Meetings

MEETINGS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 1:30 to 3:30 CONJOINT MEETING: SIROW, Curriculum Integration: Starting and Sustaining a Project(Salon A) Presiding: Nancy Mairs, Western States Project Panelists: Myra Dinnerstein, Western States Project; Judy Lensink, University of Arizona Curriculum Integration Project; Betty Schmitz, Western States Project 3:30 to 5:00 CONJOINT MEETING: SIROW, Curriculum Integration: Revising the Literary Canon(Salon A) Panelists: Susan Aiken, University of Arizona; Jerrold Hogle, University of Arizona; Tey Diana Rebolledo, University of Nevada, Reno 4:00 to 8:00 RMMLA Board Meeting(Board Room) 4:00 to 5:30 FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Comparative 20th-century French and Québécois Literature(Salon B) Presiding: Stephen Smith, Central Connecticut State University Secretary: Lucile Martineau, Smith College Cheryl Demharter, University of Texas, Austin. "Quelques Influences françaises dans l'oeuvre de Denys Chabot." Janis L. Pallister, Bowling Green State University. "Eros and Thanatos in Anne Hébert's Kamouraska and Marguerite Duras' Hiroshima mon amour." Claude Senninger, University of New Mexico. "Quelques Parallélismes et analogies françaises dans l'oeuvre d'Anne Hébert." Discussant: Marie Naudin, University of Connecticut GENERAL TOPIC: Problems of Translations from Foreign Languages(Salon C) Presiding: Judith J. Radke, Arizona State University E.P. Grobe, Arizona State University. "A Guide for the Metrically Faithful Translation of French Binary Alexandrines." Marian Smolen, Arizona State University. "Translation of Gil Vicente's 16th Century Farce, 'Quern Tern farelos/Quién tiene farelos?'" Robert Bjork, Arizona State University. "Translation Theory and the 121 Teaching of Composition." Laurel Rodd, Arizona State University. "Translating 'Connoisseur's' Poetry." 5:00 to 6:00 Wine and Cheese, see Events Board 5:45 to 7:15 GENERAL TOPIC: American Humor(Salon B) Presiding: Douglas R. McKay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Secretary: William Nelson, Wichita State University Don L. F. Nilsen, Arizona State University. "Is There Anything Funny About the Composition Process? The Wheat-and-ChaffApproach to Teaching Writing." Gregory S. Sojka, Wichita State University. "Kansas Regional Humor: Two Case Studies." Richard H. Cracroft, Brigham Young University. "Two Not-So-Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain, Jerome K. Jerome and the European Pilgrimage." Samuel I. Bellman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. "Henry C. Bunner: A Nineteenth-Century 'Period Piece' Humorist." TEACHING: English Composition(Salon C) Presiding: Jacqueline K. Valdez, Casper College Secretary: Alice Adams, California State University, Fresno Kenneth Seib, California State University, Fresno. "Caught in the Computer Revolution." Samila S. Nickell, Brigham Young University. "User Friendly Teaching." Thomas T. Barker, Texas Tech University. "The Microlab in an English Department: Tips on Designing for Flexibility." Patricia Keith, Lewis Clark State College. "The Tonic of Wildness: A Paper in Defense of the Humanistic Values of Composition." GENERAL TOPIC: Small Presses and Little Magazines (Salon F) Presiding: David Baker, Denison University Wyn Cooper, University of Utah. "How to Run a Big 'Little' Magazine." John Rothfork, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "Small Presses in India." A. Thomas Trusky, Boise State University. "Tub-Thumping the Literary Magazine." FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Penninsular Spanish Literature (Salon G) Presiding: John F. Knowlton, Arizona State University Secretary: Peter P. Ashworth, Brigham Young University 122 Catherine C. Bellver, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The Sea and the Sailor in Luis Cernuda's Poetry." Lee Dowling, University of Houston. "Lecturas y Lectores—Una Leyenda de Béquer." Ernest Norden, Baylor University. "Apparent Anomalies in Valle-Inclán's 'La Cara de Dios.'" Luis H. Peña, Arizona State University. "Textura Dramática en El Arquitecto y el Emperador de Asiría." FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French Literature before 1800 (Salon H) Presiding: Joan A. Buhlman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Secretary: Edwin P. Grobe, Arizona State University Guy Wagener, University of Nevada, Reno. "Jacques le Fataliste: La Randonn ée d'une Nouvelle Science." B. Jane Wells (Romer), "Biblical Intertextuality in the Heptaméron. Colette Winn, Washington University. "The Naming of Women in the Heptam éron of Marguerite de Navarre." Donald Gilman, Ball State University. '"It's Written in the Stars': Ronsard, Tyard, and the Realities of Astrological Divination." 7:30 to 9:00 CONJOINT MEETING: SIROW(Bluebonnet Room) Gayatri Spivak, University of Texas, Austin. "U.S. Feminism: Pedagogy/ Criticism, Curriculum/Discipline, Theory." 7:30 to 9:30 SPECIAL EVENT: Poetry Reading(Salons A, B...