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58th Annual RMMLA Convention, Boulder, CO


September 30 - October 2, 2004

Program Summary by Session Type

ASIAN STUDIES
 
Asian Comparative Literature and Film*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMMillenium Room

Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - I*Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMFlagstaff Room

Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 - II*Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMSunshine Room

Chinese Literature Before 1900*Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 331

CLASSICAL STUDIES
 
Classical Language and Literature: GreekFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMHospitality Room 431

Classical Language and Literature: LatinThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMCanyon Room

Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - I*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 331

Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts - II*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 331

The Interpretation and Influence of Greek MythsSaturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlatiron Room

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES
 
Afterlives of Modernism: British Poetry, 1950-2000Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMExecutive Boardroom

English Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMCanyon Room

English Literature Since 1900Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 431

English Nineteenth-Century LiteratureFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSunshine Room

English Renaissance LiteratureFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMFlatiron Room

English Seventeenth-Century LiteratureThursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCanyon Room

Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance DramaFriday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 331

Joint Discussion -- Renaissance Hebraism & MaimonidesSaturday, 10:00PM - 11:00PMHospitality Room 231

Mary ShelleySaturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 431

Old and Middle EnglishSaturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMTrail Ridge Room

Owen BarfieldFriday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMExecutive Boardroom

Renaissance Hebraism*Saturday, 8:30PM - 10:00PMHospitality Room 231

ShakespeareSaturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMSugarloaf Room

Special Seminar by Keynote Speaker, Margaret FergusonSaturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlagstaff Room

Yeats’ Influence/Influences on Yeats*Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMSunshine Room

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
 
Caribbean Literature (non-French) - I*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlagstaff Room

Caribbean Literature (non-French) - II*Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMSugarloaf Room

Caribbean Literature (non-French) - III*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlatiron Room

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES
 
African American Literature*Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 431

American HumorThursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 231

American Literature After 1900 - IFriday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMTrail Ridge Room

American Literature After 1900 - II*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMSugarloaf Room

Early American LiteratureFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMTrail Ridge Room

Flannery O'Connor*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlatiron Room

James Welch: Legacy of a Storyteller*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMHospitality Room 431

Literature from the Pacific Northwest*Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMCanyon Room

Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 331

Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Western US and Canada*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMTrail Ridge Room

Native American LiteratureThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMFlagstaff Room

Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSugarloaf Room

Poe Topics*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 331

Queer West: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Representation in the American West*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMFlagstaff Room

Southern Literature*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMTrail Ridge Room

Transnational Geographies of Nineteenth-Century American Literature*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 431

True North: Cultured Spaces in Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Literature*Friday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMSunshine Room

Western and Southwestern LiteratureSaturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMFlagstaff Room

EXHIBITS
 
Book/Media Review Table and ExhibitsFriday, 8:30AM - 6:00PMSecond Floor Foyer

Book/Media Review Table and ExhibitsSaturday, 8:30AM - 6:00PMSecond Floor Foyer

Book/Media Review Table and ExhibitsThursday, 10:30AM - 6:00PMSecond Floor Foyer

FILM STUDIES
 
Australian Film and Literature: Beneath the Down Under*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSunshine Room

Contemporary Film Theory and CriticismThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMMillenium Room

Film (Open Topic)Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMHospitality Room 231

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
 
Authorial Interventions: Potential Crime Scenes in French Film and Literature*Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMSunshine Room

Eros et politique dans la littérature française moderneFriday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 431

French and Francophone Literatures post 1960*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMMillenium Room

French Literature After 1800Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 231

French Literature Before 1800Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMMillenium Room

Women in FrenchFriday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 231

GENDER STUDIES
 
African American Women Writers*Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMTrail Ridge Room

Female Gothic*Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 431

Gender and Race in Literature and Film*Friday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 231

Popular Women's Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMTrail Ridge Room

Something to Bitch About: Queer(ed) Genres*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSugarloaf Room

Women in/and LiteratureSaturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 231

Women Writing Violence in American Drama*Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 331

Women's Caucus Luncheon and Guest Speakers+Saturday, 12:30PM - 2:00PMCentury Room

Women's Caucus Seminar - I+Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMCentury Room

Women's Caucus Seminar - II+Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMCentury Room

Women's Caucus Seminar - III+Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCentury Room

Women's Voices in PoetryFriday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMFlatiron Room

GENERAL TOPICS
 
Autobiography: Alternate Forms, Alternate Voices *Friday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMCentury Room

Biography and Life Writing*Thursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMTrail Ridge Room

DramaFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMHospitality Room 231

Ethnic LiteratureThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 331

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus SeminarFriday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 231

Historiographic Metafiction and History*Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMMillenium Room

Incorporating Technology into Academic and Professional Presentations*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMMillenium Room

Literature and Other ArtsFriday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMCentury Room

Literature and Religion*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 431

Literature and ScienceThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMCentury Room

Literature for Children and Young AdultsSaturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 431

Literature of Prophecy, Prescience, and Apocalypse*Thursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMHospitality Room 331

Literature of Trauma*Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMTrail Ridge Room

Medieval Literature*Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 431

Problems of Translation from Foreign LanguagesThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlatiron Room

Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMExecutive Boardroom

Religion and Postmodern/Contemporary Literature and Theory*Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 431

RMMLA Poets Read Their Works - I *Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSugarloaf Room

RMMLA Poets Read Their Works - II *Friday, 9:30PM - 11:30PMHospitality Room 231

RMMLA Prose Authors Read Their Works*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMCanyon Room

RomanticismThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMHospitality Room 431

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film (Open Topic)*Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 331

Sigma Tau DeltaThursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlatiron Room

Still Perplexed after All These Years: Eight Centuries after Maimonides*Saturday, 8:30PM - 10:00PMHospitality Room 331

GERMANIC STUDIES
 
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Literature*Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMMillenium Room

German Literature Before 1900Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMMillenium Room

German Literature Since 1900Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMSunshine Room

Germany since 1990*Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMHospitality Room 231

Modern Austrian Literature*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 231

Poetry Reading by German-American Poets*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMFlatiron Room

ITALIAN STUDIES
 
American Association for Italian Studies+Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMFlatiron Room

Italian-American Writers*Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMFlatiron Room

LINGUISTICS
 
American Dialect Society+Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMFlagstaff Room

General and Applied LinguisticsSaturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMSunshine Room

Linguistics - EnglishThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMSunshine Room

Linguistics-Second Language AcquisitionFriday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMMillenium Room

Linguistics-Spanish & PortugueseFriday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMMillenium Room

NO GROUP
 
Lunch Hour - FridayFriday, 12:00PM - 1:00PMBON APPETIT!

Lunch Hour - SaturdaySaturday, 12:00PM - 1:00PMBON APPETIT!

Lunch Hour - ThursdayThursday, 12:00PM - 1:00PMBON APPETIT!

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES
 
E.M. Cioran: Philosophy, Themes, Genre and Style*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMHospitality Room 331

Romania's Contributions to International Literature and Art: The Twentieth Century.*Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMMillenium Room

PEDAGOGY
 
Beyond the Expository Essay*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMCentury Room

Feminism in the Classroom, or Where are the Feminists?*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMMillenium Room

Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 331

Practical Approaches to Teaching Film*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSunshine Room

Practical Approaches to Teaching Language*Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 231

Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMFlatiron Room

Teaching EnglishThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSunshine Room

Teaching English CompositionFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMExecutive Boardroom

Teaching English in Two-Year CollegesSaturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCanyon Room

Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the ClassroomSaturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMSunshine Room

Teaching Foreign LanguagesThursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSunshine Room

Technology and Distance EducationSaturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 431

Visible Knowledge Project and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning*Thursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMFlatiron Room

REGISTRATION
 
Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - FridayFriday, 7:30AM - 6:00PMBoulder Creek Living Room

Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - SaturdaySaturday, 7:30AM - 6:00PMBoulder Creek Living Room

Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - ThursdayThursday, 7:30AM - 6:00PMBoulder Creek Living Room

Convention Check-In, On-Site Registration, and Exhibits - WednesdayWednesday, 3:00PM - 6:00PMBoulder Creek Living Room

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES
 
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XXThursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMFlagstaff Room

Asociacion de Literatura Femenina / Letras Femeninas+Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlagstaff Room

Early Modern Spanish Writers*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMTrail Ridge Room

Laberintos Escriturales de la Ciudad*Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSugarloaf Room

Latin American Film and Literature - I*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMHospitality Room 231

Latin American Film and Literature - II*Saturday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMHospitality Room 231

Latin American Literature and Other Cultural Expressions*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMSugarloaf Room

Luzo-Brazilian Language and LiteratureFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlatiron Room

Peninsular Spanish LiteratureFriday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMHospitality Room 331

Peninsular Spanish Literature - II*Friday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlagstaff Room

Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature*Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMSugarloaf Room

Revolution, Violence, and Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSugarloaf Room

Spanish American LiteratureFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMSugarloaf Room

SPECIAL EVENTS
 
Administrative Review of Tenure and Promotion*Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMCanyon Room

Announcement of Raffle WinnersFriday, 12:00PM - 12:30PMRegistration Area

Banquet & Keynote Speech by Margaret Ferguson, UC Davis -'Literacies, Social Values,& Ideas of Risk'Friday, 7:00PM - 9:00PMBanquet Room

Board Game PartyFriday, 9:30PM - 11:30PMSunshine Room

CV Help Session - I (by reservation only)Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMBoulder Creek Boardroom

CV Help Session - II (by reservation only)Friday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMBoulder Creek Boardroom

Friday Evening Film Showing - I (9:30 pm)Friday, 9:30PM - 11:30PMMillenium Room

Friday Evening Film Showing - II (9:30 pm)Friday, 9:30PM - 11:30PMCentury Room

Graduate Student ForumFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMCanyon Room

MLA Special Session - Problems and Prospects for Scholarly Communication in the Modern LanguagesFriday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMCanyon Room

National Endowment for the Arts Seminar--Reading at RiskSaturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMCanyon Room

National Endowment for the Humanities - Grant Workshop (registration required)Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMCanyon Room

National Endowment for the Humanities - Seminar on Education ProgramsFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCanyon Room

Opening Night (Drop-In) ReceptionThursday, 6:00PM - 7:30PMPavillion

Poetry Reading by Chicano Poet AluristaSaturday, 8:30PM - 10:00PMSunshine Room

Pre-Banquet No-Host Cash BarFriday, 6:00PM - 7:00PMOutside Patio

Professional Cover Letters and CVsSaturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMSunshine Room

Publishing Forum - William Germano, Routledge Co.Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMCanyon Room

RMMLA Executive Board MeetingThursday, 8:00AM - 1:00PMExecutive Boardroom

RMMLA Open Forum & Business MeetingThursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMSugarloaf Room

RMMLA OverviewFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMExecutive Boardroom

Saturday Evening Film Showing - I (9:00 pm)Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PMMillenium Room

Saturday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PMMillenium Room

Thursday Evening Film Showing - I (9:00 pm)Thursday, 9:00PM - 11:00PMMillenium Room

Thursday Evening Film Showing - II (9:00 PM)Thursday, 9:00PM - 11:00PMCentury Room

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
 
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMCentury Room

Forces of Change in Technical Professional CommunicationThursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCentury Room

Technical and Professional Communication in the ClassroomThursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMCentury Room

Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and BeyondSaturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMMillenium Room

Theory and Research in Technical and Professional CommunicationThursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMCentury Room

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES
 
Bibliography and Textual Criticism*Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMTrail Ridge Room

Comparative Literature (Open Topic)Saturday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlagstaff Room

Ecocriticism - IFriday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMFlagstaff Room

Ecocriticism - IISaturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMTrail Ridge Room

French Cultural and Literary Theory*Friday, 2:45PM - 4:15PMCentury Room

Language, Power, and Literature*Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMExecutive Boardroom

Literary Criticism: Critical Orthodoxies, Old and NewThursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMSugarloaf Room

Narrative Theory and the Teaching of Narrative*Thursday, 10:30AM - 12:00PMHospitality Room 231

Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*Saturday, 1:00PM - 2:30PMFlagstaff Room

WRITING PROGRAMS
 
Creative WritingThursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PMTrail Ridge Room

Design and Implementation of a Student Copyright and Fair Use Website*Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMMillenium Room

Writing Across the CurriculumFriday, 8:30AM - 10:00AMCentury Room

Writing ProgramsFriday, 10:15AM - 11:45AMFlatiron Room


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