62nd Annual RMMLA Convention
Reno, Nevada ~ October 9-11, 2008
Preliminary Convention Program by Day
| Registration | Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Registration | Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Exhibits | Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Thursday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Special Events | Coffee/Tea Service - Thursday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| English-British Studies | Irish Literature and Film* | Esmerelda |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | American Nineteenth-Century Literature | Douglas |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Flannery O'Connor | Washoe E |
| Film Studies | Film Theory and Criticism | Washoe C |
| French-Francophone Studies | Women in French | Paiute I |
| General Topics | Literature and Other Arts | Washoe B |
| Germanic Studies | German 'Sturm und Drang' and Romanticism* | Washoe D |
| Linguistics | Foreign Language Linguistics | Ormsby |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Contemporary Spanish American and Caribbean Literature* | Washoe A |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Rhetorical Criticism*: The Rhetoric of the American Presidency | Washoe F |
| Special Events | RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting) | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| English-British Studies | English Eighteenth-Century Literature | Hobby Horse |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Western Poets* | Ormsby |
| French-Francophone Studies | Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives* | Paiute I |
| General Topics | Ethnic Studies | Washoe A |
| Linguistics | Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics | Esmerelda |
| Other Foreign Language Studies | Russian Language and Literature* | Washoe B |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+ | Douglas |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Cross-Cultural Linguistics and Contrastive Rhetoric*: Issues in Language Analysis and Teaching | Washoe F |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Ecocriticism | Washoe C |
| English-British Studies | Nineteenth-Century Masculinities* | Washoe E |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | American Identities in the Nineteenth Century* | Hobby Horse |
| General Topics | Drama | Washoe C |
| General Topics | Intersections of Identity and Difference*: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Disability | Hospitality Room |
| General Topics | Migration Landscapes* | Esmerelda |
| Germanic Studies | Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+ | Paiute I |
| Linguistics | Second Language Acquisition | Ormsby |
| Pedagogy | English and Secondary Education* | Washoe D |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+: Spanish Women Writers* | Douglas |
| Technical and Professional Communication | Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom | Washoe F |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)+ | Washoe B |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | French Cultural and Literary Theory | Washoe A |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Rhetorical Theory and Inquiry* | Paiute II |
| Asian Studies | Asian Studies: The Enigma of Ethical Living in the Era of Reform* | Ormsby |
| Classical Studies | Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts* | Washoe C |
| English-British Studies | Mary Shelley | Hospitality Room |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond* | Suite 3 |
| Film Studies | Representations of Immigration and (Post)colonialism in International Cinema* | Paiute II |
| French-Francophone Studies | Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean | Washoe A |
| Gender Studies | Women's Voices in Poetry | Washoe D |
| General Topics | Justice, Law and Children’s Literature*: Foundational Attitudes | Paiute I |
| Germanic Studies | Germany since 1990* | Hobby Horse |
| Other Foreign Language Studies | Romania's Contributions to International Heritage | Esmerelda |
| Pedagogy | Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature | Washoe B |
| Pedagogy | Teaching English Composition | Washoe F |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Spanish Ministerio de Cultura Special Session: El Mundo Literario de Laila Ripoll* | Douglas |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Literary Criticism | Washoe E |
| Classical Studies | The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths | Hospitality Room |
| Conjoint Meetings | Asian Studies Business Meeting+ | Prospector''''s Boardroom |
| English-British Studies | English Renaissance Literature | Washoe D |
| English-Postcolonial Studies | Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora*: Identity and Migration | Washoe E |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Southern Literature | Paiute II |
| French-Francophone Studies | Conseil international d'études francophones+ | Washoe F |
| Gender Studies | Women in/and Literature | Douglas |
| General Topics | RMMLA Poets Read their Works | Washoe A |
| Linguistics | General and Applied Linguistics | Ormsby |
| Linguistics | Second Language Writing* | Esmerelda |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Latin American Literature and Film | Washoe C |
| Special Events | Publishing Forum: How to Publish Scholarly Work | Hobby Horse |
| Technical and Professional Communication | Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+ | Washoe B |
| Special Events | Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception | Prospector''s Lounge |
| Special Events | Film Showing - Thursday Evening - Enlightenment Guaranteed | Ormsby |
| Registration | Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Friday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Exhibits | Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Friday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Special Events | Coffee/Tea Service - Friday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Asian Studies | Modern Chinese Poetry* | Washoe F |
| English-British Studies | Ben Jonson in the 21st c.*: Critical Approaches in Celebration of the New Cambridge Jonson | Washoe B |
| English-British Studies | Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama | Paiute I |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | American Humor | Ormsby |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | American Literature after 1900 | Douglas |
| Gender Studies | Chance Encounters: Women Poets and a New Theory of Influence* | Washoe E |
| General Topics | Literature and Trauma*: Representation and the Aesthetics of Trauma in Holocaust and Ethnic Am. Lit | Washoe A |
| Germanic Studies | German Literature before 1900 | Hospitality Room |
| Pedagogy | Teaching Foreign Languages | Esmerelda |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Early Modern Spanish Writers* | Suite 3 |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture* | Washoe D |
| Special Events | Revamping the Foreign Language Department and Curriculum* | Hobby Horse |
| Special Events | RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting) | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Technical and Professional Communication | Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication | Washoe C |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Deleuze and Guattari* | Paiute II |
| Asian Studies | Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 | Washoe C |
| English-British Studies | English Nineteenth-Century Literature: Fin de Siècle Anxieties* | Esmerelda |
| English-British Studies | Old and Middle English | Washoe E |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Contemporary American Women Writers Representing Masculinities* | Washoe A |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Lucky Breaks: Coincidence in American Fiction* | Washoe F |
| General Topics | Literature and Religion | Paiute I |
| General Topics | Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film | Hospitality Room |
| Germanic Studies | German Romantic Literature and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy* | Hobby Horse |
| Other Foreign Language Studies | Hungarian Studies*: Hungarian Cultures after 1900 | Ormsby |
| Pedagogy | Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature through Travel Courses and Study Abroad* | Washoe B |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Spanish American Literature | Washoe D |
| Special Events | To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence* | Douglas |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Deleuze and Guattari: The Structure of Theory* | Paiute II |
| Special Events | CV Help Session (by reservation only) | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Special Events | Luncheon Banquet & Keynote Speech by Thomas Kavanagh | Sammy''s Showroom |
| Asian Studies | Asian Comparative Literature and Film | Washoe A |
| English-British Studies | Shakespeare | Paiute I |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Western and Southwestern Literature | Paiute II |
| Film Studies | Film (Open Topic) | Washoe C |
| French-Francophone Studies | French Literature before 1800 | Suite 3 |
| Gender Studies | Resisting Readers, Resistant Culture* | Esmerelda |
| General Topics | Fashion and Aesthetics* | Ormsby |
| General Topics | Literature for Children and Young Adults | Hospitality Room |
| General Topics | Romanticism | Washoe F |
| Germanic Studies | German Literature since 1900 | Washoe E |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+: Latin American Women Writers* | Hobby Horse |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Peninsular Spanish Literature | Washoe D |
| Special Events | A Signal to the Nation: Global Competence and the Study of Languages Other Than English | Douglas |
| Technical and Professional Communication | Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication | Washoe B |
| Asian Studies | Imagined Cities: Nostalgia, Resistance, and Discontent in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature* | Washoe F |
| English-British Studies | Image and Text in the Nineteenth Century* | Washoe B |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Early American Literature | Paiute II |
| Film Studies | Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film | Washoe A |
| French-Francophone Studies | French Literature since 1800 | Suite 3 |
| Gender Studies | Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* | Hobby Horse |
| General Topics | Depictions of 'Otherness' in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Literature* | Paiute I |
| General Topics | Medieval Romance* | Hospitality Room |
| Germanic Studies | New Perspectives on the German Past* | Washoe C |
| Pedagogy | Practical Approaches to Teaching Language | Washoe E |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Peninsular Spanish Narrative and Theatre* | Washoe D |
| Technical and Professional Communication | Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond | Ormsby |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Ethical Criticism: Justice in Life, Love and Art* | Esmerelda |
| Asian Studies | The Center Cannot Hold: Representations of Beijing in Contemporary Chinese Cinema* | Washoe C |
| Classical Studies | Classical Language and Literature: Latin and Greek | Suite 3 |
| Conjoint Meetings | Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society Reception | Prospector''s Lounge |
| English-British Studies | English Nineteenth-Century Literature | Washoe B |
| English-British Studies | Milton* | Paiute I |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Native American Literature | Paiute II |
| Film Studies | New Latin American Film* | Washoe A |
| French-Francophone Studies | Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction | Esmerelda |
| Gender Studies | Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* | Hobby Horse |
| General Topics | Good and Bad Fortune According to Boethius* | Washoe D |
| General Topics | War in Literature and Film | Washoe F |
| Pedagogy | Teaching English | Washoe E |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature | Hospitality Room |
| Special Events | Graduate Student Forum | Douglas |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Comparative Literature (Open Topic) | Ormsby |
| Germanic Studies | Creative Writing in German - Readings by Authors* | Esmerelda |
| Special Events | Film Showing - Friday Evening - Tuya's Marriage | Ormsby |
| Registration | Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Saturday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Exhibits | Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Saturday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Special Events | Coffee/Tea Service - Saturday | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Asian Studies | Territories of Identity: Attachment to Land in South Asia* | Paiute II |
| English-British Studies | English Literature since 1900 | Washoe F |
| English-British Studies | English Seventeenth-Century Literature | Hobby Horse |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+ | Suite 3 |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Jewish American Literature* | Douglas |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Pimp Lit: Explorations of African American Street Literature* | Washoe E |
| Film Studies | The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock* | Washoe D |
| Gender Studies | Women's Caucus Breakfast and Guest Speaker, Molly Youngkin (Loyola Marymount University) | Andreotti''s |
| General Topics | Literature and Fashion* | Washoe C |
| General Topics | Sigma Tau Delta | Ormsby |
| General Topics | The Meaning of Food*: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural Values | Esmerelda |
| General Topics | The Question of the Animal in Literature and Culture* | Paiute I |
| Linguistics | American Dialect Society (ADS)+ | Hospitality Room |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX* | Washoe B |
| Writing Programs | Writing Across the Curriculum | Washoe A |
| Conjoint Meetings | Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Open Business Meeting) | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Asian Studies | Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches* | Ormsby |
| English-British Studies | English Seventeenth Century Literature: Early Modern Metadrama* | Hobby Horse |
| English-British Studies | Owen Barfield | Shoshone Boardroom |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | African American Literature | Washoe E |
| English-US & Canadian Studies | Canadian Literature and Film | Washoe B |
| Gender Studies | Women's Caucus Seminar | Andreotti''s |
| General Topics | Autobiography* | Paiute II |
| General Topics | Harry Potter (Open Topic) | Paiute I |
| General Topics | Literature and Science | Suite 3 |
| General Topics | Poetry and Poetics* | Washoe A |
| Germanic Studies | Literature of the Holocaust* | Hospitality Room |
| Pedagogy | Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture | Washoe F |
| Pedagogy | Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom | Washoe D |
| Pedagogy | Technology and Distance Education | Washoe C |
| Spanish & Portuguese Studies | Reading Gender in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature* | Douglas |
| Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies | Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence* | Esmerelda |
| Conjoint Meetings | Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Meeting) | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Special Events | Pi Delta Phi Luncheon (Private) | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Conjoint Meetings | Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Closed Business Meeting) | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Special Events | Excursion to Lake Tahoe | Meet in Hotel Lobby |
| Special Events | Excursion to Virginia City | Meet in hotel lobby |
| Special Events | Film Showing - Saturday Evening - Persepolis | Ormsby |
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