RMMLA Annual Conventions

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

REGISTRATION 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - WednesdayWEDNESDAY, 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

REGISTRATION 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - ThursdayTHURSDAY, 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

EXHIBITS 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - ThursdayTHURSDAY, 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 EVENTS 3RD 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 STUDIES DOUGLAS
American Nineteenth-Century LiteratureTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES ESMERELDA
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."
LINGUISTICS ORMSBY
Foreign Language LinguisticsTHURSDAY, 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."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES PAIUTE I
Women in FrenchTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:30AM-10:00AM in PAIUTE I
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."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE A
Contemporary Spanish American and Caribbean Literature*Spanish American Literature IITHURSDAY, 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 Tom�s Urtus�stegui�s Dr�cula Gay.."
Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College. "Madonnas and Madames: The Intersection of Race, Class and Sex in Nuestra Se�ora de la noche by Mayra Santos-Febres.."
Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of St. Thomas. "Recuperaci�n del trauma y rememoraci�n nost�lgica en Do�a In�s contra el olvido (1992) de Ana Teresa Torres.."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE B
Literature and Other ArtsTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES WASHOE C
Film Theory and CriticismTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES WASHOE D
German 'Sturm und Drang' and Romanticism*German Literature before 1900THURSDAY, 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 STUDIES WASHOE 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 STUDIES WASHOE 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 EVENTS PROSPECTOR''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 STUDIES DOUGLAS
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 R�o's La duda."
Dianna Cristina Niebylski, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Eva through Sarlo; Sarlo through Eva: Icons, Intellectuals and a Half Century of Argentine Postmodernity."
LINGUISTICS ESMERELDA
Spanish and Portuguese LinguisticsTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES HOBBY 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 STUDIES ORMSBY
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."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES PAIUTE I
Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives* THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in PAIUTE I
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 modernit� dans Un r�ve de femmes de Fatima Mernissi."
Michel Rocchi, University of Puget Sound. "Narratological Devices in Christine Angot and Am�lie Nothomb."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE 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 STUDIES WASHOE 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 STUDIES WASHOE C
EcocriticismInternational and Cross-Cultural Ecocritical PerspectivesTHURSDAY, 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 le�a novelas de amor: Sep�lveda�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 STUDIES WASHOE F
Cross-Cultural Linguistics and Contrastive Rhetoric*: Issues in Language Analysis and TeachingIssues and Approaches in Language Analysis and TeachingTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University
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 STUDIES DOUGLAS
Asociac�on Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp�nica (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 Merc� Rodoreda."
Liliana Dorado, Hope College. "La relaboraci�n del mito de Circe en el teatro de Carlota O Neill."
Astrid A. Billat, Meredith College. "�Objeto o sujeto?/ Star, /un ejemplo de la construcci�n social de lo femenino en La novia del viento."
GENERAL TOPICS ESMERELDA
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 STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
American Identities in the Nineteenth Century*American Literature of the Nineteenth Century IITHURSDAY, 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 TOPICS HOSPITALITY 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.."
LINGUISTICS ORMSBY
Second Language AcquisitionTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES PAIUTE 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 STUDIES PAIUTE 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 STUDIES WASHOE A
French Cultural and Literary TheoryTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES WASHOE B
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)+Ecocriticism, Literature, and the EnvironmentTHURSDAY, 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 TOPICS WASHOE C
DramaTHURSDAY, 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."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE 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 STUDIES WASHOE E
Nineteenth-Century Masculinities*British and American Masculinities in Poetry or ProseTHURSDAY, 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 COMMUNICATION WASHOE F
Technical and Professional Communication in the ClassroomTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES DOUGLAS
Spanish Ministerio de Cultura Special Session: El Mundo Literario de Laila Ripoll*Sesi�n homenaje a la escritora y su obraTHURSDAY, 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 generaci�n."
Jose Cornejo, Independent Scholar. "Respondant:."
OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES ESMERELDA
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 STUDIES HOBBY 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 STUDIES HOSPITALITY ROOM
Mary ShelleyTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Erin L. Webster-Garrett, Radford University
Alternate Chair: Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University
Presenters: 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.."
Brian N. Duchaney, Curry College. "Post Modern Thought and the Concept of Language in Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein."
ASIAN STUDIES ORMSBY
Asian Studies: The Enigma of Ethical Living in the Era of Reform*Representations of Morality and Filiality in the Films of Feng Xiaogang and BeyondTHURSDAY, 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 TOPICS PAIUTE 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 STUDIES PAIUTE 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: B�n�dicte 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 STUDIES SUITE 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 STUDIES WASHOE A
Francophone Literature of Africa and the CaribbeanTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2:45PM- 4:15PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Monique M. Manopoulos, California State University East Bay
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 oblig�: 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."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE 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 STUDIES WASHOE C
Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts*Classical Rhetorical Devices in Modern Literature and FilmTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES WASHOE D
Women's Voices in PoetryTHURSDAY, 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: 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 STUDIES WASHOE 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.."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE F
Teaching English CompositionTHURSDAY, 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 STUDIES DOUGLAS
Women in/and LiteratureTHURSDAY, 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."
LINGUISTICS ESMERELDA
Second Language Writing*Reports of Research and Discussions of Central Issues in Second/Foreign Language WritingTHURSDAY, 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."
Michael Hubert, Washington State University. "The Relationship between Writing and Speaking in the U.S. University Foreign Language Classroom."
Hui-chun Yang, University of Texas, Austin. "Scaffolding ESL Academic Writing Assessment: The Effects of Strategy Use."
Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University. "ESL �Stretch� Programs: The Longer, the Better?."
SPECIAL EVENTS HOBBY 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 STUDIES HOSPITALITY ROOM
The Interpretation and Influence of Greek MythsTHURSDAY, 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."
LINGUISTICS ORMSBY
General and Applied LinguisticsTHURSDAY, 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 Isle�o 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 STUDIES PAIUTE II
Southern LiteratureTHURSDAY, 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: 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."
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?."
CONJOINT MEETINGS PROSPECTOR''''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."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE A
RMMLA Poets Read their WorksTHURSDAY, 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. "."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION WASHOE B
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Mali Subbiah, Weber State University
Presenters: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University. "ATTW Business Meeting."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE C
Latin American Literature and FilmTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE C
Chair: Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School
Alternate Chair: Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "Violence and Eroticism in Rosario Tijeras."
Maria Luisa Ruiz, Saint Mary's College of California. "Violencia en el umbral: Violations of the Public and Private in Perfume de Violetas (nadie te oye)."
Assen I. Kokalov, Arizona State University. "Represi�n y resistencia subalterna en la novel�stica de Ricardo Piglia."
Francisco Manzo Robledo, Washington State University. "The Mexican Corrido in the Social-act Space: Two Applications."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE D
English Renaissance LiteratureTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE D
Chair: McKenna Suzanne Rose, University of California, Davis
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University. "Undividable Incorporate: The Problem with Marital Emblems in Golding, Shakespeare, and Spenser."
Victoria Rae Smith Barrios, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Leading Ladies of Thomas Heywood."
Lara D. Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno. "Wandering and Returning: The Tempest and the New World  ."
ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES WASHOE E
Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora*: Identity and Migration THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE E
Chair: Kellie D. Weiss, California State University, Fullerton
Alternate Chair: Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Katherine C. Anders, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Imperialist Thwarted: Rochester's Struggle with Identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea."
Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado. "Identity, Migration and Place in Gustavo Perez Firmat's Next Year in Cuba."
Elizabeth M. Benson, Utah State University. "Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Ethnic Identities in Black and Asian British Literature."
Whitney Bly Edwards, Howard University. "'Migration Trauma' and the Negotiation of Identity in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES WASHOE F
Conseil international d'�tudes francophones+Du rapport des �tres entre eux: mariage, musique, mise en sc�neTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4:30PM- 6:00PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Jason Herbeck, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College
Presenters: Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College. "Le renversement des r�les dans le couple Agaguk et Iriook dans le roman d�Yves Th�riault.."
Gretchen S. O'Dell, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Dangerous Music, Dangerous Movement: The Gwoka in the Works of Daniel Maximin.."
Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University. "Hadzihalilovic�s Innocence: Art or Pornography?."
6:00PM - 7:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS PROSPECTOR''S LOUNGE
Opening Night (Drop-In) ReceptionTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 6:00PM- 7:30PM in PROSPECTOR''S LOUNGE
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS ORMSBY
Film Showing - Thursday Evening - Enlightenment Guaranteed THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 9:00PM-11:00PM in ORMSBY
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Film Showing - Enlightenment Guaranteed."
FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 10
7:30AM - 6:00PM

REGISTRATION 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - FridayFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 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 -10:30AM

SPECIAL EVENTS 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Coffee/Tea Service - Friday FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 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."
EXHIBITS 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - FridayFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 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."
8:30AM -10:00AM

ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES DOUGLAS
American Literature after 1900FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Sascha Poehlmann, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Munich
Alternate Chair: Rita M. Jones, University of Northern Colorado
Presenters: Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Reinterpreting Orientalism in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.."
Ann V. Bliss, University of California, Merced. "Resisting Invasion: Disease as a Metaphor in The Samurai�s Garden.."
Paul Kerschen, University of California, Berkeley. "Mind and Metaphor in As I Lay Dying.."
PEDAGOGY ESMERELDA
Teaching Foreign Languages FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Evelyn Wisbey, University of Kansas
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Seda Chavdarian, University of California, Berkeley. "Teaching Authentic Literary Texts in Language Classes and Beyond.."
Anja Wieden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Strategies for Constructing Essay Assignments at the Intermediate Level.."
Clarisse C A Costa Afonso, Independent Scholar. "The Meaning of Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Acquisition.."
Joerg Meindl, DePauw University. "Teaching Linguistic and Cultural Variety in the Foreign Language Classroom.."
SPECIAL EVENTS HOBBY HORSE
Revamping the Foreign Language Department and Curriculum* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona and Joy Landeira, University of Northern Colorado and Nelly Furman, Modern Language Association. "Panel Discussion."
GERMANIC STUDIES HOSPITALITY ROOM
German Literature before 1900 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: David J. Rosenberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenters: James W. Harrison, Southern Utah University. "Thuring von Ringoltingen and the Advent of the Prose Tradition in Early New High German Literature."
Annett Krause, Ohio State University. "German Visions of India in Late-Medieval German Travel Accounts."
Victor M. Fusilero, University of California, Los Angeles. "Governing Households: The Hausv�terliteratur of Johann Coler, Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg, and Franz Philipp Florinus."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES ORMSBY
American Humor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Stephanie T. Taitano, Saddleback College
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jonathan M. Wilson, Eastern New Mexico University. "Humor as a Vehicle for Identifying the Dominant�s Ideological Saturation in Louise Erdrich�s Four Souls."
Anita Nikkanen, Harvard University. "The Cringeworthy."
Bridgitte Barclay Arnold, University of Texas, Arlington. "'[�] they are still the same ineffectual weaklings, my daughters �': Satire and Parody as Modes of Subversion in American Women-Authored Utopian and Science Fiction."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES PAIUTE I
Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Elizabeth V. Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Presenters: Elizabeth V. Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso. "Othello�s Perfect Match: Surviving Otherness Together.."
Jan M. Hawkley, University of Nevada, Reno. "Problem Women: Getting Down and Dirty in the Absence of Fairy Godmothers.."
Ruben Espinosa, University of Texas at El Paso. "'Thou that beget�st him that did thee beget': Marian Incest and the Merits of Incest in Pericles.."
Dannie Chalk, Pennsylvania State University. "Reorienting the Loadstone: Competing Discourses of Magnetism and Childbirth in Ben Jonson's The Magnetic Lady."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES PAIUTE II
Deleuze and Guattari* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Joe P. Hughes, University of Edinburgh
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jeffrey A. Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University. "Without a Trace: Deleuze, Politics, and Ontology.."
Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College. "Debt and Desire Against 'Exchangism' in Anti-Oedipus.."
Levi R. Bryant, Collin College. "Indirect Discourse and the Politics of Language: Deleuze, Guattari, and Pragmatics.."
SPECIAL EVENTS SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting)FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona and Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "RMMLA Open Forum and Business Meeting."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES SUITE 3
Early Modern Spanish Writers*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in SUITE 3
Chair: Frederic Conrod, Creighton University
Alternate Chair: Carrie L. Ruiz, Carnegie Mellon University
Presenters: Daniel E. Salas-Diaz, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Para entender la guerra y la violencia: dos visiones de la guerra de los moriscos."
Jaime Lea�os, University of Nevada, Reno. "Lust and Avarice: Celestina�s Downfall from Grace."
Carrie L. Ruiz, Carnegie Mellon University. "El discurso en la Segunda Celestina como germen de la novela moderna."
Barbara Rodriguez-Guridi, University of Colorado, Boulder. "El car�cter 'casi' picaresco de las Novelas ejemplares."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE A
Literature and Trauma*: Representation and the Aesthetics of Trauma in Holocaust and Ethnic Am. Lit FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Nancy L. Van Styvendale, University of Alberta
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Kara Elizabeth Jacobi, University of Miami. "'How the stories rose in that place': Narrating Trauma in Paradise."
Devorah Kobluk, University of Alberta. "Disturbed Re-presentation: Adorno�s Misreading of Schoenberg�s A Survivor from Warsaw."
Joy Viveros, Independent Scholar. "Penumbral Witnesses: Theorizing Positionalities in Holocaust and Slave Narratives."
Janis Ledwell-Hunt, University of Alberta. "The Muselmann Meets Thinspiration: Confronting Discursive Connections between Holocaust Victims and Pro Anorexia Adherents."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE B
Ben Jonson in the 21st c.*: Critical Approaches in Celebration of the New Cambridge Jonson FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Heather C. Easterling, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: William John Silverman Jr, Florida State University. "The Mask Wears a Play: Jonson's Alchemist as a Critique of Courtly Entertainment."
Daryl Ritchot, Trinity Western University. "Queen Anne and the Other Woman: Queenship and Didacticism in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness and The Masque of Queens."
Nathan W. Perry, University of California, Santa Barbara. "The Problem of Chivalry: Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, and Jacobean Royal Policy."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION WASHOE C
Forces of Change in Technical and Professional CommunicationFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College
Alternate Chair: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University
Presenters: Shelley Thomas, Weber State University and Christine Seifert, Westminster College. "We Are What You Teach: A Comparative Study of Advanced Technical Writing."
Keith E. Gibson, Utah State University and Laura Vernon, Utah State University and David M. Christensen, Utah State University. "The Role of the Cognate Course in Graduate Technical Communication Programs."
Mali Subbiah, Weber State University. "Technical Reviews and Collaborative Nature of Technical Writing."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE D
Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE D
Chair: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University
Alternate Chair: Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presenters: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Seattle University. "Chilean Women Writers and Postmodernism: Pía Barros, Susana Sánchez Bravo and Emma Sepúlveda."
Leonardo Palacios, Regis University. "�Paratexto o extratexto? Visualidad y objetualidad en la obra de Juan Luis Martínez."
Adrian Taylor Kane, Boise State University. "A Subversive Alliance: The Avant-Garde Roots of Postmodern Fiction in Latin America."
GENDER STUDIES WASHOE E
Chance Encounters: Women Poets and a New Theory of Influence* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE E
Chair: Ann Keniston, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Lisa Sewell, Villanova University. "Critical Encounters: Writing Criticism, Writing Poetry."
Ann Keniston, University of Nevada, Reno. "Greedy Reading."
Meg B. Tyler, Boston University. "Sonnet Shapes."
ASIAN STUDIES WASHOE F
Modern Chinese Poetry*Technology and Chinese New PoetryFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Michael Martin Day, National University. "Towards a Poetics of Chinese Internet Poetry."
Heather Inwood, Ohio State University. "For Better or For Worse? The Effects of the Media on Online Chinese Poetry."
Liansu Meng, University of Michigan. "Wen Yiduo�s Poetics of Ecology and the Modernity of Chinese New Poetry."
Nicholas Andrew Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY. "Discussant."
10:15AM -11:45AM

SPECIAL EVENTS DOUGLAS
To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence*Report by the National Endowment for the ArtsFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts. "NEA Report: To Read or Not To Read, A Question of National Consequence."
GERMANIC STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
German Romantic Literature and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Steven D. Martinson, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Anne R. Peterson, University of Kansas. "E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Goldene Topf: Anselmus's Decline to Madness."
Paul A. Schons, University of Saint Thomas. "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pain, Pity, and Passion."
GENERAL TOPICS HOSPITALITY ROOM
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Daniel A. Nyikos, Utah State University. "'The Future is Here': The Evolution of Science Fiction and Technology in the Fiction of William Gibson."
Isabella E. M. Drzemczewska Hodson, University of Calgary. "Space Cowboys: Blending Genres in Joss Whedon's Firefly."
Valerie Estelle Frankel, San Jose State University. "Cordial and Pigtails: The Heroine's Journey in Modern Media."
Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University. "The Alien and Us: The Gene Pool of Superman."
OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES ORMSBY
Hungarian Studies*: Hungarian Cultures after 1900 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Susan Nyikos, Utah State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Agnes J. Vashegyi MacDonald, University of British Columbia. "'Simultaneous Seeing': Evoking L�szl� Moholy-Nagy�s Concepts in McLuhan�s and Derrida�s Spectral Contemplations."
Marta S. Bebok, University of California, Berkeley. "Diverging from Deconstruction: Creating a Unique Hungarian Voice in Twentieth-Century Poetry."
Helga Lenart-Cheng, Harvard University. "S�ndor L�n�rd (Alexander Lenard): Self-Portrait in Three Languages."
GENERAL TOPICS PAIUTE I
Literature and Religion FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Christopher J. Roberts, Reed College
Alternate Chair: Mary F. Brewer, Loughborough University
Presenters: Lisa J. Trochmann, University of Minnesota. "Good for the Soul: Troubling Confession through the Novels of James M. Cain."
Mary F. Brewer, Loughborough University. "American Drama, 9/11, and the War on Terror."
Mark Bousquet, Purdue University. "Between God and the Frontier: Benjamin Church, Thomas Wheeler and the Construction of a Heroic Puritan Masculine Identity."
Lorna R. Wiedmann, Wisconsin Lutheran College. "Mother Jesus: The Uncanny God in Darcey Steinke�s Jesus Saves."
Peter J. Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley. "Sacrifice, Execution, Lynching: Expiation in Light in August."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES PAIUTE II
Deleuze and Guattari: The Structure of Theory* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Joe P. Hughes, University of Edinburgh
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Eleanor Kaufman, University of California, Los Angeles. "Deleuze and Hierarchy.."
Paul Grimstad, Yale University. "Deleuze and William James.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASHOE A
Contemporary American Women Writers Representing Masculinities* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Ayesha Zia, California State University, Fullerton. "The Prince Dethroned: Representations of Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Revisionist Fairy Tales."
Chung-Hao Ku, University of Michigan. "Black Masculinities in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon."
Laura A. White, Binghamton University. "Dethroning the Cowboy: Multiple Masculinities in Ozeki's My Year of Meats."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE B
Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature through Travel Courses and Study Abroad* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Susan Schaper, College of Idaho
Alternate Chair: Barbara Z. Vielma, University of Texas, Pan American
Presenters: Ingrid Ranum, Gonzaga University and Heather C. Easterling, Gonzaga University. "The City as Text: Gonzaga University's Literary London 2007.."
E. Laurie George, University of Washington. "Stranger than Fiction: Literal Landmines in Literary London."
David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso. "Student-Led London: An Approach to Graduate Study Abroad.."
Lea M. Williams, Norwich University. "'Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there': Studying the Literature of the War through Travel.."
ASIAN STUDIES WASHOE C
Chinese Literature and Film since 1900Collisions and Transformations: The City in Contemporary Chinese FilmFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Wei Yang, Sewanee The University of The South
Alternate Chair: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Andrea Lingenfelter, Independent Scholar. "Shanghai Nostalgia in the Lyric Cinema of Yang Fudong: A Preliminary Reading of 'Seven Intellectuals of the Bamboo Grove, Part Five'."
Cecile Emilie Lagesse, Yale University. "Ning Ying�s Urban Cinema: Penetrating Beijing�s Cityscape."
Li Yang, University of Texas, Austin. "Living on the Edge:The International Film Festival Rotterdam and Chinese Independent Cinema in the 1990s."
Chunyan Lu, Beijing Normal University. "Urbanization and the City Grassroots in Contemporary Chinese Cinema."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE D
Spanish American LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE D
Chair: Sonia Rey-Montejo, University of St. Thomas
Alternate Chair: Jessie D. Dixon, Knox College
Presenters: Hilma Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge, Valparaiso University. "Fragmentaci�n discursiva y representaci�n del amor, el caos y la locura en la novela colombiana Delirio de Laura Restrepo.."
David Laraway, Brigham Young University. "Borges and Company: Politics, Empire, and the Body.."
Kathrin L. Theumer, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Circularidad, sublimaci�n y la renovaci�n del lenguaje po�tico en 'Los doce gozos' de Leopoldo Lugones.."
Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Las variadas perspectivas del ensayista latinoamericano hacia las masas.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE E
Old and Middle English FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE E
Chair: Jennifer A. Palmgren, Saint Paul College
Alternate Chair: Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University
Presenters: J D Thayer, Gonzaga University. "Hwil D�ges: A Mythological Reading of Beowulf and the Mere.."
John M. Hill, U.S. Naval Academy. "'The Dream of the Rood:' A Fibonacci Structure."
Elizabeth Howard, Kent State University. "The Ironic Evolution of '��t w�s god cyning' in Beowulf.."
Debbie M. Killingsworth, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Implications of Marriage and Gender in Piers Plowman Passus IX-XI."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASHOE F
Lucky Breaks: Coincidence in American Fiction* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Ann Keniston, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Thomas Kavanagh, Yale University. "Respondant:."
Jane F. Thrailkill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Comedy and Coincidence in Wharton�s Ethan Frome."
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Harvard University. "Lucky Escapes: Surviving 9/11 in Don DeLillo's Falling Man."
Justin D. Gifford, University of Nevada, Reno. "My Name is Black: Joe Nazel and the Racial Politics of Luck in Black Crime Fiction."
10:30AM - 4:45PM

SPECIAL EVENTS SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
CV Help Session (by reservation only)FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 10:30AM- 4:45PM in SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "CV Help Session - Appointments by Prior Arrangement."
11:45AM - 1:15PM

SPECIAL EVENTS SAMMY''S SHOWROOM
Luncheon Banquet & Keynote Speech by Thomas Kavanagh FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 11:45AM- 1:15PM in SAMMY''S SHOWROOM
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Thomas Kavanagh, Yale University. "Interpretation: The Gambler's Lesson."
1:30PM - 3:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS DOUGLAS
A Signal to the Nation: Global Competence and the Study of Languages Other Than English FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Nelly Furman, Modern Language Association. "A Signal to the Nation: Global Competence and the Study of Languages Other than English."
GENDER STUDIES ESMERELDA
Resisting Readers, Resistant Culture*Feminist Re-Visions of Patriarchal Oppression from the Dark Ages to the Digital AgeFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Shaun Anne Tangney, Minot State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Sarah Aleshire, Minot State University. "'Looking that Touches and Touching that Looks': Animations of Antifeminism in Visual Culture.."
Christopher D. Lozensky, Minot State University. "'The Tragedy of Loving Men': Re-Visioning Male Same-Sex 'Love Stories,' from Amis and Amiloun to Brokeback Mountain.."
Shaun Anne Tangney, Minot State University. "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
Asociac�on Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp�nica (AILFH)+: Latin American Women Writers* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Liliana Dorado, Hope College
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Darrell B. Lockhart, University of Nevada, Reno. "Love and Knishes in Buenos Aires: Silvia Plager's Como papas para varenikes."
George A. Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno. "Rewriting Rosario: Mayra Santos-Febres' Nuestra Se�ora de la Noche."
Ester Gonzalez, University of Northern Colorado. "Protagonista a veces: La cara po�tica de Luisa Valenzuela.."
Emma Sep�lveda, University of Nevada, Reno. "Escritura desplazada: Emma Sepulveda en el exilio estadounidense."
GENERAL TOPICS HOSPITALITY ROOM
Literature for Children and Young Adults FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, Augustana
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Susan J. Konantz, Western Colorado Community College. "Rites of Passage in the Young Adult Novels of Joan Bauer.."
Thelma Shinn Richard, Arizona State University. "Voice and Perspective in Sharon Shinn's Young Adult Novels.."
Joshua K. Johnson, Montana State University. "Hopeful Contagion: Books as Deity in Bibliophilic Novels.."
GENERAL TOPICS ORMSBY
Fashion and Aesthetics*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Elizabeth M. Sheehan, University of Virginia
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: McKenna Suzanne Rose, University of California, Davis. "'what a wardrobe here is for thee': Space and Fashion in The Tempest.."
Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Calvin College. "Putting on the Habit: Costuming, Disguise, and Performance in The Hidden Hand.."
Elizabeth M. Sheehan, University of Virginia. "Fashioning the New Negro Woman: The Aesthetics and Politics of Dress in the Crisis and Nella Larsen�s Quicksand."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES PAIUTE I
ShakespeareFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in PAIUTE I
Chair: David Ruiter, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Presenters: Joan Lord Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'The readiness is all': Approaches to Death in Julius Caesar and Hamlet."
Sumana Ms Biswas, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, India. "As You LIke It: An Ecocritical Survey."
Elizabeth B. Lang, University of Texas, El Paso. "Bad-mouthing the Blackamoor: Prescriptive Words of Shame in Othello."
Katarzyna Maria Rutkowski, University of Colorado, Boulder. "'Hard Fate!': Timon of Athens and the English de casibus Tradition."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES PAIUTE II
Western and Southwestern LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: Theda Wrede, Dixie State College
Presenters: Robert Lawrence Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso. "Writing the Ethnology of Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexcio Borderlands."
Theda Wrede, Dixie State College. "'Just Living': Work, Friends, and Community - Internalizing the Border in Oscar Casares's Brownsville."
Cassie Polasek, Texas State University, San Marcos. "Nothing as It Appears, Everything as It Appears: Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge."
Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University. "'Human Life and How to Live It' in Holt, Colorado: Virtues and Community in Kent Haruf's Plainsong."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SUITE 3
French Literature before 1800FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in SUITE 3
Chair: Gloria Thomas Gilmore-Hunt, Utah Valley University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jerry Root, University of Utah. "Resistance and the Romance Subject: Chrétien de Troyes and Guillaume de Lorris.."
Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Polyeucte�s Mystical Ardeur."
Gloria Thomas Gilmore-Hunt, Utah Valley University. "Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose: How to Tell It - True Love is a Lie."
ASIAN STUDIES WASHOE A
Asian Comparative Literature and Film FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Christopher Lupke, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: Nicholas Andrew Kaldis, Binghamton University, SUNY
Presenters: Ty L. Campbell, Brigham Young University. "The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Tamil Language and Literature."
Jin Liu, Georgia Tech University. "The Use of Popular Music in Jia Zhangke�s Films."
Ao Wang, Yale University. "The Art of Sinking in Chinese Poetry: A Study of the Anxiety of Western Influence in the Era of the New Literature."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION WASHOE B
Theory and Research in Technical and Professional CommunicationFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University
Alternate Chair: Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College
Presenters: Brenda M. Glascott, California State University, San Bernardino. "Sentiment and Efficiency: The Cultural Values Embedded in Professional Writing Textbooks Past and Present."
Rodney Rice, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and Kathy Antonen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and Jill Trimble, South Dakota School of Minds and Technology. "Teaching Climate Change in the Interdisciplinary Classroom: Science, Technology, and Technical Communication."
Maren V. Disney, Eastern Washington University. "Peer-to-Peer Instruction in Technology Connects Students with the Campus Community."
Teena A M Carnegie, Eastern Washington University. "Getting Past the First Date: Interdisciplinary, Client Projects in the Technical Communication Classroom."
FILM STUDIES WASHOE C
Film (Open Topic)FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE C
Chair: Liana M. Silva, Binghamton University
Alternate Chair: Patricia L. Terry, Gonzaga University
Presenters: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University. "Vertigo Forever: Reverberations of Hitchcock's Masterpiece."
Roberta DiCarmine, Western Illinois University. "Journey through American Film Noir."
Anne Moore, University of Calgary. "Pow Wow Highway as Pilgrimage and Myth."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE D
Peninsular Spanish Literature FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE D
Chair: Maria Ferrer-Lightner, Pacific Lutheran University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Paul Larson, Baylor University. "Pilgrim as Metaphor in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Se�ora. ."
Maria Ferrer-Lightner, Pacific Lutheran University. "La jerigonza de la esclava negra como rasgo diferenciador de identidad social en la Comedia intitulada Tesorina de Jaime de Huete.."
GERMANIC STUDIES WASHOE E
German Literature since 1900FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE E
Chair: Kim Fordham, University of Alberta, Augustana
Alternate Chair: Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University
Presenters: Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University. "Gustav Regler�s Reception of Miguel de Cervantes� Don Quixote in the Novels Ohr des Malchus and Juanita ."
Richard Sperber, Carthage College. "Resisting Education in German Samoa: Colonial Mimicry in Erich Scheurmann�s Erwachen."
Julia Trumpold, University of Kansas,. "Rememberance in The Crabwalk (Im Krebsgang): How G�nter Grass Creates Cultural Memory."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE F
RomanticismFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1:30PM- 3:00PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Christina A. Valeo, Eastern Washington University
Presenters: Matthias Rudolf, University of Nevada, Reno. "'A Peculiar Process of Decay': Transcription, Translation, and the Poetics of Violence in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent."
Mariam M. Radhwi, University of Calgary. "Subjectivity and Intertextuality in Lord Byron�s 'The Prisoner of Chillon'."
3:15PM - 4:45PM

THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES ESMERELDA
Ethical Criticism: Justice in Life, Love and Art* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Len Bernstein, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair: Harriet Bernstein, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Harriet Bernstein, Independent Scholar. "The Oneness of Justice and Pleasure in Art and Life: The Photographs of Tina Modotti.."
Len Bernstein, Independent Scholar. "The Art Way of Seeing and the Pride We Are Looking For: The Photographs of Edward Weston.."
GENDER STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Clay Daniel, University of Texas Pan American
Alternate Chair: Pamela T. Washington, University of Central Oklahoma
Presenters: Jennifer Thomson Lawrence, Georgia State University. "Servants, Aristocratic Failings, and the Construction of the Gothic in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House."
Josephine Richstad, University of California, Los Angeles. "Grating Lemons for Liberals: The Politics of Revision in Catherine Gore's Hamiltons (1834 and 1850)."
Judy E. Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Love, Laughter, and Loss in the Post-War South: Grace King's Balcony Stories.."
Monica Soare, University of California, Berkeley. "Horror Fiction Was Once a Girl's Club: Female Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Horror in The Lady's Magazine and the Ladies Monthly Museum.."
GENERAL TOPICS HOSPITALITY ROOM
Medieval Romance*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: J D Thayer, Gonzaga University
Alternate Chair: Pamela L. Troyer, University of Denver
Presenters: Alexa K. Sand, Utah State University. "Dynasty: Romancing Ruth in Late-Capetian France.."
Misty R. Urban, Lewis-Clark State College. "The Othered Woman: The Terms of Monstrosity in the English Melusine.."
Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona. "Rape in Medieval Romance.."
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION ORMSBY
Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and BeyondFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in ORMSBY
Chair: David J. Reamer, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Ryan Hoover, Texas Tech University
Presenters: Pete Praetorius, Matanuska-Susitna College. "Experiential Learning as a Means of Fostering Professional Competency."
Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College. "Using Action Research to Foster Community Based Learning and Research."
Douglas M. Walls, Michigan State University. "It's Not All About Memos: Technical and professional communication assembling critical social digital writing projects in the social networked writing classroom."
GENERAL TOPICS PAIUTE I
Depictions of 'Otherness' in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Literature* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Jane Chapman Vigil, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jane Chapman Vigil, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Wheels, Canes and Braces: The Portrayal of Physical Disabilities in Children�s Literature.."
Craig A. Svonkin, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Crypto-Jews in Contemporary Jewish American Children�s Literature.."
Lorna Wheeler, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Kids� Stuff: Race and Rhetoric in The Brownies� Book.."
Linda Kay Hardie, University of Nevada, Reno. "Which Witch? Wiccan Children Confront the Prejudices against their Religion in Grim Fairy Tale Depictions."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES PAIUTE II
Early American LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Ioanna C. Panos, Louisiana State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jenna Sciuto, Brown University. "Subtle Subversions: The Roles of Language, Food, and Sexuality in the Destabilization of the Puritan Identity of Mary Rowlandson."
Kyhl Lyndgaard, University of Nevada, Reno. "Captivity Narratives as Environmental Writing."
Ryan C. McIlhenny, Providence Christian College. "George Bourne�s Lorette and the Anti-Catholic Expos� Genre in American Nineteenth-Century Literature."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES SUITE 3
French Literature since 1800FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in SUITE 3
Chair: Catherine S. Marachi, Saint Marys College of California
Alternate Chair: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University
Presenters: Ruth Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia. "Huysmans and the Edifice Complex.."
Bernadette Marie Ginestet-Levine, Augusta State University, UGA System. "Naître à l'Algérie: Décoder le récit de la naissance dans le premier chapitre du livre posthume d'Albert Camus, Le Premier homme."
Catherine S. Marachi, Saint Marys College of California. "Narrateur assassin-lecteur complice dans La Décomposition d'Anne Garréta."
Rachel Shuh, University of California, Berkeley. "Hugo's Ocean: The Representation of the Sea in Les Travailleurs de la mer."
FILM STUDIES WASHOE A
Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Lisa J. Trochmann, University of Minnesota
Alternate Chair: Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar
Presenters: Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar. "Every Generation Gets the Ripley It Deserves: Film Versions of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels."
Cornelius Partsch, Western Washington University. "Secret Intelligence in Post-Unification German Fiction and Film."
Stephen B. Armstrong, Dixie State. "Screwball Noir: John Huston's Beat the Devil."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE B
Image and Text in the Nineteenth Century* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Susan E. Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Susan Ray, SUNY-Binghamton. "The Art of Contradiction: Reconciling Thackeray's Writings with his Illustrations of Women."
Elizabeth Meadows, Vanderbilt University. "The Modern Venus in Michael Field's Sight and Song."
Darcy Irvin, University of California, Davis. "'Sacred to the Memory': Image-Text in The Woman in White."
Tracy J. R. Collins, Central Michigan University. "Liberating Cartoons and Patriarchal Texts: The Case of Punch and the New Woman."
GERMANIC STUDIES WASHOE C
New Perspectives on the German Past* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE C
Chair: Katja Fullard, University of Saint Thomas
Alternate Chair: Jeffrey Packer, Utah Valley University
Presenters: Erol M. Boran, University of Toronto. "Turkish Migration into German Past: Coming to Terms with Adolf Hitler."
Meaghan A. Hepburn, University of Toronto. "A Forgotten Past: T4 Euthanasia Memorialization in Germany and Upper Austria.."
Sarah M. Hillenbrand, Washington University in St Louis. "Humanity on Four Legs: Anthropomorphisc Perspectives on the Holocaust in Akif Pirin�ci�s Felidae.."
Daniel P. Reynolds, Grinnell College. "Visualizing the Holocaust: Tourism at Auschwitz."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE D
Peninsular Spanish Narrative and Theatre* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE D
Chair: Maria Ferrer-Lightner, Pacific Lutheran University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Violence and Gender in Four Stories by Emilia Pardo Baz�n.."
Fabian M. Banga, Berkeley City College. "Valle-Incl�n y el esoterismo.."
Frieda H. Blackwell, Baylor University. "Aurora in Soledad Pu�rtolas' Queda la noche: A Woman in Transition.."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE E
Practical Approaches to Teaching LanguageThe Language CoachFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE E
Chair: Claudia Becker, North Carolina Central University
Alternate Chair: Markus E. Muller, California State University, Long Beach
Presenters: Norma E. Arroyo, Fossil Ridge High School. "Getting Students to Speak, Write and Comprehend the Target Language."
Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University. "Language Instruction: Service-Learning and Technology."
Michael Owens, Washington State University. "The Inner Game of Language Instruction: What Modern Sports Practices Can Give to the Language Coach/Instructor."
ASIAN STUDIES WASHOE F
Imagined Cities: Nostalgia, Resistance, and Discontent in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 3:15PM- 4:45PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Wei Yang, Sewanee The University of The South
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jennifer L. Feeley, University of Iowa. "The Radio Strangles Springtime: Urban Anxieties in Postwar Chinese Women�s Poetry."
Frederik H. Green, Yale University. "Tokyo � Shanghai: The Transcultural Nature of Liu Na�ou�s Modernism.."
Wendy W. Xie, Yale University. "Eileen Chang, Politics, and Shanghai Nostalgia in Ang Lee�s Lust, Caution."
Daniel Alan Fried, University of Alberta. "Hong Kong and the 'Spiritual Territories' of Tang Junyi."
5:00PM - 6:30PM

SPECIAL EVENTS DOUGLAS
Graduate Student ForumIntegrating Various Disciplines into Language ClassesFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
Presenters: Javier F. Gonzalez, University of Colorado, Boulder and Katie O Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University and Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Panel Discussion."
FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES ESMERELDA
Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Pacific Union College
Alternate Chair: Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta
Presenters: Aleksandra Gruzinska, Arizona State University. "Fragments d'une amiti�: Octave Mirbeau, Claude Monet et Theodore Robinson.."
Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta. "Horreur et obsc�nit� dans S�bastien Roch.."
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Pacific Union College. "Une question de famille dans Le Foyer d'Octave Mirbeau.."
Annie Rizk, Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Saint-Ouen. "De Mirbeau � Genet, la r�volte sociale fragmente-t-elle le sujet litt�raire?."
GENDER STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries*Austen and the Brontë SistersFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Clay Daniel, University of Texas Pan American
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Rachel Carnell, Cleveland State University. "Jane Austen's Best-Selling Tory Predecessors.."
Clay Daniel, University of Texas Pan American. "Milton and the Problem of St. John Rivers."
Jamie A. Dinan, Montana State University. "Motherless Mayhem in Wuthering Heights: Absent Mothers and Tyrannous Fathers."
Bita H. Zakeri, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. "Scheherazade's Power of Influence: The Significance of the Framework Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES HOSPITALITY ROOM
Luso-Brazilian Language and LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Chair: Bridget Christine Arce, University of California, Berkeley
Presenters: Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado. "Literary Manifestations Post-Alcazarquivir.."
Mirian Lee, University of California, Berkeley. "Cultura Tropical: Negotitation of Identities of the Korean Diaspora in Brazil."
Sonia D. Barrios Tinoco, University of California, Berkeley. "Antonio das Mortes: el l�mite entre el bien y el mal.."
Gisela In�s Salas-Carrillo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Por los caminos del sert�n: el motivo del viaje y la recuperaci�n de la Historia en Seara Vermelha.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES ORMSBY
Comparative Literature (Open Topic)FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Paul Papin, University of British Columbia
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Alan Blackstock, Utah State University. "Mandarins of Modernism: Pound, Richards, Babbitt, and Confucius.."
Kellie D. Weiss, California State University, Fullerton. "1950: A Comparison of Puerto Rican and African American Literature.."
Meredith Felicia Carroll, Chapman University. "Il n�y a pas de hors-texte: Exploring the Paradox of The Text as Everything in Italo Calvino�s If on a winter�s night a traveler.."
Eun Ju Suh, University of Munich. "Hegel's Misrecognition � Lacan's Subject � Austen's Compromise.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES PAIUTE I
Milton*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in PAIUTE I
Chair: William John Silverman Jr, Florida State University
Alternate Chair: Serkan Ertin, Middle East Technical University
Presenters: Sharon Hampel, Independent Scholar. "'Washt from Spot of Childbed Taint': Milton's Sonnet 23 and Jewish Law."
Rama Janamanchi, Oklahoma State University. "Poet, Prophet and Seer: Configuring Authority in Paradise Lost.."
Ryan Singh Paul, University of Arizona. "Genre, Faith and Personal Revelation in Samson Agonistes.."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES PAIUTE II
Native American LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Aloys Neil Mark Fleischmann, University of Alberta
Presenters: Stefanie M. Shea-Akers, Merced College. "I Mua: Female Perspectives of History and Resistance in Native Hawaiian Women's Literature."
Aloys Neil Mark Fleischmann, University of Alberta. "From Occom to Apess: Towards a Material Theory of Rhetorical Irony."
Christina A. Valeo, Eastern Washington University. "Introducing Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)."
Li Guo, University of Iowa. "A Relational Vision of Native Sovereignty: Reading Ceremony from an Ecofeminist Approach."
CONJOINT MEETINGS PROSPECTOR''S LOUNGE
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society ReceptionFaculty and Students in French and/or Francophone Studies InvitedFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in PROSPECTOR''S LOUNGE
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society - Private Reception."
CLASSICAL STUDIES SUITE 3
Classical Language and Literature: Latin and Greek FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in SUITE 3
Chair: Amy Elva Kaiulani Vail, Baylor University
Alternate Chair: Jeremy T. Low, University of Calgary
Presenters: Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "One Re-Touch of Venus."
Amy Elva Kaiulani Vail, Baylor University. "Constructing Cleon."
Tiernan Z. Doyle, University of California, Berkeley. "Weapons of Mnemosyne."
Keith Dickson, Purdue University. "Epic Iconicities in Gilgamesh."
FILM STUDIES WASHOE A
New Latin American Film* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE A
Chair: Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Eduardo Alfonso Caro, Phoenix Country Day School. "M�sica, c�mara, acci�n: el universo (extra)dieg�tico de Rosario Tijeras."
Yudis Contreras, Indiana University. "Sim�n Bol�var, El Libertador: un significante vac�o en el cine contempor�neo de Colombia y Venezuela."
Kyle Kenneth Black, Arizona State University. "El s�ndrome de Estocolmo y la tortura para el p�blico internacional en Garage Olimpo de Marco B�chis."
Amalia Garzon, Northern Arizona University. "Qu� tan lejos (Tania Hermida, 2007): entre el imaginario tur�stico y la realidad social ecuatoriana."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE B
English Nineteenth-Century LiteratureFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE B
Chair: Mary E. Bell, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: Scott T. Rogers, Weber State University
Presenters: Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State University. "Selling 'Englishness' with German Translations: Mimili, Rudolph Ackerman and the Literary Annual.."
Kevin S. Binfield, Murray State University. "Mary Peach Collier: From Romantic Servant to Victorian Poet.."
Scott T. Rogers, Weber State University. "Christina Rossetti's Other Women.."
Alison M. Betts, University of Arizona. "Mothering Non-Mothers: Disavowal of the Reproductive Body in Dickens's Bleak House, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist.."
ASIAN STUDIES WASHOE C
The Center Cannot Hold: Representations of Beijing in Contemporary Chinese Cinema* FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE C
Chair: Wei Yang, Sewanee The University of The South
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Anne L. Xu, Austin College. "Lost in Beijing, Banned in China: Beijing Vice.."
Yan He, Beijing Normal University. "The modernization of Beijing represented by two independent documentaries about Beijing migrant artists.."
Erin YuTien Huang, University of California, Irvine. "Self-destructive Bodies: An Interio-city in Li Shaohong�s Baober in Love.."
Jing Jiang, Reed College. "The Changing Face of the Lost Center: Reading Feng Xiaogang�s The Big Shot�s Funera.."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE D
Good and Bad Fortune According to Boethius*A Philosophical Message from the Sixth Century for the Twenty-first CenturyFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE D
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona. "Good / Bad Fortune According to Boethius."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE E
Teaching EnglishFRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE E
Chair: Jack W. Shear, Binghamton University, SUNY
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jillian M. Mason-Possemato, Binghamton University. "Cover Letters and Meta-writing in FYC: Possibilites for Valuing Both Product and Process."
Amanda L. Morris, Auburn University. "Transcendental Exploration: Using Emerson and Thoreau in Basic Composition."
Emily A. Sorensen, Utah State University. "Authoring Yourself: Student Development and Identity through Literature in the Freshman Composition Course."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE F
War in Literature and Film FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 5:00PM- 6:30PM in WASHOE F
Chair: Jill A. Dahlman, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Alternate Chair: David Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Presenters: Cara Mayumi Chang, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. "Korea's Comfort Women: Instruments of Japanese Colonization in Korea."
Geoffrey A. Wright, Samford University. "Geographies of Experience in the Persian Gulf War."
Ryan Ferland, Independent Scholar. "The Returned Soldier in Western Literature."
Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Tone Deaf: Hollywood�s Failed Farewells."
8:00PM - 9:30PM

GERMANIC STUDIES ESMERELDA
Creative Writing in German - Readings by Authors*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 8:00PM- 9:30PM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: John Antosh, State University of New York, Fredonia
Presenters: Lisa Kahn, Emerita Scholar. "Readings by Lisa Kahn."
Rita Terras, Connecticut College. "Readings by Rita Terras."
Edith Borchardt, University of Minnesota, Morris. "Readings by."
Irmgard Hunt, Colorado State University. "Readings by Irmgard Hunt."
Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona. "Readings by Albrecht Classen."
Bernhardt G. Blumenthal, La Salle University. "Readings by Bernhardt Blumenthal."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS ORMSBY
Film Showing - Friday Evening - Tuya's Marriage FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 9:00PM-11:00PM in ORMSBY
Chair: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Film Showing - Tuya's Marriage."
SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 11
7:30AM - 1:00PM

REGISTRATION 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - SaturdaySATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 7:30AM- 1:00PM 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 -10:30AM

SPECIAL EVENTS 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Coffee/Tea Service - Saturday SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 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."
EXHIBITS 3RD FL.- WEST TOWER FOYER
Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - SaturdaySATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:00AM-12:00PM 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."
8:30AM -10:00AM

GENDER STUDIES ANDREOTTI''S
Women's Caucus Breakfast and Guest Speaker, Molly Youngkin (Loyola Marymount University) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ANDREOTTI''S
Chair: Cheryl Hindrichs, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Molly Youngkin, Loyola Marymount University. "Feminist Realism at the 'Fin de Si�cle': Sarah Grand and the Late-Victorian Woman�s Press."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES DOUGLAS
Jewish American Literature* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Lora S. Parker, University of Texas, El Paso. "The Milk Dipper and the Rail: Surrealism in Henry Roth's Call it Sleep.."
Ezra Cappell, University of Texas, El Paso. "Textual Sedimentation in Jewish American Literature.."
Margie R. Nelson, University of Texas, El Paso. "Treading on Dangerous Ground: The Perilous Necessity of Holocaust Representation.."
Christopher Shane Hall, University of Texas, El Paso. "Abraham Cahan: Isolation and the Jewish Immigrant Experience.."
GENERAL TOPICS ESMERELDA
The Meaning of Food*: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural Values SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Laura A. White, Binghamton University
Alternate Chair: Melanie R. Hunter, Tulsa Community College
Presenters: Susan E. Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Nineteenth-Century Incorporations: Food, Bodies, and the Politics of Consumption."
Roula H. Kogos, University of Nevada, Reno. "Binging and Purging: Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms and A Moveable Feast ."
Terre Ryan, University of Nevada, Reno. "Victory Garden Literature and the Neopastoral."
Renee Dickinson, Radford University. "Not That I Won't Drink Coke: Developing Tastes on College Campuses."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
English Seventeenth-Century LiteratureSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University
Alternate Chair: Quentin David Vieregge, University of South Florida
Presenters: Robert P. Eggleston, University of British Columbia, Okanagan. "Modern Cuckolds: Staging Edward Ravenscroft�s The London Cuckolds in the Twentieth Century.."
Michael Lee Manous, University of California, Riverside. "Humanist, Fool, and Wager-Traveler: Thomas Coryate and the Literary Stunt.."
Liberty Star Stanavage, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Anti-Community Ballads and the Demonizing of the Popular.."
David Joplin, Monterey Peninsula College. "Competing Metaphors: Existential Dissonance in Donne's Meditation 17.."
LINGUISTICS HOSPITALITY ROOM
American Dialect Society (ADS)+SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Lamont Antieau, Independent Scholar. ""I might could use something like that" Syntactic Variation in the Middle Rocky Mountian States."
Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University. "Compound prepositions in the dialect of southeastern Idaho."
GENERAL TOPICS ORMSBY
Sigma Tau DeltaSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Melissa Sue Whitney, University of Texas, San Antonio
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Joelle M. Ward, Eastern New Mexico University Roswell. "Feminine Constructions and Female Spaces: Agency and Influence in the Spiritual Autobiography of Elizabeth Ashbridge.."
Alicia Ann Dallman, Nebraska Wesleyan University. "Ironic Icon: Transtemporal Lessons in Community-Individuality from the Nebraskan One-Room School.."
Melissa Sue Whitney, University of Texas, San Antonio. "Donald Hays and The Dixie Association: Transforming Life�s Stadium.."
Laura Leann Holder, Eastern New Mexico University. "Killing the Snake: Castration of the Patriarchy in Cather's My Antonia.."
GENERAL TOPICS PAIUTE I
The Question of the Animal in Literature and Culture* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Jerome W. Stueart, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Brian C. Cooney, Gonzaga University. "Thomas De Quincey and the Subjectivity of Animals."
Jeffrey W. Miller, Gonzaga University. "'A Shocking, Sharkish Business': The Awful Sea of Sharks in Moby Dick."
ASIAN STUDIES PAIUTE II
Territories of Identity: Attachment to Land in South Asia* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Sura Rath, Central Washington University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Sivasish Biswas, Mizoram University and Sravani Biswas, Karimganj College. "Territory , Identity, and Mizoram."
Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (India). "Divine Cartography and Sacred Borders: Territory as Real."
Bradley P. Bullock, Randolph College and Sabita Manian, Lynchburg College. "Chutney, Jhanda, and Kala Pani: Territorial Reaffirmation of Indo-Caribbean Identity."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES SUITE 3
Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+Mormons and Mormonism in FictionSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in SUITE 3
Chair: Mikel Vause, Weber State University
Alternate Chair: Alan Goff, DeVry University
Presenters: MaryAnn Taylor, Mountain View College. "Elements of Mormonism in Orson Scott Card's Early Short Fiction.."
R B Scott, Independent Scholar. "The Impertinence of Writing Real: Confessions of a [Guilty] Mormon Boy.."
Mikel Vause, Weber State University. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Righter of Wrongs; Or, Exposing the Crimes of the Mormons.."
WRITING PROGRAMS WASHOE A
Writing Across the CurriculumSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Gary L. Hatch, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Andrew David Bourelle, University of Nevada, Reno. "Quintilian�s WAC Pedagogy: Ancient Roman Writing Across the Curriculum."
Jordana Stephens Berry, Georgia State University. "Wading into WAC: The Immersion of Basic Writers into Disciplinary Discourse."
Tiffany R. Threatt, University of Nevada, Reno. "Assessing Student Writing within the Forestry Curriculum: A Model for Teachers Across the Disciplines."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES WASHOE B
Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la Espa�a del Siglo XX*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Jennifer Brady, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Nuria God�n-Mart�nez, Creighton University
Presenters: Mar�a Francisca Paredes M�ndez, Western Washington University. "Film and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: The New Woman in El sexto sentido."
Maggie C. McCullar, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Other Worlds, Other Words: Fantasy in Ana Mar�a Matute�s La torre vig�a."
Javier Krauel, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Visiones del enemigo interno: la Primera Guerra Mundial y la polarizaci�n de la vida cultural espa�ola."
Nuria God�n-Mart�nez, Creighton University. "La po�tica vanguardista en El profesor in�til de Benjam�n Jarn�s."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE C
Literature and Fashion*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Sara Tatyana Bernstein, University of California, Davis
Presenters: Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela, University of California, Davis. "Southern Fried Chutney: Afro- and Indo-chic, and the Politics of Transnational Affiliation in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala ."
Rachel A. Harris, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. "'They say I'm terribly modern!' Dress, Identity and Modernity in Japanese Fiction, 1923-1932.."
Elise Marcel Chatelain, University of California Davis. "Mapping (Im)Mobility Through the Fashion System in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby: Race, Class, and American Souths.."
Sarah J. Smorol, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. "Ties and Words that Bind: The Legacy of George Sand.."
FILM STUDIES WASHOE D
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock*Critical Readings of Hitchcock�s FilmsSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE D
Chair: Liahna Armstrong, Central Washington University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Michael Vincent Dow, New York University. "'There, There Now': The Resolute Ambiguity of Hitchcock's Endings."
Debbie Clare Olson, Oklahoma State University. "Hitch's Hue: Children, Color, and the Hyperreal in The Birds."
Melissa A. Johnson, Central Washington University. "Notorious Woman: Sex, Death, and the Restoration of Ingrid Bergman's Femininity in Alfred Hitchcock's film noir."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASHOE E
Pimp Lit: Explorations of African American Street Literature* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE E
Chair: Mayanne Marie Getts, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Crystal Broch Colombini, University of Nevada, Reno. "Exploring the Role of the Female in Male Hip-Hop Narratives Through the Lens of the Black Experience Novel.."
Cassie V. Hemstrom, University of Nevada, Reno. "Struggling with all His Skill and Eloquence to Defend his Identity: Creating a Literary Tradition with Black Experiences Novels.."
Mayanne Marie Getts, University of Nevada, Reno. "Signs of Revolt: The Narrative Gesturing Toward Decolonization in the Fiction of Robert Beck, Donald Goines, and Chester Himes.."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES WASHOE F
English Literature since 1900 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8:30AM-10:00AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Aaron Eastley, Brigham Young University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: James Prothero, Santa Ana College. "A Welsh Poet in Retirement: Leslie Norris as Bard in the Mountain West.."
Aaron Eastley, Brigham Young University. "Seepersad Naipaul: Postcolonial Precursor.."
Padmanabhan S. Sri, Royal Military College of Canada. "Shaw�s St. Joan: A Platonian Tragedy?."
9:00AM -12:00PM

CONJOINT MEETINGS PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Open Business Meeting) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 9:00AM-12:00PM in PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Open Business Meeting)."
10:15AM -11:45AM

GENDER STUDIES ANDREOTTI''S
Women's Caucus SeminarFemale AutonomySATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ANDREOTTI''S
Chair: Cheryl Hindrichs, Boise State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Tess L. Lotta, California State University, Dominguez HIlls. "The Writer as Polemic: Conventions of Resistance Literature in Olive Schreiner�s The Story of an African Farm.."
Helen Oesterheld, California State University. "No Country for All Women: Heteronormative Responses to Female Separatism from Mary Astell to Toni Morrison."
Scott D. Banville, University of Nevada Reno. "Vesta Tilley and the Performance of Female Autonomy on the Victorian Music-Hall Stage."
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES DOUGLAS
Reading Gender in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in DOUGLAS
Chair: George A. Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: G. Cory Duclos, Vanderbilt University. "'A Woman�s Place is in the Subtext': A Socio-Historical Approach to the Role of Women in the Short Stories of Jorge Edwards.."
A. Iliana Holbrook, University of Nevada, Reno. "Deconstructing Myths: Rosario Castellanos' Revisionist Feminism.."
Melissa J. Bullard, Independent Scholar. "Separate Spheres: The Destruction of Identity and the Impossibility of Feminism in Rosario Ferre's 'Sleeping Beauty'."
Martha Rodriguez-Salazar, University of Nevada, Reno. "Las mujeres olvidadas: The Forgotten Women of the Mexican Revolution.."
THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES ESMERELDA
Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ESMERELDA
Chair: Susan E. Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Genevieve Later, Thompson Rivers University. "Textual Imperialism in Interdisciplinary Studies.."
James E. Harker, University of California, Berkeley. "The Action of Seeing: Virginia Woolf and Visual Cognition.."
Daniel W. Gleason, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. "The Two Faces of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights into Imagist Figures.."
John H. Lurz, University of California, Berkeley. "Ideal Literacy: The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake. ."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES HOBBY HORSE
English Seventeenth Century Literature: Early Modern Metadrama* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HOBBY HORSE
Chair: Quentin David Vieregge, University of South Florida
Alternate Chair: Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University
Presenters: Daniel G. Anderson, George Mason University. "Constructing the 'Other Shakespeare': The Oxford Middleton Project.."
Richard Joseph Ellman, University of South Florida. "Metadramatic Marston: Generic Critique, the Anti-Theatrical Debate, and The Malcontent.."
Melanie Karsak, Mercyhurst College. "The Green World in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon.."
Christina C. Angel, University of Denver. "The Tragic Spectacle: The Fine Line between Audience and Participant.."
GERMANIC STUDIES HOSPITALITY ROOM
Literature of the Holocaust*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HOSPITALITY ROOM
Chair: Jocelyne Fran�oise Le Ber, Royal Military College
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Carmen McCarron, University of Western Ontario. "La grande d�ception ou La lib�ration dans les t�moignages des enfants de la Shoah."
ASIAN STUDIES ORMSBY
Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in ORMSBY
Chair: Fify P. Juliana, Arizona State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Chatwara Suwannamai, Arizona State University. "The Struggles for Thai Language Maintenance in the U.S.."
Michelle Balaev, American University. "War and the Idea of Freedom in Pramoedya Ananta Toer�s Perburuan or The Fugitive."
Elisabeth Arti Wulandari, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The Grotesque Postcolonial Condition: Durga Umayi and the Critique of Indonesian Postcolonial Society."
GENERAL TOPICS PAIUTE I
Harry Potter (Open Topic) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in PAIUTE I
Chair: Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jack Caughey, University of California, Los Angeles. "Sorcery as a Social System: Enchantment and Ideology in Harry Potter.."
Francoise Monet Saurage, Montana State University. "Inducting Harry Potter into the Gynocentury: Harry Potter and the Theory of Third Wave Feminism."
Jennifer A. Wortman, California State University, Fullerton. "The Implications of Adolescent Dating in the Harry Potter Series."
Alexis C. Sein, University of Texas, El Paso. "Feminism in Harry Potter: The Roles Women Play in the Wizarding World.."
GENERAL TOPICS PAIUTE II
Autobiography*SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in PAIUTE II
Chair: Denice H. Turner, University of Nevada, Reno
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge. "Modern American Expatriation and the Critical Function of Autobiography."
Susan Nyikos, Utah State University. "Autobiography Non Grata: Blurring the Boundaries between Fact and Fiction in Peter Nadas's A Book of Memories and Imre Kertesz's Fateless."
James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University. "The Work of Restoration Ecology: Restoring Biography and Landscape in Janisse Ray�s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood."
ENGLISH-BRITISH STUDIES SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Owen Barfield SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Chair: Jeffrey N. Hipolito, Everett Community College
Alternate Chair: Peter J. Fields, Midwestern State University
Presenters: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "The Rosicrucian Nature of Owen Barfield�s The Rose on the Ash-Heap: The Alchemy of Love and Imagination."
Jamie Hutchinson, Bard College at Simons Rock. "Imagine That: Allegories of the Soul in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces."
GENERAL TOPICS SUITE 3
Literature and ScienceSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in SUITE 3
Chair: Bryce J. Christensen, Southern Utah University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Bryce J. Christensen, Southern Utah University. "'O Newton, Shall Thy Name Survive�? The Misleading Image of Newton in Eighteenth-Century Poetry."
Silvia Arroyo, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Anatomy of Creation in the Introducci�n del s�mbolo de la fe by Fray Luis de Granada."
Ed A. McNicoll, Southern Utah University. "'When You Call Me That, Smile!': Owen Wister as Evolutionary Psychologist."
Christine M. Battista, Binghamton University. "Wolvogs and Lumbering Robots: An Onto-Ecological Exploration of Global Genetic Manipulation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake."
GENERAL TOPICS WASHOE A
Poetry and Poetics* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE A
Chair: Katherine Coles, University of Utah
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Michael D. Roberson, University of Calgary. "Meditations on the Occasion of Emergency: Juliana Spahr's Critical Poetics."
Katherine Coles, University of Utah. "Passionate Looking, Passionate Thinking, and the Poetics of Intertextuality across Disciplines."
Clare Eileen Callahan, City University of New York. "'After' Theory: Frost's 'After Apple-Picking'."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASHOE B
Canadian Literature and Film SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE B
Chair: Jerome W. Stueart, Independent Scholar
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Janice Morris, University of British Columbia. "'History is calling it a day': The Heuristic Potential of 'Story' and the 'Popular' in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy."
Jerome W. Stueart, Independent Scholar. "'The Bear Did Not Reply': Manufacturing Consent and Animal Communication in Marian Engel's Bear."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE C
Technology and Distance Education SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE C
Chair: Meg V. B. Wood, University of Wyoming
Alternate Chair: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University
Presenters: Isabelle Sabau, Northern Illinois University. "Enhancing Online Interaction with Learning Objects."
Meg V. B. Wood, University of Wyoming. "Building a Collaborative Community in the Online Classroom: AKA, It�s not a correspondence class!!."
Philip Tietjen, University of New Mexico. "In the Cloud: Looking at Learning in Web 2.0 Environments.."
Meghan A. Sweeney, University of Nevada, Reno. "Maintaining Student-to-Student Interaction in the Distance Learning Classroom."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE D
Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE D
Chair: Reid T. Sagara, University of Washington
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Heather Diane Springgay Anderson, George Mason University. "Strategies for Making Feminist Inquiry Normative in a Visual Culture Survey.."
Tanya Gonzalez, Kansas State University. "Bridges, Backs, and Homes: Teaching Women of Color Feminism in Literature.."
Robert L. Lively, University of Nevada, Reno. "Teaching Feminism through Science Fiction.."
Reid T. Sagara, University of Washington. "Researching Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: Poststructural Feminism in the Composition Classroom."
ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES WASHOE E
African American LiteratureSATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE E
Chair: Andrea Yolande Seeger, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alternate Chair: Carmen Lanette Phelps, Longwood University
Presenters: Shubha Venugopal, California State University, Northridge. "Exploring the Shades of Harlan: Gayl Jones, Language, and Female Friendship.."
Stephen Macauley, University of Utah. "African Elements in August Wilson's Drama."
Judith L. Strathearn, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Loss of Artistic Expression in William Attaway�s Blood on the Forge."
PEDAGOGY WASHOE F
Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10:15AM-11:45AM in WASHOE F
Chair: Albrecht N. Classen, University of Arizona
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Sura Rath, Central Washington University. "Cultures of India: An Introduction."
Bryan H. Meadows, University of Arizona. "The Utility of Communicative Competence to Foreign Language Teaching? Two Alternative Approaches."
Angelica Maria Hurtado Velasco, Washington State University. "Teaching Spanish through Cultural Products Like Dancing."
11:45AM -12:30PM

CONJOINT MEETINGS SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Meeting) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 11:45AM-12:30PM in SHOSHONE BOARDROOM
Chair: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Jane Hipolito, California State University, Fullerton. "Open Meeting of the Owen Barfield Society - All Interested Invited to Attend."
12:00PM - 1:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Pi Delta Phi Luncheon (Private)SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 12:00PM- 1:00PM in PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society Luncheon (Private)."
1:00PM - 6:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS MEET IN HOTEL LOBBY
Excursion to Virginia City SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1:00PM- 6:00PM in MEET IN HOTEL LOBBY
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Excursion to Virginia City - by reservation only, fee-based."
SPECIAL EVENTS MEET IN HOTEL LOBBY
Excursion to Lake Tahoe SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1:00PM- 9:00PM in MEET IN HOTEL LOBBY
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Excursion to Lake Tahoe - by reservation only (fee-based)."
CONJOINT MEETINGS PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Closed Business Meeting) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1:00PM- 3:00PM in PROSPECTOR''S BOARDROOM
Chair: Pamela Park, Idaho State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: Pamela Park, Idaho State University. "Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Closed Business Meeting)."
9:00PM -11:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS ORMSBY
Film Showing - Saturday Evening - Persepolis SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 9:00PM-11:00PM in ORMSBY
Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University
Alternate Chair: RMMLA Secretariat 2, Washington State University
Presenters: RMMLA Secretariat 1, Washington State University. "Film Showing - Persepolis."

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

Convention Program

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11

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