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
 
REGISTRATIONBALLROOM 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
 
REGISTRATIONBALLROOM 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
 
EXHIBITSBALLROOM 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 STUDIESBONSAI
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 Gitaï’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 STUDIESBOOJUM
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 STUDIESCOTTONWOOD
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 TOPICSIRONWOOD
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 STUDIESPALO 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 TOPICSREDWOOD
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 STUDIESSALON 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: peregrinación 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. Cárdenas-Rotunno, University of New Mexico. "Lasses and Asses in the Medieval Spanish Aesopic Fables." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESSALON 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. "Stratégies de neutralisation du sexe social: Le dé-marquage dans l’œuvre de Monique Wittig." 
 Namascar Shaktini, Florida Atlantic University. "Decomposing and Recomposing 'The Lesbian Body'." 
 Pamela J. Stewart, Arizona State University. "1871 Parisian Guérillères." 

GENERAL TOPICSSALON 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." 

LINGUISTICSSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 PROGRAMSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD
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 Gürtel." 
 Robert John Alexander, Arizona State University. "Jean Potage: Shedding Light on the French Connection of an Early Modern German Clown Persona." 

GENERAL TOPICSBOARDROOM
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." 

PEDAGOGYBONSAI
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 TOPICSBOOJUM
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." 

PEDAGOGYCOTTONWOOD
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 STUDIESIRONWOOD
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. "“Þonne cymð se Antecrist”: Apocalyptic Theology in Ælfric’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 STUDIESPALO 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 STUDIESREDWOOD
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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 Brûlure 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. "Géographie marseillaise et géographie migrante dans Méchamment berbère de Minna Sif.." 

PEDAGOGYSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 ocultación de la identidad.." 
 Maria-Carmen Riddel, Marshall University. "La feminidad y la escritura en La trampa de Ana María Matute.." 
 Iván Pérez-Daniel, El Colegio de México. "Académicas, narradoras y poetas: Las mujeres en la primera época de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1955-1957).." 
 Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Deseo y tragedia en Te trataré como a una reina de Rosa Montero.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESSALON 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 EVENTSCACTUS 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD
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 TOPICSBOARDROOM
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 STUDIESBONSAI
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 STUDIESBOOJUM
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 COMMUNICATIONCOTTONWOOD
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." 

PEDAGOGYIRONWOOD
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 STUDIESPALO 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 STUDIESREDWOOD
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 STUDIESSALON 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 littérature." 
 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 STUDIESSALON 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 León." 
 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 caracterización de la mujer disfrazada en algunas obras de María de Zayas y Sotomayor." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 Cliché 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 STUDIESSALON 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 Gómez’ Canek." 
 Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University. "Washing One’s Hands of Labor: Upward Mobility in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD
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 STUDIESBOARDROOM
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 STUDIESBONSAI
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 STUDIESBOOJUM
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 COMMUNICATIONCOTTONWOOD
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." 

LINGUISTICSIRONWOOD
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 STUDIESPALO 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 STUDIESREDWOOD
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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON B
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film
The 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." 

PEDAGOGYSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESSALON 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 Cortázar." 
 Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado. "El jaiku uruguayo del siglo XX." 
 Oswaldo Estrada, University of Puget Sound. "Confluencia de tiempos psicológicos en la Historia verdadera de Bernal Díaz del Castillo." 
 Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "La función del suicidio de Andrés en Sin rumbo." 

GENERAL TOPICSSALON H
Sigma Tau Delta
Chair: Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver