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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