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58th Annual RMMLA Convention, Boulder, CO
September 30 - October 2, 2004
Convention Program
We enjoyed an exciting convention this year in Boulder. The Executive Board
and the
Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved in making this
a fantastic program and to the University of
Colorado at Boulder for their generous support.

Aerial Photo of Boulder (Courtesy of Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau)
Please note:
- Room assignments may change, but every effort is 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).
- Edits to this program must be made or communicated to us by AUGUST 1 -- the program goes to press after
this date.
- 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.
| REGISTRATION | BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM |
| | Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Wednesday |
| REGISTRATION | BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM |
| | Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Thursday |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | RMMLA Executive Board Meeting |
| Chair: | Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University | | | Presenters: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "RMMLA Executive Board Meeting." | |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | CANYON ROOM |
| | English Eighteenth-Century Literature |
| Chair: | Wanda J. Creaser, Arizona State University | | | Alternate Chair: | Dannie Chalk, University of Colorado, Boulder | | | Presenters: | John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Poems, Gardens, Fortifications, and Colonies: Pope as Poet/Gardener.." | | | | Pamela J. Albert, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Satire's Spectacles: Wole Soyinka's Gulliver and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.." | | | | Teri Doerksen, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. "'A nunnery would answer all their views': Representations of State, Religious, and National Identity in Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe.." | |
| GENERAL TOPICS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Literature and Science |
| Chair: | Sarah Perrault, University of Nevada, Reno | | | Alternate Chair: | D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado | | | Presenters: | Paul Bogard, University of Nevada, Reno. "Bringing Together the Sun and the Moon: The Coherence of Science and Religion in Chet Raymo's Skeptics and True Believers.." | | | | D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado. "Scientific Theories of Race and the Romantic Gypsy.." | | | | Christopher B. Wachal, Creighton University. "On Superior Powers: Science, Stylization, and Satire in Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Man.'." | | | | Sarah Perrault, University of Nevada, Reno. "Depictions of Science in Madeline L'Engle's Young Adult Novels.." | |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Native American Literature |
| PEDAGOGY | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Visible Knowledge Project and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning*Using the Personal to Make theTheoretical Visible |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Narrative Theory and the Teaching of Narrative* |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Literature of Prophecy, Prescience, and Apocalypse* |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Romanticism |
| FILM STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Literary Criticism: Critical Orthodoxies, Old and New |
| LINGUISTICS | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Linguistics - English |
| GENERAL TOPICS | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Biography and Life Writing*Celebrity Biography and Autobiography in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| CLASSICAL STUDIES | CANYON ROOM |
| | Classical Language and Literature: Latin |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+ |
| GENERAL TOPICS | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Germany since 1990*Social, Political, Cultural, and Financial Changes in the New German Republic and in Austria |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Ethnic LiteratureImpositions and Uncovered Voices |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | English Literature Since 1900 |
| Chair: | Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch | | | Presenters: | Alan G. Johnson, Idaho State University. "Jungle, Garden, Bungalow: The Aesthetics of British India.." | | | | Kristen Marie Haven, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "The North Begins Inside: Louis MacNeice's Literal, Psychological, and Rhetorical Journey North in Letters from Iceland.." | | | | Marianne Cotugno, Mt. Olive College. "Landscape and Identity in the Works of Wyndham Lewis.." | | | | Melissa Baty, State University of New York, Buffalo. "A Crisis of Belief: British Imperial Space in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.." | |
| GENERAL TOPICS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Historiographic Metafiction and History*The Border between History and Literature |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| PEDAGOGY | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Teaching English |
| GENERAL TOPICS | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Literature of Trauma*Global Perspectives |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | CANYON ROOM |
| | English Seventeenth-Century Literature |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Forces of Change in Technical Professional Communication |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Caribbean Literature (non-French) - I* |
| Chair: | Sura Rath, Central Washington University | | | Presenters: | Trenton Hickman, Brigham Young University. "Loving Che, Loving Cuba: Ana Menendez and the Intimacy of Cuban Diasporic Ideologies.." | | | | Hande Tekdemir, University of Southern California. "Cursing and Curving Language in A Tempest by Aimé Césaire.." | | | | Irene Wirshing, State University of New York, Binghamton. "The House on the Lagoon: Representations of Dominant and Marginal Discourse.." | | | | Christa Baiada, City University of New York. "Julia Alvarez's Garcia Girls: Family, Self, and Conflicted Identities.." | | | | Toni P. Francis, University of South Florida. "Catalysts for Rebirth: The Function of African Retentions in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow.." | |
| GENERAL TOPICS | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Sigma Tau Delta |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Modern Austrian Literature*Current Trends in Austrian Writing |
| PEDAGOGY | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Culture |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Transnational Geographies of Nineteenth-Century American Literature* |
| Chair: | Nancy E. Castro, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | | | Alternate Chair: | Matthew Reiswig, University of Colorado, Boulder | | | Presenters: | Michael Stoneham, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Juan Francisco Manzano in the Best of all Possible Worlds.." | | | | Matthew Reiswig, University of Colorado, Boulder. "William Cullen Bryant, John Rollin Ridge, and the Transnational Geographies of the Displaced Outlaw.." | | | | Stephen J. Mexal, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Trouble with Tourism: Lorenzo de Zavala's Transcultural Politics.." | |
| ASIAN STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Asian Comparative Literature and Film* |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Laberintos Escriturales de la Ciudad* |
| Chair: | Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado | | | Presenters: | Fabian M. Banga, Vista Community College, Berkeley. "Calzadoras de dagas, representacion de arquetipos femeninos en la literature tanguera de principios del siglo.." | | | | Miriam B. Echeverria, Texas State University. "Hologramas, tatuajes, tango: los textos urbanos de escritoras de la ciudad.." | | | | Maria del Mar Lopez-Cabrales, Colorado State University. "Laberintos habaneros en la narrativa cubana de mujeres.." | | | | Asuncion Horno-Delgado, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Retratar, recordar, configurar: urbe en la poesia cubano-americana.." | |
| PEDAGOGY | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Teaching Foreign Languages |
| GENDER STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Popular Women's Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries* |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | CANYON ROOM |
| | Literature from the Pacific Northwest* |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX |
| ITALIAN STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | American Association for Italian Studies+ |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | American HumorHumor in Times of National Stress |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film (Open Topic)* |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Literature* |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Yeats Influence/Influences on Yeats*Studies of Yeats Works, Looking Either Forward or Backward. |
| WRITING PROGRAMS | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Creative Writing |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | PAVILLION |
| | Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception |
| Chair: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University | | | Presenters: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Opening Night Reception.." | |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Thursday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Wushan Yunyu (Wu Mountain Clouds and Rain) |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Thursday Evening Film Showing - I (9:00 pm)Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran) |
| REGISTRATION | BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM |
| | Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Friday |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | Graduate Student Forum |
| WRITING PROGRAMS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Writing Across the Curriculum |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | RMMLA Overview |
| ASIAN STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - I*Nature and Culture in China |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | English Renaissance Literature |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Drama |
| CLASSICAL STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Classical Language and Literature: Greek |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | German Literature Before 1900Medieval German Literature and its Reception |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Spanish American LiteraturePostmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Authorial Interventions: Potential Crime Scenes in French Film and Literature* |
| GENDER STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | African American Women Writers*Investigations into Memory and Identity |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | Publishing Forum - William Germano, Routledge Co. |
| Chair: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University | | | Presenters: | William Germano, Routledge Publishing. "Dissertation to Book.." | |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+ |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | Language, Power, and Literature*Medieval and Early Modern Studies of Sociolinguistics |
| LINGUISTICS | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | American Dialect Society+ |
| WRITING PROGRAMS | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Writing Programs |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus SeminarInaccurate Queerings: Secrets of a Co-opted Sexuality |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Peninsular Spanish Literature |
| GENDER STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Female Gothic* |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | French Literature Before 1800 |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Caribbean Literature (non-French) - II*Re-Imagining Regionality: Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction |
| ASIAN STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - II* |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | American Literature After 1900 - INew Views on Canonical Writers |
| NO GROUP | BON APPETIT! |
| | Lunch Hour - FridayNo sessions held -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | REGISTRATION AREA |
| | Announcement of Raffle Winners |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | MLA Special Session - Problems and Prospects for Scholarly Communication in the Modern LanguagesGuest Speaker David Nicholls, Director of MLA Book Publications |
| GENERAL TOPICS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Literature and Other Arts |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | Owen Barfield |
| Chair: | Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton | | | Alternate Chair: | Jeffrey Hipolito, Everett Community College | | | Presenters: | Frederick J. Dennehy, Wilentz, Goldman and Spitzer. "Barfield and the Mystery of Polarity.." | | | | Thomas Kranidas, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "Apocalyptic Vision in Owen Barfield's 'The Rose on the Ash-Heap.'." | | | | Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Writing Freely: Barfield, Lewis, and Orwell on the Significance of Style.." | |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Peninsular Spanish Literature - II* |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Caribbean Literature (non-French) - III*Colonization, Dislocation, and Borders in Caribbean Literature |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Women in French |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*History and Feminist Perspectives |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Literature and Religion*Contemporary Reinterpretations |
| LINGUISTICS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Linguistics-Second Language Acquisition |
| Chair: | Lori Spicher, University of North Carolina, Wilmington | | | Alternate Chair: | Eva Nunez, Portland State University | | | Presenters: | Andrea Feldman, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Fostering Collaboration and Conversation in the ESL Classroom.." | | | | Samuel Francis, Colorado State University. "Communicative Function as an Indicator of Copula Choice.." | | | | Victoria Popova, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "Don't Memorize - Recognize: Cognates as a Mnemonic Technique in Teaching Foreign Languages.." | | | | Lori Spicher, University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College of California. "Beyond the Spoken Word: Training Students to Assimilate L2 Prosody.." | |
| GENDER STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Something to Bitch About: Queer(ed) Genres* |
| FILM STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Australian Film and Literature: Beneath the Down Under* |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Southern Literature* |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | BOULDER CREEK BOARDROOM |
| | CV Help Session - I (by reservation only) |
| Chair: | David A. Sapp, Fairfield University | | | Alternate Chair: | Walter G. Tschacher, University of North Dakota | | | Presenters: | David A. Sapp, Fairfield University. "Workshop/Special Event: CV Help Session.." | |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | National Endowment for the Humanities - Seminar on Education Programs |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | CENTURY ROOM |
| | French Cultural and Literary Theory* |
| PEDAGOGY | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | Teaching English Composition |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Ecocriticism - I |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature |
| Chair: | Carolyn Kendrick, University of California, Los Angeles | | | Presenters: | Rebecca L. Jones-Kellogg, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Herculano and the Gothic Tradition: Dark Times, Mad Monks and National Identity in 19th Century Portugal.." | | | | Carolyn Kendrick, University of California, Los Angeles. "The Return of the Warrior Woman: A Reading of Marilene Felintos As mulheres de Tijucopapo.." | | | | Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Characterization, Reception and Sources in Gil Vicentes Auto da India.." | | | | Kerrie Wlad, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Rubem Fonsecas Bufo & Spallanzani: Literary Ironies.." | |
| PEDAGOGY | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Practical Approaches to Teaching Language*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Language |
| ASIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Chinese Literature Before 1900* |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Religion and Postmodern/Contemporary Literature and Theory* |
| OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Romania's Contributions to International Literature and Art: The Twentieth Century.* |
| Chair: | Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University | | | Alternate Chair: | Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno | | | Presenters: | Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno. "Sacheverell Sitwell's Journey to Roumania (1937): Aestheticism, Complicity and Painterly Reading on the Edge of Political Change.." | | | | Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Reception of Joan of Arc in Romanian Literature.." | | | | Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University. "Beginning of Modern Sculpture in America: Constantin Brancusi vs. United States of America.." | | | | Edith Gelu, University of Nevada, Reno. "Mihai Eminescu and Romanian Identity: Revision and Reappropriation.." | |
| GENERAL TOPICS | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | RMMLA Poets Read Their Works - I * |
| Chair: | Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | | | Alternate Chair: | Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | | | Presenters: | Rob Carney, Utah Valley State College and Richard Greenfield, University of Denver and James Hall, University of Houston and Diane Thiel, University of New Mexico and Camille Dungy, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. "Poetry reading.." | |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | English Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Early American Literature |
| GENERAL TOPICS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Autobiography: Alternate Forms, Alternate Voices * |
| GENDER STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Women's Voices in Poetry |
| GENDER STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Gender and Race in Literature and Film* |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama |
| Chair: | Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | | | Alternate Chair: | Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University | | | Presenters: | Genevieve Generaux, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "'In a Thousand Parts Divided': The Body and Body Politic in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam.." | | | | Ruben Espinosa, University of Colorado, Boulder. "What the King Said and What the Queen Meant: Incest amid Male Heroics in Hamlet.." | | | | Dominique Hoche, Northern State University. "'Literatured in the Wars': Christine de Pizan's Deeds of Arms as a Source for Henry V.." | | | | Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Much Ado about Early Modern English Chastity.." | |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Eros et politique dans la littérature française moderne |
| LINGUISTICS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Linguistics-Spanish & Portuguese |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | True North: Cultured Spaces in Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Literature* |
| Chair: | J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University | | | Alternate Chair: | Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage | | | Presenters: | Cheryl M. Hansen, Weber State University. "What Language Do Bears Speak?: Language, Politics and Religion in French-Canadian Short Stories.." | | | | J'nan Morse Sellery, Stanford University. "Where are the Women?: Western Canadian Quests for the North.." | | | | Suzanne Forster, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Yet another 'Cold Pastoral': An Indigenous Poetics for the Dispossessed.." | | | | Patricia W. Linton, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Discourses of the North in Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner).." | |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | BANQUET ROOM |
| | Banquet & Keynote Speech by Margaret Ferguson, UC Davis -'Literacies, Social Values,& Ideas of Risk'plus Announcements of Award Winners |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Friday Evening Film Showing - II (9:30 pm)Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | RMMLA Poets Read Their Works - II * |
| Chair: | Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | | | Presenters: | Jocelyn Emerson, Boston University and Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver and Thomas Hawks, University of Utah and Roger Craik, Kent State University and Erika Kluthe, Florida Atlantic University. "Poetry reading.." | |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Friday Evening Film Showing - I (9:30 pm)Etre et avoir (To Be and To Have). |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Board Game PartyCome play Trivial Pursuit, Wit's End, Mystery, Jeopardy and other fun board games! |
| Chair: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University | | | Presenters: | RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Board Game Party.." | |
| REGISTRATION | BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM |
| | Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Saturday |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | Administrative Review of Tenure and Promotion* |
| GENDER STUDIES | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Women's Caucus Seminar - I+Reading/Writing/Representing Motherhood |
| Chair: | Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University | | | Alternate Chair: | Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver | | | Presenters: | Margaret A. Urie, University of Nevada, Reno. "Mary Cassatt: Artist of Modern Women and Motherhood.." | | | | Jid Lee, Middle Tennessee State University. "Warriors and Slaves: Mothers in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brown Stones and Kim Ronyoung's Clay Walls.." | | | | Elsie G. Haley, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Cathy Song: Picturing Motherhood.." | | | | Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado. "But Shes a Mom!: Sex, Motherhood, and the Poetry of Sharon Olds.." | |
| PEDAGOGY | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Literature |
| FILM STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Film (Open Topic) |
| OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | E.M. Cioran: Philosophy, Themes, Genre and Style* |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | James Welch: Legacy of a Storyteller*His Literary Representation of Human Condition/Genre of Contemporary Native American Lit. |
| GENERAL TOPICS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Incorporating Technology into Academic and Professional Presentations* |
| EXHIBITS | SECOND FLOOR FOYER |
| | Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Shakespeare |
| Chair: | Joan Lord Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder | | | Alternate Chair: | Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University | | | Presenters: | Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "Restoring the Monarchy, Recreating the Patriarchy: Shakespeares Henriad.." | | | | Jefferey H. Taylor, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "The Persistence of Boethian Time in Shakespeare's Henriad.." | | | | Karen Gasser, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Tis Deeply Sworn: Virtue and Vow in Hamlet.." | | | | Ellen M. Caldwell, California State University, Fullerton. "I cannot come to Cressid but by [Chaucer]: Shakespeare's Negotiations with the Middle Man of the Middle Ages.." | |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | German Literature Since 1900 |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Early Modern Spanish Writers* |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | National Endowment for the Arts Seminar--Reading at RiskA Survey of Literary Reading in America |
| GENDER STUDIES | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Women's Caucus Seminar - II+Imag(in)ing Motherhood: Popular Culture |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | Afterlives of Modernism: British Poetry, 1950-2000 |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Western and Southwestern Literature |
| ITALIAN STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Italian-American Writers* |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | French Literature After 1800De la Révolution au Nouveau Roman (1789-1960) |
| GENDER STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Women Writing Violence in American Drama* |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | African American Literature* |
| WRITING PROGRAMS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Design and Implementation of a Student Copyright and Fair Use Website* |
| Chair: | Anne Bliss, University of Colorado, Boulder | | | Presenters: | Anne Bliss, University of Colorado, Boulder and Deborah Keyk-Franssen, University of Colorado, Boulder and Sonya Shannon, University of Colorado, Boulder and Brian Scharf, University of Colorado, Boulder and Tyler Wolfklain, University of Colorado, Boulder and Zane Lyon, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Panel discussion on the design and implementation of a student website for copyright and fair use issues.." | |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature* |
| LINGUISTICS | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | General and Applied LinguisticsLexical Considerations |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Ecocriticism - II |
| Chair: | Charles Waugh, Utah State University | | | Presenters: | Almila Ozdek, George Washington University. "A Thousand Acres: Earth and Body as the Object of Capitalist Ownership.." | | | | Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University. "Something Far More Deeply Interfused: Wordsworths Model of Interrelatedness.." | | | | Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver. "Conservation Ideologies of Powell, Stegner, and Gifford.." | | | | Ginger Knowlton, University of Colorado, Boulder. "High Metaphor and Hard Science in Ecocriticism: Confluence of Science and Poetry, Process and Product.." | | | | Amy Gottfried, Hood College. "Uses of the Flood in Dillard, Hurston and Robinson.." | |
| NO GROUP | BON APPETIT! |
| | Lunch Hour - SaturdayNo sessions held (except Women's Caucus Luncheon) -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm |
| GENDER STUDIES | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speakers+Hollywood Motherhood |
| Chair: | Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver | | | Presenters: | Heather Addison, Western Michigan University and Elaine Roth, Indiana University, South Bend and Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, St. Mary's College. "Guest Speakers:." | |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | CANYON ROOM |
| | National Endowment for the Humanities - Grant Workshop (registration required) |
| GENERAL TOPICS | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
| | Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts* |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Rhetorical Approaches to Literature* |
| CLASSICAL STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths |
| GENDER STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Women in/and Literature |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Poe Topics* |
| Chair: | Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder | | | Alternate Chair: | Kalenda C. Eaton, Barry University | | | Presenters: | Mary J. DeForest, University of Colorado, Denver. "The Evil Eye in Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.." | | | | Steve Wingate, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Lure of Hypnogogia: Poe as Mentor and Model.." | | | | Cliff Toliver, Missouri Southern State University. "Poe's 'The Balloon-Hoax' as Ars Prosaica.." | | | | Catherine Kunce, University of Colorado, Boulder. "A Poe Substitute: The 'Romance' of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman.." | |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Literature for Children and Young Adults |
| Chair: | Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado | | | Presenters: | Mark Winokur, University of Colorado, Boulder and Holly Savage, University of Iowa. "Lewis Carroll and the Invention of Latency.." | | | | Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado. "Teaching about Folklore in Children's Literature.." | | | | Lance Weldy, Texas A&M University, Commerce. "Naturally Bearing Character: Savage Symbolism in The Yearling.." | | | | Carrie Wasinger, Northwestern University. "Bachelor, Spinster, Narrator, Child: Storytelling and Foreclosure of Androgyny in Mid-Victorian Children's Fiction.." | |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions* |
| PEDAGOGY | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Practical Approaches to Teaching Film*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Film |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Western US and Canada* |
| PEDAGOGY | CANYON ROOM |
| | Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges |
| GENDER STUDIES | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Women's Caucus Seminar - III+Meditations on Motherhood |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Comparative Literature (Open Topic) |
| Chair: | E. Joseph Sharkey, University of Washington, Tacoma | | | Alternate Chair: | Dane Barca, University of California, Riverside | | | Presenters: | Patricia Marchesi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light': the 'rebirth' of classical drama in early modern England.." | | | | Leila Zeggagh, University of Cambridge, England. "Baudelaire and Keats.." | | | | David Copland Morris, University of Washington, Tacoma. "The Unsheltering Sky: Nature and Fear in Wordsworth, Milosz and Jeffers." | |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Flannery O'Connor* |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Latin American Film and Literature - I* |
| CLASSICAL STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - I* |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Mary Shelley |
| Chair: | Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University | | | Alternate Chair: | Carolyn Weber, Seattle University | | | Presenters: | Melissa Sites, Independent Scholar. "Passion and the Female Hero in Mary Shelley's Novels.." | | | | Meghan M. Lydon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. " Lodore and Compassionate Democracy.." | | | | Johanna M. Smith, University of Texas, Arlington. "History, Chivalry, and Perkin Warbeck.." | | | | Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "From Plagues to Pigoons: Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake.." | |
| PEDAGOGY | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Feminism in the Classroom, or Where are the Feminists?* |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | Revolution, Violence, and Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature* |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Professional Cover Letters and CVs |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Bibliography and Textual Criticism* |
| GENERAL TOPICS | CANYON ROOM |
| | RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works* |
| PEDAGOGY | CENTURY ROOM |
| | Beyond the Expository Essay*Unlocking Literature Through Writing in New, Interdisciplinary, or Creative Ways |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | FLAGSTAFF ROOM |
| | Queer West: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Representation in the American West* |
| GERMANIC STUDIES | FLATIRON ROOM |
| | Poetry Reading by German-American Poets* |
| Chair: | Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona | | | Alternate Chair: | Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar | | | Presenters: | Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar and Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona and Irmgard Hunt, Colorado State University and Peter Arnds, Kansas State University and Claudia Becker, Loyola University, Chicago. "Readings by German-American Poets.." | |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Latin American Film and Literature - II* |
| CLASSICAL STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - II* |
| PEDAGOGY | HOSPITALITY ROOM 431 |
| | Technology and Distance Education |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | French and Francophone Literatures post 1960*Nouvelles voies/Voix nouvelles |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | SUGARLOAF ROOM |
| | American Literature After 1900 - II*Varied Voices of American Literature |
| PEDAGOGY | SUNSHINE ROOM |
| | Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the ClassroomBodies Teaching, Bodies Learning: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Pedagogy* |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | TRAIL RIDGE ROOM |
| | Old and Middle English |
| ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES | HOSPITALITY ROOM 231 |
| | Renaissance Hebraism* |
| GENERAL TOPICS | HOSPITALITY ROOM 331 |
| | Still Perplexed after All These Years: Eight Centuries after Maimonides* |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Saturday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Le roi danse (The King is Dancing) |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | MILLENIUM ROOM |
| | Saturday Evening Film Showing - I (9:00 pm)Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón ( Buñuel and King Solomon's Table) |
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