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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.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 29

3:00PM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Wednesday

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits.."

THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER 30

7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Thursday

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits.."

8:00AM - 1:00PM

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."

10:30AM -12:00PM

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

Chair:	Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Ron Fischer, Minot State University
Presenters:	John Kucich, Bridgewater State College. "Writing as Radical Pedagogy: Sarah Winnemucca and Zitkala-Sa.."
	Billy J. Stratton, University of Arizona. "Subversive Assimilation: Navajo Resistance in the Poetry of Laura Tohe.."
	Cari M. Carpenter, West Virginia University. "'Is There an Indian in this Text?': Betsy Chamberlain and Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature.."
	Christopher J. Thee, University of Arizona. "Simon J Ortiz's Out There Somewhere: Confinement, Vision and Orientation.."

PEDAGOGY	FLATIRON ROOM
Visible Knowledge Project and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning*Using the Personal to Make theTheoretical Visible

Chair:	Susan Kilgore, Washington State University
Presenters:	Susan Kilgore, Washington State University. "From Anecdote to Theory: Teaching and Learning about the Theoretical Within Personal Narratives.."
	Amy Holzgang, Cerritos College. "Thinking Critically About Creative Life Histories: Multimedia Authoring and Student Engagement."
	Lydia Gerber, Washington State University. "Making the Theoretical Personal: Engaging Students with Asian Culture.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Narrative Theory and the Teaching of Narrative*

Chair:	Russell Burrows, Weber State University
Presenters:	Victoria Ramirez, Weber State University. "Tristram Shandy's Narrator as Clown, Reader as Clown-in-Training.."
	Russell Burrows, Weber State University. "Leif Enger's Peace Like a River: The Christian Faithful as Narrator.."
	Klaus Benesch, Weber State University/Univ. of Bayreuth, Germany. "History on Wheels: A Hegelian Reading of 'Speed' in Contemporary American Literature.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Literature of Prophecy, Prescience, and Apocalypse*

Chair:	Daniel G. Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	David J. Rothman, Independent Scholar. "The Many Apocalypses of Robinson Jeffers.."
	Amy M. Patrick, University of Minnesota. "Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Rhetorical Genres of the Environmental Movement.."
	Mary McCampbell, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. "Consumer in a Coma: Postmodernism, Apocalypse and Transcendence in Douglas Coupland's Fiction."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Romanticism

Chair:	Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College
Alternate Chair:	Marvin D. Lansverk, Montana State University
Presenters:	Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Laborers and the Pastoral: Charlotte Smith's Nature Poetry.."
	Ross Gresham, U.S. Air Force Academy. "Clear-Eyed American Romantic: Edgar Allan Poe.."
	Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College. "The Myth of the Imagination, Byron, and the Poetry of Relief.."
	David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College. "William Wordsworth's Naming of Places and the Endangered Self.."

FILM STUDIES	MILLENIUM ROOM
Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism

Chair:	Roberta Di Carmine, University of Oklahoma
Alternate Chair:	Margaret E. Johnson, Idaho State University
Presenters:	Susmita Mahato, University of Oregon. "28 Endings Later: Narrating Disease in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later.."
	Adam Muller, University of Manitoba. "Theorizing Nostalgia: Postcolonial Longing and European 'Heritage' Cinema.."
	Paul Graham, West Virginia University. "Scapegoating American History X: A Return to the Pain in Bloodshed.."

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

Chair:	Paul D. Knox, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Daniel G. Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch. "Aesthetic vs. Ethical Criticism at the Turns of the Centuries.."
	Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College. "What Was/Is Realism?."
	Quinn R. Gorman, University of Nevada, Reno. "No Things But in Ideas: The Case for an Ironic Ecocriticism.."

LINGUISTICS	SUNSHINE ROOM
Linguistics - English

Chair:	Dallin D. Oaks, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Nanette Wichman, Eastern Washington University. "Terminal Question Intonation: A Meaningful Phenomenon.."
	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "Ostension and Inference in New Orleans English: How Ta Tawk Rite.."
	Zheng-Min Dong, Washington State University. "Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Words in English.."

GENERAL TOPICS	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Biography and Life Writing*Celebrity Biography and Autobiography in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chair:	Robin A. Werner, University of New Orleans
Alternate Chair:	Deirdre Pettipiece Ray, Cheyney University
Presenters:	Ivana Cikes, Brandeis University. "The Image of the American Bard: Walt Whitman and Photography.."
	Hannah Lavery, University of Sheffield, England. "Forging Biographies: The Life and Work of Thomas Chatterton (1753-1770).."
	Jennifer Keys, University of California, Riverside. "Reconstructing Post/Colonial National Identities in Sunity Devi's Autobiography of an Indian Princess.."

1:00PM - 2:30PM

CLASSICAL STUDIES	CANYON ROOM
Classical Language and Literature: Latin

Chair:	Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota, Vermillion
Alternate Chair:	Lorina N. Quartarone, University of Montana
Presenters:	Istvan J. Gombocz, University of South Dakota. "Nusquam ego sospes ero?: Disease and Hypochondria in Janus Pannonius' Elegies.."
	Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota, Vermillion. "Dido and the Tested Woman Motif.."
	Antoinette Brazouski, Northern Illinois University. "Augustan Delia."

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

Chair:	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Alternate Chair:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University
Presenters:	Jennings Mace, Eastern Kentucky University. "Using College Catalogs to Teach Document Design in an Entry-Level Technical Writing Class.."
	Matthew L. McCool, New Mexico State University. "Teaching International Web Development.."
	Michael Thomas Hudgens, South Dakota School of Mines and Techology. "Jacob Bronowski Comes to Tech Comm: Student Research Revisited.."

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

Chair:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa, University of Arizona. "Burguesas y anarquistas en la novelistica de Juan Marse.."
	Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Los senderos del recuerdo: Memoria y exilio en Memoria de la melancolía de María Teresa León.."
	Mercedes Caballer, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Emilia Pardo Bazan en la prensa estadounidense 1875-1900.."
	Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "El relativismo cognoscitivo en poemas de Luisa Furoansky.."

GENERAL TOPICS	FLATIRON ROOM
Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages

Chair:	Ludmila Prednewa, University of Montana
Presenters:	Alla Kourova, University of Montana. "Moral Education as a Function of Translation.."
	Arnab Chakladar, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Elephant in the Living Room: Translation and the Question of Indian Literature.."
	Ludmila Prednewa, University of Montana. "Form and Function of Characterization in Zamiatin's We.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Germany since 1990*Social, Political, Cultural, and Financial Changes in the New German Republic and in Austria

Chair:	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters:	Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "The Re-claiming of Saxony and its Dialect in Post-Wall East Germany.."
	Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University. "Spies in a Foreign Land: Georg Klein's Libidissi.."
	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "German Film and Austrian Film after 1990.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Ethnic LiteratureImpositions and Uncovered Voices

Chair:	Basuli Deb, Michigan State University
Alternate Chair:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Kavita Daiya, George Washington University. "History and the Literary Scene of Subalternity: Violence, Marginality and 1947.."
	Basuli Deb, Michigan State University. "The Third World Female Figure within Human Rights Laws and Politics: Phoolan Devi -- The Bandit Queen of India.."
	Patrick L. Hamilton, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Vision of Persistence in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez.."

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

Chair:	Alan Goff, DeVry Institute of Techology
Presenters:	Alan Goff, DeVry Institute of Techology. "Thou Shalt Make No Covenant with Them Nor Marry Them: The Marriage of Fiction and History.."
	Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado, Denver. "The Shifting Nature of Biography: Abraham Lincoln and the 1858 Senatorial Debates.."
	SunHee Teresa Lee, University of Southern California. "Self-Reflexivity as Tool for Revisionist History: Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose and the History of the American West.."
	Colin C. Irvine, Augsburg College. "Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose: A Meta-Historical, Meta-Literary Work of Historical Fiction.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	SUGARLOAF ROOM
Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Chair:	Susan L. Field, New Mexico Tech
Alternate Chair:	Ryan P. Simmons, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Matthew Cooperman, Colorado State University. "An Economy of Reading: Walden's Green Prescriptions for American Philosophy.."
	Pamela T. Washington, University of Central Oklahoma. "Voicing the Subaltern: Transgressive Vocality in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing.."
	Michael Modarelli, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Emerson and the Anthologies: Do Undergraduate Students Really Get a Good Glimpse?."

PEDAGOGY	SUNSHINE ROOM
Teaching English

Chair:	Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters:	John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "Literature, So What?."
	Peter Kratzke, Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder. "'Dude Looks Like a Founding Father': Benjamin Franklin, Behind the Autobiography.."
	Lynnea Chapman King, Butler County Community College and Andrew Tash, Wichita State University. "From Couch Potatoes to Critical Thinkers: Using Everyday Material in Developing Critical Thinking Skills.."

GENERAL TOPICS	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Literature of Trauma*Global Perspectives

Chair:	LaRae Cunningham, State University of New York, Binghamton
Presenters:	Karen May Clark, University of Alberta. "Witnessing Whiteness: An Alternative Traumatic Reading of Native Residential School Narratives.."
	Eugene Arva, University of Miami, Florida. "Unable to Continue, Unable to Return: Acting out Trauma in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North.."
	Annette H. Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Griselda Gambaro's Empathic Unsettlement: Narrating Argentina in the Aftermath of the Dirty War.."
	Charles Mitchell, Loyola College. "Performing Trauma in Japanese Spoken-Language Theatre.."

2:45PM - 4:15PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	CANYON ROOM
English Seventeenth-Century Literature

Chair:	Bob Barringer, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair:	Daniel G. Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Gloria Schultz Eastman, State University of New York,Buffalo State College. "Margaret Cavendish and the Poetics of Singularity.."
	Carman Curton, Adrian College. "Deconstructing the Doctrine of Virtue in Milton's A Mask.."

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

Chair:	Michael S. Knievel, University of Wyoming
Presenters:	James Melton, New Mexico State University. "Intercultural Competence in US-Japan Professional Communication Context: A Case Study in Progress.."
	Earl McDowell, University of Minnesota. "A Survey of STC Members: Priorities for the Certification of Technical Communicators.."
	Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University. "Spanning the Graduation Gap: Using Bridge Portfolios to Foster Student Success.."
	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University. "Program Assessment in Technical Writing: Blending the Ideal and the Real.."

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

Chair:	Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Laura J. Bloxham, Whitworth College
Presenters:	Cassandra L. Bishop, Middle Tennessee State University. "Oskar's Gift to the Bourgeois-smug in The Tin Drum.."
	Kirk L. Shaw, Brigham Young University. "The Condemnation of the Social Other.."
	Hannah Ellison, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Journeys with My Journal.."
	Carmelita Wright, Fort Lewis College. "Reminiscing.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Modern Austrian Literature*Current Trends in Austrian Writing

Chair:	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College
Presenters:	Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "Doron Rabinovici's Depiction of Jewish Identity in Suche nach M.."
	Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "'Metaphernfreie Politik': Marlene Streeruwitz as Public Intellectual.."
	Christina E. Guenther, Bowling Green State University. "Ruth Beckermann's Cartography of Identity: An Analysis of Homemad(e) and Ein flüchtiger Zug nach dem Orient.."
	Roxane Riegler, Washington College. "'Fremde Blicke - Scharfe Blicke': Trends in Austrian Multicultural Literature.."

PEDAGOGY	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Culture

Chair:	Katherine Moskver, U.S. Air Force Academy
Presenters:	Lynda D. McNeil, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Cross-Cultural Folklore.."
	Joseph J. Muhlberger, U.S. Air Force Academy. "Teaching Culture in View of Our Contemporary Globe.."
	Eileen W. Glisan, U.S. Air Force Academy. "A Constructivist Approach to Teaching Culture: Products, Practices, Perspectives,."

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*

Chair:	Nick Kaldis, State University of New York, Binghamton
Alternate Chair:	Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Presenters:	Luying Chen, Brown University. "Excursions into the Mountain: Yu Dafu’s 'Late-Blooming Cassia'.."
	Yoon Wah Wong, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, ROC. "Back to the Mountain Cave with Wild Flowers: The Myth of Modern Tragedy in Shen Congwen’s Fiction.."
	Nick Kaldis, State University of New York, Binghamton. "Making Up Lost Ground: Discourse and Praxis in the Study of Nature Writing."

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

Chair:	Thomas J. Mathews, Weber State University
Presenters:	Christine Anton, Berry College. "Accommodating Diversity and Difference in the Foreign Language Classroom.."
	Francesco Scordato, Berry College. "Language Lab 2.0: Future of Technology in Foreign Language Learning.."
	David L. Nielson, Weber State University. "Communicative Pedagogy of Spanish for the Professions.."

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

Chair:	Lee Davinroy, University of Texas, Pan American
Presenters:	Katherine T. Meiners, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "Elizabeth Gaskell's Short Fiction: Haunted Houses and Inconvenient Children.."
	Robin A. Werner, University of New Orleans. "Staging the Angel's Home: Geraldine Jewsbury's The Half Sisters and the Creation of the Angelic Actress.."
	Lee Davinroy, University of Texas, Pan American. "'The Peril and the Pluck of Cap': Cartoon, Masquerade, and Gender Transgression in E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand.."

4:30PM - 6:00PM

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	CANYON ROOM
Literature from the Pacific Northwest*

Chair:	Teresa Knudsen, Spokane Community College
Presenters:	Teresa Knudsen, Spokane Community College. "The New York/Northwest Connection: Confessions and Lost Heroes.."
	Jess Walter,  . "Invited Author: Jess Walter."

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

Chair:	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University
Alternate Chair:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University
Presenters:	Henrietta N. Shirk, Montana Tech, The University of Montana and Mary E. Ferriter, Montana Tech of the University of Montana. "Defining a Feminist Historiography in Technical Communication: Research on Botanical Artist and Writer Eliza Griffin Johnston.."
	Kris Kellejian, Washington State University and Patricia Ericsson, Washington State University and Trent Mills, Washington State University. "Technology and Agency Theory in the Preparation of Technical and Professional Communication Teachers.."
	Thomas J. Skeen, Arizona State University. "James Gee's Theory of Discourse and its Potential in the Teaching of Technical Communication.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX

Chair:	Mariela Santana-Howard, California State University, Sacramento
Presenters:	Fabiola V. Von Hollen, Trinity College and University of Connecticut. "Sybilla, Antonio Alvarado y Ouka Lele: Hacia une estética visual de la movida madrileña.."
	Maria-Leonilde Araujo-Grochenig, Georgia Southern University. "Contrapunto de espejismos textuales: dialogo de la escritura, la pintura, el cine y la fotografía en Porque éramos jóvenes de Josefina R. Aldacoa.."
	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University. "Fotos que perturban: La inquietante irrupción del pasado en El rey de bastos de Ignacio Martínez de Pisón.."

ITALIAN STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
American Association for Italian Studies+

Chair:	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Presenters:	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University. "War memories in Umberto Piersanti's L'estate dell'altro millennio.."
	Holly Rowland Johnson, Ramapo College. "Artemisia Gentileschi.."
	Paola Malpezzi Price, Colorado State University. "In Quest of Education: Italian Women Writers of the Early Modern Period.."
	Marco Cerocchi, Rutgers, The State of New Jersey. "Il Decameron: fonte letteraria primaria per il movimento musicale dell'Ars nova italiana."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
American HumorHumor in Times of National Stress

Chair:	John Goshert, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair:	D.G. Kehl, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Trane DeVore, University of California, Berkeley. "Fragmentary Humors: Dislocated Gestures and the Alternative Comics Community.."
	Sean Zwagerman, Simon Fraser University. "Acts of Humor and the Rhetoric of Seriousness.."
	Amanda Tinder Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Bitter Laugh: The Human Condition of the Depression Era in Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film (Open Topic)*

Chair:	Ingrid Ranum, Concordia University
Presenters:	Kyle Wiggins, University of Montana. "'Resleeving' the Body in Cyberpunk: Altered Carbon's Return to the Corporeal.."
	Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University. "Breaking Formulas: Connie Willis’s Hybrid Science Fiction.."
	Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College. "Cultural Anxiety, Selective Remembering, and Willful Amnesia in the Fiction and Filming of Philip K. Dick.."
	John P. Gonzales, Whatcom Community College and Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University. "Breaking Camp: Why We Still Love Star Trek.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	MILLENIUM ROOM
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Literature*

Chair:	Heide Crawford, University of Kansas
Alternate Chair:	Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University
Presenters:	Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University. "Weaponizing the Sublime: Goethe on War.."
	Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown University. "What Did Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Look Like?: Literary Reception and Pictorial Representation.."
	Richard Sperber, Carthage College. "Friedrich Gerstäcker's Tahiti. Roman aus der Südsee and the German Emigrant Reader.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	SUGARLOAF ROOM
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "RMMLA Open Forum and Business Meeting.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	SUNSHINE ROOM
Yeats’ Influence/Influences on Yeats*Studies of Yeats’ Works, Looking Either Forward or Backward.

Chair:	Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University
Presenters:	Paul Scott Stanfield, Nebraska Wesleyan University. "Unlikely Allies: Yeats and Wyndham Lewis.."
	Kerry Doyle, York University. "Troubling Yeats: A Critique of Irish Identity Politics.."
	Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University. "The Very Last Romantic: How Yeats Sealed his Legacy.."
	Cristina Thaut, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "'There's more enterprise in walking naked': Yeats' Struggle with Pound's Modernism.."

WRITING PROGRAMS	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Creative Writing

Chair:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Presenters:	Thomas Hawks, University of Utah. "Good Verse, Bad Verse and Chaos: Free Verse Prosodies.."
	Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Where the Textbook Ends: A Case Study from Poetry 101.."
	Brad L. Roghaar, Weber State University. "Creating a Creative Writing Emphasis within the English Major.."
	Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Arizona. "Written on the Writing: Writing Feminist Tales.."

6:00PM - 7:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	PAVILLION
Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Opening Night Reception.."

9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CENTURY ROOM
Thursday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Wushan Yunyu (Wu Mountain Clouds and Rain)

Chair:	Nick Kaldis, State University of New York, Binghamton
Alternate Chair:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Nick Kaldis, State University of New York, Binghamton. "Wushan Yunyu (Wu Mountain Clouds and Rain). Directed by Zhang Ming, 1996. In Chinese with English subtitles.."

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)

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran). Directed by François Dupeyron, 2003. In French with English subtitles. 95 minutes.."

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 1

7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Friday

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits.."

8:30AM -10:00AM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CANYON ROOM
Graduate Student Forum

Chair:	Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Carolyn J. Kelly, Iowa State University and Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Rebecca Miller, University of Kansas and James Hall, University of Houston and Melissa Bostrom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "A Collective Bargain? Organizing Graduate Students for the Twenty-First Century.."

WRITING PROGRAMS	CENTURY ROOM
Writing Across the Curriculum

Chair:	Neil P. Baird, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters:	Ildiko Olasz, Michigan State University. "College Writing Courses Preparing Self-Aware Writers.."
	Neil P. Baird, University of Nevada, Reno. "Language Acquisition and the Freshman Football Player.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
RMMLA Overview

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Drop-in Session for Information on RMMLA Publications, Awards, Membership, etc.."

ASIAN STUDIES	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - I*Nature and Culture in China

Chair:	Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame
Alternate Chair:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
Presenters:	Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame. "Topographic Imagination of History and Ethnicity: Nature in Li Qiao’s 'Notes of the Taimu Mountains'.."
	Steve Riep, Brigham Young University. "Peach Blossom Spring Polluted: Emerging Environmental Consciousness in the Essays of Yang Mu.."
	Jiwei Xiao, University of the South. "Something Rich and Strange: Nature, Nativism and Woman in Shen Congwen’s Writings.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
English Renaissance Literature

Chair:	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Presenters:	Maren L. Donley, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Consuming Christians: The Mercantile Ideology of the YorkLast Judgment.."
	Leslie A. Taylor, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "'To Show in Perfect Sight': Gendering Epistemology in Books II and III of the Faerie Queene.."
	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "'Can you not hate me?': Helena's Self-Loathing in A Midsummer Night's Dream.."
	Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University. "Go For Wool and Come Back Shorn: Dramatizing Deceit in Michaelmas Term."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Drama

Chair:	Gregory Kable, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Suzanne Hudson, University of Colorado. "Are We Still Waiting for Godot?."
	Sara Warner, Cornell University. "Mythic Proportions: The Medea Project's Theater for Incarcerated Women.."
	Katarzyna Maria Rutkowski, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Performing the Phantasy: Women as Ethical Outlaws in The Tragedie of Mariam.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Classical Language and Literature: Greek

Chair:	Victor Castellani, University of Denver
Presenters:	Elizabeth A. Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Penelope, Who Really Cried.."
	John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University. "Classicism Blues.."
	Linda A. Honey, University of Calgary. "Homeric Quotation: Currying the Favour of a Saint.."

GERMANIC STUDIES	MILLENIUM ROOM
German Literature Before 1900Medieval German Literature and its Reception

Chair:	Heide Crawford, University of Kansas
Alternate Chair:	Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University
Presenters:	James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "The Annolied as Precursor of the translatio imperii: The History of Future Events during the Salian Frank Dynasty.."
	Jolyon T. Hughes, Colorado State University. "The Body Count.."
	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Die romantischen Volksliedersammlungen und ihre spätmittelalterlichen Quellen.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	SUGARLOAF ROOM
Spanish American LiteraturePostmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture

Chair:	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Eloy Gonzalez, Washington State University
Presenters:	Jorge J. Barrueto, Walsh University. "Racial Fear and Postcolonial Anxiety in Latin American Literature.."
	Susan Sotelo, Independent Scholar. "Chicano Detective Fiction: Hot Sauce for the Whodunit.."
	Jimena Ugaz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "El policial de Roberto Bolaños: Los detectives salvajes (1998) y el canon hispanoamericano.."
	Leonardo Palacios, University of Connecticut. "Liminalidad interartística y cuestiones de intercambio con el campo político: las 'acciones de arte' del grupo C.A.D.A. en la transformación del campo cultural chileno.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	SUNSHINE ROOM
Authorial Interventions: Potential Crime Scenes in French Film and Literature*

Chair:	Jason Herbeck, Bowling Green State University
Presenters:	Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Bowling Green State University. "Whose Life is it Anyway? Jean-Luc Godard's Authorial Intervention in Vivre sa vie.."
	Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University. "Playing Games with the Mystery Genre in Robbe-Grillet's La Reprise.."
	Jason Herbeck, Bowling Green State University. "Narrative Convention and Authorial Intervention in Patrick Chamoiseau's L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse.."

GENDER STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
African American Women Writers*Investigations into Memory and Identity

Chair:	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy
Alternate Chair:	Verena Theile, Washington State University
Presenters:	Maria J. Rice, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. "The Violence of Memory: The Oppressive Ancestral Narrative in Gayl Jones' Corregidora.."
	Cherise A. Pollard, West Chester University. "From Ginnie Pryor to Mercer Gray: The Role of Memory in the Strategic Construction of a Free Black Woman's Identity in Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child."
	Geta LeSeur, University of Arizona. "Re/Memory, Re/Telling and Multi/Voicedness in Toni Morrison's Paradise."

10:15AM -11:45AM

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)+

Chair:	Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Tracy Bridgeford, University of Nebraska, Omaha. "A Pedagogy for Communities of Practice.."
	Diana Wegner, Douglas College. "Designing Transitional Learning Spaces for Professional Writing Students: Access and Participation in a Client-Based Project and Work Experience Practicum.."
	Lisa R. Craig, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. "Professional Writing Programs and Advisory Boards: Getting Together, Learning and Working.."
	Julie A. Zorn, Auburn University and Jessica Lueders, Auburn University. "Meeting Resistance in the Classroom: Undergraduate Technical Communication Courses and Cognitive Development.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Language, Power, and Literature*Medieval and Early Modern Studies of Sociolinguistics

Chair:	Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University
Presenters:	Carlee Arnett, University of California, Davis. "Christian Imagery in the Old Saxon Heliand.."
	Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University. "Language and Community in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century England: A Closer Look.."

LINGUISTICS	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
American Dialect Society+

Chair:	Thomas E. Murray, Kansas State University
Alternate Chair:	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Presenters:	Janna Graham, Idaho State University and Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University. "'Go west, and get you another homestead': The Expatriate Personal Dative in Idaho.."
	Thomas E. Murray, Kansas State University. "Positive 'anymore' in the West.."
	Beth Simon, Indiana University, Purdue University. "An American Language and the Nature of Survival.."

WRITING PROGRAMS	FLATIRON ROOM
Writing Programs

Chair:	Rosalyn Zigmond, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Rosalyn Zigmond, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Problem-Based Learning in a Composition Course: How and Why It's a Good Fit.."
	Melissa Root, Naropa University and Michelle Naka Pierce, Naropa University. "Cohesion and Coherence: Make It So.."
	Maureen Barry, Rochester Institute of Technology/ NTID and Sybil R. Ishman, Rochester Institute of Technology/NTID. "Metacognitive/Critical Reading Development through Summary Writing.."
	Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado. "Introducing and Evaluating Course-Embedded Assessment in General Education Composition Programs.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus SeminarInaccurate Queerings: Secrets of a Co-opted Sexuality

Chair:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Lewis H. Whitaker, Georgia State University
Presenters:	Blaire R. Notrica, University of Puget Sound and J. David Macey, Jr., University of Central Oklahoma. "Queer(y)ing the Dead: Six Feet Under and Queer Identity.."
	Ashley T. Shelden, Tufts University. "A Queer Politics of Enjoyment and David Lynch’s Lesbian 'Thing.'."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Peninsular Spanish Literature

Chair:	Mariela Santana-Howard, California State University, Sacramento
Presenters:	Lora L. Looney, University of Portland. "Perez de Ayala's and Ortega y Gasset's First Ideas on Art and Cultural Reform in Spain.."
	Craig Bergeson, Weber State University. "La familia de Pascual Duarte: La descripcion de une victima.."
	Pilar V. Rotella, Chapman University. "Hijas de Celestina: la picaresca femenina.."

GENDER STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Female Gothic*

Chair:	Carolyn Weber, Seattle University
Alternate Chair:	Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Northwestern College
Presenters:	Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Northwestern College. "The Haunting of the Gothic Past in Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Novels.."
	Saundra Liggins, State University of New York, Fredonia. "The Mulatta as Gothic Heroine.."
	James A. Landau, New York University. "Haunted Architectures: Subjectivity, Madness and Mothering in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.."
	Carolyn Weber, Seattle University. "Redemption through Identities: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the Postmodernist Female Gothic.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	MILLENIUM ROOM
French Literature Before 1800

Chair:	Elizabeth Chesney Zegura, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters:	Paula E. Leverage, Purdue University. "Childbirth in the Masculine Discourse of Medieval French Romance and Epic.."
	Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Many Fictions of La Rochefoucauld: Searching for Self, Sitter, and Society in 'Portrait de M. R. D. fait par luy-mesme'.."
	James Mills, Southern Utah University. "André Chénier and Archilochus: The Iambic Connection.."

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES	SUGARLOAF ROOM
Caribbean Literature (non-French) - II*Re-Imagining Regionality: Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction

Chair:	Debbie-Ann C. Navarrete, University of Miami
Presenters:	Sheri Marie Harrison, University of Miami. "We An Dem': Gender and Queer Sexuality in Caribbean Women's Fiction.."
	Kristen H. Mahlis, Independent Scholar. "Language as Border: Edwidge Danticat's Haiti.."
	Belkys Torres, University of Miami. "Displacing the Biblical/English Garden Myth: Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night.."
	Debbie-Ann C. Navarrete, University of Miami. "The Search for Transnational Identity in Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness.."

ASIAN STUDIES	SUNSHINE ROOM
Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - II*

Chair:	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Dian Li, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Modern 'Scene': Symbolic Fields of Nature in the Art and Poetry of Li Jinfa.."
	Paris Chi-chuen Lau, University of Iowa. "Scenes for Nostalgia: Nature and Culture in the Movies of Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.."
	Dian Li, University of Arizona. "Man, Machine and Nature: Crisis and Redemption in Clara Law’s Film The Goddess of 1967.."
	Carsten Storm, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. "Nature and Existence in Films by Chen Kaige.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
American Literature After 1900 - INew Views on Canonical Writers

Chair:	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair:	Jon Gill Bentley, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
Presenters:	Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi. "'Are You a Man or a Monkey?':The Profusion of Popular Culture Satiric Motifs in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind.."
	Margaret Tilton, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Why We Need Hemingway: Whiteness in a Multicultural Age.."
	D.G. Kehl, Arizona State University. "'Inexplicable Longings': 'Sehnsucht' and Its Role in Dreiser's Sister Carrie.."
	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Phoenix Songs from the Ashes of Oppression: Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker.."

12:00PM - 1:00PM

NO GROUP	BON APPETIT!
Lunch Hour - FridayNo sessions held -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Lunch Hour - No sessions held -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	REGISTRATION AREA
Announcement of Raffle Winners

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Announcement of Raffle Winners at Registration Table.."

1:00PM - 2:30PM

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

Chair:	David G. Nicholls, Modern Language Association
Presenters:	David G. Nicholls, Modern Language Association. "Problems and Prospects for Scholarly Communication in the Modern Languages."

GENERAL TOPICS	CENTURY ROOM
Literature and Other Arts

Chair:	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Presenters:	Margaret Heukaeufer, Saint Mary's University. "Peter Kien, Writer and Painter in Terezin.."
	Julie Steward, Samford University. "Reading Poetry and the Ancient Art of Poetic Cultivation.."
	Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Poets as Modern Art Critics: Deciphering the 'Code' of the Abstracted Image.."
	Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University. "Internationalizing (and Inscribing) the Indigenous: West African Dance from Ritual to Ethnopoetic Text.."

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*

Chair:	Mariela Santana-Howard, California State University, Sacramento
Presenters:	Daniel R. Walker, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Yo lo que quiero ahora es salir de aqui: Spatial Distoritions of the Postmodern City in José Angel Manas' Historias de Kronen.."
	Jane Dilworth, Saint Mary's College of California. "The Enigmatic Song of the Sea in Carmen Riera's Casi un cuento decimononica, acompanado a cuatro voces.."
	John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. "The Prestige Disaster in Galician Children's Literature: A Political Reading.."

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
Caribbean Literature (non-French) - III*Colonization, Dislocation, and Borders in Caribbean Literature

Chair:	Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Presenters:	Atreyee Phukan, Rutgers University. "Enracinement: Indo-Trinidadian Writers of the Land.."
	Keilonne A. O'Brien, University of Texas, Austin. "The Colonized Intellectual and the Un-Foreclosure of the Native Informant.."
	Edith M. Vasquez, University of California, Riverside. "The Humane Response to Dislocation in Contemporary Caribbean-American Short Fiction Collections: Characterization and Multiplicity in Junot Diaz and Judith Ortiz Cofer.."
	Leigha Butler, University of Nevada, Reno. "Fifty Years of Resisting the U.S.: The Triumphant or Tragic Fate of the Land in Carpentier's The Lost Steps and Cofer's The Meaning of Consuelo.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Women in French

Chair:	Julie A. Monty, University of Texas, Austin
Presenters:	Patrice J. Proulx, University of Nebraska, Omaha. "Textualizing the Immigrant Community: Francoise Ega's Lettres à une Noire.."
	Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Madame de Staël Speaks to a Young Woman of the Twenty-First Century.."
	Ann Armstrong Scarboro, Mosaic Media. "Maryse Condé and the Rejection of Categories.."
	Julie A. Monty, University of Texas, Austin. "Female Sexploitation in Contemporary French Dystopian Fiction.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*History and Feminist Perspectives

Chair:	Cathia Jenainati, University of Warwick, England
Presenters:	Sharon R. Wilson, University of Northern Colorado. "Blindness and Survival in Atwood's Major Novels.."
	Paulina Palmer, University of Warwick. "Uncanny Doubles in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride and Jeannette Winterson's The Passion.."
	Laura Gronewold, University of Montana. "Becoming Zenia: The Evil Woman in Atwood's The Robber Bride.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Literature and Religion*Contemporary Reinterpretations

Chair:	Wendy R. Miller Roberts, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami. "Justice, the Nation, and the Marginalized in Shulamith Hareven's Desert Trilogy.."
	Nicole Gyulay, Royal Hallway University of London, England. "Re-dreaming the World: Creativity as Spirituality in Ben Okri's Fiction.."
	Anna E. MacBriar, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Voodoo and Male Rap Ethos.."
	Mark Minster, Indiana University. "'Utterly empty / utterly a source': Renunciation and Return in Heaney's Station Island.."

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*

Chair:	Audrey Johnson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Zachary A. Blurton, Washington State University. "(Be)Longing and Identity: Kinky Geometry in Paule Marshall’s Fisher King.."
	Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University. "The Queer Race Woman in the Novellas of Nella Larsen.."
	Audrey Johnson, Washington State University. "'But Mr. Wyndam-Pryce, He’s…': Queerness, Vampirism, and Anxiety in Angel: The Series.."
	Siskanna Naynaha, Washington State University. "Queering La Frontera: Chicana 'Literatura' as Anti-Colonial Discourse and Resistance.."

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

Chair:	Nathan C. Crook, Bowling Green State University
Presenters:	Catherine Lasswell, University of Colorado. "Japanese Story.."
	Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, Universite de La Rochelle, France. "Peter Carey's Postcolonial Quest for (an) Australian Identity.."
	James J. Kirschke, Villanova University. "Breaker Morant: The Film and the Historical Record.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Southern Literature*

Chair:	Andrew B. Leiter, Wake Forest University
Alternate Chair:	Ross Gresham, U.S. Air Force Academy
Presenters:	Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Reconstructing Identities: The Post Civil War South and Southern Women's Humor.."
	Clark Davis, University of Denver. "The Houses of William Goyen: A Biographical Prospect.."
	Ann Daghistany, Texas Tech University. "Spatial Form and the Gothic in Naslund's Four Spirits.."
	Leslie Gautreaux-Edwards, Texas A&M University. "The Southern Fitzgerald: Zelda's Save Me the Waltz.."

2:45PM - 4:15PM

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

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Gary Henrickson, National Endowment for the Humanities. "Seminar on NEH Division of Education Programs with Gary Henrickson, Senior Project Officer (see description under abstracts).."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	CENTURY ROOM
French Cultural and Literary Theory*

Chair:	D. Michael Kramp, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Thomas Henwood, Naropa University. "Giorgio Agamben and the Whatever of Form.."
	Joel Daehnke, University of Northern Colorado. "'There's a Fortune in a Flexible Body': The Care of the Self and the Diva's Body in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark.."
	Karin Anderson, Utah Valley State College. "Missing Persons: Jesus Woman."

PEDAGOGY	EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Teaching English Composition

Chair:	Sabrina Gaskill, Coconino Community College
Presenters:	Sabrina Gaskill, Coconino Community College. "Shaping Instructor Responses to Student Composition.."
	Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Classroom Kairos and the Rhetoric of Pedagogical Desire.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
Ecocriticism - I

Chair:	Charles Waugh, Utah State University
Alternate Chair:	Karen Dodwell, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Corrina McLeod, Grand Valley state University. "Not In My BackYard: Ecocritcism and Nationalism in Kwadwo Kamau's Flickering Shadows.."
	Hans-Georg Erney, Emory University. "Gardens of Resistance in Postcolonial Ecotexts.."
	Kelly Sultzbach, University of Oregon. "Ecology and Empire in A Passage to India.."
	Michelle Satterlee, University of Oregon. "'A Current of Grace': Trauma and Place in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge.."
	Charles Waugh, Utah State University. "'Living means moving on, doesn’t it?': A Comparative Ecocriticism of Vietnamese and American War Literature.."

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 Felinto’s As mulheres de Tijucopapo.."
	Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Characterization, Reception and Sources in Gil Vicente’s Auto da India.."
	Kerrie Wlad, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Rubem Fonseca’s Bufo & Spallanzani: Literary Ironies.."

PEDAGOGY	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Language

Chair:	Steve Haslam, Westminster College
Alternate Chair:	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Elena Kostoglodova, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Using Circular and Board Games in Russian Language Classes.."
	Gloria T. Gilmore, University of Minnesota, Morris. "TBA.."
	Sabine Davis, Washington State University. "Games for Review in Language Classes."

ASIAN STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Chinese Literature Before 1900*

Chair:	Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair:	Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College
Presenters:	Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College. "The Depiction of Nature after Traditional Literature.."
	Donghui He, University of Tennessee. "Nature in the Cosmopolitan Mind.."
	Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "The Banished Image: Natural Imaginations and Political Satire in Modern Chinese Literature.."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Religion and Postmodern/Contemporary Literature and Theory*

Chair:	Wendy R. Miller Roberts, University of Arizona
Presenters:	Matthew Schoesler, University of Toledo. "Spiritual Autobiography in Postmodern Poetry: Charles Wright's 'Apologia Pro Vita Sua'.."
	Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Calvin College. "'The Left-Hand of God Extended': Faith, Hope and Service in Denise Chavez' Face of an Angel.."
	Mira Sakrajda, SUNY, Westchester Community College. "Beyond Postmodern Irony: Christian Concepts in the Fiction of Donald Barthelme.."

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

Chair:	Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University
Alternate Chair:	Carolyn Harper, Montgomery College
Presenters:	Courtney B. Beggs, Texas A&M University. "Being and Having: The Feminine, The Phallus, and Visionary Imagination in Keats and 'The Eve of St. Agnes.'."
	Ingrid Ranum, Concordia University. "'Ideal manhood closed in real man': Tennyson's Arthur and Domestic Masculinity.."
	Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, San Marcos. "Scarred and Sexual: Disfigured Women in Victorian Culture.."
	Susan Schuyler, Stanford University. "Uncrowded Houses: The Silencing of the Melodramatic Crowd in Victorian Private Theatricals.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Early American Literature

Chair:	Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida
Presenters:	Jacqueline M. Lance, Ringling School of Art and Design. "Rodrigo Rangel: A Realistic Episodic Account of DeSoto.."
	Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida. "Molly Cooper: Creating One's Reality.."
	Jeraldine Kraver, University of Northern Colorado. "Nancy Shippen: 'Making Love out of War'.."
	Martin Japtok, Palomar College. "John Marrant: The Text of the Context.."
	Theodore G. Bolak, Oakland University. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick: 'Children', 'Savages', and Puritan Authority in Hope Leslie.."

4:30PM - 6:00PM

GENERAL TOPICS	CENTURY ROOM
Autobiography: Alternate Forms, Alternate Voices *

Chair:	Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University
Presenters:	Catherine Bates, University of Leeds, England. "Autobiography as Decoy in Robert Kroetsch's The Puppeteer.."
	Emily Hipchen, University of Tampa. "Adoption Life-Writing and the Family Photograph: Reading Dismemberment in The Search for Anna Fisher and Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter.."
	Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge. "The 'Double Edge' of Genet's Correspondence: Reading Janet Flanner's 'Letter From Paris' as Expatriate Autobiography.."
	Heather McIntosh, Pennsylvania State University. "Reading Film as Autobiography: Oliver Stone's Platoon.."

GENDER STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
Women's Voices in Poetry

Chair:	Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair:	Sandra I. Dillon, University of Oregon
Presenters:	Arianne Burford, University of Arizona. "The Poetic Politics of Joy Harjo's and Paula Gunn Allen's Depictions of Violence Against American Indian Women.."
	Karin Kohlmeier, City University of New York. "'Working the Words Just So': Poetic Form as Subversion in the Poetry of Julia Alvarez."
	Margarita T. Barceló, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Eating, Breathing and Speaking Fire: The Chicana Feminist Poetics of Gina Valdés.."

GENDER STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Gender and Race in Literature and Film*

Chair:	Gloria Monti, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	Gloria Monti, Independent Scholar. "Going Places: Rethinking Racial Identities.."
	Nan Ma, University of California, Riverside. "The Empty Mirror No More: Mother-Daughter Relationship in Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves.."
	Emily Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Organizing Bodies in Dirty Pretty Things.."

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

Chair:	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame
Presenters:	Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame. "Eros et violence dans L'Amant de Duras et Onitsha de Le Clézio.."
	Valerie Orlando, Illinois Wesleyan University. "Lieux de mémoires et nouvelles voix/voies des écrivains engagés algériens et marocains.."
	Laurette Nassif, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Une lecture politique du Rocher de Tanios de Amin Maalouf.."
	Michel Valentin, University of Montana/Alliance Française. "Arabesque of Incestuous Desire in Nineteenth-Century French and European Art and Literature."

LINGUISTICS	MILLENIUM ROOM
Linguistics-Spanish & Portuguese

Chair:	Eva Nunez, Portland State University
Alternate Chair:	Scott M. Rex, University of South Alabama
Presenters:	Scott M. Rex, University of South Alabama and Derrin Pinto, University of St. Thomas. "The Acquisition of 'por/par' in a Classroom Setting.."
	Thomas J. Mathews, Weber State University. "Problems in the traditional phonetic representation of several phonemes in Spanish.."
	Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglio, Meredith College. "Strategies and Stages of Development Followed by Native Speakers of English While Learning the Spanish Subjuntive.."

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).."

7:00PM - 9:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	BANQUET ROOM
Banquet & Keynote Speech by Margaret Ferguson, UC Davis -'Literacies, Social Values,& Ideas of Risk'plus Announcements of Award Winners

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Keynote Address by Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis. 'Literacies, Social Values, and Ideas of Risk'."

9:30PM -11:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CENTURY ROOM
Friday Evening Film Showing - II (9:30 pm)Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring. Directed by Ki-duk Kim, 2004. In Korean with English subtitles. 103 min.."

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).

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Etre et avoir (To Be and To Have.) Directed by Nicolas Philibert, 2003. In French with English Subtitles. 104 minutes.."

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.."

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 2

7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION	BOULDER CREEK LIVING ROOM
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - Saturday

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits.."

8:30AM -10:00AM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CANYON ROOM
Administrative Review of Tenure and Promotion*

Chair:	Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Alternate Chair:	Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Presenters:	Philip D. Castille, Eastern Washington University and David Soltz, Central Washington University and Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University and Dan R. Jones, Texas A&M University. "Discussion on the Tenure and Promotion Process by a Panel of Higher Education Administrators.."

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 She’s a Mom!: Sex, Motherhood, and the Poetry of Sharon Olds.."

PEDAGOGY	FLATIRON ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Literature

Chair:	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University
Presenters:	Mary Anderson, Washington State University. "A Tale of the Service Learning Project in an African American Literature Course.."
	Bethany Blankenship, University of Texas, Pan American. "Teaching The Tempest through Survivor.."
	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University. "Some Chaucer Gimmicks.."

FILM STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Film (Open Topic)

Chair:	Marc Oxoby, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Robert C. Sickels, Whitman College
Presenters:	Shirley Peterson, Daemen College. "Beating Him at His Own Game: Sexual Politics in Secretary.."
	Diane Krantz, Weber State University. "Dissolution of Meaning and Reality in Matrix III: Revolutions.."

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
E.M. Cioran: Philosophy, Themes, Genre and Style*

Chair:	Raymonde A. Bulger, Independent Scholar
Presenters:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Cioran and Noica: Friends Despite the Iron Curtain.."
	Aurelien Demars, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, France. "Cioran ou le délire de lire.."
	Raymonde A. Bulger, Independent Scholar. "Les inédits de E.M.Cioran.."

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.

Chair:	Ron Fischer, Minot State University
Presenters:	Natalie Quam, Minot State University. "Winter in the Blood: Fragmentation and Family Bonding.."
	Donald Pine, Ch"ooshgai Community School. "Winter in the Blood: Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome in its Personal and Cultural Forms.."
	Matthew Meadows-Rogers, Minot State University. "The Heartsong of Charging Elk: Homophobia and the Exploitation of Native American Sexuality.."
	Ron Fischer, Minot State University. "The Heartsong of Charging Elk: The Medicine of Sex in the Quest for Intimacy.."

GENERAL TOPICS	MILLENIUM ROOM
Incorporating Technology into Academic and Professional Presentations*

Chair:	Francesco Scordato, Berry College
Alternate Chair:	Lamont Antieau, University of Georgia
Presenters:	Francesco Scordato, Berry College and Lamont Antieau, University of Georgia. "The Ins and Outs of Capturing Demo Screens for PowerPoint, Web Screens, and Audio Clips.."

EXHIBITS	SECOND FLOOR FOYER
Book/Media Review Table and Exhibits

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Book and Media Display - Scholar's Choice, Broadview Press, divide: University of Colorado's Journal of Writing and Ideas, plus Book/Media Review Table."

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: Shakespeare’s 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

Chair:	Richard Sperber, Carthage College
Alternate Chair:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri
Presenters:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri. "Rilke, Death, and Modernity.."
	David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona. "Early German Literary Cabaret in Berlin.."
	Maila Zitelli, Minot State University. "From False Promises to 'Reel' Justice: Love and Law in Kurt Maetzig's 1965 DEFA-Film The Rabbit is Me.."
	Katja Fullard, University of St.Thomas. "Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung in New German Fiction.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Early Modern Spanish Writers*

Chair:	Eloy Gonzalez, Washington State University
Alternate Chair:	William R. Cummins, Ashland University
Presenters:	William R. Cummins, Ashland University. "The Allegorical Legacy of La vida es sueño in the Sacramental Plays of Calderón.."
	J. Michael Fulton, Wake Forest University. "Seize Which Day?: Shifting Shades of the Carpe Diem Motif in Three Golden Age Poems.."
	Alicia Giralt, Weber State University. "Catalina Clara de Guzmán: Un atisbo a las relaciones familiares en el siglo XVII gracias a la poesía.."
	Andres I. Prieto, University of Connecticut. "Marvels, Monsters, and 'Orribili Segnali': Natural History as Emblems in Alonso de Ovalle's Histórica.."

10:15AM -11:45AM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CANYON ROOM
National Endowment for the Arts Seminar--Reading at RiskA Survey of Literary Reading in America

Chair:	Mark Bauerlein, National Endowment for the Arts
Presenters:	Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University and Sean Ireton, University of Missouri and Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis and Mark Bauerlein, National Endowment for the Arts. "The Crisis of Literary Reading in the United States with Mark Bauerlein, NEA Director of Research and Analysis (see also http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html)."
	Tom Walker, The Denver Post. "Respondents:."

GENDER STUDIES	CENTURY ROOM
Women's Caucus Seminar - II+Imag(in)ing Motherhood: Popular Culture

Chair:	Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University
Presenters:	Kelly J. Cockburn, Colorado State University/Front Range Community C.. "Window Dressing: Mother and Child in Fashion Advertising.."
	Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University. "Not Exactly According to the Rules: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Sugar and Spice.."
	Melissa Bostrom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Family-Friendly Female Sexuality: Gilmore Girls and Limits on Sexual Expression.."
	Aimee Berger, University of North Texas. "Nothing but Trash: The Poor White Mother in Contemporary Film.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Afterlives of Modernism: British Poetry, 1950-2000

Chair:	Jeremy Green, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Patrick Pritchett, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'It is easier to die than to remember': Mourning, Memory and the Messianic in Bunting’s Briggflatts.."
	Laura Wright, Independent Scholar. "Music and Magic: The Poems of Tom Raworth.."
	Jeremy Green, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Poetry and Recovery: John Wilkinson Reads Lynette Roberts.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
Western and Southwestern Literature

Chair:	Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters:	Wendy R. Miller Roberts, University of Arizona. "Asserting an American Blood History: The Indian-Jew in Willa Cather's The Professor's House.."
	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University. " All the Pretty Horses: The Virginian Retold.."
	Ann Bliss, University of California, Davis. "'All Parts From Mexico, Assembled in the U.S.A.': The Confluence of Family and Cultural Memory in Caramelo.."

ITALIAN STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
Italian-American Writers*

Chair:	Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University
Alternate Chair:	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Presenters:	Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey. "The History of La storia.."
	Jessica L. Maucione, Washington State University. "(Re)Negotiating Italian Americanness: Hyphenated Identity in John Fante's Ask the Dust.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
French Literature After 1800De la Révolution au Nouveau Roman (1789-1960)

Chair:	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Alternate Chair:	Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Beatrice Guenther, College of William and Mary. "Emplotting Women's Education during the Napoleonic Régime: Mme de Genlis' Les Petits Emigrés and De l'influence des femmes sur la littérature française.."
	Gary M. Godfrey, Weber State University. "Multiple Voices and the Psychology of Character in Maupassant's Pierre et Jean.."
	Sudarsan Rangarajan, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Heterotopias in Michel Butor's La Modification and Degrés.."

GENDER STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Women Writing Violence in American Drama*

Chair:	Catherine A. Wiley, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters:	Catherine A. Wiley, University of Colorado, Denver. "Kia Corthron's Poetics of Stage Violence.."
	Lynda Hall, University of Calgary. "'Like tie-dye colors I bleed': Carmelita Tropicana Crossing the Stage.."
	Laura Dawkins, Murray State University. "From Madonna to Medea: Maternal Infanticide in African American Women’s Drama of the Harlem Renaissance.."
	Sara Warner, Cornell University. "Engendering Violence on the Stage: Toward and Ethics of Cruelty in Contemporary American Performance.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
African American Literature*

Chair:	Greg Grewell, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair:	Tara Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presenters:	Teresa Coronado, University of Oregon. "The Cult of Sentiment: Our Nig and Genre Subjugation.."
	Derek Gladwin, Independent Scholar. "(Re)Presenting Blackness in Nature Writing: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Inauguration into Ecocritical Studies.."
	Marie I. Drews, Washington State Universtiy. "The Possibility of History: The Historian's Task in Toni Morrison's Jazz.."
	Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "'The Blues Had a Baby...': Some Appropriations.."

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*

Chair:	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University
Presenters:	Amalia Garzon, Arizona Western College. "La representación de la mujer indígena y mestiza en dos novelas claves del neoindigenismo de la narrativa ecuatoriana.."
	Eydie Fernandez, Washington State University. "El feminismo en La Estatua de Delmira Agustini.."
	Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Circunscripción del sujeto femenino: 'Mise-en-Abîme' en la novela de Julia Álvarez En el tiempo de las mariposas.."
	Eva Nunez, Portland State University. "Mastretta y sus protagonistas, ejemplos de emancipación femenina.."

LINGUISTICS	SUNSHINE ROOM
General and Applied LinguisticsLexical Considerations

Chair:	Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Presenters:	Dallin D. Oaks, Brigham Young University. "The Contribution of Definite and Indefinite Articles to Structural Ambiguities in English.."
	Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Lexical Constraints on Syntactic Processes: Some New Considerations.."
	Mary E. Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. "Pronouns in American Sign Language.."

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: Wordsworth’s 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.."

12:00PM - 1:00PM

NO GROUP	BON APPETIT!
Lunch Hour - SaturdayNo sessions held (except Women's Caucus Luncheon) -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University. "Lunch Hour - No sessions held (except Women's Caucus Luncheon) -- Sessions resume at 1:00 pm.."

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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:."

1:00PM - 2:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	CANYON ROOM
National Endowment for the Humanities - Grant Workshop (registration required)

Chair:	Gary Henrickson, National Endowment for the Humanities
Presenters:	Gary Henrickson, National Endowment for the Humanities. "NEH Grant Workshop with Gary Henrickson, Senior Project Office (registration required - limit of 50 participants)."

GENERAL TOPICS	EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM
Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts*

Chair:	Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Paintings and Interpretations of Madness in Sensation Novels.."
	Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Optical Miniatures in Text and Image: Detail and Totality in Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Sebald's The Emigrants.."
	Laurence Petit, Central Connecticut State University. "The Color of Words and the Eloquence of Color: A.S. Byatt's 'Art Work' as a Verbal 'Still' Life.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	FLAGSTAFF ROOM
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*

Chair:	Esra Mirze, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair:	Lynda Walsh, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Presenters:	Esra Mirze, University of Nevada, Reno. "Rhetoric of Home.."
	Karen Darnell, LaSierra University. "The Diverse Use of Chiasm as a Rhetorical Strategy.."
	Marc Oxoby, University of Nevada, Reno. "Televisual Aesthetic and Viewer Reclamation in David Foster Wallace's 'Little Expressionless Animals'.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	FLATIRON ROOM
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths

Chair:	John C. Hampsey, California Polytechnic State University
Presenters:	Hardy Fredricksmeyer, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Black Orpheus Revisited: A Morphological Interpretation.."
	Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Ending Red or Ending Black? Franz Fühmann's Alkestis (1983).."
	Alena Allen, University of New Mexico. "Lucentio invokes Penelope in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.."

GENDER STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Women in/and Literature

Chair:	Ann M. Ciasullo, University of Oregon
Alternate Chair:	Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College
Presenters:	Douglas Werden, West Texas A&M University. "Century-Old Secret Women's Knowledge: Abortion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs.."
	Sarah Appleton Aguiar, Murray State University. "Dear John: Prostitution, Literature, Feminism.."
	Claire Norris, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "Samuel Beckett's (W)hole and The Vagina Monologues. ."

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

Chair:	Mali Subbiah, Weber State University
Presenters:	Christine Gajoli, San Diego State University. "Medical Marketing Websites: Writing at the Intersection of Science, Marketing, and Public Discourse.."
	Randy Clark, University of Phoenix. "The Positive Effects of Offshoring on Technical Communication in the United States."
	Trina Grieshaber, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. "Knowledge Management at a Technical Documentation Company in Hannover, Germany: Business as Usual."

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

Chair:	George Cole, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University. "'Nafteando': Sandra Cisneros and Her Trade of the Free Word .."
	Fernanolo Pezzino, Arizona State University. "Análisis comparativo: el minicuento y los dibujos de humor.."
	George Cole, Arizona State University. "Los movimientos de vanguardia y la creación de la cultura cubana contemporánea: el impacto de las religiones afrocubanas.."
	Domingo Gonzalez, University of Connecticut. "Algarabicanto: Orishas, son o no son, aseres?."

PEDAGOGY	SUNSHINE ROOM
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film*Demonstrations of Teaching Methodologies for Film

Chair:	Sean Ireton, University of Missouri
Alternate Chair:	John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters:	David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado. "Teaching American Film as International Film: Practical Approaches to Cross-Cultural Appreciation.."
	Peter Ecke, University of Arizona. "Seven Fairytale Feature Films for Second-Year German.."
	Tim Gruenewald, University of Washington. "A Learning Outcomes-Oriented Approach to Teaching Film Literacy.."

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

Chair:	Donna Waller Harper, Middle Tennessee State University
Presenters:	Allene M. Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Ella Clah: Many Worlds' Warrior.."
	Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar. "Why Place Matters in the Works of Jane Crumley.."
	Donna Waller Harper, Middle Tennessee State University. "Role of Fathers in Fiction of Female Detectives.."

2:45PM - 4:15PM

PEDAGOGY	CANYON ROOM
Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges

Chair:	Gwendolyn James, Columbia Basin Community College
Presenters:	Klint Hull, Lower Columbia Community College. "The Cover Letter: Self-Evaluative Writing for Freshman Composition.."
	Gwendolyn James, Columbia Basin Community College. "Messy Work: Engaging Underprepared Students in College Writing.."
	Leah Schaeffer, Columbia Basin Community College. "Using Journals in Composition Courses.."

GENDER STUDIES	CENTURY ROOM
Women's Caucus Seminar - III+Meditations on Motherhood

Chair:	Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair:	Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University
Presenters:	Josie Mills, University of Denver. "Growing like the Moon: Excerpts from a Pregnancy Journal.."
	Marion Gold, OISE/University of Toronto. "Mothering and Mentoring in the Midst of Cronehood and Hagdom.."
	Christy Rowe, University of Denver. "Creative Reading.."

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*

Chair:	Lynn Deming, New Mexico Technical State University
Alternate Chair:	Ann M. Pelelo, University of Dubuque
Presenters:	David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "Flannery O'Connor's Displaced Men.."
	Elizabeth J. Toohey, Principia College. "Revelation through the Racialized Body in the Writing of Flannery O'Connor.."
	Thomas Wetzel, Marquette University. "They Shall Know a Prophet Has Been among Them: Flannery O'Connor and the Prophetic Writing Tradition.."
	Donald E. Hardy, Colorado State University. "Knowledge and Narrational Gaps in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Latin American Film and Literature - I*

Chair:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters:	Maria Saiz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La identidad de género en El lugar sin límites de José Donoso.."
	Fernando Valerio, Colorado State University. "Borojol/Nueba Yol/ Epañol: Migración e identidad cultural dominicana en Nueba Yol de Ángel Muñiz.."
	Gabriela Gamez, Arizona State University. "Imaginario colectivo en El lado oscuro del corazón.."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - I*

Chair:	Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado. "Cultural Encounters in Plato's Phaedrus.."
	Rebecca Sailor, University of Northern Colorado. "Phaedrus, The Dialogue/Dialectic, and Revision.."
	Melanie Young, University of Northern Colorado. "The Negative Spectrum of Language in Classic and Medieval Texts.."

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?*

Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Alternate Chair:	Meredith McCarroll, University of Tennessee
Presenters:	Amy Manning, University of New Hampshire. "Feminism in the Literature Classroom: Using Photography to Encourage Student Engagement in Feminist Critique of Literary Texts.."
	Marlene A. Tromp, Denison University. "Social Service, Social Justice: Feminist Pedagogy in the Humanities.."
	Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Arizona State University. "Re-envisioning Research: Feminist Praxis and the Question of Academic Literacy.."

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES	SUGARLOAF ROOM
Revolution, Violence, and Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature*

Chair:	Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Washington State University
Presenters:	Michael Hubert, Washington State University. "La falta de revolución en Los de Abajo de Mariano Azuela.."
	Juan P. Dabove, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'Villistas para todo lo que se ofrezca': Violencia campesina y política subalterna en ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! de Rafael F. Muñoz.."
	Fernando F. Sanchez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Cosa fácil: Reactualización del 'relato revolucionario' frente al crimen del Estado.."
	Gerardo Garcia-Munoz, Arizona State University. "El desfile del amor y las ideologías divergentes de la sociedad posrevolucionaria.."

SPECIAL EVENTS	SUNSHINE ROOM
Professional Cover Letters and CVs

Chair:	Maureen Smith, Washington State University
Presenters:	Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University and Maureen Smith, Washington State University. "Workshop/Seminar on Professional Cover Letter and CV Writing.."

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Bibliography and Textual Criticism*

Chair:	Suzanne Hendrickson, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair:	Ryan Muckerheide, Arizona State University
Presenters:	Ann R. Hawkins, Texas Tech University. "Disraeli, Byronism and the Manuscript of Venetia.."
	Frederic Canovas, Arizona State University. "Pour une édition génétique du Voyage d'Urien d'André Gide.."

4:30PM - 6:00PM

GENERAL TOPICS	CANYON ROOM
RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works*

Chair:	Stephen D. Gibson, Utah Valley State College
Alternate Chair:	Jonathan Pitts, Ohio Northern University
Presenters:	Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College. "News of the Weird.."
	Allen R. Learst, Mesa State College. "A Kiss.."
	Diana J. Joseph, Mesa State College. "Learn to Play the Harmonica in Seven Easy Lessons.."
	Fred Arroyo, Saint Louis University. "Excerpt from Love's Lonely Offices.."

PEDAGOGY	CENTURY ROOM
Beyond the Expository Essay*Unlocking Literature Through Writing in New, Interdisciplinary, or Creative Ways

Chair:	Sonya C. Brown, University of Maryland
Alternate Chair:	Joanna N. Paull, Butler County Community College
Presenters:	Stacy Shaneyfelt, Norman Public Schools and Amy Lynch-Biniek, College Misericordia and Joanna N. Paull, Butler County Community College. "Write On (Over and Beyond): Creating Engaging Writing Assignments within Secondary and Postsecondary Literature Classrooms.."
	T. Lew Kaye-Skinner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Meeting Prospero and Tarzan at Walden Pond: Multiple Genres in the Composition Classroom.."

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

Chair:	Casey Charles, University of Montana
Presenters:	Geoffrey Bateman, University of Colorado, Boulder. "His Western Life Will Make a Man out of Him: Adolescence and Homoeroticism in Horatio Alger, Jr.'s American West.."
	Meredith McCarroll, University of Tennessee. "'It Ain't So Damned Funny': Hermaphroditic Hens and the Pushing of Gender Boundaries in The Virginian.."
	Cheryl Steenson-Schule, University of Montana. "Geographies of Gender in My Antonia.."
	Siobhan Scarry, University of Montana. "Burdens of Proof: Interrogating Queer Cather Readings.."

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*

Chair:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University
Presenters:	Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "Film Tactics and Literary Strategy in Subiela's El lado oscuro del corazón.."
	Graciela Garcia, National Cathedral School. "The Aesthetics of Violence in Our Lady of the Assassins.."
	Michael Abeyta, Colorado State University. "Women, Death and the Traps of Class in Y tu mamá también and Harold and Maude.."
	Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Arizona State University. "Pastiche posmoderno: la parodia como crítica sociopolítica en Bolívar soy yo (Jorge Alí Triana, 2002).."

CLASSICAL STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - II*

Chair:	Emily S. Yu, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters:	Emily S. Yu, University of Northern Colorado. "Audience as an Imagined Political Body in Ancient and Medieval Texts.."
	Kristy L. Ulibarri, University of Northern Colorado. "Classic Rhetoric and Structuralism: The Connection between Rhetorician and Audience.."
	Amy Crawford, University of Northern Colorado. "Mythology, Politics and History: How Mythology Both Perpetuates and Reflects the Politics of Ancient Greece and Rome.."

PEDAGOGY	HOSPITALITY ROOM 431
Technology and Distance Education

Chair:	Darren Hughes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Alternate Chair:	A. James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University
Presenters:	Ben Varner, University of Northern Colorado and Alice Bedard-Voorhees, Colorado Community College Online. "Inviting Guest Speakers to Online and Hybrid Courses.."
	John Rothfork, Northern Arizona University. "How Distance Methods and Academic Management Software Subvert the University.."
	Darren Hughes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Behind the Scenes: Notes from a Blackboard Administrator.."

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES	MILLENIUM ROOM
French and Francophone Literatures post 1960*Nouvelles voies/Voix nouvelles

Chair:	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University
Presenters:	Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Re-creating Childhood in the Fiction of Michel Tremblay and Dany Laferrière.."
	Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado. "De quoi bouffer.."
	Cecile Hanania, Western Washington University. "Marguerite Duras, Paradoxical Witness to History.."

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES	SUGARLOAF ROOM
American Literature After 1900 - II*Varied Voices of American Literature

Chair:	Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters:	Julie Barak, Mesa State College. "White Passing Right/Rite: Race Traitors in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich.."
	Maria Hebert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Writing the Unwritten: Ernest Gaines and his Louisiana Quarters.."
	Mary Anne Schofield, Villanova University. "Invisible Soldiers, Invisible Stories: Women Writers Narrate the Korean War.."
	Jay Ellis, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'What happens to country' in Blood Meridian.."

PEDAGOGY	SUNSHINE ROOM
Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the ClassroomBodies Teaching, Bodies Learning: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Pedagogy*

Chair:	David A. Sapp, Fairfield University
Presenters:	Kirsti K. Cole, Arizona State University. "Revisiting the Sad Woman in the Basement: The Female Graduate Student Teacher and the First-Year Composition Classroom.."
	Whitney Dawn Douglas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and Christine Stewart-Nunez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Embodied Practices: The Female Teacher in the Classroom.."
	Zach Waggoner, Arizona State University. "(Re)Turning the Gaze: Locating the Body in Feminism and Composition.."
	Laurie Wood, Utah Valley State College. "Queering Their Eyes: Teaching Queer Theory in a Conservative Community.."

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	TRAIL RIDGE ROOM
Old and Middle English

Chair:	Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Alternate Chair:	Rebecca Miller, University of Kansas
Presenters:	Alexandra Olsen, University of Denver. "The Ides and the Goddess: Female Identity in Anglo-Saxon England.."
	William F. Woods, Wichita State University. "The Wife of Bath's Domestic Space.."
	Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Laboring with St. Cecilia.."
	Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University. "Modes of Being in the Old English Riddles.."

8:30PM -10:00PM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES	HOSPITALITY ROOM 231
Renaissance Hebraism*

Chair:	Sharon Hampel, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters:	Sharon Hampel, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Renaissance in Hebrew and English Poetry.."
	K Watkins, Independent Scholar. "Shylock and Jewish Law.."
	Jack H. Kunin, Art Historian. "The Ark of the Covenant in Jewish and Christian Traditions,."

GENERAL TOPICS	HOSPITALITY ROOM 331
Still Perplexed after All These Years: Eight Centuries after Maimonides*

Chair:	Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming
Presenters:	Scott E. Thomas, University of Wyoming. "Maimonides on Language, Linguistics, and Language Learning.."
	Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming. "Maimonides and Peace in Our Time.."
	Seth Ward, University of Wyoming. "Maimonides on Idolatry.."

9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS	MILLENIUM ROOM
Saturday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Le roi danse (The King is Dancing)

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Le roi danse. Directed by Gérard Corbiau, 2000. In French with English Subtitles. 115 minutes. (France, Belgium, Germany)."

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)

Chair:	RMMLA Secretariat, Washington State University
Presenters:	Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University. "Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (Buñuel and King Solomon's Table) (Director: Carlos Saura, Spain, 2001; In Spanish with English subtitles) 105 minutes.."