Meetings

MEETINGS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 2:00 to 6:00 RMMLA Board Meeting. See registration board. (Executive Parlor) 2:00 to 3:30 SPECIAL TOPIC: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama (Cedar) Presiding: Dorothea Kehler, San Diego State University Fidelia Dickinson, San Diego State University. "The Duchess of Malfi and the Self." Mary Free, Florida International University. "The Trouble with Helena." Alan Powers, Bristol Community College. "Men of Talk, Women of Action." James Schiffer, Hampden-Sydney College. "Macbeth and The Bearded Women: A Few Notes on Shakespeare's Definition of Man." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Classical Languages and Literature, Greek (Aspen) Presiding: Craig Kallendorf, Texas A & M University Secretary: William Nethercut, University of Texas at Austin Victor Castellani, University of Denver. "Unholy Three: Three Demigod Troublemakers." Tina Nielson, University of Maine. "Fathers, Daughters, Marriage, and Death in Euripides." Diana Robin, University of New Mexico. "The Figure of Antigone in Euripides and Statius." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: German Literature Before 1900 (Century) Presiding: Richard Critchfield, Texas A & M University. Roger Crockett, Texas A & M University. "Redeemer or Deceiver: Contrasting Portrayals of Christ in Three Mary Dramas of the Middle Ages." Mark Lehrer, University of Colorado, Denver. "From Kabale und Liebe to Maria Stuart: Inner Continuity Despite Formal Change in Schiller's Drama." Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A & M University. "Static and Dynamic Images as Thematic Motifs in C. F. Meyer's Die Versuchung des Pescara." 133 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 2:00 to 3:30 (continued) Ingeborg L. Carlson, Arizona State University. "Eugenie Marlitt: Zuckerbonbon mit Dynamitfüllung." LINGUISTICS: English(Colorado) Presiding: Carolyn O'Hearn, University of Texas at El Paso Secretary: Robert W. Blair, Brigham Young University James W. Ney, Arizona State University. "What Was Transformational Grammar?" Gary N. Underwood, University of Texas at Austin. "Language and Nationalism: A Texas Experience." Tom DuBose, University of Texas at Austin. " 'Ambassadors From Witchland': New Religious and Esoteric Terms of the 19th Century." 3:45 to 5:15 ENGLISH: Old and Middle English(Birch) Presiding: Paul R. Thomas, Brigham Young University Roberta Payne, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. "Pearl: Introductory Notes on Its Relationship to the Divine Comedy." Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., University of Denver. "The Dragon Debate: Expostulation and Beowulf's Heroic Reply." Catherine Corman, Brigham Young University. "The Act of Reading Chaucer." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Classical Languages and Literature, Roman (Aspen) Presiding: Craig Kallendorf, Texas A & M University Secretary: William Nethercut, University of Texas at Austin John Hall, Brigham Young University. "Tarquín and the Sibyl: The Etruscan Origin of Rome's Prophetic Books." Mark P. Weadon, U. S. Air Force Academy. "Some Notes on the Convention of Direct Address in Catullus." Joy King, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Erato Didaxis: Iocunda Voluptas in Lucretius 2.3 and Propertius 1.10.3." Robert Wilhelm, Miami University of Ohio. "Elementary, My Dear Aeneid." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Other Germanic Literatures (Cedar) Presiding: Steven P. Sondrup, Brigham Young University 134 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 Secretary: Miriam Pierce, Brigham Young University David R. Taylor, Humanities Research Center. "Orwellian Corruption: The Case of Afrikaans." SPECIAL TOPIC: Writing the Female Body(Century) Presiding: Diana de Armas Wilson, University of Denver Elizabeth A. Robertson, University of Colorado. "The Rule of the Body: Words and Wounds in the Ancrene Wisse." Catherine Kunce, University of Denver. "Which Witch is Which? Gender and Renaissance Witchcraft." Carol Sullivan, University of Denver. "Beyond Blancmange: The MotherDaughter Bond in Edna O'Brien's ? Rose in the Heart.' " James Meredith, U. S. Air Force Academy. "Beauty in the Eye/I of the Beholder: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." TEACHING: Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom (Colorado) Presiding: J. Karen Ray, Emporia State University Secretary: Ginny Epstein, Regis College Mary Hayden, California State University, Fullerton. "Feminist Perspectives and History: Public and Private Events." Stephanie Pace, University of Utah. "Witchcraft and a Web of Women: Restructuring a Study of Ancient Western Civilization." Mary Ann Bushman, Illinois Wesleyan University. "Teaching the 'Canon'/Reading the Silence." Anita Skeen, Wichita State University. "Women's Collaborative Writing: The Poet and the Scholar." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: French Literature Before 1800 (Spruce) Presiding: Colette H. Winn, Washington University in St. Louis Secretary: Ronald P. Bermingham, L'Université de Québec à Montreal Vicki L. Hamblin, University of Toledo. "From Fact to Fiction and Beyond: The Creation of the Mist...