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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