."
GENDER STUDIES SALON E
Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries*
Chair: Pamela T. Washington, University of Central Oklahoma
Alternate Chair: Katherine T. Meiners, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Presenters: Ana Maria Cosme, Marquette University. "Virtue as Ignorance in Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.."
Christine Scoggan Gillette, Independent Scholar. "(En)gendering Genius: The Work of Art in Dinah Mulock Craik's Olive."
Julie R. Voss, University of Tennessee. "Brothers and Sisters:'Incest' in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels."
Rebecca Starr Nisetich, University of Massachusetts. "From 'Shadowy Anguish' to 'The Million Lights of the Sun': Racial Iconography in Chopin's The Awakening."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON F
Language of Play/Play of Language*
Chair: Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Presenters: Sura Rath, Central Washington University. "Carnival, Play, Theory: Subverting Play/Texts."
Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Yale University. "Word Games and Verbal Explosions, or Questioning the Enlightenment in Novalis� Monolog and Heinrich von Kleist�s �ber die allm�hliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON G
Spanish American Literature
Chair: Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair: Miriam Balboa Echeverria, Texas State University
Presenters: Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado-Boulder. "Mundos posibles y autenticidad narrativa en 'Casa tomada' de Julio Cort�zar."
Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado. "El jaiku uruguayo del siglo XX."
Oswaldo Estrada, University of Puget Sound. "Confluencia de tiempos psicol�gicos en la Historia verdadera de Bernal D�az del Castillo."
Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "La funci�n del suicidio de Andr�s en Sin rumbo."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON H
Sigma Tau Delta
Chair: Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair: Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters: Joy Lynn Moss, Arkansas Tech University. "Wallace Stevens and Femininity."
Mark Henry Davenport, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Drunken Metaphors in American Transcendentalism."
Cynthia Ann Greenwood, University of New Mexico. "Black Horse Wisdom."
Melissa Sue Whitney, Schreiner University. "Poems: Life in 2005."
5:00PM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS SALON D
Plenary Session & Keynote Speech
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Richard Shelton, University of Arizona. "Where Have All the Dollars Gone?: The Shrinking State Support for the Humanities."
6:00PM - 7:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS POOL AREA
Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Opening Night Reception in Pool Area w/Hors d'Oeuvres & Marachi Music."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS BONSAI
Thursday Film Showing - Tsotsi
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Marie I. Drews, Washington State University. "Tsotsi (2006; South Africa; Director Gavin Hood; 94 min.; rated R)."
SPECIAL EVENTS BOOJUM
Thursday Film Showing - El Bola (Pellet)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "El Bola (2000; Spain; Director Achero Manas, 87 min.; not rated)."
FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 13
7:00AM - 9:00AM

SPECIAL EVENTS BALLROOM FOYER
Continental Breakfast
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Continental Breakfast from 7:00 - 9:00 AM."
7:30AM - 5:00PM

REGISTRATION BALLROOM FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Friday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Pick up your badge, program, tickets."
8:00AM - 5:00PM

EXHIBITS BALLROOM FOYER
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Friday
Chair: Sabine Davis, Washington State University
Presenters: Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Come and see the books that we have available for review.."
8:30AM -10:00AM

ASIAN STUDIES BONSAI
The Theme of War in Japanese Literature and Film- II*Postwar Reconstructions
Chair: David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY
Presenters: Akiko Mori, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "The End of Japanese Militarism: An Analysis of Ōoka Shōhei's Works on the Pacific War.."
Christine E. Cowgill, University of California, Irvine. "Of Brutality and Betrayal: Youthful Fiction and the Legacy of World War II.."
William B. Ashbaugh, State University of New York, College at Oneonta. "Fiction is Stranger than Fiction: Three Anime Classics Interpret Japan's Role in the Pacific War.."
PEDAGOGY BOOJUM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film
Chair: Cindy A. McLeod, Florida State University
Alternate Chair: Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University
Presenters: Cindy A. McLeod, Florida State University. "Malena as Mulvey."
Marta A. Folio, Hamilton College. "Food for Thought: Teaching Sandra Nettelbeck's Bella Martha in the Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Classroom."
Dominique Hoche, Northern State University. "Double Dipping: Teaching English Composition and Introduction to Film -- In the Same Course, at the Same Time -- Made Easy!."
Miranda Sherwin, College of Staten Island. "Teaching Female Perversions .."
LINGUISTICS COTTONWOOD
Second Language Acquisition
Chair: Samuel Francis, Colorado State University
Presenters: Michael Aaron Paul, University of Arizona. "Shenme, Something, Whatever: Use of Filler Words in Chinese Foreign Language Reading."
Evelyn Allgeier, University of Kansas. "Word Searches in Multi-person Conversations among Learners of German."
Gabriela Vokic, Southern Methodist University. "The Effect of Structural Position on the Acquisition of New, Similar and Identical Sounds."
Scott M. Rex, Southern Oregon University. "The Use of Relative Clauses in Written Spanish at the Intermediate Level."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES IRONWOOD
Western Poets*
Chair: D. S. Butterworth, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Jordan L. Green, University of Oregon. "A Fierce Sublime: Violence and Violation in Robinson Jeffers� 'Hurt Hawks'."
Philip D. Castille, Eastern Washington University. "Richard Hugo's 'Mystery Poems'."
Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University. "Putting the Dog in Doggerel: The Blue-Collar Aesthetics of Robert Service."
Jamie A. Beatty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Nika C. Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Why Do Cowboys Write Poetry?."
GENERAL TOPICS PALO VERDE
Fashion and Aesthetics*
Chair: Paul L. Fortunato, University of Houston, Downtown
Presenters: Ilya Parkins, Trent University. "The Instability of Fashion and of Woman: Gender and Mastery in the Autobiography of Designer Paul Poiret."
Wendy D. Barnes, Kansas State University. "From Opera Cloak to Docksiders and Back Again: Dressing Dracula in Literature and Life."
Sanda Maria Miller, Southampton Solent University. "From Charm to Chav: Fashion Writing and Culture."
WRITING PROGRAMS REDWOOD
Writing Across the Curriculum
Chair: Ildiko Olasz, Michigan State University
Presenters: Ceiridwen M. Terrill, Concordia University. "'The Hokey-Pokey'.."
Nancy G. Barron, Northern Arizona University. "Disciplinary Writing Expectations and the Cross-Disciplinary Writing Intensive Course.."
Ildiko Olasz, Michigan State University. "Cross-Disciplinary Writing Course Preparing for the Job Search.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON A
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)Void and Otherness - Motifs, Metaphors, and Emotions in World Literature
Chair: Yurika Tamura, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Jamie Johnson, Florida Atlantic University
Presenters: Steven Salmoni, Pima Community College. "On Some Motifs in The Wild Grass."
Yurika Tamura, University of Arizona. "Born to be Strangers: Sense of Disconnection and Desire for Estrangement in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things."
Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska, Omaha. "Death as a Metaphor in Ludmila Petrushevskaia's Fiction."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON B
Representations of Europeans/European Americans in Literary and Filmic Texts*
Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University
Alternate Chair: Billy Merck, Washington State University
Presenters: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Riefenstahl and Schloendorff."
Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University. "German/German American Stereotypes in Literary Texts and Films: A Selection."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Literature of the Holocaust*
Chair: Aukje Kluge, Emory University
Presenters: Benn E. Williams, University of Illinois, Chicago. "Varying Shades of Gray: Denunciation at the Frontier of Fact and Fiction."
Elizabeth S. Scheiber, Rider University. "Issues of Representation in the Imaginitive and Collective Memoirs of Charlotte Delbo."
Jehanne I. Dubrow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "'I Can Be a God': The Topos of Wish-fulfillment in Holocaust Poetry."
Sandra Alfers, Dickinson College. "Writing the Camps: Poetry from Theresienstadt, 1941-45."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON D
Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture*
Chair: Leonardo Palacios, University of Connecticut
Alternate Chair: Raul J. Rosales-Herrera, Drew University
Presenters: Raul J. Rosales-Herrera, Drew University. "Para vivir nuestro particular bolero: La �ltima noche que pas� contigo y las m�ltiples escalas de una comunidad �rotica."
Elena Pedraza-Gonzalez, University of Connecticut. "Zapatista Videos from Zapatista People: A New Identity Proposal."
Domingo Gonzalez, University of Connecticut. "Cuban Hip-Hop."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON E
American Literature after 1900
Chair: Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Presenters: David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College. "Abbey's Ironic Empowerment of Nature through Allusion in Desert Solitaire."
Kolleen M. Higgins, California State University, Long Beach. "'She did not answer': Sue's Rebellion through Language and Silence in 'Bright and Morning Star'.."
Sascha Poehlmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany. "Pynchon's Parageography."
Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Language and (Narrative) Cognition in Richard Powell's Galatea 2.2 ."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON F
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
Chair: Katia C. Bezerra, University of Arizona
Presenters: Katia C. Bezerra, University of Arizona. "Lya Luft: entre a nostalgia e a mem�ria cr�tica."
Patricia G. Nuriel, Arizona State University. "Escritura como explora��o de fronteiras em O Ciclo das �guas de Moacyr Scliar.."
Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Pessoa's Mensagem: The Esoteric Message."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON G
Women in French
Chair: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado
Alternate Chair: Caren Barnezet Parrish, University of California, Davis
Presenters: Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University. "Putain ou la femme imaginaire: Analyse d'un conte d�fait."
Stephanie Boyd Cottrell, University of New Mexico. "Navigating the Discourse of Female Solitude in the Novels of Simone de Beauvoir."
Caren M. Barnezet Parrish, Roanoke College. "Transgressing Autobiographical Codes in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON H
Margaret Atwood: Recent Works*
Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
Presenters: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island. "The Crakers: A Case of Intelligent Design?."
Allison Katherine Athens, University of Leeds. "The New Human?: The Question of the Ecological Body in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake."
Susan Hall, Cornell University. "The Female Subject and Subjection: Margaret Atwood�s The Handmaid�s Tale and Harriet Jacobs�s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
10:15AM -11:45AM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BASSWOOD
Ben Jonson in the Twenty-first Century*A Special Session Recognizing the Publication of the Cambridge Jonson
Chair: Tara J. Hayes, Wayne State University
Alternate Chair: Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University
Presenters: Kate Gartner Frost, University of Texas, Austin. "Ben Jonson, Penshurst, and the Two Philips."
Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "Still Drummond-izing Jonson After All These Years?."
Heather C. Easterling, Gonzaga University. "'Fair Play': Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Language, and Play."
Tara J. Hayes, Wayne State University. "Jonson and Women.."
WRITING PROGRAMS BONSAI
Writing Programs
Chair: Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona University
Alternate Chair: Carroll Ferguson Nardone, University of Houston Downtown
Presenters: Hua Li, Renmin University of China. "Teaching Creative Writing in China."
Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona University. "Feminism in the Writing Program Curriculum: Challenging Assumptions for Theory and Practice."
Sybil R. Ishman, Rochester Institute of Technology and Maureen T. Barry, Rochester Institute of Technology. "Plagiarism and the Non-Native English User."
PEDAGOGY BOOJUM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literary Studies Abroad and Travel Classes*
Chair: Sue Schaper, Albertson College of Idaho
Presenters: Janice Harris, University of Wyoming. "The What, When, and Why: Challenges in Teaching a Three-Week Literary Studies Course in Japan.."
Jennie Lynn Walker, George Washington University. "From Harvard Halls to City Lights Bookstore: Experiential Learning as Much More than Supplemental Classroom Study.."
Barbara Z. Vielma, University of Texas, Pan American and Rachel A. Vela, University of Texas, Pan American. "In Pursuit of Dracula: Study Abroad from Divergent Perspectives.."
Donna Coates, University of Calgary. "(Not) A War Party.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES COTTONWOOD
Wayne Booth and Ethical Criticism*
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin
Presenters: Jane Bowers Hill, University of West Georgia. "Will the Real Storyteller Please Stand Up?: Wayne Booth, James Frey, Oprah Winfrey, Nan Talese, the American Public, and the Ethics of Reading."
Alan Goff, DeVry University. "Richard Rorty's Narrative Ethics: Novelists as Truth Tellers."
Joseph C. Sample, Clemson University. "Recovering the Reader: A Critical Method for Reading Travel Writing."
Marshall W. Gregory, Butler University. "Booth/Gregory on Teaching and Ethical Criticism: The Unbroken Continuum."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES PALO VERDE
French Literature since 1800
Chair: Julie A. Monty, University of Texas, Austin
Alternate Chair: Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Sex and Suppression: Coming of Age in the Works of Dany Laferri�re and Michel Tremblay."
Amina Ben Ezzeddine, Washington State University. "Utopia and Heterotopia in Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil."
Veronique Machelidon, Meredith College. "Thirty Years of French-Algerian Relations: The Legacy of French Colonization in Rachid Boudjedra's Play Mines de rien."
Catherine S. Marachi, Saint Mary's College of California. "Techniques of Perversion in Michel Thaler's Le train de nulle part: au fil des Sorayades!."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES REDWOOD
African American Literature
Chair: Teresa Coronado, University of Oregon
Alternate Chair: Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona
Presenters: Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona. "'Ritual Grounds' and 'Sacred Spaces' in Gathering of Old Men and The Third Life of Grange Copeland."
Jonathan R. Larner-Lewis, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Black Space and Time: Creative Community Construction in the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement."
Lindsay M. Christopher, University of Denver. "Reflections of Identity: Realist Theory, National Construction, and James Baldwin' s Giovanni's Room."
Teresa Coronado, University of Oregon. "Nobody's Fool: John Marrant and the African-American Trickster Tradition."
CLASSICAL STUDIES SALON A
Classical Language and Literature: Greek
Chair: John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University
Alternate Chair: Victor Castellani, University of Denver
Presenters: Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Margaret Atwood's 'Duckie' Penelopiad.."
Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Inter-epic Segue: From Priam to Achilles to Telemachus."
Amy Elva Kaiulani Vail, Baylor University. "A Mother's Last Words: Odysseus and Anticleia.."
Suzanne C. Lye, University of California, Los Angeles. "The Goddess Styx and the Mapping of World Order in Hesiod�s Theogony.."
John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University. "The Idea of the Good in Homer's World."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON B
Literature of the North: Canada and Alaska*
Chair: J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University
Alternate Chair: Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Presenters: J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University. "Identity Quests in Gus Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy."
P. S. Sri, Royal Military College of Canada. "Between Cultures: Eleanor Millard's River Child."
Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Vocabularies of Love and Loss: Cultural Narrative in Helen Humphreys' Afterimage."
Allene M. Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "History's Other Faces: Margaret Coel's Wind River Mysteries."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Horror Film*
Chair: Tony J. Perrello, California State University, Stanislaus
Presenters: John M. Wegner, Angelo State University. "It�s Morning in America: Making It through the Night and Conservative Values in American Slasher Movies."
Ashley Minix Cain, University of South Florida. "Fear of our Otherness: Serial Killer Films of the 1980's."
Tony J. Perrello, California State University, Stanislaus. "Leave It to Cleaver: Dismembering the Nuclear Family in Contemporary Horror Films."
Heather A. MacGibbon, New York University. "Abortion: Horror and Science."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON D
Peninsular Spanish Literature
Chair: Helen Cathleen Tarp, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: Maria-Leonilde Araujo-Grochenig, Georgia Southern University
Presenters: Mark A. Harpring, University of Puget Sound. "Foot Fetishism and Erotic Desire in Clarin's Su �nico hijo."
Mary Ann Dellinger, Virginia Military Institute. "Espa�ola sin Espa�a: The Exile of Mar�a Zambrano."
Astrid A. Billat, Meredith College. "Yo te miro y t� me miras. ¿El hombre de Ad�n? Espejo de la sociedad multicultural espa�ola?."
Mar�a Francisca Paredes M�ndez, Western Washington Universtiy. "Zapatos de tac�n y polvos de arroz para la mujer trabajadora: La liberaci�n econ�mica de la mujer en La Flor de la Playa de Carmen de Burgos."
SPECIAL EVENTS SALON E
CV Help Session (by reservation only)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "CV and Cover Letter Help Session (by reservation only)."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON F
Romanticism
Chair: Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University
Alternate Chair: Nicholas Wallerstein, Black Hills State University
Presenters: Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University. "The Eye Altering, Alters All: Emerson's Blake."
Christina A. Valeo, Eastern Washington University. "Wordsworth, Indians, and Mad Women: Wordworth's Perilous Tales."
Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University. "Read the Book(s): Leafing through William Godwin's Caleb Williams."
Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Representing the Female Poet."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON G
Literature and Religion-II*Religion in American Experience
Chair: Esra Mirze, University of Tampa
Presenters: Jillmarie Murphy, Schenectady College. "'A small and routed army': Clyde Griffiths and Religious Addiction in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.."
Wendy R. Roberts, Northwestern University. "Regionalizing Christianity: Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and Regionalist Fiction.."
HC Williams, Florida State University. "'It is the chord that falsifies': Discovering Anatta, Anicca, Maya, and Shunyata in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.."
Tara M. Tuttle, University of Louisville. "Female Christian Experience in Contemporary Southern Women's Fiction.."
GERMANIC STUDIES SALON H
Germany since 1990*
Chair: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas
Alternate Chair: Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University
Presenters: Corinna Kahnke, Indiana University, Bloomington. "Generation Golf meets Zonenkinder."
Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "The Reception of Goethe in the East after German Reunification."
Petra S. Fiero, Western Washington University. "Schreiben zwischen Enth�llen und Verstecken: �ber ein Leitmotiv in Barbara Honigmanns Prosawerk.."
12:00PM - 1:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS HOTEL GARDEN
Luncheon in Hotel Garden (Ticket is incl. in PRE-Registration Fees - Payment by October 1)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Luncheon in Hotel Garden (Ticket Required)."
1:30PM - 3:00PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BASSWOOD
Owen Barfield
Chair: John C. Ulreich, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Terrance Hipolito, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Are You There?: How Hamlet�s Question Reverberates in Owen Barfield�s Writings."
Karen Gasser, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Barfield's Hamlet."
SPECIAL EVENTS BONSAI
Special Session on the MLA Bibliography, given by Barbara ChenDirector of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor, MLA International Bibliography
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Barbara Chen, . "How to Make the Most of Your Research Time with the MLA International Bibliography."
OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES BOOJUM
Romania's Contributions to International Heritage
Chair: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University
Alternate Chair: Raymonde A. Bulger, Graceland University
Presenters: Raymonde A. Bulger, Graceland University. "R�ver en �crivant: L�onirisme structural chez Dumitru Tsepeneag et Virgil Tanase."
Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "Lyricism of the Inner Withdrawal."
Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University and Mircea Sabau, Independent Scholar. "The Art of Pallady and its Sources."
Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno. "Claiming Voice: Romanian Poetry in English Translation, 1969-2005."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION COTTONWOOD
Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication
Chair: Mali Subbiah, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University
Presenters: Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Tech. "Technical Communication Classroom Blogs: A New Rhetorical Opportunity."
Erik Juergensmeyer, University of Arizona and David J. Reamer, University of Arizona and Brian D. Jackson, University of Arizona. "Showdown in Superior!."
Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University and Teena A M Carnegie, Eastern Washington University. "Round Table: The Perils and Politics of Program Revision."
GENERAL TOPICS IRONWOOD
Ethnic Studies
Chair: Suzanne K. Pitre, University of Washington
Alternate Chair: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Presenters: Arianne Burford, University of Arizona. "Sara Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes: Traversing Uneven Ground between Women's Rights, Reform Movements, and Native Peoples' Rights.."
Robin Somers, University of California, Santa Cruz. "The Weather Report: Clearing Skies over Austin.."
R. Joyce Z. L. Garay, New Mexico State University. "Coalescence in Evolution: Queer Familia in Cherr�e Moraga's Waiting in the Wings.."
Maan Lin, Queensborough Community College. "Chinese Diasporic Writers: Siu Kam Wen in Peru.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES PALO VERDE
Shakespeare
Chair: Kathy Greenwood, New Mexico State University, Carlsbad
Alternate Chair: Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Presenters: Kirk G. Rasmussen, Utah Valley State College. "Breeding Cesarios.."
Jan M. Hawkley, California State University, Chico. "What Does Cressida Want?: An Action-driven Perspective on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida."
Joan Lord Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Macbeth and the Ideal of Androgyny: The Role of Malcolm."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES REDWOOD
Hispanic Southwest - La Memoria Hist�rica*La Cr�nica hispana en la frontera Estados Unidios-M�xico
Chair: Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University West
Presenters: Justo Alarcon, Arizona State University. "Las Cr�nicas hispanas: memoriales hist�ricos del SW."
Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University. "Los manuscritos hisp�nicos en el museo Gilcrease."
Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University West. "Las paradas hist�rico-geogr�ficas de los aztecas en su largo viaje hacia Tenochitl�n."
ASIAN STUDIES SALON A
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900*Controversial Constructions of Chinese Identity
Chair: Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alternate Chair: G�raldine Schneider, Harvard University
Presenters: Cong Yin, Purdue University. "The 'Woman' Image in Farewell, My Concubine."
Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame. "The Ethics of Literary Re-creation: Guo Songfen and Chen Yi."
Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "Contested Subjectivities in Modern Chinese Literature."
FILM STUDIES SALON B
Film (Open Topic)
Chair: Katrin Schroeter, University of New Mexico
Alternate Chair: Elizabeth Affuso, University of Southern California
Presenters: Carolyn A. Durham, College of Wooster. "Cinematic City: The Construction of Paris in Twenty-first-Century Film.."
Kimberly Ann Eaton, Rutgers University. "Thunderballs: Maleness and Masculinity in 007.."
Debra B. Cutshaw, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Never-Ending Search: A Comparison of The Naked Spur and The Searchers.."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Literature of Trauma*Native American Perspectives
Chair: Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University
Alternate Chair: Joy Viveros, University of the Pacific
Presenters: Nancy L. Van Styvendale, University of Alberta. "The Politics of Recovery in Jeannette Armstrong�s Slash and Sherman Alexie�s Indian Killer ."
Mary M. Ruff, University of Texas, Arlington. "Trauma and Healing in Louise Erdrich�s Character of Fleur Pillager."
Liz Tilton, University of Cincinnati. "Out of Cubero: Paula Gunn Allen�s Map of the World."
Joy Viveros, University of the Pacific. "Historical Trauma and Magic Realism in Silko's Storyteller and Erdrich's Jacklight."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON D
English Eighteenth-Century Literature-II*Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin
Presenters: Charles Trainor, Siena College. "Fielding and the Castrati."
Marianna D'Ezio, University of Rome, La Sapienza. "Introducing Hester Thrale Piozzi: A New Critical Approach."
Christine M. Crockett, University of California, Riverside. "Delightful Torment: Music and (Auto)Eroticism in Emmeline and The Romance of the Forest ."
Stephen B. Sweat, University of Arizona. "Subverting the Masculine Order: The Fragmentation of Phallocentrism in John Cleland's Memoirs."
SPECIAL EVENTS SALON E
Graduate Student ForumTo Market, To Market: Strategies for Job Search Preparation
Chair: Marie I. Drews, Washington State University
Presenters: Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University and Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia and Esra Mirze, University of Tampa and Joy Lynn Moss, Arkansas Tech University and Tom J. Hillard, University of Arizona. "Panel Discussion on Strategies for Job Search Preparation."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON F
Conseil international d'�tudes francophones+Identit� (s) francophone (s) : Espace, Culture et Langue
Chair: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College
Alternate Chair: Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Presenters: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College. "Paradoxe d'un mythe originel: L'image du 'vieil homme' dans Nu�e ardente de Rapha�l Confiant et dans L�esclave vieil homme et le molosse de Patrick Chamoiseau.."
Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College. "La 'n�gritude qu�b�coise': Une identit� francophone dans les contes de Jacques Ferron.."
Yvette Benayoun-Szmiot, York University, Glendon College. "De la parole � l'�criture dans Le Livre de Fatima."
Najib Redouane, California State University, Long Beach. "�criture �clat�e et identit� f�minine dans Filles du vent de Nadia Chafik.."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON G
Poetry and Poetics* (Open Topic)
Chair: Siobhan Scarry, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Alternate Chair: Janna Marie Knittel, Saint Cloud State University
Presenters: Janna Marie Knittel, Saint Cloud State University. "Women and War in the Poetry of Louise Imogen Guiney and E. Pauline Johnson.."
Natalie Marie Peeterse, Independent Scholar. "The Poor Still Poor: Poetic Truth, Devil's Darkness, and the Sharks of Structural Adjustment in Derek Walcott's The Spoiler's Return.."
Amy E. Ratto Parks, University of Montana. "Moving toward Perfection: Eliot's Ascetic and Apophatic Quests.."
Hugh B. Behm-Steinberg, California College of the Arts. "'I don't care/ I don't want to know/ I don't want to hear anything about it': Anger and the End of Rhetoric in the Early Work of C.K. Williams.."
GERMANIC STUDIES SALON H
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+
Chair: Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alternate Chair: Jeffrey Packer, Angelo State University
Presenters: Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "An Austrian Feminist Encounters the Geisha: Alice Schalek�s Depiction of Women in Japanese Society.."
Jeffrey Packer, Angelo State University. "An Attempt at Navigation within the Great Babylonian Handke-Book.."
Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Border(ing) on Controversy: Austrian Reactions to Verfreundete Nachbarn.."
3:15PM - 4:45PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BASSWOOD
Shakespeare and Philosophies of the Spirit*
Chair: David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Ayde Enriquez, University of Texas, El Paso. "'The Devil Made Me Do It!': Loyola and Leontes� Evil Spirits in The Winter�s Tale."
Elizabeth B. Lang, University of Texas, El Paso. "I, Thou, and Prospero: Shakespeare's Magician as Buber's Developing Man."
Claudia Ivette Rodriguez, University of Texas, El Paso. "Never Underestimate the Power of the Dark Side: The Allure of Iago in Shakespeare�s Othello."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES BONSAI
Bibliography and Textual Criticism*
Chair: Ryan Muckerheide, Arizona State University
Presenters: Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University. "Annotation Theory and Mathilda Betham's Lay of Marie and the Lais of Marie de France."
Stephen E. Severn, West Texas A & M University. "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Anxiety of Social Class and Oscar Wilde�s Revisions to The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge. "The Lost Generation Revisited: Textual Authority and Expatriate American Autobiography in the 1960's."
GERMANIC STUDIES BOOJUM
Germany since 1990-II*New Perspectives on Germany's Past
Chair: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas
Alternate Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: Katrin Schroeter, University of New Mexico. "Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF Ausstellung."
Christine Anton, Berry College. "Enttraumatisierung und Zukunftsbew�ltigung: Das Deutschlandbild bei Bernhard Schlink."
Daniel Reynolds, Grinnell College. "Germany's Colonial Past in Recent Fiction."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION COTTONWOOD
Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication
Chair: Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: Henrietta N. Shirk, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Presenters: Ryan K. Boettger, Texas Tech University and Laura A. Palmer, Texas Tech University. "Integrating Quantitative Content Analysis into Technical Communication Scholarship."
Earl McDowell, University of Minnesota. "Course Title: Research in Scientific and Technical Communication."
Diana Wegner, Douglas College. "Strategic Interaction and Group Identity Work: Activist Civic Engagement Before and After an Election."
Shelley Thomas, Weber State University. "Netiquette, Bloggers, and Students: Communication in Cyberspace vs. Misquotation in the New York Times."
GENERAL TOPICS IRONWOOD
Literature for Children and Young Adults
Chair: Beth Cooley, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: Eimear R. Hegarty, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra
Presenters: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Healing and Circumspections of Gardens in the Lives of Troubled Children: The Secret Garden, A Tree for Peter and Le Premier Quartier de la Lune."
Heather M. Hoyt, Arizona State University. "Intimate Voices of the Middle East: Naomi Shihab Nye's Works for Young Readers."
Lindsay T. Ludvigsen, California State University, Fullerton. "The Hero's Journey in Gay and Lesbian Young Adult Novels."
WRITING PROGRAMS PALO VERDE
Creative Writing - Pedagogy
Chair: Elizabeth A. Robinson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Jaime Robles, Independent Scholar. "Books and the Materiality of Writing."
Catherine Wagner, Miami University. "How to Teach What to Do: A Pedagogy of Practice."
Susanne Dyckman, Independent Scholar. "Being Both Muse and Therapist: How to Work with the Difficult Student."
Michelle Auerbach, Front Range Community College. "Teaching Nonfiction Poetry: The Work of Eleni Sikelianos and Claudia Rankine."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES REDWOOD
Western and Southwestern Literature
Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Alternate Chair: Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters: Mark B. Busby, Texas State University. "John Graves, Texas Writer, International Writer."
Melissa A. Johnson, . "Owning Harmony's Desire and the Embrace of the Deviant Feminine in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."
Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Re-Gendering Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall."
ASIAN STUDIES SALON A
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900-II*Excursions into Nature and Chinese Literature
Chair: Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alternate Chair: G�raldine Schneider, Harvard University
Presenters: Yuwen Hsiung, Purdue University. "Transforming Cao Yu�s The Wilderness into The Savage Land."
Yilin Liao, Purdue University. "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain."
G�raldine Schneider, Harvard University. "Textual Travels and Traveling Texts: Fantastical Tales of the Late Qing."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON B
Literary CriticismExamining Motherhood
Chair: Lesley Broder, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Alternate Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin
Presenters: Susan E. Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Gothic Spaces, Pregnant Bodies, and Gender Politics in Maria (1798).."
Susana M. Morris, Emory University. "�On Sundays try to walk like a lady�: Rites of Womanhood and Mother-Daughter Legacies in Jamaica Kincaid�s Annie John (1983).."
Terri Bonet Pantuso, University of Texas, San Antonio. "'Language is a Place of Struggle': Speaking the 'Mother' Tongue in Sapphire's Push (1996).."
Lorna Hutchison, McGill University. "Maternity, Consciousness, Literary Theory.."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON C
Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction*
Chair: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Presenters: Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta. "L'Oxymore du primitif dans Le Jardin des supplices: Entre naturalisme et modernité."
Robert E. Ziegler, Montana Tech. "From Matter to Motion: Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthenique.."
Stephen S. Christensen, Arizona State University. "An 'Affaire' to Remember: Mirbeau's Staging of Megalomania and Dy$function.."
Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Flower and Vegetable Gardens in Octave Mirbeau's Short Stories.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON D
Irish Literature and Film*
Chair: Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College
Presenters: Ann K. Weekes, University of Arizona. "At Swim-Two-Birds: A Postcolonial Novel?."
Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar. "Defending Buck Mulligan: Reading Oliver St. John Gogarty."
Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College. "Joyce in Harlem: Point-of-View in Dubliners and Cane."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON E
Poetry and Politics*
Chair: Richard Shelton, University of Arizona
Presenters: Richard Shelton, University of Arizona and David J. Ray, and Alison Hawthorne Deming, University of Arizona and Luci Tapahonso, University of Arizona and Gail Browne, University of Arizona. "Poetry and Politics -- Readings and Discussion."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON F
English Eighteenth-Century Literature
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin
Presenters: Pilar V. Rotella, Chapman University. "Smollett's The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: A Turning Point."
Matthew Landers, Louisiana State University. "Raillery and Sensus Communis in Eighteenth-Century Satire: Toward a Theory of Humors in Dryden, Shaftesbury, and Sterne."
Margaret C. Waguespack, Amarillo College. "Jane Barker and the Great Forgetting."
John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Tom Jones: Subject to Citizen."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON G
Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature*
Chair: Eva Nunez-Mendez, Portland State University
Alternate Chair: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University
Presenters: Eva Nunez-Mendez, Portland State University. "?Dialectica subversiva o burguesa en el mundo femenino de Mastretta?."
Rosario Hall, University of Arizona. "Senderos paralelos: La figura femenina, la identidad nacional y raza en La Flor de Lis y Hasta no verte Jesus mio."
Amalia Garzon, Arizona Western College. "La representacion femenina en El albergue de las mujeres tristes de Marcela Serrano."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON H
French Cultural and Literary Theory
Chair: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair: Debra J. Drummond, Utah Valley State College
Presenters: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley State College. "Flowers and Decay: 'Visions of Excess' in the Lori Hacking Murder Case."
Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley State College. "Where Does Singing Truly Begin?: Blanchot and Music in Mulholland Drive."
Elizabeth M. Bloomfield, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Bataille et la 'place de la terreur': Repenser la vulgate."
5:00PM - 6:30PM

GENERAL TOPICS BASSWOOD
Literary Representations of Sexual Violence*
Chair: Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Jenny L. Roman, University of Texas, El Paso. "Turning the Tables: Subverting Sexual Violence in Edith Wharton's 'The Lady's Maid's Bell'."
Margie R. Nelson, University of Texas, El Paso. "Beast of Burden: Reversed �Honor Killings� in Salman Rushdie's Shame."
Michael Wayne Merritt, University of Texas, El Paso. "Free of Illusion: Mental Castration in Ralph Ellison�s Invisible Man."
MaryAnn T. Lockard, University of Texas, El Paso. "Emilia: Voice, Violence and Virtue in Othello."
SPECIAL EVENTS BONSAI
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin. "Open Forum Topic: On Alternative Assignments."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES BOOJUM
Mary Shelley
Chair: Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University
Alternate Chair: Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University
Presenters: Abigail Burnham Bloom, Hunter College, CUNY. "What the Films Can Teach Us about Frankenstein."
Lisbeth Chapin, Gwynedd-Mercy College. "Introducing the Shelleys in 'Introduction to Literature': The SmartBoard Advantage."
Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University. "Teaching Mary Shelley�s Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Weaving Student Investigations.."
Alayne M. Peterson, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac. "Our Hideous Progeny: The University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac�s Frankenstein Immersion Course."
LINGUISTICS COTTONWOOD
English Linguistics
Chair: Tim R. Conrad, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University
Presenters: Anne Bliss, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Globalization and English: A Lingual-cultural Dilemma for Teachers."
Tim R. Conrad, Weber State University. "Linguistic Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition."
Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Language Change and Standard English."
Robert Cote, University of Arizona. "Crossing the Line: Bringing the ESL Classroom to Mexico."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IRONWOOD
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+
Chair: David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Alternate Chair: Randy Clark, Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.
Presenters: David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "Workshop: 'Bring your favorite TPC syllabus!'."
PEDAGOGY PALO VERDE
Technology and Distance Education
Chair: John Rothfork, Northern Arizona University
Alternate Chair: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University
Presenters: Rong Liu, University of Arizona. "Students� Perspective on Foreign Language Self-study Centers in China: A Case Study.."
Mary E. Wildner Bassett, University of Arizona. "Multiple Literacies and Computer-mediated Communication in Language and Culture Courses.."
PEDAGOGY REDWOOD
Practical Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare*
Chair: Bethany Blankenship, University of Montana, Western
Presenters: Joan R. Vredenburgh, Officer Training Command, Newport. "'The Play's the Thing': Introducing Hamlet to Reluctant Students."
David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso. "Where are the women?: Feminism and Shakespeare's History Plays."
Karen Bruhn, Arizona State University. "For An Age AND For All Time: Teaching Shakespeare as Literature and History."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON A
Literature and Science
Chair: Jennifer A. Boyd, Wayne State University
Alternate Chair: Robin E. Calland, Southern Utah University
Presenters: Mary A. Armstrong, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. "Catching On: Suspicion, Transmission, Desire, and Little Dorrit."
Patricia Lynn Ploesch, University of California, Riverside. "Transparent Health: Sentimentality and Medical Discourse in Hannah Gardener Creamer's Delia's Doctors."
Vanessa Raney, Michigan State University. "From the Tribal to the Industrial: How Darwin Found Synthesis with Gilman."
Cristopher Hollingsworth, University of South Alabama. "Moments of Scientific Melodrama: Confronting the Machine in Victorian Fantasy and Realism."
GERMANIC STUDIES SALON B
German Literature since 1900
Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Alternate Chair: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas
Presenters: Richard Sperber, Carthage College. "Alma M. Karlin's Postcolonial Perspective on the Western Pacific."
Maila Zitelli, Minot State University. "Savaging Seghers: Manfred Bieler's parody of Ausflug der toten Maedchen in Maria Morzeck oder das Kaninchen bin ich.."
Julia Trumpold, University of Kansas,. "Hesse und die Hippies."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Medieval Romance*Historical and Literary Approaches
Chair: Ryan Muckerheide, Arizona State University
Presenters: Alexandra J. Krakus, University of Western Ontario. "Christian Kingship in Havelok the Dane."
Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "The Equivocal Vows of Friendship in Amis and Amiloun."
Joanna L. Scott, University of California, Riverside. "The Conversions of Ferumbras: From Saracen Villain to Christian Hero."
ASIAN STUDIES SALON D
Modern Chinese Poetry*
Chair: Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Alternate Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Nicholas Andrew Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Abreaction through Artistic Mediation: Lu Xun's Aesthetic Praxis."
Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar. "Discussant."
Jennifer L. Feeley, Yale University. "Heartburn on a Map Called Home: Yau Ching and the (Im)possibility of Hong Kong Poetry as Chinese Poetry."
Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The Postcolonial Un/conscious: Intellectual Writing vs. Folk Position."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON F
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Chair: Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Alternate Chair: Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University
Presenters: Jeffrey W. Miller, Gonzaga University. "'Yet I shiver at that cold and solitary thought': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Sights from a Steeple and the Freudian Uncanny."
John E. Reilly, College of the Holy Cross. "Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems to Edgar Allan Poe."
Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso. "Emerson, Everett, and the Historiography of Revolution."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON G
RMMLA Poets Read their Works
Chair: Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
Alternate Chair: Steven Salmoni, Pima Community College
Presenters: Cheryl L. Hicks, Athens High School, Texas and Shannon Lee Amidon, Eastern Washington University and Tara Prescott, Claremont Graduate University and Tina May Hall, Hamilton College and Brent Jason Royster, Ball State University. "."
GENDER STUDIES SALON H
Women in/and Literature
Chair: Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Julie Barak, Mesa State College. "Employing Feminist Philosophy to Connect the Personal to the Political in Literature Classrooms."
Teresa Derrickson, Gonzaga University. "Women's Bodies as Sites of (Trans)National Politics in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters."
Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado. "From Wife to Mother: Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything and Today's Young Women's Shift from Career to Mother."
Lada Panova, University of Southern California. "Women in Russian Poetry of the Eternal Feminine."
8:00PM - 9:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS COTTONWOOD
Poetry Reading by Luci Tapahonso*
Chair: Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona
Presenters: Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona. "Poetry Reading by Luci Tapahonso."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS BONSAI
Friday Film Showing - Children of Heaven
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Children of Heaven (1999; Iran; Director Majid Majidi; 83 min.; rated PG)."
SPECIAL EVENTS BOOJUM
Friday Film Showing - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002; China; Directed by Sijie Dai; 112 min.; not rated)."
SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 14
7:00AM - 9:00AM

SPECIAL EVENTS BALLROOM FOYER
Continental Breakfast
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Continental Breakfast from 7:00 - 9:00 AM."
7:30AM -12:00PM

REGISTRATION BALLROOM FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Saturday
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Pick up your badge, program, tickets."
8:00AM -12:00PM

EXHIBITS BALLROOM FOYER
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits - Saturday
Chair: Sabine Davis, Washington State University
Presenters: Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Come and see the books that we have available for review.."
SPECIAL EVENTS CACTUS ROSE RESTAURANT
RMMLA Editorial Board Meeting (Closed Meeting)
Chair: Sabine Davis, Washington State University
Presenters: Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Rocky Mountain Review and E-Review (Closed meeting)."
8:30AM -10:00AM

GENERAL TOPICS BONSAI
Literature and War*
Chair: David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Alternate Chair: Patricia L. Terry, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Kristine Miller, Utah State University. "The Film-Minded Public: The People's War and Popular Films of the Blitz.."
Jill A. Dahlman, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Captain America through the Wars: A Difference in Perspective.."
Esther K. Bauer, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "The Image of the Soldier in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain.."
Deborah Core, Eastern Kentucky University. "Hello or Goodbye: Memoirs of the Gulf and Iraq Wars.."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES BOOJUM
Samuel Beckett*In Celebration of the Centenary of his Birth
Chair: Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Presenters: Patrick W. Bixby, Arizona State University West. "Historicizing Beckett: Reading the Novels in a Postcolonial Framework."
William Hendrickson, Arizona State University and Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University. "An Interview with Samuel Beckett: Creation and Transformations of Fin de partie."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD
American Literature: Mid-Twentieth-Century Canonical Voices*
Chair: Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University. "Fisherman's Luck, Phronesis, and Action in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea."
Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Tone Deaf: Hollywood's Failed Farewells."
Jay Ellis, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Sense of an Ending: Missing McCarthy's Apocalypse."
PEDAGOGY PALO VERDE
Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the ClassroomIntersections in Feminist Pedagogy, Media Studies, and Visual Studies
Chair: Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University
Presenters: Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University. "Southern Hostility: Teaching Feminism and Women's Art of the Twentieth Century in the Middle Tennessee Region."
Jane B. Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State University. "Office Debutantes and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes between the World Wars."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON A
Literature and Fashion*
Chair: Paul L. Fortunato, University of Houston, Downtown
Alternate Chair: Catherine R. Mintler, University of Illinois, Chicago
Presenters: Amanda R. Gradisek, University of Arizona. "Absalom, Absalom! and Women's Use of Clothing and the Domestic."
Melissa G. Lenos, Temple University. "'Don�t be fooled by the rocks she�s got:' Apparel, Accessories and Transgression in Middlemarch."
Evelyn Pezzulich, Bridgewater State College. "A Passing Fashion: Using Clothes to Transcend Class, Race, and Age Barriers."
Catherine R. Mintler, University of Illinois, Chicago. "When Sartorial Emulation Becomes Sartorial Violation: [Not] Passing in F. Scott Fitzgerald�s The Great Gatsby."
CLASSICAL STUDIES SALON B
Classical Language and Literature: Latin
Chair: Linda W. Gillison, University of Montana
Alternate Chair: Kari Ceaicovschi, University of Washington
Presenters: Katherine M. Alexander, University of New Mexico. "Vergil's Aeneid: A Model for Hector Berlioz."
Arthur Dolsen, Idaho State University. "The Structure and Method of Caesar's Gallic War I."
Robert T. Kendrick, Grambling State University. "Arcane Madness and the Use of Callimachean Myth in Angelo Poliziano."
Louis A. Perraud, University of Idaho. "Rhetoric, Controversy and Theology in Erasmus� Annotations on Mark."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON C
Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial-II*
Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University
Presenters: Laura E. Kolb, University of Chicago. "A Thing Without a Name: Interrogating the Supernatural on the Jacobean Stage.."
Meredith Molly Hand, Florida State University. "'Devils' and Devils: Possession and Belief in Jonson�s England.."
Michael C. Boecherer, Stony Brook University, SUNY. "Power in Performance: The Renaissance Witch as Theatrical Agent.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SALON D
Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+-IIWomen, Literature and Society
Chair: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Jaime Lea�os, University of Nevada, Reno. "Reinas de la tard�a Espa�a medieval: Un auge por recobrar las mis�ginas letras.."
Ana M. Morana, Shippensburg University. "La mujer y la ciudad: Alfonsina Storni y sus poemas urbanos.."
Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "Encuentros, b�squedas y desconciertos en novelas de Ang�lica Gorodischer.."
Liliana Dorado, Hope College. "Mercedes Pinto: Una escritora espa�ola en Am�rica Latina.."
GENDER STUDIES SALON E
Women's Voices in Poetry
Chair: Arianne Burford, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Erin Rokita, University of Oregon
Presenters: Angela Ruth Mullis, Mount Olive College. "Revitalizing Language and Form in Southeastern American Indian Women's Poetry.."
Amy T. Hamilton, University of Arizona. "'You better keep right on walking': Remembering Migration and Removal in American Indian Women's Poetry.."
H. Marlowe Daly-Galeano, University of Arizona. "(Extra)Ordinary Day: Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day."
GERMANIC STUDIES SALON F
German Crime Fiction and Film*
Chair: Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University
Presenters: Sophie Boyer, Bishop's University. "The Aesthetics of Crime and Sexuality in Rahel Sanzara�s Das verlorene Kind.."
Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University. "The Crimes of Postmodernism in Hans Christoph Buch�s Picaresque Novel Der Burgwart der Wartburg. Eine deutsche Geschichte."
Damon Rarick, University of Rhode Island. "Murderous Art: The Serial Killer as Aesthetic Genius in S�skind�s Das Parfum.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON G
Native American Literature
Chair: Christopher J. Thee, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Sharon M. Scapple, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Presenters: Ron Fischer, Minot State University. "Children of Coyote: Neme Creation Stories."
Amy S. Fatzinger, University of Arizona. "Indians in the House: Louise Erdirch�s Ojibwe-Centered Birchbark House Series (A Replacement for Laura Ingalls Wilder�s Little House on the Prairie?)."
Richard Meyers, Arizona State Univ.-Middlebury Dissertation Fellow. "What is the word for 'Scholar' in Lakota: Positionality and Native Academics."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON H
English Seventeenth-Century Literature
Chair: Eileen Abrahams, University of Texas, Austin
Alternate Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, University of Idaho
Presenters: Dosia Anne Reichardt, James Cook University. "The Poet, the Painter and his Pencil: Van Dyck among the Lyricists."
Yaser M. Amad, University of Texas, Austin. "Uncompromising Positions: The Politics of Alphra Behn's Aesop's Fables."
Shauna B. Andersen, Western Oregon University. "Hidden Messages: A Buried Text in The Rover."
Marjory E. Lange, Western Oregon University. "The 'Other' Voice in Renaissance Lyric Tradition."
10:15AM -11:45AM

LINGUISTICS BONSAI
General and Applied Linguistics
Chair: Janna Graham, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Presenters: Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglio, Meredith College. "A Study of Politeness Speech Acts in the Movies Mary Full of Grace and Motorcycle Diaries. ."
Malcolm Awadajin Finney, California State University, Long Beach. "Cross-linguistic Differences and Difficulty in the Production and Perception of English Vowels by Japanese and Mandarin Speakers.."
Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "Consequences of Hurricane Katrina to Isleño Language Revitalization.."
GENDER STUDIES BOOJUM
Women's Caucus SeminarEarth, Wind, Water and Fire: Representations of Gender and Natural Elements in Literature and Film
Chair: Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida
Alternate Chair: Bernadette H. Hyner, Washington State University
Presenters: Maura F. Daly, San Jose State University. "Alien Relationality Figuring Interspecies Kinship in Haraway and Herzog's Grizzly Man."
Margit Grieb, University of South Florida. "After the End of the World: A Feminist Vision of Survival."
Lisa C. Byrd, University of Tennessee. "Spectacle of Strangeness: Anti-masque Nature in Jonson's Masque of Queens."
Bernadette H. Hyner, Washington State University. "Breaking the Curse of the Mermaid: Marie Timme's The King's Child."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES COTTONWOOD
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la Espa�a del Siglo XX*
Chair: Lucero Flores, University of California, Riverside
Alternate Chair: Mar�a Francisca Paredes M�ndez, Western Washington Universtiy
Presenters: Marianela Rivera, University of California, Riverside. "Tendencias Impresionistas: la pintura de John William Waterhouse y la Sonata de Oto�o de Ram�n del Valle-Incl�n.."
Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Los rasgos surrealista-grotescos en la primera etapa de la poes�a de Miguel Labordeta.."
Nuria God�n-Mart�nez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Cultura popular y (pseudo)cultura: discursos de la ideolog�a franquista en Tiempo de silencio."
PEDAGOGY PALO VERDE
Teaching Foreign Languages
Chair: Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University
Presenters: Elena Y. Kostoglodova, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Verbal Supplements: How to Motivate Students to Spell Well IN a Foreigh Language If They Can't Even Do It in their Own."
Yumika Muramatsu, University of Arizona. "Influences of Cultural Background on L2 Performance: A Report of a Multidimensional Study."
Teresa L. Polowy, University of Arizona. "The Heritage Speaker of Russian Comes of Age in America: A Current Profile of the Russian-language Classroom at an American University."
Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University. "The Pros and Cons of Teaching in Translation: German Literature Survey."
WRITING PROGRAMS SALON A
Creative Writing - Issues*
Chair: Kelan L. Koning, California State University, Northridge
Presenters: Lisa A. Baird, Purdue University North Central. "Students Writing Creative Nonfiction as a Form of Public Action."
Ryan Solomon, Brigham Young University. "Creative Politics in the Classroom."
Leilani R. Hall, California State University, Northridge. "Creative Writing as Patient Body."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON B
Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives*
Chair: Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University
Presenters: Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University. "Portait of an Auteur: Jean-Luc Godard's Adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's 'Oval Portrait'.."
Katina Lynn Rogers, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Interruption in Gerard Gavarry's Hop-là! un deux trois.."
Sudarsan Rangarajan, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "The Gothic Novel as a Sub-genre in Butor's L'emploi du temps.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON C
English Nineteenth-Century Literature-III*Figurations of Illness in Victorian Literature
Chair: Sarah A. Hanselman, Simmons College
Presenters: Jennifer T. Brock, University of California, Davis. "'Though very languid': Languishing, Languidness, and Languor in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.."
Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University. "Lovesickness in the Idylls: Medieval Malady, Victorian Subject, and the Modern Critic."
Nikole King, University of California, Riverside. "'A Panorama of Misery': Willima Carleton's The Black Prophet and the Intersection between Colonial Famine and Anorexia Nervosa during the Nineteenth Century."
Heather J. Worthington, Cardiff University, Wales. "The Disciplinary Discourse of Disease: Morals and Malaise in the Works of Warren and Doyle."
PEDAGOGY SALON D
The Politics of 'Alignment' Between High School and College English*
Chair: Lynn Briggs, Eastern Washington University
Presenters: Gail Stygall, University of Washington. "The Perils of Uniformity."
Patricia A. Callaghan, Central Washington University. "Cognition, Critical Consciousness, and Rhetorical Awareness."
Scott Stevens, Western Washington University. "The Peculiar Rhetoric of School Outcomes."
Lynn Briggs, Eastern Washington University. "Systemic Causes of Misalignment."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON F
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Open Meeting)
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi National Committee Annual Meeting (Open)."
SPECIAL EVENTS SALON G
Publishing Forum with William GermanoAuthor of Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and From Dissertation to Book
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: William Germano, Dean, Humanities & Social Sciences, Cooper Union. "How to Recognize a Book When You See It: A Mini-Workshop for Academics Who Write."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON H
Southern Literature
Chair: Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida
Alternate Chair: Cara L. Cardinale, University of California, Riverside
Presenters: Joseph F. Brown, Louisiana State University. "'You can't make a silken purse out of a pig's ear': Questions of Property in Southworth's The Hidden Hand."
Nicholas Wallerstein, Black Hills State University. "Argument from Analogy in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'."
Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida. "Genre and Audience in Tobacco Road."
Ric Jahna, University of Arizona. "Trash Talking: Harry Crews and the Emergence of 'Grit Lit'."
12:00PM - 1:30PM

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES BONSAI
Latin American Literature and Film
Chair: Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters: Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "La ausencia, la mirada y el deseo en Subiela y Bioy Casares."
Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley. "La figura del Cangaceiro en la literatura y cine brasileros y su impacto en la identidad nacional."
Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Arizona State University. "�Y de la poblaci�n campesina desplazada qu�?: Qu� d�as, qu� noches en La primera noche (2003)."
FILM STUDIES BOOJUM
Contemporary Film TheoryCritical Perspectives on Contemporary Cinema
Chair: Katrin Schroeter, University of New Mexico
Presenters: Belle Harrell, Florida State University. "Multiculturalism Must Come to a Truce: No Need for Crashes.."
Carol Siegel, Washington State University, Vancouver. "The Mystery of Child Molestation: A Deleuzian/Minoritarian Approach to Mysterious Skin and Mystic River.."
Crystal L. Hicks, Texas Tech University. "The Possibilities in Donnie Darko's Tangential Universes.."
Ron Gard, University of Arizona. "Working Off the Guilt: Engendering Labor's Letter in Brad Anderson's The Machinist.."
GENDER STUDIES CACTUS ROSE NORTH
Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speaker+By reservation only; tickets available for purchase until 5 pm Friday, October 13
Chair: Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida
Alternate Chair: Bernadette H. Hyner, Washington State University
Presenters: Irene d'Almeida, University of Arizona. "Guest Speaker: Irene d'Almeida, Departments of Women's Studies / French and Italian, University of Arizona."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES CACTUS ROSE PATIO
Pi Delta Phi Luncheon (Private)
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi - National Executive Committee Luncheon (Private)."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD
American Humor
Chair: Sean M. Zwagerman, Simon Fraser University
Presenters: Stephanie T. Taitano, University of Texas, Arlington. "Transcendental Humor: Weird English Works and Why.."
Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Dilbert Comes to Campus, or, How I Taught 'Humor in American Culture' and Lived to Tell the Story.."
Amy E. Bath, Simon Fraser University. "Pondering the Unanswerable: Woody Allen's Epistemology of Humour."
ASIAN STUDIES PALO VERDE
Asian Comparative Literature and Film-II*Cities Old and New: Rebuilding and Renewing the Chinese Metropolis
Chair: Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame
Alternate Chair: Nicholas Andrew Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY
Presenters: Benjamin B. Ridgway, Middlebury College. "Strange Tales of Two Cities: The Movement of Populations and Memories between Kaifeng and Hangzhou in Twelfth Century China.."
Steve Riep, Brigham Young University. "Remapping Taipei: How Poets and Filmmakers Rethink Postwar Nationalist Cultural Policy.."
Louise Ann Williams, University of Leeds. "Starting Over: Restoration and Renewal in the Cinema of Tsai Mingliang.."
PEDAGOGY SALON A
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature
Chair: Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University
Alternate Chair: George Greenlee, Missouri Southern State University
Presenters: Roger Schmidt, Idaho State University. "Impractical Approaches to Teaching Literature: A Defense."
Michael Sexson, Montana State University. "Lessons of the Lessons of the Masters."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON B
Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*
Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
Alternate Chair: Sarah A. Appleton, Murray State University
Presenters: Sarah A. Appleton, Murray State University. "Unraveling Penelope: Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad."
H. Louise Davis, Michigan State University. "Post-Apocalyptic Possibilities: Placing Margaret Atwood�s Fiction within the Realm of the �Real'.."
Margaret Tilton, Independent. "Sweet Confinement: The Jail as Haven in Margaret Atwood�s Alias Grace and Alice Munro�s 'A Wilderness Station'."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SALON C
Milton*
Chair: Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan American
Alternate Chair: Lewis H. Whitaker, Georgia State University
Presenters: William John Silverman Jr, Florida State University. "'Judge not what is best by pleasure': Milton's Satan as Hobbesian Libertine."
Matthew K. Dolloff, University of Texas, Austin. "Epic and Satire in the Invocations of Paradise Lost."
Matthew Scott Stenson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Milton Reveals his Satan in Ascending Messianic Terms."
Jeffrey E. Cordell, University of Virginia. "Similitudinous Poetry and the Birth of the 'Two Cultures'."
GERMANIC STUDIES SALON D
Poetry Reading by German-American Poets*
Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University
Alternate Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar and Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona and Irmgard Hunt, Colorado State University and John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia and Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University and Ingeborg Carsten-Miller, Independent Scholar. "Poetry Readings."
GENERAL TOPICS SALON E
Undergraduates Unplugged-II*
Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Jessica E. Schubert, Washington State University
Presenters: Thea T. Marlatte, Trinity Western University. "Why Read Literature?: Reason, Sense, and Responsibility."
Mark F. Kraemer, Saginaw Valley State University. "Literary Inquires in Question: A Case Study of the Religious Contexts of Beowulf in Consideration of the Problems Encountered by Literary Scholars Dealing with Ancient Works."
Mary L. Davenport, North Central College. "Is the �Messy, Wonderful Middle� Enough?: A Critique of Labeling Literature Using the Poetry of Alberto Rios."
Melissa Ann Merritt, University of Texas, Dallas. "Making a Monster: Nora�s Role in A Doll�s House."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SALON F
Frank Waters Society+
Chair: John Nizalowski, Mesa State College
Presenters: John Nizalowski, Mesa State College. "Open Meeting of the Frank Waters Society."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SALON G
Ecocriticism and Environmental Justice*
Chair: Charles Waugh, Utah State University
Presenters: Jennifer Hughes Westerman, University of Nevada, Reno. "Landscapes of Labor: Environment, Work, and Social Justice."
Cynthia C. Calhoun, Arizona State University. "Work with The Earth: Ecocriticism as Environmental Border Reclamation in Tropic of Orange."
Sarah J. Cumbie, Syracuse University. "Economic Factors in Environmental Justice: The UFW and Under the Feet of Jesus."
Charles Waugh, Utah State University. "Agent Orange Literature and Environmental Justice: Duong Thu Huong's No Man's Land."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SALON H
Conseil international d'�tudes francophones+-II*Imbrications ou particularisme: Cultures et langues dans l'espace francophone
Chair: Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Alternate Chair: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College
Presenters: Jason Herbeck, Boise State University. "50 ans barakat ! Albert Camus et la femme maghr�bine."
Ramonu Abiodun Sanusi, George Mason University. "La critique socio-politique dans les polars de Mongo Beti.."
Francoise Cevaer, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. "Mythes et st�r�otypes, vecteurs de la �constriction� identitaire dans l�Impasse de Daniel Biyaoula."
2:00PM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS COTTONWOOD
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Closed Business Meeting)National Committee Business Meeting (Closed)
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society Committee Meeting (closed to all but committee members)."
SPECIAL EVENTS DEPART AT HOTEL ENTRANCE
Excursion to Mission San Xavier del Bac & Tubac (By reservation only)By reservation only; tickets ($50) may be available - check Registration Desk
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona. "Excursion to Mission San Xavier del Bac & Tubac."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS BONSAI
Saturday Film Showing - C.R.A.Z.Y.
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005; Qu�bec, Canada; Directed by Jean-Marc Vall�e; 129 min.; not rated)."
SPECIAL EVENTS COTTONWOOD
Saturday Film Showing - Born into Brothels
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Born into Brothels (2004; U.S.; Directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briskii; 83 min.; rated R)."

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60th Annual RMMLA Convention Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006

Preliminary Convention Program

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006