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CALL FOR PAPERS 2019

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Conference Dates: October 10-12, 2019

Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2019

Conference Location: Hotel Paso del Norte, El Paso, Texas

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Individual Session Listings with Chair Contact Information—contact session chairs directly for descriptions, detailed CFPs, and questions about specific panels. E-MAIL Abstracts to session chair directly.

For changes to this CFP, write to RMMLA Executive Director Joy Landeira at the University of Wyoming:  [email protected]


Asian Studies

 

Asian Comparative Literature and Film. Géraldine Fiss, University of Southern California, [email protected] or [email protected]

 

Chinese Literature and Film since 1900. Shaohua Guo. Carleton College. [email protected]

 

Chinese Literature Before 1900. Yu Zhang. Loyola University, Maryland. [email protected].

 

Chinese Poetry. Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta. [email protected]

 

RMMLA Chinese reading session. Authors read from their creative work (translation). Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta. [email protected]

 

 

South Asia: Native and Diasporic Literatures. Alan Johnson, Idaho State University, [email protected]Description: This session aims to reflect cultural expressions by South Asia's diverse peoples, cultures, languages, and histories. We consider a range of themes in any literary genre or other medium by native or diasporic authors in any regional language, including English.

 

Classical Studies

Interpretation and Influence of Greek Myths. Victor Castellani. University of Denver. [email protected]

Conjoint Meetings

Owen Barfield Society (Open Business Meeting)Jane Hipolito. California State University, Fullerton. [email protected].

 

British Studies

Charles Dickens. Lauren Rohrs. Notre Dame of Maryland University. [email protected]

 

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Popular Women's Fiction in English. Danielle Pollaro. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [email protected]

English Eighteenth-Century Literature. Carly Hunter. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [email protected]

English Literature since 1900. Krista Rascoe, Tarrant County College. [email protected].

 

English Nineteenth-Century Literature. Matthew VanWinkle. Idaho State University. [email protected]

 

English Renaissance Literature. Dorothy Vanderford, 1622 Broadmoor Circle, Boulder City, NV 89005; 702-204-1686; [email protected]

English Seventeenth-Century Literature. Robert Eggleston, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. [email protected]

Mary Shelley. Lori Davis Perry, 225 Preservation Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80919; 719-333-3930; [email protected]

Middle English. Christine Cooper-Rompato, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3200; 435-7973856; [email protected]

Old English. Kathryn Green. University of Louisville. [email protected]

Owen Barfield, Religion, and the Prophetic Imagination. Peter Fields.Midwestern State University. [email protected]

 

Romanticism. Sasha Strelitz. University of Denver. [email protected]


Shakespeare. Katheryn Vomero Santos, Trinity University. [email protected]

Victorian Travelers.Molly Desjardins, University of Northern Colorado. [email protected].

 

English-Postcolonial Studies

Caribbean Literature and the Diáspora. Ariel Santos, 545 Coastal Dreams, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89031; 7028247823; [email protected]

 

English-US & Canadian Studies

 

American Literature after 1900. Marcus Embry. University of Northern Colorado. [email protected].

 

American Nineteenth Century Literature. Dustin Hixenbaugh, Bethany College, WV. [email protected]

Early American Literature. Christopher Black, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 West University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539; 405-334-3894; [email protected]

Jewish American Literature. Ezra Cappell, The College of [email protected]

Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL). Melody Pritchard, 1101 Hillside Ave, Florence, SC 29505; [email protected]
Description: This panel welcomes papers exploring how changing the interpretive frameworks we use to analyze southern literature allows us to, perhaps, read it differently.

 

Southern Literature. Mimi Gladstein. University of Texas at El Paso. [email protected]

 

Southwestern, Chicana/o, Mexican American and Native American. Priscilla Falcon, University of Northern Colorado, Department of Hispanic Studies, Greeley, CO 80639; 970-351-1267; [email protected]

 

 

Film Studies

Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock: The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock. Liahna Armstrong, CWU Dept of English, 400 East University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926-7558; 509-963-3178; [email protected]

Film (Open Topic). Demetrio Anzaldo-González, 411 CMU Square, Fayette, MO 65248; 573-822-4063; [email protected]

 

Film Theory and Criticism: Film Theory and Criticism. Liahna Armstrong, CWU Dept of English, 400 East University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926-7558; 509-963-3178;[email protected]

French-Francophone Studies

E.M. Cioran’s French and Romanian Oeuvre: Ses Contemporains et ses Amis (His Contemporaries and His Friendships). Monica Garoiu, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. [email protected]
Description: Welcomes critical approaches to Cioran’s works, life and friendships, in French or in English. Please send a title and a 50 to 100 word proposal, and include name, academic association, e-mail and telephone to Dr. Monica Garoiu at: [email protected]. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2018.

Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean. Sara Fischer. University of Colorado.  [email protected].

Description: Welcomes proposals of 250 words on topics of Francophone literatures of Africa and the Caribbean. Topics may include, but are not limited to, family dynamics in Africa and the Caribbean, migrating subjects of Africa and the Caribbean, negotiations of gender, class and sexualities in Africa and the Caribbean.

 

French Cultural and Literary Theory. Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University, 3200 Dyer Street, 309 Clements Hall, Dallas, TX [email protected]

 

French Literature before 1800. Francis Mathieu, Southwestern Univ., [email protected]

Description: Welcomes abstracts of 50 to 100 words for open topics on Medieval, Renaissance and 18th Century literature. Please provide name, affiliation, e-mail and telephone for future contacts to Francis Mathieu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of French, Southwestern University at [email protected].

 

French Literature since 1800. Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University

Box 3001 MSC 3L, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001; Phone: 575 646 4595; [email protected]
Description: Welcomes proposals of 100 words on French and Francophone Literature and Culture since 1800. Please include your name, affiliation, e-mail, and telephone. Deadline for submitting proposals to [email protected] is March 1.

 

Women in French Sessions are listed in Special Topics

 

 

Gender Studies

Women's Voices in Poetry: Space and Spatiality in American and British Women’s Poetry. Heidi Laudien, Manhattan College Pkwy, Miguel Hall, Riverdale, NY 10471; 917-701-2671; [email protected]
Description: Space, spatiality and liminality from the concrete to the metaphorical. Possible topics: gendered, performative, heteronormative, theorized, maternal, urban, eco-poetic, feminine écriture, digital, feminist, radical, silenced, and racialized spaces.

 

General Topics

 

Queer Studies. Joseph Donica. Bronx Community College. [email protected] Description: How is intersectionality expressed or suppressed among literature and/or media representations of LGBTQIA individuals? Critical analyses of literature and media (adult, young adults’ and children’s) are welcome, as are empirical and theoretical methods. Contact session chair for detailed CFP.

 

Literature and Religion.  Lucien Meadows. University of Denver. [email protected]

Literature and Science. Robert Parrott, Independent Scholar. [email protected]

Literature for Children and Young Adults. Marla Arbach. Carleton College. [email protected].

Mystery and Detective Film and Fiction: Detective Diversity. Miguel López-Lozano,
University of New Mexico | 4232 Broadmoor Ave NE,  Albuquerque, NM 87108. Phone: 505-260-0216 |  [email protected]

 

Science Fiction Literature and Film. Anelise Farris, Idaho State University. [email protected]

 

Germanic Studies

 

Austrian Studies Association (formerly MALCA). Istvan Gombocz, University of South Dakota, 319 N Plum St, Vermillion, SD 57069-2511; 605-659-1451; [email protected]

 

Berlin. Tom Conner, St. Norbert College; [email protected]

German Literature before 1900. Sean Ireton, University of Missouri. [email protected].

German Literature since 1900. Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona, 301 Learning Services Building, 1512 E. First Street, Tucson, AZ 85721; 520-621-1395; [email protected]

RMMLA Poets Read their Works in German. Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona, 301 Learning Services Building, 1512 E. First Street, Tucson, AZ 85721; 520-621-1395; [email protected]

Linguistics

American Dialect Society (ADS). Felice Anne Coles, Department of Modern Languages, Bond C-115, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677-1848; 662-915-7702; [email protected]

English Linguistics. Susan McKay, Weber State University English Dept, 1395 Edvalson Street, Dept 1404, Ogden, UT 84408-1404; 801-626-6251; [email protected]

General and Applied Linguistics. Dallin D. Oaks, Linguistics and English Language, 4064 JFSB Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602; 801-422-6369; [email protected]

Romance Linguistics. Susan McKay, Weber State University English Dept, 1395 Edvalson Street, Dept 1404, Ogden, UT 84408-1404; 801-626-6251; [email protected]

TESOL and Second Language Acquisition. Michael Raines, University of Mississippi, Howry Hall #204, University, MS 38677; 662-915-1492; [email protected]

 

Other Foreign Language Studies

Romania's Contributions to International Heritage. Ana-Maria M'Enesti, 4885 Aster Street, Unit175, Springfield, OR 97478; 503-713-7525; [email protected]

Pedagogy

Practical Approaches to Teaching Language. Dilnoza Khasilova. University of Wyoming. [email protected]

 

Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature. Christa Albrecht-Crane. Utah Valley University. [email protected]

Description: Talks on any aspect of the session topic are welcome: models, tips, strategies for teaching literature (English, American, world, other). Come share what's working in your classroom.

 

Teaching English Composition. Sonya Green, One University Park Dr., Nashville, TN 37204, 615-966-5784,  [email protected]
Description: Panel will engage a range of questions related to teaching writing and proposals on any aspect of topic are welcome. 250 word abstracts and brief bio due by March 1 to session chair.

 

Teaching Foreign Languages. Dilnoza Khasilova. University of Wyoming. [email protected]

 

Technology and Distance Education. Debilyn Kinzler. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. [email protected]

 

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH). Guadalupe Pérez-Anzaldo University of Missouri-Columbia, 212 D Arts and Science Building  Columbia, MO 65201; 573-882-3386 |  [email protected]

Early Modern Spanish Writers. Marcos Romero Asencio, 4085 Mont Katnich Ct NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525; 616-427-3603; [email protected]

 

Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature. José Suárez, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 87, Greeley, CO 80639; [email protected]

 

New Spanish/Latin American Cinema. Amalia Garzon, 2020 S. Ave. 8E, Yuma, AZ 85365; 928-344-7739; [email protected]
Description: Representaciones y propuestas en el cine hispanoamericano contemporáneo, teniendo en cuenta, entre otras, temáticas de identidad, género, etnia, raza, lo socio-político, lo socio-cultural, teorí­as fílmicas.

 

Peninsular Spanish Literature. Judit Palencia Gutiérrez, University of California, Riverside. [email protected]

 

Prisma crítico de literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea. María López Cabrales. Colorado State University. [email protected]

 

RMMLA Poets Read Their Works in Spanish. ShelliRottschafer, Aquinas College and The University of New Mexico |  [email protected]

Special Topics

 

Beyond the Frontier: First Year Composition. Jill Dahlman. University of North Alabama. [email protected]

 

Flipping the Classroom in Language and Literature Courses. Louise Stoehr, 2911 Dogwood, Nacogdoches, TX 75965; 936-468-2167; [email protected]

 

Hemingway. Joy Landeira. University of Wyoming, Modern and Classical Languages, 1000 E. University Ave, Dept 3603, Laramie, WY 82071; 307-766-4852; [email protected]2019 is the 120th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s birth. Seeking papers on any aspect. 

 

Human Ties: Identity, Language and Memoir. Joy Landeira. University of Wyoming, Modern and Classical Languages, 1000 E. University Ave, Dept 3603, Laramie, WY 82071; 307-766-4852; [email protected].

 

Interdisciplinary Approaches in Teaching Language and Literature. Louise Stoehr, 2911 Dogwood, Nacogdoches, TX 75965; 936-468-2167; [email protected]

Chican@ Diáspora in Literature and Film. ShelliRottschafer, Aquinas College and The University of New Mexico |  [email protected]

Late 19th / Early 20th Century Literature, English and American. Christine Battista, Johnson & Wales University, 7150 E Montview Blvd, Denver, CO 80226; 720-556-1121; [email protected]
Description: Looking specifically for papers that examine ecocritical approaches to American literature and culture.

 

Manifestations of Cultural Identity in Latin American Literature and Culture. John Burns, Rockford University| Phone: 6083386980 |  [email protected]

Narratology. Marshall Johnson, English Dept./0098, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557; 303-653-1654; [email protected].

 

Octave Mirbeau: Life and Fiction, Drama, Art Criticism and Friendships. Aurélien Demars. Université Jean Moulin-Université Savoie Mont Blanc. [email protected]

Description: Welcomes proposals of 50 to 100 words in French or English. Please include name, address, telephone, e-mail.

 

On-line Education, Practice, Pedagogy and Theory. Sherena Huntsman, 1773 N 170 W, Tooele, UT 84074; 435-224-3373; [email protected]

 

Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, and Open Practices. Michael Dabrowski. Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. [email protected]

Description: One significant outcome of the Incheon Declaration 2015 was the Education 2030 Framework for Action. It aims at directing all global partners to commit to UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal #4 to “ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.” As we move to meet this challenge, it is becoming clear that Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, and Open Practices will play a key role in achieving this goal. This session will focus on the creation and adoption of open educational resources for language, literature and cultureeducation, and the implementation of open pedagogy practices in the language and literature classroom.

 

Rhetorical Theory. Cassandra Bishop.University of Nevada-Reno. 615-934-2311; [email protected].

 


RMMLA Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English. Joseph L.Donica,
Bronx Community College,2155 University Ave. Bronx, NY 10453. Phone: 8643805721 |  [email protected]

 

 

Space and Spatiality. Kevin Binfield.Murray State University. [email protected]

 

Spatiality and Geocriticism in Spanish and Latin American Literature. Juan Carlos Rozo. University of Houston. [email protected]

Description: This panel will explore the ways in which certain literary works from Latin American and Spain have emphasized the spatial relationship between different subjects and the places they inhabit or perambulate. The literary (re)construction of social spaces and places such as the city or the countryside allows these literary works to engage in a geocritical inquiry regarding issues of land ownership and land-grabbing, dispossession and migration; issues that are crucial nowadays in most sociopolitical debates in Latin America.

 

Spanish for the professions/ Spanish for Specific Purposes. Eduardo Caro, 411 North Central Avenue, Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ 85018; [email protected]

 

Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages and Literatures: Pedagogies, Challenges, and Perspectives. Maria Mikolchak, St. Cloud State University, 720 4th Ave. South, St Cloud, MN 56301; 320-308-4141; [email protected]
Description: This session will try to attract all those who teach world languages other than Spanish.

 

Teaching Tolkien in Tension between the Academy and the Peter Jackson Films. Carol Leibiger, University of South Dakota, 414 E Clark St, Vermillion, SD 57069; 605-677-6089; [email protected]

Time and Literature. Christa Albrecht-Crane, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, 801-863-6286. [email protected]
Description: Presentations on literature about time, the role of time in literature, or what literature teaches us about time.

NOTE: Women in French sessions are open to all members of RMMLA.

RMMLA 2019 Women in French Panels

 

Please send a 250-300 word abstract in French or English, including presenter’s academic affiliation and contact information, to one of the panel chairs listed below by March 1, 2019.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact Arline Cravens (Women in French Representative) if you have any questions ([email protected]).

 

1. Images of the Self and Images of Others : The Metaphor of Curation in and about the Arts

This panel explores the applications of curation (metaphorically or concretely) in fields ranging from life writing to the formation of digital collections and course content. 

Chairs: Dawn Cornelio, University of Guelph ([email protected]) and Pascale Perraudin, Saint Louis University ([email protected])

 

2. Authenticity and Distortion in Nationalistic and Other Discourses of the Holocaust

This session questions authenticity in textual discourses (broad sense) that exploited or confronted anti-Semitic sentiments during the war, illuminating ethical truths which are of vital importance today.

Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta University ([email protected])

 

3. The Ambiguity of Writing/ L’ambiguité de l’écriture

How have women (writers and characters) employed strategies of ambiguous writing for the purposes of exposure, enlargement, or enfranchisement? What are the gains and risks?

Chair : Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University  ([email protected])

 

4. Reimagining Paradise

How do writers, cinematographers, and artists from the French-speaking world counter touristic exotifications of their communities? Does ecotourism factor into the cultural production of these areas?

Chair: Julia Frengs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ([email protected])

 

5. Autres féminismes:  Social Engagement, Critical Reflection, and Being Wom*n in the Contemporary Francophone World

This panel examines what “other” feminisms are developing in the French-speaking world and how these feminisms might nuance/modify/change our understanding of le combat des femmes today.

Chair: CJ Gomolka, DePauw University ([email protected])

 

6. French Feminisms Now

 This panel assesses the current manifestations/contributions of French feminisms - literary, theoretical, or political. Can we speak of a fourth wave of feminism in France? 

Chair: Michèle Schaal, Iowa State University ([email protected])

 

7. Teaching Women in French Roundtable: Innovations

This panel seeks innovative teaching ideas for the French classroom at all levels. How can we engage students to learn about French and Francophone women writers?

Chair: Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University ([email protected])

 

8. L’Égypte des Lumières : francophonie, modernité et féminisme à l’aube du XXe siècle

This panel sheds light on this neglected part of Franco-Egyptian relations, the embrace of modernity, and figures who contributed to this period of Egypt’s Enlightenment.

Chair: Samia Spencer, Auburn University([email protected])

 

 

 

Writing Trauma Survival. Kim Misfeldt. University of Alberta, Augustana. [email protected]

 

Technical and Professional Communication

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Business Meeting. Jonathan Arnett, Kennesaw State University, 440 Bartow Ave, MS 2701, Kennesaw, GA 30144; [email protected] Description: This session will include an ATTW business meeting and a planning session for next year's Technical and Professional Communication track.

Classroom Applications: Community-Engaged Learning. Beth Shirley, Utah State University. [email protected]
Description: This session welcomes papers that focus particularly on service-learning or that consider more broadly ways in which the community can be integrated into the classroom.

Classroom Applications: On-line Teaching in Technical and Professional Communication
Cassandra L. Bishop; University of Nevada-Reno. 615-934-2311; [email protected].
Description: This discussion panel section will discuss new and innovative strategies used for teaching technical and professional communication online. Analyses of how theory and practical exigence intersect are especially welcome.

Forces of Change. Tom Ballard, Iowa State University, 38 Schilletter Village, Unit D  Ames, IA 50010; [email protected]; [email protected]
Description: Focuses on various forces of change: social, economic, political, and technological, and their impact on teaching and research in the humanities.

 

The Workplace and Beyond. Erin Jensen, University of Utah. [email protected]
Description: This discussion panel section will address ways to integrate coursework with internships, service learning, employment, or any other types of experiential learning.

 

Theory and Research. Julia Boyd, Ferris State University. [email protected]. Description: This discussion panel session welcomes current research being conducted, courses in research theory and practice, or new theories in need of wider implementation

Theory/Criticism/Comparative Studies

 

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and Ecocriticism. Ellen M. Bayer, University of Washington, Tacoma. [email protected]

 

Comparative Literature (Non-Western/non-European Focus). Nozomi Irei, Southern Utah University, 351 W. University Boulevard, Cedar City, UT 84720; [email protected]

 

Comparative Literature (Open Topic). Carla Damiano, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, Tel: 734-487-0130;  [email protected]     

 

Rhetorical Criticism (Open Topic). Lauren M. Connolly. Lewis-Clark State College. [email protected]

Writing Programs

Writing across the Curriculum. Bradley P. Benz, University of Denver. [email protected].  
 

Writing Programs. Erik Juergensmeyer, Fort Lewis College; 507 East 5th Ave, Durango, CO 81301; [email protected]

 


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