The Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled this list of sessions with computing-related talks at the 2001 Modern Language Association Convention (in New Orleans, Louisiana, from December 27 through 30). Some of these sessions contain only one or two computing-related talks, but this list includes the entire program for each session.
In most cases you must pay the convention-registration fee in order to attend any of these talks. But the following sessions are free and open to the public: “Teaching Smarter” and “American Sign Language Dictionary and Inflection Guide: A Demonstration of the CD-ROM”. MLA talks are published at the discretion of their authors; if you want to obtain the text of a talk you were unable to attend, the best method is to contact the author directly.
Although the 2001 convention is now in the past, this information will remain available, as a record of what went on. Similar information for many other years is available via the main page on ACH MLA sessions.
Corrections and additions are welcome; please send them to John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk.
Summary of Sessions
- 73: A New Generation of Comparatists I: Research
- 76: Technologies of Song
Thursday, 27 December 2001
7:00 to 8:15 p.m.
- 126: Spanish Golden Age Drama I: Pedagogy
- 130: Research Methods for the Digital Age: What Should Graduate Students Know, and When Should They Know It?
- 136: Arabic Media Culture
- 137: Epistemologies of "Truth" across Disciplines: A Cognitive Perspective?
- 161: Novedad y ruptura II: Nuevos nexos
- 167: Rhetorics and Poetics: Historical and Theoretical Relationships
- 178: Digital Poetics: The E-Poetry Genre
- 200: Pairings: The Intersectional Work of American Literature
- 207: W(h)ither the Eighteenth Century? A Cross-Generational Assessment
- 215: Digital Diaspora: New Media, Indigenous Spaces, and Postcoloniality
- 222: Lost, Stolen, Strayed, or Forgotten: The Impact of "Unknown" Women’s Texts
- 230: Postnational Imaginaries: Cultural Practices in Latin America
- 269: Le Français en Louisiane: Our Past, Present, and Future
- 272: Digital Discourse I: Theory and Practice of Teaching Online
- 295: Language Change in Social Contexts
- 316: When Is a Web Site Scholarship?
- 317: Interactive Technology in Foreign Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
- 323: Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course
- 365: Teaching Language with Technology
Friday, 28 December 2001
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Noon to 1:15 p.m.
1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
7:15 to 8:30 p.m.
- 409: Archival Research and New Technologies: A Discussion
- 425: Versions of Modernism
- 433: Electronic Media and Intellectual Property
- 450: Textual Criticism and Theory
- 457: 2001, a Cultural Studies Odyssey: Science Fiction and Technocultural Fact
- 466: Defining Digital Scholarship
- 475: Global Connections II: South American, Asian, and United States Theater and Drama
- 506: Language Barriers and Barriers to Language: Disability and Foreign Language Acquisition
- 508: Enabling Technologies and Electronic Publishing
- 550: Computer Games, Narrative, and Special Effects
- 570: Digital Approaches to Language and Text: Words, Images, and Beyond
- 575: Conflicts, Culture Wars, Curricula: A Roundtable on Gerald Graff
- 586: Teaching Smarter
- 596: American Sign Language Dictionary and Inflection Guide: A Demonstration of the CD-ROM
- 631: Bibliography in the Electronic Environment
- 645: The Portuguese Diaspora in the Indian Ocean and Beyond / A diáspora portuguesa no Oceano Indico e mais além
- 647: Career Planning for Graduate Students: A Holistic Vision
- 648: How to Drive a New Variorum Shakespeare
- 649: Online Research and Learning in Modern Languages and Literature: Issues of Quality
Saturday, 29 December 2001
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Noon to 1:15 p.m.
1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
5:15 to 6:30 p.m.
7:15 to 8:30 p.m.
- 696: Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
- 707: Making Pedagogy Visible
- 713: The Information Superrailway: Literature and Media in the Nineteenth Century
- 729: Technology and Language Acquisition
- 751: Teaching Language and Literature Online
- 772: Professing Technical Communication
- 774: Seeking the Soul of the Machine: Interrogating Human-Computer Relations in Literature, Composition, and Art
- 782: Living between Cultures and Languages
- 783: Rethinking German Curricula and Classroom Practices in the Time of Cultural Studies
- 784: South Asians in Public Culture
- 789: Digital Discourse II: Civility, Subjectivity, and Difference
Sunday, 30 December 2001
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Noon to 1:15 p.m.
1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
73: A New Generation of Comparatists I: Research
Thursday, 27 December 2001, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Studio 10, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association. Presiding: Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
- "The Nature of Theater and the Logic of Crime," Claudia Jost, Princeton University
- "The Deviant Aesthetics of the Chinese Taste," David L. Porter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- "Calypso, Son, Beguine: Popular Music and Poetry in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 1940s," Christopher Franz Laferl, University of Vienna
- "New Labyrinths: The Comparatist Enters Cyberspace," Sarah Boykin Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College
76: Technologies of Song
Thursday, 27 December 2001, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Galerie 4, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. Presiding: Leslie C. Dunn, Vassar College
- "Dialect Tone: Radio, Recording, and the Segregation of American Rural Music in the 1920s," Marc J. Dolan, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- "Voice, Music, Technology: Text-Music Relations in Alanis Morissette’s `Front Row’ (1998)," Serge Lacasse, University of Western Ontario
- "Technologies of Queerness: Plying the Intersection of Musicality and Sexuality in GALA Choruses," Julia Therese Balén, University of Arizona
100: Tuning In to Culture: German Authors and Twentieth-Century Media
Thursday, 27 December 2001, 8:45 to 10:00 p.m., Balcony I, New Orleans Marriott
A special session; session leader: Daniel D. Gilfillan, University of Oregon
- "Reproduction and Alterity: On Rilke, Photography, and the City," Stefanie Ford Harris, Northwestern University
- "Rethinking Radio: Alfred Andersch and Collaborative Media," Daniel D. Gilfillan
- "Media Technologies: The Path to Literary Form in Recent Works by Walter Kempowski," Carla Ann Damiano, Eastern Michigan University
104: Business Meeting of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
Thursday, 27 December 2001, 8:45 to 10:00 p.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom F, Sheraton New Orleans
- "Computing and Scholarly Publication," Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto
- "Scholarly Publishing and Copyright," Patrick R. Harrison, Cornell University
126: Spanish Golden Age Drama I: Pedagogy
Friday, 28 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Galerie 4, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama. Presiding: Patricia Ann Kenworthy, Vassar College
- "Teaching Golden Age Drama in a Postmodem World: Digital Technologies and Student Learning," Diane E. Sieber, University of Colorado, Boulder
- "Teaching the Comedia in the Twenty-First Century: Problems and Opportunities," Alix S. Ingber, Sweet Briar College
- "Rape and Madness in the Classroom: Fuenteovejuna and Los locos de Valencia," Belén Atienza, Connecticut College
130: Research Methods for the Digital Age: What Should Graduate Students Know, and When Should They Know It?
Friday, 28 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research. Presiding: Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- "Digital Literacy: Teaching Research Skills," Steven R. Harris, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- "Graduate Courses on Literary Research Tools: A Moving Target," William H. O’Donnell, University of Memphis
- " `Enough! Or Too Much’: The Discourse of Digital Media," Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, College Park
Respondent: W. Speed Hill, Graduate Center, City University of New York
136: Arabic Media Culture
Friday, 28 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Balcony I, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Arabic Literature and Culture. Presiding: Tarek Adnan El Ariss, Cornell University
- "Exoticism in North African Cinema," El Mokhtar Gambou, Yale University
- " `Zii!’ (Broadcast It!): Cultural Negotiation in the Egyptian Television Show Camera Khafeya," Leah I. Harris, Georgetown University
- "The Postcolonial Web: How Arab Revolutionaries Use the Internet," Paul Anthony Wellen, National College of Business and Technology
Respondent: Nader Khalaf Uthman, Columbia University
137: Epistemologies of "Truth" across Disciplines: A Cognitive Perspective?
Friday, 28 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Poydras Room, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma
- "Stories from the Lab: Personality and Politics in Scientific Narrative," Laura Christine Otis, Hofstra University
- "The Internet and the Politics of `Truth,’" Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky
- "The Role of Speculation in Darwinian Literary Criticism," Nancy Lincoln Easterlin, University of New Orleans
Respondent: Ronald Schleifer
161: Novedad y ruptura II: Nuevos nexos
Friday, 28 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Studio 2, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature. Presiding: Carlos J. Alonso, University of Pennsylvania
- "Mixing It Up: The Uses of Memory in Recent Argentine and Chicana Women Poets," Suzanne Chávez-Silverman, Pomona College
- "De transiciones, rupturas, y prefijos: La condición posmexicana," Ignacio Corona, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "Novedad y Ruptura: Poetry and Technology," Jill Suzanne Kuhnheim, University of Kansas
167: Rhetorics and Poetics: Historical and Theoretical Relationships
Friday, 28 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. Presiding: Susan Wells, Temple University
- "Who’s Writing? Aristotelian Ethos and the Author Position in Digital Discourse," Kristie Sealey Fleckenstein, Ball State University
- "Cultural Poetics and Rhetorical Hermeneutics," Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
- "Rhetoric, Poetics, and Publics," John L. Schilb, Indiana University, Bloomington
178: Digital Poetics: The E-Poetry Genre
Friday, 28 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom C, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Maria Damon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- "A Prospectus for E-Poetry," Loss Pequeño Glazier, State University of New York, Buffalo
- "Script Language = `Poetry’: The Poetic Potential of JavaScript and DHTML," George Edward Hartley, Ohio University, Athens
- "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Sky," Charles Bernstein, State University of New York, Buffalo
200: Pairings: The Intersectional Work of American Literature
Friday, 28 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Rhythms Ballroom II, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the American Literature Section. Presiding: Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
- "Uncharted Terrain: Black Feminist Mothers and Academic Daughters," Nellie Y. McKay, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lisa Woolfork, University of Virginia
- "Mentor as Intellectual, Mentor as Model," Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University; Judith Jackson Fossett, University of Southern California
- "Welcome to a Real Internet Revolution: How to Reform Teaching, Research, and Public Outreach," Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana
207: W(h)ither the Eighteenth Century? A Cross-Generational Assessment
Friday, 28 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Bayside Room A, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Presiding: Joel Reed, Syracuse University
- "One Generation’s Experience," John L. Mahoney, Boston College
- "The Relevance of the Eighteenth Century in Education," Ann T. Gardiner, International University, Bruchsal, Germany
- "Producing and Publishing Eighteenth-Century Scholarship," Greg Clingham, Bucknell University
- "Information Technology and the Future State of Eighteenth-Century Studies," George H. Williams, University of Maryland, College Park
- "The Next Generation’s Eighteenth Century," Sean Moore, Duke University
215: Digital Diaspora: New Media, Indigenous Spaces, and Postcoloniality
Friday, 28 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Rhythms Ballroom II, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture. Presiding: Lynn Marie Houston, Arizona State University
- "www.miluchaessulucha.org: Guerillas on the Net, a Colombian Sample," Pedro Jimenez-Morras, University of Geneva
- "Anxieties of Influence: The Caribbean Digital Diaspora," Belinda J. Edmondson, Rutgers University, Newark; Faith Lois Smith, Brandeis University
- " `What to Do?’; or, Strategies of Replacement: Alien Architecture and the Work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Will Bauer," Andreas Gernot Kitzman, University of Karlstad, Sweden
222: Lost, Stolen, Strayed, or Forgotten: The Impact of "Unknown" Women’s Texts
Friday, 28 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
- "The Case of Margaret Cuninghame, an Abused Wife," Nely Keinanen, University of Helsinki
- "Looking for Locke: Psalm 51 and Intertextuality," John H. Ottenhoff, Alma College
- "The Authoress Lives: Electronic Texts and Feminist Literary Study," Kimberly S. Hill, Kent State University, Kent
- "Vulnerable Arguments: The Reemergence of Secret Histories in the Historiography of Recovery," Judith Ann Dorn, Saint Cloud State University
230: Postnational Imaginaries: Cultural Practices in Latin America
Friday, 28 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Iberville Room, New Orleans Marriott
A special session; session leader: Miguel López, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- "From Macondo to McOndo: What Does Young Contemporary Latin American Literature Tell about the Transnational Cultural Landscape?" Claudia B. Ferman, University of Richmond
- "Cyberliterature and Postnational Imaginaries," Ignacio Corona, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "Transnational Border Imaginaries in Luis Arturo Ramos and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite," Miguel López
Respondent: Javier Durán, Michigan State University
269: Le Français en Louisiane: Our Past, Present, and Future
Friday, 28 December 2001, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Galerie 1, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the MLA Office of Foreign Language Programs. Presiding: Carol Marie Lazzaro-Weis, Southern University, Baton Rouge
- "L’héritage acadien: Les contes cajuns et créoles," Barry J. Ancelet, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
- "George Dessomes en Classiques Pélican: Un état présent du fait français en Louisiane," Dana Kress, Centenary College
- "Les médias francophones aujourd’hui et demain: La presse, la radio, et l’Internet," Michael C. Bruce, Centenary College
272: Digital Discourse I: Theory and Practice of Teaching Online
Friday, 28 December 2001, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Poydras Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication. Presiding: Melinda A. Knight, University of Rochester
- "Digital Annotation: Where Can We Get It, and How Do We Use It?" Arun Sheldon Nevader, University of California, Berkeley
- "From Genre Systems to the Buddy System: Developments in Professional Communication and Online Education under New Forms of Market Value on the Web," H. Craig Stroupe, San Jose State University
- "Improving the Quality of Distance Education through Peer Teaching/Learning and Faculty-Student Interactions," Sherry Southard, East Carolina University
Respondent: Melinda A. Knight
295: Language Change in Social Contexts
Friday, 28 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Poydras Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Language Change. Presiding: Kristin Hanson, University of California, Berkeley
- "Language and Gender and the Past," Patricia Howell Michaelson, University of Texas, Dallas
- "Utilizing Use: Grammaticization and Delexification," Eric J. Hyman, Fayetteville State University
- "Notes from Inside the Discourse Community of Information Technologists: Blind Spots and Empowerment," Alan M. Bilansky, Penn State University, University Park
316: When Is a Web Site Scholarship?
Friday, 28 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Rhythms Ballroom II, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Advisory Committee on the
MLA International Bibliography. Presiding: Todd W. Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- "The Value of Virtual Scholarship in the Academy’s Printcentric Economy," Gary Olson, University of South Florida
- "Game Over: Digitize or Perish?" Scott K. Halbritter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- "Should I List This on My CV? Considering the Values of Self-Published and Maintained Web Sites," Steven Daniel Krause, Eastern Michigan University
- "Digital Representation, Editorial Representation, and the William Blake Archive," Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
317: Interactive Technology in Foreign Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
Friday, 28 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Balcony I, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the MLA Office of Foreign Language Programs. Presiding: Alex L. Chapin, Middlebury College
- "New Technology Yes! New Pedagogy No!" Benjamin Rifkin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- "Creating Interactive Text on the Web," Caroline Schaumann, Middlebury College
323: Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course
Friday, 28 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Presiding: Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University
- "Converting the Service Course to the Web," Daniel G. Riordan, University of Wisconsin, Stout
- "Web Design, Industry, and the Academy: Bringing Two Worlds Together," Emily A. Thrush, University of Memphis
- "Producing Responsible Web Writers: Let’s Start at the Very Beginning," Elizabeth Ruth Pass, James Madison University
- "Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course," Joy Rouse, Appalachian State University
365: Teaching Language with Technology
Friday, 28 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Balcony I, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Language. Presiding: Diane W. Birckbichler, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "Technological Literacies and Teacher Training: The Development and Review of a Major Media Workshop," David Aldstadt, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "The Potential of Multimedia for Learner-Active Intercultural Understanding: The Interactive Documentary Thriller Berlin Connection in the Foreign Language Classroom," Sylvia H. Rieger, Harvard University
- "An Active Approach to Instructional Technology in a Foreign Language Classroom: Electronic Writing Portfolios," Jerzy (George) Jura, Iowa State University
409: Archival Research and New Technologies: A Discussion
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Presiding: Jay Grosman, Northwestern University
- "Rereading Literary Contours, Expanding Literary Contexts: Daniel Murray’s Pamphlet Collection Online," Elizabeth McHenry, New York University
- "Early American Periodicals in the Digital Age," Jared B. Gardner, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "An Americanist Technophobe in the Overseas Archive," Lynn A. Casmier-Paz, University of Central Florida
- "The Dickinson Electronic Archives: Technologies and Textualities," Lara E. Vetter, University of Maryland, College Park
425: Versions of Modernism
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Gallier Rooms A and B, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: W. Speed Hill, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- "Hourly Rates: Virginia Woolf, Nicole Kidman, the Internet, and The Hours," Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth College
- "The Modernist Book as Artifact: Historicizing the First Thirty Cantos," George J. Bornstein, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- "Hanging Gertrude: Picasso’s Portrait of Stein and the Display of Modernism," Catherine Elizabeth Paul, Clemson University
433: Electronic Media and Intellectual Property
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Grand Chenier Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Presiding: David A. Kent, Centennial College
- "Swell: Let’s Call It the Great Copyright Crisis, 1701-2001," Mark A. Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara
- "Intellectual Real Estate in Virtual Geographies," Marie-Laure Ryan, Bellvue, CO
- "Profit from It: The Rhetoric of Usability and E-Commerce in Students’ Poaching of Intellectual Property," Kathleen M. Keating, Greensboro College
- "Just Sharing, Not Stealing: Student Conceptions of Intellectual Property in Academic and Electronic Settings," Amy Marie Ward, College of Mount Saint Vincent
450: Textual Criticism and Theory
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom F, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research. Presiding: Pamela M. Dalziel, University of British Columbia
- "Are There Texts in This Class? Editions as Criticism, Editions as Hypertexts, Hypertexts as Editions," Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario
- "(Hyper)Textual Criticism and the Burden of Linearity: How Hypertext Realigns the (Non)Linear Manuscript (and Is That a Good Thing?)," Elizabeth J. Birmingham, North Dakota State University
- "The Author Has Not Left the Building: Intentions, Conventions, and Rhetoric," Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
- "McGann versus Greg and Gaskell: Reflections on the `Copy-Text’ Controversy," William Baker, Northern Illinois University
457: 2001, a Cultural Studies Odyssey: Science Fiction and Technocultural Fact
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Bayside Room A, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature. Presiding: Marleen Sandra Barr, Columbia University
- "Baudrillard in The Matrix," Andrew Mark Gordon, University of Florida
- "Afro-Futurism and Women Writers of Color," Lisbeth Gant-Britton, Kalamazoo College
- "Technological Contours of Electronic Science Fiction," Brooks Landon, University of Iowa
466: Defining Digital Scholarship
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: James F. Knapp, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
- "Online Scholarly Resources: A Brief Taxonomy," Stephen Olsen, MLA
- "The Mutiny and the Bounty: Online Scholarship 2001," Todd W. Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Respondent: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, College Park
475: Global Connections II: South American, Asian, and United States Theater and Drama
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Bayside Room C, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the American Theatre and Drama Society. Presiding: David Román, University of Southern California
- "Nelson Rodrigues in North America: A Case Study in Cultural Cross-Fertilization," Brenda C. Murphy, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- "Digital Zapatistas: Undoing Global Influence with Ricardo Dominguez and the Electronic Disturbance Theatre," Jill M. Lane, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "Kabuki, Bharata Natyam, and the National Theater of the Deaf," Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Central Michigan University
506: Language Barriers and Barriers to Language: Disability and Foreign Language Acquisition
Saturday, 29 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Galerie 4, New Orleans Marriott
A special session; session leader: Susan Burch, Gallaudet University
- "Institutional Barriers, Technological Bridges," Tammy Elizabeth Berberi, Indiana University, Bloomington
- "Watch-You-Learn-Now: Foreign Language Instruction in the Deaf Classroom," Ian M. Sutherland, Gallaudet University
- "Who Is Leading Whom? Teaching German to Students Who Are Blind," Elizabeth Cushman Hamilton, Oberlin College
508: Enabling Technologies and Electronic Publishing
Saturday, 29 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Rampart Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: Dierk O. Hoffmann, Colgate University; Antonette diPaolo Healey, University of Toronto
- "The Space between Law and Policy: The Other Digital Divide," TyAnna K. Herrington, Georgia Institute of Technology
- "The Dickinson Electronic Archives Projects: Evolutions of a Dynamic Edition(s)," Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, College Park
- "Full Text Searching across Collections," Christina Powell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Respondent: Susan M. Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
550: Computer Games, Narrative, and Special Effects
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Grand Couteau Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Andrew Mactavish, McMaster University; Geoffrey M. Rockwell, McMaster University
- "Die Hard, Try Harder? Narrative and Spectacle from Hollywood to Video Game," Geoff R. King, Brunel University, England
- "Narrate or Simulate? Agency and the Everyday in the Sims," Sean Latham, University of Tulsa
- "Neobaroque Labyrinths and Computer Game Spaces," Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne
- "Showcasing the Spectacular: Special Effects, Computer Games, and the Attractions Tradition of the Cinema," Saige N. Walton, University of Melbourne
See the associated web site for further details.
570: Digital Approaches to Language and Text: Words, Images, and Beyond
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Henry P. Biggs, Washington University
- "Statistical Stylistics and Authorship Attribution: An Empirical Investigation," David L. Hoover, New York University
- "Natural Language Processing and the Emergence of a New Theoretical Approach to the Study of Terms," Tanja L. Collet, University of Ottawa
- "A Computational Infrastructure for Aligning Tibetan Videos with Text," Edward J. Garrett, University of Virginia
- "Perl Programming in Stylistic Analysis and Pedagogy," Donald E. Hardy, Northern Illinois University
575: Conflicts, Culture Wars, Curricula: A Roundtable on Gerald Graff
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom G, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia
- "Teaching the Conflicts in China," Steve Benton, University of Illinois, Chicago
- "Graff and the Left," David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University
- "Graff and the Web," H. Craig Stroupe, San Jose State University
- "Jerry’s Blind Spot," Jane Tompkins, University of Illinois, Chicago
- "Remodeling Literary Pedagogy: Gerald Graff at the Museum of Natural History," Robin P. Valenza, Stanford University
- "We Really Do Not Know How to Disagree with Each Other," Jeffrey D. Wallen, Hampshire College
586: Teaching Smarter
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Pontchartrain Ballroom F, Sheraton New Orleans
A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum Understanding Teaching (session 442). Presiding: Sue Lonoff, Harvard University
- "More Curriculum, Less Method," K. Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College, City University of New York
- "Journals in Literature Courses: Promoting and Grading Participation," David Swerdlow, Westminster College, PA
- "Cluster Groups and Assignments," Polly Stevens Fields, Lake Superior State University
- "See Dick Click, See Jane Browse: Teaching Smarter with Technology," H. Jay Siskin, Cabrillo College, CA
Respondent: Susan Anne Kress, Skidmore College
596: American Sign Language Dictionary and Inflection Guide: A Demonstration of the CD-ROM
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., Southdown Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Presiding: Geoffrey S. Poor, Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
631: Bibliography in the Electronic Environment
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies. Presiding: Robin G. Schulze, Penn State University, University Park
- "Physical Texts, Virtual Books," Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
- "The Theory and Practice of Creating a `Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities,’" Daniel W. Mosser, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ernest Walter Sullivan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- "Textual and Electronic Versions of the Keats-Shelley Bibliography," Jonathan David Gross, DePaul University
645: The Portuguese Diaspora in the Indian Ocean and Beyond / A diáspora portuguesa no Oceano Indico e mais além
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Studio 2, New Orleans Marriott
A special session; session leader: Joseph Abraham Levi, Rhode Island College
- "Luso-Asian Pidgins and Creoles: A Computational Model of Luso Influences in Contact Languages," Teresa Satterfield, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- "A Companhia de Jesus e a Cristandade de São Tomé na India," Maria de Deus Beites Manso, Universidade de Evora, Portugal
- "O acaso dos Brasis / Accidental Brazil: Marginal Notes on Portugal’s Asian Empire," Luís Manuel Madureira, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Respondent: Nechama Kramer-Hellinx, York College, City University of New York
647: Career Planning for Graduate Students: A Holistic Vision
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Rhythms Ballroom I, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession. Presiding: Dolores Mary Tierney, Tulane University
- "The Humanities at Work: Careers, Jobs, and the Social Value of the Humanities," Richard M. Bennett, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
- "How to Leave Graduate School with Abundant Career Options," Cynthia D. Petrites, University of Chicago
- "The WRK4US Listserv: An Electronic Resource for Exploring Nonacademic Careers," Paula Foster, Foster Communications
648: How to Drive a New Variorum Shakespeare
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Salon 825 & 829, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Presiding: Thomas L. Berger, Saint Lawrence University
- "Performance and the Variorum," James N. Loehlin, University of Texas, Austin
- "Reasoning the Need: The Variorum Shakespeare and Hypertextuality," Catherine A. Loomis, University of New Orleans
- "Drivers Wanted," John Michael Archer, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Respondent: Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
649: Online Research and Learning in Modern Languages and Literature: Issues of Quality
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Grand Couteau Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: James S. Noblitt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- "Context and Culture Online," Claire J. Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley
- "Our Telemathic Scholars: What Are Their Needs, and How Do We Meet Them?" Michael G. Moore, Penn State University, University Park
Respondent: James S. Noblitt
655: The Arts of (Making) Money II
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m., Grand Couteau Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Other Arts. Presiding: Marguerite Rowland Waller, University of California, Riverside
- "The K Foundation and the Art of Hostile Philanthropy," James F. English, University of Pennsylvania
- "The Euro Is Coming: People, History, and Other Stuff You Can Buy," Peter Sarram, Northwestern University
- "J. S. G. Boggs’s Networked Art," Craig Saper, University of the Arts
673: Systems of Control: Navigating Academic Authority in the Digital Age
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Brandy Brown Walker, Georgia Institute of Technology
- "(Un)Authorized Narratives: Reconfiguring Authority in Electronic Fiction," Brandy Brown Walker
- "Godzilla Takes the MLA: Digitally Visualizing Mutations in the Academy," Susan Bridget McHugh, Georgia Institute of Technology
- "Selling Space: Commodification, the Link, and the Business of Hypertext," Michael Griffith, Tulane University
- "Electronic Critique and Digital Departments: Navigating New Media Studies," Marcel O’Gorman, University of Detroit Mercy
696: Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Rampart Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Division on Popular Culture
- " `My Name Is Peaches!’: Expunging the Butch from the Cinematic Appearance of Black Revolutionary Women: The Case of Pam Grier," Kara Keeling, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- "Listen America! The Entertainment Industry Emergency Committee," Amy Villarejo, Cornell University
- "Race, Technology, Dystopia," Wendy H. Chun, Brown University
Respondent: Carole-Ann Tyler, University of California, Riverside
707: Making Pedagogy Visible
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Margaret Katherine Willard-Traub, Oakland University
- "Theorizing Teaching, Making Pedagogy Visible," Kathleen A. McCormick, State University of New York, Purchase
- "All the News That’s Fit to Print: Pedagogy in the Public Domain," Mark C. Long, Keene State College
- "Teaching with New Technologies: Documenting Complex Teaching Practices," Barbara Anne Szlanic, Columbia University
713: The Information Superrailway: Literature and Media in the Nineteenth Century
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Cornet Room, Sheraton New Orleans
A special session; session leader: Richard Menke, University of Georgia
- "Nineteenth-Century Webs: The Exchange between Literature and Science," Laura Christine Otis, Hofstra University
- "Exhibiting the Telegraph Girl: Gender and Surveillance in the Global Information Network of the Nineteenth Century," Christopher J. Keep, University of Western Ontario
- "Stenographic Masculinity," Leah Price, Harvard University
729: Technology and Language Acquisition
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Galerie 1, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics. Presiding: M. Rafael Salaberry, Rice University
- "SLA Interactive Framework and Vocabulary Acquisition: Effects of Computer-Mediated Synchronous Interaction," Maria J. De La Fuente, Vanderbilt University
751: Teaching Language and Literature Online
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: Douglas Morgenstern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Literature and Technology: A Dialogue," Brian Wessell McCuskey, Utah State University
- "Virtual Walden: Where I Taught and What I Taught for in Cyberspace," Thomas Lawrence Long, Thomas Nelson Community College, VA
- "GOLDEN (German On-Line Distance Eduation Network): Interactive Professional Development on the Web," Joan Keck Campbell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- "Should Distance Learning Replace Our Classroom-Based Language Teaching?" Peter Jianhua Yang, Case Western Reserve University
772: Professing Technical Communication
Sunday, 30 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Bayside Room B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Presiding: Carolyn G. Rude, Texas Tech University
- "Venturing Out of the Neighborhood: Opportunities for Raising the Visibility of Technical Communication," Jo Allen, North Carolina State University
- "Maintaining Legitimacy, Upholding Value, and Meeting Our Obligations: The Growing Pains of a Young Profession," Brenda Orbell, Oklahoma State University
- "Researching toward New Technologies and Techniques," Paul M. Dombrowski, University of Central Florida
- "Job Requirements for Today’s Technical Writing Practitioners," Michael A. McCord, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
774: Seeking the Soul of the Machine: Interrogating Human-Computer Relations in Literature, Composition, and Art
Sunday, 30 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Grand Couteau Room, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Art Young, Clemson University
- "Recuperating Robots as Sites for Humanistic Studies," Bernadette Celia Longo, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- "The Poetics of the Machine: Introducing Students to Verbal and Visual Representations," Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College, VA
- "Shaping the Relation between Humans and Computers: Students as Technology Activists," Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University
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782: Living between Cultures and Languages
Sunday, 30 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Audubon Room, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding: Carol E. Klein, Beaver College
- "Framing Text into Culture," Lyris Wiedemann, Stanford University
- "Entre el texto y el hipertexto: El estudio y la enseñanza de la literatura," Diego del Pozo, University of Georgia
- "Between Cultures: LangNet," Carmen Chaves Tesser, University of Georgia
783: Rethinking German Curricula and Classroom Practices in the Time of Cultural Studies
Sunday, 30 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Studio 2, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of German. Presiding: C. Lynne Tatlock, Washington University
- "The Native Speaker, the Student, and Woody Allen: Examining Traditional Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom," Anke Karen Finger, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- "From Kulturkunde to Cultural Studies: Information Literacy and Writing in the Advanced German Classroom," Lisabeth M. Hock, Wayne State University
- "German Cultural Studies and the Curriculum of Medieval Studies: Reflecting on New Paradigms," Rosmarie T. Morwedge, State University of New York, Binghamton
- "German Studies and/or European Studies," Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati
784: South Asians in Public Culture
Sunday, 30 December 2001, noon to 1:15 p.m., Galerie 4, New Orleans Marriott
Program arranged by the South Asian Literary Association. Presiding: Shailja Sharma, DePaul University
- "Cyber-Migrants: South Asian Immigrants and the Construction of Virtual Communities," Susan Koshy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- " `You’re Pakistani, the Victim Was American, and This Is Boston’: Feminist Outrage and Xenophobic Racism in The Practice," Ambreen Hai, Smith College
- "Cosmopolitanism and South Asians in the United States," Gita Rajan, Fairfield University
- "Spice Girls and Food: Consuming Indianness on Padma’s Passport," Anita Mannur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Cultural Difference and the Popular: The Diasporic Narrative of Bhangna," Harveen Sachdeva Mann, Loyola University, Chicago
789: Digital Discourse II: Civility, Subjectivity, and Difference
Sunday, 30 December 2001, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Gallier Rooms A and B, Sheraton New Orleans
Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication. Presiding: Bernadette Celia Longo, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- "Short-Tempered and Short-Sighted: Online Discourse and the Death of Patience," Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Wesleyan University
- "Tech Students, High-Tech Writing: Using Technology to Teach Composition at the Urban Technical College," George Mario Guida, New York City Technical College
- "Autoethnographic Projects in Workplace Cultures: E-Writing Subjects," Jim Henry, George Mason University
Respondent: Kitty O’Donnell Locker, Ohio State University, Columbus