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 
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 EVENTSSALON 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 EVENTSPOOL 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 EVENTSBONSAI

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 EVENTSBOOJUM

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 EVENTSBALLROOM 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
 
REGISTRATIONBALLROOM 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
 
EXHIBITSBALLROOM 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 STUDIESBONSAI

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.." 

PEDAGOGYBOOJUM

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 .." 

LINGUISTICSCOTTONWOOD

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 STUDIESIRONWOOD

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 TOPICSPALO 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 PROGRAMSREDWOOD

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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 última noche que pasé contigo y las múltiples escalas de una comunidad érotica." 
 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 memória crítica." 
 Patricia G. Nuriel, Arizona State University. "Escritura como exploração de fronteiras em O Ciclo das Águas de Moacyr Scliar.." 
 Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Pessoa's Mensagem: The Esoteric Message." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESSALON 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 défait." 
 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD

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 PROGRAMSBONSAI

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." 

PEDAGOGYBOOJUM

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 STUDIESCOTTONWOOD

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 STUDIESPALO 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 Laferrière 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 STUDIESREDWOOD

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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 único hijo." 
 Mary Ann Dellinger, Virginia Military Institute. "Española sin España: The Exile of María Zambrano." 
 Astrid A. Billat, Meredith College. "Yo te miro y tú me miras. ¿El hombre de Adén? Espejo de la sociedad multicultural española?." 
 María Francisca Paredes Méndez, Western Washington Universtiy. "Zapatos de tacón y polvos de arroz para la mujer trabajadora: La liberación económica de la mujer en La Flor de la Playa de Carmen de Burgos." 

SPECIAL EVENTSSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 Enthüllen und Verstecken: Über ein Leitmotiv in Barbara Honigmanns Prosawerk.." 

12:00PM - 1:30PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSHOTEL 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD

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 EVENTSBONSAI

Special Session on the MLA Bibliography, given by Barbara Chen
Director 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 STUDIESBOOJUM

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. "Rêver en écrivant: 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 COMMUNICATIONCOTTONWOOD

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 TOPICSIRONWOOD

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 Cherríe Moraga's Waiting in the Wings.." 
 Maan Lin, Queensborough Community College. "Chinese Diasporic Writers: Siu Kam Wen in Peru.." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESPALO 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 STUDIESREDWOOD

Hispanic Southwest - La Memoria Histórica*
La Crónica hispana en la frontera Estados Unidios-México
Chair: Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University West 
Presenters: Justo Alarcon, Arizona State University. "Las Crónicas hispanas: memoriales históricos del SW." 
 Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University. "Los manuscritos hispánicos en el museo Gilcrease." 
 Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University West. "Las paradas histórico-geográficas de los aztecas en su largo viaje hacia Tenochitlán." 

ASIAN STUDIESSALON A

Chinese Literature and Film since 1900*
Controversial Constructions of Chinese Identity
Chair: Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
Alternate Chair: Géraldine 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 EVENTSSALON E

Graduate Student Forum
To 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 STUDIESSALON F

Conseil international d'études francophones+
Identité (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 Nuée ardente de Raphaël Confiant et dans L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse de Patrick Chamoiseau.." 
 Jocelyne Françoise Le Ber, Royal Military College. "La 'négritude québécoise': Une identité francophone dans les contes de Jacques Ferron.." 
 Yvette Benayoun-Szmiot, York University, Glendon College. "De la parole à l'écriture dans Le Livre de Fatima." 
 Najib Redouane, California State University, Long Beach. "Écriture éclatée et identité féminine dans Filles du vent de Nadia Chafik.." 

GENERAL TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESBASSWOOD

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 STUDIESBONSAI

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 STUDIESBOOJUM

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 Zukunftsbewältigung: Das Deutschlandbild bei Bernhard Schlink." 
 Daniel Reynolds, Grinnell College. "Germany's Colonial Past in Recent Fiction." 

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONCOTTONWOOD

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 TOPICSIRONWOOD

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 PROGRAMSPALO 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 STUDIESREDWOOD

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 STUDIESSALON 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: Géraldine 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." 
 Géraldine Schneider, Harvard University. "Textual Travels and Traveling Texts: Fantastical Tales of the Late Qing." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESSALON B

Literary Criticism
Examining 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSBASSWOOD

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 EVENTSBONSAI

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 STUDIESBOOJUM

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." 

LINGUISTICSCOTTONWOOD

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 COMMUNICATIONIRONWOOD

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!'." 

PEDAGOGYPALO 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.." 

PEDAGOGYREDWOOD

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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 EVENTSCOTTONWOOD

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 EVENTSBONSAI

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 EVENTSBOOJUM

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 EVENTSBALLROOM 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
 
REGISTRATIONBALLROOM 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
 
EXHIBITSBALLROOM 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 EVENTSCACTUS 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 TOPICSBONSAI

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 STUDIESBOOJUM

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 STUDIESCOTTONWOOD

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." 

PEDAGOGYPALO VERDE

Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom
Intersections 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON D

Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+-II
Women, Literature and Society
Chair: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno 
Presenters: Jaime Leaños, University of Nevada, Reno. "Reinas de la tardía España medieval: Un auge por recobrar las misóginas letras.." 
 Ana M. Morana, Shippensburg University. "La mujer y la ciudad: Alfonsina Storni y sus poemas urbanos.." 
 Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "Encuentros, búsquedas y desconciertos en novelas de Angélica Gorodischer.." 
 Liliana Dorado, Hope College. "Mercedes Pinto: Una escritora española en América Latina.." 

GENDER STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 Süskind’s Das Parfum.." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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
 
LINGUISTICSBONSAI

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 STUDIESBOOJUM

Women's Caucus Seminar
Earth, 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 STUDIESCOTTONWOOD

Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX*
Chair: Lucero Flores, University of California, Riverside 
Alternate Chair: María Francisca Paredes Méndez, Western Washington Universtiy 
Presenters: Marianela Rivera, University of California, Riverside. "Tendencias Impresionistas: la pintura de John William Waterhouse y la Sonata de Otoño de Ramón del Valle-Inclán.." 
 Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Los rasgos surrealista-grotescos en la primera etapa de la poesía de Miguel Labordeta.." 
 Nuria Godón-Martínez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Cultura popular y (pseudo)cultura: discursos de la ideología franquista en Tiempo de silencio." 

PEDAGOGYPALO 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 PROGRAMSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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." 

PEDAGOGYSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 EVENTSSALON G

Publishing Forum with William Germano
Author 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESBONSAI

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 población campesina desplazada qué?: Qué días, qué noches en La primera noche (2003)." 

FILM STUDIESBOOJUM

Contemporary Film Theory
Critical 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 STUDIESCACTUS 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 STUDIESCACTUS 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 STUDIESCOTTONWOOD

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 STUDIESPALO 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.." 

PEDAGOGYSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 TOPICSSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON 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 STUDIESSALON H

Conseil international d'études 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 maghrébine." 
 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 stéréotypes, vecteurs de la ‘constriction’ identitaire dans l’Impasse de Daniel Biyaoula." 

2:00PM - 6:00PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSCOTTONWOOD

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 EVENTSDEPART 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 EVENTSBONSAI

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; Québec, Canada; Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée; 129 min.; not rated)." 

SPECIAL EVENTSCOTTONWOOD

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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