Guide to Humanities-Computing Talks at the 2000 MLA Convention

53: Rethinking Shakespeare and Performance Criticism

Wednesday, 27 December 2000, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Harding Room, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Sarah Werner, George Washington University

• “Revisiting Shakespeare-in-Performance: A Theater Historian’s View,” Alan C. Dessen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• “Virtual Performances: Shakespeare Online,” W. B. Worthen, University of California, Berkeley
• “(Re)Placing and (Re)Writing Shakespearean Stagings,” Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University

70: Getting Published, Electronically and in Print

Wednesday, 27 December 2000, 8:45 to 10:00 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8206, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the
Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Roy C. Flannagan, Milton Quarterly

Speakers: Raymond G. Siemens, Early Modern Literary Studies; Heidi McGregor, JSTOR; Joan Grenier-Winther, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

121: Online Discourse: Theoretical Perspectives

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Popular Culture Association. Presiding: Beth A. Ferri, Texas Woman’s University

• “Objects, Subjects, and Discourse in Cyberspace,” Bish Sen, Rochester, New York
• “Cyborg Feminist Networks and Productions,” Rebecca J. Holden, Howard Community College, Maryland
• “Creating Communities out of Fear: The Culture of Y2K,” Patricia Ventura, University of Florida
• “Cybversive Spaces: Negotiating Hidden Identities Electronically,” Beth A. Ferri

122: From Gutenberg to Gates: Metamorphoses of Media

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 a.m. to noon, Salon 1, Marriott Wardman Park

A forum. Presiding: Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California, Davis

• “Narrative and Its Media,” Robert Scholes, Brown University
• “Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis in Digital Media,” N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles
• “Electracy: A Grammatology of Memory,” Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida
• “Digital Humanism and the Coming Age of Print,” Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore

For coordinated workshops, see meetings 321 and 484.

127: The Impact of the Internet on East Asian Literatures and Cultures

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Hamilton Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on East Asian Literatures. Presiding: Toru Kiuchi, Nihon University, Japan

• “The Geography of Cyberliterature in Korea,” Aeju Kim, Dongguk University, South Korea
• “The Internet and Modern Japanese Literature,” Toru Kiuchi
• “Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions: Some Comments on the Internet in China,” Kang Liu, Penn State University, University Park

133: Distance Education for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages I

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Caucus Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Language. Presiding: Helene Zimmer-Loew, American Association of Teachers of German

• “Teaching and Learning Styles in the Online Environment: What We Can Learn from Distance Learning,” Laura G. McGee, Western Kentucky University
• “Distance Education, Proficiency, and Foreign Language for Professional Use,” K. Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College, City University of New York

135: Representing the Seventeenth Century in Anthologies, Syllabi, and Curricula

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Presiding: Constance A. Jordan, Claremont Graduate University

• “The Canonical Texture of the Seventeenth Century: Teaching Political, Religious, and Literary Debates,” Gina Hausknecht, Coe College
• “Representing Gender in the Seventeenth Century,” Betty S. Travitsky, Graduate Center, City University of New York
• “Representing the Seventeenth Century Online,” Susanne Woods, Wheaton College, Massachusetts

136: Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time I: A Roundtable

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Virginia Suite C, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period. Presiding: Christine L. Krueger, Marquette University

• “Victorian Painting at the National Gallery,” Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., National Gallery of Art
• “Exhibiting Victorian Women,” Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware, Newark; Maria H. Frawley, University of Delaware, Newark
• “Scholarship on the Web,” George P. Landow, National University of Singapore
• “Disseminating Victorian Culture in the Postmillennial Classroom,” Sue Lonoff, Harvard University

140: Words on the Web

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Maryland Suite B, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography. Presiding: Joseph P. Pickett, Houghton Mifflin Co.

• “Self-Publication, Shameless Self-Promotion, and Stop Words: The World Wide Web as Full-Text Database,” Suzanne Caldwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• “The Allure of Lost Words,” Richard W. Bailey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “Locating Localisms on the World Wide Web,” Allan A. Metcalf, MacMurray College

142: Academic Labor and Radical Pedagogy: The Fateful Nexus

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Wilson Room A, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Ronald L. Strickland, Illinois State University

• “Resistance through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom,” Laura L. Sullivan, University of Florida
• “Where Do Teaching and Organizing Meet?” Randy Martin, Pratt Institute
• “Organize This! Faculty Union Insurgency at the Largest, Poorest Public University,” Harold Aram Veeser, City College, City University of New York

160: Whose Standards? II

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Eisenhower Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of Notre Dame

• “Electronic Editions of Damaged Manuscripts,” Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky
• “Editorial Practice: Finding an Audience for the TEAMS Middle English Text Series,” Thomas George Hahn, University of Rochester
• “Who’s the Reader? Who’s the Writer? Electronic Versions of Early Women’s Texts,” Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire, Durham

164: MOOs: The Theory and Culture of Virtual Worlds I

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park

• “The MOO as a New Media Genre”, Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology
• “Evolving Notions of Authorship in Online Worlds”, Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• “The Spatialization of Text and the Textualization of Space: Editing in the MOO”, Steven E. Jones, Loyola University, Chicago

One talk originally scheduled as part of this session has been cancelled: “How to do things with MOO: A Hermeneutic Perspective on Virtual Worlds”, by Espen Aarseth of the University of Bergen.

Further information is available on the World Wide Web.

174A: The Humanities at Work: PhDs and New Media

Thursday, 28 December 2000, noon to 1:45 p.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

A forum. Presiding: Maggie Debelius, Princeton University

• “Bridging the Gap: From the Academy to an Internet Start-Up,” Jorge Pedraza, Concrete Media
• “Reinventing the Academy,” Ann Kirschner, Fathom
• “Why I Like to Hire PhDs,” Tom Gardner, Motley Fool

For coordinated workshops, see meetings 266 and 413.

204: Computers and the Production of Literature

Thursday, 28 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Virginia Suite C, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Wayne V. Miller, University of California, Los Angeles

• “Literature at the Human-Computer Seam,” Michael D. Levi, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
• “Why Is There a Window on My Desktop? Computers, Focus, and Gaze,” Wayne V. Miller
• “Reading, Browsing, and the Usurpation of Hypertext,” Robert S. Bledsoe, Rice University

Respondent: Stuart M. Kurland, Duquesne University

216: Open Forum on Distance Learning

Thursday, 28 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Eisenhower Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. Presiding: Douglas Morgenstern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

244: Changing Standards: Spanish in the New Millennium

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Room C-326, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Language Change. Presiding: Florencia Cortés-Conde, Universidad de San Andrés

• “Spanish in Miami: Forty Years after the Arrival of the First Wave of Cuban Exiles,” Ana Roca, Florida International University
• “Spanish in the Internet: Is There Any Change?” Florencia Cortés-Conde

256: Brain Work: Representations of Postindustrial Labor in American Literature

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Wilson Room B, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia

• “The Gendering of Postindustrial Labor from Riesman to Coupland,” Heather J. Hicks, Villanova University
• “Creativity in the Age of Knowledge Management,” Christopher John Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Cyberculture, Business Culture, and the Literary Counterculture, 1950-70,” Maria Magdalena Farland, Columbia University

Respondent: Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago

266: The Humanities at Work: University Innovators

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum The Humanities at Work: PhDs and New Media (174A). Presiding: Susan Basalla, Motley Fool

• “The Demonstrated Value of Graduate Student Internships,” Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado, Boulder
• “The Trouble with Graduate Student Internships,” Deborah S. Carlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Respondent: Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana

270: The Fate of the Scholarly Monograph

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Virginia Suite C, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography. Presiding: Susanna Bartmann Pathak, Virginia Commonwealth University; Catharine E. Wall, University of California, Riverside

• “Netlibrary.com: Helping or Hindering the Demise of the Scholarly Monograph,” Anthony W. Ferguson, Columbia University
• “Great Themes and Small Distinctions,” Willis G. Regier, University of Illinois Press
• “Promise,” Helen Tartar, Stanford University Press
• “Thematic Research Collections: An Emerging Genre of Scholarly Publication,” John Merritt Unsworth, University of Virginia

308: Computer Studies in Language and Literature: What Counts and Why

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Eisenhower Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: David L. Hoover, New York University

• “Computational Stylistics and Nontraditional Authorship Attribution Studies,” Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University
• “The Evolution of Characterization and Some Aspects of Style in Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Magazine Short Stories,” Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “Reinventing the Archive: The Modernist Journals Project and the Digital New Age,” Sean Latham, Brown University

321: Still Reading in the New Millennium: A Conversation

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Salon 3, Marriott Wardman Park

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum From Gutenberg to Gates: Metamorphoses of Media (122). Presiding: Charles Francis Altieri, University of California, Berkeley

Speakers: Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University; Kathleen A. McCormick, State University of New York, Purchase; Michael Levenson, University of Virginia; Carlos J. Alonso, University of Pennsylvania

323: Context, Culture, and Identity in Language Learning and Teaching: A Session in Honor of Claire Kramsch

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Military Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Arthur D. Mosher, University of Dayton

• “From the Blackboard to the World Wide Web and Back: Methodologial Connections, Transformations, and Reflections,” Gilberte Furstenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “The Return of the Text,” Peter C. Patrikis, Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning
• “Claire Kramsch and Germanistik Today,” Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Claire J. Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley

380: Under the Skin: Medical Imaging and the Virtual Body

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Virginia Suite C, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science. Presiding: Jim Swan, State University of New York, Buffalo

• “What Is Normal? Portraits from the Inside Out,” Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, National Air and Space Museum
• “Performing Live Surgery on TV and the Internet since 1945,” David H. Serlin, National Library of Medicine
• “Speed Surgeries: Advanced Networking and Computer-Generated Modeling in Telesurgical Applications,” Eugene Y. Thacker, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

395: Media Theory and Literature

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Wilson Room A, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature. Presiding: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Eastern Michigan University

• “Empire and the Materiality of Media Technologies,” Charles A. Baldwin, Georgia Institute of Technology
• “How Cyberspace Deforms Our Literary Critical Concepts,” Kathleen L. Komar, University of California, Los Angeles
• “The Canon of Advertisements,”Deirdre Flynn, University of California, Berkeley
• “The Fly as Noise,” Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University

413: The Humanities at Work: Postacademic Culture Shock

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum The Humanities at Work: PhDs and New Media (174A). Presiding: Sabrina M. Wenrick, FDC Reports

• “Finding Your Eclectic Mix,” Maggie Debelius, Princeton University; Susan Basalla, Motley Fool
• “Landing Your First Job outside Academia,” Sabrina M. Wenrick

416: Documentary Editing in the Digital Age: New Ways of Thinking about Old Problems

Thursday, 28 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8211, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing. Presiding: Peter L. Shillingsburg, University of North Texas

• “The Electronic Margaret Fuller: A Case Study of Editing in the Digital Age,” Judith Mattson Bean, Texas Woman’s University; Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
• “We Can Publish It, but Can You Find It?” Elizabeth H. Dow, University of Vermont
• “Content or Context? Dollars versus Sense in Documentary Editions,” David R. Chesnutt, University of South Carolina, Columbia

436: Distance Education for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages II

Friday, 29 December 2000, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Cabinet Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Language. Presiding: Thomas J. Garza, University of Texas, Austin

• “The Use of the Internet for the Teaching of Advanced Spanish: A Critical Discussion of Current Technologies and New Challenges,” Santiago Juan-Navarro, Florida International University
• “Foreign Language Teaching Online: How to Get the Most from the Web’s Interaction and Multimedia Capabilities,” Esperanza Roman Mendoza, George Mason University

451: Subjectivity Dot-Com

Friday, 29 December 2000, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Shera Ahmad, Capital Thinking

• ” `The Colossal Market-Space of Culture,’ ” Thomas Foster, Indiana University, Bloomington
• ” `You’ve Got Mail’: Theorizing E-Subjectivity and the Aesthetic,” Manav S. Ratti, University of Oxford
• “Home Pages: Immigrant Subjectivity and the World Wide Web,” Sangita Gopal, Old Dominion University

Respondent: Shera Ahmad

457: Digital Media and Graduate Students in the Modern Languages

Friday, 29 December 2000, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. Presiding: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky

• “Is Web Work Marketable in the Academy?” Ron Broglio, University of Alabama, Birmingham
• “Saving Yourself for Tenure: Intellectual Property and the Job Candidate’s Dilemma,” Stephanie L. Tripp, University of Florida
• “Message in an E-Mail: `Is There Anybody Hiring Out There?’; or, The Place for Cyberspace Literacy in the Academic Market,” Kimberly A. Wells, Texas A&M University, College Station

467: World Wide Poetry on the Web

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Maryland Suite B, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Poetry. Presiding: Loss Pequeño Glazier, State University of New York, Buffalo

• ” `No One to Drive the Car’: Experimental Poetry across Time and Space,” Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania
• “Using the William Blake Archive in Teaching Poetry,” Josephine Ann McQuail, Tennessee Technological University
• “Listening to the Edit: The Digital Potential and Pitfalls in Webcast Poetry Programs,” Martin Spinelli, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Respondent: Loss Pequeño Glazier

472: Symptoms of Theory: Nation, Enjoyment, Critique

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Georgetown East Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Romanian Studies. Presiding: Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

• “Lacan or Lenin: The Styles of Slavoj Zizek,” Tomislav Z. Longinovic, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• “Zizek after Marx: Enjoyment as the Historical Factor,” Todd McGowan, Southwest Texas State University
• ” `Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That’; or, Enjoying the Virtual Subject,” Jonna Mackin, University of Pennsylvania
• “Fantasy.com: Textualizing Otherness in the Digital Age,” Thomas Lavazzi, Savannah State University

484: Writing and Schooling at the Millennium

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Salon 1, Marriott Wardman Park

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum From Gutenberg to Gates: Metamorphoses of Media (122). Presiding: David J. Bartholomae, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

• “Composition, Rhetoric, and English in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Forward by Looking Back,” John Brereton, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• “Style for the Twenty-First Century,” Andrea A. W. Lunsford, Stanford University
• “Literacy, Lies, and Videotape: A New Curriculum for Teachers of Writing,” James E. Seitz, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
• “New Genres of Student Writing and New Century Schools,” Jabari Mahiri, University of California, Berkeley
• “Writing the Underside of the Curriculum,” Jonathan Beck Monroe, Cornell University
• “Composition and the New Humanities,” Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

491: Literature through Multimedia: Ideas That Work

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Cabinet Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages and Literatures. Presiding: Carol Marie Lazzaro-Weis, Southern University

• “VROMA: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning the Classics,” Judith de Luce, Miami University, Athens
• “Project Sherezade: Teaching Spanish Literature Interactively,” Enrique J. Fernandez, University of Manitoba
• “Using Multimedia to Enhance Standards-Based Literary Instruction,” Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, California State University, Monterey

492: Economies of Writing I

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Society for Critical Exchange. Presiding: Martha A. Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University

• “Judging a Book by Its … Price, Distribution, and Lesbian Representation in 1928,” Deborah A. Cohler, Brown University
• “Private Circulation: Secrecy, Scarcity, and the Endurance of Victorian Homoerotica,” Elaine C. Freedgood, University of Pennsylvania
• “New Economics and New Collaborations in the Digital Age: The Example of the Walt Whitman Archive,” Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Paper summaries will be available before the meeting at http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce.

496: Visual Communication in Cyberspace

Friday, 29 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Presiding: Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University

• “Thinking in Three Dimensions: The Case for Teaching Hypermedia in the Technical Communications Service Course,” Roxanne Kent-Drury, Northern Kentucky University
• “New Medium, New Message: Visual Rhetoric in Online versus Print Journals,” Nicole Ervin Amare, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
• “Web-Based Communication in the Technical Writing Classroom,” Kathryn Summers, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• “Screen Time: On Teaching the Design + Reading of Transition and Animation on the Web,” Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University

512: The Brown Women Writers Project Online: “New” Texts, New Questions

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research. Presiding: Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire, Durham

• “Searching for Women’s Work: Literacy and Cultural Analysis of Online Texts,” Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois, Urbana
• “Medieval Women’s Manuscripts: Authorship and Encoding Challenges,” Laurie Anne Finke, Kenyon College
• “The Role of the WWP in the Development of Literary Encoding in the 1990s,” Allen Renear, Brown University
• “Mary Carleton’s Conditional Modes: A Discourse Analysis of a WWO Text,” Kimberly S. Hill, Kent State University, Kent

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513: Effects of Technology on Student and Faculty Learning

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Teaching as a Profession. Presiding: Darren Cambridge, University of Texas, Austin

• “Uncovering Complexity in a Culture of Reflective Practice,” Randy Bass, Georgetown University
• “The Symbol of Tragedy: A Web-Based Resource for Teaching Ethical Criticism,” Deborah Williams Minter, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jeffrey S. Poland, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Malea D. Powell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Justine Reilly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• “The Heart of the Matter: Documenting Teaching and Learning in Technology-Enhanced Environments,” Margaret Syverson, University of Texas, Austin

517: Comparative United States Literatures I: Turn-of-the-Century Sexualities

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Harding Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature. Presiding: Betsy Jacqueline Erkkila, Northwestern University

• “The Clubfoot and the Peg Leg: The Male Body in the Postbellum American South,” Judith Jackson Fossett, University of Southern California
• “Wired Love: Sex, Media, and American Modernity,” Mark Anton Goble, Stanford University
• “American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance: D. W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms,” Susan Koshy, University of California, Santa Barbara

518: Germanic Philology

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Room C-326, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Germanic Philology. Presiding: John M. Jeep, Miami University, Oxford

• “A Reappraisal of the Syllable Contact Law,” Marc Pierce, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “The Healing Power of Heresy in Hartmann von Aue’s `Armer Heinrich,'” Patricia McGurk, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• ” `Is That Your Final Answer?’: Reconstructing Caedmon’s Hymn in a Postmodern Age,” Dan O’Donnell, University of Lethbridge
• “Analyzing Conversational Self-Repair Strategies of English-German Bilinguals: Hesitations, Gaps, and Fillers,” Caroline L. Rieger, University of Alberta

528: The Book as Object and Metaphor in the Digital Age

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Delaware Suite B, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Charles Bernstein, State University of New York, Buffalo

• “Materiality and Metadata: Toward a Metalogics of the Book,” Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia
• “Workers of the Book, Unite!” Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
• “Editing A Book of the Book: A Return to the Book and Writing,” Jerome Rothenberg, University of California, San Diego

531: What’s New about the New?

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Wilson Room B, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Elena Pearl Glasberg, California State University, Los Angeles

• “The Seduction of Becoming (Other),” Eva Cherniavsky, Indiana University, Bloomington
• “Mattering on the Net: Virtual Spaces as Prefigurative Forms,” Thomas Foster, Indiana University, Bloomington
• “What’s Blood Got to Do with It? On Genes and Society,” Robyn Wiegman, University of California, Irvine

536: Pedagogical Uses of New Media in the Foreign Language Classroom

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m.,Room C-328, Washington Hilton

A special session; session leader: Sylvie L. F. Richards, Columbia University

• “Electronic Bulletin Boards à la Française: Using a `Journal Electronique’ in Elementary French Instruction,” Barbara A. Szlanic, Columbia University
• “Effective Utilization of Electronic Bulletin Boards in Upper-Division Spanish Courses,” Andrew Steven Gordon, Mesa State College
• “Creating Dynamic Assignments with New Media: Examples from Advanced Spanish Classes,” Pilar Munday, Sacred Heart University

Respondent: Sylvie L. F. Richards

537: Mobile Citizens, Media States

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Marriott Balcony C and D, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board. Presiding: Emily Apter, University of California, Los Angeles; Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley; David Norman Rodowick, University of London

• “Monitor and Witness: Media and Human Rights,” Thomas W. Keenan, Bard College
• “Digital Networks and Citizenship,” Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine
• “Very Busy Just Now: Globalization and Harriedness,” Bruce W. Robbins, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Respondent: N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles

539: Teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Cabinet Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: James H. McGregor, University of Georgia

• “Women in the Decameron,” F. Regina Psaki, University of Oregon
• “Anatomizing Boccaccio’s Sexual Festivity,” Raymond Jean Frontain, University of Central Arkansas
• “The Decameron Web: Teaching a Classic as Hypertext at Brown University,” Emil Michael Papio, College of the Holy Cross

Respondents: Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University; Bonnie D. Irwin, Northern Indiana University; Robert Bayliss, Indiana University, Bloomington

541: Electronic Rhetoric: Persuasion, Narrative, and the Web

Friday, 29 December 2000, noon to 1:15 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication. Presiding: Melinda A. Knight, University of Rochester

• “Rhetoric’s Role: Preparing Students to Deliver Persuasive Texts in Any Forum,” James Michael Dubinsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• “Using Techniques of Literary Analysis in a Professional Writing Course Web Site Project,” Nancy P. Van Arsdale, East Stroudsburg University
• “Reaching Out to `Citizens’: Microsoft’s Cyberspace Rhetoric,” Bonnie Lee Woodbery, Florida State University

555: Leveling the Field: Literature and Science and Science Studies

Friday, 29 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science. Presiding: Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College

• “Understanding Science Wired: Future Sci-Lit Studies and New Media,” Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University
• “The Pleasures and Perils of the Scientific Text,” George L. Levine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• “Heuristic Allies,” Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
• “Where’s the Beef?” Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

558: Medieval Iberia Online

Friday, 29 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Cabinet Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Spanish Medieval Language and Literature. Presiding: Barbara F. Weissberger, Old Dominion University

• “Web Site: Cantar de Mio Cid,” Matthew J. Bailey, University of Texas, Austin
• “Philobiblon Online: Present and Future,” Harvey L. Sharrer, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Teaching Medieval French and Spanish Lyric: An NEH Initiative,” George D. Greenia, College of William and Mary

563: History and Future of Rhetorics outside the Paradigm

Friday, 29 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Maryland Suite B, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. Presiding: Catherine Lynn Hobbs, University of Oklahoma

• “From Plato to Disney: Magic, Rhetoric, and the Regulation of Memory,” William A. Covino, Florida Atlantic University
• “Chinese Rhetoric: Understanding Octopartite Parables,” C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University, College Station
• “Game Theory and the Future of Rhetoric,” Alan W. France, West Chester University
• “Rhetoric as a Feminist Project,” Cheryl Glenn, Penn State University, University Park
• “The Rhetoric of Visual Cultural Analysis,” Marguerite Helen Helmers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• “Electronic Rhetorics: Paradigms of the Future,” Alison Elizabeth Regan, University of Utah

580: Educating Modern Language Graduate Students in Information Technology

Friday, 29 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8210, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. Presiding: F. Tyler Curtain, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• “How to Survive as a Technology Specialist in a Modern Language Department,” Kathleen Duguay, East Stroudsburg University
• “Possession in a Digital Age: Intellectual Property Issues Graduate Students Should Think about When Planning Their Projects,” Elizabeth Townsend, University of Arizona

Respondents: F. Tyler Curtain; James S. Noblitt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sarah Jane Sloane, Colorado State University; Matthew Berk, Inc.com

581: What the Government Funds in Foreign Languages

Friday, 29 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Map Room, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Office of Foreign Language Programs. Presiding: James Efstathios Alatis, Georgetown University

• “International and Language Programs,” Ralph Hines, Center for International Education
• “Languages for Business and Science,” Robert Slater, National Security Education Program
• “Language, Literature, and Technology,” Bruce Robinson, National Endowment for the Humanities

606: Bibliography and the Internet

Friday, 29 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies. Presiding: Betty T. Bennett, American University

• ” `Where Do You Want to Go Today?’: Electronic Reading and the Idea of Text,” Robin G. Schulze, Penn State University, University Park
• “Outside the Archive,” Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky; Kari Kraus, University of Rochester
• “Making Digital Texts Smart,” Susan Schreibman, New Jersey Institute of Technology

625: Teaching American English I

Friday, 29 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the American Dialect Society. Presiding: Michael P. Adams, Albright College

• “Goals and Teaching English Language Classes,” Sonja Lanehart, University of Georgia
• “The Politics of Teaching Standard English,” Anne L. Curzan, University of Washington
• “Teaching American English on the Web,” William A. Kretzschmar, University of Georgia

632: American Literary Studies at a New Millennium: Publishing, Teaching, Working the Field

Friday, 29 December 2000, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Marriott Balcony C and D, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the American Literature Section. Presiding: Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, College Park

• “American Literature: A Report from the Editor,” Houston A. Baker, Duke University
• “Got Lit? Publishing Choices in American Literary Studies,” Sian Hunter, University of North Carolina Press
• “Majority Report: Counting Work at an Undergraduate College,” Stephanie Patricia Browner, Berea College
• “Powerpoint or Perish? Pedagogy and the Technological Imperative,” Gregory S. Jay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• “Working (in) African American Literature,” Frances Smith Foster, Emory University
• “Queer (Asian American) Canons,” David L. Eng, Columbia University
• “American Studies without Exceptions,” Michael F. Bérubé, University of Illinois, Urbana

666: Research Methods Developed from Electronic Resources

Friday, 29 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research. Presiding: Susanne Woods, Wheaton College, MA

• “Creating Electronic Texts as a Research Methods Course,” William A. Wortman, Miami University, Oxford
• “Unplugging the Book: Information Management, Electronic Resources, and Bibliographic Research,” Suzanne Disheroon Green, Northwestern State University
• “The Genre Evolution Project,” Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

668: Issues in Discourse Analysis

Friday, 29 December 2000, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Room C-328, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Language and Society. Presiding: José Del Valle, Fordham University, Bronx

• “Metalinguistic Discourse and Nostalgia among Three Generations of Romanian Americans,” Domnita Dumitrescu, California State University, Los Angeles
• “When Distance and Solidarity Collide: New Politeness Strategies in Japanese,” Kyoko Takashi Wilkerson, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
• ” `Installing the Future’: Objectifying the Future in Factual Discourse,” Patricia L. Dunmire, Kent State University, Kent
• “Corpus Linguistics and Narrative Analysis,” David John Herman, North Carolina State University

734: Beyond Hypertext: Exploring Online Communication and Community

Saturday, 30 December 2000, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8210, Marriott Wardman Park

A special session; session leader: Michael Eberle-Sinatra, University of Toronto

• “Writing, Reading, and Viewing the Self: The Contractual Nature of Domestic Web Cams,” Andreas Gernot Kitzman, University of Karlstad, Sweden
• “What’s Cooking: Personal Narrative in the Online Kitchen,”Laura S. Patterson, Vanderbilt University
• “Where the Texts Are,” Thomas C. Crochunis, Brown University

799: Economies of Writing II

Saturday, 30 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Virginia Suite B, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Society for Critical Exchange. Presiding: Richard M. Ohmann, Wesleyan University

• “Im-pressing the Realm: The Imprint of Royal Authority in Henrican England,” Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M University, College Station
• “Blackstone and Electronic Text,” Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• “Technical Writing as Lingua Franca in a Scientific Economy,” Bernadette Celia Longo, Clemson University

Respondent: James E. Porter, Case Western Reserve University

Paper summaries will be available before the meeting at http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce.

805: MOOs: The Theory and Culture of Virtual Worlds II

Saturday, 30 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park

• “Word and Image on the Infinite Frontier: Textual Politics and MUspace”, Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore
• “Virtuality, Reality, Simulacra, and Simulations”, Carl Stahmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Presences and Habitations, Verbal, Visual and Virtual Aftermaths”, Michael Joyce, Vassar College

Further information is available on the World Wide Web.

808: Rhetoric, Technical Communication, and Theory

Saturday, 30 December 2000, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8210, Marriott Wardman Park

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Presiding: Michael J. Goeller, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

• “Isocrates: A `New’ Rhetorician for Technical Communication,” Angela M. Eaton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• “Speech Act Theory and Hypertext Links,” Jenni A. Swenson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• “Rhetoric and the Arts of Web Design,” Geoffrey F. K. Sauer, University of Washington
• “Situated Knowledges, Embodied Information: Haraway’s Cyborg Rhetoric in Feminist Technical Communication Research,” Amy L. Koerber, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities