Presiding: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend

Secretary:

Presenters: J. Mark Smith, University of California at Irvine. "Metaphorical Statement and Wordsworth’s Blank Verse Sentence."

Karen J. Alexander, University of Utah. "Hegelian Hope for Troubled Times."

Karen C. Gindele, Indiana University South Bend. "George Eliot’s Invention of Ideology."

Kerry McKeever, University of Idaho. "‘The Lucky Vein of This Word’: The Needle, the Damage Done, and the Loving Addictions of Jacques Derrida."

Presiding: Shelley Kaufhold, University of Utah

Secretary: Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico

Presenters: Randall Stewart, University of Utah. "New Evidence for the Relationship of the ‘Sortes Sangallenses’ and the ‘Sortes Astrampsychi.’"

Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico. "The Art of the Deal: Folktale Motifs in Euripides’ Alcestis."

David Williams, Bethel College. "Achillean Plato, Odyssean Aristotle: The Literary Roots of a Philosophical Debate."

Carol Poster, Montana State University. "Socratic Sexuality and Platonic Asceticism: A Historiographic Problem."

Presiding: Armelle Crouzières-Ingenthron, Middlebury College

Secretary: David Wetsel, University of Arizona

Presenters: Juliette Parnell-Smith, University of Nebraska at Omaha. "Malvina Blanchecotte et Louise Michel: Deux visions de la Commune."

Patrice Proulx, University of Nebraska at Omaha. "Giving Voice to the Body: (Pro)Creation in the Texts of Nancy Huston."

David Wetsel, University of Arizona. "Pascal’s Pensées and the Doctrine of Original Sin."

Presiding: Anne Maxham-Kastrinos, Washington State University

Secretary:

Presenters: James Neiworth, Kate Pritchard and Tony Scott, Washington State University. "PHS-WSU Partnership: A Writing Center Outreach."

Joel Norris and Matt Hill, Washington State University. "An OWL Takes Flight: How Administrative Dialogue Shapes the Online Writing Lab."

Juanita Smart, St. Ambrose University. "Out of WAC or In Synch?: How One Compositionist Made the Shift from WAC Assistant at a Research I University to Writing Director at a Private Liberal Arts College."

Presiding: Joyce Carlson-Leavitt, University of New Mexico

Secretary:

Presenters: Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown University. "O motivo da criança na ficção de João Guimarães Rosa."

Frederick Williams, University of California at Santa Barbara. "Sousandrade’s ‘Wall Street Inferno’: Nineteenth-Century Brazil’s Most Original Poem."

Christopher Lund, Brigham Young University. "The Idea of Progress in Portuguese Anecdotes of the Sixteenth Century."

Casey S. Law, University of California at Los Angeles. "A construção do herói nacional em Bar Don Juan De Antonio Callado."

Presiding: Marie-Madeleine Schein, West Texas A&M University

Secretary:

Presenters: Anna Marie Christiansen, Idaho State University. "First Nation-Building in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit."

Ann Louise Keating, Eastern New Mexico University. "Self-Help, Indian Style?: Paula Gunn Allen’s Grandmothers of the Light."

Diane Reed, University of Cincinnati. "Reorientation and Healing through Dynamic Reader Participation in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony."

Presiding: Elizabeth Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Presenters: Patricia Calzia, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Redemption and Execution: Josef K. and Raskolnikov Stand before the Law."

Michelle Dunlop, Boise State University. "Influence Invokes Individualism in Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima."

Randy Jasmine, Utah State University. "With a Convert’s Zeal: Stegner’s Environmental Shift."

Brandon Tuck, Boise State University. "Behind the Mask: A Schematic Analysis of ‘Richard Cory.’"

Presiding: Doryjane Birrer, Washington State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Kristin Johansen, Bowling Green State University. "Chatting with Ivy: Compton-Burnett on the Modern Unconscious."

Patricia VerStrat, Washington State University. "Narrative Malpractice: Ford’s Aesthetics of Misdiagnosis in The Good Soldier."

Rita Jones, Washington State University. "Revising Cultural Myths: Plath’s Three Women and Edna O’Brien’s ‘Ghosts.’"

Angela Athy, Bowling Green State University. "Woman and Colonial Subject: Marginal Existence and Madness in Jean Rhys’s Short Fiction."

Presiding: Ann Marie Ryan, LeMoyne College

Secretary:

Presenters: Jillian M. Beifuss, College of Charleston. "Redefining Romantic Comedy in the Face of the Millenium."

Michael F. Davis, Le Moyne College. "Gertrude Stein in Paris: Humors Abroad."

Marla Weitzman, Clinch Valley College. "Who’s Laughing at Whom?: Langston Hughes’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s Mule Bone."

Presiding: Jill McCartney, University of Arizona

Secretary: Vivian Foss, Unversity of Wisconsin

Presenters: Regina M. Buccola, University of Illinois, Chicago. "‘Puppet … Dwarf … Vixen … Minimus’: The Fairy Feminism of A Midsummer Night’s Dream."

Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The ‘Matter’ of Female Sexual Autonomy in Cymbeline."

Tracey Gau, Texas Christian University. "Prophetic Cursing in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy: Empowerment for the Powerless."

Sandra Lindberg, Illinois Wesleyan University. "The Presence of a Pagan Goddess in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale."

Topic: Re-Dressing, Cross-Dressing, Un-Dressing or Salad Dressing: Tossing Out Identities

Presiding: Amelia M. L. Montes, University of Denver

Presenters: Tara Prince-Hughes, University of Rochester. "‘A Curious Double Insight’: The Well of Loneliness and Native American Alternative Gender Traditions."

David William Foster, Arizona State University. "Writing Homoeroticism into Chicano/Latin Gay Literature."

Kathryn R. Taylor, University of California at Los Angeles. "‘Doing after Desire … Without the Tools of the Trade’: Rereading Castration in Ladies Almanack."

Presiding: Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame

Secretary:

Presenters: Kathryn A. Edwards, University of Southern Mississippi. "Creating Women’s Voices in an Early Modern Ghost Story."

Jacqueline Letzter, University of Utah. "Partners of Necessity: Collaboration between Women in Eighteenth-Century French Opera."

Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado. "Platonic, Passionate and Piquant: Literary Criticism and Feminism in the Letters of Hortense Allart to Sainte-Beuve."

Starr Ackley, Albertson College of Idaho. "‘Les Femmes s’éclatent - et puis volent en éclats’: Professional Training and Employment at the (Previous) Century’s Turn."

Presiding: James H. Bowden, Indiana University Southeast

Secretary: Kristen Iversen, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Presenters: Sandra Gail Teichmann, West Texas A&M. "Writing with René Descartes."

Jerry Bradley, West Texas A&M. "Writing NOT from Experience."

Millard Dunn, Indiana University Southeast. "Von Nachtgeboren or Bradley?"

James H. Bowden, Indiana University Southeast. "Verse and Vice-Verse."

Presiding: George Moore, University of Colorado at Boulder

Secretary: R. Joyce Lausch, Arizona State University

Presenters: Renae M. Bredin, College of New Jersey. "Perlene’s Roots: Coloring Outside the Lines in the Poetry, Pottery and Performance of Nora Naranjo Morse."

Christine MacDonald, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Out of Place: Racial and Geographical Boundaries and Two Literary Responses to Dred Scott."

Andrew Greenhill, University of Arizona. "On Mario and Nostalgia."

George Moore, University of Colorado at Boulder. "The New Materialism: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Socioeconomic Substrata of Cultural Identity."

Topic: Cross-Disciplinary Research on "Writing to Learn" in Large Classrooms

Presiding: Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

Secretary:

Presenters: Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, University of Minnesota. "The Challenges of ‘Writing to Learn’ in Large University Classes."

Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota. Large, Lecture-Centered Engineering Classrooms."

Ruth Thomas, University of Minnesota. "Using Intensive ‘Writing to Learn’ as a Means of Reducing Limitations on Learning in Large Child Psychology Classes."

Hildy Miller, University of Minnesota. "Using ‘Writing to Learn’ in a Large Lecture-Centered Literature Classroom."

Topic: Immigrant Narratives: Coming to Work in the Field of Technical Communication

Presiding: Denise Weeks, Weber State University

Presenters: Ron Shook, Utah State University. "A Technical Writing Odyssey."

Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University. "Capturing the
Knight-Errant: Moving from Academia to the U.S. Air Force."

Jane Detweiler and Mary Webb, University of Nevada, Reno. "Migrating Across Intellectual Landscapes: A Dialogic Reflection."

Topic: What Do You Want to Know? An Interactive Workshop on Assessing WAC Programs

Presiding: Carol Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Lisa Norris, David Murphree, and Beth Mabry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. This workshop focuses on the assessment process and will help participants focus on two key elements: identifying assessment goals and selecting appropriate assessment instruments.

Presiding: Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University

Secretary: Doug Reitinger, Independent Scholar

Presenters: Patricia C. Kelly, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: Passive Reception and the Conventional Appeal of Libidinal Content."

Doug Reitinger, Independent Scholar. "Teaching Richard III."

Helen Hughes, Unversity of Wyoming. "Death of the Patriarchy in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn."

Presiding: Elizabeth Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Secretary: Alfred T. Terrell, University of Colorado at Boulder

Presenters: Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Amat et Omnis Miles."

Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota. "Nepotes Remi et Romuli in Catullus."

Katherine Alexander, University of New Mexico. "Vergil and Hemingway: ‘Amor’ and ‘Pietas’ in the Aeneid and Farewell to Arms."

Presiding: Margaret Willen, Eastern New Mexico University

Secretary:

Presenters: Frederick Kluck, University of Texas at El Paso. "Discovering the Self: Approaches to Autobiography in the Récits of Michel Tremblay."

David Paoli, Dickinson College. "The Maghrebian Mother in France, Her Daughters, and the Challenge of Modernity."

Eliza Nichols, College of William and Mary. "Reinventing the Griot: Massa Makan Diabate, Francophone Fiction, and the Mande Oral Tradition."

Mariana Ionescu, Fort Hays State University. "Oralité et écriture dans le roman antillais postcolonial."

Barbro Lukach Kelley, University of Virginia. "The Death of Oral Tradition and the Genesis of an Atavistic Literary Culture in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique."

Presiding: Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University

Presenters: Kent Lowry, New Mexico State University. "It’s a Wonderful Genre: Describing Fantasy."

Thomas DuBose, Louisiana State University. "Fifty Years from Roswell: The Science Fiction Film and the Evolution of Ufological Lore."

John Gonzales, Washington State University. "E.T. Stay Home!: Hollywood’s Latest Revival of the Bug-Eyed Monster."

Presiding: John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Judy Elsley, Weber State University. "The Teacher Writes: Keeping a Teaching Journal."

Michael Richard Bonin, Gonzaga University. "Teaching Wisdom: Literature and the Humanistic Ideal."

Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Cultural Reflections in Student Response to Literature."

Presiding: Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Secretary:

Presenting: Cherie Murray, Eastern Oregon University. "A Tutor in Flux: Negotiating Authority between Classroom and Writing Lab."

Mark L. Waldo, John Eliason,and Nick Plunkey, University of Nevada, Reno. "As in the Academy So in Business: University Writing Center Becomes the Model for a Corporate Writing Center."

Louise Excell, Dixie College, and Anne Mullin, Idaho State University. "Using the Writing Center: Reasons and Results."

Presiding: Rachel Halverson, Washington State University

Participants: to be announced

Presiding: Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg, Boise State University

Presenting: Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "The Issue of Community in the Virtual Classroom."

Ben Varner, University of Northern Colorado, and Jim Buddell, Taft Community College. "An Online Collaboration Between University and Community College Writers."

Klint Hull, Spokane Community College. "Using Synchronous Chat to Augment Online Technical Writing."

Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg, Boise State University. "Can Students Learn a Modern Language Online?: The Spanish-at-a-Distance Experiment."

Presiding: Nancy Prosenjak, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Secretary:

Presenters: Jane Chapman and Nancy Prosenjak, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Seeing Oneself: Readers Negotiating the Ordinary."

Glen Worthey, Stanford University Libraries. "I am Curious (George)."

Martha Rust, University of California at Berkeley. "‘A’ is for Aristotle, ‘B’ is for Our Blessed Lady: A Survey of Medieval Alphabet Poems."

Patricia Sterling, Western State College of Colorado. "Adaptations of The Secret Garden."

Presiding: Paula Sato, University of Virginia

Secretary: Megan Blair Simpson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

Presenters: Stuart P. Mills, University of Denver. "Henry David Thoreau: Science + Imagination = ‘Living Poetry.’"

Anna-Louise Milne, Columbia University. "When Rhetoric Was a Science."

Michael Wutz, Weber State University. "Eyre and Air: Telepathy and Telegraphy in Victorian Fiction."

Kathleen Flanagan, Longwood College. "Western Technology versus Faa-Samoa in Albert Wendt’s Leaves of the Banyon Tree."

Presiding: Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A&M University

Secretary: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona at Tucson

Presenters: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona at Tucson. "Dismemberment, Rape, Murder, and Forceful Silencing: Violence in Late-Medieval Socialization of Sexuality."

Roger Crockett, Washington & Lee University. "Was Hans Sachs P.C.?"

Christine Anton, State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach und die Realismusdebatte – Schreiben als Auseinandersetzung mit den Kunstansichten ihrer Zeit."

Topic: Reading the Lais through the Prologue

Presiding: Jerry Root, University of Utah

Presenters: Eliza Hoyer Millar, University of Liverpool. "‘Oscurement diseient’: Modern Critical Approaches and the Lais."

Jerry Root, University of Utah. "Allegory in the Lais: Showing Oneself Willingly."

Bridgett Longust, Independent Scholar. "C’est bien leur droit de dire du mal d’autrui: Gossip in the Lais of Marie de France."

Presiding: Nicole A. Diederich, The University of Findlay

Presenters: Rebecca Stephens, University of Wisconsin at Stephens Point. "Immigrant Literature and Cultural Criticism in the Classroom."

Susan Comilang, George Washington University. "‘Hey, they only speak Old English here!’: Finding Connections for the Disgruntled Traveler of the British Survey Course, Beowulf to the Eighteenth Century."

Ann Beebe, University of Kentucky. "‘Slavery and Racial Identity’: Literature of an Issue as an Alternative to the Sophomore Level Survey Course."

Janelle Collins, Arkansas State University. "Reading Race: Black Texts in the (Predominantly) White Classroom."

Presiding: Steve Haslam, Westminster College

Secretary: Teresa Reber, University of Arizona at Tucson

Presenters: Teresa Reber, University of Arizona at Tucson. "Focus on Form in Student Dialogue Journals."

Steven R. Sternfeld, University of Utah. "Dov’é Lao-Tzu?: Reflexive Learning in First-Year College Italian."

Bonnie Frederick, Washington State University. "Taking Foreign Language Classes Outside the Liberal Arts: Rewards and Hazards."

Presiding: Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Secretary:

Presenting: Penny Bird, Brigham Young University. "Collaborative Management of a Writing Center."

Colin Keeney, University of Wyoming. "The Role of the Writing Center in Writing Across the Curriculum."

Bob Mittan, Casper College. "A Somewhat Satisfying Schizophrenia: The Many Hats of the Writing Center Director."

Presiding: Christine Hult, Utah State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Steve Lamos, University of Illinois. "How Are WAC Principles Articulated in the Context of a Large Research University?"

Yvonne Merrill, University of Arizona. "Writing to Learn in Large General Education Classes: Teaching Teams and Peer Preceptors."

Doug Bonnema and Fiona Glade, Washington State University. "How Do Faculty Incorporate WAC into their Pedagogy?: Faculty Responses to WAC Seminars at a Research Institution."

Carol Williams, Beatrice S. Gordon, and Diana Mass, Arizona State University. "Bridging the Gap between Writing for the University and Writing for Work: Taking Advantage of Instructor Expertise in Other Fields."

Panelists: Stephen Baar, Westminster College

R. Howard Bloch, Yale University

Stanley Fish, Duke University

Anne Maxham-Kastrinos, Washington State University

Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg, Boise State University

Graduate Student, to be announced

Presiding: Beth Carole Rosenberg, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Secretary: Kathleen E. Manley, University of Northern Colorado

Presenters: Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A& M University. "The German ‘Fumerist,’ Louise von Francois."

Georgia Standish, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Toward Victorianism."

Terry Spaise, University of California at Riverside. "Duty and Class in Eighteenth-Century England as Seen by the Lady and the Milkmaid."

Presiding: George Bridges, University of Idaho

Secretary: Aminia Brueggemann, Old Dominion University

Presenters: Patrizia C. McBride, Indiana University. "Uncoupling Genius and Madness: The Artist’s Ethical Task in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften."

Gerd Steckel, University of Idaho. "The Conflict of Two Concepts of Time in Some Texts by Franz Kafka."

Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana. "Split Identity in Else Lasker-Schueler’s IchundIch."

Presiding: Françoise duRivage, Augsburg College

Secretary: Raymonde A. Bulger, Eagan, Minnesota

Presenters: Raymonde A. Bulger, Eagan, Minnesota. "Rire et mensonge ou le comique baroque chez Corneille."

Françoise duRivage, Augsburg College. "L’amour, la mère et la mort dans La Princesse de Clèves."

Samuel R. Schulman, Central Connecticut State University. "Voltaire and the Jews: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Anti-Semitism."

Presiding: Paola Malpezzi Price, Colorado State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Regina Psaki, University of Oregon. "The Historical Novel:
A Genre without a Theory."

Rosetta D’Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey. "Contemporary Italian Women’s Poetry."

Sandy Waters, University of California at Berkeley.
"Sex in the Convent."

Presiding: Rita Hendin, Arizona State University

Secretary: Jane Carducci, Winona State University

Presenters: Greg Glau and Craig Jacobsen, Arizona State University. "Writing Scenarios: Contextualizing the Composition Classroom."

Jeannette E. Riley and Elizabeth J. Wright, University of New Mexico. "Using Literary Texts in the Composition Classroom: Opening Doors."

Kevin Binfield, Murray State University. "‘But, Dr. B., words cannot express…’: Paralipsis, Occupatio, and Inexpressibility Topoi in English 101."

Heidi Estrem and Patti Hanlon, University of Nevada, Reno. "A Revisionary Classroom: The Value of Revisiting, Reseeing, and Rethinking in the First-Year College Writing Classroom."

Presiding: Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Secretary:

Presenting: Richard Leahy, Boise State University. "Ancient Rhetorics in Today’s Writing Center."

Carolyn Young and Peggy Marron, University of Wyoming. "More Than Verbs and Tenses: The Many Facets of ESL Conferencing."

Rebecca Jackson, New Mexico State University. "Writing Center Consulting as Reflective Practice: A Dialogic Model for Consultant Training and Professional Development."

Presiding: R. Joyce Lausch, Arizona State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Elizabeth McNeil, Arizona State University. "‘Papa Legba, open the gate for me’: Paule Marshall’s Mediating Trickster in Praisesong for the Widow."

Jonna Mackin, University of Pennsylvania. "Maxine Hong Kingston’s Big Bang Theory of Identity: Creating Agency through Humorous Performance of Self in Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book."

R. Joyce Lausch, Arizona State University. "Chicana Testimonio: Resisting Boundaries, Challenging Definitions."

Diane C. Leblanc, University of Wyoming. "Leaving Everything ‘Backdaire’: Leila’s Quest for Self in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone."

Topic: Reconfiguring via Cultural Critique: Performance, Place, Space and Image

Presiding: Maureen Salzer, University of North Dakota

Secretary: Stacy Gillett Coyle, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Presenters: Martin Harries, Princeton University. "Artaud’s Trance Possessions."

Stacy Gillett Coyle, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Chasing Amelia: Images of Amelia Earhart in Contemporary Culture and Literature."

Benjamin Boyer, University of California at Santa Barbara. "‘A Place between Human Places’: Supermodernity and the Urban Uncanny in the Postmodern American Novel."

John Honerkamp, New York University. "Unstable Architecture: Urban Occupation in Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies."

Presiding: Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University

Secretary:

Presenters: Margaret Van Epp Salazar, University of Idaho. "Oral Narrative and Time."

Glenn Broadhead, Oklahoma State University. "Conversation as Art and Conversation as Science."

Jerome E. Coffey, Montana State University. "From the Halls of Heorot to the Faroese Dance Floor: What the Faroese Oral Traditions Have to Tell Us about the English Middle Ages."

Yolanda Hood, University of Missouri - Columbia. "The Crafter and the Craft: Postmodernism and African-American Quilt Culture."

Presiding: Maythee Rojas, Arizona State University

Secretary: Claudia Morell, University of Northern Colorado

Presenters: Ruth Ellen Kocher, Arizona State University. "(Mis)Taken Identity and (Dis)Location: The ‘Thousand Petalled Lily’ in Helen in Egypt’s ‘Palinode.’"

Janet Kaufman, University of Utah. "‘A Source Speaking to Another Source’: Muriel Rukeyser to Adrienne Rich, Poetic Lineage and Possibility."

Megan Blair Simpson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin. "Disobedient Language: Interpellation and Resistance in the Poetry of Lori Lubeski."

Presiding: Bill Stobb, University of Nevada, Reno

Presenters: Bill Stobb, University of Nevada, Reno. "Between the Bindings: Anthology and the Boundaries of a Region."

Gioia Woods, University of Nevada, Reno. "Inhabiting Wasteland: Sense of Place and the Great Basin."

Robert Blesse, University of Nevada, Reno. "The Great Basin Anthology from a Publisher’s Perspective."

Presiding: Rosetta D’Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Secretary: Marta Bermudez, Hunter College

Presenters: Marta Gallegos, Rutgers University. "Dante’s Images in Contemporary Latin American Literature."

Giacomo Striuli, Providence College. "Animal Imagery in Dante’s Inferno."

Vito DeSimone, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. "The Failure of the Florentine Legal System and The Divine Comedy."

Presiding: Teresa Jillson, University of Colorado

Secretary: Carvel de Bussy, University of the District of Columbia

Presenters: Christiane Seiler, Indiana University. "The Poet and The Art: Challenges for the Translator."

Teresa Jillson, University of Colorado.

Lisa Kahn, Texas Southern University. "Pitfalls in Translating Poetry."

Carvel de Bussy, University of Columbia. "Variations in Style and Vocabulary when Translating from Different Genres."