RMMLA Annual Conventions

60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006

Preliminary Convention Program

We are looking forward to an exciting convention this year in Tucson. The Executive Board and the Secretariat Staff wish to thank everyone involved in making this a fantastic program and to our local host, the University of Arizona, for its generous support.
Scroll down to see the schedule, but PLEASE note:

Room assignments appear ABOVE the session title.
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).
Room assignments may change, but every effort will be made to maintain the following assignments of session day/time. If a change is absolutely necessary, all concerned will be asked first.
Edits to this program must be sent to us by AUGUST 1 -- the program goes to press after this date.
An asterisk indicates a Special Topic Session; a plus sign indicates an affiliate member session.
If you DON'T see your name or your session, please contact us immediately at rmmla@wsu.edu.
To view a presentation abstract, click on the hyperlinked presentation title (however, not all presenters have submitted abstracts).

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 7
3:00PM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Convention Registration."
THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 8
7:30AM -10:30AM

SPECIAL EVENTS MEZZANINE LOBBY
Early Bird Continental Breakfast - Thursday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Special Early Bird Continental Breakfast 7:30 - 10:30 AM in Mezzanine Lobby."
REGISTRATION MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Convention Registration."
8:30AM -10:00AM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES ALPINE A
Francis Bacon*
Chair: Dibakar Pal, Independent Scholar (India)
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Santanu Majumdar, Calcutta University. "Replacing One Terror with Another : The Solipsistic Sub-text of Bacon's Essay on Death."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Western Perspective and Place*
Chair: Susan Nyikos, Utah State University
Presenters: Melinda S. Rich, Utah State University. "‛To Drink from Places�:Uncovering a Rich Way of Life."
Jennifer Bott Bateman, Utah State University. "'Baby, We Were Born to Run': Western Imagery and Escapism in the Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen."
J Adam Floyd, Utah State University. "Understanding Contemporary Native American Identity through Intertribal Pow Wow."
GENERAL TOPICS COTTONWOOD B
The Novel and Bakhtin's Two Stylistic Lines*
Chair: Victoria Ramirez, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Erin Judith Hill-Dowdle, Weber State University
Presenters: Erin Judith Hill-Dowdle, Weber State University. "Insanity as Disconnection between Self and Society as Seen in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony."
Megan Sessions, Weber State University. "Finding Identity in Satrapi's Persepolis and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying."
Patrick Murphy, Weber State University. "I Walked with a Realist::The Incredibly Strange Novelist Who Stopped Reading and Added Mixed-Up Zombies."
Stephanie P. Heath, Weber State University. "The Ceremony of the Conceptual Self: Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Silko's Ceremony."
ASIAN STUDIES MAGPIE B
Women's Authorship in Chinese Literature*
Chair: Li Guo, University of Iowa
Presenters: Haihong Yang, University of Iowa. "The Bird Dressed in Borrowed Feathers? Literary Allusions and Reconfiguration of Women's Authorship in Two Poems by Wang Duanshu (1621-ca. 1706)."
Li Guo, University of Iowa. "Goddess Reincarnated: Desire and the Narrativized Author in Dream, Shadow, Destiny ( Mengyingyuan 1843).."
Gabriel Y C Wu, City University of Hong Kong. "Reinterpreting Authorship: Wang Anyi�s Essays and Shanghai."
Emily Goedde, University of Michigan. "Translating Authorship: The Transformation of Zhu Shuzhen.."
LINGUISTICS MAYBIRD
General Linguistics
Chair: Mark S. LeTourneau, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi
Presenters: Mark S. LeTourneau, Weber State University. "Comparing English and German through Popular Media."
Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, Reno. "A Corpus, Genre, and Diachronic Approach to 'Risk'."
Jeffery D. Stokes, Weber State University. "Use of the Glottal Stop in Spanish among Peruvian Bilinguals."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Nineteenth-Century Literature
Chair: Scott T. Rogers, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Kevin S. Binfield, Murray State University
Presenters: Kelly J. Rynearson, University of Indianapolis. "Class Marginality in Bleak House: Redefining the Angel in the House."
Brooke D. Taylor, Washington Unversity, St Louis. "'These are mysteries we can�t account for!' Empiricism and Intuition in Bleak House."
Katherine Marie Alexander, University of New Mexico. "The Baptismal Party in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend -- A New Perspective: Mirrored Heteroglossia."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SUPERIOR A
New Latin American and Spanish Cinema*
Chair: Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School. "El lenguaje de las violencias en Sumas y restas de V�ctor Gaviria."
Brenda Lydia Lake, University of Utah. "Decadentes mujeres espa�olas en el cine mexicano contempor�neo: Y tu mam� tambi�n y Amores perros.."
Kyle Kenneth Black, Arizona State University. "Borrando fronteras (invisibles): La prostituci�n y los inmigrantes de Madrid en Princesas de Fernando de Le�n de Aranoa."
Matias Martinez Abeijon, Southern Utah University. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona: National Identity and Film in Contemporary Spain."
PEDAGOGY SUPERIOR B
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture
Chair: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters: Francoise Hibbs, Salt Lake Community College. "Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom: An Intercultural Communication Approach to Developing Intercultural Competence."
Allison M. Fraiberg, University of Redlands. "The Audacity of Hope: The Imperative of Cultural Studies: Dealing with Despair in the Literary Sites of Business Culture."
Linda K. Shelton, Utah Valley University. "Importing Canagarajah's Global English Theories."
GENERAL TOPICS WASATCH A
Skin as Text*
Chair: Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Presenters: Cynthia Kuhn, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "'Your heart's desire made flesh': The Technology of Skin in Dollhouse."
Wendolyn Weber, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Intimate Punishments, Marks of Possession: Corporal Inscriptions and Erasures from the Medieval Virgin Martyr to The Story of O."
Bob Troyer, Independent Scholar. "Self-Inscripted, Self-Incriminated: Tattoos and the American Prison System."
GENERAL TOPICS WASATCH B
Medieval Genres: Convention and Invention*
Chair: Miranda Wilcox, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Jessica C. Brown, Brigham Young University. "Saints, Silence, and Sanctification: The Hagiography of Aethelthryth and Agnes Grey."
Gary S. Fuller, Brigham Young University. "The Virgin's Kiss: Gender and Leprosy in the Life of St. Frideswide."
Tom Stillinger, University of Utah. "'The Reeve's Tale': Repetition, Repetition, and Revenge."
Brittany G. Jones, University of Colorado, Denver. "Political Subversion: The Social Imagination of a Medieval Welsh National Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
WRITING PROGRAMS WHITE PINE
Peer Tutoring*
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University. "Peer Tutors as Researchers."
Melissa Root, Naropa University. "Contemplative Pedagogy and the Writing Center."
Jared N. Odd, Utah State University. "The Writing Center Audience around the Rhetorical Triangle."
10:15AM -11:45AM

CLASSICAL STUDIES ALPINE B
Classical Language and Literature: Latin and Greek
Chair: Keith Dickson, Purdue University
Alternate Chair: Tiernan Z. Doyle, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Sophocles the Oligarch: Ajax and Philoctetes."
Lauri Reitzammer, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Sophocles' Antigone as Metic."
Patrick J. Maley, Indiana University. "Sophocles� Disastrous Decrees: Tragedy, Speech Acts, and the Ethics of Ordinary Language."
Jackie Elliott, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Livy Praef. 1 and 3.26.7 and Ennius' Narrative Voice."
John Thorburn, Baylor University. "Suetonius' Claudius: A Fool in Space?."
GENDER STUDIES ALPINE C
Women's Voices in Poetry
Chair: Carmen Ortiz Henley, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Maria G. Blake, University of Arizona
Presenters: Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Arizona. "Women�s Voices Behind the Mask in T. S. Eliot�s Poetry."
James E. Wermers, University of Arizona. "Fantasies and Phantasms: The Philosophy of Women Lyric Poets of the Seventeenth Century."
Kyle L. DiRoberto, University of Arizona. "The Feminine Voice in John Donne's 'Batter My Heart Three-Personed God' and George Herbert's 'Love III'."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Western Perspective and Place - II*
Chair: Susan Nyikos, Utah State University
Presenters: Allyson Jones, Utah State University. "Allotting 'Progression': Alice Fletcher, the Dawes Act, and McNickle�s Wind from an Enemy Sky."
Nate Whipple, Utah State University. "'Mapping Mindsets of Enclosure': The Conquest of Intellection and Physical Space in the Novels of D�Arcy McNickle."
Rebecca Elena James, Utah State University. "Controlling Space, Ideology, and Identity: A Foucaultian Analysis of Indian Schools in D'Arcy McNickle's Wind from an Enemy Sky."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE A
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature
Chair: Mirian Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Mirian Lee, University of California, Berkeley. "Hybrid Sites of Identity in O Sol se P�e em S�o Paulo by Bernardo Carvalho.."
Isabel Asensio, Weber State University. "Erotism and Narrative Renovation in Exerc�cios para o Pecado by M�rcia Denser.."
Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley. "'El bandido como v�ctima' in O Cabeleira by Francisco T�vora."
Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Non-Orientalism in Eça de Queiroz: O Mandarim and A Relíquia."
ASIAN STUDIES MAGPIE B
Asian American Literature*
Chair: Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Calvin College
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Cheyney A. Wheelwright, Weber State University. "Information Processing and Knowledge: A Guide to Successful Assimilation in Jhumpa Lahiri�s Interpreter of Maladies."
Roula H. Kogos, University of Nevada, Reno. "Border Crossings: Karen Tei Yamashita�s Tropic of Orange."
Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Calvin College. "TBA."
GENERAL TOPICS MAYBIRD
DramaParody and Intertextuality on the Stage, in RadioPlays, and Filmscripts
Chair: Maila Zitelli, Minot State University
Alternate Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "From Radio Plays to Screenplays: Intertextual Dimensions.."
Maila Zitelli, Minot State University. "Who�s Laughing, and at Whose Expense? Time to Unmuzzle Two East Bloc Parodists.."
Amina Escalera, Minot State University. "The Last Days of Don Juan: The Myth of the Womanizer and its Decline in the Modern French Era..."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
Charles Dickens and Women*
Chair: Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida
Presenters: Amanda L. Nydegger, Baylor University. "The Progressive Dickens: The Complexity of Bella Wilfer in Our Mutual Friend."
Sarah J. Purdy, University of Nevada, Reno. "The River's Edge: Transgressing Gender and Class Boundaries in Our Mutual Friend."
Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida. "Charles Dickens' Working Women in Martin Chuzzlewit and Our Mutual Friend."
PEDAGOGY SUPERIOR A
Teaching English
Chair: Nancy L. Zaice, Francis Marion University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: Sue A. Salinger, Rollins College. "Student Production and Writing for a Political Rally."
Nancy L. Zaice, Francis Marion University. "From 'Contact Zone' to Critical Laboratory: Reaching a New Generation of Developing College Writers."
Jessica A. Wiest, Brigham Young University. "Half-baked and Proud of It: Simulating Burke�s Parlor in the Freshmen Composition Classroom."
FILM STUDIES WASATCH A
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond*
Chair: Billy J. Stratton, Bowling Green State University
Presenters: Joel David Harrison, University of Northern Colorado. "We Will Torture It out of You: The Commodification of Tortured Art in Chuck Palahniuk�s Diary."
Charles W. Hoge, University of Denver. "The Invisible Freak Show: Distortion of and Challenges to Human Identity in Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters."
Billy J. Stratton, Bowling Green State University. "Art as Crime; Crime as Art: Fight Club, Poetic Terrorism and the Society of the Spectacle."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES WASATCH B
French Literature before 1800
Chair: Sarah Gordon, Utah State University
Presenters: Rosa A. Perez, Southern Utah University. "Jews in Medieval France: Literary and Cultural Constructs of an Identity."
Catherine S. Marachi, Saint Mary's College of California. "Unreliable Narrator in Christine de Pizan's The Book of The Duke of True Lovers."
Kristi Lynn Krumnow, Utah State University. "Vision and the Recognition of Same-Sex Desire in Sade's Justine."
WRITING PROGRAMS WHITE PINE
Discipline-Based Peer Tutoring Programs in Writing*The Writing Fellows Program At Brigham Young University
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Rosalyn Collings Eves, Brigham Young University and Joyce Adams, Brigham Young University and Beth F. Hedengren, Brigham Young University. "Leaving Switzerland: Discipline-Based Tutoring and the Complex Interrelationship between Professors and Tutors."
1:00PM - 2:30PM

GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE A
Writing Survival: Coping with and Learning from Violence in Literature*
Chair: Kim Fordham, University of Alberta, Augustana
Presenters: Birgit Spengler, Goethe University. "Dis-membering and Re-membering: Violence and Storytelling Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker."
Timothy Pearce Durst, Washington State University. "Nuclear Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Nonviolence."
Helen Lovejoy, University of California, Riverside. "'this grief between us / speaks another language': Testimonial Acts and Re-Speaking Trauma and Subjectivity in Women's Poetry of Violence."
Sangina E. Patnaik, University of California, Berkeley. "'My Own Metaphors for Suffering': Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES ALPINE B
Leslie Norris*
Chair: James Prothero, Santa Ana College
Presenters: Jay Fox, Brigham Young University. "Leslie Norris�s Formative Years: The Growth of a Writer�s Mind."
Alan Keele, Brigham Young University. "Visualizing the Invisible and In-Visualizing the�Visual:�the Meaning of Poesis in Rainer Maria Rilke and Leslie Norris.."
Daniel K. Westover, Utah Valley University. "The Poetics of Leslie Norris."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE C
Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
Chair: Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University
Presenters: Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
American Humor
Chair: Jonathan M. Wilson, Eastern New Mexico University
Presenters: Connie E. Luther, University of Calgary. "The Joke of Metafiction in David Foster Wallace's 'Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way'.."
Jonathan M. Wilson, Eastern New Mexico University. "The Anatomy of Humor in Hemingway's Sun Also Rises: 'It's No Life Being a Steer'.."
Teresa Coronado, University of Wisconsin, Parkside. "Reading Social Swamps: Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal, Social Class, and Humor.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Ethical Criticism*
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Presenters: Rebecca J. Robinson, Washington State University. "Two Legs to Stand On: Judging Literature through an Aesthetic of Ethics."
Linda Martina Young, Independent Scholar. "The Metabasis of Poetics: An Ethical Imperative in Martin Heidegger�s Poetic Perception."
Alan Goff, DeVry University. "What Can Literature Reasonably Be Expected to Do? Change Us? Change the World?."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE A
Peninsular Spanish Literature
Chair: Paul Larson, Baylor University
Presenters: Brandon Rigby, University of Oregon. "Los aspectos dial�gicos en Shebet Yehudah.."
Paul Larson, Baylor University. "Hunger and Corruption in Lazarillo de Tormes.."
G Cory Duclos, Vanderbilt University. "Theatrical Innovations and Social Commentaries in Gil Vicente�s Quem tem farelos? and Lope de Vega�s El perro del hortelano."
Helen Cathleen Tarp, Idaho State University. "Actores and Auctores in Spanish Prose Romance Prologues."
GENERAL TOPICS MAGPIE B
Literature and Religion
Chair: Philip Lance Crisler, University of California, Los Angeles
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Philip Lance Crisler, University of California, Los Angeles. "Quelling Graves: Sacred Commemoration in Early-Medieval Daoist Epitaphs."
Graham James Chamness, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Buddhist and Daoist Influences in the Poetry of Followers of Huiyuan (344-417)."
Heng Du, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Travel Writings by Western Archaeologists at Buddhist Sites in Chinese Turkestan in the Early 1900s."
LINGUISTICS MAYBIRD
English Linguistics and ESL
Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters: Giana Curtis, Weber State University. "May I See Your Language Passport?."
Sadie M. Dickman, University of Utah. "(Title Forthcoming)."
Fabiana M. MacMillan, University of Michigan. "(Title)."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
Chair: Alix Mazuet, University of Central Oklahoma
Presenters: Benjamin Ngong, Dickinson College. "V�ture et pouvoir: La fonction comminatoire du v�tement dans le champ politique post-colonial.."
Therese De Raedt, University of Utah. "�a twiste � Poponguine: Patchwork d'influences pour une civilisation universelle.."
Mariana F. Past, Dickinson College. "'Je renais de mes cendres': Implications of Re-enacting Haitian History in Charles Najman's Royal bonbon.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
Old and Middle English
Chair: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University
Presenters: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "�Free Among the Dead�: Applying Augustine and the Psalms to Old English Elegy.."
Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Chaucer, the Poets, and the Flight of Troilus.."
Pamela L. Troyer, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Piers Plowman and the Company it Keeps in Fifteenth-century Manuscripts."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Latin American Literature and Film
Chair: Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Rona Lee Maughan, Weber State University. "Machos, Music, and Masculinity: Dominant Gender Patterns and Disharmony in Puig�s Boquitas pintadas."
Olga L. Borges, Washington State University Vancouver. "La intersecci�n de discursos en Las hojas muertas de B�rbara Jacobs."
Jimena Ugaz, Middlebury College. "Nacionalismo e Indigenismo: Las reformulaciones de la naci�n por J.C. Mari�tegui y O. Paz."
GENERAL TOPICS SUPERIOR B
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Popular Women's Fiction in English
Chair: Pamela T. Washington, University of Central Oklahoma
Alternate Chair: Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Presenters: Erin Hendel, University of California, Davis. "'Work and Wait': Louisa May Alcott's Female Artists."
Kyle G. Wilson, University of Northern Iowa. "Non-normative Geography: EDEN Southworth and the Transgender Identity."
Jeremy A. Hurley, Arizona State University. "An Examination of Liberty and Virtue: The Battle of the Sexes in Early American Literature."
Karen K. Tracey, University of Northern Iowa. "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Problem of Spiritualism."
ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES WASATCH A
British Commonwealth Film*Land, Nationhood, and Self in British Commonwealth Cinema
Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Presenters: Sarah J. Smorol, University of Hawaii, Manoa. "Mythology and Religion; Love and Sexuality in Patricia Rozema's When Night is Falling."
Stephen D. Papson, St. Lawrence University. "When Excess Isn't Parody: Luhrmann's Australia."
Alan G. Johnson, Idaho State University. "Geography, Womanhood, and Nation in Bollywood Film."
GENERAL TOPICS WASATCH B
Visual Rhetoric*
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Sarah Orme, Brigham Young University. "The Rhetorical Effects and Significance of Governmental Barriers and Walls."
Tracy E. Bilsing, Sam Houston State University. "Visual Rhetoric in Katherine Mansfield�s 'An Indiscreet Journey'."
Judy H. Elsley, Weber State University. "Telling Stories, Making Text(ile)s."
PEDAGOGY WHITE PINE
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature through Travel and Off-campus Study
Chair: Susan Schaper, College of Idaho
Alternate Chair: David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso. "A Full and Focused London: An Approach to Affordable, Renewable Study Abroad.."
Maria Grazia De Angelis Nelson, Saint Marys College of California. "Exploring Theater in Southern Italy.."
Rob J. Brault, Winona State University. "Text and Travel: Rhetorical Analysis and Critical Thinking in Place-based Pedagogy.."
Susan Schaper, College of Idaho. "Mapping London.."
2:45PM - 4:15PM

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES ALPINE A
Traumatic Memory and Narrative Memory in Ethnic American Literatures*
Chair: Kara Elizabeth Jacobi, University of Miami
Presenters: Shannon Claire Toll, Independent Scholar. "Repudiating the Reservation and Religious Fervor: Pauline's Unsuccessful Attempt at Healing in Louise Erdrich's Tracks .."
Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University. "Traumatic Memory and Collective Identity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon .."
Raquel Deborah Kennon, Harvard University. "Memory Disavowed/Memory Reclaimed: Hurston, Singleton and Spaces Underground.."
Mary A. Seliger, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Transforming Trauma through Narrative Memory: Healing in Estella Habal's San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE B
Reading Popular/Consumer Culture*
Chair: Greg Grewell, University of Arizona
Presenters: Cassie A. Wright, University of Arizona. "Transgressing Traditions: Narrative and Resistance in FYC�or, Writing their Way In.."
Deborah R. Harris, Loyola Marymount University. "Perfect Bodies for Perfect Media: Performing Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery.."
Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "Cavemen and Ridicule, Racism and Sexism: So Easy Even an Insurance Company Can Do It.."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE C
RMMLA Poets Read their Works
Chair: William W. Wright, Mesa State College
Alternate Chair: Julie Steward, Samford University
Presenters: Heidi K. Czerwiec, University of North Dakota and Sarah J. Den Boer, University of South Dakota and Julie Gonnering Lein, University of Utah and Matthew D. McBride, University of CIncinnati. "Readings by."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Jewish American Literature*
Chair: Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Elizabeth C. Zubiate, University of Texas, El Paso. "Linguistic Fragmentation in Henry Roth�s Call It Sleep.."
Desiree J. Yost, University of Texas, El Paso. "The Lower East Side in Abraham Cahan's Yekl.."
Kevin Moore, University of California, Los Angeles. "Call It History: The Problem of Biography and the Critical Reception of Henry Roth.."
Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso. "The Fierce Momentum of Absence: The Midrashic Impulse in Nathan Englander�s The Ministry of Special Cases.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)
Chair: Meredith Felicia Carroll, Chapman University
Alternate Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Presenters: Meredith Felicia Carroll, Chapman University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE A
Peninsular Spanish Literature - II*
Chair: Paul Larson, Baylor University
Presenters: Electra Gam�n Fielding, University of Utah. "Magia de Levante: (Re)presentaciones de lo ex�tico en La Lozana andaluza."
Kathrin L. Theumer, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Decadencia, Dionisio y (des)ilusi�n en un cuento de Benito P�rez Gald�s."
Dolores Fuentes Jasmer, University of Utah. "La euforia del espacio ficticio: Mar�a Santal� en La gaviota."
WRITING PROGRAMS MAGPIE B
Second Language Writing*Reports of Research and Discussion of Central Issues in Second/Foreign Languages
Chair: Claudia Becker, North Carolina Central University
Presenters: Claudia Becker, North Carolina Central University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
FILM STUDIES MAYBIRD
Film Theory and Criticism
Chair: Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: Steven Rybin, Ohio University
Presenters: Katherine Elizabeth Cowley, Brigham Young University. "Seeing the Truth on Film: How the Rhetoric of Victorian Empiricism Translated into Film Realism."
Michael T. Dennis, State University of New York, Buffalo. "Drawing Away: Troubled Notions of Diegesis in the Animated Film."
Louis Haffey-Sherman, University of Utah. "Reciprocal Gaze, Panoptics and the Hidden Subject."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Conseil international d'�tudes francophones+� l�or�e d�une optique : Le Cas du polar ha�tien
Chair: Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College
Alternate Chair: Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University
Presenters: Jason Herbeck, Boise State University. "� l'or�e d'une optique: Le Cas du polar ha�tien."
Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College. "Jean Cocteau et le th��tre de boulevard."
Alain Cyr Kameni Pangop, University of Dschang. "Le th��tre de boulevard au Cameroun."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Nineteenth-Century Literature - II*
Chair: Scott T. Rogers, Weber State University
Presenters: Kevin S. Binfield, Murray State University. "Mary Balfour, the Banshee, and the Parameters of Hope in Belfast."
Lindsay Dearinger, University of Central Oklahoma. "The Exile and the Mourner: Grace Aguilar, The Women of Israel, and Literary Jewesses of Nineteenth-Century Britain."
Filiz Barin Akman, Illinois State Univesirty. "Colonialist Imagination and Class in Victorian England: 'Others' in Jane Eyre."
Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University. "One Man�s Ruin: The Failure of Domestic Masculinity in Joseph Conrad�s Almayer�s Folly."
GENERAL TOPICS SUPERIOR A
War in Literature and Film*
Chair: David L G Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Alternate Chair: Jill A. Dahlman, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Presenters: David L G Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. "A Beautiful Friendship: Howard Hawks, Ernest Hemingway, and the �War� at the Heart of To Have and Have Not.."
Geoffrey A. Wright, Samford University. "Toward a Geographical Hermeneutics of the Combat Narrative: Un/Earthing Landscape, Agency, and Identity in the Iraq War."
Jill A. Dahlman, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. "Marvel's Civil War Series: Who is the Enemy? What is the Fight About? Parallels with the G.W. Bush years.."
Nancy E. Virtue, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne. "Memory, Trauma, and the French-Algerian War: Michael Haneke�s Cach� (2006)."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SUPERIOR B
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+
Chair: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: David J. Reamer, University of Arizona
Presenters: Laura Vernon, Utah State University and Diane L. Martinez, Utah State University. "Overcoming Gender Bias in the Technical Communication Service Course: Instructor Strategies.."
Keith E. Gibson, Utah State University and Amanda Bemer, Utah State University. "Overcoming Gender Bias in the Technical Communication Service Course: Student Attitudes.."
ASIAN STUDIES WASATCH A
Asian Comparative Literature and FilmInternational Migrations and Imaginations in Asian Literature and Film
Chair: Jennifer L. Feeley, University of Iowa
Alternate Chair: Cecile Emilie Lagesse, Yale University
Presenters: Stephanie L. Schatz, Washington State University. "'I Am Not Only Myself': Stereotype Threat and Critiques of Nationalism in South Asian Diasporic Narratives.."
Nikki D. Floyd, Yale University. "Korea as Nowhere: The Class-Ethnicity Aporia in Japanese Proletarian Literature."
Wei Yang, Sewanee, The University of the South. "Unified Nation in Fragments: Urban Diaspora in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas.."
Ryan Cook, Yale University. "International Happening: Kanai Katsu�s Goodbye (1971)."
GENERAL TOPICS WASATCH B
Reading Medieval Images*
Chair: Jerry Root, University of Utah
Presenters: Alyce A. Jordan, Northern Arizona University. "Visual Rhetoric in Medieval Stained Glass: Writing and Reading, Restoring and Rewriting."
Katharine Breen, Northwestern University. "The Inexpert Viewer: A Literary-Critical Approach to Medieval Manuscript Images."
Dawn F. Colley, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Judging Knowledge: Text, Image, and Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe."
OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES WHITE PINE
Slavic Languages & Literature*
Chair: Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University
Presenters: Ryan M. Habermeyer, Del Mar College. "The Fascination of Loathing: Bruno Schulz and the Poetic Grotesque."
Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University. "Study (not)Abroad and the Russian Language."
Elena Y. Kostoglodova, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Hot Potatoes: Half-Baked Solutions for the Russian Language Classroom."
4:30PM - 6:00PM

GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE A
Mysticism: Identity and Meaning in Mystical Texts*
Chair: Rick B. McDonald, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Zina Petersen, Brigham Young University. "'My Ways Are Not Your Ways': The Sanctity of Insanity in Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe."
Rick B. McDonald, Utah Valley University. "Managing Mystical Identity: How to Seduce Your God."
Margaret M. Toscano, University of Utah. "Mechthild of Magdeburg's Erotic Theology of Personhood.."
GERMANIC STUDIES ALPINE B
German Literature since 1900
Chair: Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University
Presenters: Robert J. Jenkins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "A New Look at Rilke's Malte: A Cognitive Poetic Approach.."
David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona. "Prosodic, Lexical and Semantic Aspects of German Knittelvers.."
Margrit V. Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University. "From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: Ethnic Diversification in German Swiss Literature.."
Deborah D. Janson, West Virginia University. "Reflections on German Identity and the East-West Divide in Uwe Timm's Johannisnacht.."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE C
RMMLA Prose Authors Read their Works
Chair: Isabella E M Drzemczewska Hodson, University of Calgary
Presenters: Andrew James Fitch, University of Wyoming. "Other Voices, Other Rooms: Public Discourse and Experimental Narrative."
Karin Anderson, Utah Valley University. "Crash Ruminations."
Julie J. Nichols, Utah Valley University. "Perhaps the Historian of Her Own Consciousness: The Rise of Creative Nonfiction in the Twenty-first Century and the Evolution of Consciousness."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Early American Literature
Chair: Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University
Presenters: Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University. "'[T]o the right, lives a Catholic� his belief, his prayers offend nobody': The Case of Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur, a Catholic in New York."
James E. Bishop, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Sea Serpent of Cape Ann: Cryptozoology in Early American Travel Writing."
Keri Holt, Utah State University. "'Thus We Behold Kentucke!' Daniel Boone and the Making of an American Region."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Literary Criticism
Chair: Alison Harvey, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: James Caufield, Touro College, Los Angeles
Presenters: Sura Rath, Central Washington University. "Camera with Many I/Eyes: A Theory of Compound Narratives."
Chris M. Bell, Syracuse University. "Nothing About Us Without Some of Us: Disability Theory and/as Synecdoche."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE A
Peninsular Spanish Literature - III*
Chair: Paul Larson, Baylor University
Presenters: Frieda H. Blackwell, Baylor University. "Ester Tusquets and the Autobiographical Form in El mismo mar de todos los veranos and Hab�amos ganado la guerra."
John Gardner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. "Instant, Unique and Gone: Image and Text in Suso de Toro�s Polaroid .."
Kalen R. Oswald, Albion College. "Realism and Symbolism in Contemporary Spanish Detective Stories."
FILM STUDIES MAGPIE B
Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film
Chair: Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Jack Caughey, University of California, Los Angeles. "House Games: Shifting Rules of Rationality in Sherlock Holmes and House, M.D.."
Jans B. Wager, Utah Valley University. "Man as Redeemer and Other Masculinities in Film Noir."
Todd Robert Petersen, Southern Utah University. "From Robin Hood to Danny Ocean: Theft as Restorative Transgression."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES MAYBIRD
Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Session - Special Event)Reminiscences of Owen Barfield
Chair: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton
Alternate Chair: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Presenters: Owen Barfield, Independent Scholar. "A Grandson's Reminiscences, Reflections and Photos."
Terrance Hipolito, Independent Scholar. " Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning, A Documentary Film."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
French Literature since 1800
Chair: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair: Rachel Shuh, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Sudarsan Rangarajan, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "Flanerie in Butor�s L�Emploi du temps and La Modification.."
Bernadette Marie Ginestet-Levine, Independent Scholar. "Inscrire la marche des femmes dans les failles de l�Histoire. Violences et mouvance dans Les Marches de sable d�Andr�e Chedid.."
Robert L. Mazzola, Independent Scholar. "Beckett�s Nothingness: Unnameable? Or Unnamed?."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
Spencer*
Chair: Lara D. Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Lara D. Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SUPERIOR B
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom
Chair: Sandra Hill, University of Louisiana, Monroe
Alternate Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University
Presenters: Natalia Matveeva, University of Houston-Downtown. "Using Methods of Intercultural Training in a Service Technical Writing Course."
Molly K. Johnson, Eastern Washington University and Teena A M Carnegie, Eastern Washington University. "The Future of Textbooks in the Technical Communication Service Course.."
Claudia K. Grinnell, University of Louisiana, Monroe. "Blogs and Wikis and Podcasts! Oh My! Using Web 2.0 Technologies in Technical Writing Classrooms."
LINGUISTICS WASATCH A
Second Language AcquisitionDifferent Aspects of Second Language Acquisition
Chair: Carmen Schlig, Georgia State University
Alternate Chair: Casilde A. Isabelli, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Ekembe E. Enongene, University of Yaounde I. "Age, Socio-Cultural Environment and Language Development:: 'When there is profit and when there is loss'."
Casilde A. Isabelli, University of Nevada, Reno. "Development of Subject Expression in Spanish: The Effects of a Study Abroad Experience.."
Kim Fordham, University of Alberta, Augustana. "Reading The Reader. Incorporating a Novel into a Six-week Immersion Intensive Course."
Juan Antonio Trujillo, Oregon State University and Loren Chavarria, Oregon State University. "Teaching to the Sixth 'C': Learning Communities and Critical Consciousness in a College Language Program."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASATCH B
Western and Southwestern Literature
Chair: Cassie Polasek, Texas State University, San Marcos
Presenters: Kenneth W. Marrott, Dixie State College. "Building an Eco-Zion: Kingsolver and Eco-Aesthetic Architecture in the American West."
Cassie Polasek, Texas State University, San Marcos. "The Shape of the Road: A Study of the Journey in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy."
Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University. "Family Catastrophes in Richard Ford�s �Great Falls� and �Optimists'."
PEDAGOGY WHITE PINE
Teaching Foreign Languages
Chair: Joerg Meindl, Lebanon Valley College
Alternate Chair: Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University
Presenters: Evelyn Wisbey, University of Kansas. "Student-Created Podcasts in the Classroom.."
Amanda C. Boyd, University of North Dakota. "Creative Language Production in Advanced German Language Courses.."
Susanne Even, Indiana University. "Teaching Culture through Bilingual Novels.."
Monika Fischer, University of Missouri. "Blogging the World: Cultural Context through Foreign Language Blogs.."
6:00PM - 7:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS GOLDEN CLIFF - LEVEL C
Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Opening Night Reception."
7:30PM - 8:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MAYBIRD
Readings by Alex CaldieroPolyartist, Sonosopher, and Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University
Chair: Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Alex Caldiero, Utah Valley University. "Readings by Polyartist, Sonosopher, and Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MAYBIRD
Film Showing - Thursday Evening - Entre les murs (The Class)
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Entre les murs (The Class) (2008; directed by Laurent Cantet; In French w/English subtitles; PG-13; 128 minutes)."
FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 9
7:30AM -10:30AM

SPECIAL EVENTS MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Coffee/Tea Service - Friday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Coffee/Tea Service from 7:30-10:30 AM."
REGISTRATION MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Friday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Convention Registration."
8:30AM -10:00AM

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES ALPINE A
Hungarian Studies*
Chair: Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary's College of California
Alternate Chair: Maila Zitelli, Minot State University
Presenters: Paul Sohar, Independent Scholar. "Sandor Kanyadi and Modern Hungarian Poetry."
Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary's College of California. "Autobiography in Three Languages (Alexander Lenard)."
Marta S. Bebok, University of California, Berkeley. "The Correspondence of Laszlo Nemeth."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE B
Romanticism
Chair: James Caufield, Touro College, Los Angeles
Presenters: Alison Harvey, University of Nevada, Reno. "Honest Thady: Castle Rackrent and the Poetics of Economic Meltdown.."
Gloria Schultz Eastman, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Without Reason, Without Sympathy: Charlotte Smith's 'True Feeling for Rural Nature.'."
James Caufield, Touro College, Los Angeles. "' 'Tis something better not to be': The Counter-Discourse of Romantic Pessimism.."
GENDER STUDIES ALPINE C
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
Chair: Ruben Espinosa, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: Jan M. Hawkley, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: B G Harding, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Rectifying the Text in the Chester Purification of the Virgin Mary Play.."
Esther Gwen Newlin, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Marriage: The Exchange of the Physical for the Intangible in Santa Rosa del Peru.."
Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "Why Taming of the Shrew Works: A Post-Revisionist Feminist Perspective.."
Ruben Espinosa, University of Texas, El Paso. "Re-imagining Feminine Potency in Antony and Cleopatra."
PEDAGOGY COTTONWOOD A
Teaching English Composition - II*
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University
Presenters: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
SPECIAL EVENTS COTTONWOOD B
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting)
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University and Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado and Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Issues in Retention of Faculty and Students."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
African American Literature
Chair: Judith L. Strathearn, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Stephen Macauley, University of Utah
Presenters: Melissa Sue Whitney, University of Texas, San Antonio. "Mother -Daughter Psychological Diasporas in Tina McElroy Ansa's Ugly Ways and Taking After Mudear."
Rebecca Q. Barlow, Brigham Young University. "Redefining Family: Familial Relationships in Kindred.."
Rose M. Metts, Savannah State University. "Church Folks in Black Poetry: Caricature and Criticism.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION MAGPIE B
Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond
Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University
Alternate Chair: Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College
Presenters: Glen T. Southergill, Clemson University. "An Analysis of Writing Center Contributions to Transitional Learning.."
Bethany Blankenship, University of Montana, Western. "Real World Ethics in the Tech Comm Classroom.."
Curtis R. Newbold, Clemson University. "Teaching Creativity in Technical Communication Classrooms: More than Just a Knack.."
GENERAL TOPICS MAYBIRD
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film
Chair: Joshua K. Johnson, Montana State University
Presenters: Diane Krantz, Weber State University. "Abjecting the Abjector in Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow."
Carl R. Beideman, Montana State University. "Ender's Shame: A Critique of Alterity and Anthropocentrism in Orson Scott Card's Enger's Game."
Joshua K. Johnson, Montana State University. "Postmodern Satire: Borges and Pratchett's Ape of the Modernistic Library."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+
Chair: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Literature since 1900
Chair: James Prothero, Santa Ana College
Alternate Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Presenters: Mara Reisman, Northern Arizona University. "Art, Economics, and the Politics of Purity in the Works of Fay Weldon."
Kamri Evans-Goff, Weber State University. "A Prayer in the Thunder: Eliot�s �What the Thunder Said� as a Prayer to the Wasteland."
Emily January Petersen, Weber State University. "The Novels of Dorothy Whipple."
Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University. "The Ethics of Distrust: Julian Barnes�s Metafiction as Pedagogy."
ASIAN STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Chinese Literature before 1900*
Chair: Daniel Alan Fried, University of Alberta
Presenters: Fusheng Wu, University of Utah. "Linking Verses with Emperors in Medieval China."
Jing Wang, Carnegie Mellon University. "Sensuality and Intelligence: Courtesan Culture in the Tang Dynasty."
Zheng Cai, University of Alberta. "Heaven beyond Earth: The Celestial Fiction in Early Chinese Poetry."
FILM STUDIES SUPERIOR B
Movies and the Shoah / Le Cinéma et la Shoah*
Chair: Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College
Presenters: Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University. "Life is Beautiful, or Is It? Asked Jakob the Liar."
Ryan P. Simmons, Spokane Falls Community College. "'These Jews Fight': Violence, Masculinity, and Nation in Defiance."
Keith A. Moser, Mississippi State University. "The Poignant Combination of Beauty and Horror in the Aesthetic Representations of the Holocaust in Lanzmann�s Shoah and Le Clézio�s Etoile Errante."
WRITING PROGRAMS WASATCH A
Landscape, Literature, and Liminality*
Chair: Robert W. King, Utah State University, Tooele Campus
Presenters: Nathan C. Straight, Utah State University, Brigham City Campus. "Canvas, Medium, Counterpoint: Making Art on, of, and against Great Salt Lake."
Robert W. King, Utah State University, Tooele Campus. "Walden as Oasis: Thoreau and Desert Spirituality.."
Alan Blackstock, Utah State University. "Nirvana Comes for the Archbishop: Transcendence in the Desert."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASATCH B
American Nineteenth-Century Literature
Chair: Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Christopher G. Diller, Berry College. "The Instinct of Faith: The Sabbath Controversy in Hawthorne's 'Sunday at Home.'."
Nadia Hamilton Morales, University of Texas, El Paso. "Calvinism and Aesthetic Representation as Wartime Judicial Process in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor.."
Lu Li Ru, Huafan University. "The Construction of National Culture and Initial Environmental Concern in Thomas Nuttall's Natural History Writings.."
Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso. "Race, Sentiment, and Indian Captivity in the Nineteenth-Century Southwest.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES WHITE PINE
Rhetorical Criticism*
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Glenn H. Dayley, US Air Force Academy Preparatory School. "I Have a Diminishing Dream: The American Dream Metaphor in Barak Obama�s Speeches."
Zach Bankston, University of Nevada, Reno. "A Secondary Fantasy-Theme Critique: Erasmus, Folly, and the Clergy."
Jeff Swift, Brigham Young University. "Great Emancipators:The Anti-slavery Rhetoric of William Wilberforce and Abraham Lincoln."
Marie Isabel Gardett, Trident Technical College. "The Sorcerers� Presidents: Shamanic Language and Power on the Campaign Trail."
10:15AM -11:45AM

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES ALPINE A
Current Research in Literary Theory*
Chair: Joe Hughes, University of Edinburgh
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Joe Hughes, University of Edinburgh. "Meillassoux, Deleuze and the Possibility of a Speculative Materialism.."
Eleanor Kaufman, University of California, Los Angeles. "Deleuze and Stasis.."
Paul R. Bryant, Collin College. "The Ethics of Immanence.."
GERMANIC STUDIES ALPINE B
German Romantic Literature and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy*
Chair: Anne R. Peterson, University of Kansas
Presenters: Anne R. Peterson, University of Kansas. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE C
RMMLA Poets Read their Works - II*
Chair: William W. Wright, Mesa State College
Alternate Chair: Julie Steward, Samford University
Presenters: Julie Steward, Samford University and Jon D. Cotner, State University of New York at Buffalo and Andrew James Fitch, University of Wyoming and Jennifer R. Hancock, Mesa State College. "Readings by."
ASIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches*
Chair: Elisabeth Arti Wulandari, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presenters: Nelly Martin, Ohio University. "Code-switching in Indonesian as a Second Language Classroom."
Chatwara Suwannamai, Arizona State University. "Thai Language and its Policy within the Kingdom of Thailand."
Neil H. Olsen, University of Utah. "Classifiers in Kơho: A Mon-Khmer Language of Việt Nam."
John Thomas Mattioli, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The Poetry of Rice: Some Attempts at a Poetics of Field and Farm."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Ecocriticism
Chair: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Adele H. Bealer, University of Utah. "Changing the Rules: Rearticulating Ecosocial Crisis."
Alf Seegert, University of Utah. "Virtuality: For and Against Nature in William Morris� News from Nowhere and J.-K. Huysmans� A Rebours."
Erin Finzer, University of Utah. "Mother Earth, Mother Nation: The Nature Writing and Conservationism of Gabriela Mistral."
Dynette Reynolds, University of Utah. "On Sea Monkeys and Cyborgs: Totalizing Discourses in the Posthuman Eco-imagination."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
Contemporary American Women Writers Representing Masculinities*
Chair: Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
Presenters: Pamela J. Rader, Georgian Court University. "Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek."
Marci L. Carrasquillo, Simpson College. "Mobile Masculinities and the Fiction of Racial Purity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo."
Wendy Pearce Miller, University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "'Born between things': The Scapegoat and the Transitional Man."
WRITING PROGRAMS MAGPIE B
Writing ProgramsWriting Programs: Improving Performance by Assessing Our Work
Chair: Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College. "Assessing What We Do: Using Action Research as a Frame for Writing Program Evaluation."
Jane Chapman Vigil, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Making Assessment Work: Aligning Pedagogy and Curriculum."
Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University. "Assessing Student Writing in the Social Sciences: The Impact of Course Location and Teacher Knowledge."
GENERAL TOPICS MAYBIRD
Harry Potter (Open Topic)*
Chair: Jack Caughey, University of California, Los Angeles
Alternate Chair: Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Chung-chien Karen Chang, Arizona State University. "Dual-planed Structure in Barry Trotter."
Renee L. Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles. "Harry Potter and the Ticking Time Bomb Scenario."
Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University. "Harry Potter and the Hero Cycle."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Women in French
Chair: Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Chair: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado
Presenters: Julie A. Monty, University of Central Arkansas. "Subverting Gender Norms and Heterocentrism: Christiane Rochefort�s Dystopian Novel, Une Rose pour Morrison.."
Veronique Machelidon, Meredith College. "Race, Slavery and (in)Visibility in George Sand�s Novel Indiana.."
Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Leaving and Coming Home to Vietnam: Kim LeF�vre Chronicles the M�tisse Experience.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Seventeenth-Century Literature
Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University
Presenters: Jan M. Hawkley, University of Nevada, Reno. "Creating History: The Declaration of William of Orange.."
Jessica L. Tvordi, Southern Utah University. "Reformation Nostalgia and Sexual Politics in Andrew Marvell's �Upon Appleton House, To my Lord Fairfax'.."
Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University. "�Deny Us Not our Commoditie�: Roger Williams and the Spiritual Marketplace, 1643-44.."
Kreg Segall, Regis College. "Mucedorus and Hungry Envy.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SUPERIOR A
El Mundo Literario de Jos� Javier Abasolo: Sesi�n homenaje al escritor y su obra*Special Session Sponsored by the Spanish Ministerio de Cultura
Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama
Alternate Chair: Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Ricardo Landeira, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La versi�n policiaca de la novel�stica de Javier Abasolo."
Jennifer N. Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Multiple Narrators, Folds, and Mirrored Constructions in Jos� Javier Abasolo's El aniversario de la independencia."
Jose Javier Abasolo, Independent Scholar-Writer. "Respondent:."
FILM STUDIES SUPERIOR B
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock*
Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Presenters: Michael Vincent Dow, New York University. "A Reason for Everything: The Cinematic Skepticism of Hitchcock's Fall from Freud."
Debbie Olson, Oklahoma State University. "The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds."
Donald A. McCorkindale, Central Washington University. "Vertigo and the Audible Female Voice."
Matthew Ramsey, Salve Regina University. "Enter Sir John: Murder! and Queer Performance."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASATCH A
Owen Barfield
Chair: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Alternate Chair: Terrance Hipolito, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Julie J. Nichols, Utah Valley University. "Perhaps the Historian of Her Own Consciousness: The Rise of Creative Nonfiction and the Evolution of Consciousness.."
Daniel Smitherman, Independent Scholar. "Tolkien, Barfield, and the Language of Original Participation.."
Jeffrey N. Hipolito, Everett Community College. "Epic Ambition: Auden, Barfield, and Eliot at Mid-Century.."
Owen Barfield, Independent Scholar. "Symbolism/Polarity and a Link to Nature.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASATCH B
American Nineteenth-Century Literature - II*
Chair: Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Elisa A. Findlay, Brigham Young University. "Finding a Voice: The Masculinization of Jo March.."
Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Learning How to Sail her Ship: Humor and Irony in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott.."
Amy A. Easton-Flake, Brandeis University. "Battle for Image: Suffrage Images in the Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.."
Jennifer M. Nader, University of New Mexico. "Generational Mirrors: Exposing Patriarchal Destruction in Kate Chopin's 'Desir�e's Baby.'."
PEDAGOGY WHITE PINE
Technology and Distance Education
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Alternate Chair: Michael Dabrowski, Athabasca University
Presenters: David M. Christensen, Utah State University. "Emerging Technologies: Exploring Collaboration Tools for Depth and Breadth in the Digitized Writing Classroom."
Liza J. Olsen, Utah State University. "'Hey Mom, I�m on TV': The Role of Interactive Broadcast in Twenty-first Century Distance Learning."
Virginia Norris Exton, Utah State University. "After the Tipping Point: English Education in the Digital Age."
11:45AM - 1:15PM

SPECIAL EVENTS BALLROOM - LEVEL B
Luncheon Buffet & Keynote Speech by Stephen Trimble
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University and RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Luncheon Buffet, Announcements, Keynote Address by Stephen Trimble."
1:30PM - 3:00PM

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES ALPINE A
Deleuze and Guattari*
Chair: Joe Hughes, University of Edinburgh
Presenters: Nozomi Irei, Southern Utah University. "Storytelling and Writing in Our Time: Decoded Flows of Desire in Silko's Ceremony.."
Sergey A. Toymentsev, Rutgers University. "Un peuple qui manque: Exemplary Singularities and the Obstacle of Democracy in Deleuze's Project of Fabulation.."
LINGUISTICS ALPINE B
Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics
Chair: Michael Hubert, Washington State University
Presenters: Michael Hubert, Washington State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
SPECIAL EVENTS ALPINE C
Publishing Forum
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
CONJOINT MEETINGS BOARDROOM - LEVEL C
Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Business Meeting)
Chair: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton
Alternate Chair: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Presenters: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Owen Barfield Society - Business Meeting (Open)."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Flannery O'Connor
Chair: Ann M. Pelelo, Clarke College
Alternate Chair: Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Lorna R. Wiedmann, Wisconsin Lutheran College. "How the Lame Shall Enter First: Teaching Catholic Conversion to Lutherans."
Theresa E. Dozier, Prince Georges Community College. "Exorcising Ghosts in Flannery O'Connor's 'Christ-Haunted South'."
Paul Wakeman, Marquet University. "Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Environment: A Catholic Appreciation for Nature."
PEDAGOGY COTTONWOOD B
Second Language Perception and Pronunciation: Implications for the Foreign Language Classroom*
Chair: Laura Catharine Smith, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Laura Catharine Smith, Brigham Young University. "The Impact of L1 Dialect on L2 Perception and Pronunciation: Implications for the Classroom."
Rachel Hayes-Harb, University of Utah and Albert O. Jarvi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Mara Haslam, University of Utah. "L2 Word Identification Performance under Various Task Conditions.."
Wendy Baker, Brigham Young University. "Factors Affecting Second Language Pronunciation Accuracy.."
LINGUISTICS MAGPIE A
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis: Analyzing Discourse-Pragmatic Function in Texts and Contexts*
Chair: Laura Alba-Juez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion Distancia
Presenters: Laura Alba-Juez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion Distancia and Elena Martinez-Caro, Universidad Complutense Madrid. "'No wonder you�re in trouble! ': The Evaluative Function as Part of the Hidden Pragmatic Meaning of Certain Expressions in English and Spanish.."
Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon, Natl University of R�o Cuarto, C�rdoba (Argentina). "The Review as Evaluative Field for (Im)politeness.."
Carmen Santamaria, University of Alcala. "Exaggerated Evaluation in Interest to the Hearer."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION MAGPIE B
Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication
Chair: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Presenters: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University. "NVivo in the Classroom: Advantages through Technology.."
Jason Cootey, Utah State University. "User-generated Computer Game Manuals as a Force of Change on Professional Practices.."
Cynthia A. Nahrwold, University of Arkansas, Little Rock. "Teamwork Skills: How Are They Taught?."
Keith A. Grant-Davie, Utah State University. "Border Trade between Professional Communication and its Neighbors.."
ASIAN STUDIES MAYBIRD
Modern Chinese Poetry*Poetry That Isn't Poetry?
Chair: Heather Inwood, Ohio State University
Presenters: Michael Martin Day, National University. "When is Poetry 'Good' or 'Bad' in a Field of Anarchy?."
Li Zhang, Columbia University. "It Couldn't Happen Here: The Appropriation of Early Modern Poetry in Popular Magazines.."
John A. Crespi, Colgate University. "Look...Nothing�s Happening: Poetic Aesthetics Set to Documentary in Yu Jian�s Jade Green Station.."
Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar. "When is a Non-Poem a Poem: The Visual Poetry of Yang Fudong, Ma Liang and Niu An.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Special Session on Wallace Stegner*
Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University
Presenters: Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Special Session on Wallace Stegner."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Renaissance Literature
Chair: Lara D. Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Lara D. Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+The Burgeoning Mormon Authorship in Genre Fiction
Chair: Alan Goff, DeVry University
Presenters: R B Scott, Independent Scholar. "R. B. Scott, Journalist and Author: The Impertinence of Writing Real, Confessions of a (Guilty) Mormon Boy.."
Tyler Chadwick, Idaho State University. "Reading the Mormon Gothic: LDS Vampires and the Uncanny.."
MaryAnn Taylor, Mountain View College. "Twitterpation; or, Hath the Muse Fled."
PEDAGOGY SUPERIOR B
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Presenters: James Paul Grove, Mount Mercy College. "Searching for Constellations: A Viewer Response to Studying Film.."
Jane Dilworth, Saint Mary's College of California. "Teaching Film as a Critical Device for Second Language Acquisition Courses.."
Therese M. Rizzo, University of North Carolina, Pembroke. "Adapting the Written Word: Opportunities and Problems Posed by Teaching Fiction and Film.."
Robert Jackson, University of Virginia. "Dark Days and Deep Economies: Contours of Activist Filmmaking.."
ITALIAN STUDIES WASATCH A
Contemporary Italian Cinema*
Chair: Roberta DiCarmine, Western Illinois University
Presenters: Latifah H. Troncelliti, Saint Bonaventure University. "Ozpetek's Cuore Sacro and Pasolini's Teorema: The Eternal Conflict.."
Staisey Divorski, University of California, Los Angeles. "Displacing Female Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema.."
Roberta DiCarmine, Western Illinois University. "Deadly Love in Matteo Garrone's Primo Amore and L'imbalsamatore.."
GENDER STUDIES WASATCH B
Mothers in Literature of Women of Color in the Twentieth Century*
Chair: Melissa Sue Whitney, University of Texas, San Antonio
Presenters: Stephanie E. Harper, California State University, Northridge. ""A New Life for Helga Crane": Affirming the Maternal in Nella Larsen's Quicksand."
Adriane N. Niedorf-Pierson, University of Texas, San Antonio. "Badly Dissociative: Mothers in Breath, Eyes, Memory and Ugly Ways.."
Corey D. Clawson, Utah State University. "'Right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man': The Trials of African American Motherhood in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WHITE PINE
Artes visuales, literatura y movimientos culturales de la Espana de los siglos XX y XXI*
Chair: Nuria God�n-Mart�nez, Creighton University
Presenters: Carrie L. Ruiz, Carnegie Mellon University. "El mecanismo de la fragmentaci�n en la narrativa de Pedro Salinas y la fotograf�a de Raoul Ubac."
David Richter, Utah State University. "Sub-Realist Expression in Spain: Juan Larrea and the Hispanic Avant-Garde."
Maggie C. McCullar, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Other Worlds, Other Words: Fantasy in Ana Mar�a Matute�s Olvidado Rey Gud�."
3:15PM - 4:45PM

GERMANIC STUDIES ALPINE A
Germany since 1990*
Chair: Robert J. Jenkins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters: Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "Cervantes in Recent East German Literature."
David Hartwig, University of New Mexico. "Satire, Humor, and Irony in Brussig's Helden wie wir and Sparschuh's Der Zimmerspringbrunnen."
Gabriele Eichmanns, Carnegie Mellon University. "'Wer fragt denn nach Heimat?� Hybride Identit�tsformen in Yad� Karas Selam Berlin."
PEDAGOGY ALPINE B
Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES ALPINE C
Chicano Writers: The Pioneer Generation*
Chair: Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Jungwon Park, University of Northern Colorado. "Korea, the Wandering Signifier in Foundational Chicano Writers."
Meredith E. Abarca, University of Texas, El Paso. "The Literary Wisdom of a Chicana 'Abuela': The Works of Estela Portillo Trambley."
Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Burciaga's Borders: Religious and Cultural."
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston. "Lycha Corpi and Graciela Limon: Reinventing Narrative Strategies for Chicana Novelists."
SPECIAL EVENTS COTTONWOOD A
Graduate Student ForumJob Market Strategies in Tough Economic Times
Chair: Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Jennifer N. Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University. "Graduate Student Forum: Job Market Strategies in Tough Economic Times."
Madonne Miner, Weber State University and Francoise Hibbs, Salt Lake Community College and Ricardo Landeira, University of Colorado, Boulder. "."
GENDER STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Women in/and Literature
Chair: Melissa Root, Naropa University
Presenters: Angela B. Sweeney, Utah State University. "'Each Spark Had a Shine and a Song': Music and Freedom in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Ginger H. Knowlton, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Finding Space: Contemporary Women Poets in America."
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Sex, Violence, and Comic on the Stage in a Tenth-Century Benedictine Convent: Theatrical Strategies by the Canoness Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
The Novel in Mormon Literature: Problems with Didacticism and the Critical Eye*
Chair: Jeniveve Jacobs Wahlquist, Utah Valley University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jeniveve Jacobs Wahlquist, Utah Valley University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION MAGPIE B
Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication
Chair: Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College
Alternate Chair: David J. Reamer, University of Arizona
Presenters: Alfred R. Boysen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Research Experience for Undergraduates in Engineering and Science: Instructional Implications for Teaching Technical Communications."
Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Sam Houston State University. "Local Contexts: A Postmodern Approach to Interdisciplinary Research."
Russell Willerton, Boise State University. "Is There a Case for Dummies-Downed Technical Journals? Some Nurses Say Yes."
Rebecca Evon Hawkins, University of Southern Indiana. "Characterizing Self-Regulation in Student Technical Writers."
GENERAL TOPICS MAYBIRD
Let the Cowboy Ride: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Discourse about Cattle Ranching*
Chair: Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Paul F. Starrs, University of Nevada, Reno. "Finding the Sense of Place in Ranch Literature: Where's the Post-Millenial Cowhand to Go?."
Julia D. Combs, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Let the Sheep Man Ride: Rhetorical Analysis of a Southern Utah Rancher's Advice to CSU."
Nika C. Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass: Cowboy Poetry and Cattle Ranching."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
French Cultural and Literary Theory
Chair: Jason Herbeck, Boise State University
Presenters: Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley University. "'Becoming-Dog' as Affirmative Resistance: A Reconsideration of the Deleuzian Reading of Kafka's The Trial.."
Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University. "Focalizing on the Fringe: Foucault and Contemporary French-Language Film.."
Lorie G. Sauble-Otto, University of Northern Colorado. "'In the white of the page': Monique Wittig's Literary Workshop.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
English Eighteenth-Century Literature
Chair: John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair: John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University
Presenters: John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "Samuel Johnson and Don Quixote.."
John E. Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Not eleemosynary: Tom Jones and the Public Sphere.."
Kandi A. Tayebi, Sam Houston State University. "Death and Desire: Charlotte Smith and the Elegiac Tradition.."
LINGUISTICS SUPERIOR A
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis: Analyzing Discourse-Pragmatic Function in Texts and Contexts II*
Chair: Laura Alba-Juez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion Distancia
Presenters: Mercedes Diez, Universidad de Alcala. "The Directive Function in Teenager Magazines: A Contrastive View in English and Spanish."
Silvia Molina, The Technical University of Madrid and Irina Arg�elles �lvarez, Independent Scholar. "The Expression of Epistemic and Attitudinal Stance in Three Speech Events from the Michigan Corpus of Spoken English (MICASE).."
Beatriz Courel Ginzo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. "Reproach in English and Spanish: A Contrastive Analysis: �The trouble with you is�� vs. �Eres igual que tu padre�."
Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon, Natl University of R�o Cuarto, C�rdoba (Argentina). "Respondent:."
FILM STUDIES SUPERIOR B
Rhetoric of Humor: The Moves that Make us Laugh*
Chair: Jeff Swift, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Robert G. Cedillo, University of Nevada, Reno and Alwin Harahap, San Francisco State University. "Fake News is Good News: The Daily Show as Equipment for Living."
Mary Hedengren, Brigham Young University. "'You See, It's Funny Because...': Comedic Evaluation and Burkean Identification."
ASIAN STUDIES WASATCH A
Asian Comparative Literature and Film - II*Fantastic Bodies: The Sexualized Ethnic Other in East Asian Literature and Film
Chair: Jennifer L. Feeley, University of Iowa
Presenters: J Colleen Berry, University of North Dakota. "Both Sides Now: Kawashima Yoshiko and the Intersection of Nations, Genders, and Sexualities.."
Xiqing Zheng, University of Iowa. "Love Him, Make Him a Shou: A Preliminary Study of Gender Equality Issues in Chinese Slash Fiction.."
Takuya Tsunoda, Yale University. "Anonymous Asia in Miike Takashi�s Ley Lines (1999)."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASATCH B
Tennyson Bicentenary: Twenty-first-Century Critical Responses to the Victorian Laureate*
Chair: Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Olivia Loksing Moy, Columbia University. "King Arthur and the Chiasmus in Tennyson's Idylls of the King.."
Ryan D. Stewart, Brigham Young University. "Translating Grief: In Memoriam and Tennyson's Horace."
Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. "In Memoriam: Beyond Freudian Mourning and Melancholia.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WHITE PINE
Early Modern Spanish Writers*
Chair: Carrie L. Ruiz, Carnegie Mellon University
Alternate Chair: Barbara Rodriguez-Guridi, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: James D. Fogelquist, Idaho State University. "King and Court in Don Quixote."
Barbara Rodriguez-Guridi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Celestina: Madre literaria de la picaresca femenina."
Elena Rodriguez-Guridi, Le Moyne College. "Excesos narrativos y tramas in-corporadas en Los Desenga�os amorosos de Mar�a de Zayas."
5:00PM - 6:30PM

GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE C
The Meaning of Food: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural Values*
Chair: Roula H. Kogos, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Melanie K. Haupt, University of Texas, Austin. "Someone�s In the Kitchen with Ma: Curry, Cosmopolitanism and Consumption in The Hindi-Bindi Club."
Phillip A. Snyder, Brigham Young University. "Food Rituals in Cormac McCarthy�s The Road."
James Arthur Goldberg, Brigham Young University. "Egalitarian Eating: Socially-Leveling Religious Food Traditions."
Christopher Paul Bindel, University of Oregon. "Southern Hunger: Elements of Environmental Justice in Richard Wright and James Agee."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Southern Literature
Chair: Randy Jasmine, Dixie State College of Utah
Presenters: Roseann Kristine Mansfield, Dixie State College. "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Zora Neale Hurston and the Oral Tradition."
Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia. "Tasting the South: Foodways in Contemporary Southern Poetry."
Robert L. Powell, LeMoyne Owen College. "Are These Heroes Commies or Capitalists? Rugged Individualism in Richard Wright�s Fiction."
GENDER STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Women of Color Writers and Environmental Justice Literature*
Chair: Andrea K. Campbell, Washington State University
Presenters: Ali Brox, University of Kansas. "'Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green': Intersections of Social Justice and Environmental Justice in Toni Morrison�s Song of Solomon and A Mercy ."
Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Oregon. "Performing Environmentalism in Ana Castillo�s So Far from God ."
Patricia Marion Louw, University of Zululand. "Island Women: Environmental and Social Justice on Robben Island and Mauritius."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
Textual Depictions of American Polygamy*
Chair: Karin Anderson, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Lisa Olsen Tait, University of Houston. "'Suggestions' to the Girls: Post-Polygamy in the Fiction of Susa Young Gates.."
Heather Hadley, Utah Valley University. "The Paper Eaters.."
Ronda Walker Weaver, Independent Scholar. "Re-Presentations of Polygamy: Contemporary Mormon Women's Accounts of their Ancestral Family Structures."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE B
Spanish American Literature
Chair: Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College
Presenters: Janis Breckenridge, Whitman College. "National Identity (Crisis): From the Ruins of Argentina�s Dirty War."
Luis H. Castaneda, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Gestos enf�ticos y palabras contundentes: las estrategias de presentaci�n grupal del artista urbano en Ad�n Buenosayres de Leopoldo Marechal y Tres tristes tigres de Guillermo Cabrera."
Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Los matices rom�nticos en el pensamiento de Jos� Enrique Rod�."
Daniel P. Hunt, Idaho State University. "Traces and Teachings of Mesoamerican Creation Myths in Gioconda Belli�s El infinito en la palma de la mano."
GENERAL TOPICS MAYBIRD
Literature for Children and Young Adults
Chair: Lorraine D. Wallace, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Susan J. Konantz, Western Colorado Community College. "Objective, Subjective, and Metaphorical Reality of Bridges in The Thief Lord."
Soophia Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University. "When Peer Pressure is Positive: Schoolgirls as Models of Good Behavior in Enid Blyton's Malory Towers and St. Clare's Series."
Kay A. Smith, Utah Valley University. "Drugs, Sex, and Rock-n-Roll--but Little Religion in Young Adult Literature."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES RENDEZVOUS A
Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction
Chair: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Presenters: Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta. "L�horreur initiatique dans Le Jardin des supplices de Mirbeau et Ma Mère de Bataille.."
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Pacific Union College. "Apocalypse fin-de-si�cle dans Les Mauvais Bergers d�Octave Mirbeau.."
Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "La 628-E-8 and its European Adventure.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Spatiality: Open Spaces, Closed Spaces, Hybrid 'Third' Spaces'*Respondent Stephen Trimble, Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Space in America
Chair: Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Presenters: Binod Paudyal, Utah State University. "Ironizing Home in Claude McKay�s Home to Harlem."
Basu Maan Daas, Karimganj College. "Double-amputation of Sylhet and Identity Crisis in Jarapata."
Karin deJonge-Kannan, Utah State University. "Using the Humanities Requirement to Draw Students into Languages and Cultures."
Sivasish Biswas, Assam University. "Journey Across Borders: Migrancy and Hybridity in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh."
Stephen Trimble, Independent Scholar and Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Respondents:."
ASIAN STUDIES WASATCH A
Asian Comparative Literature and Film - III*Traveling Genres and Aesthetics: Literary and Cinematic Interflows Within Asia
Chair: Jennifer L. Feeley, University of Iowa
Presenters: Kristof Van den Troost, Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Detectives, Cops and Robbers in Hong Kong: Regional and Global Cinematic Flows in the 1950s and 1960s.."
Cecile Emilie Lagesse, Yale University. "Post-nationality and Hou Hsiao-hsien�s Caf� Lumi�re.."
Frederik H. Green, Yale University. "Haikus for China? Zhou Zuoren and the Modern Japanese Poetry Movement.."
GERMANIC STUDIES WASATCH B
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+
Chair: Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College
Alternate Chair: Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters: Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "Hertha Pauli: A Voice for Peace, Tolerance, and Human Rights.."
Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Posthumous Provocation or Irrelevant Relic? Interpreting Thomas Bernhard's Meine Preise (2009).."
Jeffrey M. Packer, Utah Valley University. "Just What is Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Anyway? An Attempted Introspection.."
PEDAGOGY WHITE PINE
Teaching English Composition
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University
Presenters: Kyra Hudson, Weber State University. "TBA."
Elizabeth J. Kirchoff, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "'Becoming a �Smart Student': An Analysis of Student Constructed Identity, Academia, and Learning."
Alisha Paxton, Utah State University. "Of Games, Pictures and Persuasion: A Practical Approach to Using Play in Teaching Composition."
7:30PM - 8:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MAYBIRD
Readings by Utah Poet Laureate, Katherine Coles
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: Katherine Coles, University of Utah. "Readings."
8:00PM -10:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MAGPIE A
Evening Social/Cash Bar for German StudiesPlease join your colleagues in German for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "German Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS MAGPIE B
Evening Social/Cash Bar for Technical & Professional Communication, Writing ProgramsPlease join your colleagues for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS SUPERIOR A
Evening Social/Cash Bar for English StudiesPlease join your colleagues in English Studies for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "English Studies Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS SUPERIOR B
Evening Social/Cash Bar for Spanish - Portuguese StudiesPlease join your colleagues in Spanish and Portuguese for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Spanish-Portuguese Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS WASATCH A
Evening Social/Cash Bar for Asian StudiesPlease join your colleagues for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Asian Studies Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS WASATCH B
Evening Social/Cash Bar for French StudiesPlease join your colleagues in French for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "French Social/Cash Bar."
SPECIAL EVENTS WHITE PINE
Evening Social/Cash Bar for Linguistics, Pedagogy, Film StudiesPlease join your colleagues for informal discussions and networking.
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Social/Cash Bar."
SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 10
7:30AM -10:30AM

SPECIAL EVENTS MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Coffee/Tea Service - Saturday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Coffee/Tea Service."
REGISTRATION MEZZANINE LOBBY - LEVEL C
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Saturday
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Convention Registration."
8:30AM -10:00AM

GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE A
Literature and Science
Chair: Ed A. McNicoll, Southern Utah University
Presenters: Bryce J. Christensen, Southern Utah University. "Tragedy without Tears? Confronting the Contradictions in C.P. Snow's Understanding of Tragedy in a Scientific World."
Lauren J. DeGraffenreid, Montana State University. "Que sais je? Stephen Jay Gould and the Humanistic Field Trip for Science."
Robin E. Calland, Mesa State College. "Bringing Hostile Parties to the Table: Y.A. Novels that Hold Scientific Discourses and Religious Discourses in Solution."
WRITING PROGRAMS ALPINE C
Writing Programs at Utah State University*The Ripple Effect: How USU Programs Collaborate with Campus and Community to Support Writing
Chair: Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Star Coulbrooke, Utah State University. "Helicon West: Where the Muses Meet the Rocky Mountain Community."
John Engler, Utah State University. "They Shall Be Heard: Taking Comp Classes Public."
Susan B. Andersen, Utah State University. "Converse Conversations: When a Hit Becomes a Miss."
Susan Nyikos, Utah State University. "Where Hip Meets Slam: How a Celebration of the Beat Generation Grows into a Community-Wide Event."
GENERAL TOPICS COTTONWOOD A
Milton to Today*
Chair: Merlin G. Cheney, Weber State University
Presenters: Merlin G. Cheney, Weber State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
American Literature after 1900
Chair: Paul Kerschen, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Kyle W. Bishop, Southern Utah University. "The Home Fires Are Burning: Domestic Conflagration as Failed Panacea for Twentieth-Century Racial Tension."
Martina U. Jauch, Purdue University. "Americo Paredes� Play with Children's Politics."
Rachel Yvette Redfern, Brigham Young University. "Civil War Nostalgia in Gone with the Wind and The March."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE B
Peninsular Spanish Narrative and Theatre*
Chair: Jennifer N. Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Carmi�a Palerm, Pacific Lutheran University
Presenters: Luis I. Pr�danos, Texas Tech University. "La representaci�n del terrorismo postmoderno en la novela espa�ola del tercer milenio: observaci�n de segundo orden en las narraciones sist�micas.."
Michael Adam Carroll, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Lies, Labels, and Location: Language in El rufi�n dichoso."
Elena Garcia-Martin, University of Utah. "Contemporary Women Playwrights: Body Politics on the Spanish Stage."
Conxita Domenech, University of Colorado, Boulder. "La Espa�a de los Gigantes y cabezudos ."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES MAYBIRD
Mary Shelley
Chair: Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University
Presenters: Colin Edward Carman, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Mary Shelley and Editing Out."
Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University. "Listening between the Lines: Mary Shelley and Music."
Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University. "Reading Mary Shelley Reading."
Nicholas Mason, Brigham Young University. "Mary Shelley, the Cockneys, and the 'Blackwood's School' of Criticism."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES RENDEZVOUS B
Shakespeare
Chair: Elizabeth B. Lang, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: Ruben Espinosa, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Varsha Balachandran, University of Akron. "Othello to Omkara: A Sketch of Indian Adaptations of Shakespeare."
GENDER STUDIES SUMMIT ROOM - LEVEL 10
Women's Caucus Breakfast and Guest Speaker'How (and Why) the News Media Scare Women' by Jan Whitt, Professor of Journalism, Univ. of Colorado
Chair: Scott D. Banville, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Jan Whitt, University of Colorado, Boulder. "How (and Why) the News Media Scare Women."
FILM STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Film (Open Topic)
Chair: Patricia L. Terry, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Presenters: Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University. "Thoreau in the Suburbs: Transcendentalist Style in Douglas Sirk's All that Heaven Allows.."
Ann M. Ciasullo, Gonzaga University. "'I Love You, Man,' or: Men without Women in Contemporary Hollywood Films.."
Jason T. McEntee, South Dakota State University. "Strangers in their Own Land: Warrior Representation in the Iraqi Freedom 'Coming Home' Narrative.."
William J. McCarthy, Catholic University. "Fundamentalism and Filicide: Dassin's Portrait of an 'American Medea' in A Dream of Passion.."
ASIAN STUDIES SUPERIOR B
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900Contemporary Chinese-language Fiction, Film, and Poetry
Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: Anne L. Xu, Gettysburg College
Presenters: Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "Xiao (Filiality) and Ming (Fate/Life) as Cultural Markers and Structuring Devices in the Fiction of Li Qiao."
Anne L. Xu, Gettysburg College. "Survival and Revival of Peking Opera in Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Forever Enthralled."
Lucas R. Klein, Yale University. "Poetry that Isn�t Poetry: Translating Poetry that Isn�t Poetry: Xi Chuan�s Lyric & Prose-Poetics in English."
LINGUISTICS WASATCH A
Cross-Cultural and Contrastive Rhetoric: Issues in Language Analysis and Teaching*
Chair: Marohang Limbu, University of Texas, El Paso
Presenters: Qiumin Dong, New Mexico State University. "Improving Students� Cultural Awareness Skills through Business and Professional Communication Instruction: Perspectives from Cross-Cultural Communication and Intercultural Rhetoric."
Olufunke Olufemi Lawal, University of Lagos, Faculty of Education and Olasumbo S. Apanpa, University of Lagos Faculty of Education. "Acculturation Theory and Teaching/Learning English at the Undergraduate Level in Nigeria."
Marohang Limbu, University of Texas, El Paso. "Pedagogy 2.0 and Future of Cross-Cultural Composition : Mapping Students Virtual and Real Spaces."
OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES WASATCH B
Romania's Contributions to International Heritage
Chair: Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University
Presenters: Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Sacred in the Fantastic Novellas of Mircea Eliade."
Carmen S. Sabau, Independent Scholar. "Nicolae Grigorescu and Winslow Homer: Two Contemporary Landscape Artists."
Raymonde A. Bulger, Graceland University. "Les accidents de l'âme par Ana Novac."
Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno. "Claiming Voice: Romanian Poetry in English Translation, 1969-2009."
CLASSICAL STUDIES WHITE PINE
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths
Chair: Anita Nikkanen, Harvard University
Alternate Chair: Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University
Presenters: Anita Nikkanen, Harvard University. "Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Say No More: A Reading of Phoinix�s Meleager Story.."
Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College. "Antigone�s Transgression and Agamben's State of Exception.."
Michelle Christine Jansen, SUNY Binghamton. "The Labor of the Agalma: The Interruption of the Homosocial Economy in Alcestis.."
Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University. "Louise Gluck's Aeneidian Underworld, Averno.."
10:15AM -11:45AM

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES ALPINE A
Shakespeare and Film*
Chair: Donna R. Cheney, Weber State University
Presenters: Donna R. Cheney, Weber State University. "Program information to be submitted by session chair."
GENERAL TOPICS ALPINE B
Intersections of Identity and Difference: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Disability*
Chair: Chris M. Bell, Syracuse University
Presenters: Blake Aaron Wilder, North Carolina State University. "The Liminality of Lynching: Intersections of Race, Gender, Symbolism, and Violence."
Michelle Jarman, University of Wyoming. "Race Reading Disability or Disability Reading Race."
E. Anna Claydon, University of Leicester. "Disability and Identity in Film: Finding the Voices of the Disabled in Cinema."
WRITING PROGRAMS ALPINE C
Writing Across the Curriculum
Chair: Christopher Sean Harris, Cal State University, Los Angeles
Presenters: Christopher Sean Harris, Cal State University, Los Angeles. "Program information to be submitted by session chair."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES COTTONWOOD A
Milton*
Chair: Clay Daniel, University of Texas ,Pan American
Alternate Chair: Serkan Ertin, Middle East Technical University
Presenters: Jarod K. Anderson, Ohiou University. "Milton�s Outsiders: The Decentralization of Morality in Paradise.."
Maren H. Miyasaki, Brigham Young University. "Fulfilling the Covenant: How Puritan Covenant Theory Creates Equality in Adam and Eve�s Marriage.."
Vanita P. Neelakanta, Rider University. "Divine Theater and the Failed Actor: Milton�s Samson Agonistes.."
Teah Bro Goldberg, Claremont Graduate University. "for inferior who is free?': Eve's Struggle for Agency in John Milton's Paradise Lost."
ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES COTTONWOOD B
Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora: Identity and Migration*
Chair: Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair: Aaron Eastley, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Aaron Eastley, Brigham Young University. "Biswas Abroad: Intra-Island Migration and Artistic Realization in Naipaul."
Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona. "'The Men I Love': Opal Adisa's Septet of Jamaican Men In Until Judgement Comes."
Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado. "Ensayando identidad en My Own Private Cuba: Essays on Cuban Literature and Culture de Gustavo P�rez Firmat."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES MAGPIE A
Native American Literature
Chair: Jan Wellington, Utah Valley University
Alternate Chair: Li Guo, University of Iowa
Presenters: David R. Wilson, Utah Valley University. "Native Stories, White Storytellers: Howard Fast, Marie Sandoz, and the Northern Cheyenne Trek from Oklahoma."
Ned B. Williams, Brigham Young University - Hawaii. "Betonie as Bricoleur: Leslie Marmon Silko's French Connection."
Carol J. Ward, Brigham Young University. "Building Native Narratives: The Development of Native Capital at a Tribal College."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES MAGPIE B
Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture*
Chair: Adrian Taylor Kane, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Adrian Taylor Kane, Boise State University. "Guatemalan Nature and Culture in the Age of Globalization: Rodrigo Rey Rosa's Lo que so�� Sebasti�n.."
Mary-Ellen Gomez, Washington State University. "El enigma de Los detectives salvajes.."
Maria-Alicia Garza, Boise State University. "Fictionalizing Feminicide: Death and Dying in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Ju�rez Murders.."
Isabel Dulfano, University of Utah. "Disaggregating the Conscious and Unconscious Internalization of Colonialism in the Contemporary Indigenous Imaginary.."
GERMANIC STUDIES MAYBIRD
German Literature before 1900
Chair: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Presenters: James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "The Women in Parzival: An Experiment in Jungian Literary Criticism."
Michael P. Hougentogler, University of California, Los Angeles. "The Misread �bilde�: Audience Perception and Futile Storytelling in Konrad von W�rzburg�s Der Trojanerkrieg."
Tina M. Boyer, University of California, Davis. "'sy ist got unerkante':: An Analysis of Monstrous Femininity in the Eckenlied."
GENERAL TOPICS RENDEZVOUS B
Sigma Tau Delta
Chair: Melissa Sue Whitney, University of Texas, San Antonio
Presenters: Shannon L. Lujan, Eastern New Mexico University. "Identity, Liminial Spaces and Domesticity: Elizabeth Stoddard�s The Morgesons.."
Irina V. Vasilyeva, Eastern New Mexico University. "Escaping Patriarchy in Chopin�s The Awakening and Ostrovsky�s The Storm.."
Myrianne Heaton Jones, Dixie State College. "Our Hill.."
David Robert Boyce, Northern Arizona University. "Cancer and the Poet: Horror and the Uncommon Common Voice.."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SUPERIOR A
Quebec Theater*
Chair: Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: Stephanie Nutting, Uinversity of Guelph. "L'influence américaine sur le théâtre québecois: Larry Tremblay et Michel Tremblay.."
Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Bluebeard in Quebec : Carole Fr�chette's La petite pièce en haut de l'escalier."
Jane M. Koustas, Brock University. "The Dragons' Trilogy+One: Robert Lepage's Blue Dragon."
ASIAN STUDIES SUPERIOR B
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - II*Shanghai in Film and Literature
Chair: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: Anne L. Xu, Gettysburg College
Presenters: Steve Riep, Brigham Young University. "Cinematic Influences in Modernist Chinese Literature: The Cases of Mu Shiying and Wang Wenxing."
Ying Bao, University of Nevada Las Vegas. "Reconfiguring Cityscape In �Comedic Docudrama�: Shanghai as a Socialist Metropolis."
Lena Maria Scheen, Leiden University. "Mapping Memories: Short Stories by Shanghai Writers."
GENDER STUDIES WASATCH A
Women's Caucus SeminarWomen in Media
Chair: Scott D. Banville, University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters: Denise A. Spivey, Florida State University. "Woman Suffrage Cartoons: How Suffragists Made Friends and Mocked Enemies."
Elizabeth A. Skewes, University of Colorado, Boulder. "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Media Coverage of Women and by Women in the 2008 Campaign."
Polina Kroik, University of California, Irvine. "Writing Femininity in Hollywood�s Golden Age: Anita Loos and the Gendered Division of Labor in the Studio System."
Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Julia Ormond between Men."
PEDAGOGY WASATCH B
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language
Chair: Michael Owens, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University
Presenters: Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley. "Teaching Language through Literature.."
Claudia Becker, North Carolina Central University. "Integrating Process Education (PE) into Foreign Language Teaching and Learning."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES WHITE PINE
Rhetorical Theory*
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Gae Lyn Henderson, Brigham Young University. "Revisionist Readings of Plato�s Theaetetus: Wondering as Methodology and Outcome."
James P. Sundeen, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Seeing the Implicit in the Explicit: A Phenomenological Reading of Composition Theory."
Seth David Long, California Polytechnic University, Pomona. "The Role of Moral Action in Rhetorical Theory."
Jared S. Colton, Washington State University. "Toward a Reconciliation of the Theory and Practice of Invitational Rhetoric."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MAYBIRD
Film Showing - Saturday Evening - Brick Lane
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Film Showing - Brick Lane (2007; In English with some Hindi w/English subtitles; Directed By Sarah Gavron; PG-13; 102 minutes)."
SUNDAY,  OCTOBER 11
9:00AM -12:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MEET IN LOBBY BY 8:15 AM
Excursion to Live Performance of Mormon Tabernacle Choir (By reservation)
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Excursion to Live Performance of Mormon Tabernacle Choir (By reservation) - Meet in Lobby at 8:15 AM."

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60th Annual RMMLA Convention Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006

Preliminary Convention Program

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11

60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006