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57th Annual RMMLA Convention, Missoula, MT

October 9 - 11, 2003

Preliminary Convention Program

We are looking forward to an exciting program this year in Missoula. The Executive Board and the Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved in making this a fantastic program!

The Clark Fork River running through downtown Missoula 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 the first or last name **OR** choose FIND from the EDIT pull-down menu and type in a portion of the name).
• The print program will go to press on August 15. Changes and edits to this program need to be sent to the RMMLA Secretariat by AUGUST 10, rather than by September 1 as earlier announced.
• 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).
• If you DON'T see your session, please contact us immediately at rmmla@rmmla.wsu.edu.

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 8

3:00PM - 6:00PM

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

Chair:	Leslie Jo Moss, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Registration."

THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 9

7:30AM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	ATRIUM
Book/Media Review Table

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Gena C. Diltz, Washington State University. "Come and choose a book to review.."

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

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Registration."

8:00AM -11:45AM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BOARDROOM
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting

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

8:30AM -10:00AM

ASIAN STUDIES	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
Asian American Literature*Q&A continued: Queer and Asian American

Chair:	Victor Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters:	Victor Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley. "Introduction, Queer and Asian American.."
	Tera Maxwell, University of Texas, Austin. "White Desire in Bulosan’s America is in the Heart.."
	kt shorb, University of Texas, Austin. "Oriental Phallus: Masculinity, Desire and Representations of Asian Bodies in Gay Male Pornography.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	RON JENKINS ROOM
True North: Cartographies of Time and Space in Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Literature*

Chair:	J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University
Presenters:	Suzanne Forster, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Alaska, American Expansionism, and the 'Changed Pastoral': John Haines' Homestead Poems.."
	Susan Kollin, Montana State University. "Extreme Natures: Gender and the Cultures of Ecology in Contemporary Alaska.."
	J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University. "Anna Dawe's Identity Construction in Robert Kroetsch's Historiographic Badlands.."
	Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Ice as Memory: Thomas Wharton's Icefields.."

GENERAL TOPICS	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages

Chair:	Christiane S. Seiler, Emerita Scholar
Alternate Chair:	Ludmilla Prednewa, University of Montana
Presenters:	Claudia Becker, Loyola University, Chicago. "Achieving Textual Equivalency When Translating from German to English: Examples from The Poetry Magazine and Edgar Reitz' Heimat.."
	Edith Borchardt, University of Minnesota, Morris. "Translating Goethe: Der Gott und die Bajadere and Schubert's Musical Rendition.."
	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar. "Transferring Meaning through Semantic Structures.."
	Carvel De Bussy, University of the District of Columbia. "Translation as a Vector of Culture.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Ecocriticism: An American Perspective*

Chair:	Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver
Presenters:	Stacy Johnson, University of Minnesota, Duluth. "Natural Rights: Thoreau's 'Huckleberries' and the Relationship of Nature to Civilization.."
	Charles Waugh, University of Denver. "Jameson's Hunt for Hidden Imperialism and Faulkner's 'The Bear'.."
	Paul D. Knox, University of Nevada, Reno. "A Growing Field: A Critique of Biopoetics.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
English Literature Since 1900

Chair:	Jennifer Santos, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch
Presenters:	Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch. "Beyond The Pale: Women as the Embodiment of Male Ambivalence in Kipling, Orwell, and Forster.."
	Andrea Opitz, University of Washington. "Spatial Ghosts and other Hauntings: Virginia Woolf Writes Women into the City.."
	John Talbot, Brigham Young University. "W.H. Auden and the Classical Alcaic Meter.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM C
Teaching English Composition

Chair:	Jane Detweiler, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Paul D. Knox, University of Nevada, Reno. "Teaching Writing, Reading, and Thinking in the Desert: Teaching 9/11 and the War on Terror.."
	Neil P. Baird, University of Nevada, Reno. "Understanding Vietnam: Re-Visioning Social Conflict through Technology.."
	Colin M. Robertson, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Uncertainty of War: Student Inquiry and Writing Practice in Times of War.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
The Legacy of Cervantes*Novelas Ejemplares

Chair:	Jay L. Adams-Feuer, Indiana University
Alternate Chair:	Eloy Gonzalez, Washington State University
Presenters:	Daniel R. Walker, University of Colorado, Boulder. "El espacio de la honra en La fuerza de la sangre y El celoso extremeño.."
	Carrie L. Ruiz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Ver o no ver: El celoso extremeño'algún misterio tiene escondido'.."
	Nuria Godón, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Peralta, lector amantísimo.."
	Beatriz Domínguez-Hermida, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La fuerza de la sangre o el poder de la palabra.."

10:15AM -11:45AM

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

Chair:	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University
Alternate Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Maria E. Cochran, Iowa State University. "'Whatcha Got Cookin’: Cultural Representations in Culinary Instruction Texts.."
	Michael S. Knievel, University of Wyoming. "Classifying the Pace of Technical Communication’s Influence on the Academic Humanities.."
	Matt Turner, Iowa State University. "Constructing Place: The Rhetoric of 'Space' in Government Documents on the Digital Divide in Rural America.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
Drama

Chair:	Leslie Atkins Durham, Boise State University
Alternate Chair:	Gregory Kable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Karen Charmaine Blansfield,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "How the Irish Invaded America.."
	Robin A. Werner, University of New Orleans. "The Performance of Femininity and Race in Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.."
	Gregory Kable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "'Absence in a Span': The Complete Beckett on Film.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	RON JENKINS ROOM
Literary Criticism: Critical Orthodoxies, Old and New

Chair:	Brian Donahue, Gonzaga University
Presenters:	Jennifer Ashton, University of Illinois, Chicago. "Posthistoricism and Cognitive Theory: The 'New' New Criticism.."
	Ericka Ann Hoagland, Purdue University. "Grand Theory and Master Narrative: Orientalism in Postcolonial Studies.."
	Saudamini Siegrist, Fordham University. "Questioning the Theoretical Project: George Bataille and The Cloud of Unknowing.."
	Brian Donahue, Gonzaga University. "'Orthodox' Marxism and Its Discontents: From Lukacs to Zizek.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
Milton*

Chair:	Rick B. McDonald, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Rob Carney, Utah Valley State College. "Losing the 'Great Argument' of Paradise Lost: Milton's Own Fortunate Failure.."
	Kathryn R. McPherson, Utah Valley State College. "Sainted Maternity in Milton's Short Poetry.."
	Rick B. McDonald, Utah Valley State College. "A Paradise Within Happier Far: Ordering the Chaos in Milton's Paradise Lost.."

GENDER STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Gender and Race in Literature and Film*

Chair:	William Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Presenters:	S.A. Thornton, Arizona State University. "Shamanism in the Japanese Period Film.."
	Gloria Monti, Oberlin College. "Identity Politics: Challenging Biological Insiderism.."
	Manuel de Jesús Hernández, Arizona State University. "Gender and Race in Chicana/U.S. Latina Films: Salt of the Earth, Luminarias, and Real Women have Curves.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
E.M. Cioran: Philosophy and Themes, Genre and Style*

Chair:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Raymonde A. Bulger, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	Raymonde A. Bulger, Independent Scholar. "Le Poids du peu ou l'aphorisme chez E.M. Cioran.."
	Aurelia Roman, Georgetown University. ""E.M. Cioran and the PARADOX."."
	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "E.M. Cioran and Samuel Beckett: A Literary Portrait.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	WALTER HOOK ROOM
German Literature Before 1900 - I

Chair:	Heide Crawford, University of Kansas
Alternate Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Presenters:	Hans Gabriel, The North Carolina School of the Arts. "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner mathematisch-finanziellen Reproduzierbarkeit, or the 'Book-in-itself' in Novalis and Gustav Freytag.."
	Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University. "Retro-Romanticism: Bettina von Arnim's Epistolary Interventions.."
	Bernadette H. Hyner, Washington State University. "Emilia Galotti: A Doomed Maiden Voyage.."
	James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "Hartmann von Aue's and Hans Pfitzner's Der arme Heinrich: The Opera and the Epic.."

12:00PM - 1:30PM

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BOARDROOM
Eros et politique dans la littérature française du vingtième siècle

Chair:	Marie Christine McCarthy, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Alternate Chair:	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame
Presenters:	Marie Christine McCarthy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Jean Genet, l'ultra classique.."
	Virginia H. Bennett, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "L'Atlantide et L'Utopie-l'URSS dans Le testament francais d'Andrei Makine.."
	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame. "Eros et violence dans L'Amant de Duras et Onitsha de Le Clézio.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	DANA BROUSSARD ROOM
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Chair:	Deborah N. Losse, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Romancing the Stone in The Winter's Tale.."
	Kristen Eileen Salisbury, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Shakespeare and the Figure of the Witch: A Discourse of Intercourse.."

WRITING PROGRAMS	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
Creative Writing

Chair:	Bryan Tomasovich, Antioch University, Seattle
Presenters:	Chris Fink, San Jose State University. "Photography and Fiction: A Subjective Approach.."
	Christopher Grimes, Virginia State University. "Writing Reality."
	Bryan Tomasovich, Antioch University, Seattle. "Ecoliterary Perception/Production: Making Visible the Campus.."

GENERAL TOPICS	RON JENKINS ROOM
Sigma Tau Delta

Chair:	Laura J. Bloxham, Whitworth College
Alternate Chair:	Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters:	Melissa Baty, Washington State University. "Scenes of the Sea: the Influence of Travelogues of Italy on Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway.."
	Rose Sliger, Whitworth College. "'You Know How Much He Wanted Money': Jane Austen's Persuasion and the Role of the Masculine.."
	Kelsey Rice, Whitworth College. "Maternal Missionaries: British Women and the Colonial 'Other' in the Nineteenth Century.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*History and Feminist Perspectives

Chair:	Darlene R. Cohn, Purdue University, North Central
Alternate Chair:	Cathia Jenainati, University of Warwick
Presenters:	Darlene R. Cohn, Purdue University, North Central. "Historic Consciousness and Margaret Atwood.."
	Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island. "Girls’ Culture in Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye.."
	Lynda Hall, University of Calgary. "`Pandora’s Box’: Paper Shadows in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.."
	Cathia Jenainati, University of Warwick. "Negotiating Institutionalised Appropriations of Memory: The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace's Resistance to Narration.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
American Literature After 1900

Chair:	Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair:	Douglas Wixson, University of Missouri, Rolla
Presenters:	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Signifying on As I Lay Dying: McMurtry's Debt to Faulkner.."
	Jon Gill Bentley, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute. "'A Higher Meanness': Outlaws, Bushwhackers, and Pistoleers in the Novels of James Carlos Blake.."
	Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University. "'Minimalism' and 'Prosaics': Re-reading Frederick Barthelme’s 'Shopgirls'.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM C
Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions*

Chair:	Sonia Barrios Tinoco, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	George Cole, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University. "Objects of Death: Identity in What is Left Behind.."
	Maria Mercedes Ortola-Ramon, Washington State Univerity. "The Importance of the Art of Bullfighting in Spanish Culture and Literature.."
	Jessica Feldmeier, Washington State University. "The Persistence of Cultural Signs of the Past: Flamenco and Contemporary Artistic Expressions.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Update on the State of RMMLA, plus Open Forum for Comments and Concerns of Members on Association/Professional Issues.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	WALTER HOOK ROOM
German Literature Since 1900 - IConfronting the Past: Envisioning the Future

Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Alternate Chair:	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College
Presenters:	Craig Nickisch, Idaho State University. "Fliegeralarm! Writing the Air Raids.."
	Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "'Ziel der Sehnsucht': Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi's Pan-Europa.."
	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "Envisioning a Multi-Cultural Austria.."

1:45PM - 3:15PM

GENDER STUDIES	BOARDROOM
Something to Bitch About: Queer Spirits, Gendered Discourse, and Re-Sensitization*

Chair:	Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State University
Presenters:	Shaun Anne Tangney, Minot State University. "Finding her Real Work: Kate Braverman's 'ecriture_feminine' in Incantations of Frida K.."
	Christopher D. Lozensky, Minot State University. "Bitchcraft: Reassessing the Bitch Witches in The Crucible.."
	Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State University. "Welcoming God the Abuser: Pain & Self-Signification in Dorothea von Montau’s Vernacular Hagiography.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	DANA BROUSSARD ROOM
Visions of the Vanguardia*

Chair:	Margo Persin, Rutgers University
Presenters:	Elena Castro, Louisiana State University. "El descenso a los infiernos de Maruja Mallo y Rafael Alberti.."
	Mary Makris, University of Louisville. "Multi-Media Renditions of Rafael Alberti's La corza.."
	Martha LaFollette Miller, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. "Luis Cernuda's Los placeres prohibidos: The Word and the Flesh.."
	Margo Persin, Rutgers University. "Shall we Dance? Rhythmic Movement in the Poetry of Concha Mendez.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
Biography: Poets & Literary Criticism Reconsidered*

Chair:	Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University
Alternate Chair:	Robin A. Werner, University of New Orleans
Presenters:	Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University. "The Creation of a Biographical Subject: John Keats as Case Study.."
	Deirdre Pettipiece Ray, Cheyney University. "Tell the Truth But Tell it Slant: Stein's Collective Conscience in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. ."
	Sarah Hart, Texas A & M University. "In the Kitchen with Sylvia: The Function of Food in the Writing and Life of Plath.."
	Marit J. MacArthur, University of California, Davis. "From the Inside Out: Poetry, Auto/Biography, and Cultural History.."

GENERAL TOPICS	RON JENKINS ROOM
Romanticism

Chair:	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University
Alternate Chair:	Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College
Presenters:	D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado. "Theorizing the Romantic Gypsy.."
	Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University. "Blake Knows Gnosis: The Treatment of Gnosticism in Blake's Myth.."
	Carolyn Harper, Montgomery College. "Transcendency from William Wordsworth to Charlotte Bronte.."
	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Devouring Gazes: Body Image and Writers' Portraits.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
French Literature Before 1800

Chair:	Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair:	Elizabeth Chesney Zegura, University of Arizona
Presenters:	James Mills, Southern Utah University. "Madame de Staël: Progress, Antiquity and Perfectibility.."
	Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "The Powers of Poetry According to Fénelon.."
	Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University. "The Revolution in New York.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Grant Writing Workshop

Chair:	Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, University of Montana
Presenters:	Otto Koester, University of Montana. "Grant Writing Workshop.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
Feminism in the Classroom, or Where are the Feminists?*

Chair:	Jill A. Bergman, University of Montana
Alternate Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Sara Hayden, University of Montana and Rita Sommers-Flanagan, University of Montana. "Politically Correct Feminism: Dinosaurs Howling in the Night.."
	Heather E. Bruce, University of Montana. "Making Feminism Matter: Peace, Social Activism, and the Pedagogical Sphere.."
	Meredith McCarroll, University of Tennessee. "Bra-burners, Man-haters, Dykes, and Feminazis: Deconstructing (Mis)Conceptions of Feminism in the College Classroom.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM C
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Language

Chair:	Agnes L. Dimitriou, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Chair:	Victoria L. Defferding, George Fox University
Presenters:	Dolores Isern, University of California, Berkeley. "Texto y representación: Aproximaciones hacia la enseñanza del género dramático.."
	Lucia Ghezzi, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "The Use of Songs in Foreign Language Teaching: Samples in Italian.."
	Rakhel Villamil-Acera, University of California, Berkeley. "How Does a Text Read.."
	Viktoria Popova, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "'Don’t memorize – Recognize': Cognates as a Mnemonic Technique in Learning Foreign Languages."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
Flannery O'Connor*

Chair:	Jill Zasadny, University of Kansas
Alternate Chair:	Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Presenters:	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University. "Blindness and Vision: A Comparison of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood with Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's King Lear.."
	Kerry Moore, Independent Scholar. "Out of Sight: Prosthetic Narratives of the Almost Seen in Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Sam Shepard's Buried Child.."
	Ann M. Wellington, University of Dubuque. "Post Modern Flannery O'Connor and Isabel Allende: The Short Stories.."
	Benjamin D. Carson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Flannery O'Connor, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the Theologico-Political Implication of 9/11.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	WALTER HOOK ROOM
Shakespeare/Critical Theory/Undergraduates*

Chair:	Casey Charles, University of Montana
Presenters:	Chris Mathers, University of Montana. "Lavinia as Woman and Rome: The Politics of Rape in Titus Andronicus.."
	Kia Liszak, University of Montana. "The Devouring Womb.."
	Bridget Whearty, University of Montana. "'I would fain have said, a maid': Chastity, Virginity, and the Displaced Nun in Measure for Measure.."

3:30PM - 5:00PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	BOARDROOM
English Eighteenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University
Alternate Chair:	Wanda J. Creaser, Arizona State University
Presenters:	John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Behn’s Oroonoko as Anatomy.."
	Roger Schmidt, Idaho State University. "Reading The Rambler.."
	Dannie Chalk, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Sinthomic Windows: The Subversion of the Patriarchy and the Symbolic Order in Austen and Mozart.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	DANA BROUSSARD ROOM
African American Literature*

Chair:	Margaret A. Urie, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Poeting Identity: Filling the Spaces in Etheridge Knight.."
	Margaret A. Urie, University of Nevada, Reno. "Black Modernism and the Visual Artists of the Harlem Renaissance.."
	Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "Langston Hughes' Blues in Fine Clothes to the Jew.."
	Verena Theile, Washington State University. "The Wilderness Within: Toni Morrison's Trilogy as an Exporation of the Wild in Women.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
Literature and Other Arts

Chair:	Craig Bergeson, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Michael H. Berglund, University of Tulsa
Presenters:	Cynthia Cavanaugh, Kean University. "Nature and Architecture in the Poetry of Wilbur, Frost, Shelley, and Keats.."
	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Poetry as Film: The Vision of Maya Deren.."
	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "From Algeria to South America: Does The Plague as Film Reflect Camus's Cultural Context and Theme?."

GENDER STUDIES	RON JENKINS ROOM
Women's Voices in Prose

Chair:	Gena C. Diltz, Washington State University
Presenters:	Melanie Austin, Washington State University. "Redefining Terror: Victor Frankenstein's Axis of Evil.."
	Gary Crawford, Washington State University. "Setting the Price: Female Leadership, Sexual Negotiation, and Constructions of Masculinity in the Tain.."
	Melissa Hussain, Washington State University. "The Political Economy of Anger: A Hermeneutic for Third World Women's Texts.."

ITALIAN STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
American Association for Italian Studies+

Chair:	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Alternate Chair:	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University
Presenters:	Mark W. Epstein, Princeton University. "Justifying Literature.."
	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University. "Re-living World War II in Recent Italian Fiction.."
	William C. Huff, University of Oregon. "Dalla memoria alla ricordanza: Vico e Leopardi.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
French Cultural and Literary Theory*

Chair:	D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley State College. "Revisiting Radical French Criticism: The Affirmative Politics of Foucault and Deleuze.."
	Carol Siegel, Washington State University-Vancouver. "Styling a Politics of New Pleasures: Deleuzian Goth.."
	Joel Daehnke, University of Northern Colorado. "Bonanza Kings and Lords of Labor: Discipline and Punish on the Comstock.."

GENERAL TOPICS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
Travel Literature*

Chair:	Ruth M. Prakasam, Atlantic Union College
Presenters:	Aeron Haynie, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. "'The Gendering of Sex Tourism'.."
	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "'On the Road Again-and Again: Samantha Allen on Race, 'Wimmen's Rites,' and Strong Drink'.."
	Ruth M. Prakasam, Atlantic Union College. "The 'Picturesque': Landscapes and 'Natives' in Nineteenth Century India.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM C
Teaching English

Chair:	Senay Boran, DeVry Institute of Technology
Alternate Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters:	John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "Idle Thoughts."
	Senay Boran, DeVry Institute of Technology. "Using Online Course Platforms to Teach Writing."
	Alda S. Dyal-Chand, Weber State University. "Peyton Place Revisited: Do You Care? The Reality of Students' Lives -- Does It Matter in the Classroom?."

GERMANIC STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
Poetry Reading by German-American Poets*

Chair:	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar
Presenters:	Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar. "Poetry reading by Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona), Irmgard E. Hunt (Colorado State University) and Christiane Seiler (Emerita, Indiana U-Purdue U).."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	WALTER HOOK ROOM
Queer West: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Representation in the American West.*

Chair:	Casey Charles, University of Montana
Presenters:	Bruce Bigley, University of Montana. "Oedipus in Idaho: Identity and Self-Discovery in Tom Spanbauer's The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.."
	Karl Olson, PRIDE Montana. "Subterranean Passageways: Homoerotic Butte in Myron Brinig's Novels.."
	Brady Harrison, University of Montana. "Queering The Big Sky, or, Guthrie's Obsession with Cannibalism and the Clap.."

5:15PM - 6:45PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BOARDROOM
RMMLA Overview

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Overview of RMMLA Publications, Member Services, Grants & Awards, and Conventions.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	DANA BROUSSARD ROOM
Imagining the Future: Confrontation, Dialogue, and/or Reconciliation in Multicultural Literature

Chair:	Hiltrud M. Arens, University of Montana
Alternate Chair:	Roxane Riegler, Washington College
Presenters:	Heike Henderson, Boise State University. "Beyond Currywurst and Döner: The Role of Food in German Multicultural Literature.."
	Tim Gruenewald, University of Washington. "At Home in Germany - A New Trend in Recent Turkish-German Cinema.."
	Roxane Riegler, Washington College. "Visiting the Past and the Present, Imagining the Future: Romanies in Austrian Contemporary Literature.."
	Hiltrud M. Arens, University of Montana. "Revealing Family Secrets: A Strategy for Rewriting the Past for the Present in Schami's and Senocak's Fiction.."

GENDER STUDIES	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
African American Women Writers*Investigations into Memory and Identity

Chair:	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy
Alternate Chair:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Jessika L. Thomas, West Virginia University. "Madness, Gender, and Race in Toni Morrison's Jazz.."
	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy. "A Binary Un-Bridged: Blackness and Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow.."
	Zachary A. Blurton, Washington State University. "Who Would Be King: Identity and the Legacy of Memory in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	RON JENKINS ROOM
Narrative Theory and the Teaching of Narrative*

Chair:	Michael Wutz, Weber State University
Presenters:	Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Writing from the Gaps. William Gaddis' Agape, Agape and Twentieth-Century Media Culture."
	Scott A. Loughton, Weber State University. "Teaching Historical Narrative: A Journey of Discovery.."
	Vicki Ramirez, Weber State University. "Joe Leaphorn and Aristotle Little Hawk: Alexie's Use of Detective Narrative in Indian Killer.."
	Russell Burrows, Weber State University. "Bravery Then, Bravery Now: The Heroic Dynamic in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
English Renaissance Literature

Chair:	Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University
Alternate Chair:	Darin Merrill, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "'Mixt and joyned both in One': Hermaphroditus in Golding's Ovid.."
	John M. Hill, U.S. Naval Academy. "Friendship and Revenge: The Horatio Story.."
	John Cobb, Wofford College. "Henry V and Historical Imagination: A Case for the Chorus.."

FILM STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Film (Open Topic)American Movie Myths & Archetypes

Chair:	Robert C. Sickels, Whitman College
Alternate Chair:	Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley State College. "Femmes Fatales and Hommes Fatales: Rethinking Gender in Film Noir.."
	Marc Oxoby, University of Nevada, Reno. "Ulysses at the Crossroads: Classical and American Mythos in O Brother, Where Art Thou?."
	Timothy S. Coleman, Palos Verdes Peninsula H.S.. "From Mamby to Macho: Ruggles of Red Gap and the Myth of the West.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	WALTER HOOK ROOM
SymPo[e]sium - I*Topics on Edgar Allan Poe and Culture

Chair:	Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair:	Norman George, AproPoe Productions
Presenters:	Norman George, AproPoe Productions. "The Rationale of Voice.."
	Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., University of Virginia. "Architectural Allusions in Poe.."
	Matthew M. Wylie, Stephen F. Austin State University. "From Eternity and Beyond (and Back!): A (Re)Reading of Poe's Metempsychosis Tales through the Lens of Nietzsche's Eternal Return.."
	Oceana Callum, University of California, Riverside. "American Absence: Abysmal Individuality in Poe.."

6:30PM - 7:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
Opening Night Reception

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Sura Rath, Central Washington University. "Opening Night Reception, with Welcome Remarks by RMMLA President, Sura Rath and UM Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Jerry Fetz.."

7:30PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Thursday Evening Film Showing - 7:30 PMThe Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro)

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "El Crimen del padre Amaro (Mexico/Spain/Argentina/France: Director Carlos Carrera, 2002).."

9:30PM -11:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Thursday Evening Film Showing - 9:30 PMA One and a Two (Yi Yi)

Chair:	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University. "A One and a Two (Yi Yi) (China; Director Edward Yang, 2001).."

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 10

7:30AM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	ATRIUM
Book/Media Review Table

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Gena C. Diltz, Washington State University. "Come and choose a book to review.."

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

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Registration."

8:30AM -10:00AM

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	BOARDROOM
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean

Chair:	Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis University
Alternate Chair:	Philip A. Ojo, University of Oregon
Presenters:	Suzanne Toczyski, Sonoma State University and Christine Renaudin, Sonoma State University. "Les voies du miroir sorcier: la créolité et son double dans Les chemins de Loco-Miroir.."
	Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis University. "Anti-apocalypticism in Daniel Maximin's L'Ile et une nuit.."
	Maryann Weber, Missouri Southern State University. "Cinematographic Techniques and Narrative Structure in Kitia Toure's Destins parallèles.."

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

Chair:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair:	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Presenters:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "Online Office Hours: Maximizing Faculty-Student Contact in Technical and Professional Writing.."
	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University. "Co-Teaching with John Dewey in the Technical Writing Classroom.."
	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University. "The Art of Indexing.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	MONTE DOLACK ROOM
German Literature Since 1900 - IIContemporary Issues in Recent German Writing

Chair:	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College
Alternate Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Presenters:	Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas. "Deconstructing Hubby? Images of Masculinity and Gender Relations Presented in Contemporary Women's Fiction.."
	Daniel Reynolds, Grinnell College. "The Author Strikes Back: Bodo Kirchhof's Schundroman and Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers.."
	Andrea Heitmann, Ohio State University. "Unpolitischer Aesthetizismus? Die Reaktionen der sogenannten 'Popliteraten' auf die Terroranschläge am 11. September 2001.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	RON JENKINS ROOM
English Seventeenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Allan Goren, University of Texas, Pan American
Alternate Chair:	Bob Barringer, Independent scholar
Presenters:	Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan American. "Milton's 'Blind mouths!' and The Argonautica.."
	Walter H. Keithley, Arizona State University. "Math as Consumable Text: Print Culture and the Development of the 'Meaning' of Mathematics 1660-1690.."
	Kimberly Johnson, Brigham Young University. "'Literal' and 'Metaphoricall': Linguistic Real Presence in John Donne's Devotional Writings.."
	Daniel G. Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Purple Island as Apocalyptic Space.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	RUDY AUTIO ROOM
Old and Middle English

Chair:	William F. Woods, Wichita State University
Alternate Chair:	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Presenters:	Marianne Malo Chenard, University of Notre Dame. "Virum gerere (im)perfectum: Reading Eugenia's 'Manhood' in B.H.L. 2666m and Aelfric's Lives of Saints.."
	Rebecca Miller, University of Kansas. "'He nolde his wordes for no man forbere': A Churl's Diction Redivivus.."
	William F. Woods, Wichita State University. "Alysoun's Place: The Wife of Bath as Interior Exile.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM A
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Film

Chair:	Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri. "A Topical Approach to German Film: Literary Adaptations and Images of America.."
	George Caldwell, Washington State University. "Perceptual Psychology Applied to Film Analysis.."
	Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University. "Film and Philosophical Thought Experiments.."
	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University. "Knitting New Identities: Teaching Changes in Postfrancoist Spain through Cinema.."

PEDAGOGY	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM B
Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom

Chair:	Jill A. Bergman, University of Montana
Alternate Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Laura Gronewold, University of Montana. "Fugitives in the Classroom: Introducing Feminism Into Freshman Composition.."
	Veronica House, University of Texas, Austin. "Using the 'F' Word: Feminism in the Composition Classroom.."
	Charlotte M. Jones, Carroll College and Debra Bernardi, Carroll College and Kay Satre, Carroll College. "Examining Gender across Disciplines at a Catholic College: Organizing an Interdisciplinary Gender Project.."

LINGUISTICS	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM C
General and Applied LinguisticsLanguages in Contact: External Pressures, Internal Effects

Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Alternate Chair:	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Presenters:	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "[Ñ] Phoneme Contraction in Isleño Spanish.."
	Craig C. Bacino, University of Montana. "Irish as a Second/Foreign Language in Ireland.."
	Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State Unversity. "Hearing Voices: Sociolinguistics and Medieval Texts.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	STAN LYNDE BALLROOM D
Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+

Chair:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Linda White, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona. "Female Tokenism: ¿Pertenecen Colometa de La Palza del Diamante y Aloma de Aloma a este grupo de mujeres?."