61st Annual RMMLA Convention
Calgary, Alberta, Canada ~ October 4-6, 2007

Convention Program

We are looking forward to an exciting convention this year in Calgary. 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 Calgary, for its generous support.

Scroll down to see the schedule, but PLEASE note:

  • Room assignments appear ABOVE the session title, to the RIGHT.
  • ALL MEETING ROOMS ARE LOCATED IN THE WESTIN HOTEL.
  • 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 3

3:00PM - 6:00PM
 
REGISTRATIONSOUTH FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 3:00PM- 6:00PM in SOUTH FOYER
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Check-In."

THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 4

7:30AM - 5:00PM
 
REGISTRATIONSOUTH FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 7:30AM- 5:00PM in SOUTH FOYER
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Check-In." 

8:00AM - 5:00PM
 
EXHIBITSGRAND FOYER
Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Thursday
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:00AM- 5:00PM in GRAND FOYER
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table." 

8:30AM -10:00AM
 
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESABERHART
Samuel Beckett in Context*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ABERHART
Chair: Patrick W. Bixby, Arizona State University West 
Presenters: Patrick W. Bixby, Arizona State University West. "In Context: New Directions in Beckett Studies." 
 Sean D. Kennedy, St Mary's University. "Does Beckett Studies Require a Subject? Memory and Mourning in Texts for Nothing." 
 Carla Taban, University of Toronto. "Inter-textuality and/as Cultural Memory in Beckett’s Corpus." 

GENERAL TOPICSBANFF
Literature and Religion - I*
Race, Gender, and Sexuality
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in BANFF
Chair: Aliza Atik, Stony Brook University, SUNY 
Alternate Chair: Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College 
Presenters: Mary F. Brewer, Loughborough University. "Black Arts and White Devils: Religion, Race and National Identity in Black Revolutionary Drama.." 
 Jessica K. Webb, Cardiff University (Wales). "Religion, Sorcery and Suffering Men: Witchcraft in Jude the Obscure.." 
 Krishna K. Manavalli, Michigan State University. "Modernist Visions, Brahmin Angst, and Lowcaste Female Bodies: A Study of Caste and Gender in U.R. Ananthmurthy's Samskara.." 
 Raji Singh Soni, Queens University, Kingston. "Reading between the Pyres: Embodiment, Desire, and Devotion after The Waste Land.." 

GENERAL TOPICSBARCLAY
Autobiography*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in BARCLAY
Chair: Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge 
Alternate Chair: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno 
Presenters: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno. "Female Aviators as Women 'Warriors': The Limits of Autobiography and the Construction of Life Writing by Amelia Earhart and Jackie Cochran." 
 Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge. "Optograms, Autobiography, and the Image of Jack the Ripper." 
 Wesley Sims, University of Illinois, Chicago. "Incarcerated Forms of Autobiography: John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers Imagines an Escape." 

GENERAL TOPICSBONAVISTA
Medieval Romance*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in BONAVISTA
Chair: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University 
Alternate Chair: J D Thayer, Gonzaga University 
Presenters: J D Thayer, Gonzaga University. "Gadamer and Gawain." 
 Wendolyn Weber, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Uncanny Visits: Gawain, the Green Knight, and the Return of the Repressed." 
 Pamela L. Troyer, University of Denver. "Lincoln’s Inn Hale 150 and the Problem of the Holster Book." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESBROWNLEE
Owen Barfield
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in BROWNLEE
Chair: David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College 
Alternate Chair: Jeffrey N. Hipolito, Everett Community College 
Presenters: Jeffrey N. Hipolito, Everett Community College. "Can Ideas Have Histories? Lovejoy, Collingwood, and Barfield on Meaning and Metaphysics." 
 Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "'Infinite Desire' and Final Participation in Spenser's Faerie Queen and Lewis's Narnia Chronicles." 
 Jamie Hutchinson, Bard College at Simon's Rock. "Faithful Thinkers: A Barfieldean Reading of Emerson's Nature." 
 William C. Johnson, Lewis-Clark State College. "Barfield's Rainbow: Final Participation as Practice." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESEAU CLAIRE NORTH
English Renaissance Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in EAU CLAIRE NORTH
Chair: McKenna Suzanne Rose, University of Nevada, Reno 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Marilyn D. Simon, University of Toronto. "'Not To Be': The Dream of Social Absence in Hamlet." 
 Emily E. Shortslef-Foote, Syracuse University. "‘Perfect hole’: Actaeon Refigured." 
 Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. "'Jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, / And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay': Marlowe, Clowning and Dramatic Authorship." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESEAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Literary Criticism
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in EAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Chair: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University 
Alternate Chair: James Caufield, University of California, Los Angeles 
Presenters: Raphael T. Foshay, Athabasca University. "Deconstruction and Formalism: Derrida on Kafka's 'Before the Law'." 
 James Caufield, University of California, Los Angeles. "The Unction of Criticism: Postmodern Ethics and the Arnoldian Turn." 
 Robert M. Detman, Independent Scholar. "Towards the Liquidation of Literature." 
 Michael D. Roberson, University of Calgary. "Poetic Conditions: Toward a Postmodern Poetics of Response-ability in Nietzsche and Lyotard." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESLAKE LOUISE
Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+
Mormon Stories and Historiography
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in LAKE LOUISE
Chair: Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University 
Presenters: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "A Love Story in Diaries: Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Edna Harker Thomas, 1907-1942.." 
 Alan Goff, DeVry University. "Novelistic Technique and Mormon History: Figuration, Focalization, Narration, Plot, and Characterization in Mormon History Writing.." 
 Phyllis N. Barber, Vermont College. "Writing: An Act of Responsibility.." 

ASIAN STUDIESLAKEVIEW
Modern Chinese Literature*
Three Moments in Time: Texts from the Late Qing, Cultural Revolution and the Present
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in LAKEVIEW
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University 
Alternate Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar 
Presenters: Guo-ou Zhuang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "New Mission of an Old Genre: The Rise of Late Qing Fiction and Chinese Nation-Building." 
 Frederik H. Green, Yale University. "From Europe with Love: Xu Xu's Early Travel Writing and the Aesthetics of Foreign Encounter." 
 Hua Li, University of Manitoba. "A Myth of Tears: A Representative Reading of Su Tong's Binu." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESMAYFAIR
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in MAYFAIR
Chair: María Francisca Paredes Méndez, Western Washington University 
Alternate Chair: Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Mark A. Harpring, University of Puget Sound. "Illustrating Masculinity: Popular Images of Turn-of-the-Century Spanish Men." 
 Nuria Godón-Martínez, Creighton University. "Cultura popular y (pseudo)cultura: discursos de la ideología franquista en Tiempo de silencio." 
 Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Performance, el otro y el problema del paradigma butleriano del género sexual y el sujeto-yo en La llamada de Lauren (1985) por Paloma Pedrero." 
 Myriam Osorio, Memorial University of Newfoundland. "Cuerpo y género en Historia del rey transparente de Rosa Montero." 

GERMANIC STUDIESMOUNT ROYAL
Literature of the Holocaust*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in MOUNT ROYAL
Chair: Sandra Alfers, Dickinson College 
Alternate Chair: Jocelyne Françoise Le Ber, Royal Military College 
Presenters: Yoon Sook Cha, University of California, Berkeley. "Impostures of Being Saved / Artifacts of Death: Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, Rue Labat." 
 Michael Bachmann, University of Mainz (Germany). "Writing Fiction, Talking Life: Imre Kertész and Problems of Genre." 
 Maria O'Malley, University of Colorado. "Bored in the Concentration Camp: Representing the Holocaust in Kertész's Fateless." 

PEDAGOGYNAKISKA
Practical Approaches to Teaching Language - I
Friendly Amendments to the Communicative Approach in Language Teaching
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in NAKISKA
Chair: Eva-Maria Metcalf, University of Mississippi 
Alternate Chair: Claudia Becker, Saint Xavier University 
Presenters: Markus E. Muller, California State University, Long Beach. "Not Too Old to Change: The Communicative Approach and Today's Language Learners." 
 Susanne Even, Indiana University. "Communication and Consciousness: Drama Education for Foreign Grammar Learning." 

ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIESREID
Caribbean Identity and the Diaspora*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in REID
Chair: Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College 
Alternate Chair: Kellie D. Weiss, Howard University 
Presenters: Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Facing the Ghosts of the Past: Trespassing Boundaries of Time and Space in Daina Chaviano's La isla de los amores infinitos." 
 Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado. "Strife on the Hyphen: Exile Literature as Trauma Literature in the Works of Gustavo Pérez Firmat." 
 Kellie D. Weiss, Howard University. "Multiple Subjectivities, Moral Responsibility and the Migratory Figure:Carole Boyce Davies’s Black Women, Writing and Identity to Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon." 
 Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College. "Discovering Identity: From the Mother to the Motherland in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban." 

FILM STUDIESRIDEAU
Film (Open Topic)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8:30AM-10:00AM in RIDEAU
Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University 
Alternate Chair: Liana M. Silva, Binghamton University 
Presenters: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "China's Gong Li: Feminine/Feminist Screen Icon.." 
 Patricia L. Terry, Gonzaga University. "When Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? All the King's Men and Film Adaptation.." 
 Teresa R. Knudsen, Lakeside Language Services. "Pirates and Patriots: An American Tradition.." 
 Liana M. Silva, Binghamton University. "Love Me Madly: Illness and Desire in The Lady from Shanghai.." 

10:15AM -11:45AM
 
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESABERHART
Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ABERHART
Chair: Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley 
Alternate Chair: Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University 
Presenters: Catharine Randall, Fordham University. "'Virile' Women: The Female Response to the Jesuit Relations ." 
 Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley. "Improvising the Model: Michel Butor's Auto-fiction." 
 John Rennell Secor, Morehead State University. "'Ma vie a fait un virage sur un dix sous' ('My life turned on a dime') and Other Surprising English Idioms in Durocher and Paquin's Et si on se retrouv@it ." 

GENERAL TOPICSBANFF
Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in BANFF
Chair: Verena Theile, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Catherine Anne Blose, University of Alabama. "Juggling Witchcraft: Conflicting Early Modern Representations of Witchcraft in Macbeth." 
 Peter Alan Morton, Mount Royal College. "Witchcraft Beliefs and Lutheran Pastoral Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESBARCLAY
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in BARCLAY
Chair: Paul Papin, University of British Columbia 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Natalie Wall, University of Calgary. "Structuring the Position of the Neo-Mimic Man." 
 Navneet Kumar, University of Calgary. "Kirpal Singh: From Hybridity to a Binary Existence in Ondaatje’s The English Patient." 
 Paul Papin, University of British Columbia. "The Rotten Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: The Common Root of Mediocrity and Genius in Denis Diderot’s The Nephew of Rameau." 
 Alan Blackstock, Utah State University. "Mosque, Cathedral, Temple, Cave: Religion as Architecture in Death Comes for the Archbishop and A Passage to India." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBONAVISTA
Peninsular Spanish Literature - I
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in BONAVISTA
Chair: Chaiwut Chittkusol, University of Massachusetts, Boston 
Presenters: Chaiwut Chittkusol, University of Massachusetts, Boston. "Una representación orteguiana de Don Juan Tenorio como un ‘Übermensch’ español." 
 Carmiña Palerm, Pacific Lutheran University. "Ghostly Presences in Julio Llamazares' La Lluvia amarilla." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESEAU CLAIRE NORTH
Representation of Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature*
Latin American Women Writers
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in EAU CLAIRE NORTH
Chair: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University 
Presenters: Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "A Process of Becoming Clairvoyant." 
 Amanda L. Petersen, University of Colorado, Boulder. "(Re)leyendo el cuento Domingo de Rosario Castellanos." 
 Elizabeth Montes-Garcès, University of Calgary. "Deseo y globalización en Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos Febres." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESEAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Western and Southwestern Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in EAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Chair: Zelda Jeanne Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado 
Alternate Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University 
Presenters: Emily Christine Ann Moore, Washington State University. "Identity and (Hyper)Reality in Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories." 
 Joy Moss, Arkansas Tech University. "Adventure Repeats Itself." 
 Theda Wrede, Dixie State College. "Liminality in Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls: Mapping Female Landscapes on the Border.." 

PEDAGOGYLAKE LOUISE
Teaching English Composition
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in LAKE LOUISE
Chair: Robert Sargent Fay, Landmark College 
Alternate Chair: Greg Grewell, University of Arizona 
Presenters: Bee Hoon Tan, Universiti Putra Malaysia. "WWW: Countering ESL Writer's Block." 
 Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University. "Students Writing in(to) the Academy: It's All a Second-Language Phenomenon." 
 Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University. "English Composition: Service-Learning and Technology Project." 
 William H. Thelin, University of Akron. "Beyond the Modes and Genres: Non-Formulaic Instruction." 

ASIAN STUDIESLAKEVIEW
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 - I
Historical Reflection in Chinese Film
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in LAKEVIEW
Chair: Géraldine A. Fiss, Harvard University 
Alternate Chair: Wei Yang, Yale University 
Presenters: Claire Huot, University of Calgary. "Discussant:." 
 Terence C. Russell, University of Manitoba. "Traditional Culture and Contemporary Performance: Adaw Palaf's The Great Flood." 
 J. Colleen Berry, University of North Dakota. "What's So Funny about Crazy Stone? Societal Ills and Comedy in Ning Hao's Hit Movie." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESLOUGHEED
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in LOUGHEED
Chair: Jason J. Zirbel, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 
Presenters: Jason J. Zirbel, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "Queen Elizabeth I and Self-Fashioning." 
 Nicole Nannette Montoya, University of Texas, El Paso. "For Better or Worse: An Androgynous Lifestyle in Merry Old England." 
 Elizabeth V. Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso. "Portia's Assault on Cultural and Patriarchal Boundaries in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." 

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONMOUNT ROYAL
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in MOUNT ROYAL
Chair: Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University 
Alternate Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University 
Presenters: Sandra Hill, University of Louisiana, Monroe and Christopher Sean Harris, University of Louisiana, Monroe. "Teaching Service-Learning Online in Professional Writing Classes." 
 Lynda Walsh, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "The Wiki vs. the Classroom: An Experiment in Cyberpedagogy at New Mexico Tech." 
 Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University. "Technical Communication in the 'New Career' Frontiers." 

GENERAL TOPICSREID
Literature and Religion - II*
Modernity and (Post)Colonial Questions
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 10:15AM-11:45AM in REID
Chair: Aliza Atik, Stony Brook University, SUNY 
Alternate Chair: Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College 
Presenters: Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College. "A Creole Messiah in Chamoiseau's Texaco.." 
 David E. McGlynn, Lawrence University. "Kinship with Heavenly Bodies: The Politics of the Sublime in E.M. Forester’s A Passage to India.." 
 P. S. Sri, Royal Military College of Canada. "The Twin Selves: Upanishadic Echoes in T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama.." 

11:45AM - 1:00PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSESSENCE RESTAURANT
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 11:45AM- 1:00PM in ESSENCE RESTAURANT
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "RMMLA Executive Board Luncheon (Closed)." 

1:00PM - 2:30PM
 
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESABERHART
African American Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in ABERHART
Chair: Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona 
Alternate Chair: Andrea Yolande Seeger, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Geta LeSeur-Brown, University of Arizona. "Love of the Abstract in Paradise." 
 Andrea Yolande Seeger, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Treacherous Inheritances and Dangerous Identities: James Baldwin." 
 Lindsay M. Christopher, University of Denver. "Mapping the Landscape: History and Cultural Memory in Toni Morrison's Paradise." 
 Michael Wayne Merritt, University of Texas at El Paso. "An Extravagance of Violence: Ralph Ellison's Brutal Aesthetic." 

PEDAGOGYBANFF
Teaching Foreign Languages - I
The Place of Technology in Language Learning
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in BANFF
Chair: Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Mary Grantham O'Brien, University of Calgary and Annika Orich, University of Calgary. "Virtually There: Culture through Virtual Reality.." 
 Carlos Soler-Montes, Instituto Cervantes. "The Blended Teaching Approach in the Spanish Second Language Classroom.." 

GERMANIC STUDIESBARCLAY
German Crime Fiction and Film*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in BARCLAY
Chair: Corinna Kahnke, Indiana University, Bloomington 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Martin Rosenstock, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Encounters with Fiction: Alternate Realities in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Justiz." 
 Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University. "Aufklärung and Double Agency in The Lives of Others." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBONAVISTA
Peninsular Spanish Literature - II*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in BONAVISTA
Chair: Shanna C. Lino, University of Toronto 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Shanna C. Lino, University of Toronto. "Crossing the Fine Line: Border Zones and the Globalized Media in the Spanish Novela Negra on Immigration.." 
 José M. García-Sánchez, Eastern Washington University. "Formaciones discursivas propagandísticas en los diarios de navegación del Pacífico Septentrional en el siglo XVIII.." 
 Patricia T. Anderson, University of Massachusetts, Boston. "El Derecho femenino en la España medieval de Alfonso X, el Sabio." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESBROWNLEE
American Humor
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in BROWNLEE
Chair: Peter J. Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley 
Alternate Chair: Stephanie T. Taitano, Saddleback College 
Presenters: Peter J. Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley. "Poe in Drag: The Signora Psyche Zenobia." 
 Andrew J. Smith, University of Central Florida. "Comedy's Subversion of Bureaucracy: Joseph Heller's Catch-22." 
 Fabian Guy Ironside, Independent Scholar. "Mather, Barnum, Strickland, Spike: Towards a Definition of Subversive Yankee Humor." 
 Louis J. Budd, Duke University. "The (Sometimes) Amiable Glory of Mark Twain's Humor." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESEAU CLAIRE NORTH
American Literature after 1900
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in EAU CLAIRE NORTH
Chair: Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 
Alternate Chair: Sascha Poehlmann, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich 
Presenters: Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado. "Lily Bart and the Negotiation of National Desires in The House of Mirth." 
 Kristen M. Haven, University of Arizona. "Embodied Information and the (Inter)textuality of William S. Burroughs' The Ticket that Exploded." 
 Lance A. Rubin, Arapahoe Community College. "Memory, Nostalgia and Identity in Pagan Kennedy's Confessions of a Memory Eater." 
 Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Embodiment and Self--Searching in Raymond Federman's Body Shards." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESEAU CLAIRE SOUTH
English Nineteenth-Century Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in EAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Chair: Bianca Page Tredennick, Gonzaga University 
Alternate Chair: Mary E. Bell, University of Arizona 
Presenters: Nikole King, UC Riverside / Gonzaga University. "H. G. Wells’ 'The Truth about Pyecraft' and the Culture of Reducing in England at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.." 
 Scott T. Rogers, Weber State University. "'Keeping my private sentiments to myself': Privacy, Class, and The Moonstone." 
 Jen Hill, University of Nevada, Reno. "Here, There, 'Nowheer': Nation, History, and Economy in Sylvia’s Lovers." 

LINGUISTICSLAKE LOUISE
General and Applied Linguistics
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in LAKE LOUISE
Chair: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi 
Alternate Chair: Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglio, Meredith College 
Presenters: Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Marginal Rules and their Roles in Syntax.." 
 Randall Gess, Carleton University. "Teaching Presentational Cleft Constructions in French: When to Do It and How to Do It.." 
 Martha Islas, El Colegio de Jalisco (Mexico). "Spanish Psych Verbs: Syntactic Frame and Inherent Aspect.." 
 Ashley L. Burnett, University of Calgary. "Middle English Vowel Length in French Loanwords.." 

GENERAL TOPICSLAKEVIEW
Poetry and Poetics* (Open Topic)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in LAKEVIEW
Chair: Emily K. Carr, University of Calgary 
Presenters: Tyler Reeb, Claremont Graduate University. "The Divergent Politics and Letters of Edmund Wilson and Archibald MacLeish: Why their Feud Amounted to So Much More Than Just an ‘Omelet’." 
 Emily K. Carr, University of Calgary. "Artifact/ Erasure: Performative Writing in Mary Ruefle's A Little White Shadow and Jen Bervin's Nets." 
 Andy Weaver, York University. "Sublime Tension: Darren Wershler-Henry’s the tapeworm foundry." 
 Siobhan Scarry, University at Buffalo, SUNY. "Doublings of Desire and New Ontologies in Hart Crane's ‘White Buildings’." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESLOUGHEED
Old and Middle English - I
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in LOUGHEED
Chair: Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver 
Alternate Chair: Jennifer A. Palmgren, Saint Paul College 
Presenters: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University. "The Clothes Make the Man: Disrobing, Dissolution, and Disarming in Beowulf." 
 Harold C. Zimmerman, Stanford University. "Nationalist Accomplishment and the Reputation of Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians." 
 Christopher M. Flavin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. "Beowulf as Celtic Hero: The Incorporation of Celtic and Breton Traditions in Anglo-Saxon Literature." 
 Kevin Kia-Choong Teo, University of Calgary. "Practical Magic and the Functional Uses of Paganism in the Anglo-Saxon Charms." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESMANNING
Deleuze and Guattari - II*
What is Philosophy?
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in MANNING
Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University 
Presenters: Alix Mazuet, University of Central Oklahoma. "In Between." 
 Joe P. Hughes, University of Edinburgh. "Deleuze and Phenomenology." 
 Matthew Tiessen, University of Alberta. "When is Too Much Too Much? Excess in Deleuze and Bataille." 

FILM STUDIESMAYFAIR
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Cinema*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in MAYFAIR
Chair: Crystal L. Hicks, Texas Tech University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Lisa J. Schnell, University of Vermont. "'I've Got You Under my Skin': Revelation and the Body in Christopher Nolan's Memento." 
 Graham Lyons, Simon Fraser University and Janice Morris, University of British Columbia. "Digitization and the Double Edge of Aura: Walter Benjamin and Star Wars." 
 Josh Toth, University of Manitoba. "Remembering Postmodernism: Narrative Renewal after Postmodernism in Nolan's Memento and Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." 

ASIAN STUDIESMOUNT ROYAL
Modern Chinese Poetry - I*
Modern Chinese-Language Poetry and Its Contexts
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in MOUNT ROYAL
Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar 
Alternate Chair: Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University 
Presenters: Jennifer L. Feeley, Yale University. "From the Boudoir to the Nation: Poetic In(ter)ventions of Gender, Space, and Modernity in the Women's Press.." 
 Lucas R. Klein, Yale University. "Discerning the Soil: Bian Zhilin, Context, and Modern Chinese Poetry as Translation.." 

GENERAL TOPICSREID
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film
The Famous, the Infamous, and the Controversial in Science Fiction and Fantasy
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in REID
Chair: Ericka Ann Hoagland, Purdue University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Diane Krantz, Weber State University. "Subversion of Christian Religious Teachings in The Matrix." 
 Kirk H. Layton, Mount Royal College. "Leaning to the Right: Challenging the Canadian Conservative in Blood Rain." 
 Megan E. Grove, Sonoma State University. "Desiring Doom: Wyrd, Fate, and a Curse of Choice in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin." 

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIESRIDEAU
Hungarian Studies (Open Topic)*
Literary and Cultural Approaches in Hungarian Studies
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in RIDEAU
Chair: Susan Nyikos, Utah State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Agnes J. Vashegyi MacDonald, University of British Columbia. "Between Nostalgia and Hope: The ‘Lukács Effect’ in Twentieth-Century Hungarian Literature and Film." 
 Susan Nyikos, Utah State University. "Vampires and Ethnic Schizophrenia: A Hungarian Reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula." 
 Krisztian Fonyodi, Queen's University. "Rediscovering Kinship in Istvan Szabo's Last Film, Rokonok (2006)." 

1:15PM - 5:00PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSJASPER BOARDROOM
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:15PM- 5:00PM in JASPER BOARDROOM
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "RMMLA Executive Board Meeting." 

2:45PM - 4:15PM
 
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESABERHART
Jewish American Literature*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in ABERHART
Chair: Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso. "Observant Readers and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction." 
 Margie R. Nelson, University of Texas, El Paso. "'Jewish Mothers Worry More': Literary Representations of Jewish Mothers." 
 Jerien Elizabeth Rausch, University of Texas, El Paso. "Cynthia Ozick and Idolatry." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESBANFF
Women in French
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in BANFF
Chair: Caren M. Barnezet Parrish, Roanoke College 
Alternate Chair: Stacey Ann Weber-Feve, Iowa State University 
Presenters: Celita Lamar, University of Miami. "Élisa in Havana: Carole Frechette’s La peau d’Élisa with a Cuban Beat.." 
 Stacey Ann Weber-Feve, Iowa State University. "Breaking from Tradition: (Re)Presenting Female Iconography at Home with Leïla Sebbar.." 
 Caren M. Barnezet Parrish, Roanoke College. "Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance : A Tropistic Childhood Experience.." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESBARCLAY
The Atlantic in Transatlantic Romanticism*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in BARCLAY
Chair: Jeffrey W. Miller, Gonzaga University 
Alternate Chair: Brian C. Cooney, Gonzaga University 
Presenters: Liz Brocious, Brigham Young University. "Emerson's Transatlantic Eyeball: The Transmutation of European Hermeticism into American Nationalism." 
 Christina A. Valeo, Eastern Washington University. "Crossing Over: Christianity and Native Spirituality in the Poems of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)." 
 Brian C. Cooney, Gonzaga University. "British Imperialism and Irish Deforestation in the Poetry of Mary Tighe." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESBONAVISTA
Spanish American Literature
Literatura Moderna
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in BONAVISTA
Chair: Miriam Balboa Echeverria, Texas State University 
Alternate Chair: Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of Colorado, Boulder 
Presenters: Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "Sin estar ya conmigo ni ser un otro, otro,retratos en poemas de escritores hispanoamericanos." 
 Miriam Balboa Echeverria, Texas State University. "Huellas del boom en la escritura del futuro: Las escritoras y los infrarealistas." 
 Charlène Fouqueray, University of Calgary. "Trasvestismo y medios de comunicación y globalización en La muerte como efecto secundario de A. M. Shua." 

GENERAL TOPICSBROWNLEE
Literature and Science
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in BROWNLEE
Chair: Robin E. Calland, Southern Utah University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Alex Link, Alberta College of Art and Design. "Chromatic Soma: Recreating the Body in Steve Tomasula's Vas." 
 Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University. "What the Contrast between Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown Teaches about Modernity.." 
 Robin E. Calland, Southern Utah University. "Failing to Abide by Disciplinary Boundaries: The Place of Evolutionary Biology in the Lyrics of Moore, Loy, and Niedecker.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESEAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Ecocriticism
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in EAU CLAIRE SOUTH
Chair: Angela Rae Waldie, University of Calgary 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Lee Rozelle, University of Montevallo. "‘A Sting of Enlightenment’: Toxic Transcendence in Don DeLillo's Underworld.." 
 Maria R. Irchenhauser, Queen's University. "‘Word People’ and the Critique of Reason in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Marian Engels’ Bear, and in J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals.." 
 Andy D. Belyea, Royal Military College of Canada. "Honouring Mystery: Evolutionary Fiction and Evolving Choice.." 
 Kip Robisch, Purdue University. "A Preponderance of Evidence: Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the Legacy of the Superfund Essay.." 

LINGUISTICSLAKEVIEW
Foreign Language Linguistics
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in LAKEVIEW
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Agustini Budiman, Arizona State University. "Thematic Role Changes in the Indonesian Language as a Result of Different Affixes Attached to the Root Words." 
 Roswita A. Dressler, University of Calgary. "Motivation and Demotivation in Heritage Language Learners of German." 
 Evelyn Wisbey, University of Kansas. "On Trouble Sources and Attempts for their Resolution in Non-native German Talk-in-Interaction." 

GENERAL TOPICSLOUGHEED
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Caucus Seminar
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in LOUGHEED
Chair: Jennifer M. Wing, Georgia State University 
Presenters: Douglas Meyers, University of Texas, El Paso. "The Representation of Gay Young Adulthood in the Oeuvre of Alex Sanchez.." 
 J. Ken Stuckey, Bentley College. "Not Gaye: Luther Vandross and the Masculinity of the Black Crooner.." 
 Carmen Lanette Phelps, Longwood University. "Confusing the Issue: Bisexuality as the In/Determining Factor in Popular Culture and the Academy.." 

CONJOINT MEETINGSMANNING
Owen Barfield Society+ (Closed Meeting)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in MANNING
Chair: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Owen Barfield Society Business Meeting (Closed)." 

ASIAN STUDIESMAYFAIR
Asian Comparative Literature and Film - I*
Interpreting Sex and Violence in China, Taiwan and Japan
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in MAYFAIR
Chair: David C. Stahl, Binghamton University, SUNY 
Alternate Chair: Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, University of Notre Dame 
Presenters: Carlos Prado-Fonts, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. "From the Avant-Garde to Grotesque Neorealism: Su Tong’s Rice and the Representations of Violence.." 
 Claire Huot, University of Calgary. "Tsai Ming-Liang’s Cinema of Cruelty: Excruciating Time-images of Bodily Gestures.." 
 Justin Jesty, University of Chicago. "Purge: Revolution and Repetition in Postwar Japan.." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESMOUNT ROYAL
Margaret Atwood
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in MOUNT ROYAL
Chair: Sarah A. Appleton, Murray State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Thomas P. Jordan, Binghamton University. "Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: The Need to Study Literature." 
 Camille Harris, Utah State University. "'The proper study of Mankind is Man': Identity in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESNAKISKA
Shakespeare
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in NAKISKA
Chair: Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte 
Alternate Chair: David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso 
Presenters: Denys W. Van Renen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "'My kingdom for a ship!' Shakespeare’s King Lear Weathers James’s Land Invasion.." 
 Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State University. "Hippolyta, Helena, and Hounds: Women, Power, and Authority in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.." 
 David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso. "Hospitality and Hostility in Macbeth.." 

GENERAL TOPICSREID
Ethnic Studies
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in REID
Chair: Robin Somers, University of California, Santa Cruz 
Presenters: Kathleen G. Washburn, University of California, Los Angeles. "'It was as it should be': Rewriting Indigenous Territory in Welch's Historical Fiction.." 
 Robin Somers, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Distorted Shadow: Zitkala-Sa's Creative Space.." 
 Tamara N. Cooper, New York University. "Representations of Racial Trauma and Recovery in Black Canadian Cinema.." 
 Patricia Sagasti Suppes, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "A Culinary Allegory: The Language of Situation in Latin American Women's Writing." 

GERMANIC STUDIESRIDEAU
New Perspectives on the German Past*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in RIDEAU
Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia 
Alternate Chair: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas 
Presenters: Petra S. Fiero, Western Washington University. "Verdraengung der kollektiven und individuellen Geschichte in Vladimir Vertlibs Geschichte Mein erster Moerder." 
 Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas. "The Old Men and the War: Memory, Identity and Mourning in Autobiographical Texts by Guenter Grass and Dieter Wellershoff." 
 John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "The Role of Music in the Fiction of Guenter Grass." 

4:30PM - 6:00PM
 
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESABERHART
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in ABERHART
Chair: Raymond Craig, Kent State University 
Presenters: Paul J. Neel, Kent State University. "The Rhetoric of Propriety in the Prefatory Material to the KJV." 
 Beth Wynstra, University of California, Santa Barbara. "A Rhetorical Move: The Pageant of the Paterson Silk Strike and a New Lens for Political Theater." 
 Juan J. Colombi, California State University, San Bernardino. "The Business of Rhetoric: Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross." 
 Lena Margaret Q. Heilmann, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Move Over, Man! A New Space for the Rhetorical Female Voice." 

PEDAGOGYBANFF
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in BANFF
Chair: Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University 
Alternate Chair: Joanne Sellen, Washington State University 
Presenters: Joanne Klein, St. Mary's College of Maryland. "Teaching Film to Trouble Verisimilitude." 
 Sarah Hurlburt, Whitman College. "Teaching Scene Analysis through Remakes." <