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New Orleans 2004

Approved  Special Sessions
(Complete Panels Have Been Submitted and Approved)

The following Special Sessions have been accepted for the 2004 New Orleans convention.  Please note: Session chairs must ensure that all participants are SCMLA members by 15 May.  Chairs are also responsible for informing the SCMLA office in writing of any changes or corrections to these panels by the final program copy deadline of 7 April.  Please review eligibility rules. 

African American Folk and Popular Traditions in Literature and Art
Organizer:    Michael D. Hill, Xavier University of Louisiana

Anti-Patriots and Cosmopolitans in American Literature 
Organizer:  Lou Caton, Westfield State College

Appropriation and Domination in German and Italian Cinema and Literature
Organizer:  Irene S. Di Maio, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

Barging Down the Nile:  Literary Views of Cleopatra from Shakespeare to the Moderns 
Organizer:  Roslyn Feso Foy, Tulane University

Behaving Badly:  The Politics of the Obscene in Renaissance Italy 
Organizer:  Gerry Milligan, City University of New York, College of Staten Island

The Blues:  African-American Literary Voices of Pain and Survival
Organizer:    Willene P. Taylor, Southern University at New Orleans

But Seriously Folks....:  Academic Culture and the Devaluation of Popular Modernism 
Organizer:  Beth Ellen Roberts, University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast

Cajun French & Cajun English Spoken in Louisiana
Organizer:  Jack Yeager, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

Cognitive Poetics and Avant-Garde Writing 
Organizer:  Camille Martin, Loyola University

Confluence, Convergence, and Subversion in Text and Image:  Shades of the Medieval and the Romantic in Nineteenth Century Interpretations
Organizer:  Elizabeth M. Willingham, Baylor University

Confluences and Conflicts:  Cultural Exchange in Postcolonial Travel Films 
Organizer:  David Aldstadt & Dayna Oscherwitz, Southern Methodist University

Confluences of British Romanticism and Science 
Organizer:  Kelly Wisecup, Texas Tech University

Cowardice and Treachery in French Literature - Session I
Organizer:  Philip G. Hadlock, Texas Christian University

Cowardice and Treachery in French Literature - Session II  
Organizer:  Philip G. Hadlock, Texas Christian University

Cultural Aberrations:  Survival Outside the Margins
Organizer:  Delia Fisher, Westfield State College

Cultural Confluences in Anglophone Literatures 
Organizer:  Anne V. Cirella-Urrutia, Huston-Tillotson College

Cultural Confluences in Medieval and Early Modern Spain 
Organizer:  Eric J. Kartchner, Southern Methodist University

Cultural Confluences of the Long Eighteenth Century
Organizer:  Cami D. Agan, Oklahoma Christian University

Endangered Spanish in Contact with Other Minority Languages    
Organizer:  Felice Coles, University of Mississippi

European Romanticism:  Confluences and Crosscurrents  
Organizer:  Hella Hennessee, University of Dallas

Ezra Pound and the Politics of Influences 
Organizer:  Erin Hollis, Texas A&M University-College Station 

Failure, Shame and Reconsiderations Among American Authors
Organizer:    Benjamin F. Fisher, University of Mississippi

Feminisms and Generic Exponentiality:  The Necessity of Resistance to Mono-delineations
Organizer:    Lisa Costello, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

The Garífuna:  A New Orleans Culture Speaks
Organizer:    Susan Fitch Spillman, Xavier University of Louisiana

Ghosts and the Ghostly in Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture
Organizer:    Matthew W. DeVoll, University of Alabama-Birmingham
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~mwdevoll/ghosts.html

Gothic Confluences:  There and Then   
Organizer:  Nancye McClure, Southwest Missouri State University-West Plains

Imposters and Pranksters from French Cinema and Literature
Organizer:  Ralph Schoolcraft, Texas A&M University-College Station

Issues of Cultural Identity in the French-Speaking World
Organizer:  Phillip Bailey, University of Central Arkansas

Language as a Vehicle of Culture 
Organizer:  Françoise Ghillebaert, The Universit of Puerto Rico

Literary or Creative Nonfiction:  Intersection of Voice and Genre   
Organizer:  Stella Thompson, Prairie View A&M University

Literary Production and Socio-Historic Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers of Spain   
Organizer:  Elizabeth Rousselle, Xavier University of Louisiana

Literatura Fronteriza Chihuahuense 
Organizer:  Jesús Tafoya, Sul Ross State University

Louisiana Stories:  Louisiana in/as Text
Organizer:  Jude Meche, Missouri Southern State College

Natives and Nativism 
Organizers:  Stephen Germic, Harrisburg, VA

One Foot in the Sea, One on Shore:  Contemporary Poets on Cultural Deportation and Identity Reconstruction 
Organizer:  Beth Martinelli, Saint Vincent College

The Pícaro:  Centers and Margins of Cultural Identity   
Organizer:  Eric J. Kartchner, Southern Methodist University

The Poetic Process
Organizer:    Debra D. Andrist, University of St. Thomas

Postmodern Identities
Organizer:    Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Readings by MFA Faculty at LSU
Organizer:    Rodger Kamenetz, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

Re-Donne:  20th & 21st Century Readings of the Poetry of John Donne 
Organizer:  Jessica Wierzbinski, Wichita State University

Reshuffling the Romantic Canon:  Recovering Women's Writing    
Organizer:  Ben P. Robertson, Troy State University

Rhetoric and Religion:  Refiguring Religious Voices
Organizer:   C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University-College Station

Service-Learning:  Taking Learning into the Community  
Organizer:  Richard Raschio, University of St. Thomas

Sex, Women, and Film
Organizer:    A. Heidi Karriker, University of Oklahoma

Tributaries to the Stream of Time:  Temporal Experience as Cultural Construct in British Literature 
Organizer:  Mark Hama, Angelo State University

Trying to shove ourselves back together:  Contextualizing Hedwig and the Angry Inch 
Organizer:  Catherine Ozment, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Voices of Central American Literature
Organizer:  José Juan Colín, University of Oklahoma

William Dean Howell's America 
Organizer:  Lindsey Grubbs, Texas A&M University-College Station

The Workload of Composition Teaching 
Organizer:  Randall L. Popken, Tarleton State University


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