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8:30 - 10:00 AM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
General Topic	Writing Across the Curriculum I	Ballroom A - La Vista
Linguistics	Foreign Language Linguistics	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Teaching	Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom	Ballroom C - La Sierra
Foreign Languages	Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature I	Ballroom D - La Loma
Special Topic	Virginia Woolf	Suite A
General Topic	Literature and Other Arts	Suite B
General Topic	Romanticism	Suite C
	RMMLA Executive Board Meeting	Suite D
English	English Renaissance Literature	Suite E
Special Topic	Immigrant Literature	Suite F
10:15 - 11:45 AM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
General Topic	Drama	Ballroom A - La Vista
Special Seminar - Robert Glick (SJC)	Grant-Writing Strategies for the Humanities	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Conjoint Meeting	Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones en Amérique	Ballroom C - La Sierra
General Topic	Writing Across the Curriculum II	Ballroom D - La Loma
Special Topic	Classical Rhetoric Revisited	Suite A
Linguistics	Spanish and Portuguese	Suite B
Special Topic	American Indian Literature I	Suite C
	RMMLA Executive Board Meeting	Suite D
English	English Literature since 1900	Suite E
1:30 - 3:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
General Topic	Writing Across the Curriculum III	Ballroom A - La Vista
Special Seminar - Scott Sanders (UNM)	Grant-Writing for Technical Writers	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Conjoint Meeting	Association for Mormon Letters	Ballroom C - La Sierra
Conjoint Meeting	Frank Waters Society	Ballroom D - La Loma
Special Topic	Foreign Languages for Special Purposes	Suite A
English	English Eighteenth-Century Literature I	Suite B
Special Topic	Body Politic	Suite C
Special Topic	Melville Studies	Suite D
Foreign Languages	Women in French: La Folie féminine	Suite E
3:15 - 4:45 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
Special Topic	Technology & Distance Education	Ballroom A - La Vista
Special Seminar - Barbara Harrelson	"Storytellers and the Southwest"	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Special Topic	Owen Barfield	Ballroom C - La Sierra
General Topic	Open Forum & Business Meeting Topic: Problems in the Profession - "The Assessment Quandary"	Ballroom D - La Loma
Conjoint Meeting	American Dialect Society	Suite A
Conjoint/Business Meeting	Association of Teachers of Technical Writing	Suite B
English	Early American Literature	Suite C
Foreign Languages	French Literature before 1800	Suite D
Special Topic	Writing Programs: Mentoring	Suite E
Special Topic	Three Spanish Women Poets	Suite F
5:30-7:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
Literature under the Stars	Readings by Arthur Sze and Miriam Sagan	SFCC Planetarium Transportation provided from hotel at 5:15 PM
9:00 - 11:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
FILM	Yo, La Peor de Todas	Ballroom A - La Vista

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7:00-10:00 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Special Event	RMMLA Member Orientation & Continental Breakfast Buffet (Drop In) (Buffet from 7:00 - 9:00 AM) EVERYONE IS WELCOME!	Ballroom A - La Vista
7:00-8:30 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Women's Caucus Breakfast - Registration Required		By Arrangement with Womens Caucus Officers
8:30-10:00 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Technical and Professional Communication	Technical and Professional Communication in the Classroom	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Special Topic	Reassessing Postcolonial Studies	Ballroom C - La Sierra
General Topic	Ethnic Literature	Ballroom D - La Loma
Special Topic	Cybertextos - Online Scholarly Editions	Suite A
Special Topic	Literary Adaptation	Suite B
Foreign Languages	Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean	Suite C
Foreign Languages	German Literature since 1900 - II	Suite D
Foreign Languages	Spanish American Literature	Suite E
English	English Seventeenth-Century Literature	Suite F
Foreign Languages	Classical Language and Literature: Greek	Suite G
10:15-11:45 AM ~SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Technical and Professional Communication	Technical and Professional Communication in the Workplace and Beyond	Ballroom A - La Vista
General Topic	Women and Literature	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Special Seminar - Michael Pavel (WSU)	Outreach to Native American Youth & Their Communities	Ballroom C - La Sierra
Teaching	English Composition	Ballroom D - La Loma
English	Nineteenth-Century American Literature	Suite A
Foreign Languages	Erotisme et politique dans la littérature française du XXe s.- II	Suite B
Special Topic	Saving/Selling the Humanities	Suite C
General Topic	Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages	Suite D
General Topic	Comparative Literature	Suite E
Foreign Languages	German Literature before 1900	Suite F
Special Topic	Reading Medieval Manuscript Culture II	Suite G
12:00-1:15 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Women’s Caucus Luncheon - Registration Required	Guest Speaker: Beverlee McClure, President, Clovis CC (NM)	Ballroom C
1:30-3:00 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
General Topic	Computers in Language and Literature	Ballroom A - La Vista
Conjoint Meeting	Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Conjoint Meeting	Women’s Caucus Seminar	Ballroom C - La Sierra
Technical and Professional Communication	Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication	Ballroom D - La Loma
General Topic	Film	Suite A
Special Topic	Travel Literature	Suite B
Special Topic	Evil in Literature	Suite C
English	Old and Middle English Literature	Suite D
Conjoint Meeting	Writing Programs: Planning and Administration	Suite E
Special Topic	Hispanic Drama	Suite F
General Topic	Women's Voices in Prose	Suite G
3:15-4:45 PM ~SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Special Topic	Native American Visual Intelligence and Literacy	Ballroom A - La Vista
General Topic	Writing Across the Curriculum VII	Ballroom B - La Cumbre
General Topic	Literature and Science	Ballroom C - La Sierra
Technical and Professional Communication	Forces of Change in Technical and Professional Communication	Ballroom D - La Loma
Conjoint Meeting	Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association III	Suite A
Special Topic	Decolonizing the Mind	Suite B
Foreign Languages	French Literature since 1800	Suite C
Foreign Languages	Peninsular Spanish	Suite D
English	English Eighteenth-Century Literature III	Suite E
4:45 - 6:00 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Closing Reception	Refreshments and Cash Bar	Atrium
8:00 - 9:15 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Ballroom Dancing - Demonstration and Lessons by Giovanna Vecchitto & Aaron Clewell (St. John's College)	Come learn the Fox Trot, Samba, and Swing!	Ballroom A - La Vista
9:30 - 11:00 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
Film	Strictly Ballroom	Ballroom A - La Vista

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1:00 - 5:00 PM ~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

Microsoft Office 2000 for Pedagogical Purposes

Eric Miraglia, Certified MS Instructor, IMG Inc., Redmond, WA

Santa Fe Community College Computer Lab
Transportation provided from hotel at 12:30 PM

8:30 - 10:00 AM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Topic: Using Writing to Learn in Art, French, and Computer Science at IUPUI

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: Susan McLeod, Washington State University

Secretary: Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University-Purdue University

Presenters:

Donna Lee Sullivan, IUPUI. "Cocooning with Words."

Didier Bertrand, IUPUI. "Bringing Back Writing to Foreign Language Acquisition."

Robert Orr, IUPUI. "Yes, You Really Need to Write to Learn Quantitative Analysis!"

Foreign Language Linguistics

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Presiding: Charles Grove, West Chester University

Secretary: Elizabeth Fouts-Raya, Saint Anselm College

Presenters:

Helene Ossipov, Arizona State University. "The problem of y."

David Miller, Arizona State University. "Mainstreaming of the Nonnative Speaker of English: Should 'Sheltered' English Composition Courses Be Available to the Nonnative Speaker?"

Zheng-min Dong, Washington State University. "On Teaching Prenominal-Corelative Sentences in Russian."

Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Judy Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Secretary: Patrice Caldwell, Eastern New Mexico University

Presenters:

Annette Bennington McElhiney, The Metropolitan State College of Denver. "'Windows' Or 'Mirrors': Teaching Multicultural Women's Poetry on Creating a Sexual/Personal Identity."

Summer Price, Legion Park Elementary. "Gender Differences in Children's Literature: 'I want my turn!'"

Chris Mahoney, University of Northern Colorado. "Constructive Confrontation."

Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature I

Suite A
Topic: Emotions at War: Intense Emotion in the Works of Virginia Woolf

Presiding: Julianne White, University of New Mexico

Presenters:

Julianne White, University of New Mexico. "Tearing the Veil of Silence: Grief and the Role of Mrs. Ramsey in the "Time Passes" Chapter of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse."

Susie Keller, University of New Mexico. "'A mission of the greatest importance which would never be revealed': The Ineffable War and Mrs. Dalloway."

Nicole Desjeunes, University of New Mexico. "'He had grown stranger and stranger': Septimus Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Mrs. Dalloway."

Martha Ninneman, University of New Mexico. "'One longing lingering look behind': Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room as Elegy for England's Lost Brothers."

Literature and Other Arts

Suite B
Presiding: Marvin D. L. Lansverk, Montana State University

Secretary: Georgia Gurrieri, Eastern Washington University

Presenters:

Roger Schmidt, Idaho State University. "The Iconography of Socks in Art and Literature."

Kira Stevens, University of Denver. "'Rubbish in the Wrong Place': Reclamation Art in a Century of Waste."

Jane Dilworth, Saint Mary's College. "Appropriating the Feminine Operatic Voice in Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's El final de Norma."

Romanticism

Suite C
Presiding: Kevin Binfield, Murray State University

Presenters:

Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary. "Romantic-Era Reviews and Romantic Biography."

Lori Montgomery Goodlett, Independent Scholar. "Cultural Resistance: Anti-Imperial Sentiment and Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven."

Ellen Brinks, Colorado State University. "Vindicating Wollstonecraft: The Ideology of the 'Fallen Woman' in Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice."

RMMLA Executive Board Meeting

Suite D

English Renaissance Literature

Suite F
Presiding: Joyce Lausch, Arizona State University

Presenters:

Erik Drobey, California State University at Humboldt. "'How Can You Translate That?': Linguistic Displacement in Immigrant Literature."

Nolan Bauman, California State University at Humboldt. "Dreams, Hauntings, and Ghosts: The Tension of Acculturation."

Ronit Le Mon, California State University at Humboldt. "Religious Displacement in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Shadows on the Hudson."

10:15 - 11:45 AM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: Doug Reitinger, University of Wyoming

Secretary: Patricia Kelly, Colorado University at Boulder

Presenters:

Elsie Galbreath Haley, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "Recovering Memory: Transformative Story in the Plays of Kennedy, Fornes, and Vogel."

Jesse Hurlbut, Brigham Young University. "On Editing Illustrated Early Drama Manuscripts: Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology."

Ruth Antosh, State University of New York at Fredonia. "The Myth of the Mother in Three Plays by Michel Tremblay."

Special Seminar

Guest Speaker: Robert Glick,
Vice President for College Advancement, Saint John's College

Topic: "Grant-Writing Strategies for the Humanities"

Ballroom B - La Cumbre

Société Des Professeurs Français et Francophones en Amérique

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: David Wetsel, Arizona State University

Secretary: Patrice J. Proulx, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Presenters:

Deborah Losse, Arizona State University. "Jacques Yver's Le Printemps and Trans-Gender Phantasmagoria."

Andrew Suozzo, DePaul University. "Out in the Closet: The Discreetly Indiscrete Aventures de Monsieur d'Assoucy."

Francis Mariner, Iowa State University. "Prefacing the Pensées: The Other Editorial Debate."

Writing Across the Curriculum - II: How Faculty Use WAC Principles

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Fiona Glade, Washington State University

Panelists:

Sarah Recken, Washington State University

Jo Washburn, Washington State University

Rachel Halverson, Washington State University

Special Topic: Classical Rhetoric Revisited

Suite A
Presiding: Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado

Presenters:

Lahcen Ezzaher, University of Northern Colorado. "Wise Men from Egypt in Plato's Phaedrus."

Meg Spencer, University of Northern Colorado. "Educating the Good Citizen: The Rhetoric of Possibility and Change."

Stephanie Roberts, University of Northern Colorado. "Moving to New Mediums: The Educational Politics of Information Technologies."

Crystal Brothe, University of Northern Colorado. "Out Over the Border: Textual Bodies and Erotic Gratification in the Phaedrus."

Elizabeth Grengs, University of Northern Colorado. "Writing Helen: Rhetoric and Mythology in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen."

Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics

Suite B
Presiding: Dianne Hobbs, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Secretary: Elizabeth Fouts-Raya, St. Anselm College

Presenters:

Todd Hughes, Vanderbilt University. "Teaching Negocios to Business Students."

Moira Gordillo, California State University at Fresno. "Desarrollo normal del lenguaje en el nino y aspectos que afectan este desarrollo."

Amy Gregory, California State University at Fresno. "Langacker's Cognitive Grammar and the Spanish Subjunctive."

Special Topic: American Indian Literature - I: On the Edge of the Twenty-First Century

Suite C
Presiding: William Willard, Washington State University

Presenters:

Gloria Bird, Spokane Tribal Planning Office. "Concentric Communities in the Writings of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth Woody, and Ray A. Young Bear."

Dorothy Graber and Bridget O'Meara, Washington State University. "Native American Literature and the Repatriation Movement: Diasporas in Time and Space."

Gregg Graber, Washington State University. "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Warnings of Simon Ortiz and Martin Cruz Smith."

Kathryn W. Shanley, University of Montana. "Looking for the Way Back to the Future: A Way of Seeing the Future in Contemporary American Indian Writing."

RMMLA Executive Board Meeting

Suite D

English Literature since 1900

1:30 - 3:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: Vicki Tolar Collins, Oregon State University

Presenters:

Vicki Tolar Collins, Oregon State University. "Grass Roots Writing Guides at Oregon State University."

Alexis Walker, Oregon State University. "A Writing Guide for Human Development and Family Sciences."

Kathryn Higley, Oregon State University. "A Writing Guide for Nuclear Engineering."

Jon Dorbolo, Oregon State University. "A Writing Guide for Philosophy."

Special Seminar

Guest Speaker: Scott Sanders,
Chair, English Department, University of New Mexico

Topic: "Grant-Writing Strategies for Technical Writers"

Ballroom B - La Cumbre

Association for Mormon Letters

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Helynne H. Hansen, Western State College of Colorado

Secretary: Daniel Muhlstein, Brigham Young University

Presenters:

Boyd Petersen, Brigham Young University. "Landscapes of Seduction: Terry Tempest William's Desert Quartet and the Biblical Song of Songs."

Lisa Olsen Tait, Independent Scholar. "Warners and Wilsons of Our Own: Recontextualizing Early Home Literature."

Harlow Clark, Independent Scholar. "Clory's Great S(i)mile: Vocabulary and Ending in Maurine Whipple's The Giant Joshua."

Frank Waters Society

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Robert A. Anderson, Independent Scholar

Secretary: Linda Helstern, Southern Illinois University

Presenters:

Emily Plec, University of Utah. "The Rhetoric of Coherence, Corporeality, and Homology in The Man Who Killed the Deer."

Felicia F. Campbell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Frank and Brett: Parallel Visions."

Daryl A. Grider, West Virginia State College. "Frank Waters, Jon Manchip White, and Southwest Spirit of Place."

Note: All interested parties are welcome. Papers will not be read at the meeting; they will be discussed. Requests for copies of the papers, published in Volume 21 of Studies in Frank Waters, should be sent to The Frank Waters Society, 1921 East Saint Louis, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89104 or adamsc@nevada.edu. The volumes are $10.00 each. Some back volumes are available.

Special Topic: Foreign Language for Special Purposes

Suite A
Presiding: Bonnie Frederick, Washington State University

Presenters:

Ciro A. Sandoval, Michigan Technological University. "Spanish for Cultural and Technological Literacy: Communicating the Risks of Natural Hazards." Aminia Brueggemann, Old Dominion University, "A Balancing Act: The Developing and Teaching of a Language-Centered Business Course."

English Eighteenth-Century Literature - I: Postcolonialism and the Other

Suite B
Presiding: Tiffany Potter, University of British Columbia

Secretary: Tom Pfister, Idaho State University

Presenters:

Kevin Binfield, Murray State University. "Text, Narrative, and Tertiary Positions in Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments."

Katherine Harris, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. "Imoinda's Heroism as the 'Inappropriate Other' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko: A Tragedy."

John Loftis, University of Northern Colorado. "Honey, I'm Home: Gulliver, Marlow, and the Twentieth-Century Reader."

Special Topic: The Body Politic: Images of Women in U.S. Latina and Latin American Literature

Suite C
Presiding: Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg, Boise State University

Presenters:

Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg, Boise State University. "Femme Fatal or Female Fatality?: Images of Women in Las batallas en el desierto by José Emilio Pacheco."

Alicia Garza, Boise State University. "Living (Large) in the USA: Body Politics and Subversion in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban."

Suzanne Chávez-Silverman, Pomona College. "The Body Remembers: Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Gardenias for el Gran Guru and Other Poems."

Magdalena Maíz-Peña, Davidson College. "Autopsia cultural y cuerpo-texto visual: Delmira Agustini."

Special Topic: Melville Studies

Suite D
Presiding: Scott Kemp, University of Northern Colorado

Respondent: Dennis Berthold, Texas A&M University

Presenters:

Elizabeth Schultz, University of Kansas. "Wall Street and Clovernook: Sites of Wage Slavery and Domestic Abuse."

Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University West. "Accidents and the Insurance Office in Melville and Emerson."

Michael Slevin, George Washington University. "The Narrator and the Critics of Bartleby: Cases of Transference."

Lyon Evans, Viterbo College. "The Modernist Melville: Unreliable Narrators in Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Weeds and Wildings."

Women in French: La Folie féminine

Suite E
Presiding: Starr Ackley, Albertson College of Idaho

Secretary: Helynne Hansen, Western State College of Colorado

Presenters:

Valerie S. Putnam, University of New Mexico. "Ourika, Melancholkia as an Educational Trojan Horse: Anti-Slavery and the Revendications of the Rights of Women Writers."

Rachel Shuh, University of California, Berkeley. "Madness and Military History in Balzac's Adieu."

Françoise Hibbs, Salt Lake Community College. "Simone de Beauvoir: La folie féminine dans ses romans."

Bridgett Longust, Phoenix Country Day School. "Outside and On the Margins in Andrée Chédid's Cité fertile."

3:15 - 4:45 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: Ben Varner, University of Northern Colorado

Secretary: Jim Buddell, Taft Community College

Presenters:

Klint Hull, Eastern Washington University and Spokane Community College. "Yes, But Does It Work 'Better'? Traditional vs. Online Composition Instruction: A Case Study."

Mali Subbiah, Weber State University. "Moving from Traditional Classrooms to Virtual Classrooms: Problems with Student Perceptions."

Richard Caccavale, University of Denver. "Cultural Criticism and the Digital Multiform Text: The Future of the Humanities."

Ben Varner, University of Northern Colorado. "Running an Online Composition Course: Essays and Bulletin Board."

Special Seminar

Guest Speaker: Barbara Harrelson

Topic: "Storytellers and the Southwest"

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
An overview of the current literary scene in Santa Fe, Taos, and the NMex/Tex/Arizona region, tracing briefly the roots of the literary heritage of Southwest literature. Presentation includes a 15-20 min. slide presentation, then a panel discussion with local authors and publishers on the same topics, including:

Douglas Preston, author of The Royal Road(1998), Cities of Gold (1992), and several novels, including Reliquary, and Relic.

Susan Hazen-Hammond, photographer and author of Timelines Of Native American History and Thunder Bear and Ko, a children's book.

Nasario Garcia, a professor at New Mexico Highlands University, and author of, most recently, Brujas, Bultos, y Brasas: Tales of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the Pecos Valley (1999).

Dorothy Doyle, author of Journey through Jess, local book reviewer, and host of "The Reading Sampler," a public radio broadcast.

Special Topic: Owen Barfield

Ballroom C - La Sierra

Presiding: Peter J. Fields, Missouri Valley College.

Secretary: Raymond P. Tripp Jr., University of Denver.

Presenters:

Raymond P. Tripp Jr. University of Denver. "Owen Barfield, Rudolph Steiner, and Anthroposophy."

Karen M. Gasser, University of Colorado at Boulder. "A Barfieldian Approach to Emily Dickinson."

Carol H. Funk, University of Denver. "Barfield and the Seth Material of Jane Roberts."

David Joplin, Black Hills State University. "Growth of Mind in Keats's 'Ode to Psyche': A Barfieldian View."

Open Forum & Business Meeting

Topic: "Problems in the Profession: The Assessment Quandary"

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Marion Tangum, Southwest Texas State University

Secretary: Starr Ackley, Albertson College of Idaho

Discussant: Lydia Blanchard, Southwest Texas State University

American Dialect Society

Suite A
Presiding: Mary Morzinski, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Secretary: Thomas DuBose, Louisiana State University

Presenters:

Glenn Martinez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "Spanish Verb Simplification in Contact with English: A History of Narrative Syntax in the US Southwest."

Lorelei Ortiz, New Mexico State University. "Problems of Mexican-American Representation in the 'Chicano' Tradition."

Luisanna Fodde, University of Cagliari, Italy. "The Ebonics and Bilingualism Controversies: An International Perspective."

Thomas Du Bose, Louisiana State University-Shreveport. "Ergativity and Ectoplasm: Strategies of Passivization in Poltergeist Narrative."

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing - Conjoint/Business Meeting

Suite B
Presiding: Keith Grant-Davie, Utah State University

Early American Literature

Suite C
Presiding: Eric Elshtain, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Secretary: Michael Pringle, Washington State University

Presenters:

Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University. "Reading Early American Culture: Crevecoeur, Community and the Act of Interpretation."

Amy England, Denver University. "Elements of the Fabulous in Early Descriptions of North America."

Catherine Kasper, University of Texas-San Antonio. "Dobson's Encyclopedia: An American Enterprise."

Anne Bliss, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Democracy and Dignity: The Letters of Michel Guillaume, Jean de Crevecoeur, and Thomas Jefferson."

French Literature before 1800

Special Topic: Writing Programs: Mentoring

Suite E
Presiding: Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado

Participants:

Emily Golson, University of Northern Colorado. "Collaborative Mentoring."

Chuck Fisher, Aims Community College. "Shadowing."

Tami Aleman, University of Northern Colorado and Aims Community College. "Moving From T.A. to Professional: Everyone Needs Good Mentors."

Special Topic: Three Spanish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century: Images, Viewpoints, Identities

Suite F
Presiding: Anita M. Hart, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Presenters:

Candelas Gala, Wake Forest University. "La imagen y la palabra: iconografía y écfrasis en la poesía de María Beneyto."

Martha LaFollette Miller, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. "Images of Warfare in Punto umbrío by Ana Rossetti."

Anita M. Hart, University of Nebraska at Kearney. "Atencia's A orillas del Ems: Linking Poetry and Photography, Past and Present, Other and Self."

Sharon Kellum, University of New Mexico. "Translations of Selected Poems by Beneyto, Rossetti, and Atencia."

5:30-7:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Readings by Arthur Sze and Miriam Sagan

SFCC Planetarium
(Transportation to and from hotel/SFCC campus will be provided at 5:15 PM, returning at 7:15 PM.)

9:00 - 11:00 PM ~ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

Yo, la peor de todas

Ballroom A - La Vista

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7:00-10:00 AM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Special Event: TIAA-CREF Breakfast Seminar on Investing **PLUS**
RMMLA Raffle Drawing

7:45-9:30 AM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Special Event: Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association
Breakfast & Panel Discussion
Sponsored by RMWCA and Front Range Writing Tutor's Conference
(Registration Required)

8:30-10:00 AM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Presiding: Dennis Scott, Northern State University

Presenters:

Dennis Scott, Northern State University. "An Overview of the Project."

Jan Skott, Aberdeen School District. "Writing as a Tool for Learning in the Elementary School."

Kris Keup, Aberdeen School District. "The Benefits of the Writing Project K-16."

Robbie Gellhaus, Northern State University. "How the School of Education Incorporates Writing to Learn."

Sherry Tebben, Northern State University. "Writing to Learn at the Graduate School Level."

Special Panel: Scholarly Publishing

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Panelists:

Elizabeth Hadas, Director, University of New Mexico Press

David William Foster, Arizona State University

Bonnie Frederick, Washington State University

Special Topic: Reading Medieval Manuscript Culture I

Suite A
Presiding: Martha Dana Rust, University of California at Berkeley

Presenters:

Joan Grenier-Winther, Washington State University. "Some Considerations in Building a Web-Based Critical Edition: The Example of La Belle dame qui eut mercy."

Rick McDonald, Utah Valley State College. "Manuscript Emendation and Purposeful Ambiguity in Old English Texts: Preserving Multiple Meanings in The Wanderer."

William Whobrey, Yale University. "Digital Browsing: Recreating Old Libraries."

Second Language Acquisition

Suite B
Presiding: Frances M. Sweeney, St. Mary's College of California

Secretary: Sonja Hokanson, Washington State University

Presenters:

Sonja Hokanson, Washington State University. "Psychological and Social SLA Forces Operating in Foreign Language Classrooms."

Cecilia Montes-Alcala, University of California at Santa Barbara. "The Role of Goals in Second Language Acquisition."

Frances M. Sweeney, Saint Mary's College of California. "Teaching through Picasso: Art and Second Language Acquisition."

Elizabeth Fouts-Raya, Saint Anselm College. "Music in the Classroom: The Use of Lyrics for Learning."

Special Topic: Sigma Tau Delta

Suite C
Presiding: Elizabeth Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Presenters:

Christopher Flynn, University of California-Los Angeles. "Anna Seward and the Loss of the Idea of America."

Alexis Lynne Pavenick, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. "A Song of Myself: Narcissism in The Sun Also Rises."

Kelly C. Strom, United States Air Force Academy. "Tragedy, Futility, Suffering, and Romance: Hemingway's Representations of the Spanish Civil War."

Dominik Brueckner, Boise State University. "Brautigan and Kerouac: On the Road to Find America in a Trout Stream."

Charis Craven, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "The Descent Myths of Inanna and Orpheus and Eurydice in Relation to the Mid-Life Transition."

Western and Southwestern Literature

Suite D
Presiding: Sara L. Spurgeon and Jesse Aleman, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico

Presenters:

Janet Kolsky, University of Nevada, Reno. "Nature Turned Queer: Sexual Subtexts in Terry Tempest Williams' Desert Quartet."

Jennifer Lei-Jenkins, University of Arizona. "Hearths and Minds of Conquest: Dreams of the Centaur."

Susan McGinty and Paulette Scott, Eastern Washinton University. "Cultural and Racial Perspectives of Pioneer Women in Fiction and Diaries."

Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica: Letras Femeninas

Suite E
Presiding: Patricia Catoira, University of New Mexico

Secretary: Tina Fernández, Washington State University

Presenters:

Beth Epstein, University of New Mexico. "En busca de la mujer virtuosa en la traducción de la obra de Juan Bocaccio De las mujeres ilustres en romance."

Tina Fernández, Washington State University. "Felipe Trigo: el feminismo dentro y fuera de la ficción."

Kristina Knudsen Galindo, University of New Mexico. "Presentaciones forzadas: el signo de la Malinche durante la conquista y el siglo XX."

English Literature 1800-1899

Suite F
Presiding: Jeanette Shumaker, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley

Secretary: Erin Garrett, University of Denver.

Presenters:

Susanna Ryan, University of Michigan. "Victorian Horsewomanship and the Subject-Object Split."

Adrianne N. Bender, New York University. "Kirsteen's Journey South: Margaret Oliphant and the Rewriting of Scotland's Historical Narratives."

Susan L. Ferguson, Whitman College. "A Most Inappropriate Obtrusion: Charlotte Bronte's Use of French and the Monolingual Convention of the Novel."

Lorie Miller Bale, San Diego State University. "Motherlessness and Male Mothering: Role Reversals in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth."

Children's Literature

Suite G
Presiding: Nancy Prosenjak, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Secretary: Patricia Sterling, Western State College of Colorado

Presenters:

Patricia Sterling, Western State College of Colorado. "The Feminism of Daddy Long-Legs."

Winona Howe, LaSierra University. "Sally Lockhart: A Modern Victorian Heroine."

Holly Blackford, The University of California, Berkeley. "Girl Talk: Narrative Which Structures the Transition to Womanhood."

Ann A. Huse, Washington University. "The Salem Withcraft Trials and Female Adolescence: Three Historical Novels for Young Adult Readers."

10:15-11:45 AM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Ballroom A - La Vista
Dehab Ghebreab, Senior Program Officer for the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program (USIA)

Oral and Traditional Arts

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Topic: "Conversation in Life, Literature, or Criticism."

Presiding:Glenn J. Broadhead, Oklahoma State University

Secretary: Margaret Van Epp Salazar, University of Idaho

Presenters:

Glenn J. Broadhead, Oklahoma State University. "The Rhetoric of Conversation and the Diary of Fanny Burney."

Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University. "Toward an Understanding of Silence and Silencing."

Shelley Salamensky, Harvard University. "Walking the Talk: Buzz, Hype, and the Performance of the Public Sphere."

English Teaching

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Susan McKay, Weber State University

Secretary: Michael Richard Bonin, Gonzaga University

Presenters:

John E. Schwiebert, Weber State University. "Students Writing on-the-Wing: The Pocket Notebook Assignment."

Michael Kearns, University of Texas of the Permian Basin. "Teaching the Lyric Narratively: An Empirical Study."

Susan McKay, Weber State University. "Language Concepts and Misconceptions: Insights from Linguistics for the Teaching of Writing and Literature."

Sally Bishop Shigley, Weber State University. "Connecting Your Course to the Web: Online Resources for the Conventional Classroom."

Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association - I

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Presenters:

Tracy Hudson and Meredith Reynolds, Winthrop University. "Devil on the Doorstep: Investigating the Role of Computers in the Tutorial Session."

Danielle Mahlum, University of Minnesota. "Resituating the Center: Collaboration and OWLs at the University of Minnesota."

Classical Language and Literature: Latin

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

Presenters:

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. "Laughter Which Resonates Throughout the Ages: Medieval Poets Poking Fun."

Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A&M University, "Friederike Kempner: The Nightingale in an Inkwell."

Roger Crockett, Washington and Lee University, "Laughter Amid the Flames: Dürrenmatt's Last and Least-Known Novel, 'Durcheinandertal', as a Tribute to Comedy."

Garrett Welch, West Texas A&M University. "Humor and Satire in Heinrich Böll's Short Stories."

Native American Literature

Suite C
Presiding: Darrell J. Peters, University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Secretary: Linda Lizut Helstern, Southern Illinois University

Presenters:

E.C. Muller, University of Pennsylvania. "The Liberal, Humanistic Attraction to 'Native American' or How to Appropriate Sherman Alexie."

Elvira Pulitano, University of New Mexico. "Travelling the Hyperreality of Indian Simulations: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart."

Antonio G. Idini, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Italy. "The Function of Historical Detection in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer."

Special Topic: Representations of African and Diasporic Women

Suite D
Presiding: Chiji Akoma, Loyola University

Secretary: Miriam C. Gyimah, Le Moyne College

Presenters:

Miriam C. Gyimah, Le Moyne College. "The African Woman's Body as Text in the Works of Chinua Achebe, Festus Iyayi, and Ayi Kwei Armah."

Paula Sato, University of Virginia. "History, Orientalism and Feminine Algerian Identity in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia."

Asian Languages and Literatures

Suite E
Presiding: Holly Shi, Winona State University

Presenters:

Mary Sheldon, Washburn University. "Bourgeois Narrators and Stories of the Oppressed: The Feudal World of Lu Xun."

Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado. "Clash Between Ethnicity and Class in Bienvenido Santos, Chang-Rae Lee, and Gish Jen."

French Literature since 1800 - I

Suite G
Presiding: Vivian Foss, University of Wisconsin

Secretary: Regina M. Buccola, University of Illinois, Chicago

Presenters:

Jeanie Grant Moore, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. "What's A Woman to Do: Open Endings in Measure for Measure, Love's Labour's Lost, and The Winter's Tale."

Dorothea Kehler, San Diego State University. "Cymbeline: Abuses of Enchantment."

Tracey Sedinger, University of Northern Colorado. "What Does the Working Woman Want?: Disguise, Class, and Sexual Differences in Much Ado About Nothing."

1:30-3:00 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: W. Cole Daugherty, Texas A & M University

Secretary: Jon Olson, Pennsylvania State University

Presenters:

W. Cole Daugherty and Molly Johnson, Texas A & M University. "Writing Across the Curriculum in Engineering: A Program that Works."

Jon Olson, Pennsylvania State University. "When the Language They Speak is Not Their Own: How WAC Can Help International GTAs."

Special Topic: Teatro Indígena y Misionero
Sponsored by the Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO)

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Presiding: Susana Hernández-Araico, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Presenters:

Domingo Adame Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. "?Rito, espectáculo o teatralidad prehispanica? Los problemas de la crítica contemporánea."

Blanca G. López Morales, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores en Monterrey. "El problema de la nominación en el teatro de evangelización novohispano: un acercamiento ideológico."

Octavio Rivera, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla. "El teatro misionero del siglo XVI: su puesta en escena."

Luis Carlos Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. "Ideologia y transgresion historica en el teatro doctrinal novohispano."

Special Topic: The Celestial Court: Aspects of Courtly Literature in Medieval Visionary Writing.

Sponsored by International Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Rosalynn Voaden, Arizona State University

Presenters:

Karen Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University. "'Cele espiritel sustance, que semblable est a corporel': Courtly Visions in The Purgatory of St Patrick of Marie de France."

Rosalynn Voaden, Arizona State University. "Drinking from the Golden Cup: Courtly Ritual and Order in the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechtild of Hackeborn."

Stephanie Volf, Arizona State University. "'Monyng and mornyng': Julian of Norwich and the Disease of Love."

Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association - II

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Presenters:

Anne Mullin, Idaho State University. "The Implications of Brain Research for Writing Centers."

Scott Gilbert and Greg Cook, Winthrop University. "The Unkindest Cut of All: Medical Models of the Writing Center."

Kate Mohler, Arizona State University. "Sharing Space, Sharing Dollars: How and Why to Develop Collaborative Tutoring Programs Across Campus."

Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism

Suite A
Presiding: Amelia Rau, University of Colorado at Denver

Presenters:

Kent Casper, University of Colorado at Denver. "It's Alive! Cyborg Culture and Recent Classic Horror Remakes."

Lisa A. Craddock, University of Colorado at Denver. "Unlikely Christ: Grace and Otherness in The Crying Game and Dead Man Walking."

Robin Brooke Pappas, University of Oregon. "The Topology of Pornotopia."

American Literature since 1900

Suite C
Presiding: Kristen Iversen, The Naropa Institute

Secretary: Sandra Gail Teichmann, West Texas A & M University

Presenters:

Gwendolyn A. Ashbaugh, University of Denver. "Caught Between 'Acting' and Acting: John Wilkes Booth."

Dana Curtis, Independent Scholar. "Some Practical Approaches to Teaching Introductory Creative Writing."

Tomas N. Santos, University of Northern Colorado. "Labyrinths of Meaning: Using Parables in the Creative Writing Classroom."

Sarah Wetzel, The Naropa Institute. "Coover and Carter: Postmodern Fiction in the Creative Writing Classroom."

Erotisme et Politique dans la littérature française du vingtième siècle - I

Presiding: Lorie Sauble-Otto, University of Arizona

Secretary: Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame

Presenters:

Marie-Christine McCarthy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. "La femme noire et l'adolescent bronzé."

Theo Garneau-McCarthy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. "Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Barthes, Sartre: Des Maos, des Marx, Hommes femmes, Hommes-femmes, Femmes-hommes."

Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame. "Eros tout-puissant: Anna de Noaïlles et Augustine Bulteau, annonciatrices de Bataille."

Women's Voices in Poetry

Suite E
Presiding: Janet Kaufman, University of Utah

Presenters:

Terry DeHay, Southern Oregon University. "Revisioning Identity: Adrienne Rich's Global Poetics in Atlas for a Difficult World."

Katherine Coles, University of Utah. "Practicing Poetry: The Artist, the Critic, and Questions of Responsibility."

James Brock, Florida Gulf Coast University. "How the Poet Gives a World All Her Own: Eavan Boland's Search for an Ethical Identity."

Literary Criticism

Suite F
Presiding: Karen Alexander, Independent Scholar

Presenters:

Parmita Kapadia, Fort Lewis College. "Post-Colonial Hopes and Colonialist Tendencies: Silences and Absences in Contemporary Criticism."

Richard Heppner, Tufts University. "T.S.Eliot and the Subject of Criticism."

Scott Taylor, Brigham Young University. "Oprah's Canon as Cultural Reconstruction."

Special Topic: British Comedy

Suite G
Presiding: Elsie Galbreath Haley, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Presenting:

P. Maxine Garcia, Washington State University. "'How dare you ask us to carry things for you?': The Comedic Function of Mr. Munder and Mrs. Pentreath in Collins' The Dead Secret."

Julie Frank, Washington State University. "Punch Magazine and the Angel of the House."

3:15-4:45 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presenters:

J. Scott Payne, Washington State University

Julie Kogan, Washington State University

Foreign Language Teaching

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Presiding: Teresa Reber, University of Arizona

Presenters:

Thomas J. Mathews, Weber State University. "Scenarios for Interactive Group Participation: Using ‘Strategic Interaction' to Enhance Proficiency."

Evelyn Scanlon Rogers, The Air Force Academy. "The Effects of Collaborative, Computer-Mediated Communication Vs. Non-Collaborative, Writing Skills Practice on L2 Writing."

Rodney L. Bransdorfer, Central Washington University. "Classroom Activities With Purpose: Task-Based Instruction for the Rest of Us."

Teresa Reber, University of Arizona. "Effective Teaching Behaviors as Perceived by Foreign Language Teachers."

Special Event: Graduate Student Forum

"'All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go': Alternative Career Tracks for English and Foreign Language Graduates."

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Erin McConomy, University of Victoria

Presenters:

Robin Jones, Director of the Southwest Literary Center of Recursos and member of faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)

Jonathan Price, Senior Partner, The Communication Circle (Albuquerque)

Writing Across the Curriculum - VI: Assessment

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Rick Leahy, Boise State University

Presenters:

Edward Kearns, University of Northern Colorado. "Completing the Process Revolution: A Study of Grading Criteria Across the Curriculum."

Rick Leahy, Boise State University. "Assessing a Writing Fellows Program."

Fiona Glade, Washington State University. "The Effect of a WAC Program on Faculty."

The Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths

Suite A
Presiding: Thomas Du Bose, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Presenters:

Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota. "`Sibyls . . . in their prophetic fury': A Survey of Sibyls in Art."

Elizabeth Holtze, Metropolitan State College of Denver. "`Sibyls . . . in their prophetic fury': A Survey of Sibyls in Literature."

Susan Scaff, San Jose State University, "The Sacred and the Profane in Lagerkvist's The Sibyl: Greek Myth and the Wandering Jew."

Vivian Foss, University of Wisconsin. "Penelope's Song: Reinterpretations of The Odyssey in Louise Gluck's Meadowlands and Robert Hellenga's The Fall of the Sparrow."

German Literature since 1900 - I

Suite B
Presiding: Aminia M. Brueggemann, Old Dominion University

Secretary: Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana

Presenters:

Duncan Smith, Brown University. "Sebald's Beetle and die fuerchterliche Wende der Dinge."

Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona. "Power, Violence, and Subjectivity: Herta Mueller's Herztier."

Johannes F. Evelein, Trinity College. "Lion Feuchtwanger's Wartesaal-Trilogie and Theodor Adorno's Sociology of Music: A Comparative Analysis."

Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College. "For Cross-Cultural Understanding: Barbara Frischmuth as Mediator of Turkish Culture in Her Novels Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne and Die Schrift des Freundes."

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Caucus

Suite C
Presiding: Linda Bannister, Loyola Marymount University

Secretary: Tara Prince-Hughes, Pierce College

Presenters:

MJ Robinson, New York University. "Incongruous Desires and Underlying Seriousness: The Poetics of Camp in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock."

David William Foster, Arizona State University. "Queer Theater and Guillermo Reyes's Deporting The Divas."

Petra Dierkes-Thrun, University of Pittsburgh. "Performing Desire: The Stage as Utopia in Suri Krishnamma's A Man of No Importance."

English Eighteenth-Century Literature II: Representing Women

Suite D
Presiding: Tiffany Potter, University of British Columbia

Secretary: Tom Pfister, Idaho State University

Presenters:

Tiffany Potter, University of British Columbia. "Voices of Feminized Sexuality: Eliza Haywood, Phone Sex, and Gendered Voice."

Arianne Burford, Washington State University. "Fanny Burney's Evelina and Implications of the Re-production of Ruling Class Ideologies: A Feminist Critique."

Ilse Schrynemakers, Fordham University. "Moll Flanders and her Journey Toward Redemption."

Special Topic: American Indian Literature - II: On the Edge of the Twenty-First Century

Suite E
Presiding: William Willard, Washington State University

Presenters:

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Senior Editor, Wicazo Sa Review (Native American Studies journal published by University of of Minnesota Press) "Means and End: Attempts to Discredit the Twentieth-Century Rise of the Voice of Native America."

Sidner Larson, University of Oregon. "American Indians, Authenticity, and the Future."

William Willard, Washington State University. "For We Are The Children of the Stars: A Satirical Novel Playing Out Against the End of the 20th Century and Edge of the 21st Century Federal Indian Politics."

Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature - II

Suite G
Presiding: Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University

Presenters:

Graciela García, University of Maryland. "La mujer en su escritura: hacia un enfoque cultural."

Francisco Manzo Robledo, Washington State University. "The Faces of Sor Juana: The General Failure of the Dwindling Activity of Literary Criticism."

Héctor Mario Cavallari, Mills College. "Juana de Ibarbourou: escritura y espectacularidad."

Stella Moreno, Central Washington State University. "La poesía de Sandra Cisneros y Ana Castillo: vuelta a los orígenes."

4:45-5:45 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Atrium
Welcome comments by Constance Mierendorf, Dean of Instruction,
Santa Fe Community College

Special Event: Graduate Student Happy Hour

Location TBA in Registration Area

Special Event: GLB Caucus Happy Hour

Location TBA in Registration Area

6:00 - 7:30 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Grand Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Susana Hernández-Araico
California Polytechnic Institute

"Colonial and Indigenous Theatre in Spain's American Viceroyalties:
A Renaissance and Baroque Symbiotic Acculturation."

8:00 - 9:00 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Kristen Iversen (The Naropa Institute) speaking and answering questions about her book,
Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth

Suite A

9:00-11:00 PM ~ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

Smoke Signals

Ballroom A - La Vista

TOP

7:00-8:30 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

7:00-10:00 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

Come and get information on the features of the Members Only level of the RMMLA web site, on publishing in the Rocky Mountain Review & E-Review, on the new RMMLA Job List, and on other members benefits.

Ballroom A - La Vista

Women's Caucus Breakfast

Women's Caucus Breakfast (dutch-treat at local bakery-café)
To make reservations and arrange transportation, contact local coordinator at Margaret Willen

8:30-10:00 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Presiding: Gaurav Desai, Tulane University

Presenters:

Arnab Chakladar, University of Southern California. "Reading Globally, Teaching Locally: Indian Literature in the Western Academy."

Sura Rath, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. "The Postcolonial Divide(s): Shapes and Colors of Postcolonial Studies in India."

Faith Smith, Brandeis University. "The Backward Turn?: Speaking from the Archives."

Supriya Nair, Tulane University. "Postcolonial Parameters: The Overpromise of Postcolonial Theory."

Ethnic Literature

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Joyce Lausch, Arizona State University

Secretary: Renae Bredin, California State University, Fullerton

Presenters:

Dean Franco, University of Southern California. "Re-placing the Border in Ethnic American Literature."

Julian Levinson, Columbia University. "'My Private Orthodoxy': Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism."

Arlene Rodríguez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "Creating a Hybrid Nationalism: Rosario Ferre's The House on the Lagoon."

Margaret Urie, University of Nevada. "'Double Consciousness' and the Visual Artists of the Harlem Renaissance."

Special Topic:Cybertextos - Online Scholarly Editions

Suite A
Presenter: Miguel Garci-Gomez, Duke University

The presentation will focus on the creation, use, and usefulness of web-based, interactive scholarly editions.

Special Topic: Literary Adaptation

Suite B
Presiding: Georgia Gurrieri, Eastern Washington University

Presenters:

Helynne Hansen, Western State College Of Colorado. "Literary Naturalism on Film: Emile Zola's Germinal."

Georgia Gurrieri, Eastern Washington University. "Author or Auteur?: New and Old Approaches to Film Adaptation."

Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean

Suite D
Presiding: Duncan Smith, Brown University

Secretary: Aminia M. Brueggemann, Old Dominion University

Presenters:

Heide Witthoeft, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. "Spiegel und weibliche Identität: Vier Rilke-Gedichte."

Marilya Veteto-Conrad, Northern Arizona University. "From Canetti to Kumar: Gerette und gespitzte Zungen!"

Eva Szallay, Weber University. "Narrative Strategy, Resistance, and the (De)Construction of Normed Femininity in the Fiction of Kaschnitz, Bachmann and Wolf."

Daniel Reynolds, Grinnell College, "German Nationhood and the Literary Wall."

Spanish American Literature

Suite E
Presiding: Victoria Defferding, George Fox University

Presenters:

Patricia Catoira, University of New Mexico. "Espejo de Paciencia: Reflejos de la patria criolla."

George Cabello-Castellet, Portland State University. "Creacion astistica y deseo en Los Pasos perdidos de Carpentier."

Pilar V. Rotella, Chapman University. "Tales of the Undead: Pedro Parama and Beloved."

English Seventeenth-Century Literature

Suite F
Presiding: Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College

Secretary: Paulette Scott, Eastern Washington University

Presenters:

Andrew Cantrell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "'Thy aid to my advent'rous song': Inspiration, Imagination, and Poetic Authority in Paradise Lost."

Kenneth Graham, New Mexico State University. "George Herbert's Disciplinary Kingdoms."

Elizabeth Gruber, University of Nevada, Reno. "Co(n)founding Categories: Gender, Race, and the Demonization of Difference in Othello and Oroonoko."

Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Female Eloquence, Male Anxiety, and Early Modern English Handfasting."

Classical Language and Literature: Greek

10:15-11:45 AM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

Women and Literature

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Guest Speaker: Michael Pavel, Washington State University
and member of the Skokomish Indian Nation

"Outreach to Native American Youth and Their Communities"

Teaching English Composition

Ballroom D - La Loma
Presiding: Jane Carducci, Winona State University

Presenters:

Lynn Briggs, Eastern Washington University. "Doing Dishes in a University Writing Class: 'Radical Presence,' Grades, and Social Relationships."

Christy Friend, University of South Carolina. "Striking a Difference Between Civility and Critique: Rhetorical Ethics and the First-Year Writing Classroom."

Wendy Smith, San Diego Miramar College and Cynthia Dudley, San Diego State University. "Reconcilable Differences? Critical Thinking and Formulaic Writing."

Rita Hendin, Arizona State University. "Transgressing the Lens of 'Current/Traditional' in Honors First-Year Composition Students: Creating an Email Dialogue Forum between Two 'Traditional' Classrooms that Encourages 'Revolution.'"

Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Suite B
Presiding: Marc A. Benson, Royal Military College of Canada

Presenters:

Marc A. Benson, Royal Military College of Canada. "La quête érotique d'Yves Thériault."

Keith Reader and Rachel Edwards, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U. K., and Elaine Meyer, University of Sunderland, UK. "Eros and Politics in the Case of the Papin Sisters."

Special Topic: Saving/Selling the Humanities: Making English More Marketable at the University of Texas at Arlington

Suite C
Presiding: Philip Cohen, University of Texas at Arlington

Presenters:

Philip Cohen, University of Texas at Arlington. "Dancing with the Devil: Selling English Without Selling It Out."

Beth Kolko, University of Texas at Arlington. "New Media, Old Story: The Why and How of Making English Majors High Tech Employees."

Tom Ryan, University of Texas at Arlington. "Perils and Possibilities: Using Computers in a Literature Classroom."

Problems of Translation from Foreign Languages

Suite D
Presiding: Carvel DeBussy, University of the District of Columbia

Secretary: Christiane Seiler, Emerita, Indiana University

Presenters:

Bonnie Frederick, Washington State University. "Cybertranslations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Carvel DeBussy, University of the District of Columbia. "Variations in Style and Vocabulary in Translating from Different Genres."

Christiane Seiler, Emerita, Indiana University. "Six Steps Towards Successful Literary Translation: Examples of Poetry."

Comparative Literature

Suite E
Presiding: Blair Oliver, Front Range Community College

Presenters:

Alexandra H. Olsen, University of Denver. "Reading Literary Translations Comparatively: The Importance of Interpretive Translations."

Peter Soliunas, Independent Scholar. "The Technical Isolation of Dialogue: Raymond Carver and James Joyce."

Wendy Bergoffen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Jewish Immigrant Narratives of the Americas: Alberto Gerchunoff's The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas."

Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College. "The Uses and Abuses of Realism: Nietzsche, Howells, and Memory."

German Literature Before 1900

Suite G
Presiding: Martha Dana Rust, University of California at Berkeley

Presenters:

Martha Dana Rust, University of California at Berkeley. "Odd Texts and Marginal Subjects: Rosiphelee, Ulysses, and Resistance to 'Honeste Love' in Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.126."

Shona Harasin-Harrison, University of Victoria. "Fracturing the Spectacle: Body Politics and The Wife of Bath."

Geoffrey Koziol, University of California at Berkeley. "A father, his son, and the smudge on the parchment: can a 10th-century diploma speak of hope, love, and pride?"

12:00-1:15 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

Registration Required

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Guest Speaker: Guest Speaker: Beverlee McClure, President, Clovis Community College (NM)

Topic: "Sweeping Up the Glass: Women in Administration"

1:30-3:00 PM ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

Ballroom A - La Vista
Presiding: Anne Green, Carnegie Mellon University

Secretary: Shannon Hebel, Georgetown University

Presenters:

Francesco Scordato, Berry College. "Web Based Instruction: A Momentary Trend or the Future of Computer Implementation in Foreign Languages."

Wiebke Strehl, University of South Carolina. "Using the Internet for Intermediate Level German Language Instruction."

Shannon Hebel, Georgetown University. "To make one's homework?: The Uses and Abuses of On-line Dictionaries in Foreign Language Instruction."

John Bennion, Brigham Young University. "Hardy's Wessex: Researching and Creating a Web Site."

Candace Collins and Patricia Murphy, Arizona State University. "Arizona State University's Electronic Classroom Program: Transitioning from the Traditional to the Computer- Mediated Classroom."

Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones

Ballroom B - La Cumbre
Presiding: Mariana Ionescu, Fort Hays State University

Secretary: Frederick Kluck, University of Texas at El Paso

Presenters:

Sandra Beyer, The University of Texas at El Paso. "Monique Proulx: A Contemporary Search for Gender Role Definition."

Frederick Kluck, The University of Texas at El Paso. "Writers and Their Fathers: Portraits of Patriarchs in the Works of Gabrielle Roy and Michel Tremblay."

Mariana Ionescu, Fort Hays State University. "Ecriture de la folie, folie de l'écriture dans plusieurs romans français et francophones."

Women's Caucus Seminar

Ballroom C - La Sierra
Topic: "Women in Administration."

Moderator: Margaret Willen , Eastern New Mexico University

Panelists:

Patrice Caldwell,Executive Director of Planning and Analysis, Eastern New Mexico University

Judy Elsley, Freshman Year Co-coordinator, Weber State University

Augustina Lopez Snideman, Chair of Languages Department, Santa Fe Community College

Theory and Research in Technical and Professional Communication