2001 Program Information Proofs
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S01 African American Literature
Topic: Reconstructing the Past
Chair: Linda Krumholz, Denison Univ.
Secretary: Jeni McAnally, Univ. of Iowa
“What is History: Negotiating the Boundary Between History and Fiction in Toni Morrison's Beloved,” by Karla Simcikova, Drew Univ.
“'Been-to' Blues: Notions of Pan-Africanism in African American Travel Narratives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century,” by Kenyatta Albeny, Univ. of Maryland/College Park
“Embodies Memories, Sharable Stories: The Legacies of Slavery as a Problem of Representation,” by Stefanie Sievers, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
“'This is my tale': Revising Narratives of Enslavement,” by Jennifer Barker, Indiana Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Krumholz-Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S02 American Literature I: Literature Before 1870
Topic: AngloAmerican Literature
Chair: David Slater, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Secretary: Susan L. Field, New Mexico Technical Univ.
“Sites/ 'Sights Undimmed by Custom,' ” by Les Harrison, Texas A&M Univ.
“Margaret Fuller: A Career in Translation,” by Charles Wharram, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Beyond Lady Bountiful: Gaskell, Davis, and Transatlantic Women's Reform Writing,” by Whitney Womack, Miami Univ. of Ohio
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Slater-Illustrated Texts
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S03 American Literature II: Literature After 1870
Topic: American Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Traditions and New Directions
Chair: Elizabeth Rich, Saginaw Valley State Univ.
Secretary: Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ.
“'Loving Someone You Don't Know': Conceptions of 'Sexy' in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies,” by Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ.
“Trickster Figures in Alice Walker's The Color Purple,” by Barbara M. Ragan, Mount Vernon Nazarene College
“David Sedaris and the Post-Beat Confessional Road Trip Novel,” by Laurie MacDiarmid, Saint Norbert College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Hewitt sessions
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: American Lit. I, Gender Studies: Male
S04 Applied Linguistics
Topic: Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching
Chair: Joyce Milambiling, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Secretary: Maggie Broner, Saint Olaf College
“Native Spanish-Speakers' Attitudes Toward an English Speaker's Non-Native Spanish Pronunciation,” by Robert Strong, Brigham Young Univ.
“Developing Sociopragmatic Awareness Through Speech Acts,” by Jean Wu, Univ. of Oregon/Eugene
“Addressing Language Variation in French: A Topics Course on Quebec,” by Sharon Shelly, The College of Wooster
“What I Did Not Know, But Needed to Know, as a Learner of English,” by Kashama Mulamba, Olivet Nazarene Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, VCR, cassette player
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Linguistics
S05 Bibliography and Textual Research
Topic: The Regulation of Print: 1557-1700
Chair: Terri Bourus, Indiana Univ./Kokomo
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“NEED TITLE,” by William Proctor Williams, Univ. of Akron
“So Busy and Stirring a Subject: Elizabethan Satirist's and the 1599 Bishop's Ban,” by Todd Butler, Univ. of Tennessee/Martin
“NEED TITLE,” by NEED AUTHOR AND AFFILIATION
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S06 Canadian Literature
Topic: The New and Old Atwood: A Post-Booker Prize Reassessment
Chair: Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Killing Them Softly: Building the Blind Assassin,” by Linda Carro, Humboldt State Univ., and Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon Univ.
Discussant: Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point
“'I am a model prisoner': Alias Grace and Hysterical Performances,” by Lynda Hall, Univ. of Calgary
Discussant: Nancy Knowles, Eastern Oregon Univ.
“Canadian Characters at King Arthur's Court: Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin and the Arthurian Legends,” by Sarah Aguiar, Murray State Univ.
Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point
“The Use and Abuse of Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle,” by Carol Fadda, Purdue Univ.
Discussant: Linda Carro, Humboldt State Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, VCR
Time Requested: late Friday morning or early Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: East by Northwest
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S07 Children's Literature
Topic: Children's Literature in Transition: Media, Languages and Generations
Chair: Marnie K. Jorenby, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Too Far/Not Far Enough: Japanese Children's Literature into English,” by Marnie K. Jorenby, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“Translating the Shrew: Introducing Young Audiences to Shakespeare's Kate,” by John McCombe, Univ. of Ohio/Dayton
“Live the Difference! Toward an E-Book Aesthetic,” by Maryjanice Davidson, independent scholar
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Nov. 3, back-to-back with YA Lit.
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Young Adult Lit.
S08 Comparative Literature
Topic: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Teaching
Chair: Ronald W. Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Multicultural and Global Approaches to Teaching Writing: A Work in Progress, ” by Maryanne Felter, Cayuga Community College
“Art in/and Literature: An Examination of Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism as Reflected in the Works of Zola, Apollinaire and Breton,” by Matthew A. Hilton-Watson, Univ. of Michigan/Flint
“From Basic Writing to Rhetoric: New Directions in Composition Curriculum,” by Mary Juzwik, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“Kafka in Latin America and Columbus in Japan: Explorations in Collaborative Teaching,” by Marjorie E. Rhine, Univ. of Wisconsin/Whitewater
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj., overhead
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S09 A,B &C Computer Research I, II & III
Topic: Technology and Its Impact on the Humanities: Theoretical, Evaluative, and Practical Concerns
Chair: Krista Homicz, Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbor
Secretary: Deborah Brown, Univ. of Central Oklahoma
Subtopic: At-Risk Students and Technologies of Literacy: Experience, Rights, and Assessment
“Computer Use Among First-Generation Students at Oakland University: Practical Concerns for Integrating Technology in the Writing Classroom,” by Marshall Kitchens, Oakland Univ.
“Students' Right to Their Own Literacies: Theoretical Concerns for Detroit Students in Project 350 (TRIO: Student Support Services),” by Corrine Calice, Wayne State Univ.
“Assessment and Web-Based Projects at the University of Michigan-Dearborn: Evaluative Issues Regarding Basic Writers,” by Amy K.M. Hawkins, Columbia College/Chicago
Discussant: Krista Homicz, Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbor
Subtopic: Machines that Make Us Smart: Pedagogy and Assessment that Increases Students' Rhetorical and Thinking Abilities
“The Discourse of Computer-Mediated Communication: Teaching Humanities Students Online Writing,” by Kevin Eric De Pew, Purdue Univ.
“Visual Literacy, the Digital Portfolio, and Computer-Mediated Assessment: Strategies to Fight Functional Illiteracy,” by Rich Rice, Ball State Univ.
“Machines that Help Students Write and Think,” by Daniel J. Weinstein, Dakota State Univ.
“Writing Online: Using the Web with OLE and Speech Recognition,” by Thomas Chase, Univ. of Regina
Discussant: Deborah Brown, Univ. of Central Oklahoma
Subtopic: Professional Concerns for the Future of Humanities and Teaching
“Writing and Reading Practices in the New Millennium: In Limbo Between Print and Digital Culture,” by Bridget Fahey Reutenik, Purdue Univ.
“When Worlds Collide: Teacher Education and Technology Standards,” by David Elias, Eastern Kentucky Univ., and Deborah Brown, Univ. of Central Oklahoma
“'Haven't we said this before?' What the History of Correspondence Courses Teaches Us About the Promises and Problems of Online Distance Education Courses,” by Steven D. Krause, Eastern Michigan Univ.
Discussant: Krista Homicz, Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbor
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead proj.
Time Requested: Friday, back-to-back sessions
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S10 A & B Creative Writing I & II
Topic: Fiction & Poetry
Chair: Rhonda Pettit, Univ. of Cincinnati/Raymond Walters College
Secretary: Antonio Vallone, Penn State Univ./Du Bois
Poetry
Brent Royster, Bowling Green, Ohio
April Lindner, Saint Joseph's Univ.
Martin Kich, Wright State Univ./Lake Campus
Mitchell D. Raney, Bowling Green, Ohio
Discussant: NONE
“Make Believe” (creative nonfiction), by Louise Detwiler, Butler Univ.
“In Memory of Those Who've Checked Out” (novel excerpt), by Michael Roos, Univ. of Cincinnati/Raymond Walters College
“One November Day in Newport” (novel excerpt), by Gary Walton, Northern Kentucky Univ.
“Evgenia” (novel excerpt), by Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Chicago, Illinois
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Fri., 2:15-5:30p
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S11 A & B Drama I & II
Chair: Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican College
Secretary: Craig N. Owens, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
Topic: The Past is the Present, Isn't It?
“Fifth-Century Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Brendan Kennelly's Greek Tragedies,” by John E. O'Connor, Fairmont State College
"Westernizing Shakespeare: Cheryl West's Twelfth Night, Play On,” by Pamela Monaco, Mississippi Valley State Univ.
“Translating Crime into Music: Ullian's and Nassif's Eliot Ness in Cleveland,” by Mary Jo Lodge, Central Michigan Univ.
“Staging the Brain: John Mighton's Possible Worlds,” by Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican College
Discussant: NONE
Topic: Successfully New
“African-Americans and the 1980s: August Wilson's King Hedley II,” by Michael Flaherty, Triton College
“I'm Compelled to Ask You Questions: Apocalyptic Vaudeville in Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes,” by Christopher Wixson, SUNY-Geneseo
“Progressively Dying in Drama: Margaret Edson's Wit,” by Jim Williams, Stephen F. Austin State Univ.
“A White Painting with White Stripes: The Phenomenology of Yasmina Reza's Art, “by Donald P. Gagnon, Univ. of South Florida
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Nov. 1 or 2
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Other sessions dealing with drama
S12 English I: English Literature Before 1800
Topic: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy
Chair: Mary R. Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point
Secretary: Loren Blinde, Kansas State Univ.
“Shakespeare at the Classroom Door,” by Gina Hausknecht, Coe College
“'Write you noe more': Mary Wroth and the State of Early-Modern Women's Writing in Academe,” by Laura Blankenship, Univ. of Arkansas
“'To the Highth of this great Argument': The Plummet of Postmodern Undergraduates from Milton's Early Modern Epic and its Prevention,” by Eric Le May, Northwestern Univ.
Discussant: Mary R. Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point, and Will West, Univ. of Colorado
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Fri. afternoon or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Shakespeare and Shakespearean Crit.
S13 A & B English II: English Literature 1800-1900 I & II
Topic: Beyond Newgate: Critical Perspectives on Crime in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chair: Joann Hentsch Fisher, Mount Union College
Secretary: Christina Thaut, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln
Session I
“'Last Lamentations' and the Politics of Crime in Victorian Street Ballads,” by Ellen O'Brien, Roosevelt Univ.
“Passion, Cruelty, and Pride: Crime in Three Dickens Novels,” by Anita Rose, Concord College
“Transgression, Criminality, and the Grotesque in Arthur Morrison's A Child of the Jago,” by Kevin R. Swafford, Bradley Univ.
"The Problem of the Decadent Detective: Understanding Sherlock Holmes in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Fin-de-Siècle Decadence," by Darcie D. Rives, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln
Discussant: Jennifer Liethen Kunka, Francis Marion Univ.
Session II
“Pickwick Against the Pirates: Crimes of Reading, 1830-1850,” by John E. Luebering, Univ. of Chicago
“Death as Literary Performance: Dickens and Thackeray Before the Scaffold,” by Mario Ortiz-Robles, Columbia Univ.
“Literal Lunacy: Language, Law, and the Libretti of W.S. Gilbert,” by Guy M. Branum, Esq., independent scholar
“Publishing the Law: Domestic Ideology and Sensation Villainy in Braddon and Cobbe,” by Sherri C. Smith, Marshall Univ.
Discussant: Holly J. McBee, Purdue Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: Overhead proj.
Time Requested: Sat. morning or Fri. afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Session I: Swafford-Transcoding Class; Session II: Guy Branum-Canadian Lit.
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Gender Studies
S14 English III: English Literature After 1900
Topic: The Post-Heroic Ideal in Late-Twentieth-Century British Fiction: Promoting Androgynous Equilibrium in Protagonists
Chair: Robert K. Phillips, Lander Univ.
Secretary: Jeff Roessner, Mercyhurst College
“Inverting Family Values in Angela Carter's Wise Children,” by Jeff Roessner, Mercyhurst College
“Balancing anima and animus in Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight,” by Robert K. Phillips, Lander Univ.
Discussant: Don S. Lawson, Lander Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S15 Film Studies
Topic: Women Filmmakers and Noir
Chair: Kellie Bean, Marshall Univ.
Secretary: Judith Roof, Michigan State Univ.
“Glamorous Vamps and Tainted Tramps: Dorothy Arzner Rewrites the French Harlot,” by Courtney Sullivan, Univ. of Texas/Austin
“Desperately Seeking Noir,” by Dennis Allen, West Virginia Univ.
“Boys Don't Cry: Ida Lupino's The Hitchhiker,” by Kellie Bean, Marshall Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: 10:15, 12:30, or 2:15
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Roof sessions
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S16 French I
Topic: Multimedia Approaches to Literature and Culture
Chair: Roland Racevskis, Univ. of Iowa
Secretary: Mary Skemp, Georgetown College
“Cultural Access through Multimedia and its Links to Literature,” by Sarah Glasco, Univ. of North Carolina
“(Image)ning France: Creating a Virtual Tour de France Using the Internet,” by Dorothy E. Diehl, Saint Mary's Univ.
“Multimedia Views on French Classicism,” by Roland Racevskis, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: Mary Skemp, Georgetown College
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: overhead, VCR, computer display with Internet connection
Time Requested: early afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: French II, French III, International Francophone Studies
S17 French II
Topic: Problems of the Postcolonial
Chair: Meaghan Emery, Ohio State Univ.
Secretary: Juliette Cherbuliez, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Effects of the Colonial School on Child's Play in Togo: Postcolonial Ramifications,” by Mary Anne Harsh, Ohio State Univ.
Discussant: Julia Praud, Ohio State Univ.
“De l'exode rural à l'exode continental: même habitus,” by Oniankpo Akindjo, Ohio State Univ.
Discussant: Rohini Bannerjee, Univ. of Western Ontario
“Formation, Deformation, and Reconstitution of Female Identity in Francophone Caribbean Literature,” by April Knutson, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: Julia Praud, Ohio State Univ.
“Over My Dead Body: The Postcolonial Problem of Law in South Africa,” by Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Northwestern Univ.
Discussant: Rohini Bannerjee, Univ. of Western Ontario
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: same day as French II (or on a consecutive day)
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Cherbuliez sessions
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: French II
S18 A & B French III: Contemporary Issues in French Studies I & II
Topic: Constructions of Identity in French and Francophone Cinema
Chair: Kristine Butler, Univ. of Wisconsin/River Falls, and Janette Bayles, Utah State Univ.
Secretary: Sarah Buchanan, Univ. of Minnesota/Morris
Session I
Chair: Kristine Butler, Univ. of Wisconsin/River Falls
“Cinematic Construction of African Immigrant Identities in France,” by Kristen Barnes, Duke Univ.
“The Contradictions of Working-Class Masculinity: Jean Gabin's 1930s Star Persona,” by Janette Bayles, Utah State Univ.
“The Life and Death of Mina Tannenbaum,” by Meaghan Emery, Ohio State Univ.
“'Bonjour la France': Unité ou exclusion dans Chacun cherche son chat et Western,” by Philippe Chavasse, Southern Illinois Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Session II
Chair: Janette Bayles, Utah State Univ.
“Quartier Mozart, or Molière Made in Africa,” by Thérèse Vitrant O'Connell, Jacksonville Univ.
“Accusing French Identity,” by Susan S. Hennessy, Missouri Western State College
“Place, Void, and Identity in Emmanuel Finkiel's Voyages,” by Matthew Senior, Univ. of Minnesota/Morris
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VCR
Time Requested: Fri. afternoon, back-to-back
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Session I: Butler-Art, Literature and Technology; Emery-French II
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: each other
S19 Gender Studies: Male
Topic: Representations of Masculinity in Criminal Contexts
Chair: Blake Westerlund, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
Secretary: Terrence Hartnett, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Mamet's Epistemology of the Con Game: Masculinity, Capital, and Crime,” by Terence Hartnett, Indiana Univ.
“Misogyny and Savage Masculinity: Chester Hine, The Primitive, and Black Criminality,” by David Jones, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
“The Color of the Fu Manchu: Sax Rohmer and the Criminalization of Chinese Masculinity” by David Shih, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
“Sodajerk: The Criminal Artistry and Masculinity of Bill Johnson in the Film Pleasantville,” by Blake Westerlund, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: VCR
Time Requested: Nov. 2, early morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Westerlund-Science and Lit.
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: sessions with similar topics
S20 History of Literary Reception
Topic: Literary Reception as Cultural Studies
Chair: Charlotte Templin, Univ. of Indianapolis
Secretary: Kimberly Nance, Illinois State Univ.
“Gender and Genre in Sara Paretsky's and Mickey Spillane's Detective Fiction,” by Philip Goldstein, Univ. of Delaware
“The Literary Reception of American Science Fiction, 1970-2000,” by Darren Harris-Fain, Shawnee State Univ.
“He's Not Funny Anymore: Poe's Fiction, German Horrors and Antebellum Reception,” by James Machor, Kansas State Univ.
“The Rise of the Novel/Fairy Tale Hybrid and the Cultural Shift in Reception and Perceptions of Literary Innovation in Seventeenth-Century France,” by Allison Stedman, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S21 A, B, & C Illustrated Texts I, II, & III
Chair: Fern Kory, Eastern Illinois Univ.
Secretary: Lynn A. Casmier-Paz, Univ. of Central Florida
Session I
Topic: Illustration and Re-Illustration in Children's Literature
Chair: Fern Kory, Eastern Illinois Univ.
“Picturing Wonderland: Alice's Illustrators Reflect Perceptions of Childhood, 1865-2000,” by Melanie Kimball, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
“Refining the Fine Art of Classic Children's Illustrations,” by E. Suzanne Owens, Lorain County Community College
“Picturing Power: Illustrating Children and Change in St. Nicholas Magazine,” by Andrea McKenzie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Illustrating Mother Goose: Symmetrical Diagrammatic Relations in Interart Discourse,” by Kent Hooper, Univ. of Puget Sound
Discussant: NONE
Session II
Topic: Illustration and Authority
Chair: Kent Hooper, Univ. of Puget Sound
“Relinquishing the Visual: Illustration and Authorship in The House of Mirth,” by Dave Slater, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Bartheleme's Anti-Authorial Move: Collage and (De)creation,” by Denise Almeida Silva, Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano
“Textual and Iconic Representations of Character in Marie-Claire Blais' A Season in the Life of Emmanuel,” by Kirsty Bell, Univ. of Toronto
“Alasdair Gray's Poor Things, Illustrations Giving Life to Dead Flesh,” by John Panza, Cuyahoga Community College/Eastern Campus
Discussant: NONE
Session III
Topic: Illustration and Identity
Chair: Lynn A. Casmier-Paz, Univ. of Central Florida
“Illustrating the Animal/Human in Robinson Crusoe,” by Rebecca Weaver, Univ. of Kentucky
“Representing England/Representing the Crimea: Popular Visions of Mary Seacole,” by Deirdre McMahon, Univ. of Iowa
“A Lost Art: Graphic Representation in Alicia Kozameh's Steps Under Water,” by Janis Breckenridge, Univ. of Chicago
“The Fashion Plates of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1850-1853,” by Thomas Lilly, Emory Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slid proj, overhead
Time Requested: back-to-back, NOT Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Kory-Children's Lit.; Slater-American Lit. I; Breckenridge-Women in Lit.
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S22 International Francophone Studies
Topic: Negotiating Borders
Chair: Deirdre Bucher Heistad, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Secretary: Bernadette A. Donohoe, Univ. of Michigan/Dearborn
“The Poetics of Transgression and Recuperation in the Works of Malika Mokeddem,” by Deirdre Bucher Heistad, Univ. of Northern Iowa
“Représentations d'Héloise dans Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel de Marie-Claire Blais,” by Elizabeth Appleby, The Ohio State Univ.
“Disaster and the Judeo-Berbes Refusal in Mouloud Mammeri and Bouganim Ami,” by Eleanor Kaufman, Univ. of Virginia
“La Traduction et l'alienation: Leila Sebbar et son chinois vert d'Afrique,” by Rita Faulkner, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: overhead
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Heistad-CIEF
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: French II, French III, Indochinese Francophone
S23 Irish Studies
Topic: Epistemology of the (Closeted) Irish
Chair: Victor Mendoza, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
Secretary: Mary Trotter, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ./Indianapolis
"Kathleen with a 'K': Recirculation and the Irish Revival in 'A Mother,'” by Marie Gillombardo, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
“'What did yis do to him?': Masculinity and Irishness in the Fiction of Roddy Doyle,” by Jamie Ebersole, Pennsylvania State Univ.
“Doyle: The Masculinity Within the Family/Nation,” by Ammie Harrison, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
“The Epistemology of Closetedness in the Contemporary Irish (Homosexual) Novel,” by Jennifer Jeffers, Cleveland State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: mid-day on Thursday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S24 Italian
Topic: Decadence/Difference/Transcendence
Chair: Rebecca Messbarger, Washington Univ.
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
"Decadent Representations, Technological Variations: The 'fatal woman' and the 'superman' in d'Annunzio's Forse che sì forse che no,'” by Michael Syrimis, Univ. of Chicago
“Difference, Identity and Verbal Representation: Systems Theory in Calvin's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Cosmicomics, T zero,” by James B. Jasmin, Texas Tech Univ.
“Pasolini's Jesus Trilogy and the Transcendental Penis,” by Van Watson, Univ. of Arizona, Tuscan
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: overhead, VCR
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Executive Committee meeting on Thursday
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Film Studies
S25 Linguistics
Topic: Technology and Language Acquisition
Chair: Daren Snider, Skidmore College
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“How Should I Know if My Web-Based Language Exercises Are Effective?” by Peter Yang, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“The Application of Software and the WWW as Innovative Tools for Language Acquisition,” by Franz-Joseph Wehage, Muskingum College
“Facilitating Language and Culture Acquisition Using Distance Education,” by Daren Snider, Univ. of Nebraska/Kearney
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Internet, multimedia PC, projector
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Sessions pertaining to technology
S26 Literary Criticism and Theory
Topic: Interpretation in the Writing Classroom
Chair: Mickey Hess, Indiana Univ. Southeast
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Teachers as Readers: Adapting Reception Theory to the Purposes of Teacher Response,” by Patrick Bizzaro, East Carolina Univ.
“Double Agency and Student Writing,” by Eve Wiederhold, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“Morphing Ethos through Persona: What Composition Students Already Know,” by David Georgina, Minnesota State Univ./Mankato
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead
Time Requested: Afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S27 A & B Luso-Brazilian I & II
Topic: “Vários Brasis”/Multicultural Brazil
Chair: Susan D. Martin, Northern Michigan Univ.
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Mini-Skirts and Hairy Legs: An Interpretation of Brazilian Literatura de Cordel,” by Paloma Anacelia Martinez Cruz, Columbia Univ.
“Korean Diaspora in Sao Paulo, Brazil,” by Song-Il No, Wheaton College
“Filling in the Blanks: Race and Gender in the Art of Tomie Oh Take,” by Susan D. Martin, Northern Michigan Univ.
“'The Body of a Slaughtered Hero': The Urban Renewal of Santo Antonio District in Recife, Brazil, from the Old Republic to the Estado Novo (1927-45),” by Joel Outtes, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VCR
Time Requested: as late as possible on Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S28 A & B Modern Literature I & II
Topic: To Make Language Stutter
Chair: Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State Univ.
Secretary: Ian Andrew MacDonald, Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
Session I
“Thud: The Phonic Icon,” by Hilary Thompson, Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbor
“'A Stone, a Leaf, an Unfound Door': The Third Line of Affect in Thomas Wolfe,” by Christa Albrecht-Crane, Michigan Technological Univ.
"The Underside of Psychosis in Robert Coover's The Public Burning," by Nicholas Spencer, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln
Discussant: E. Nicole Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Session II
“The Other Always Stutters: Logos and Barbarity in José Jiménez Lozano's 'El logopeda,'” by Hortensia Groth, Wayne State Univ.
“The Stammer and the Stutter: Blanchot-Deleuze-Godard,” by Michael Eng, Binghamton Univ.
“Oral Arrhythmia: The Performance of Inarticulation and Porosity,” by Christof Migone, New York Univ.
Discussant: Brendan Balint, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: back-to-back, Friday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Meyer-Women in French
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: French III, International Francophone, French II, French I
S29 Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics
Topic: Interrogating Whiteness
Chair: Linda Krumholz, Denison Univ.
Secretary: Anna Leahy, Missouri Western State College
“When Whiteness is the Minority,” by Pamela Monaco, Mississippi Valley State Univ.
“Re-Reading Dick and Jane: Interrogating Whiteness in the Freshman Composition Classroom,” by Mickey MacAdam, Kent State Univ.
“Reading Race in the Classroom: Seeing the Surface in Chester Himes's Real Cool Killers,” by Donya Samara, Denison Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Krumholz-African American Lit., Leahy-Pedagogy, Gender and Authority
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Translating Post-Identity Theories
S30 Native American Literature
Topic: Literary Sovereignty
Chair: Jim Ottery, Columbia College Chicago
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Unsettling Stories: History, Myth, and Land in Louise Erdrich's Tracks,” by Julie A. Haurykiewicz, Binghamton Univ.
“The Good, the Bad, and Elias Boudinot: Bringing the Literatures of American Indian Protest and Accommodation into Dialogue,'” by Stephen Brandon, Univ. of North Carolina/Greensboro
“The Lit-Crit- (Death-) Defying Deeds of American Indian (People's) Stories,” by Jim Ottery, Columbia College Chicago
Discussant: Resa Crane Bizzaro, Eastern Carolina Univ.
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: New Approaches to Classic American Lit., Past Translation, Peace Lit. & Pedagogy
S31 Old and Middle English Literature
Topic: Virtual Tourism: The Other World and Exotic Places in Old and Middle English Texts
Chair: John B. Marino, Saint Louis Univ.
Secretary: Graham Johnson, Saint Louis Univ.
“'Who in that hall held sway': An Alliterative Encounter with the Lacanian Other,” by Alexander Ames, Saint Louis Univ.
“Chaucer's Infernal Glossing: Fragment III of The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Authorized Afterlife,” by Daniel Pinti, Niagara Univ.
“'To passé the see in shortt space': Mapping the World in the Digby Mary Magdalen,” by D. K. Smith, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S32 Peace, Literature and Pedagogy
Topic: Cultural Translations as Related to Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy
Chair: Aletha Stahl, Earlham College
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“Problematizing a Rhetoric of Relation: How Cultural Translations Can Defuse Social Justice Literature,” by Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State Univ.
Discussant: Walli Ann Wisniewski, Penn State Univ.
“Forced Confrontations: Jacobo Timerman, Alicia Partnoy, the Holocaust and the Student Perspective,” by Walli Ann Wisniewski, Penn State Univ.
Discussant: Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State Univ.
“Denise Levertov as Teacher,” by Paul A. Lacey, Earlham College
Discussant: Cynthia L. Bandish, Bluffton College
“What Role for Peace? The Face of Violence in Early British Gothic Novels,” by Cynthia L. Bandish, Bluffton College
Discussant: Paul A. Lacey, Earlham College
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Thursday afternoon or Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Wisniewski-Spanish IV
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S33 Popular Culture
Topic: Cartoons and Contemporary Culture
Chair: Rhonda Nicol, Illinois State Univ.
Secretary: Cecilia Konchar Farr, College of Saint Catherine
“Homebodies and Traumatized Bodies: The Simpsons, South Park and Family,'” by Sue Barker, Northwestern Univ.
“Cavalcade of Whimsy: Defending Springfield Against Itself,” by David L. G. Arnold, Univ. of Wisconsin/Stevens Point
“Detecting Scooby: Masking and Unmasking in the Scooby Doo Series,” by Chris McGee, Illinois State Univ.
“'So Television's Responsible!': The Interpretive Logic of Censorship and Satire in The Simpsons and South Park,” by Bill Savage, Northwestern Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VHS package
Time Requested: afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S34 Religion and Literature
Topic: Justice and Redemption
Chair: Eileen Quinlan SND
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
“The River and the Stone: Forms of Religious Action and Consolidation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan,'” by Carla Arnell, Lake Forest College
Discussant: Melissa Jones, Kent State Univ.
“Two Types of Mystery: Detection and the Divine in Ralph McInerny's Fr. Dowling Novels,” by Anita G. Gorman, Slippery Rock Univ.
Discussant: Carla Arnell, Lake Forest College
“Medieval Relics and Modernist Translations in Murder in the Cathedral,” by Melissa Jones, Kent State Univ.
Discussant: Anita G. Gorman, Slippery Rock Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday (2:15 at latest) or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S35 Science and Literature
Topic: Science and War
Chair: Jennifer Shaddock, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
Secretary: Allen Cole, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Brutality and the Beast: Atavism and the Warring Factions in H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau,” by Blake Westerlund, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
“Wilfred Owen: War Poetry and Psychological Therapy,” by Daniel Hipp, Aurora Univ.
“Pat Barker's The Ghost Road as Critique of Masculinity and War,” by Jennifer Shaddock, Univ. of Wisconsin/Eau Claire
"Motherhackers: E-War and Embodiment in Feminist Cyberpunk," by Kelly Kelleway, Univ. of California/Riverside
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: slide proj., overhead
Time Requested: Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Westerlund-Detective Fiction
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S36 Science Fiction AWAITING INFO
Topic: ??????????????
Chair: Larnell Dunkley, Benedictine Univ.
Secretary: Vacancy expires 2001
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Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VHS package, overhead package, slide package
Time Requested: Friday after 10:00 a.m., as one long session
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Bibliography (conflict), Shakespeare and Shakespearean Crit. S05
S37 Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism
Topic: Shakespeare and Authority
Chair: Kara Northway, Univ. of Kansas
Secretary: Michael Bielmeier, Silver Lake College
“The Performance of Fletcher's The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed: Revising Shakespeare to Critique the Political and Marital Power of Charles I,” by Kara Northway, Univ. of Kansas
“'My so potent art': Shakespeare's Uses of Magic and Authority,” by Joe Wagner, Kent State Univ./Stark Campus
“'Burnin' Up for Your Love': Shakespeare's Fashioning of 'Venus and Adonis,'” by Bill Clem, Northern Illinois Univ.
“TITLE NEEDED RIGHT AWAY,” by David Wintersteen, Concordia College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Bielmeier-Philosophy and Lit.
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: English I, Science Fiction, any sessions having to do with renaissance, early modern, or Shakespeare
S38 Short Story I
Topic: Selling it Short: The Short Story's Relation to the Marketplace
Chair: Susan Rochette-Crawley, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Secretary: Robert Luscher, Univ. of Nebraska/Kearney
“The 'Larger Unfinished Story' of the Black Writer in the Literary Marketplace,” by Rebecca Meacham, ???????????
“On the Writing of Fiction for Sale,” by Mark Winegardner, Florida State Univ., and Elwood Reid, Univ. of the South
“Periodical Short Fiction: Prescriptive Form and Authorial Deviance,” by Thomas Morgan, SUNY-Buffalo
Discussant: Susan Rochette-Crawley, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: not Saturday, Friday preferred
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S39 Spanish I: Peninsular Literature Before 1700
Topic: Courtly Spaces/Conflicting Worlds
Chair: Olympia Gonzalez, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Secretary: Alexander J. McNair, Univ. of Wisconsin/Parkside
“The Courtly Ideology of Medieval and Renaissance Travel Literature,” by Michael Harney, Univ. of Texas/Austin
Discussant: David Garrison, Wright State Univ.
“Emblem and Riddle at the Court of Alba: Phanopoeia in Lope de Vega's Poetics,” by Alexander J. McNair, Univ. of Wisconsin/Parkside
Discussant: Carlos Gutierrez, Univ. of Cincinnati
“Two Visions of Aranjuez: The Courtly Garden of A. Hurtado de Mendoza,” by Olympia Gonzalez, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Discussant: Alexander J. McNair, Univ. of Wisconsin/Parkside
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S40 Spanish II: Peninsular Literature After 1700
Topic: Open
Chair: Susan Martin-Márquez, Rutgers Univ.
Secretary: Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“The Bible in Exile: Sciptural Subtexts in Agustí Bartra and Max Aub,” by Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College
“Cristiana y mora: la identidad híbrida de España en Yrraca de Lourdes Ortiz,” by Daniela Flesler, SUNY-Stony Brook
“Pos-costumbrismo de los tópicos andaluces en La niña de tus ojos de Fernando Trueba," Alberto Egea, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VHS package
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Spanish Cultural Studies, Spanish I, film sessions
S41 Spanish III: Latin American Literature
Topic: Written Oralities
Chair: Patricia D. Fox, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
Secretary: Keith Alan Sprouse, Hampden-Sydney College
“El substrato prehispánico en la construcción de la otredad: aspectos sobre la ficcionalización de la oralidad en Juan Rulfo,” by Elisa Rizo, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
Discussant: Patricia D. Fox, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
“Local Color: Folklore and Fakelore in Writing of Latin American Orality,'” by Kimberly Nance, Illinois State Univ.
Discussant: Elisa Rizo, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
“Thus Spake . . . . : A Short History of the Imprint Hispanic Eubonics in Print,” by Patricia D. Fox, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
Discussant: Kimberly Nance, Illinois State Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S42 Spanish IV: Literary Theory and Hispanic Criticism
Topic: Interdisciplinary Hispanic Criticism
Chair: Lucy D. Harney, Southwest Texas State Univ.
Secretary: Manuel F. Medina, Univ. of Louisville
“Forced Confrontation: Jacobo Timerman, Alicia Partnoy, and the Holocaust,” by Walli Ann Wisniewski, Penn State Univ.
“Sinergia de pintura y palabra: The Interrelation of Art, Historiography, and Narrative in the Works of Carlos Rojas,” by Jeffrey Bruner, West Virginia Univ.
“Landscape and Points of View: Ortega's Perspectivism in Theory and Practice,” by R. Lane Kauffmann, Rice Univ.
“?Adaptación es traducción?: Invención y (re)escritura en las reposiciones cinematográficas españolas,” by Lissette Rolón-Collazo, Univ. de Puerto Rico-RUM
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: Friday, 10:15 or later
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Harney-Spanish Cultural Studies; Wisniewski-Peace, Lit. and Pedagogy
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Spanish I, II, and III
S43 Spanish Cultural Studies
Topic: Whose Culture Is It Anyway?
Chair: Susan Larson, Fordham Univ.
Secretary: Kevin O'Donnell, Univ. of Richmond
“Mesonero and Performance of the Urban Palimpsest,” by Rebecca Haidt, The Ohio State Univ.
“Performing Authorship: García Gutiérrez and the Politics of Dramatic Genius,” by Lisa Surwillo, Univ. of California/Berkeley
“Controlling Resistance, Resisting Control: Popular Theater in Late-Nineteenth-Century Madrid,” by Lucy D. Harney, Southwest Texas State Univ.
“Between Elitism and Populism: Culture and Its Defense in the 1930s,” by Sebastian Faber, Oberlin College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Harney-Spanish IV; Larson-Contemp. Span. City on Film; Faber-Spanish II
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Hispanic studies, Spanish studies, Latin American studies
S44 A & B Teaching Writing in College I & II
Topic: The Nature of Narrative Revisited: Its Role and Place(s) in Composition
Chair: Edith Baker, Bradley Univ.
Secretary: Tom Pace, Miami Univ. of Ohio
Session I
“'Sorrow Songs and the Paschal Narrative': The Dialogue Between the Narratives in Du Bois's 'Of the Sorrow Songs' and the Anonymous Poet of the Gorkei Zale Lyrics,'” by Jeff Koloze, Kent State Univ.
“The Need for a Transitional Paradigm to Bridge Divergent Rhetorical Styles,” by Robert DeGise, Bradley Univ.
“No Longer a Cardboard Paper,” by Marsha L. Shively, Ivy Tech State College
“'Know Thyself': Rethinking the Role of Narrative in the First-Year Composition Classroom," by Amy E. Robillard, Syracuse Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Session II
“The Controversy Over Teaching Narratives: Preparing For and Responding to Student Self-Disclosure,” by Marilyn Valentino, Lorain City Community College
“'Just Make It Up': Authenticity in the Student Personal Narrative,” by Christina Rieger, Mercyhurst College
“Narrative as Ur-Discourse,” by ?????????????????
“Narrative Inquiry Across the Curriculum: Identifying Continuities and Conventions,” by Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, Univ. of Winnipeg
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: overhead
Time Requested: Saturday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S45 Travel Writing/Writing Travel
Topic: Traveling the Body
Chair: Nancy Hanway, Gustavus Adolphus College
Secretary: Susan Morgan, Miami Univ. of Ohio
“Troubling Strangers: Safety and the English Body in Nineteenth-Century Ireland,” by Susan M. Kroeg, Michigan State Univ.
"The Body, the Journey and Identity in Post-Franco Cinema: Travelers in the Esoteric World of Julio Médem,” by Maria Nilsson, Univ. of Iowa
“Traveling and Being English in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands,” by Angelia Poon, Brandeis Univ.
“Receptive, Recumbent and Repugnant: 'America' as Woman in the Iconography and Chronicles of Discovery,” by Lisa Splittgerber, Saint Cloud State Univ.
Discussant: Nancy Hanway, Gustavus Adolphus College
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VHS package
Time Requested: mid-morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Short Story, Spanish III
S46 Women in Literature
Topic: Women, Writing, and Madness
Chair: Jessica L. Walsh, Univ. of Iowa
Secretary: Janis Breckenridge, Univ. of Chicago
“The Hysteric as Trickster,” by Karen Daly, Univ. of Sydney
"Amending Freud: Gabriela Pressova's 'Kralusa,'” by Iveta Jusova, Miami Univ. of Ohio
“Atwood's Attic: An Alternative Figuring of Madness,” by Tina Trigg, Univ. of Ottawa
Discussant: Janis Breckenridge, Univ. of Chicago
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (no papers should be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Breckenridge-Illustrated Texts
Time Requested: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S47 Women's Studies
Topic: Avant-Garde Women: Recovering Lost Voices
Chair: Stacy Hoult, Valparaiso Univ.
Secretary: Louise Detwiler, Butler Univ.
“Just One of the Guys? Céline Arnaud's Role in Parisian Dada,” by Paula K. Kamenish, Univ. of North Carolina/Wilmington
“Sophie Treadwell: A Forgotten Pioneer in American Expressionism,” by Elena Hartwell, Univ. of Georgia/Athens
“With a Syncopated Beat: Joanne Kyger's Appropriation and Innovation as Beat Writer,” by Jennifer E. Love, Chapman Univ.
“Pariah as Paradigm: The Literary and Political Works of Magda Portal,” by Catherine M. Bryan, Univ. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj, cassette player, PowerPoint
Time Requested: Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
S48 Writing Across the Curriculum
Topic: WAC and Technology
Chair: Richard Jewell, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Secretary: Kit O'Toole, Northern Illinois Univ.
“Syntax, Semantics, and Inquiry: The Impact of Computer Assessment of Essays on WAC,” by Gary Levine, Ashland Univ.
“Metaphor in Practice: Notes Toward a WAC Virtual Writing Center,” by Melanie Brown, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Conceptualizing a WAC Web Site: The University of Minnesota's Full-Service Composition Web,” by Richard Jewell, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, computer w/overhead hooked to Internet
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: sessions on composition
S49 Young Adult Literature
Topic: Robert Cormier: A Retrospective
Chair: Karen Coats, Illinois State Univ.
Secretary: Jennifer Miskec, Illinois State Univ.
“Robert Cormier's Frenchtown: Reflections on Autobiography,” by Allen F. Cole, Univ. of Maryland/College Park
“I am the Cheese: Narcissism and Adolescent Identity,” by Catherine Ross, Illinois State Univ.
“Material Simulations in Robert Cormier,” by Jennifer Miskec, Illinois State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: back-to-back with Children's Lit. (same day at least)
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Children's Lit.
***ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS***
A01 American Dialect Society
Topic: Current Research in Dialectology
Coordinator: Beth Lee Simon, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.
“Looking for Roots in the Substrate: The Cases of Ebonics and Anglo-Irish,” by Terence Odlin, The Ohio State Univ.
“A New Look at Address in American English: The Rules Have Changed,” by Thomas R. Murray, Kansas State Univ.
“Mapping the North Central States: Changing Views,” by Beverly Olson Flanigan, Ohio Univ.
“Vowels in Chandlerville, Illinois,” by Jeanna C. Hollada-Robson, Western Illinois Univ.
Discussant: Jean Livingston-Webber, Western Illinois Univ.
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead proj., cassette player
Time Requested: Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
A02 Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas
Topic: Imagined Communities in Revolutionary Spain: Galdosian Perspectives on Social Class, Gender, and Nation-Building during the “Sexenio Revolucionario,” 1868-1874
Coordinator: Iñigo Sánchez-Llama, Purdue Univ.
“Imagining Class in Episodios nacionales: Galdós and the Sexenio,” by Mary L. Coffey, Pomona College
“Definiciones del nacionalismo liberal en el Sexenio: Un análisis comparatista de El audaz (1871),” by Iñigo Sánchez-Llama, Purdue Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Spanish II, III and IV
A03 Association for Study of Literature and the Environment
Topic: Translating American Nature
Coordinator: Joe Lockard, Univ. of California/Davis
“Jean de Lery and the Sixteenth-Century French Encounter with American Nature,” by Louisa Mackenzie, Univ. of Washington
“Translating American Nature in Antebellum Racial Politics,” by Joe Lockard, Univ. of California/Davis
“Heated Concerns: Climate and Character in Caribbean Narrative,” by Rudyard Alcocer, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A04 Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
Topic: Cinéma et litterature beurs
Coordinator: Cécile Hanania, Univ. of Maryland
“Fire, Family and Future: The Impossibility of Forgetting in Karim Dridi's Bye-Bye,” by Adrienne Angelo, Emory Univ.
“Vers une identité du texte beur?,” by Pascale Perraudin, Saint Louis Univ.
“Figures de beurs chez Ajar et Chimo: du fils de personne au père du livre,” by Cécile Hanania, Univ. of Maryland
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: 2:15 Friday, or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A05 Henry James Society
Topic: The American Scene and Others
Coordinator: Beverly Haviland, Brown Univ.
“The Return of the Native: Henry James's New York,” by Wendy Graham, Vassar College
“Criminal Continuities in the Promised Land: Henry James and Mary Antin on the New England Scene,” by Gert Buelens, Bhent Univ.
“The 'Flagrant Foreigner' Versions of Utopia in The American Scene,” by Roxana Pana Oltean, Univ. of Bucharest
Discussant: Peter Rawlings, Univ. of the West of England
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon or Saturday (NOT Thursday)
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Rawlings-Writing the Civil War
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A06 Kate Chopin Society of North America
Topic: Kate Chopin in Context
Coordinator: Kathleen Butterly Nigro, independent scholar
“Looking Forward: The Awakening and Utopian Fiction,” by Sue Barker, Northwestern Univ.
“Mr. Emerson's Influence on St. Louis Thought,” by Kathleen Butterly Nigro, independent scholar
Discussant: NONE (coordinator automatically assumed)
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NOT Thursday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Barker-Popular Culture
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A07 Lessing Society
Topic: Translating Classical Themes into Modernity
Coordinator: Monika Nenon, Univ. of Memphis
“Translating the Classical: One Woman Writer's Attempt at Reinventing the Wheel,” by Margaretmary Daley, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“Why does Margaret have a Brother in Goethe's Faust?,” by Arnd Bohm, Carleton Univ.
“Novalis as an Interpreter of Virgil,” by Geoffrey Atheron, Connecticut College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A08 A, B, C, D, F, G, & H Society for Critical Exchange I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
Topic: Globalization and the Image: A Working Conference
Coordinators: Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Session I (Friday, 8:30-10:00a)
Subtopic: Images and Empires
“Constellatory Modernism: Imperial Landmarks and the Urban Navigator,” by Scott Cohen, Univ. of Virginia
“Parodies of Empire: British Colonial Fictions and the Politics of Self-Representation,” by Kristine Kelly, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“Whiteness and Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” by Kate Thomas, Dartmouth College
Discussant: NONE
Session II (Friday, 10:15-11:45a)
Subtopic: The Global Traffic in Images
“The Image as Mechanism of Globalization,” by Matthias Bruhn, Univ. of Hamberg
“Without Guarantees: The Form of Testimony's Intervention,” by Sharon Sliwinski, York Univ.
“Globalization as Viral Contagion,” by Kirsten Ostherr, Brown Univ.
"Variations on a Videogame: Image-Touring the Real-Time City of the Future," by Marc Tuters, Concordia Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Session III (Friday, 2:15-3:45p)
Subtopic: Globalization and the Uses of Film
“Parochial and Ecumenical Imaginings of the World 'Out There': Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame and Transnational Exchanges,” by Lawrence Needham, Lakeland Community College
“Imagine the 'Child' in (Neo)Imperial Missions of Globalization,” by Jeannie Martin, Univ. of Alberta
“Translation and Transference in the Holocaust Blockbuster, Globally and Locally,” by David Brenner, Kent State Univ.
Session IV (Friday, 4:00-5:00p)
Special Presentation
“Berlin? Berlin!,” shown by John Grech, Univ. of Amsterdam
Session V (Saturday, 8:30-10:00a)
Subtopic: Images: Global Impacts, Global Resistances
“Globalization and Its Relics: A Melancholy History of Taipei in Tzu Tianxing's 'The Old Capital,'” by Chi-she Li, National Taiwan Normal Univ.
“Sebastiao Salgado: Images from the Edge of the World,” by Karl Erik Schollhammer, Pontificia Univ. Catolica
“New Global Communities: The Internet as a Tool to Build Resistance to Corporate Capital,” by Nandita Ghosh, independent scholar
“Walking in Tokyo: Between Global Flows and Carnal Flows,” by Tsung-yi Huang, SUNY-Stony Brook
Session VI (Saturday, 10:15-11:45a)
Subtopic: Global Iconographies
“Because It's There: Mount Everest and Ideology,” by Marguerite Helmers, Univ. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh
“An Alien Traveler: The Portrait of an Asian American Queer as an Artist,” by Ivy I-chu Chang, National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan)
“Urban Cow Disease,” by Ute Lehrer, Univ. of Buffalo
“'You Can't Beat the Feeling': Selling the World in the Age of Globalization,” by Trui Vetters, Univ. of Ghent and Rutgers Univ.
Session VII (Saturday, 3:30-5:00p, CWRU campus, THIS COULD BE HELD FROM 12:00-1:30 AT THE SHERATON-THAT IS M/MLA'S LAST TIME SLOT)
“Cooperation and Conflict in the Conduct of Transnational Journalism,” by Ted Gup, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“Brazilian Journalism and the Globalization of Media,” by Marilia Martins, journalist
“Transforming and Imagining Elite Femininity in Mumbai: Femina Magazine 1960-2000,” by Susan Parulekar, Syracuse Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion--Papers will be made available after September 15 on the SCE web site: www.cwru.edu/affil/sce
Equipment Requested: Friday-TV/VCR, two slide projectors, PowerPoint projector; Saturday-TV/VCR, slide projector, overhead, PowerPoint projector
Time Requested: see above
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A09 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature I
Topic: Midwestern Literature I: Ohio in Literature
Coordinator: David D. Anderson, Michigan State Univ.
“Reading, Researching, and Performing Paul Lawrence Dunbar,” by Herbert Martin, Univ. of Dayton, and Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan Univ.
“Honored in Their Absence: State-Sanctioned Representations of the Native Peoples of Ohio,” by Roger J. Bresnahan, Michigan State Univ.
“Sherwood Anderson and the Moral Geography of Ohio,” by David D. Anderson, Michigan State Univ.
Discussant: NONE.
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Bresnahan-Midwestern Lit. II
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Midwestern Lit. II
A10 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature II
Topic: Midwestern Literature II: Transgressive Elements in Midwestern Literature
Coordinator: Roger J. Bresnahan, Michigan State Univ.
“Literacy and Transgression in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye,” by Marilyn J. Atlas, Ohio Univ.
“Sparsely Populated, Surprisingly Compelling: The Region Speaks in Peter Hedges' What's Eating Gilbert Grape and An Ocean in Iowa,” by Kelly Kuhn-Wallace, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“The Environmentally Incorrect Sport of Lion Hunting in Stewart Edward White's The Land of Footprints (1912),” by Paul W. Miller, Wittenberg Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Bresnahan-Midwestern Lit. I
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Midwestern Lit. I
A11 Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Topic: Negotiating Queer Spaces in Twentieth-Century Literature
Coordinator: Lee Glidewell, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
“Perverse Principles: The Intellectual in Huxley's Point Counter Point,” by Lee Glidewell, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
“'Unfenced Existence': Larkin's Queer Aesthetics?,” by Praseeda Gopinath, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
“'Do I Dare These Lines': Fantasizing a Queer Poetics in Angelina Weld Grimké,” by Melissa Girard, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A12 Women in French
Topic: French Women Writing
Coordinator: E. Nicole Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“French Women Respond: Scudéry, d'Aulnoy and Graffigny,” by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State Univ.
“Humor and High Anxiety in Elizabeth de Meulan's Les Contradictions, ou ce qui peut en arriver,” by Antoinette Marie Sol, Univ. of Texas/Arlington
“Parental Concerns: Voicing Childhood in Annie Ernaux's Autobiographies,” by E. Nicole Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Meyer-Modern Lit. I
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
A13 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I
Topic: Laura Ingalls Wilder Revisited: Gender, Culture, and Narrative in “The Little House”
Coordinator: Sandra W. Stephan, Youngstown State Univ.
“The Little House That Could: Pioneering Wilder's House Motif,” by Connie Ann Kirk, Mansfield Univ.
“Laura Ingalls (Wilder), 'The Tall Indian,' and the Reader,” by Fern Kory, Eastern Illinois Univ.
“Fictive Frictions: When History and Storytelling Collide,” by Megan Isaac and Betty Greenway, Youngstown State Univ.
Discussant: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Format Preference: Discussion (no papers)
Equipment Requested: Overhead
Time Requested: afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Kory-Illustrated Texts
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Other WCML sessions, Illustrated Texts, Children's Lit.
A14 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II
Topic: Service Learning in Every Discipline
Coordinator: Janet M. La Brie, Univ. of Wisconsin/Waukesha
This will be a discussion and sharing session to be headed off with:
“Students, Administrators and Me: Service Learning and Assessment in a General Education Classroom,” by Jeannie Ludlow, Bowling Green State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Ludlow-Fabricating the Body
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Other WCML sessions
A15 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest III
Topic: Women and Rock: From Big Mama Thornton to Ani Difranco
Coordinator: Linda S. Coleman, Eastern Illinois Univ.
“Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Janis Joplin and the Ball 'n' Chain of Appropriation,” by Katherine Skinner, Emory Univ.
“Ani Difranco: Poet, Artist, Business Woman, Female Role Model,” by Lindsay Cummings, Univ. of Akron
“The Literature of Amplification: Third Wave Feminist Consciousness-Raising at the Rock and Roll Crossroads,” by Jennifer Drake, Indiana State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, CD player
Time Requested: Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Other WCML sessions
***SESSIONS***
F01 Adjunct Faculty: Translating the Part-Time Culture
Coordinator: Susan L. Gabriel, Community College of Baltimore County/Essex Campus
“Developing a Positive Adjunct Culture: Issues and Strategies,” by Susan L. Gabriel, Community College of Baltimore County/Essex Campus
“The Adjunct's Diversity of Experience and Its Translation into the Twenty-First-Century Classroom,” by Amy E. Cruickshank, Cuyahoga Community College
“Creating Composition Instructorships: Decreasing the Exploitation,” by Isaiah Smithson, Southern Illinois Univ./Edwardsville
“The Problem of Marginalization for Adjunct Faculty,” by Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic Univ., David Levine, Florida Atlantic Univ., and Arthur Evans, Florida Atlantic Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F02 A & B Art, Literature and Technology Between the World Wars I & II
Coordinator: James A. Wojtaszek, Univ. of Minnesota/Morris
Session I
“Prague Absurdities: Comparing Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek in the Early 1920s,” by Jenifer Cushman, Univ. of Minnesota/Morris
“Cinematic Impressionism and the Debut of Auteurship,” by Kristine Butler, Univ. of Wisconsin/River Falls
“The Media of Death in The Magic Mountain,” by Julian Nelson, Catholic Univ. of America
Discussant: NONE
Session II
“Unamuno and the Shock of the New,” by Daria Cohen, Princeton Univ.
“Man Meets Machine: The Erotics of the Mechanical Paradise in Two Poems by Pedro Salinas,” by James A. Wojtaszek, Univ. of Minnesota/Morris
“The Typewriter's Dissociation Effect on Modernist Writing,” by Seunghyeok Kweon, SUNY-Buffalo
“'The Great War for Civilization': Bloomsbury and English National Identity,” by Ana Mitric, Univ. of Virginia
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Butler-French III
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F03 Art What Thou Eat: Food in Literature, Art and Culture
Coordinator: David E. Schoonover, Univ. of Iowa
"We Are What We Want: Food, Desire, and Identity in Oliver Twist,” by Shelley Cobb, Chapman Univ.
“Who is Hiding Inside: Eggs, Politics in Texts by Bertolt Brecht and Günter Grass,” by Isolde M. Mueller, Saint Cloud State Univ.
"Theatre and Culinary Translation of Italian Culture," by Stefania Taviano, Wesleyan Univ.
“'Through His Stomach': Lenora Mattingly Weber and the Anxiety of Domesticity,” by Katrine Poe, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: First choice: Friday, 10:15-11:45a; Second choice: Friday, 12:30-2:00p
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F04 Both Sides of the Atlantic: Commerce, Culture, and the International Film Trade
Coordinator: Jennifer Fay, Michigan State Univ.
“Transnational Failure: Finding an Audience for Langist der Weg and Der Rub,” by Jennifer Fay, Michigan State Univ.
“Hollywood Goes Abroad: Crossing Borders with the Foreign Interest Picture,” by Teresa Becker, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“Translating Depardieu: The Challenges of Transcultural Stardom,” by Christine Becker, Univ. of Notre Dame
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: Saturday
Conflicts with Other Session: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Film sessions
F05 Camp Sense and Sensibility
Coordinator: William R. Cummins
“Diva Citizenship: The Case for Local Performance,” by Linda Seidel, Truman State Univ.
“L'Esthétique du Mâle: Male Masquerade in Blaxploitation Films,” by Douglas Steward, Franklin & Marshall College
“Parody of Gender: Gender of Parody: Drag in Film,” by Brian D. Holcomb, Michigan State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: late morning or early afternoon Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F06 Chicago Renaissance(s), 1900-50
Coordinator: Daniel Anderson, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“'What the People Say': The Chicago Defender and the Lesser Players of Chicago's African-American Renaissance,” by William R. Nash, Middlebury College
“Chicago, Black Critics and Black Prose, 1935-45,” by Lawrence P. Jackson, Howard Univ.
“'Models for a Cultural Renaissance': Kenneth Rexroth in Chicago, 1919-24,” by Michael Vandyke, Michigan State Univ.
“Sportswriting and Renaissance: Literary Journalism of the Negro Leagues Era in Chicago,” by Daniel Anderson, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F07 The Contemporary Hispanic City on Film
Coordinator: Susan Larson, Fordham Univ.
“Projecting Buenos Aires Back to the Future,” by Vicky Ruetalo, Univ. of Alberta/Edmonton
“Globalization and Social Justice in David Riker's La Ciudad,” by Susan Larson, Fordham Univ.
“Ideas of Community: From La estrategia del carcól to La comunidad,” by Malcolm Alan Compitello, Univ. of Arizona
“Spanish Cities and/in 1992,” by Jaume Martí-Olivella, SUNY-Albany
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Larson-Spanish Cultural Studies
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Hispanic Studies Sessions
F08 Cultural Contact Zones at the Fin de Siècle: Transculturation and Transnational Literature, 1880-1914
Coordinator: John Funchion, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Telling the Unshowable: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Utopia/Dystopia in A Social Critic's Tool-Kit,” by Douglas W. Texter, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“A Yankee Goes Gothic: Henry Adams and the Fiction of the Twelfth Century,” by Thomas A. Kuhlman, Creighton Univ.
“Strange Pleasures: The Development Degenerative Disease Models in Two Late-Victorian Novels,” by David Wake, Univ. of Chicago
“Transatlantic Perceptions of the Working Class: The Fiction of Stephen Crane and Arthur Morrison,” by John Funchion, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: NOT Thursday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Henry James sessions
F09 A & B Debating War: Literary Perspectives on America's Armed Conflicts I & II
Coordinator: Bill Ness, Univ. of Iowa
Session I
“National Division and the Poet: Walt Whitman During the Civil War,” by William Allegrezza, Louisiana State Univ. and Indiana Univ. Northwest
“Rallying 'Round the Shroud: Melville's Battle Pieces and the Poetry of the Civil War,” by Bill Ness, Univ. of Iowa
“Reversing the Knight Errantry; or, How the Wandering Woman Returns Home in Louisa May Alcott's 'Love and Loyalty,'” by Rory Dicker, Westminster College
Discussant: NONE
Session II
“'Discreditable to the National Faith': Benjamin Drake and Black Hawk's War,” by Edward Watts, Michigan State Univ.
“The Philippine 'Insurrection' Revisited: A Centennial Perspective on Balangiga,” by Sharon Delmendo, Saint John Fisher College
“Trauma, Memory, and the Representation of History in Vietnam Veterans' Memoirs,” by Julia Bleakney, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: anything on war-related theme
F10 Developmental Fictions: The New Bildungsroman
Coordinator: Stephanie L. Vague, Univ. of Iowa
“Materia dispuesta de Juan Villoro: el bildungsroman a la alegoría nacional,” by Eduardo Guizar-Álvarez, Univ. of Iowa
“El performance de la subjectividaden 'Arráncarme la vida' por Angeles Mastretta,” by Tara Lord, Univ. of Michigan
“Claudia, the City, and Survival in 'El hombre, la hembra, y el hambre,'” by Kathleen Costello, Univ. of Iowa
“The Unfolding of Eva Luna,” by Melinda Combs, Chapman Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Guizar-Alvarez and Vague-El uso del humor . . .
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F11 Edgar Allan Poe
Coordinator: Joseph A. Barda, Robert Morris College/Chicago
“The Transcendentalist as Monster in Poe's Horror Fiction,” by Paul C. Jones, Oakland Univ.
“Insurrection and the Status Quo in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether,'” by Eve Dunbar, Univ. of Texas/Austin
“Using His Words Against Him: Interpreting E. A. Poe's Women Characters Based on His Statements Concerning Their Proper Roles in Society,” by Amy Branam, Marquette Univ.
Discussants: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F12 The Emily Dickinson Journal: Translating Contexts in Dickinson's Poetry
Coordinator: Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“'I could not have defined the change': Rereading Dickinson's Definition Poetry,” by Jed Deppman, Trinity Univ.
“Re-Viewing Aaron Colton: The Pastor as Rhetorician,” by Jane Eberwein, Oakland Univ.
“Emily Dickinson, Esq.,” by James Guthrie, Wright State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Deppman-Translating the Sublime
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F13 Fabricating the Body
Coordinator: Elizabeth Klaver, Southern Illinois Univ./Carbondale
“Bodies as Space: A Rhetorical Assertion of Privacy,” by K. J. Peters, Loyola Marymount Univ.
“Interrogating the Borders Between Essentialism and Constructionism: A Case Study of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face,” by Sylvia Brown, Denison Univ.
“'I always try to look as good as Dolly looks': Dolly Parton, Technology and Rural Femininity,” by Jeannie Ludlow, Bowling Green State Univ.
Discussant: NONE (coordinator assumed)
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Ludlow-WCML roundtable on service learning
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Lit. and Science, Drama, Cultural Studies
F14 Film Translation in the Literature Classroom: Whole or Some of its Parts?
Coordinator: Kevin Eyster, Madonna Univ.
“Jack and Jay on Page and Screen: Using Film Translations to Teach Two Canonical Novels,” by Cecilia Donohue, Madonna Univ.
“Reading and Viewing Pinter's Betrayal: Script to Film Adaptation,” by Catherine Johnstone, Madonna Univ.
“From Kurtz to Kane: A Thematic Attempt at Film Literacy,” by James Reilly, Madonna Univ.
“From Page to Screen (and Back Again): An Example of Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven and John Sayles' Matewan,” by Kevin Eyster, Madonna Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, TV/VCR
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F15 A & B From Thornfield to Coulibri and Back: Contemporary Perspectives of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea I & II
Coordinator: Margot L. Tomsen, Hanover College
Session I
“The 'Slavery of Women': Discourses of Emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre,” by Michelle Auster, SUNY-Stony Brook
The Worlding of Charlotte Brontë: Reading 'French' in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea,” by Eva Badowska, Fordham Univ.
“Madness and M/other/hood in Jane Eyre,” by Charis Bower, Tiffin Univ.
“Discerning Race, Class and Otherness: Signs of Racial Identity in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea,” by Jose Brown-Rose, SUNY-Stony Brook
Discussant: NONE (coordinator assumed)
Session II
“Sex and Race in Wide Sargasso Sea,” by Elizabeth Dalton, Barnard College
“Shutting Up the Subaltern in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea,” by Carine M. Mardorossian, SUNY-Buffalo
“Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: Jean Rhys's Revision of Charlotte Brontë's Eurocentric Gothic,” by Sylvie Maurel, Univ. of Toulouse (France)
“Monsters and Free Spirits: Colonization and the Racial Other in Jane Eyre,” by Heather Megarry, Univ. of Saint Thomas
Discussant: NONE (coordinator assumed)
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: 10:15a or 2:15p on
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F16 Indochinese Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Coordinator: Gloria Kwok, Truman State Univ.
“La littérature dé-plac'cc' dans 'Tu écriras sur le bonheur' de Linda Lê,” by Gloria Kwok, Truman State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: VHS package
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F17 (In)Subordination
Coordinator: Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State Univ.
“Toward a Theory of Affirmative Action Without White Affirmation,” by Scott Michaelsen, Michigan State Univ.
“Decolonizing Palestine: From Revolution to Authority,” by Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State Univ.
“The Silence of Ethics: Mexico City '68,” by David E. Johnson, SUNY-Buffalo
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F18 INTERPRETaciones de la modernización y de la modernidad en la literatura decimonónica hispanoamericana
Coordinator: Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Oakland Univ.
“Paisajes urbanos y modernidad: Buenos Aires en el imaginario naturalista argentino finisecular,” by Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Oakland Univ.
“Memorias (críticas) de la modernidad: El zarco (1901) de Ignacio M. Altamirano,” by Francisco Solares-Larrave, Northern Illinois Univ.
“Narrando la nación: la participación del discurso medico en la formación de una conciencia nacional puertorriqueña,” by Fernando Feliu, Univ. of Michigan/Dearborn
“La literature patagónia del siglo XIX y los procesos transculturadores,” by Silvia Casini, Univ. of Kentucky
Discussant: Ivan A. Schulman, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Solares-Larrave and Schulman-Traducciones, Respuestas
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Lit., Colonial Latin American Lit.
F19 Is Seeing Believing? Reading Visual Representations of the Holocaust
Coordinator: Janet Alsup, Purdue Univ.
“The Holocaust as Spectacle: Memory and Image in Representations of Atrocity,” by Michael Bernard-Donals, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
“The Holocaust and the Rhetoric of Authenticity,” by Richard Glejzer, North Central College (Illinois)
“Using Comedy to Portray Holocaust Tragedy in Contemporary Foreign Film: A Response to Train of Life and Life is Beautiful,” by Janet Alsup, Purdue Univ.
Discussant: Reinhold Hill, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F20 Literature at the Limit: Towards a Relationality and Community Beyond Politics
Coordinators: Timothy J. Deines, Michigan State Univ.
“Like a Man Who Slept: Bartleby and Community's Singular Self-announcement,” by Timothy J. Deines, Michigan State Univ.
“Fields of Community: Nancy's Singularity and Laclav's Theory of Hegemony,” by Kimberly B. Jackson, SUNY-Buffalo
“Beckett and Mallarme: Contingent Impossibilities,” by Todd W. Karnas, Michigan State Univ.
“Dismembering the Algerian Revolution: Sexuality, Hospitality, and the Politics of 'Home,'” by Karina Eileraas, Univ. of California/Los Angeles
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Competing Solidarities, New Approaches to Classic American Lit, Philosophy and Lit.
F21 Literature in Translation
Coordinator: Susan McLean, Southwest State Univ.
“Humor, Wordplay, and Actability in English Translations of Heinrich von Kleist's Comedy Der Zerbrahne Krug,” by Christiane Eydt-Beebe, Pennsylvania State Univ.
“Teaching Russian Literature in Translation: Challenges and Solutions,” by Yelena Belyaeva-Standen, Saint Louis Univ.
“Clearing a Path Through the Text: I Am the Scout, the Guide, the Translator,” by Dawn M. Cornelio, Manchester College
Discussant: NONE (coordinator assumed)
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: other sessions on translation
F22 Lost in Space?: Mapping Kathy Acker's Narrative Transformations of Place and Person
Coordinator: Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State Univ.
“Whorehouses and Pirateships: Navigating Kathy Acker's Spaces,” by Marjorie Worthington, Bradley Univ.
“Outside the Road: Reading Space in Blood and Guts in High School,” by Amy Nolan, Michigan State Univ.
“At the Center of the Web: Space and Identity in The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula,” by Robin Silbergleid, Austin College
“Just Pussyfooting Around: Slippage and Mapping in Pussy King of the Pirates,” by Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: afternoon or late morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: feminism, postmodernism/postmodern lit.
F23 Negotiating the Multi-National State: The Case of England and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Coordinator: Sara L. Maurer, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Disowning to Own: Maria Edgeworth Narrates National Property,” by Sara L. Maurer, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Famine, Marriage and Blackmail in Trollope's Castle Richmond,” by Anne Dayton, Rice Univ.
“The Empire Loves Back: Nationalism, Unionism and Miscegenation in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel,” by Dominick Tracy, Univ. of California/Davis
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Irish Studies, Transcoding Class, Translating Piracy
F24 Neo-Noir Literature and Film
Coordinator: Larry T. Shillock, Wilson College
“Notes on Neo-Noir,” by Larry T. Shillock, Wilson College
“Gender, Race, and Justice in the Neo-Noir City: Notes on Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and Joel Schumacher's 8mm,” by Steve Macek, independent scholar
“The Horrific Noir: David Fincher's Combination of the Horror Genre with Aspects of Noir in Seven,” by Mark Zeltner, Slippery Rock Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: TV/VCR
Time Requested: Friday or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F25 New Approaches to Classic American Literature: Cooper's The Pioneers, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and Silko's Garden in the Dunes
Coordinators: Barbara Lounsberry, Univ. of Northern Iowa
“Political and Racial Unconscious in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers,” by Nizar Hermes, Univ. of Northern Iowa
“The Search for Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Garden in the Dunes,” by Olivia Smith, Western Kentucky Univ.
“Poverty and Misery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: Lessons for Developing Nations,” by Nurhayati Purba, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, TV/VCR
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F26 Ohio Poets
Coordinator: Robert Miltner, Kent State Univ./Stark Campus
“A Northeast Ohio Sense of Place: Rita Dove and Maggie Anderson,” by Robert Miltner, Kent State Univ./Stark Campus
“Some Ohio Working-Class Poets: Kenneth Patchen, James Wright, Richard Hague, and Timothy Russell,” by Larry Smith, Firelands College of Bowling Green State Univ.
“Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Translating Race,” by Diane Kendig, Univ. of Findlay
“'Crooning Tears at Fifty Cents Per Line': Economics and Representation in James Wright's Early Ohio Valley Poems, Saint Judas,” by Megan Swihart, Duquesne Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: during the day
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F27 A & B On Experience in Early Modern Europe I & II
Coordinator: Juliette Cherbuliez, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Session I
“'Experience, O thou disprov'st report!': The Transfer of Experience through Experiment in Shakespeare's Cymbeline,” by Sabiha Ahmad, Univ. of Michigan/Ann Arbor
“The Pedagogy of the Undressed,” by Diane Brown, Macalester College
“Between Senses and Sensibilité: Medea and the Experience of Violence,” by Juliette Cherbuliez, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: NONE
Session II
“The Experience of the Garden as a Textual Practice: The Promenade and the recueil factice,” by Claire Goldstein, Miami Univ. of Ohio
“Experience and the Troubadour's Ideal Love: 'La dona ensenhada' and the Lover's Path to Knowledge,” by Sarah-Grace Heller, The Ohio State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE (sessions are 90 minutes, 180 minutes for double sessions)
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F28 Past Translations: The Uses and Limits of 'Cultural Translation' as a Metaphor for Historical Representation
Coordinator: Mike Goode, Univ. of Chicago
“Past Translation: Bringing Up the Body with Walter Scott,” by Mike Good, Univ. of Chicago
“History Through the Lens of Astronomy: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon,” by Michael J. Crowley, Univ. of Georgia
“Undermining Expectations: Consequences of the New Historical Novel,” by Jeffrey Gibson, SUNY-Albany
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Spanish II, Spanish Cultural Studies (conflict) S40
F29 A & B Pedagogy, Gender, and Authority I & II
Coordinator: Anna Leahy, Missouri Western State College
Session I
“Establishing Authority in a Community School Creative Writing Workshop,” by Nancy Kuhl, Amherst College
“Did You Say?: The Wizened Woman's Voice,” by Gaynell Gavin, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln
“Practicing a Counter-Cultural Pedagogy,” by Evie Miller, Univ. of Wisconsin/Whitewater
“Where Authority Resides: Pedagogical Implications of a Feminist Self-Conflict,” by Candace Stewart, Ohio Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Session II
“Constructing 'Authority': Pedagogy, Gender, and Race in the African-American Literature Classroom,” by Tracie Church Guzzio, SUNY-Plattsburgh
“Power, Authority, and 'Border Patrol' in Academic Disciplines: Lesbian, Gay, and 'Other' Critiques of Writing Across the Curriculum University Programs,” by Cynthia Jo Mahaffey, Bowling Green State Univ.
“Who's the Teacher?: Process Notes on Authority in My Creative Writing Classroom,” by Audrey Petty, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
“Caritas: The Risks and Rewards of Nurturing Students,” by Anna Leahy, Missouri Western State College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F30 Philosophy and Literature
Coordinator: Michael Bielmeier, Silver Lake College
“Language and Beyond: The Existential Heart of Religious Experience,” by Robert Abele, Illinois Valley Community College
“'As a Stranger': Sensory Metaphors and the Knowing Self in Hamlet,” by Jerry Harp, Univ. of Iowa
“Liberalism and Ethnocentrism in Daniel Deronda,” by Annette Federico, James Madison Univ.
“Emerson's 'Principle of Sufficient Reason' for Knowing the Past: A Kantian Perspective,” by Charles Bense, Minnesota State Univ./Moorhead
“A Will to Love: Jorie Graham's Ethical Imagination,” by Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Illinois State Univ.
Discussants: Mark Allen, Univ. of Texas/San Antonio, Michael Bielmeier, Silver Lake College
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: Overhead
Time Requested: First choice-Friday morning; second choice-Friday afternoon (With five papers, would you like to hold a double session? Four is usually the maximum for one session; otherwise, there isn't enough time for discussion.)
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Bielmeier-Shakespeare and Shakespearean Crit.
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F31 Physicalizing the Text: Fiction and Poetry Translated Through Drama
Coordinator: Anne Siegle Drege, Minot State Univ./Bottineau
The session explores the pedagogical possibilities of using drama in the classroom to study fiction and poetry. The session discusses the theory for using drama in the classroom and then actively engages participants in their interactions with drama activities that allow physical translations of specific texts.
Format Preference: Interactive (no papers)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F32 Popular Latin American Cultural Texts: Humor and Carnival
Coordinator: Eduardo Guízar-Alvarez, Univ. of Iowa
“El carnaval literario en Sergio Pitol: la reapropiación del comic,” by Eduardo Guízar-Alvarez, Univ. of Iowa
“Aspects of the Carnivalesque in the Evolution of Women's Development in Mexican Fiction,” by Stephanie L. Vague, Univ. of Iowa
“Cross-Cultural Representations in the U.S. and Latin American Press,” by Peter Watt, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Guízar-Alvarez and Vague-Developmental Fictions
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F33 Regionalizing the Midwest
Chair: Cheryl Torsney, West Virginia Univ.
“Inventing the Great Lakes,” by Victoria Brehm, Grand Valley State Univ.
“The Cosmopolitan Midland,” by Tom Lutz, Univ. of Iowa
“The Trouble with Beauty: Hamlin Garland and the Practice of Regional Art,” by Philip Joseph, Harvard Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Writing the Civil War, American Lit. II, Soc. for Study of Midwestern Lit., Debating War
F34 Remembering Carnegie: Documentary, Philanthropy and Hegemony
Coordinator: Joel Woller, Carlow College
“The Carnegie Libraries as Public Memorials,” by Joel Woller, Carlow College
“Andrew Carnegie Memorialized on Film: Psychological vs. Socal Representations,” by Steffi Domike, Chatham College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F35 Traducciones, respuestas y objeciones a la modernidad en la literature hispanoamericana
Coordinator: Francisco Solares-Larrave, Northern Illinois Univ.
“Conflictos y contradicciones de la modernidad: el imaginario modernista hispanoamericano,” by Ivan A. Schulman, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
“Traducciones espaciales: la modernidad latinoamericana y los discursos de las esferas publicas y privadas,” by Lee Skinner, Univ. of Kansas
“Para reevaluar la modernidad: Darío and Sandino en La libertad en llamas de Gloria Guardia,” by Frances B. Jaeger, Northern Illinois Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Solares-Larrave and Schulman-INTERPRETaciones
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Spicer-Escalante session
F36 Transcoding Class in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Literature
Coordinator: Kevin R. Swafford, Bradley Univ.
“The Fiction of Class at the Fin de Siècle: Walter Besant and George Gissing,” by Christine DeVine, Louisiana State Univ.
“Upsetting the Balance: Class in John Galsworthy's Strife,” by Tamsen Wolff, Columbia Univ.
“Bonos Between Women and Across Classes: From Victorian Culture to Suffragettes,” by Renata Kobetts Miller, Indiana Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Slide proj.
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Swafford-Beyond Newgate
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F37 Translating Americanness: Othering and American Popular Culture
Coordinator: Sandra Runzo, Denison Univ.
“'He Bad Indjun-He Gone': American Identity and the Popularization of the 1862 Dakota Wars,” by Linda Frost, Univ. of Alabama/Birmingham
“'Loving Blondness Like the Sun': Onoto Watanna's Invention of Self as Other,” by Susan Richardson, Denison Univ.
“Dickinson and the Exhibition of Race,” by Sandra Runzo, Denison Univ.
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F38 Translating Piracy: Literary Property and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century America
Chair: Bill Ness, Univ. of Iowa
“Hannah Adams, Jedidiah Morse, and the Ethics of Authorship in Early Antebellum American,” by Michael Everton, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
“Poe's Postmortem Poetry: History of a Literary Hoax,” by Anthony Enns, Univ. of Iowa
“Dred and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Problem with Literary Property Rights,” by Martin T. Buinicki, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Ness and Buinicki-Debating War
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F39 Translating “Post-Identity” Theories in(to) Our “Multicultural” American Literature Classrooms
Coordinator: Sabine Meyer, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities, and Marie-Therese Sulit, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Holding Still for a Moment: Engaging Multicultural Texts to Consider Identity Development and Social Justice,” by Ilene Alexander, NEED AFFILIATION
Discussant: Marie-Therese Sulit, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“The Responsibility of the Not Yet: Student and Teacher Responsibility in the Multicultural American Literature Classroom,” by Marie-Therese Sulit, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: Ebony Adams, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
“Theory Unbound: Pedagogy and Possibility in the Multicultural Classroom,” by Ebony Adams, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Discussant: Ilene Alexander, NEED AFFILIATION
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F40 Translating the National Archive: Citizenship, Memory, and Mediation in Contemporary American Fiction
Coordinator: Hamilton Carroll, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Remember and Forget: Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives and Alternative Memory,” by Rebecca Wood, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Re-Mediating the Instrumental Archive by 'Realizing the Possibilities' in Any Message,” by Laura Shackelford, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
“Historiography and the National Archive in the Novels of Chang-Rae Lee,” by Hamilton Carroll, Indiana Univ./Bloomington
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Discussion (all papers due in the M/MLA office on August 31)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NONE
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F41 Translating the Sublime
Coordinator: Jed Deppman, Trinity Univ.
“Fortunes of the Sublime: A Review of Postmodern Usage,” by Jed Deppman, Trinity Univ.
“Abjection and Uplift in Toni Morrison,” by Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“A Sublime Disastered: Poeisis and Passivity in Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath,” by Patrick Roney, Koch Univ. (Turkey)
“Paul Celan and Primo Levi: Letters in the Grey-Zone-MASS-KLO-and Sublime Violence,” by Prospero Saiz, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: NOT Thursday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F42 Translations of Africa: American, African-American, and African Constructions of Self and Nation
Coordinator: Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ.
“Ellellou and 'I'; Kush and the 'Idea of Kush': Effects of Transculturation in John Updike's The Coup,” by William Neal, Campbellsville Univ.
“'Culturally Dizzy, So Displaced by This Decentered Interior': Transculturation in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage,” by Jack Heller, Voorhees College
“Nigeria's Moment of 'Writing Itself into Being': Autonomy and Nationhood in Ben Okri's The Famished Road,” by Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ.
Discussant: Clara Metzmeier, Campbellsville Univ.
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday or Saturday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Hewitt-American Lit. II
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F43 TransPositions: New Queer Theories of Sexuality and Gender
Coordinator: Judith Roof, Michigan State Univ.
“Radical/Hipster/Cool,” by Emily Crandall, Univ. of Michigan
“Butch Feminism,” by Jaime Hovey, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“Cloning Lesbians and Homosocial Girl Clones: From Genetic Duplicates to Transgenic Self-Replicators,” by Stephanie Turner, Purdue Univ.
“Is There Sex After Gender?,” by Judith Roof, Michigan State Univ.
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F44 Ulysses: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Subjectivity
Coordinator: Nicholas Brown, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“James Joyce as Priest,” by Paul Fortunato, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“Finding the Self in the Mirror: Stephen in Ulysses,” by Anna Riehl, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“Cosmopolitan Right in James Joyce's Ulysses,” by Eric Arima, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
“Mining Abstraction's Hidden Depths,” by Jennifer Lewis, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
Discussant: NONE (coordinator assumed)
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F45 What All Clueless Composition Instructors Need to Know About Teaching ESL Student
Coordinator: Tinitia Coleman Price, Columbus State Community College
“TITLE NEEDED,” by Candy A. Henry, Penn State Univ.
“Evaluating ESL Compositions,” by Valerie Dicicco, Columbus State Community College
“Going Back to the Basics,” by Tinitia Coleman Price, Columbus State Community College
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: Overhead, opaque proj.
Time Requested: late morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: NONE
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: NONE
F46 Writing the Civil War: A Boston Translation
Chair: Jane Schultz, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ./Indianapolis
“Spiritual Mediums and S. Weir Mitchell's 'The Case of George Dedlow,'” by Lisa Long, North Central College
“Constance Fenimore Woolson's 'Wilhelmina' and the Nubian Challenge to Communal Life,” by Kathleen Diffley, Univ. of Iowa
“Ransoming the Civil War and The Bostonians,” by Peter Rawlings, Univ. of the West of England
Discussant: NONE
Format Preference: Oral Delivery (papers should not be sent to M/MLA office)
Equipment Requested: NONE
Time Requested: Friday afternoon or Saturday morning
Conflicts with Other Sessions: Rawlings-Henry James Society
Avoid Scheduling Opposite: Regionalizing the Midwest, American Lit. I, Soc. for the Study of Midwestern Lit., Debating War