60th Annual RMMLA Convention
Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006
Preliminary Convention Program by Session Type
| Asian Comparative Literature and Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Asian Studies Business Meeting+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Chinese Literature before 1900* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Japanese Modern Literature and Film I* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Japanese Modern Literature and Film II* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Modern Chinese Poetry | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Classical Language and Literature: Latin and Greek | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Business Meeting) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Eighteenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Literature since 1900 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Nineteenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Renaissance Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Seventeenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Leslie Norris* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Mary Shelley | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Milton* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Old and Middle English | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Owen Barfield | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Shakespeare | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | | |
| British Commonwealth Film* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora: Identity and Migration | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | | |
| American Humor | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| American Literature after 1900 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| American Nineteenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Canadian Literature and Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Early American Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Flannery O'Connor | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Native American Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Southern Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Textual Depictions of American Polygamy* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Traumatic Memory and Narrative Memory in Ethnic American Literatures* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Western and Southwestern Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
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| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Friday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Saturday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Thursday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Film (Open Topic) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Film Theory and Criticism | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | | |
| Conseil international d'études francophones+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| French Cultural and Literary Theory | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| French Literature before 1800 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| French Literature since 1800 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Representations of Immigration in French and Francophone Literature and Film* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Women in French | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Mothers in Literature of Women of Color in the Twentieth Century* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Women in/and Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Women's Caucus Breakfast and Guest Speaker | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Women's Caucus Seminar | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Women's Voices in Poetry | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Badiou, Zizek, Lacan: Transcendental Materialism* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Digital Rhetoric: Persuasion in the Internet Age* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Drama | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Popular Women's Fiction in English | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Folklore, Identity and Contemporary Fiction* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Identity and Landscape* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literature and Aging* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literature and Other Arts | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literature and Religion | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literature and Science | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literature for Children and Young Adults | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Medieval Romance* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Promiscuous Ontologies: Object-Oriented Philosophy and the New Realism* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Reading Popular/Consumer Culture* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Poets Read their Works | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Prose Authors Read their Works | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Romanticism | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Sigma Tau Delta | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Skin as Text* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| The Meaning of Food: Culinary Exchanges as Expressions of Cultural Values* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Translation Studies: Theory and Practice | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Visual Rhetoric* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| War in Literature and Film* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Writing Survival: Coping with and Learning from Violence in Literature* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| German Creative Writers Read their Works* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| German Literature before 1900 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| German Literature since 1900 | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| The Intersection of German Literature and Philosophy* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Italian Cinema and Television* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| American Dialect Society (ADS)+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Cross-Cultural and Contrastive Rhetoric: Issues in Language Analysis and Teaching* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| English Linguistics and ESL | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| General Linguistics | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Second Language Acquisition | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Second Language Acquisition Online: Possibilities and Challenges* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Second Language Writing* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
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| OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES | | |
| Hungarian Studies | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Romania's Contributions to International Heritage | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Slavic Languages & Literature* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Language | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature through Travel and Off-campus Study | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Society for the Study of Southern Literature Roundtable* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Teaching English | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Teaching English Composition | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Teaching English in Two-Year Colleges | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Teaching Foreign Languages | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Technology and Distance Education | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Technology in Education* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Saturday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Friday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | | |
| Artes visuales, literatura y movimientos culturales de la Espana de los siglos XX y XXI* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Early Modern Spanish Writers* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| El Mundo Literario de José Javier Abasolo: Sesión homenaje al escritor y su obra | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Latin American Literature and Film | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Peninsular Spanish Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Peninsular Spanish Narrative and Theatre* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Spanish American Literature | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Coffee/Tea Service - Friday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Coffee/Tea Service - Saturday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Continental Breakfast | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| CV Help Session (by reservation only) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Early Bird Continental Breakfast - Thursday | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Excursion (By reservation) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Excursion (By reservation) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Graduate Student Forum | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Interview Etiquette | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Luncheon Buffet & Keynote Speech by Stephen Trimble | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Publishing Forum | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Publishing Forum with William Germano | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Readings | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Editorial Board Meeting (Closed Meeting) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Executive Board Meeting-Lunch (Closed Meeting) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | | |
| Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+ | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | | |
| Comparative Literature (Open Topic) | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Current Research in Literary Theory* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Deleuze and Guattari* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Ecocriticism | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Ethical Criticism* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Literary Criticism | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Rhetorical Criticism* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Rhetorical Theory* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Spatiality: Open Spaces, Closed Spaces, Hybrid 'Third' Spaces'* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| The Event and the Space of Literature* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Peer Tutoring of Writing* | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
| Writing Programs | Thursday, 12:00AM - 12:00AM | TBA |
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