Meetings

MEETINGS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 2:00-6:00 RMMLA Executive Board(Rincón) 3:00-4:30 ENGLISH: Nineteenth Century American Literature (Mohave) Presiding: Dean Rehberger, University of Utah Secretary: Kathleen Burrage, Washington State University Kathleen M. Lant and Angela Estes, California Polytechnic State University. "Louisa Alcott's Jean Muir as Emerson's Self-Reliant Man." Jason G. Horn, University of Colorado. "Mark Twain and William James: Pragmatic Jeremiads and the Homily of Anti-Imperialism." Melanie Austin, Washington State University. "The Fictional Responses of Poe, Ingraham, and Southworth to the Media Image of Mary Rogers, 1841-1859." Robert King, Utah State University. "The Shape of Culture: Charles Lummis and the 'Writing' of the American Southwest." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Francophone Literature ofthe Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa(Santa Cruz) Presiding: Wangari M. Waigwa-Stone, Weber State University Secretary: Johannes M. Spronk, Eastern Oregon State College Patricia Frederick, Northern Arizona University. "The Quest and the Sacrifice in the Tales of Bernard Dadié." Cheryl Hansen, Weber State University. "Welcome House: Victim or Accomplice, a Search for Freedom." Sylvette Norré, Salt Lake City, Utah. "Relation mere/ills: lecture de La Chrysalide Aicha Lemsine et L'Enfant noir de Cámara Laye." GENERAL TOPIC: Children's Literature(Pinal) Presiding: Virginia B. Epstein, Regis University, Denver Secretary: Lois Marchino, University of Texas at El Paso Marianne Barnett, Saginaw Valley State University. "Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and the Last Time I Slept Through the Night." Elouise Bell, Brigham Young University. "Those Wonderful Wimps: Elsie Dinsmore, Freckles, The Girl of the Limberlost, and Other Simpering Companions of My Tomboy Childhood." 143 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 3:00-4:30 (continued) Pauline Mortensen, University ofUtah. "The Book of Max and Other Wild Things." Stephanie Pace, University of Utah. "Do the Hokey Pokey: A Retrieval." SPECIAL TOPIC: Ivo Andric Symposium(Yuma) Presiding: Peter Horwath, Arizona State University Secretary: Maria Budisavljevic-Oparnica, Arizona State University Discussants: Stephen K. Batalden, Arizona State University Lee B. Croft, Arizona State University Olivera Petrovic-Horwath, Arizona State University Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric, Texas A & M University Ileana Orlich, Arizona State University Zoran Konstantinovic, Universität Innsbruck SPECIAL TOPIC: Cervantes: escritor experimental (Yavapai) Presiding: Angel Sánchez, Arizona State University Bernardita Llanos, Denison University. "Cervantes y la feminidad pastoril." Francisco Sánchez, University of Minnesota. "Referent and Referentiality in Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares." Stacey L. Parker Aronson, University of Minnesota. "La textualización de Leocadia y la defensa textualizada en La fuerza de la sangre." Agustín Boyer, Arizona State University. "Las aventuras del rebuzno y del moro adivino: 'zarandajas tan impertinentes como necesarias para el entendimiento desta grande historia.' " Discussant: Nicholas Spadaccini, University of Minnesota SPECIAL TOPIC: Technical Communication-Forces ofChange in Theory, Teaching, and Practice(Cochise) Presiding: Robert M. Hogge, Weber State University Secretary: Elizabeth R. Turpin, Ferris State University Darci N. Hill, Sam Houston State University. "Product Becomes Process: Applying an Intertextual Process Model to Technical Writing Pedagogy." Pierre Laroche, New Mexico State University. "Doing More Things with Words: A Practical Application of Speech Act Theory." Mahalingam Subbiah, Weber State University. "Social Construction Theory and the Teaching of Audience Analysis." 144 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 3:00-4:30 (continued) Elizabeth R. Turpin, Ferris State University. "Collaborative Generational and Recursive Activities in Network Online Writing and Editing Groups: Proposed Models." SPECIAL TOPIC: Writing Programs: Planning and Administration—Computer Classrooms(Coconino) Presiding: Susan McLeod, Washington State University Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University. "Planning for a Computer Classroom: An Administrator's Guide to Doing Your Homework." Beverly Zimmerman, Brigham Young University. "Training Teachers for a Computer Classroom: Paradox and Promise." Brian J. Fogg, Brigham Young University. "Planning for a Computer Classroom: A Teacher's Perspective." Christine Huit, Utah State University. "Expanded Roles for Computers in English Departments." SPECIAL TOPIC: Autobiographical Discourse, the Text and the Reader: Theory and Practice in the Twentieth Century (La Paz) Presiding: Carlos Javier Garcia, Arizona State University Gareth Williams, University of California, Davis. "Escritura y vida: la autobiografía de Rubén Darío." César Ferreira, University of Nevada, Reno. "Los Muchos 'yos' de Alfredo Bryce Echenique." Cecilia Konchar Farr, Brigham Young University. "Private Discourse Goes Public: Modernistic Women's Autobiographical Fiction." CONJOINT MEETING: Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica: Letras Femeninas—El Testimonio como Literatura...