62nd Annual RMMLA Convention
Reno, Nevada ~ October 9-11, 2008
Preliminary Convention Program by Day
NB: We list each session under just one 'type' even though it may cover more than one type, so please take a
moment to scan all session types.
| Asian Comparative Literature and Film | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe A |
| Asian Studies: The Enigma of Ethical Living in the Era of Reform* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Ormsby |
| Chinese Literature and Film since 1900 | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe C |
| Imagined Cities: Nostalgia, Resistance, and Discontent in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe F |
| Modern Chinese Poetry* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe F |
| Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Ormsby |
| Territories of Identity: Attachment to Land in South Asia* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Paiute II |
| The Center Cannot Hold: Representations of Beijing in Contemporary Chinese Cinema* | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe C |
| Classical Language and Literature: Latin and Greek | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Suite 3 |
| Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe C |
| The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Hospitality Room |
| Asian Studies Business Meeting+ | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Owen Barfield Society+ (Open Meeting) | Saturday, 11:45AM - 12:30PM | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society Reception | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Prospector''s Lounge |
| Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Closed Business Meeting) | Saturday, 1:00PM - 3:00PM | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society+ (Open Business Meeting) | Saturday, 9:00AM - 12:00PM | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Ben Jonson in the 21st c.*: Critical Approaches in Celebration of the New Cambridge Jonson | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe B |
| English Eighteenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Hobby Horse |
| English Literature since 1900 | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe F |
| English Nineteenth-Century Literature | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe B |
| English Nineteenth-Century Literature: Fin de Siècle Anxieties* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Esmerelda |
| English Renaissance Literature | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe D |
| English Seventeenth Century Literature: Early Modern Metadrama* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Hobby Horse |
| English Seventeenth-Century Literature | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Hobby Horse |
| Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Paiute I |
| Image and Text in the Nineteenth Century* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe B |
| Irish Literature and Film* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Esmerelda |
| Mary Shelley | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Hospitality Room |
| Milton* | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Paiute I |
| Nineteenth-Century Masculinities* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe E |
| Old and Middle English | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe E |
| Owen Barfield | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Shakespeare | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Paiute I |
| ENGLISH-POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | | |
| Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora*: Identity and Migration | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe E |
| ENGLISH-US & CANADIAN STUDIES | | |
| African American Literature | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe E |
| American Humor | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Ormsby |
| American Identities in the Nineteenth Century* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Hobby Horse |
| American Literature after 1900 | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Douglas |
| American Nineteenth-Century Literature | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Douglas |
| Association for Mormon Letters (AML)+ | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Suite 3 |
| Canadian Literature and Film | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe B |
| Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Suite 3 |
| Contemporary American Women Writers Representing Masculinities* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe A |
| Early American Literature | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Paiute II |
| Flannery O'Connor | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe E |
| Jewish American Literature* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Douglas |
| Lucky Breaks: Coincidence in American Fiction* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe F |
| Native American Literature | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Paiute II |
| Pimp Lit: Explorations of African American Street Literature* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe E |
| Southern Literature | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Paiute II |
| Western and Southwestern Literature | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Paiute II |
| Western Poets* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Ormsby |
| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Friday | Friday, 8:00AM - 6:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Saturday | Saturday, 8:00AM - 12:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Book/Media Exhibits & Book Review Table - Thursday | Thursday, 8:00AM - 6:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Film (Open Topic) | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe C |
| Film Theory and Criticism | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe C |
| Mystery and Detective Fiction and Film | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe A |
| New Latin American Film* | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe A |
| Representations of Immigration and (Post)colonialism in International Cinema* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Paiute II |
| The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe D |
| FRENCH-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | | |
| Conseil international d'études francophones+ | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe F |
| Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe A |
| French Literature before 1800 | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Suite 3 |
| French Literature since 1800 | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Suite 3 |
| Octave Mirbeau: From Life to Fiction | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Esmerelda |
| Traditions and Transformations in French-Language Narratives* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Suite 3 |
| Women in French | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Hospitality Room |
| Chance Encounters: Women Poets and a New Theory of Influence* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe E |
| Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Hobby Horse |
| Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Hobby Horse |
| Resisting Readers, Resistant Culture* | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Esmerelda |
| Women in/and Literature | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Douglas |
| Women's Caucus Breakfast and Guest Speaker, Molly Youngkin (Loyola Marymount University) | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Andreotti''s |
| Women's Caucus Seminar | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Andreotti''s |
| Women's Voices in Poetry | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe D |
| Autobiography* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Paiute II |
| Depictions of 'Otherness' in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Literature* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Paiute I |
| Drama | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe C |
| Ethnic Studies | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe A |
| Fashion and Aesthetics* | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Ormsby |
| Good and Bad Fortune According to Boethius* | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe D |
| Harry Potter (Open Topic) | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Paiute I |
| Intersections of Identity and Difference*: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Disability | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Hospitality Room |
| Justice, Law and Children’s Literature*: Foundational Attitudes | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Paiute I |
| Literature and Fashion* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe C |
| Literature and Other Arts | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe B |
| Literature and Religion | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Paiute I |
| Literature and Science | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Suite 3 |
| Literature and Trauma*: Representation and the Aesthetics of Trauma in Holocaust and Ethnic Am. Lit | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe A |
| Literature for Children and Young Adults | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Hospitality Room |
| Medieval Romance* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Hospitality Room |
| Migration Landscapes* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Esmerelda |
| Poetry and Poetics* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe A |
| RMMLA Poets Read their Works | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe A |
| Romanticism | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe F |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Hospitality Room |
| Sigma Tau Delta | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Ormsby |
| The Meaning of Food*: Culinary Choices as Expressions of Cultural Values | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Esmerelda |
| The Question of the Animal in Literature and Culture* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Paiute I |
| War in Literature and Film | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe F |
| Creative Writing in German - Readings by Authors* | Friday, 8:00PM - 9:30PM | Esmerelda |
| German 'Sturm und Drang' and Romanticism* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe D |
| German Literature before 1900 | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Hospitality Room |
| German Literature since 1900 | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe E |
| German Romantic Literature and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Hobby Horse |
| Germany since 1990* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Hobby Horse |
| Literature of the Holocaust* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Hospitality Room |
| Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)+ | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Paiute I |
| New Perspectives on the German Past* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe C |
| American Dialect Society (ADS)+ | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Hospitality Room |
| Foreign Language Linguistics | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Ormsby |
| General and Applied Linguistics | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Ormsby |
| Second Language Acquisition | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Ormsby |
| Second Language Writing* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Esmerelda |
| Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Esmerelda |
| OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES | | |
| Hungarian Studies*: Hungarian Cultures after 1900 | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Ormsby |
| Romania's Contributions to International Heritage | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Esmerelda |
| Russian Language and Literature* | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe B |
| English and Secondary Education* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe D |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe F |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Language | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe E |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe B |
| Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature through Travel Courses and Study Abroad* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe B |
| Teaching English | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Washoe E |
| Teaching English Composition | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe F |
| Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe D |
| Teaching Foreign Languages | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Esmerelda |
| Technology and Distance Education | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe C |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Saturday | Saturday, 7:30AM - 1:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Friday | Friday, 7:30AM - 6:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Thursday | Thursday, 7:30AM - 6:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Convention Check-In & On-Site Registration - Wednesday | Wednesday, 3:00PM - 6:00PM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| SPANISH & PORTUGUESE STUDIES | | |
| Artes Visuales, Literatura y Movimientos Culturales en la España del Siglo XX* | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe B |
| Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+ | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Douglas |
| Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+: Latin American Women Writers* | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Hobby Horse |
| Asociacíon Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)+: Spanish Women Writers* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Douglas |
| Contemporary Spanish American and Caribbean Literature* | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe A |
| Early Modern Spanish Writers* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Suite 3 |
| Latin American Literature and Film | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe C |
| Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Hospitality Room |
| Peninsular Spanish Literature | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe D |
| Peninsular Spanish Narrative and Theatre* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Washoe D |
| Postmodern Tendencies in Latin American Literature and Culture* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe D |
| Reading Gender in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Douglas |
| Spanish American Literature | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe D |
| Spanish Ministerio de Cultura Special Session: El Mundo Literario de Laila Ripoll* | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Douglas |
| A Signal to the Nation: Global Competence and the Study of Languages Other Than English | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Douglas |
| Coffee/Tea Service - Friday | Friday, 8:00AM - 10:30AM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Coffee/Tea Service - Saturday | Saturday, 8:00AM - 10:30AM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| Coffee/Tea Service - Thursday | Thursday, 8:00AM - 10:30AM | 3rd fl.- West Tower Foyer |
| CV Help Session (by reservation only) | Friday, 10:30AM - 4:45PM | Shoshone Boardroom |
| Excursion to Lake Tahoe | Saturday, 1:00PM - 9:00PM | Meet in Hotel Lobby |
| Excursion to Virginia City | Saturday, 1:00PM - 6:00PM | Meet in hotel lobby |
| Film Showing - Friday Evening - Tuya's Marriage | Friday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Ormsby |
| Film Showing - Saturday Evening - Persepolis | Saturday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Ormsby |
| Film Showing - Thursday Evening - Enlightenment Guaranteed | Thursday, 9:00PM - 11:00PM | Ormsby |
| Graduate Student Forum | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Douglas |
| Luncheon Banquet & Keynote Speech by Thomas Kavanagh | Friday, 11:45AM - 1:15PM | Sammy''s Showroom |
| Opening Night (Drop-In) Reception | Thursday, 6:00PM - 7:30PM | Prospector''s Lounge |
| Pi Delta Phi Luncheon (Private) | Saturday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| Publishing Forum: How to Publish Scholarly Work | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Hobby Horse |
| Revamping the Foreign Language Department and Curriculum* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Hobby Horse |
| RMMLA Executive Board Meeting (Closed Meeting) | Thursday, 9:00AM - 3:00PM | Prospector''s Boardroom |
| RMMLA Open Forum & Business Meeting (Open Meeting) | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Shoshone Boardroom |
| To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Douglas |
| TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION | | |
| Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)+ | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Washoe B |
| Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe C |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe F |
| Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Ormsby |
| Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication | Friday, 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Washoe B |
| THEORY/CRITICISM/COMPARATIVE STUDIES | | |
| Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)+ | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe B |
| Comparative Literature (Open Topic) | Friday, 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Ormsby |
| Cross-Cultural Linguistics and Contrastive Rhetoric*: Issues in Language Analysis and Teaching | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe F |
| Deleuze and Guattari* | Friday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Paiute II |
| Deleuze and Guattari: The Structure of Theory* | Friday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Paiute II |
| Ecocriticism | Thursday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Washoe C |
| Ethical Criticism* | Thursday, 4:30PM - 6:00PM | Suite 3 |
| Ethical Criticism: Justice in Life, Love and Art* | Friday, 3:15PM - 4:45PM | Esmerelda |
| French Cultural and Literary Theory | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Washoe A |
| Literary Criticism | Thursday, 2:45PM - 4:15PM | Washoe E |
| Rhetorical Criticism*: The Rhetoric of the American Presidency | Thursday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe F |
| Rhetorical Theory and Inquiry* | Thursday, 1:00PM - 2:30PM | Paiute II |
| Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence* | Saturday, 10:15AM - 11:45AM | Esmerelda |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | Saturday, 8:30AM - 10:00AM | Washoe A |
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