62nd Annual RMMLA Convention
Reno, Nevada ~ October 9-11, 2008

Convention Program

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

Scroll down to see the schedule, but PLEASE note:

  • Room and time assignments appear ABOVE the session title. Don't worry if there is a double period at the end of the paper title; these will be edited out in print.
  • The easiest way to find one's name on the program is to do a FIND (hit CTRL F, then type in a few letters of the first OR last name).
  • Room assignments may change, but every effort will be made to maintain the assignments of session day/time seen below. IF a change becomes absolutely necessary, this will be confirmed with all concerned - the session chair and presenters.
  • Editorial changes to this program must be sent to us by AUGUST 1 (rmmla@wsu.edu) -- the program goes to press after this date.
  • An asterisk indicates a Special Topic Session; a plus sign indicates an affiliate member session. Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are open to all convention participants.
  • If you DON'T see your name or your session, please contact us immediately at rmmla@wsu.edu.
  • To view the abstract of a presentation, click on the hyperlinked presentation title (however, not all presenters have submitted abstracts).

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 8

3:00PM - 6:00PM
 
REGISTRATION3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 3:00PM- 6:00PM in 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
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 9

7:30AM - 6:00PM
 
REGISTRATION3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 7:30AM- 6:00PM in 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Convention Registration." 

8:00AM - 6:00PM
 
EXHIBITS3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Thursday
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:00AM- 6:00PM in 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table." 

SPECIAL EVENTS3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Coffee/Tea Service - Thursday
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:00AM-10:30AM in 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Complimentary Coffee/Tea Service." 

8:30AM -10:00AM
 
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESDOUGLAS
American Nineteenth-Century Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Jeffrey W. Miller, Gonzaga University 
Alternate Chair: Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso 
Presenters: James E. Bishop, University of Nevada, Reno. "'A Ploddin' Man': Sustainable Masculinity in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs.." 
 Lesley Wallace Wootton, University of Oregon. "I am not one of them: The Limits of Working-Class Leadership in Life in the Iron Mills." 
 Thomas P. Jordan, Binghamton University. "Captain Ahab and the Frontier Adam: Interrogating the Myth of the Perpetually Able-Body." 
 Charles C. Bradshaw, University of Tennessee, Martin. "'That immoveable veil of black': Transparency and an Early African American Counterpublic." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESESMERELDA
Irish Literature and Film*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College 
Alternate Chair: Maria T. Pramaggiore, North Carolina State University 
Presenters: Selma Amina Purac, University of Western Ontario. "(Re)Presenting the Visual: Verbal Illusions and Visual Distortion in John Banville's Frames Trilogy." 
 Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College. "The Tiger's Stripes: Jimmy Rabbitte Awakes to a New Ireland." 
 Peter G. Beal, Front Range Community College. "Monuments of Magnificence: Yeats and the Reception of Byzantine Art." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESHOSPITALITY ROOM
Women in French
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Stacey Ann Weber-Feve, Iowa State University 
Alternate Chair: Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley 
Presenters: Robert L. Mazzola, Independent Scholar. "Duras w/* Lacan." 
 Monica R. Garoiu, Colorado College. "Poétique de l'exil et de l'identité dans les Lettres parisiennes de Leila Sebbar et Nancy Huston." 
 Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Lingering North African Identity in Beur and Non-Beur French Girls: Georgette!, Kiffe Kiffe Demain and La Vie Après." 

LINGUISTICSORMSBY
Foreign Language Linguistics
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University 
Presenters: Zheng-Min Dong, Washington State University. "Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Words in Contemporary Modern Russian Language." 
 Yi-Ting Chen, Arizona State University. "ma-ka-: Another Type of Amis Causative." 

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESWASHOE A
Contemporary Spanish American and Caribbean Literature*
Spanish American Literature II
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of St. Thomas 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Patricia D. Catoira, Montana State University. "The Brothel as a Modern Space in Laura Restrepo's The Dark Bride .." 
 Oscar S. Reynaga, Central College. "Vampires in Mexico City: Homosexuality in Luis Zapata’s El vampiro de la colonia roma and Tomás Urtusástegui’s Drácula Gay.." 
 Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College. "Madonnas and Madames: The Intersection of Race, Class and Sex in Nuestra Señora de la noche by Mayra Santos-Febres.." 
 Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of St. Thomas. "Recuperación del trauma y rememoración nostálgica en Doña Inés contra el olvido (1992) de Ana Teresa Torres.." 

GENERAL TOPICSWASHOE B
Literature and Other Arts
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Kristen Hylenski, University of Minnesota, Duluth 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Vance L. Byrd, Grinnell College. "Beautiful Form? Adalbert Stifter's Wien und die Wiener and the Kaleidoscope." 
 Emily K. Carr, University of Calgary. "Dirt, Drag, Drink: Consuming the Poetic Cyber-text." 
 Christine Scoggan Gillette, Arizona State University. "Painting Ladies: Traversing the Literary and Visual Representations of Nineteenth-Century Women Artists." 

FILM STUDIESWASHOE C
Film Theory and Criticism
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Carlen Donovan, Idaho State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Steven Rybin, Ohio University. "A Critical Cinephilia: Fassbinder, Sirk, and Film as Criticism." 
 Christopher Michael Culp, SUNY Buffalo. "Feminism and the Pleasure of Critique." 
 Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University. "Les Fauteuils d'orchestre: A Role Reversal for the Arts." 

GERMANIC STUDIESWASHOE D
German 'Sturm und Drang' and Romanticism*
German Literature before 1900
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE D
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: James Van Der Laan, Illinois State University. "Herder on War and Peace." 
 Steven D. Martinson, University of Arizona. "Herder's Travels." 
 Jessie Ferguson, Stanford University. "The World History of your Soul." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESWASHOE E
Flannery O'Connor
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE E
Chair: Irwin H. Streight, Royal Military College of Canada 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Presenters: Ann M. Pelelo, Clarke College. "Theoretically Teaching: Bringing Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories to Students.." 
 Irwin H. Streight, Royal Military College of Canada. "Lucinda Williams: Chasing Flannery's Peacocks.." 
 Donald E. Hardy, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Influence of Max Beerbohm and Richard Hughes on Flannery O'Connor.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE F
Rhetorical Criticism*: The Rhetoric of the American Presidency
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Glenn H. Dayley, US Air Force Academy Preparatory School. "Empty Playing Fields: 'Common' Commonplaces in the Run for President." 
 Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University. "Faith in America: The Rhetoric of Mitt Romney." 
 Kenneth D. Day, University of the Pacific. "Constructing Presidential Candidate Ethos: The Case of Barack Obama." 

9:00AM - 3:00PM
 
SPECIAL EVENTSPROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 9:00AM- 3:00PM in PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Beverly B. Zimmerman, Brigham Young University and Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona and Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University and Sura Rath, Central Washington University and David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona and Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University and Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado and Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder and Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University and Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University. "RMMLA Executive Board Meeting." 

10:15AM -11:45AM
 
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESDOUGLAS
Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Liliana Dorado, Hope College 
Alternate Chair: Mar Inestrillas, University of Nevada, Reno 
Presenters: Michelle M. Wilson, Independent Scholar. "The Transnational Space of Exile in Marta Traba’s En cualquier lugar." 
 Judith Ames Whitenack, University of Nevada, Reno. "Narrator, Reader and Metafictional Visions in Isabel del Río's La duda." 

LINGUISTICSESMERELDA
Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Maria Mayberry, California State University, Sacramento. "Online Discursive Narrative in Spanish: The Simple Present/Present Progressive Aspectual Contrast." 
 Michael C. Raines, University of Mississippi. "Pop Culture Language Changes in Mexican Spanish.." 
 Diana Frances Semmes, University of Mississippi. "The Effects of Learning Elementary Spanish on the Mississippi Curriculum Test.." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESHOBBY HORSE
English Eighteenth-Century Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Nancy L. Van Styvendale, University of Alberta 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Rachel E. Dodge, Sierra College. "Elizabeth Bennet and 18th-Century Conduct Literature: The Cultural Significance of Austen's Leading Lady.." 
 Quentin David Vieregge, University of South Florida. "The Role of Genre as a Vehicle of Agency for Clarissa, Belford, and Samuel Richardson.." 
 David P. Alvarez, DePauw University. "The Aesthetics of Tolerance in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.." 
 Renee M. Bryzik, University of Nevada, Reno. "Revolutions in Walking: The Urban Pedestrian in Frances Burney's The Wanderer.." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESORMSBY
Western Poets*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Nick S. Neely, University of Nevada, Reno. "Decadent Tradition: Gary Snyder's Revision in 'A Berry Feast'." 
 Nika C. Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Cowboy Poetry and the Changing Face of the West." 
 Jamie A. Beatty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "Songs of Symbiosis: Poetry of Horses and their Cowboys." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESSUITE 3
Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in SUITE 3
Chair: Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Sudarsan Rangarajan, University of Alaska, Anchorage. "A Postcolonial Reading of Butor's L'Emploi du temps." 
 Najib Redouane, California State University, Long Beach. "Traditions et modernité dans Un rêve de femmes de Fatima Mernissi." 
 Michel Rocchi, University of Puget Sound. "Narratological Devices in Christine Angot and Amélie Nothomb." 

GENERAL TOPICSWASHOE A
Ethnic Studies
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Kathleen G. Washburn, University of New Mexico 
Presenters: Sarita Nyasha Cannon, San Francisco State University. "The Black-Indian Body as a Site of Nation Formation.." 
 Christina A. Nagao, University of California, Los Angeles. "A Different Kind of Love: Building Transnational Cultural Alliances in Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch.." 
 Gladys Nubla, University of California, Berkeley. "Mourning a Lost Innocence: The Child of Sex Tourism.." 

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIESWASHOE B
Russian Language and Literature*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Elena Y. Kostoglodova, University of Colorado, Boulder. "i-Clickers in the Small Language Classroom: Successful Strategies.." 
 Carl R. Beideman, Montana State University. "Raskolnikov's Revolutionary Reticence: The Mutability and Muting of Reason in Crime and Punishment." 
 Brenda A. Graves, St. Cloud State University. "Remembering Chekhov's Life and Work.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE C
Ecocriticism
International and Cross-Cultural Ecocritical Perspectives
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Breyan N. Strickler, Loras College 
Alternate Chair: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno 
Presenters: Danion L. Doman, Truman State University. "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor: Sepúlveda’s Ecological Fable." 
 Phillip David Johnson II, University of Nevada, Reno. "'Paradoxical Vista of the Enchanting Beauty': How Western Environmental Rhetoric of 'Invasive Alien Species' (IAS) Reinforces a Transnational Capitalism." 
 Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, Columbia. "From the Bavarian Forest to the High Sierra: Ecological Holism in Adalbert Stifter and John Muir." 
 Navneet Kumar, University of Calgary. "The Ecological Injustice in India: Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE F
Cross-Cultural Linguistics and Contrastive Rhetoric*: Issues in Language Analysis and Teaching
Issues and Approaches in Language Analysis and Teaching
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Stefan F. Mummert, Monash University Melbourne Australia 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Sarah M. McGreevy, Humboldt State University. "In Defense of Difference: Writing and Contrastive Rhetoric in the ESL Classroom.." 
 Elena Atitsogbui, Independent Scholar. "Cultural Authenticity: The Case of the Russian Language and Culture.." 
 Marohang Limbu, University of Texas, El Paso. "Academic Writing and Rhetoric: A Comparision between Nepal and the US.." 

1:00PM - 2:30PM
 
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESDOUGLAS
Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+: Spanish Women Writers*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Liliana Dorado, Hope College 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Clary Loisel, University of Montana. "Elementos de Bildungsroman femenino en El espejo roto de Mercé Rodoreda." 
 Liliana Dorado, Hope College. "La relaboración del mito de Circe en el teatro de Carlota O Neill." 
 Astrid A. Billat, Meredith College. "¿Objeto o sujeto?/ Star, /un ejemplo de la construcción social de lo femenino en La novia del viento." 

GENERAL TOPICSESMERELDA
Migration Landscapes*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University. "There's No Place: Migratory Labor and the Image of Home in Working-Class Literature.." 
 Linda J. Sumption, Eastern New Mexico University. "'The terrible Ogress': The Donner Party and the Making of Migrant Horror Narrative.." 
 Carol J. Erwin, Texas Tech University. "Old-Lady Day and the 'Fever' of Mobility: Migration, Depopulation, and the 'Land of Promise' in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.." 
 Nina G. Bjornsson, Menntaskoli Reykjavik. "Landscape, Naming and Nationbuilding: The Effect of Migration on Placenames in Pueblo and Icelandic Texts.." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESHOBBY HORSE
American Identities in the Nineteenth Century*
American Literature of the Nineteenth Century II
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Jeffrey W. Miller, Gonzaga University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: H. Marlowe Daly-Galeano, University of Arizona. "Never 'Only an Actress': The Business and Performance of Author in Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles.." 
 Debbie R. Lelekis, University of Missouri. "'Two Warring Ideals': How Race and Gender Complicate the Shaping of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." 
 Michael Pringle, Gonzaga University. "Spectral Imagery: The Science of Daguerreotypy in The House of the Seven Gables.." 

GENERAL TOPICSHOSPITALITY ROOM
Intersections of Identity and Difference*: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Disability
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Daniel Enrique Perez, University of Nevada, Reno 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Chris M. Bell, Nottingham Trent University. "Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century: (Re)Making an Identity Apparatus.." 
 Jane Dilworth, Saint Mary's College of California. "Deconstructing and/or Reconstructing Gender: Masculine Women and Feminized Men in Spanish and Latin American Film.." 
 Ali Brox, University of Kansas. "Of One Blood: Hybridity, Miscegenation and the Daywalker in Octavia Butler's Fledgling.." 
 Rebecca Joyce Garay, New Mexico State University. "Helena Maria Viramontes' Their Dogs Came with Them and Articulation of Social Invisibility.." 

LINGUISTICSORMSBY
Second Language Acquisition
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Scott M. Rex, Southern Oregon University 
Alternate Chair: Carmen Schlig, Georgia State University 
Presenters: Dibakar Pal, Independent Scholar (India). "Joy of Learning: A Direct Methodical Approach." 
 Ekembe E. Enongene, University of Yaounde I. "Context, Language, Instruction and Learning: Who learns what and how?." 
 Casilde A. Isabelli, University of Nevada Reno. "Contextual effects in processing L2 sentences.." 
 Suneeti Chhettri Lock, University of Nevada Reno. "Whither English: Bilingual Education in the US and India." 

GERMANIC STUDIESPAIUTE I
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, Columbia 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Gabi Wurmitzer, Duke University. "'Das Spiel braucht die Spieler, oder brauchen die Spieler das Spiel?' (Un-)Performing Family in Ingeborg Bachmann's Short Story 'Alles'.." 
 Daniel C. Villanueva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The Aesthetics of Blogging: Karl Kraus' Die Fackel.." 
 Jeffrey Packer, Utah Valley University. "Measuring Greatness: Genius, Irony, and a New Perspective on Germany's Golden Age in Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESPAIUTE II
Rhetorical Theory and Inquiry*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Jane A. Detweiler, University of Nevada, Reno 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Rhetorics/Politics of the Personal in Academic Discourse." 
 James P. Sundeen, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Getting 'Real': Negotiating a Teacherly 'Self' through Phenomenological Reflection." 
 Sarah Perrault, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Cons of the Pros: How Popular Science Writers View their Readers." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE A
French Cultural and Literary Theory
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley State College 
Presenters: Frederic Conrod, Creighton University. "The Re-Interpretation of Dreams: How the American Academy Tailored French Theory to Its Needs." 
 Jason Herbeck, Boise State University. "Nonsense and Sensibility: Reading into Camusian Consciousness." 
 Nicholas J. Ray, University of Leeds. "Jean Laplanche--Leaning on--Freud." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE B
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)+
Ecocriticism, Literature, and the Environment
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Tina Gianquitto, Colorado School of Mines 
Alternate Chair: James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University 
Presenters: Megan M. Melvin, Florida Gulf Coast University. "Experiencing the Authentic: The Emergence of Ethics in Rick Bass’s Winter.." 
 Susan J. Tyburski, Colorado School of Mines. "Crafting Dialogue: Terry Tempest Williams' Politics of Place." 
 Soophia Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University. "The Trampled Terrains of Childhood: Children as Signifiers of Nature in The God of Small Things.." 

GENERAL TOPICSWASHOE C
Drama
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE C
Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia 
Alternate Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University 
Presenters: Maila Zitelli, Minot State University. "Parodic Finger Pointing: GDR Novelist Manfred Bieler and Czech Radio Play Author Ludvik Askenazy Expose Anna Seghers' Literary Debt to Russian Author Leonid Andreev." 
 John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "The Music of Bert Brecht / Kurt Weill." 
 Stefan R. Fink, Georgetown University. "Cultural Challenges: From T.C. Boyle's Novel Water Music (1981) to its German Translation Wassermusik and the Recent NDR Hoerspiel ('Radio Film') Wassermusik (2005)." 
 Brandi Martinez, University of Nevada, Reno. "Out of the Closet and onto the Prose Page: Margaret Cavendish's Drama and the Shaping of her Prose." 

PEDAGOGYWASHOE D
English and Secondary Education*
English remains a content area for Secondary Education, but what exactly is that content?
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE D
Chair: Bruce J. Degi, Metropolitan State College of Denver 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Bruce J. Degi, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "The Reality Facing New Language Arts Teachers in Colorado: Literacy, Not Literature." 
 Gloria Schultz Eastman, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Possible Changes to the English Secondary Education Major to Meet this New Reality." 
 Cindy L. Carlson, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Response from the Department Chair." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESWASHOE E
Nineteenth-Century Masculinities*
British and American Masculinities in Poetry or Prose
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE E
Chair: Jen Hill, University of Nevada, Reno 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: David Agruss, Montana State University. "Boys' Public Schools, Cross-Racial Identification, and Metropolitan Masculinity in the British Nineteenth Century." 
 Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, Augustana. "His spirituality or his manliness: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (Re) Constructions of Christian Masculinity." 
 Marlene A. Tromp, Denison University. "The Six Million Dollar Man: Masculinity and Economics in the Titanic Disaster." 

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONWASHOE F
Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1:00PM- 2:30PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Christopher Sean Harris, University of Louisiana, Monroe 
Alternate Chair: Sandra Hill, University of Louisiana, Monroe 
Presenters: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University. "Teaching Visuals in the Service Course: Going beyond the Text." 
 Sandra Hill, University of Louisiana, Monroe. "'It’s the Economy, Stupid': Preparing Professional Writing Students for Twenty-first-Century Opportunities and Communities." 
 Christopher Sean Harris, University of Louisiana, Monroe. "Course Management Systems in the Professional Writing Classroom: Choices and Chaos." 

2:45PM - 4:15PM
 
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIESDOUGLAS
Spanish Ministerio de Cultura Special Session: El Mundo Literario de Laila Ripoll*
Sesión homenaje a la escritora y su obra
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Susan P. Berardini, Pace University. "El teatro de Laila Ripoll." 
 Iride Lamartina-Lens, Pace University. "Laila Ripoll y su generación." 
 Laila Ripoll,  . "Respondant:." 

OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIESESMERELDA
Romania's Contributions to International Heritage
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University 
Alternate Chair: Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno 
Presenters: Mircea Sabau, Independent Scholar. "Poetry and Vision in Grigorescu’s Art." 
 Monica M. Grecu, University of Nevada, Reno. "Woman's Image in the Love Poetry of Mihail Eminescu." 
 Raymonde A. Bulger, Graceland University. "'La Belle Roumanie' de Dumiitru Tsepeneag." 

GERMANIC STUDIESHOBBY HORSE
Germany since 1990*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University 
Alternate Chair: Tim Gruenewald, University of Illinois 
Presenters: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas. "Seeking Closure: Texts by First Post War Generation Germans." 
 Kim Fordham, University of Alberta, Augustana. "Just who are the crazy ones? Mehr's Zeus oder der Zwillingston and Duerrenmatt's Die Physiker." 
 Deborah D. Janson, West Virginia University. "Ins Ungebundene gehet eine Sehnsucht: On the Function and Promise of Literature in Christa Wolf's Leibhaftig." 

ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIESHOSPITALITY ROOM
Mary Shelley
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University 
Alternate Chair: Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University 
Presenters: Brian N. Duchaney, Curry College. "Post Modern Thought and the Concept of Language in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein." 
 Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Tufts University. "Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Lodore and the Discourse of Hospitality.." 
 Catherine Sprecher, University of Chicago. "Deconstructing Percy? A Re-Evaluation of the Relationship between the Works of Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley.." 

ASIAN STUDIESORMSBY
Asian Studies: The Enigma of Ethical Living in the Era of Reform*
Representations of Morality and Filiality in the Films of Feng Xiaogang and Beyond
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Dian Li, University of Arizona 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Dian Li, University of Arizona. "Parody and Satire: The Play of Morality in Feng Xiaogang's Films." 
 Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "The Reification of Relationships and Commodification of Filiality in Feng Xiaogang and Recent Chinese Cinema." 
 Nicholas Andrew Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Postsocialist Nostalgia in/and Feng Xiaogang's Cellphone." 
 Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University. "Discussant:." 

GENERAL TOPICSPAIUTE I
Justice, Law and Children’s Literature*: Foundational Attitudes
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Elizabeth A. Swingrover, University of Nevada, Reno. "'My Mother was the War': Representing Young Africa." 
 Marsha M. Urban, University of Nevada, Reno. "No Justice in iSacrifice/i." 
 Elizabeth A. Francis, University of Nevada, Reno. "Childhood, Agency and Justice: Hegemonic Narratives." 

FILM STUDIESPAIUTE II
Representations of Immigration and (Post)colonialism in International Cinema*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Astrid A. Billat, Meredith College 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Bénédicte M. Boisseron, University of Montana. "The Belleville Hybridization of Momo in Monsieur Ibrahim." 
 Debora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Meredith College. "Meanings and Ideas of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rican Cinema: Luis Molina Casanova's Film La guagua area." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESSUITE 3
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in SUITE 3
Chair: Christina C. Angel, University of Denver 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Kenneth G. MacKendrick, University of Manitoba. "Chuck Palahniuk and the New Journalism Revolution.." 
 Sherry R. Truffin, Tiffin University. "‘This is what passes for free will': Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic.." 
 Charles William Hoge, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Mona Saves: Solving the Folklore that Kills in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.." 

FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIESWASHOE A
Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Monique M. Manopoulos, Idaho State University 
Alternate Chair: Alix Mazuet, University of Central Oklahoma 
Presenters: Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. "Texaco est-il un roman baroque?." 
 Alix Mazuet, University of Central Oklahoma. "Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé: Shattering the Frames of Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa.." 
 Lee Elaine Skallerup Bessette, California State University, San Bernardino. "Writing through the Chaos: Haitian Writers in Exile." 

PEDAGOGYWASHOE B
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Holly A. McSpadden, Missouri Southern State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Bethany Blankenship, University of Montana, Western. "Creating Literary Scholars using the World Wide Web.." 
 Janet Moser, Brooklyn College. "Proust and the Arts: An Approach to Teaching Swann's Way." 
 Holly A. McSpadden, Missouri Southern State University. "Tracking the Inner Intellectual: Literature Students and the Paper Trail.." 

CLASSICAL STUDIESWASHOE C
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts*
Classical Rhetorical Devices in Modern Literature and Film
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE C
Chair: William J. McCarthy, Catholic University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Pennsylvania State University. "The Ontological Conceit: Postmodern (Anti)Logos in Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." 
 Geoffrey W. Layton, Queen of Peace High School. "Juno: A Cautionary Tale of Incomplete Classical Rhetoric." 
 Kevin Elstob, California State University, Sacramento. "Classical Rhetorical Devices in Modern Literature and Film through the Cinema of Francis Veber." 
 William J. McCarthy, Catholic University. "The Nature of the 'Cinematic' in Ovid." 

GENDER STUDIESWASHOE D
Women's Voices in Poetry
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE D
Chair: H. Marlowe Daly-Galeano, University of Arizona 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Presenters: Lourdes M. Arciniega, University of Calgary. "Journey into No Man’s Land: P.K. Page’s Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse.." 
 Laura Gronewold, University of Arizona. "'I Scarcely Dared to Look to See What It Was I Was': Subject Formation in Elizabeth Bishop's 'In the Waiting Room'.." 
 Matthew Louis Rotando, University of Arizona. "Diane DiPrima, Being the Beat: Buddhist Poet in a Dream Age.." 
 H. Jordan Landry, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "'That Slipped My Simple Fingers Through': Dickinson's Revision of the Seduction Novel through Punning.." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESWASHOE E
Literary Criticism
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE E
Chair: James Caufield, Touro College, Los Angeles 
Alternate Chair: Susan E. Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara 
Presenters: Serkan Ertin, Middle East Technical University. "A Transgressive Mythification of S/He: Problematization of Gender Stereotypes in Turkish Context.." 
 Michael Dabrowski, Athabasca University. "Cosmology and Literature: Convergence of Science and Criticism.." 
 Allison Harvey, University of Nevada, Reno. "Postcolonial Criticism and the Politics of Form: Realism, Women, and Nation in the Irish Novel.." 

PEDAGOGYWASHOE F
Teaching English Composition
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Greg Grewell, University of Arizona 
Alternate Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University 
Presenters: Kathleen Coughlin Hefley, Front Range Community College. "Bridging the Gap from the Real World to the Classroom: Helping Non-Traditional Students Return to Academia.." 
 Jill Larsen, Brigham Young University. "Blogging as Composition Pedagogy.." 
 Stephanie A. Merz, University of Arizona. "Towards a Theory of Assessment: Distributed Cognition and Teacher Comments in the First Year Composition Classroom.." 
 Greg Grewell, University of Arizona. "Ecological Compos(t)ing: Sustaining Composition through Ecocomposition.." 

4:30PM - 6:00PM
 
GENDER STUDIESDOUGLAS
Women in/and Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Lourdes M. Arciniega, University of Calgary 
Alternate Chair: Melissa Root, Naropa University 
Presenters: Sarah J. Purdy, University of Nevada Reno. "Immaculate Consumption: Economies of Spoilage in Great Expectations." 
 Jenna Sciuto, Brown University. "Subtle Subversions: The Roles of Language, Food, and Sexuality in the Destabilization of the Puritan Identity of Mary Rowlandson." 
 Susan Lydon, Independent Scholar. "The Gendering of Art and Science in Charlotte Brontë's Villette." 

LINGUISTICSESMERELDA
Second Language Writing*
Reports of Research and Discussions of Central Issues in Second/Foreign Language Writing
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Claudia Becker, North Carolina Central University. "Making Connections: Writing Activities and their Effects on Second Language Acquisition and Learning in German." 
 Hui-chun Yang, University of Texas, Austin. "Scaffolding ESL Academic Writing Assessment: The Effects of Strategy Use." 
 Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University. "From Two-Year to Four-Year Colleges: Writing (and Surviving) in a Second Language." 

SPECIAL EVENTSHOBBY HORSE
Publishing Forum: How to Publish Scholarly Work
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Marshall Bruce Gentry, Georgia College and State University and Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona and Sura Rath, Central Washington University and Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University and Joanne O'Hare, University of Nevada Press and Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada, Reno. "Panel Discussion by Editors of Scholarly Journals in the Humanities: How to Publish Scholarly Work." 

CLASSICAL STUDIESHOSPITALITY ROOM
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Mary G. Economou-Bailey, Ryerson University 
Alternate Chair: Anita Nikkanen, Harvard University 
Presenters: Mary Kate Azcuy, Monmouth University. "Hades' Obsession and Postmodern Replication in Louise Gluck's 'Myth of Devotion' from Averno." 
 Susan F. Joseph, Catholic University of America. "'I have been wanting to mourn': Solidarity and Heroism in Recent Poetry Based on the Myth of Demeter and Persephone." 
 Mary G. Economou-Bailey, Ryerson University. "'Siren Songs': The Mythic Sirens in Contemporary Poetry." 

LINGUISTICSORMSBY
General and Applied Linguistics
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Susan McKay, Weber State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University 
Presenters: Felice Anne Coles, University of Mississippi. "Structural rephrasing in Isleño Spanish folksongs." 
 Mark S. LeTourneau, Weber State University. "Semantic Selection for Complement Clauses in Standard Arabic." 
 Susan McKay, Weber State University. "The Effects of Indefiniteness in Sentence Embedding." 

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIESPAIUTE II
Southern Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina, Columbia 
Alternate Chair: Randy Jasmine, Dixie State College of Utah 
Presenters: Leah Miranda Hughes, Westwood College. "American Life (Southern Voice) in Poetry." 
 Jon Smith, Simon Fraser University. "Canada, the U.S. South, and New World Studies: Broadening the Look Away! Model?." 
 Sarah Rose Gleeson-White, University of Sydney. "Out of Place, Out of Form: William Faulkner, the West and the Western." 
 Robert H. Brinkmeyer, University of South Carolina. "Space and Place in the Fiction of Richard Ford." 

CONJOINT MEETINGSPROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Asian Studies Business Meeting+
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Chair: Christopher Lupke, Washington State University 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Christopher Lupke, Washington State University. "Open Business Meeting for Faculty and Students involved in Asian Studies." 

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIESSUITE 3
Ethical Criticism*
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in SUITE 3
Chair: Robert W. Hill, Kennesaw State University 
Alternate Chair: Jane Bowers Hill, University of West Georgia 
Presenters: Robert W. Hill, Kennesaw State University. "Problematic Ethics in the Poetry of James Dickey." 
 Jane Bowers Hill, University of West Georgia. "In Mr. Booth's Company: Ethical Readership in the Twenty-first Century." 
 Alisa Hummell, Independent Scholar. "The Coen Brothers and the Ethos of Pretty Violence." 

GENERAL TOPICSWASHOE A
RMMLA Poets Read their Works
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Siobhan Scarry, University at Buffalo, SUNY 
Alternate Chair:  RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University 
Presenters: Julie Steward, Samford University and William W. Wright, Mesa State College and Daniel S. Butterworth, Gonzaga University and Emily K. Carr, University of Calgary. "."