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56th Annual RMMLA Convention, Scottsdale, AZ

October 10-12, 2002

Preliminary Convention Program

We are looking forward to a very exciting program this year in Scottsdale. The Executive Board and the Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved for their support of RMMLA!

Scottsdale at twilight Please note:

• 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.
• The easiest way to find one's name on the program is to do a FIND (hit CTRL F and type in your first or last name OR choose FIND from the EDIT pull-down menu).
• The print program will go to press on August 1.
• Room assignments appear ABOVE the session title.
• An asterisk indicates a Special Topic Session; a plus sign indicates an affiliate member session.
• To view a presentation abstract, click on the hyperlinked presentation title (however, not all presenters have submitted abstracts).

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 9

3:00PM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	WEST FOYER
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Wednesday

Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Wednesday Registration."

THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 10

7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	WEST FOYER
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Thursday

Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Thursday Registration."

8:30AM -10:00AM

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Robinson Jeffers: His Place in Twentieth-Century American Poetry*

Chair:	Shaun Anne Tangney, Minot State University
Alternate Chair:	Peter Quigley, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Presenters:	Robert J. Brophy, California State University, Long Beach. "Robinson Jeffers: Mythmaker of the Final Coast."
	Peter Quigley, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "Robinson Jeffers and the Emergence of Environmental Literature."
	David J. Rothman, Crested Butte Academy. "Robinson Jeffers and the Survival of Narrative Poetry."

GENERAL TOPICS	CACTUS ROOM
Drama

Chair:	Elsie G. Haley, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters:	Sandra G. Teichmann, West Texas A & M University. "The Collapse of Time in Albee's Three Tall Women.."
	Leslie Atkins Durham, Boise State University. "From the Carnivalesque to Abjection: Marking the Borders of the Self in Three Banquet Scenes by Caryl Churchill."
	Amy D'Antonio, Arizona State University. "Be Quiet Till I Speak: Crime and Self-Representation in Augusta Gregory's Peasant Dramas.."
	Gregory Kable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "I Know What You Did Last Season: Images of the Producer in Drama."

GENERAL TOPICS	DESERT ROOM
Literature and Other Arts

Chair:	Michael Wutz, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Craig Bergeson, Weber State University
Presenters:	Michael H. Berglund, University of Tulsa. "Kronberg's Song: (Opera)tions of Identity in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark.."
	Joanne Klein, St. Mary's College of Maryland. "Double or Nothing: Obscuring the Object of Desire in The French Lieutenant's Woman and Kiss of a Spider Woman.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean

Chair:	Deborah Weagel, University of New Mexico
Alternate Chair:	Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis University
Presenters:	Deborah Weagel, University of New Mexico. "Colonial-Like Relationships in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre.."
	Philip A. Ojo, University of Oregon. "The Female Persona in the Articulation of Identity in Francophone Sub-Saharan African Death Narratives: The Case of Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre.."
	Mariah Devereux Herbeck, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "La mère antillaise: obstacle ou ouverture à la créolité?."
	Ramonu Aboidun Sanusi, University of Oregon. "The Many Spaces of Francophone African Women Writers of the Sub-Sahara.."

ASIAN STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
The Queen, the Fag Hag, and the Straight Man*Genders and Sexualities in the Portrayal of Asian/Americans in U.S. Popular Culture

Chair:	Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Jennifer Wiram, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Jennifer Wiram, Arizona State University. "Locating the "Voice" of Phoolan Devi: Problematic Structures in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen."
	Melinda L. de Jesús, Arizona State University. "Third World Feminist and Queer Subjectivity in Margaret Cho's "I'm the One That I Want"."
	Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University. "The Intersections of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation in the World War II Roles of Philip Ahn."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
Women in Spanish Literature*

Chair:	Jennifer M. Corry, Berry College
Presenters:	Carlos Javier Garcia, Arizona State University. "El caso de Matilde Moret (Luis Goytisolo)."
	Jennifer A. Colon, Florida State University. "A Crippling Narcissism: The Allegory of Motherhood in 'Historia de amor'.."

GENDER STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Women's Voices in Prose

Chair:	Vivian Foss, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Presenters:	Joan Clingan, Prescott College. "Voice of Reason: Literature as Platform and Safe Haven for Resistant Women's Voice.."
	Elizabeth M. Cannon, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "'A Blur of Boundaries and Messages': Louise Erdrich's Symbolic Rendition of a Mother's and Daughter's Semiotic Language in The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year.."
	Katherine Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "Subverting Patriarchy: The Morality of Love in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM I
English Literature 1800-1899Writing Lives in the Nineteenth-Century

Chair:	Vanessa K. Warne, University of Manitoba
Alternate Chair:	Lucy Morrison, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton
Presenters:	Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University. "Man or Myth?: The Writing of John Keats.."
	Robin A. Werner, Tulane University. "Writing Respectability/Performing Femininity: the Auto/biographic Writings of Victorian Actresses.."
	Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State University. "Writing the Erotic Life: My Secret Life , Victorian Science, and the Bildungsroman.."

PEDAGOGY	MOHAVE ROOM II
Writing Across the Curriculum - IWriting in the Arts, Sciences, and Professional Schools

Chair:	Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Presenters:	Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. "Developing a Campus Writing Program Fifteen Faculty at a Time.."
	Robert Orr, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. "Dialogue Journals for Engineering Students?: You've Got to Be Kidding!."
	Donna Adams, University of Indianapolis. "Writing for Artistic Creativity.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
The Politics and Poetics of Loss: The Form of Elegy*

Chair:	Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University West
Presenters:	Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University West. "Phyllis Wheatley and the Locations of Loss.."
	Jay Grossman, Northwestern University. "Emancipating Waldo.."
	Michael Stancliff, Arizona State University. "Elegies for the First Typical American: Loving Lincoln in the New South.."

10:15AM -11:45AM

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	BARCELONA ROOM
Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond

Chair:	Becky Jo McShane, Weber State University
Presenters:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "Technical Writing Students and On-Campus Clients: A Collaboration with the University Writing Center.."
	Susan Connor Audrain, University of North Texas. "Ethics, the Human Radiation Experiments, and Implications for Technical Communication.."
	Mali Subbiah, Weber State University. "Service-learning in Technical Communications Curriculum."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	CACTUS ROOM
Women in French - I

Chair:	Francoise Hibbs, Salt Lake Community College
Alternate Chair:	Sigyn C. Minier, University of Montana, Missoula
Presenters:	Sigyn C. Minier, University of Montana, Missoula. "Mistriss Henley revue et corrigée.."
	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Proactive Convents and Feminist Nuns in Sand's Lélia (1839) and d'Agoult's Nélida (1846).."
	Julie A. Monty, University of Texas, Austin. "Sex, Lies, and No Escape: Darrieussecq & Atwood Rewrite the Genre/Gender of Dystopian Literature.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions*

Chair:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters:	Susana M. Sandmann, University of St. Thomas. "¿A quiénes van a domar? La globalización y lo popular en Un lugar en el mundo y Caballos salvajes.."
	Graciela Garcia, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart. "Liliana Heker y María Luisa Bemberg: Melodrama e imaginario femenino."
	Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "La máquina del poder: intertexto fílmico y literario."
	Sonia Barrios Tinoco, Washington State University. "¿No se lo digas a nadie?."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
Poets of the Early Modern Spanish Period*

Chair:	Eloy Gonzalez, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Francisco Manzo Robledo, Washington State University
Presenters:	William R. Cummins, Ashland University. "“Sombras y luces”: Shedding Light on the Calderonian Auto Sacramental."
	Jay L. Adams-Feuer, Indiana University. "“A él después Dios le castigue”: reading the King in La Estrella de Sevilla."
	John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. "Swallowing the Supplement in Quevedo's "Bebe vino precioso con mosquitos"."
	Sanda Munjic, University of California, Berkeley. "Garcilaso’s Sonnet XXXVIII: A Scene of Vanishing."

PEDAGOGY	FIESTA ROOM I
Teaching Foreign Languages

Chair:	Cheryl M. Hansen, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Steven G. Symmes, Ferris State University
Presenters:	Steven G. Symmes, Ferris State University and Reinhold R. Hill, Ferris State University. "Feeding Colleagues: The meat and potatoes of a peer clinical response.."
	Nadia Moraglio, University of Arizona. "Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiple Choice Tests in Foreign Language Classrooms.."
	Cheryl M. Hansen, Weber State University and Thomas J. Mathews, Weber State University. "Ongoing Assessment of a University Foreign Language Program.."

LINGUISTICS	FIESTA ROOM II
Linguistics - English

Chair:	Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University
Presenters:	John I. Liontas, University of Notre Dame. "Turning the Tables on Second Language Idiomaticity: A Pedagogical Perspective."
	Johanna L. Wood, Arizona State University. "Trouble with such: Function, Structure and Language Change."
	Nanette Wichman, Eastern Washington University. "Politeness in Law? Discourse Markers in an Oral Argument."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Flannery O'Connor*

Chair:	Robert E. Colbert, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Alternate Chair:	Sura Rath, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Presenters:	Jill Zasadny, University of Kansas. "Hazel Motes and Oedipus Rex: A Re-View.."
	Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "'Interleckchul Distance': Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality.."
	Valerie Nye, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives and R. Neil Scott, Georgia College and State University. "Postmarked Milledgeville: O'Connor's Unpublished Letters.."
	Robert E. Colbert, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. "The Uses of Violence in O'Connor and Walker Percy.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM I
Owen Barfield

Chair:	David L. Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University
Alternate Chair:	Daniel Smitherman, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	John C. Ulreich, University of Arizona. "'Shall [Hu]man[kind] at the last be whole?': The Influence of Owen Barfield on John Milton."
	Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Mystery Stories: Owen Barfield's Prose Fiction."
	Jeffrey Hipolito, Everett Community College. "Owen Barfield and the Poetics of Community."
	Jacob Sherman, California Institute of Integral Studies. "The Rest of the Story: A Barfieldian Correction of Teilhard de Chardin."

GENERAL TOPICS	MOHAVE ROOM II
Autobiography and Biography*

Chair:	Bonnie K. Frederick, Texas Christian University
Alternate Chair:	Margaret Lowry, Texas Christian University
Presenters:	Marja Mogk, University of California, Berkeley. "Writing Blind: Autobiographical Narratives of Vision.."
	Julie F. Codell, Arizona State University. "Gandhi as Victorian Sage and Hindu Saint in his Autobiography.."
	Margaret Lowry, Texas Christian University. "Narrative of Nation, Narrative of Home: Autobiographical Cultural Critique in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow?."
	Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, Graduate Center, CUNY. "The Politics of Home and Healing in Edwige Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
Western and Southwestern Literature

Chair:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Linda K. Karell, Montana State University, Bozeman
Presenters:	Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado. "The Desert: The Writer's Landscape."
	Douglas Wixson, University of Missouri, Rolla. "A Gambler's Daughter: Sanora Babb and the Literature of the High Plains."
	Renae Bredin, California State University, Fullerton. "M)other(ing) Race: Fourth World Women Writers and the Shaping of 'Race'."

12:00PM - 1:30PM

GENERAL TOPICS	BARCELONA ROOM
Text and Illustration - I*

Chair:	Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
Presenters:	Suzanne K. Pitre, Independent Scholar. "The Hero of His Own Life?: The Visual and Verbal Stories of David Copperfield."
	Vanessa K. Warne, University of Manitoba. "The Female Connoisseur: Gender, Poetry and Art Criticism in Early Victorian Anuuals."
	Sally B. Palmer, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Margynalia: British Women on the Edge in 19th-Century Fiction."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	CACTUS ROOM
Theory and Research in the Technical and Professional Communication

Chair:	Mali Subbiah, Weber State University
Presenters:	Robert Kramer, IBM. "Visual Thinking and Writing Spaces: Models for a Conceptual Revision.."
	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University. "Developing Strategies of Adaptation to Different Professional Communities: Biotechnology Writing and Technical Communication.."
	Maria Cochran, Iowa State University. "Science in the Neighbohood or How Rhetoric Can Help High-energy Physicists.."

GENDER STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
Popular Women's Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries*

Chair:	Lee Davinroy, University of Texas, Pan American
Presenters:	Nicole Hand, Murray State University and Staci Stone, Murray State University. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: From Popular Literature to Pop Culture.."
	Laura K. Gruber, Washington State University. "The Naturalistic Impulse: Limitations of Gender and Landscape in Mary Hallock Foote's Idaho Stories.."
	Judith Giblin James, University of South Carolina. "What's Popular?: Hobomok and the Career of Lydia Maria Child.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
French Literature After 1800

Chair:	Theo Garneau, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Alternate Chair:	Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters:	Marie Christine McCarthy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Stendhal et Retz: une piste de lecture?."
	Theo Garneau, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Les Lettres de Van Gogh, Heritage rousseauiste?."
	Lynn Penrod, University of Alberta. "Reading/Translating/Reading Cixious."
	Nathalie Ciesco, McGill University. "Alphonse Allais et les couleurs: humour polychrome."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
Native American Literature

Chair:	Jennifer Lemberg, CUNY Graduate Center
Alternate Chair:	Christina Roberts, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Christina Roberts, University of Arizona. "Towards a Greater Community: Mixed-Blood Identity in James Welch's Fiction.."
	Carrie L. Sheffield, Purdue University. "Language and Resistance: Repositioning the Reader and Resisting Colonial Primacy in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear.."
	Donna T. Tong, University of California, Irvine. "Death, Disappearance, Disembodiment: The Violence of Subjectivity in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
Romania and Its Contributions to the International Heritage*

Chair:	Monica Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Domnita Dumitrescu, California State University, Los Angeles
Presenters:	Domnita Dumitrescu, California State University, Los Angeles. "Petru Popescu's Contributions to the Romanian Literary Heritage.."
	Monica Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "Tellurian vs. Orphic in Vasile Voiculescu's Sonnets.."
	Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno. "Syntax of Up-rooting in the Poetry of Stefan Munteanu.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM II
Narrative Theory and the Teaching of Narrative*Narrative Theory

Chair:	Vicki Ramirez, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Michael Wutz, Weber State University
Presenters:	Michael Kearns, University of Southern Indiana. "The Ethical Work of Narrative, Exemplified in Moby-Dick."
	Martin Kreiswirth, University of Western Ontario. "Faulkner Passing Through Morrison: Racial Otherness and Narrative Intertextuality."
	Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Information, Narrative, and Cognition in E.L.Doctorow's The Waterworks.."
	Vicki Ramirez, Weber State University. "Hey Gravity, Lighten Up! Or, Pynchon's Penchant for Playing with Repression, Rockets, Rainbows, Readers, and Kazoos.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
Mary Shelley*

Chair:	Brandon Christopher, Queen's University
Alternate Chair:	L. Adam Mekler, Morgan State University
Presenters:	L. Adam Mekler, Morgan State University. "Well-manned Ships and Centers of Trade: Teaching The Last Man.."
	Bridget M. Marshall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Law and the Gothic.."
	Carolyn Drake Weber, Oxford University. "Transmigration as National and Personal Critique In Mary Shelley's Short Stories.."
	Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University. "Gender Imposture and Generic Cross-Dressing: Romancing History in Mary Shelley's The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Feministas Unidas*

Chair:	Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "'Frágiles ciudadelas' en dos poemas largos de Luisa Futoransky.."
	Carmen Urioste, Arizona State University. "La narrativa de Belen Gopequi: modelos contemporaneos.."
	L. Cecilia Ojeda, Northern Arizona University. "Eltit cita a Artaud: la mise-en-page de la crueldad en Lumpérica.."
	Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University. "La escritura perfomativa de Alicia Borinsky.."

PEDAGOGY	MOHAVE ROOM I
Teaching Slavic Languages

Chair:	Lee B. Croft, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Delbert D. Phillips, University of Arizona. "The Grammar Test Nemesis: Helping Our Students Pass.."
	Pat Barrett, Westwood High School. "Using the Communicative Method in High School.."
	George J. Gutsche, University of Arizona. "New Directions in Russian Culture Courses.."
	Teresa L. Polowy, University of Arizona. "Discussant.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM II
Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Western US and Canada*

Chair:	Donna Waller Harper, Middle Tennessee State University
Presenters:	Eugenia C. Delamotte, Arizona State University. "Mystery Ideology and Detection in Hagar's Daughter."
	Alan Goff, DeVry Institute of Techology. "Scientific Narrative and Literary Narrative in Sherlock Holmes."
	Donna Waller Harper, Middle Tennessee State University. "Sibling Rivalry: The Use of Siblings in Detective Fiction.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
The Works of Audre Lorde: The Intersection of Poetics and Politics*

Chair:	Catherine A. Wiley, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Shawn Alfrey, University of Denver. "From Negritude to Women of Color: Aime Cesaire and Audre Lorde.."
	Billy Clem, Northern Illinois University. "Cables to Rage: Teaching with Audre Lorde.."
	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "The Impact of Audre Lorde's Poetics and Politics on Afro-German Women Writers.."

1:45PM - 3:15PM

FILM STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism

Chair:	Daxton Norton, University of Oregon
Alternate Chair:	Lea M. Williams, University of Oregon
Presenters:	Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley State College. "'Nothing Is Fake, It's Merely Controlled': Identity and Subversion in the Truman Show.."
	Jesse Cohn, Purdue University North Central. "Closing the Circuit: Commodity Solipsism in Late Nineties Film.."
	Roberta Di Carmine, University of Oregon. "Bernardo Bertolucci's 'cultural contamination' in Besieged.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 409
Frank Waters Society+

Chair:	Robert A. Anderson, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair:	Charles L. Adams, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters:	Daryl A. Grider, West Virginia State College and Maggie Sturdivant, Independent Scholar. "Frank Waters and the Counsels of the wise."
	Charles L. Adams, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "A Short History of the Frank Waters Society."
	Felicia F. Campbell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Women at Otowi Crossing: Helen Chalmers and Edith Warner."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	CACTUS ROOM
Spanish American LiteratureDualidades: Una visión de la realidad hispanoamericana

Chair:	Clinia Saffi, University of Miami
Alternate Chair:	Patricia D. Catoira, University of New Mexico
Presenters:	Debora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Meredith College. "Mapping the Journey Home in Aurora Levins Morales's and Rosario Morales's Getting Home Alive.."
	Joseph E. Zavala, University of Miami, Florida. ""Un peje entre dos aguas" : El viaje de Alonso Carrió de la Vandera como itinerario ilustrado y su visión de la realidad americana."
	Ismael P. Márquez, University of Oklahoma. "Dictadores de verdad y de mentira: Margarita está linda la mar de Sergio Ramirez y La fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas LLosa.."
	Alberto Acereda, Arizona State University. "Las raíces filosóficas del Modernismo. Ruben Darío y Schopenhauer.."

PEDAGOGY	DESERT ROOM
Technology and Distance Education

Chair:	Patti J. Kurtz, Heidelberg College
Alternate Chair:	Mali Subbiah, Weber State University
Presenters:	Carol Scates, Southeast Missouri State University. "Distance Learning-- We Get What We Settle For."
	Darren Hughes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Herding Sheep: Hypermedia and Formal Analysis in Freshman Composition."
	Lloyd Worley, University of North Colorado. "Netting the Curse of the Comma."

GERMANIC STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
German Literature Before 1900-I

Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Alternate Chair:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri
Presenters:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Der verkannte Meister als Schlüsselfigur des 16. Jahrhunderts: Hans Sachs im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik.."
	Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, University of Montana. "Hedwig Dohm's Comedies.."
	Christine Anton, Berry College. "Von Narren und Halunken: Die Literatur des 19ten Jahrhunderts aus Sicht Gottfried Kellers.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
Old and Middle English

Chair:	Bret A. Wightman, Lindenwood University
Alternate Chair:	William F. Woods, Wichita State University
Presenters:	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "'That he alone shall or should': The Anglo-Saxon Subjunctive in Comparison with Latin and Modern English."
	Heide Breuer, University of Arizona. "The Magic of Carnival: Transgression and Repression in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
	Kyle S. Glover, Lindenwood University. "Hospitality and the Host-Guest Exchanges in the Canterbury Tales."
	Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Touching Virginity: The Withered Hand of Salome.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
Discursive Construction of the Middle East since the Mid-20th Century*

Chair:	Heather M. Hoyt, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Heather M. Hoyt, Arizona State University. "Marketing A Bedouin Boyhood .."
	Filiz Turhan, Suffolk Community College. "Twentieth Century Turkey.."
	Lutfi M. Hussein, Arizona State University. "Osama bin Laden in USA Today : 'An ounce of 'Mystery' is worth a ton of 'argument' '.."
	Orayb Aref Najjar, Northern Illinois University. "The 'War Against Terrorism': Post-September 11.."

LINGUISTICS	FIESTA ROOM II
Linguistics-Second Language Acquisition

Chair:	Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College
Alternate Chair:	Juan Pablo Jimenez, Washington State University
Presenters:	Lori Spicher, University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Mark Vitali, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. "L2 Intonation: The Final Frontier."
	Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Preterit and Imperfect: Overcoming the Challenge in French and Spanish.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	GRANADA ROOM I
RMMLA Open Forum & Business MeetingUpdate on status of RMMLA, followed by Open Forum discussion on current professional issues.

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Moderator.."

GENDER STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Women's Voices in Poetry

Chair:	Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Illinois State University
Presenters:	Suzie Park, University of California, Berkeley. "'Tell the embosom'd grief, however vain': Wasted Feeling in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets."
	Jason R. Rudy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. "Mathilde Blind and the Fall of Sentiment."
	Jennifer D. Ryan, University of Iowa. "'I looked in her face and seed the woman I'd become': Historical Re-Visionings."
	Jocelyn Emerson, Boston University. "Leslie Scalapino's Serial Fragment."

GENERAL TOPICS	MOHAVE ROOM I
Travel Literature*

Chair:	Jennifer Lei Jenkins, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Pilar V. Rotella, Chapman University. "'Quarrels' Through France and Italy: Smollett the Traveler.."
	Ruth M. Prakasam, Atlantic Union College. "Observations of a Memsahib: Emily Eden's Up the Country Experience in 19th Century India.."
	Jennifer Lei Jenkins, University of Arizona. "Wrapped in a Labyrinth of Song: Ritual Pilgrimage in Chatwin's The Songlines.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM II
Women in French - II

Chair:	Francoise Hibbs, Salt Lake Community College
Presenters:	Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado. "Linguistic Experimentation in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s Chroniques du pays des mères.."
	Annabelle Dolidon, University of Notre Dame, Du Lac. "Le Désert Mauve: Du langage fait femme.."
	Claire Hibbs, University of Montana. "Arthur Rimbaud and Hélène Cixous : Writing as Revolt.."
	Isabelle Constant, Boise State University. "Techniques de virtualisation dans Attentat d'Amélie Nothomb.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
Literary Criticism - I

Chair:	Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair:	Shaun Anne Tangney, Minot State University
Presenters:	William Van Watson, University of Arizona. "Eisenstein and Pasolini: Towards a Theory of Homosemiosis."
	Stephen L. Bishop, University of New Mexico. "Origins, Play, and Dissemination of Derrida: The Production of a Cultural Theorist."
	Jack Tabor, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Flaneurs in the Western Front: Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War Commodity."

3:30PM - 5:00PM

FILM STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Gender and Race in Literature and Film*

Chair:	William Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College. "Citizen Kane and Race.."
	Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley State College. "The Problem of Race in Post-Classic Noir."
	Michael Parker, University of Arizona. "Pain Like That Is A Warning That Something Isn't Right: Interpreting the Female Body in Rosemary's Baby."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BOARDROOM 409
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "RMMLA Executive Board Meeting."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	CACTUS ROOM
Latin American Literature and the Cultural Context*

Chair:	George Cole, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters:	Dennis R. Miller, Florida State University. "The Women Speak!: Feminist Voices in Two Contemporary Nicaraguan Plays."
	Mary Fanelli Ayala, Eastern New Mexico University. "La tercera ola: New Voices of the Mexican Revolution."
	George Cole, Arizona State University. "Güemilere, ebbos y la intervención divina: la presencia del orisha Changó en el teatro cubano contemporáneo.."
	Danion L. Doman, Truman State University. "The Proxemics of Silence: Landscaping the Feminine in María and Iracema.."

LINGUISTICS	DESERT ROOM
American Dialect Society+

Chair:	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Alternate Chair:	Janna Graham, Idaho State University
Presenters:	Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University. "English in America's Fourth World: Indian English.."
	Ray Villegas, Arizona State University. "New York City!?: Italian and Yiddish Influence on the Big Apple.."
	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. "You Say /tometo/, I Say /tomato/: Preference for British or American English.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
Francophone Immigrant Literature in Quebec/Littérature migrante francophone au Québec*

Chair:	Yvon Le Bras, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair:	Lucie Lequin, Université Concordia
Presenters:	Yvon Le Bras, Brigham Young University. "L'écriture migrante au Québec : introduction."
	Irene Oore, Dalhousie University, Halifax. "Quelques remarques sur l'(é)(im)migration dans la littérature dite migrante au Québec."
	Lucie Lequin, Université Concordia. "Abla Farhoud et la fragilité du bonheur."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths

Chair:	Mary J. DeForest, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Lynda D. McNeil, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Huphos Humnos: Narrative Text(ile)s and Story-cloths in Greek Myth.."
	Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico. "To Hell and Back?: The Orpheus Myth in Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus and Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge.."
	Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Articulating the Inexpressible: Myth in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee.."
	Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "The Sphinx after Oedipus.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM II
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)Exploring Unexpected Affinities

Chair:	Scott A. Loughton, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	Anne Daghistany, Texas Tech University. "Alcott's Little Men and the English Boarding School.."
	Prasanna Reddy, Weber State University. "The Effects of Dislocation on Asian Immigrants as an Often Repeated Theme in the Stories of Lahiri and Divakaruni.."
	E. Joseph Sharkey, University of Washington, Tacoma. "Epistemological Limits in Borges and Wittgenstein.."
	Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State Unversity. "Listening to the Past, Writing for the Future: Leslie Marmon Silko and Marie de France.."

PEDAGOGY	GRANADA ROOM II
Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges*

Chair:	Wendy Olson, Klamath Community College
Alternate Chair:	Gwendolyn James, Columbia Basin College
Presenters:	Brenda Tuberville, Lamar State College, Orange. "The Politics and Pragmatics (and Possibilities?) of Teaching Writing at the Two-Year College."
	Joseph W. Price, University of Nebraska, Omaha and Lincoln. "Community College Transfer Students' Performance in English Composition at the University Level."
	Lisa Trevino Roy-Davis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "Transgressing Boundaries: Reading and Writing about Race, Class, and Gender Issues in the Community College Literature Classroom."
	Linda A. Kessler, Klamath Community College. "Nothing Personal: A Reappraisal of the Personal Narrative."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM II
English Renaissance Literature

Chair:	John M. Hill, U.S. Naval Academy
Alternate Chair:	Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters:	Joanne Craig, Bishop's University. "'The rest vntold no liuing tongue can speake': Spenser's Muse.."
	Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "Transcending the 'Tribe': Ben Jonson and Literary Legacy.."
	Teresa Coronado, Eastern New Mexico University. "The Theatre as Pulpit: Lessons on Morality from A Woman Killed with Kindness.."
	Darin Merrill, Arizona State University. "Weighty Burlesque in Paradise Lost.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MOHAVE ROOM III
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus Seminar

Chair:	Kent Drummond, University of Wyoming
Alternate Chair:	Laurie Wood, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College. "I'm 37 Now."
	Mary Anderson, Washington State University. "Parade from a Roomy Closet: Queer African-American Poets Since 1970."

7:00PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BARCELONA ROOM
Thursday Evening Film Showing

Chair:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Run Lola Run (1999) [German with English subtitles]."

SPECIAL EVENTS	MAIN ST/MARSHALL WAY AREA
No Host Participation in Scottsdale ARTWALK

Chair:	Deborah N. Losse, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Deborah N. Losse, Arizona State University. "Scottsdale ARTWALK - Stroll around downtown and enjoy special exhibits by local galleries - trolley leaves from Fashion Square Mall (across street from hotel). .."

9:00PM -10:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	WEST PATIO
Opening Night Reception

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Opening Night Reception."

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 11

7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	WEST FOYER
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Friday

Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Friday Registration."

8:30AM -10:00AM

FILM STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Filmed Lives*

Chair:	A. Mary Murphy, Red Deer College
Alternate Chair:	David L. Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University
Presenters:	Todd Wemmer, Atlantic Union College. "DVD Apparatus/Discourse: Consuming Biography at Home."
	David L. Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University. "Poeopics: The Movies and the Lives of the Poets."

GENERAL TOPICS	BOARDROOM 409
Sigma Tau Delta

Chair:	Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Mary J. DeForest, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Dyanna L. Ivy, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Visions of Coole.."
	Joan E. Hill, California State Polytechinic University, Pomona. "The Avidity of Art and AIDS.."
	Heather Shields, Lincoln University. "Loving from a Distance: Poems from a Divorce.."
	Gretchen Ferrazza, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Dream House.."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	CACTUS ROOM
Forces of Change in Technical Professional Communication

Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Lorelei Ortiz, St. Edward's University. "Nacionalidad sin Fronteras: A Non-Divisive Approach to Teaching International Professional Communication.."
	Michael S. Knievel, University of Wyoming. "Finding a Home for Technical Communication Programs: The Importance of Technology in the Humanities.."
	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University. "Technical Communication Curricula.."

PEDAGOGY	DESERT ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature*Demonstrations on Teaching Methodologies for Literature

Chair:	John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Judy H. Elsley, Weber State University
Presenters:	Lovisa Lyman, Brigham Young University Law School. "Poetry and Perplexity: Double Jeopardy.."
	Irwin Ramirez Leopando, City University of New York, Graduate Center. "Permission Granted: Using 'Creative' and 'Personal' Writing to Teach Literature.."
	John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "Common People, Uncommon Thoughts: Keeping a Commonplace Book.."
	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University. "Shakespeare and Visual Knowledge.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	ENCANTO ROOM I
Nordstrom Department Store - For Men

Chair:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University
Presenters:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University. "Casual and Business Wardrobes for Male Academic Professionals.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
The Western*

Chair:	Homer B. Pettey, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Catherine A. Wiley, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Nina G. Bjornsson, Eastern New Mexico University. "Cowboys, Commodities and Capital: Selling the Other in Eastwood's Unforgiven.."
	Corless Smith, San Francisco State University. "Done in by Demographics: Why the Western Rode into the Sunset.."
	Homer B. Pettey, University of Arizona. "Systems of Exchange in Hombre.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	FIESTA ROOM I
Nordstrom Department Store - For Women

Chair:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University
Presenters:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University. "Casual and Business Wardrobes for Female Academic Professionals.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM II
Shakespeare*

Chair:	Karen Gasser, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Sharon Hampel, University of Denver. "Tragical History or Historical Tragedy: Two Contemporary Yiddish Translations of King Lear.."
	Gwendolyn A. Ashbaugh, Independent Scholar. "King Lear:The Clearest Gods.."
	Joan M. Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'Infinite Variety': How Approaches to Shakespeare's Cleopatra Reflect Critical Trends.."
	Stephen J. Lavezza, University of Colorado, Denver. "Two Kingdoms for the Stage: Shakespeare's Henry V in Production at the Rebuild Globe Theater.."

LINGUISTICS	GRANADA ROOM I
Linguistics - Asian Languages

Chair:	Gary P. Tipton, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Etsuko Reiman, Arizona State University. "Changes in Japanese Written Communication since 1900.."
	Mi-Lim Ryoo, Arizona State University. "Indexicals of Gender Identity in Computer-Mediated Communication in Korean.."
	Karen Barto, University of Arizona. "Learning Phonetics of Lao Alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet.."
	Gary P. Tipton, Arizona State University. "Another Fold to the BA-construction in Mandarin Chinese.."

GENDER STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Women in/and Literature-I19th Century Single Women

Chair:	Kim Stone, Illinois State University
Alternate Chair:	Alexandra W. Schultheis, George Washington University
Presenters:	Michelle Taylor, Miami University. "Single and Lovin' It: A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life and the Politics of Pleasure.."
	Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University. "'I am not an abolitionist': Delia Webster's Rhetoric of Womanhood.."
	Lillian Ross, Independent Scholar. "'Let the Dykes Break': Re-Thinking Hysteria in The Diary of Alice James.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM I
Luso-Brazilian Language and LiteratureAlternative Identities in XX Century Portuguese Literature

Chair:	Steven K. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presenters:	Rebecca L. Jones, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "O 'Outro' feminino na poesia de Mário de Sá-Carneiro.."
	Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Pessoa's Poetry and the Occult.."
	Carolyn Kendrick, University of California, Los Angeles. "Um desafio ao mito da maternidade no romance Vale Abraão.."
	Steven K. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Sexualidade em Ode Marítima de Álvaro de Campos.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MOHAVE ROOM II
Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages

Chair:	Carvel De Bussy, University of the District of Columbia
Alternate Chair:	Christiane S. Seiler, Emerita Scholar
Presenters:	Mark Lauer, Independent Scholar. "On the Impossibility of Attaining a Perfect Translation.."
	Rita Terras, Connecticut College. "Translation as Interpretation.."
	Christiane S. Seiler, Emerita Scholar. "On the Theme of 'Anxiety' in Wolfgang Koeppen's prose piece 'Angst' - a translation."
	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar. "Translating of Art in Literary Texts.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MOHAVE ROOM III
Literature and Science

Chair:	Christy Rowe, University of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Christy A. Cannariato, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Monstrous Extrapolations: Doomsday Science and Gothic Form.."
	Collin Hughes, Washington State University. "Literature and Sciene: Two Approaches to Teaching Across Discipline Boundaries.."
	Katherine Coles, University of Utah. "Science, Society, and Narrative.."
	John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University. "The Schreber Case: The Aesthetics of Madness.."

10:15AM -11:45AM

PEDAGOGY	BARCELONA ROOM
Computers in Literatures and Languages

Chair:	Francesco Scordato, Berry College
Alternate Chair:	Lucia Llorente, Berry College
Presenters:	Mariana Pomphile, North Georgia College and State University. "Integration of Technology into the Language Learning Environment.."
	Carol Copenhagen, St. Mary's College. "Toward a Pedagogy of Teaching Foreign Language in Computer Classrooms.."
	Francesco Scordato, Berry College and Lucia Llorente, Berry College. "Web-based Guided Reading in Spanish.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 409
Un Panorama Global Sobre la Obra Litteraria de Justo S. Alarcón

Chair:	Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University. "Corrientes temáticas en Los dos compadres: Cuentos breves del barrio de Justo S. Alarcón.."
	Jose G. Chavez, Arizona State University, West. "'El Mercado' en el contexto de la colección de cuentos Chulifeas fronteras de Justo S. Alarcón.."
	Manuel de Jesús Hernández, Arizona State University. "Justo S. Alarcón, Arizona y el Sudoeste: Une novelistica de compromiso social e innovación.."
	Lupe Cardenas, Arizona State University. "La obra critica y creative de Justo S. Alarcón.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	CACTUS ROOM
ACLS / NEH Information SessionAmerican Council of Learned Societies and National Endowment for the Humanities

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Jane Aikin, National Endowment for the Humanities and Suzy Beemer, American Council of Learned Societies. "ACLS and NEH Grant and Fellowship Information.."

FILM STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
Beneath the Down Under: Australian Film and Literature*

Chair:	Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair:	Catherine Lasswell, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Mary J. DeForest, University of Colorado, Denver. "Walkabout is Fair Play?."
	Catherine Lasswell, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Bank: Speaking the Body Corporate."
	Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar. "What's a Man To Do? The Role of Men in a Women's Film."
	Louise Ross, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Aussie Battler: An Australian Myth or Fairytale?."
	Richard Pascal, Australian National University. "Assimilationist Aboriginality: Reconstructing the Australian National Narrative in Kim Scott's True Country."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
French Cultural and Literary Theory*

Chair:	D Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Carol Siegel, Washington State University. "Foucault, Deleuze, and the Rebirth of Feminist Sex Radicalism."
	D Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado. "The Nomadic Potential of the Gypsy."
	Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado. "Foucault and Derrida on the Discursive Value of Commentary."

GENERAL TOPICS	ENCANTO ROOM II
Romanticism

Chair:	David Joplin, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair:	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University
Presenters:	Mark Mossman, Western Illinois University. "Reading Mary Lamb's Madness: History, Romanticism, and Mental Disability."
	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Social Activism and Poetic Transcendence: Charlotte Smith's Balancing Act."
	Cristopher Hollingsworth, Black Hills State University. "Swift and the Origin of Negative Capability: Creative Repression and Keats's Ideal Romantic Subject."
	Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College. "Shelley's Anxiety of Audience and the Calculated Risk of Death."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
Re-Imagining Prairie Space*Landscape and Mindscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction

Chair:	J'nan Morse Sellery, Harvey Mudd College
Alternate Chair:	Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Presenters:	Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Prairie Landscape as a Space of Representation: Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water."
	Suzanne Forster, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "The Anxiety of Space in Saskatchewan: Prairie Poetics in the Work of John Newlove.."
	J'nan Morse Sellery, Harvey Mudd College. "The Unsettledness of Gendered Prairie Space: Daphne Marlatt, Aritha van Herk, and Sharon Riis.."

PEDAGOGY	FIESTA ROOM II
Teaching EnglishBack to Basics: Reading and Writing Fundamentals in the General Composition Classroom

Chair:	Diane Krantz, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters:	Angela Lowe Margetts, Brigham Young University. "Overcoming Learning Disabilities in the Composition Classroom.."
	Alda S. Dyal-Chand, Weber State University. "Bridging the Gap from Developmental Reading and Writing to First-Year English Composition.."
	Susan McKay, Weber State University. "College Reading: The Neglected Skill— Too Little, Too Late, Too Much for Granted.."

GENERAL TOPICS	GRANADA ROOM I
RMMLA Poets Read their Works*

Chair:	Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University
Presenters:	Sally Bishop-Shigley, Weber State University and Katherine Coles, University of Utah and Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University and Matt Babcock, Brigham Young University, Idaho. "Readings by RMMLA member-poets.."

GENDER STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Women in/and Literature-IIContemporary Single Women

Chair:	Kim Stone, Illinois State University
Alternate Chair:	Alexandra W. Schultheis, George Washington University
Presenters:	Tamar E. L. Jeffers, University of Warwick. "Sex and the Single Career Girl.."
	Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado. "Negotiating Cold War Womanhood: Marriage and Career in Valley of the Dolls.."
	Pamela Monaco, Mississippi Valley State University. "Happily Ever After? Women's Choices in American Drama.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM I
Slavic Literature

Chair:	Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Natasha Kolchevska, University of New Mexico. "The Art of Memory: Camp Memoirs and Their Cultural Context."
	Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska, Omaha. "Negotiating Tradition: New Female Voices in Post-Communist Russian Fiction."
	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Women's Voices in the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska."
	Aurelia Roman, Georgetown University. "E.M. Cioran: Music in My Soul."

GERMANIC STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM II
Poetry Reading by German-American Poets*

Chair:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar
Presenters:	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar. "Recent Poems.."
	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "New Poems.."
	Peter Arnds, Kansas State University. "Modern German Prose: German-American Literature.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
English Literature Since 1900

Chair:	Amy D'Antonio, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Daniela Janes, University of Toronto
Presenters:	Kevin Dalton, Arizona State University. "The Political Domestic: Antislavery, Travel Narrative and the Domestic Ideology.."
	Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University. "Dining-Room Tea: Time, Memory, and Modernism."
	Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University. "Awakening the Aubade: Twentieth- Century Feminist Dawn Songs."

12:00PM - 1:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	WEST PATIO
Keynote Speech by Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley, PLUS Luncheon Banquet

Chair:	Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley. "'These Bearers of a Homeland': Contemporary Korean American Writing.."

1:45PM - 3:15PM

FILM STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
British Hitchcock: His Silent and Early Sound Films*

Chair:	Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside
Alternate Chair:	Winona Howe, La Sierra University
Presenters:	Jessica Brent, Columbia University. "Beyond the Gaze: Visual Pleasure in Silent Hitchcock.."
	Winona Howe, La Sierra University. "Jamaica Inn: From Vicarage to Manor Hall.."
	Christopher Hallsted, Independent Scholar. "Clear-Cutting Hitchcock's The Skin Game.."
	Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside. "With This Ring, I Thee Wed: Pugilism and Domesticity in Hitchcock's The Ring.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	BOARDROOM 409
Bibliography and Textual Criticism*

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters:	William Hendrickson, Arizona State University. "Editing a Late-Medieval chanson de geste, Garin de Monglane.."
	Walter H. Keithley, Arizona State University. "Toward a Critical Edition of the Works of John Arbuthnot.."
	Cajsa C. Baldini, Arizona State University. "Co-Writing Shelley's The Cenci: A Forensic Multimedia Editing Project.."

PEDAGOGY	CACTUS ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language*

Chair:	Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College
Presenters:	Agnes L. Dimitriou, University of California, Berkeley. "Using Literature to Promote Writing.."
	Caralinda Lee, St. Mary's College of California. "Practical Approaches for Teaching German.."
	Victoria L. Defferding, George Fox University. "Language and Culture through Art.."

ASIAN STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
The Question of Nation in Chinese Film and Literature-I*

Chair:	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Alison Bailey, University of British Columbia. "Moral Martyrdom and Rhetorical Excess: 'Chineseness' and the Ming-Qing Transition."
	Feng-ying Ming, California State University, Long Beach. "Translating the Nation in the Late Qing New Novel."
	Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Unnational Interventions: Urban Landscape in Recent Chinese Poetry."
	Nick Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Compulsory Orientalism: A brief Discussion of Hou Xiaoxian's (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 'Flowers of Shanghai'."
	Dian Li, University of Arizona and Haun Saussy, Stanford University. "Discussants.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
German Literature Since 1900

Chair:	Christine Anton, Berry College
Alternate Chair:	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College
Presenters:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College. "South Seas Cynicism: Parodies of Primitivism in Robert Müller, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Gottfried Benn.."
	Margaret Heukaeufer, Saint Mary's University. "Peter Kien - A Bohemian Artist.."
	Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "Fremdsprachen in der Ostdeutschen Nachwendeliteratur.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
American Literature After 1900

Chair:	Linda Lizut Helstern, University of Texas, Pan American
Alternate Chair:	Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Carrie Bowen-Mercer, California State University, Sacramento. "Ruptured Unintelligibility in Wharton's The House of Mirth: Lily's Process of Abjection.."
	Linda Lizut Helstern, University of Texas, Pan American. "From Carlisle to 'New York': Marianne Moore and the Modern Indian.."
	Allene M. Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: Still Banned After All These Years.."
	Norman W. Jones, University of California, Los Angeles. "Coming Out through History’s Hidden Love Letters in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!.."

PEDAGOGY	FIESTA ROOM I
Creative Writing

Chair:	Chris Fink, San Jose State University
Alternate Chair:	Allen Woodman, Northern Arizona University
Presenters:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Poetry Inspired by Art: A Studied Approach to Teaching Creative Writing."
	Allen Woodman, Northern Arizona University. "Fiction and Film: Using Screenwriting Technique to Teach Fiction Writing."
	Chris Fink, San Jose State University. "Scenic Writing: Film Into Fiction."

LINGUISTICS	FIESTA ROOM II
General and Applied Linguistics I

Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters:	Dallin D. Oaks, Brigham Young University. "Genre Type and Its Corresponding Structural Ambiguity.."
	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "Metathesis in Isleño Spanish: Evolution or Decay?."
	Cynthia Hallen, Brigham Young University. "Emily Dickinson's Onomastics.."
	LaVona L. Reeves, Eastern Washington University. "Code-Switching and Language Preferences in the World War II Internment Camps: A Case Study.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
Classical Language and Literature: Latin

Chair:	Victor Castellani, University of Denver
Presenters:	Lisa Rengo George, Arizona State University. "Meretrix or Paelex? The Meaning of Labels in Plautus' Asinaria and Cistellaria.."
	Shari Nakata, University of California, Irvine. "Models of Colonization in Vergil’s Aeneid.."
	Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota, Vermilion. "Vergil, Vespasian, and 'Praetextate Speech'.."
	Warren S. Smith, University of New Mexico. "Juvenal's Moral Limitations: Testing His Satiric Persona.."

GENDER STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Late Medieval Women Writers 1500-1700*

Chair:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Christine McWebb, University of Alberta. "The Author as Architect: The Figure of Ecclesia in Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias and Christine de Pisan's Le livre de la cité des dames.."
	Wendy Weise-Smith, University of Arizona. "Social and Material Spaces in Anne Clifford's Knole Diary.."
	Silke R. Falkner, University of Saskatchewan. "Poetic Self-Legitimation via the Other: Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's Sieges-Seule.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	MOHAVE ROOM I
Curriculum Change and Program Survival.Roundtable Discussion.

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University and Dan Bivona, Arizona State University. "Discussants.."
	Louis A. MacKenzie, University of Notre Dame. "Respondent.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	MOHAVE ROOM II
Graduate Student ForumFutures for English Majors.

Chair:	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University
Alternate Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Presenters:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "Life as a New Faculty Member.."
	Maria Cochran, Iowa State University. "On Being a Non-Traditional and International Student.."
	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University. "Pausing between the M.A. and Ph.D.."
	Kelly Petersen, Donovan Data Systems Company. "Leaving Academia for Corporate America.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico Works*Some Theoretical Approaches

Chair:	Logan Greene, University of New Mexico
Presenters:	Melissa Leavitt, Stanford University. "Ambition, Masculinity, and Concepts of the Native: A Comparative Reading of Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent and Willa Cather's The Professor's House.."
	Lydia A. Blanchard, Southwest Texas State University. "Apocalypse in New Mexico: 'The Woman Who Rode Away' and the Book of Revelation.."
	Logan Greene, University of New Mexico. "'My Lady Soul': The Archetype of the Anima in 'The Woman Who Rode Away.'."
	Mark Christian Thompson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "The Death Continent: Blood-Sacrifice, Authoritarian Rule and Cultural Renewal in D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent.."

3:30PM - 5:00PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Chair:	Alycia Smith-Howard, Mount Holyoke College
Alternate Chair:	Jeanie Grant Moore, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Presenters:	Lisa C. Byrd, University of Tennessee. "Playing Queen: Shakespeare's Cleopatra as Actress, Director, Subject, and Monarch.."
	Suzy Beemer, American Council of Learned Societies. "'Margaret' According to 'Shakespeare'.."
	Alycia Smith-Howard, Mount Holyoke College. "'The Heart of My Mystery': Princess Hamlet and Feminist Theory in Performance.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	BOARDROOM 409
CV Help Session

Chair:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Walter G. Tschacher, University of North Dakota
Presenters:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University. "Help Session on CVs and Cover Letters [see abstract for details].."

SPECIAL EVENTS	CACTUS ROOM
Publishing Forum

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	William Germano, Routledge. "Publishing the Academic Book: An Essential Survival Guide.."

ASIAN STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
The Question of Nation in Chinese Film and Literature-II*

Chair:	Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Alternate Chair:	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Tze-Lan D. Sang, University of Oregon. "Flying beyond the Nation: Gender and Ethnicity in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'."
	Shiao-Ling Yu, Oregon State University. "Teahouse: A Study of the Chinese Nation in Transition."
	Dian Li, University of Arizona. "Between Memory and Forgetting: Clara Law's Vision of the Transnational Self in 'Autumn Moon'."
	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University. "The Muted Interstices of Testimony: 'City of Sadness' and the Predicament of Multiculturalism in Taiwan."
	Nick Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY and Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University. "Discussants.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM I
Eros et politique dans la littérature française du vingtième siècle

Chair:	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Alternate Chair:	Marie Christine McCarthy, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Presenters:	Jason Herbeck, Bowling Green State University. "L'amour aux temps de la politique: le discours du malaise dans La peste d'Albert Camus."
	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame. "A la recherche du Soleil de Satan. Résistance et consentement à l'éros chez Proust et Bernanos."
	Pascale Perraudin, St. Louis University. "From object of rape to subject of history: the rewriting of violence in Assia Djebar."
	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University. "Les Fragments d'un discours amoureux ou La carte du Tendre postmoderne de Roland Barthes."

GERMANIC STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM II
German Literature Before 1900-II

Chair:	Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, University of Montana
Alternate Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Presenters:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri. "The Dialectic of Death in Hegel and Hölderlin.."
	Heide Crawford, Ball State University. "Eichendorff's Vampires: Monstrous Women and Horrifying Places in Eichendorff's Vampire Ballads."
	Andrea Gogrof-Voorhees, Western Washington University. "Nietzsche: Hygiene, Style, and Hard Work.."

LINGUISTICS	FIESTA ROOM I
Linguistics-Spanish & Portuguese

Chair:	Lori Spicher, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Alternate Chair:	Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College
Presenters:	Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College. "Reading Communities for Language Learning.."
	Eva Nunez, Portland State University. "Do Bilinguals Have Cognitive Advantages over Monolinguals?."
	Diana Pulido, Washington State University. "The Effects of Topic Familiarity and L2 Proficiency on Lexical Inferencing and Retention.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	FIESTA ROOM II
Overview of RMMLA Services and Publications

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University and Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University and Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University and Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University and Victoria M. Arthur, Washington State University. "RMMLA Services and Publications - Drop-In Orientation Session with RMMLA Executive and Editorial Staff."

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
Caribbean Literature (Non-French)*

Chair:	Sura Rath, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Presenters:	Chandrima Chakraborty, York University. "Caribbean Identity and Subversion: Samuel Selvon's Moses Ascending.."
	Aaron C. Eastley, University of California, San Diego. "The Evolution of 'The Enemy' in Naipaul's Early Fiction.."
	Harleen Singh, University of California, San Diego. "The 'Citizen of the World': Naipaul and the Politics of India/Caribbean/British Identity and Publishing.."
	Avinash Singh, Punjab University, India. "Myths of Emergence: The Landscape of Personal Narrative in Mother Poem|Sun Poem|X/Self.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Chair:	Peter L. Bayers, Fairfield University
Alternate Chair:	Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College
Presenters:	Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College. "After Huck: Mark Twain and the Sequels to Huckleberry Finn.."
	Susan L. Field, New Mexico Tech. "Emerson in the Cathedral: Seeing the Catholic and Multifarious Whole."
	Jeffrey W. Miller, University of Tennessee, Martin. "Looking Backward: "Unconcious Nationalism" and the Culture of Individualism."
	Lynette D. Myles, Arizona State University. "Sojourner Truth's Genealogy of Morals: [Re]defining Literacy.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	MOHAVE ROOM I
Readings by Alberto Rios

Chair:	Dan Bivona, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Alberto Rios, Arizona State University. "Readings.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM II
Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+

Chair:	Linda White, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona. "El papel de la mujer en las obras de Juan Marsé.."
	Janis Breckenridge, University of Chicago. "The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation: Argentine Women Writing Against the State.."
	Linda White, University of Nevada, Reno. "Novelist in Disguise: Mariasun Landa's Grown-up Books for Basque Children.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	MOHAVE ROOM III
Literary Criticism - IIAuthorizing Interpretation

Chair:	Brian Donahue, Gonzaga University
Presenters:	Ya-Chen Chen, Purdue University. "Mainland Chinese Communist Interpretative Practicability of Gender Theories and Feminist Activism."
	Brian Donahue, Gonzaga University. "Zizek and the Seduction of the Absolute."
	Mark Lussier, Arizona State University. "Physical Theory and Literary Criticism: The Case of English Romanticism."
	Saudamini Siegrist, IFordham University. "The Writing of Devotion."

7:00PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BARCELONA ROOM
Friday Evening Film Showing - I

Chair:	Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University. "Not One Less by Chang Yimou (1999) [Chinese with English subtitles]."

SPECIAL EVENTS	DESERT ROOM
Friday Evening Film Showing - II

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	William Hendrickson, Arizona State University. "Notre Dame de Paris by Luc Plamondon & Richard Cocciante (1998) [French with English subtitles]."

8:00PM -10:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CACTUS ROOM
Dramatization of Virginia Woolf's The Waves

Chair:	Marjorie Lightfoot,
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "The Waves.."

9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BARCELONA ROOM
Friday Evening Film Showing - III

Chair:	Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University. "El Hijo de la Novia by Juan José Campanella (2002) [Spanish with English subtitles]."

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 12

7:30AM - 1:30PM

REGISTRATION	WEST FOYER
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Saturday

Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Saturday Registration."

8:30AM -10:00AM

SPECIAL EVENTS	ARIZONA ROOM
Interview Etiquette

Chair:	Maureen Smith, University of Idaho
Presenters:	Maureen Smith, University of Idaho. "Tips for a Successful Interview.."

FILM STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Film (Open Topic)Hollywood's Americas

Chair:	Tim Coleman, Thomas Jefferson High School
Alternate Chair:	Robert C. Sickels, Whitman College
Presenters:	Tim Coleman, Thomas Jefferson High School. "See America First: Will Rogers and the Great Depression.."
	Lisette Gibson Diaz, University of Cincinnati. "White [K]nights: The Raced Masculinity of Film Noir.."
	Douglas A. Cunningham, United States Air Force Academy. "A Theme Park Built for One: The New Urbanism vs. Disney Design in The Truman Show.."
	James J. Kirschke, Villanova University. "The Caine Mutiny: Film, Novel and Historical Reality.."

PEDAGOGY	CACTUS ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture*

Chair:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters:	Sura Rath, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. "Cultures of India."
	Bonnie K. Frederick, Texas Christian University. "Catholicism in Hispanic America: Tradition and Change."
	Francisco Manzo Robledo, Washington State University. "Gender Related Cultural Traditions in Latin America."

ASIAN STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
Gender and Modernity in Asia*

Chair:	Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Anthony H. Chambers, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Anthony H. Chambers, Arizona State University. "Tanizaki Matsuko: Muse and 'Modern' Woman.."
	Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University. "Taming a 'Modern' Girl in Missionary Fiction from Korea.."
	Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado. "The Aesthetics of 'Modanizumu' in the Poetry of Yosano Akiko.."
	Jaspal K. Singh, Northern Michigan University. "Race, Gender and National Identity Formation in Transnational South Asian Women’s Texts: Agnes Sam’s Jesus is Indian and Farida Karodia’s Crossmatch.."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	ENCANTO ROOM
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+

Chair:	Joe Strange, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Joe Strange, Utah Valley State College. "Business Meeting.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
Classical Language and Literature: Greek

Chair:	Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico
Alternate Chair:	Arthur Dolsen, Idaho State University
Presenters:	Aryn Seiler, University of New Mexico. "Ate Made Me Do It: Agamemnon's Construction of Responsibility in Iliad 9.."
	Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Calliope's Menagerie: Animals in the 'Homeric' Epics.."
	Alena Allen, University of New Mexico. "Waiting for the Applause: An Examination of the Speeches in Plato's Phaedrus.."
	Arthur Dolsen, Idaho State University. "The First and the Third Speech of Pericles in Thucydides.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM II
English Eighteenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Charles G. Davis, Boise State University
Alternate Chair:	Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University
Presenters:	John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Nature, Garden, Colony: Pope’s `Windsor Forest' and `Moral Epistle IV (to Burlington).’."
	H. Marcelle Crickenberger, University of South Carolina. "The Sublimity of Anticipation: The Monk and Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry.."
	Wanda J. Creaser, Arizona State University. "'The most mortifying malady’: Jonathan Swift’s Dizzying World and Dublin’s Mentally Ill.."
	Charles G. Davis, Boise State University. "Lessons in Narrative: Emotional Episodes in Maturin’s The Wild Irish Boy and Melmoth the Wanderer.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
John Steinbeck: A Centennial Perspective*

Chair:	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair:	D.G. Kehl, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Kathleen Hicks, Arizona State University. "To 'view the world with butterfly eyes': Consilience and Ecological Vision in The Log from the Sea of Cortez.."
	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Masculine Sexuality and the Objectification of Women: Steinbeck's Perspective.."
	D.G. Kehl, Arizona State University. "'Illegal Chuckles' for 'Humorless Times': Steinbeck's Japes of Wrath.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Analyzing Chicana/o and Latina/o Language Practices in the Southwest*New Challenges, New Questions, New Methodologies

Chair:	Holly Cashman, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Susana V. Rivera-Mills, Northern Arizona University. "Issues and Challenges in the Methodology of Spanish in the U.S.."
	Daniel J. Villa, New Mexico State University. "The Use of Economic Theories for Understanding Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the U.S.."
	Holly Cashman, Arizona State University. "Examining Bilingual Communities of Practice in the Southwest.."
	MaryEllen Garcia, University of Texas, San Antonio. "Moderator/Discussant."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	KIVA ROOM I
Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*

Chair:	Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
Presenters:	Darlene R. Cohn, Purdue University, North Central. "The White Gloves, the Tinted Photographs, and the Exercise Books: Cryptic Messages and the Author/Reader Gap in The Blind Assassin.."
	Patricia Gott, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "Female Affirmation and Betrayal in the Works of Margaret Atwood.."
	Medrie Purdham, McGill University, Montreal. "Margaret Atwood and the Perverse Museum: Accumulation and Object-Anxiety in Cat's Eye. ."
	Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island. "Gender, Costume, and Disguise in Margaret Atwood's Edible Woman, Cat's Eye, and The Blind Assassin.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	KIVA ROOM II
German Literature Before 1900 - III

Chair:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri
Alternate Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Presenters:	Hans Gabriel, The North Carolina School of the Arts. "'Als ob die Wahrheit Münze wäre': The Mint and the Coining of Meaning in Heine and Stifter."
	Shawn Boyd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "When the Sheep Taunts the Wolf: The Metamorphosis of a Fable Motif from Steinhöwel to Luther and Lessing."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	KIVA ROOM III
French Literature Before 1800

Chair:	James Mills, Southern Utah University
Alternate Chair:	Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Presenters:	Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "A New Look at the Pastoral: Fénelon's Take.."
	Elizabeth Chesney Zegura, University of Arizona. "The Servants' Secrets in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron: Muted Voices, Battered Bodies, and Alternative Truths.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	PALOMA ROOM I
Readings by Ofelia Zepeda

Chair:	Barbara A. Lafford, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Ofelia Zepeda,  . "Readings.."

10:15AM -11:45AM

PEDAGOGY	ARIZONA ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film*

Chair:	Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Debra White-Stanley, University of Arizona. "Fast Forward Roulette: Analyzing Random Film Clips with Students."
	Emily Schlect, Washington State University and Marthe Schroeder, Washington State University. "How Literature and Film Differ: An Introductory Lesson in Teaching Film."
	Andrew Tash, Wichita State University. "Pedagogical Aspects of Film in the Freshman Composition Class."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BARCELONA ROOM
Conseil international d'études francophones

Chair:	Jane E. Evans, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair:	Frederick Kluck, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	Frederick Kluck, Independent Scholar. "An Innocent Abroad?: Une Liaison parisienne of Marie-Claire Blais."
	Jane E. Evans, University of Texas, El Paso. "Tactical Silence: an Approach to Malika Mokeddem's First Five Novels.."
	Marie-France McDonald, Independent Scholar. "Art and Self-Identity in Works by Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar.."
	Steven C. Aldridge, Modern Language Association. "The New (Sound) Wave: Histoire(s) du cinéma (pour l'oreille).."

ITALIAN STUDIES	BOARDROOM 409
American Association for Italian Studies+Contemporary Italian Voices*

Chair:	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Alternate Chair:	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University
Presenters:	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University. "Letters of an Italian Nun: Sister Blandina's At the End of the Sante Fe Trail.."
	Vito de Simone, Independent Scholar. "The Poetics of Daniala Gioseffi.."
	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey. "Ai Confini dell'identita: Interviste, racconti, letture e trame di donne italo americane.."
	Mark W. Epstein, Princeton University. "Raffaele Nigro: Romanzo e crisi della storia.."

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION	CACTUS ROOM
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom

Chair:	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University
Presenters:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University. "Teaching Ethics in an Information Design Course.."
	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "The WebCT 'Enhanced' Technical Communication Classroom: Experiment in Misery or Brave New World?."
	Judith C. Van, Arizona State University. "Chaos Theory Praxis: Ecology, Land Use Planning and English 102.."

ASIAN STUDIES	DESERT ROOM
Asian American Literature*

Chair:	Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Victor Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley. "Becoming-schizo, Becoming-poet: Compulsive Production in Filipina-American Poetry."
	Maimuna Islam, Albertson College of Idaho. "A Hybridized Hypenated Citizen, Shahid Ali.."
	Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado. "Between the Colonizer and the Colonized: Franklin Hara in Chang-Rae Lee's A Gesture of Life.."

GENDER STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM
Women's Caucus Seminar+Representations of the Female in Shakespeare's Texts

Chair:	Marsha M. Urban, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	D Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Susan C. Baker, University of Nevada, Reno. "Representations of Shakespearian Representations of the Female.."
	Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The Woman at the Window in Much Ado about Nothing.."
	Nancy Gutierrez, Arizona State University. "Richard III's' Mistress Shore and Princess Elizabeth in Performance.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM I
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*

Chair:	Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch
Alternate Chair:	Tera Maxwell, University of Texas, Austin
Presenters:	Tera Maxwell, University of Texas, Austin. "Mapping Masculinities in Tennyson's Idylls of the King."
	June Chase Hankins, Southwest Texas State University. "Dickinson and Her Reader."
	Alan G. Johnson, Idaho State University. "Rhetorical Modes of Colonial Space in India."
	Esra Mirze, University of Nevada, Reno. "A Christian Woman in the Ottoman Empire: Discourses of Gender and Orientalism in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters from the Levant.."

GENERAL TOPICS	FIESTA ROOM II
Astronomy and Literature*Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Expanding Universe.

Chair:	Richard Poss, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Holly Henry, California State University, San Bernardino. "Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy.."
	Michael Shapiro, TransPacific Hawaii College. "New Wheels for our Disordered Clocks: George Herbert and the Scientific Revolution.."
	Richard Poss, University of Arizona. "Astronomical Imagery and Cosmological Constraints: The Expanding Human Prospect.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM I
English Seventeenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan American
Alternate Chair:	Marsha M. Urban, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Bob Barringer, University of Denver. "Plundering the Grave: Buried Emotion and Hidden Consolation in Milton's "Lycidas"."
	John Bruce, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. "Conformist Nonconformity: Thomas Edwards and His Paradoxical Polemic against Infectious Sectarianism."
	Allan Goren, University of Texas, Pan American. "Marvell's Elegiac Shade: Traces of the Personal in Public Forums."
	Johanna Wagner, Arizona State University. "Sexual Ambiguity in Christian Cosmogony: Paradise Lost and the Sliding Sexual Continuum."

GERMANIC STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Autobiography and Memoirs in Twentieth-Century Germany-I*Surviving Tragedy through the Sustenance of Selfhood

Chair:	Marilya Veteto, Northern Arizona University
Alternate Chair:	Rachel J. Halverson, Washington State Universtiy
Presenters:	Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas. "An Insider's View of War -- An Outsider's View of Self: The Search for Identity in Dieter Wellershoff's Text Der Ernstfall."
	Rachel J. Halverson, Washington State Universtiy. "'So wie es aus dem Gedächnis tritt': Commemorating a Life and a Century in Stefan Heym's Nachruf."
	Toby Thacker, Cardiff University. "Ernst Hermann Meyer -- German, Jew, Communist, or Englishman?: Ideological Pressures on the Self-Representation of a State Hero."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	KIVA ROOM I
Early American LiteratureEarly American Approaches to Nature/Landscape

Chair:	Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver
Alternate Chair:	James J. Kirschke, Villanova University
Presenters:	David R. Williams, George Mason University. "The Spiritual Wilderness: Literal Misreadings of a Typological Trope."
	Cliff Toliver, Missouri Southern State College. "Edward Taylor: Meditations on the 'Life Animall'."
	Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida. "Environmental Ethics: The Views of Four 18th-Century American Religious Thinkers."
	Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "'Unpleasent welcomes': Nature in Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal."

SPECIAL EVENTS	KIVA ROOM II
Readings by Margarita Cota Cardenas

Chair:	Arturo Aldama, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Margarita Cota-Cardenas, Arizona State University. "Antimyths and Counterlegends: A Writer's Reading.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	KIVA ROOM III
Ecocriticism: Literature and the Environment*

Chair:	Robert Rowe, University of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver
Presenters:	Vivian Foss, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "Endangered Oceans.."
	Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University. "Macbeth's 'barren scepter': A Deep Ecological Approach.."
	Charles Waugh, University of Denver. "Ritualistic Bear Slayings in American Fiction: A Rhizomatic Ecocriticism.."
	M. Conrad Rauscher, University of Nevada, Reno. "Blood and Tears in 3 Henry VI: The Ecology of Rule."

12:00PM - 1:30PM

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	ARIZONA ROOM
Société des professeurs français et francophones en AmériqueLangue et culture créole: séminaire de maîtrise à San Francisco State University

Chair:	Elizabeth C Wright,  San Francisco State University
Alternate Chair:	Yvon Le Bras, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Delphine Perret, San Francisco State University. "Créole/antillais/post-colonial: mots et représentations imaginaires."
	Florence M. Balla, San Francisco State University. "Le vaudou et l'église à Saint Domingue aux 17e et 18e siècles."
	Morgan Benz, San Francisco State University. "La prêtresse blanche: le voyage de Maya Deren au sein de la religion vaudou.."
	Katri A . K. Tuori, San Francisco State University. "Nègre, chabin ou mulâtre: les relations raciales en Guadeloupe et en Martinique illustrées dans les romans Chronique des sept misères,L'Exil selon Julia et Ravines du devant-jour.."

GENERAL TOPICS	BARCELONA ROOM
Text and Illustration-II*

Chair:	Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
Presenters:	Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver. "Wallace Stegner’s Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: American Realsim and Idealism on Display."
	Anita Callaway, Australian National University. "Australian Legendary Tales: Colonial Misappropriation, Impersonation, and Imposture in Illustrating Indigenous History and Myth."
	Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College. "Debating the Value of Reginald Marsh's Illustrations in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy."

GENERAL TOPICS	CACTUS ROOM
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film*

Chair:	John P. Gonzales, Whatcom Community College
Presenters:	Diane Krantz, Weber State University. "Christianity and Paganism in The Lord of the Rings.."
	Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "Manifest Messianism, American-Style: Sci-Fi Films for the New Millennia.."
	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University. "Dinophobia.."
	Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University. "Surfing the Interstellar Internet: The Anxiety of Information Overload in Recent Science Fiction.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	DESERT ROOM
RMMLA Editorial Board Meeting

Chair:	Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University. "RMMLA Editorial Board Meeting."

GENDER STUDIES	ENCANTO ROOM
Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speaker+

Chair:	Marsha M. Urban, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	D Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Dianne Wolfthal, Arizona State University. "Guest Speaker: Dianne Wolfthal, Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, "The Woman in the Window: Gender and Spatial Topography in Images of Brothels"."

SPECIAL EVENTS	FIESTA ROOM I
Tenure and Promotion

Chair:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Walter G. Tschacher, University of North Dakota
Presenters:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University and Sura Rath, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. "Preparing Your Professional File for Tenure and Promotion.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	FIESTA ROOM II
Ethnic Literature

Chair:	Keely Susan Kuhlman, Washington State University
Presenters:	Arianne Burford, University of Arizona. "Racialization, Miscegenation, and Nationalism in Maria Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?."
	Holli G. Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University. "From Communist to Jew: The Memoirs of Sara Nomberg-Przytyk.."
	Jamie McDaniel, Case Western Reserve University. "A "Grotesquely Futile Effort to Fly": Innocence, Experience, and Grotesque Identity in The Bluest Eye.."
	Ruth Ulvin, Washington State University. "Billie Holiday and the Indigo Girls: Redefining Women's Spaces and Sexuality.."

LINGUISTICS	GRANADA ROOM I
General and Applied Linguistics - II

Chair:	John I. Liontas, University of Notre Dame
Alternate Chair:	Adrian Wurr, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Presenters:	Meena Singhal, Long Beach Community College. "Web-Based Instruction and Academic Reading Skills of L2 Readers: Exploring the Possibilities and Potentials.."
	Peter A. Lafford, Arizona State University and Barbara A. Lafford, Arizona State University. "The Use of DVD Technology to Teach Conversation and Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Classroom.."
	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University and Lawrence Williams, Pennsylvania State University. "On-line Resources for Learning French: Student Awareness, Accessibility, and Use.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	GRANADA ROOM II
Autobiography and Memoirs in Twentieth-Century Germany-II*Surviving Tragedy through the Sustenance of Selfhood

Chair:	Rachel J. Halverson, Washington State Universtiy
Presenters:	Owen Evans, University of Wales, Bangor. "'Und Ich? Zeugin des Schmerzes': The Self and the Holocaust in the Autobiographies of Ruth Klüger and Grete Weil."
	Craig Nickisch, Idaho State University. "Frauen auf der Flucht: Women's Experiences in the Closing Days of WWII."
	Marilya Veteto, Northern Arizona University. "Poetry as Sustenance in the Inferno: A Teenager in the Holocaust."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	KIVA ROOM I
Peninsular Spanish Literature

Chair:	Mariela Santana-Howard, California State University, Sacramento
Alternate Chair:	Alicia Quiroz-Woodruff, Chicago State University
Presenters:	Jane Dilworth, Saint Mary's College of California. "Operatic Conception: Leopoldo Alas' Su unico hijo."
	Carlos Javier Garcia, Arizona State University. "El caso de Matilde Moret (Luis Goytisolo)."
	Jennifer M. Corry, Berry College. "Miguel Mihura's Milagro en casa de los Lopez: A Play on Perspectives."
	Linda White, University of Nevada, Reno. "Un final para Nora: The Contribution of the Basque Authors to the Literature of Spain."

SPECIAL EVENTS	KIVA ROOM II
ACLS / NEH Drop-In Information Session

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Jane Aikin, National Endowment for the Humanities and Suzy Beemer, American Council of Learned Societies. "ACLS and NEH Grant and Fellowship Information.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	KIVA ROOM III
American HumorA Mark Twain Special

Chair:	Dowling G. Campbell, Northern Arizona University
Alternate Chair:	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Presenters:	John Goshert, Utah Valley State College. "The Trauma of Humor / The Humor of Trauma.."
	Lori Thomas, Northern Arizona University. "Mark Twain -- Saint or Sinner.."
	Ronald Fanning, Mesa Community College. "Mark Twain's Seedy Side.."
	Paul Dalpes, Northern Arizona University. "Mark Twain's Religion.."

2:00PM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	DEPARTURE FROM HOTEL.
Excursion to Taliesin West and Desert Botanical GardensReservation required; space limited.

Chair:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters:	Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Sign up for excursion using convention registration form.."

7:00PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BARCELONA ROOM
Saturday Evening Film Showing - I

Chair:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Les Palmes de M. Schutz by Claude Pinoteau (1998) [French, no subtitles]."

9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BARCELONA ROOM
Saturday Evening Film Showing - II

Chair:	Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University. "Chun Hyang by Kwon Taek Im (2000) [Korean with English subtitles]."