51st ANNUAL MOUNTAIN INTERSTATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
October 11-13, 2001

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Thursday Afternoon    

          1. Film I. European Cinema: (Re)constructing Identities I
            2. Latin American I. Peruvian and Venezuelan Literature
            3. French I. Francophone I: Listening to the Maghreb 
         4. Film II. European Cinema: (Re)constructing Identities II  
            5. Hispanic I. Food for Special Thought: Images of Consumption…
            6. Spanish I. Literature Before the Nineteenth Century
            7. Hispanic II. El personaje literario mujer…
            8. Study Abroad I
            9. Latin American II.  Colonial Spanish American Literature
            10. Latin American III. The Theatre of Carlos Canales
            11. French II. Seventeenth Century Literature
    

            MIFLC EXECUTIVE MEETING          5:00
            WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION    5:30-7:00
            DRAMATIC READING: Bajo un fuego celestial by Carlos Canales    7:15

Friday Morning
          12. Latin American IV. Theatre of the Southern Cone and Beyond
            13. Spanish II. Twentieth Century Culture and Literature
            14. Latin American V. Central American Literature
            15. Latin American VI. Representation, Identity, and Gender
            16. Hispanic Linguistics I
            17. Latin American VII. La novela negra en América Hispana I
            18.French III. Francophone II
            19. Comparative Literature. Literature Through Time
            20. Film II. La mirada femenina y el melodrama del cabaret…  
            21. Visual Representations I. Representations in Film
            22. Spanish III. The Spanish Civil War
            23. Pedagogy I. Online Instruction Versus Classroom Instruction
            24. Latin American VIII. Theatre
            25. Hispanic III. Chicano Literature
            26. German I. Genres in German Literature
            27. Spanish IV. Women Poets
            28. Pedagogy II. Foreign Language Challenges

Friday Afternoon
          29. Hispanic IV. Theatre Beyond the Borders of Latin America
            30. Latin American IX. Literature of the Southern Cone
          31. Hispanic V. Latino/a Literature: Negotiating Sexuality and Ethnicity…
            32. Spanish V. Twentieth Century Prose
            33. Visual Representations II. Representations in French Literature
            34. Latin American X. La novela negra en América Hispana II  
            35. Hispanic Linguistics II. Linguistics and Literature
            36. French IV. Perspectives on Twentieth Century France
            37. Pedagogy III. Spanish
            38. Latin American XI. Theatre of the Southern Cone
            39. Spanish VI. Twentieth Century Theatre

             PLENARY SESSION: Keynote Address by Professor John Kronik         3:00

            40. Latin American XII. Theatre of Central America and the Caribbean
            41. Latin American XIII. Poetry
            42. Latin American XIV
            43. Spanish VII. Carmen Martín Gaite: In Memoriam
            44. French V. Nineteenth Century Literature
            45. Hispanic Linguistics III
            46. Pedagogy IV
            47. Study Abroad II
     

            CONFERENCE BANQUET                             7:30-9:30
             Music by Tuppence Simon Spalding and Sara Kirtland)

Saturday Morning

            48. Latin American XV. Sabina Berman and Jesusa Rodríguez
            49. Latin American XVI. Perspectives on Latin American Women Writers
            50. Spanish VIII. Nineteenth Century Literature
            51. Hispanic Linguistics IV
            52. Visual Representations III. Representations in Literature and the Media
            53. German II. Distance Education Panel
            54. Pedagogy V. Using the Web
            55. French VI. Perspectives on Literature, Film, and Linguistics
            56. Latin American XVII
            57. German III. German Literature
            58. Latin American XVII. Mexican Theatre
            59. Latin American XX. Poetry
            60. Spanish IX. Nineteenth Century Literature
            61. Medieval Literature: Medieval Literature and the Marvellous
            62. Pedagogy VI. Technology Workshop Session

           MIFLC Business Meeting        12:30

All numbered sessions will be held in Lakeside Hall.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Thursday
1.   FILM I.  European Cinema: (Re)constructing Identities I  
     Organized and chaired by María Camí-Vela, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

12:30   Subject in the Margins: Social Cinema in France in the ‘90’s  
            Alison Murray, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1:00     German Images: Memory and National Identity  
                Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Thursday
2.  LATIN AMERICAN I.  Peruvian and Venezuelan Literature
     Chaired by Peter Thomas, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1:30     Antropocentrismo, etnocentrismo y androcentrismo en El mundo es ancho y ajeno de Ciro Alegría
            Rossana Pattroni, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00     Contemporary Peruvian Women Writers: The Ill-fated Revolutions of Space  
            Julia Centurión Morton, Randolph-Macon College

2:30     Arturo Uslar Pietri: Síntesis del alma venezolana
             Teresita J. Parra, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Thursday
3.  FRENCH I. Francophone I:  Listening to the Maghreb
      Organized and chaired by Jennifer DeVille, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:30     Roaming and Remembering in Assia Djebar’s Oran, langue morte
            Jennifer DeVille, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00     Le sang: source de fierté, source de honte dans La Voyeuse interdite de Nina Bouraoui
            Elisabeth Marie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:30     Malika Mokeddem’s Des rêves et des assassins and Assia Djebar’s  “La femme en morceaux”: The Question of Violent Unmediated Polarity
            Ioanna Chatzidimitriou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:00    Sur les traces d’une féminité refoulée: exploration de la part féminine chez les  auteurs maghrébins
             Taieb Berrada, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thursday
4.  FILM III.  Eurpoean Cinema: (Re)constructing Identities II (Spain)
            Organized and chaired by María Camí-Vela, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

2:00  Cine de la transicón democrática española: Desafíos y modelos
           Javier Hernández, Universidad Europea de Madrid

2:30  (En)gendering Cinema: Women and Film in 1990’s Spain
           María Camí-Vela, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Thursday
5.   HISPANIC  I.  Food for Special Thought: Images of Consumption in Hispanic Literature
        Organized by Delmarie Martínez, University of Central Florida
       Chaired by Eugene B. Hastings, Morehead State University 

3:00     I Can See Myself!:  The Self-Perception of Female Characters in Latin American Prose Reflected in the Foods They Prepare, Serve and Eat
        Alice Korosy, University of Central Florida

3:30     The Discourse of Hunger in Galdós’ Misericordia
         Lisa Nalbone, University of Central Florida

Thursday
6.  SPANISH  I.  Literature Before the Nineteenth Century
        Chaired by R. Terry Mount, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

3:00   El disfraz carnavalesco de Dulcinea
                Osvaldo Parrilla, Barton College

3:30    The “Eye” of Power, Truth, and Writing in Luis Gutiérrez’s Cornelia Bororquia  
                Mark R. Malin, Randolph-Macon College

Thursday
7.  HISPANIC II.  El personaje literario mujer como metáfora de su condición real
         Organized and chaired by Eliana Cazaubon Hermann, Shenandoah University

3:00    Cuestiones de identidad: El caso de Eleanora Ellis en El cielo dividido de Reina Roffé  
Pam DeWeese, Sweet Briar College

3:30    Escritoras mexicanas de los 80, cronistas de una transición anunciada
María-Luisa Sánchez, Frostburg State University

4:00    Eva Perón: personaje e historia
Mirta Corpa Vargas, University of California-Riverside

4:30   Identidad, memoria alternativa y mermelada de fresa: Una lectura genealógica de Los altillos de Brumal de Cristina Fernández Cubas.
Laura Trujillo, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thursday
8.  STUDY ABROAD  I
            Chaired by James P. McNab, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

3:00     Normandy Scholars at the University of Tennessee: A Cross-Disciplinary         Experience that Works
            John B. Romeiser, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3:30    ¡Ánimo! Walking the Camino de Santiago with Students  
            Valerie Rider, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:00    Cultural and Social Aspects of Study Abroad Programs  
            Zhuyan Chen, Appalachian State University

Thursday
9.  LATIN AMERICAN II.  Colonial Spanish American Literature
Organized and chaired by Joann McFerran Mount, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

3:30    Space and Culture: Engravings and Woodcuts in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Texts
Sylvia Santaballa, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:00     The Image of the Curandero in Spanish American Literature
Ann Ortiz, Campbell University

Thursday
10.  LATIN AMERICAN III.  The Theatre of Carlos Canales
        Session in Honor of George Woodyard
        Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech
        Chaired by Deborah J. Cohen, Slippery Rock University

4:00    Entrevista a Carlos Canales
Georgina Whittingham, State University of New York at Oswego

4:30     El cielo como soborno en el teatro de Carlos Canales
            Jesús Freire, State University of New York at Oswego

Thursday
11.  FRENCH II.  Seventeenth Century Literature
Chaired by Susan Crampton, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:00     Le Tartuffe de Molière: l’hôte qui n’est qu’un parasite
Fátima E. C. Buchert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

4:30     Alexandre Hardy – La force du sang:  Qui le coupable?
Catherine Lerat, Furman University

Thursday
5:00     MIFLC EXECUTIVE MEETING                             Lakeside Hall 127

5:30-7:00        WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION             Warwick Center Ballroom
             Music by William Strickland, guitarist

7:15     Bajo un fuego celestial by Carlos Canales: Dramatic Reading
    Introduced by Denise DiPuccio, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

FRIDAY MORNING SESSIONS

Friday
12.  LATIN AMERICAN IV.  Theatre of the Southern Cone and Beyond
            Session in honor of George Woodyard

             Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virgina Tech
          Chaired by Adam Versenyi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

8:30    The Actor Appears: Victoria Ocampo’s Aesthetics of Interruption
            Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas

9:00    Global Culture, Canon and Comics in the Theatre of Marco Antonio de la Parra
           Elsa Gilmore, U. S. Naval Academy

9:30    Service Learning: the World Premiere of Una rana croar by Hugo Salcedo
            Iani Moreno, Salve Regina University

Friday
13.  SPANISH II. Twentieth Century Culture and Literature
            Chaired by Osvaldo Parrilla, Barton College

8:30     Federico García Lorca and the Harlem Renaissance
           Francisco Javier Sánchez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:00     La transición española a través del cancionero popular español  
José L. Murillo-Amo, Marshall University

9:30    Hacia una poética del perdedor: Joaquín Sabina y la escritura en los márgenes de la  socìedad
Santiago García-Castañón, Georgia College and State University

Friday
14.       LATIN AMERICAN V.  Central American Literature
            Chaired by Peter Thomas, Univesrity of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00     Social Novelist, Social Playwright: Ramón Amaya Amador’s La peste negra
  Theodore H. Parks, Pepperdine University

9:30    Conscience as a Path Beyond Rebellion in Manlio Argueta’s Un día en la vida
         Peter G. Murphy, University of South Carolina, Union

10:00   Contesting Capital: Violence and Alterity in Recent Costa Rican Fiction
         Laura H. Barbas Rhoden, Wofford College

10:30   Break

11:00   Política del recuerdo: la reconstrucción del sujeto femenino revolucionario en Las cárceles clandestinas de El Salvador de Ana Guadalupe Martínez
Miiren Edurne Portela, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:30   La politización de la memoria en el testímonio Nunca estuve sola
            Deanna Mihaly, Emory and Henry College

Friday
15.  LATIN AMERICAN VI.  Representation, Identity, and Gender
            Organized and chaired by Karina A. Bautista, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

9:00    Construcción de la  identidad mestiza en la Historia de Tlaxcala de Diego Muñoz Camargo
Jeandelize González-Rivera, University of Massachusetts

9:30   El Amor: sentimiento innato o construcción de género. Análisis de su concepción en la obra de João de Guimarães Rosa y Clarice Lispector
Karina A. Bautista, University of Massachusetts at Amherst    

Friday
16.  HISPANIC LINGUISTICS I
             Chaired by John Stevens, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00     Is the Subjunctive Going the Way of the Dinosaur?
Maríadelaluz Matus-Mendoza, Drexel University

9:30     Revisión del empleo de las formas en -ra­  y en -se del imperfecto de subjuntivo con valor de indicativo en el español periodístico actual de España: proyecto de estudio
Kern L. Lunsford, Lynchburg College

10:00   El verbo en la norma culta puertorriqueña
 Carmen N. Hernández, Universidad de Puerto Rico

10:30  Break

11:00   Uso del imperfecto en el español de Houston
 Sonia Dupré, University of Houston

11:30  Expresión del tiempo futuro entre los californios del siglo XIX: Estudio de  sociolinguística histórica
Alejandra Balestra, University of Houston

Friday
17.  LATIN AMERICAN VII.  La novela negra en América Hispana I
            Organized by José Sánchez-Boudy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
            Chaired by José R. de Armas, Denison University

9:00     La denuncia de la esclavitud en las novelas El ingenio de Anselmo Suárez Romero y Cecilia Valdés de Cirilo Villaverde
José Sánchez-Boudy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

9:30     Patronio y Rosalía, una novela olvidada
Alberto Hernández-Chiroldes, Davidson College

10:00   La cultura africana en la novela cubana: de Saab de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda a Caja de juegos de Daína Chaviano
Ofelia M. Hudson, Miami-Dade Community College

10:30   Simpatías y diferencias en una anécdota esclava de la novela negra en Hispanoamérica
Leonardo Fernández-Marcané, State University of New York at Albany

Friday
18.  FRENCH III.  Francophone II
            Chaired by Jennings Craig, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00     Matrilineal Ties and the Redemptive Power of Writing in Gabrielle Roy’s Autobiography La détresse el l’enchantement and Le temps qui m’a manqué
Michaela Voss Cottle, Brigham Young University

9:30   Soft Touch: The Expression of the Body in Anne Hébert’s Poetry
Everett J. Jacobus, Jr., Davidson College

Friday
19.  COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.   Literature Through Time
Chaired by P. J. Lapaire, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00     Des Essais de Montaigne au Journal de voyage:   “Non pas sans médecine, mais ouy bien sans médecin”
Marie-Thérèse Noiset, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

9:30     I Read, Therefore She Is: Creating the Fictitious Character in Selected
             Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Novels
                Elizabeth Barron, Wake Forest University

10:00   Break  

10:30   A Time for Kindness: Models for Humanity in the Poetry of Azalais de Porcairages and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Susan F. Crampton, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:00   Silencing the Spoken Word:  Communication in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Marguerite Duras’ Moderato Cantabile
Amy K. Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday
20.  FILM II.  La mirada femenina y el melodrama del cabaret en el registrocinemático de Argentina y México
         Organized by Mercedes Guijarro-Crouch, Peace College
        Chaired by Graciela Lucero-Hammer, Salem College

9:30    What is “That” in María Luisa Bemberg’s De eso no se habla?
Barbara Fulks, Davis and Elkins College

10:00   The Myth of the Happy Homemaker: “Lección de cocina” and Como agua para chocolate
Barbara Clark, Averett College

10:30   Break

11:00   De noche vienes, Esmeralda y la mímica de la virtud
  Mercedes Guijarro-Crouch, Peace College

11:30   Melodrama del cabaret: modernidad, cultura y espectáculo
  Magdalena Maíz-Peña, Davidson College
  Luis H. Peña, Davidson College

Friday
21.  VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS I.  Representations in Film
        Organized and chaired by Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:30     Toutes les histoires: History, Virtuality and Memory in Godard
Scott Durham, Northwestern University

10:00   Overcoming Metaphysics in Three Steps: Lola rennt/Run Lola Run
Oliver C. Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

10:30   Break (Due to travel crisis the following two papers will be presented at 4:30 and 5:00 Friday in Lakeside 108.)

11:00   Distorting Lens, Disabled Soundtrack, or Why Film Can’t Hear Literature Any Better Than It Sees: The Case of  Dracula
Alan Lutkus,  State University of New York at Geneseo

11:30   Visual Representation of The Age of Innocence  
            Sarah Miles Watts,  State University of New York at Geneseo

Friday
22.  SPANISH III.  The Spanish Civil War
             Chaired by Donnie D. Richards, Georgia Southern University

 10:00   Un grito pegado a la pared: los carteles de la Guerra Civil española
              Carmen Sotomayor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  10:30    The Republican Poster Art of the Spanish Civil War
             Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

  11:00   His Master’s Voice: Leadership Lessons in Malraux’s “L’Espoir”
                 John B. Romeiser, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Friday
23.  PEDAGOGY I:  Learning a Foreign Language: Online Instruction Versus Classroom Instruction
Organized by Dolly Jesusita Young, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Chaired by Elizabeth Pressley, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

10:00-11:00    Panelists:
                        Margaret Beauvois, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
                        Carla Phillips, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
                        Dolly Jesusita Young, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3. LATIN   Friday
24. LATIN AMERICAN VIII.  Theatre
            Special Session in Honor of George Woodyard
           Organized and chaired by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech

10:30   Latin American Theatre: 35 Years in Review
            George Woodyard, University of Kansas

11:00   Theater as Social Criticism: Four Contemporary Latin American Plays  
             Merlin Forster, Brigham Young University

11:30   Mission Impossible: or Taking Aim at the Canon of Latin American Theatre
         Sandra Cypess, University of Maryland
         Elaine Miller, University of Maryland

Friday
25.  HISPANIC III.  Chicano Literature
            Chaired by Sylvia Santaballa, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:00   Discurso narrativo y el cronotipo de Bajtín en la novela chicana …y no se lo    tragó la tierra de Tomás Rivera
           Jennifer A. Colón, Florida State University

11:30   Ana Castillo’s Peel My Love Like an Onion: Cultural Balance
          Michele Shaul, Queens College

Friday
26.  GERMAN I.  Genres in German Literature
        Chaired by Lee Tatum, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:00   Die Losungen der Brueder–-Unitaet Hermhut: A Closer Look
         Brigitte Edith Archibald, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

11:30    Constructions of Self in Late-Nineteenth Century Autobiographies of the Working Class 
          Birgit A. Jensen, East Carolina University

Friday
27.  SPANISH IV.  Women Poets
         Chaired by R. Terry Mount, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:30   Transitions: Visions of the Self in Atencia’s Recent Poetry
           Anita M. Hart, University of Nebraska at Kearney

12:00   Transcending Gender: Ana Rossetti’s Punto umbrío
            Martha LaFollette Miller, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

12:30   La intimidad trascendida en la poesía de Sara Pujol
            Francisco J. Peñas-Bermejo, University of Dayton

Friday
28.  PEDAGOGY II.  Foreign Language Challenges
            Chaired by Agnese Ille, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:30   Specific Purpose Language Instruction
            George Mansour, Michigan State University

12:00   Assisting Students to Deliver Oral Presentations that Meet Expectations  
            Concepción B. Godev, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Friday
29.  HISPANIC IV.  Theatre Beyond the Borders of Latin America
                  Session in Honor of George Woodyard  
                      Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech  
                  Chaired by Elsa Gilmore, United States Naval Academy

1:00     Defragmenting the Theatre of Itziar Pascual  
            Phyllis Zatlin, Rutgers University

1:30     Exile, Identity, Intertextuality: The Other Stories in Pedro Monge’s Otra Historia  
           Gail Bulman, Syracuse University

Friday
30.  LATIN AMERICAN X.  Literature of the Southern Cone  
            Chaired by Ronald J. Friis, Furman University

1:00   Los de arriba, los de abajo: la dupla personajes-espacio en Babilonia (1925) de Armando Discépolo
María Teresa Sanhueza, Wake Forest University

1:30   Borges’s “Funes the Memorious”: a Case of Excessive Logic  
           Corrado Corradini, Wake Forest University

2:00   The Anatomy of The Anatomist’s Metatextual Biopsy of the Novel
            Paul Roggendorff, University of Kentucky

Friday
31.  HISPANIC V.  Latino/a Literature: Negotiating Sexuality and Ethnicity: Redefining
          Identity in Latin@ Texts  
             Organized and chaired by I. Carolina Caballero, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:00    Recreating Creation: Vindicating the Mother/Whore in Carlos Morton’s El jardín  and Cherrie Moraga’s Loving in the War Years
Jennifer Wooten, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:30   Staging Humor, Exploring Identities: Monica Palacios's Greetings from a Queer Señorita
Linda Saborío, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00   The Invocation and Transformation of a Literary Foremother: Lesbian Disidentification and the Figure of Julia de Burgos in Luz María Umpierre’s The Margarita Poems  
Betsy A. Sandlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:30   Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Memory and Subverting Reality in Milk of Amnesia and Memories of the Revolution  
I.  Carolina Caballero, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday
32. SPANISH V.  Twentieth Century Prose  
            Chaired by Miguel R. Ruiz-Avilés, Austin Peay State University

1:00    La búsqueda en cuentos selectos de Ignacio Aldecoa  
  Nancy A. Norris, Western Carolina University

1:30   Ramón Sender’s Pursuit of “Lo absoluto real”: The Search of a Lifetime  
            Donnie D. Richards, Georgia Southern University

2:00    Evolución del símbolo ofidiano en Juan sin Tierra : sexo, escritura y escatología  
             Carmen García Armero, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Friday
33.  VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS II.  Representations in French Literature
            Organized  and chaired by Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1:00    “VACHE FOLLE/FOLIE DE VACHE”: Cultural Representations
            Margaret Ozierski, Duke University

1:30     Thérèse Raquin's Becomings: A Schizoanalytic Interpretation  
           Noémie Parrat, University of Pittsburgh

2:00     Turning Japanese: Amélie Nothomb’s Identity Crisis in “La Métaphysique des  tubes” and “Stupeur et tremblements”  
Danielle Smith, International Student Exchange Program

2:30    Midinettes: From Working Girls to Women at Work
         Gina K. Zupsich, Loyola University Chicago

Friday
34.  LATIN AMERICAN XI.  La novela negra en América Hispana II
            Organized by Ofelia M. Hudson, Miami-Dade Community College
            Chaired by Leonardo Fernández-Marcané, University of New York at Albany

1:00     África en dos obras de Alejo Carpentier: El reino de este mundo y Ecué Yamba O
            Aleida Garrido Martínez, Círculo de Cultura Panamericana

1:30     Biofilia y necrofilia en la novela de Josefina Leyva Rut, la que huyó de la Biblia  
              Rosa Leonor Whitmarsh, Miami-Dade Community College

2:00     El entorno como cubanía en Cecilia Valdés de Cirilo Villaverde
            José Sánchez-Boudy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Friday
35.  HISPANIC LINGUISTICS II.  Linguistics and Literature
      Organized and chaired by Francesco D’Introno, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

1:00     Estructura social en el discurso literario
            Francesco D’Introno, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

1:30     Literatura en dos lenguas  
            Agustín A. Martínez, Universidad Central de Venezuela  

2:00     Code-switching y poesía chicana  
  Julio César Santoyo, Universidad de León

2:30     Lenguaje y sociedad en una novela venezolana
  Rosemary Weston, Amherst College

Friday
36.  FRENCH IV.  Perspectives on Twentieth Century France
            Organized by P.J. Lapaire, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
            Chaired by Carolyn Durham, The College of Wooster 

1:30     Supplying Paris: Food and Fuel in May 1968  
            Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

2:00     La Guerre d’Indochine vue par Lucien Bodard: héroïsme, corruption et incompréhension des Français au Vietnam
P.J. Lapaire, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Friday
37.  PEDAGOGY III.  Spanish  
            Organized by Gregory B. Kaplan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
            Chaired by Brian N. Stiegler, Salisbury State University

1:30    El uso de la tecnología en una clase de cultura y literatura  
           Pepa Anastasio, Hofstra University

2:00   El análisis literario y la enseñanza de la literatura : Un enfoque pedagógico de tres cuentos españoles  
Nuria Cruz-Cámara, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2:30    From the Screen to the Chalkboard: Teaching La lengua de las mariposas  
          Gregory B. Kaplan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Friday
38.  LATIN AMERICAN XII. Theatre of the Southern Cone
           Session in Honor of George Woodyard  
            Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech
          Chaired by Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas

2:00    El desafío de la mujer al orden patriarcal en La malasangre de Griselda Gambaro
            Celia Garzón-Arrabal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:30    Memory and Seduction in Roberto Cossa's EL SALUDADOR  
          Sharon Magnarelli, Quinnipiac University

Friday
39.  SPANISH VI.  Twentieth Century Theatre  
            Chaired by María A. Salgado, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00    La cuestión ética en En la ardiente oscuridad  
            Justin Peterson, Wake Forest University

2:30    Entre realidades e ilusiones fragmentadas: La imaginación posmoderna en El traductor de Blumemberg y Más ceniza de Juan Mayorga
John P. Gabriele, The College of Wooster

Friday
3:00     PLENARY SESSION                                     Bryan Auditorium (Morton Hall 100)

Keynote Address: The Gray Dachshund: Of Borders, Barriers, Bridges, and Us
by John Kronik, Cornell University
Introduction by Denise DiPuccio, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:00-4:30        BREAK: Refreshments in Morton Hall

Friday
40.   LATIN AMERICAN  XIII.  Theatre of Central America and the Caribbean
           Session in Honor of George Woodyard  
            Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech  
           Chaired by Iani Moreno, Salve Regina University

4:15   Parece blanca y Cecilia Valdés: Un estudio de intertextualidad dramática en el teatro  
Terry Palls, New College of the University of South Florida  

4:45    Juegos de violencia y poder en Sobre chapulines y otras langostas de Wálter Fernández
Deborah J. Cohen, Slippery Rock University 

5:15     Roxana Campos: Actress, Author, Director and Feminist
          Carolyn Bell, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

5:45   De la casa a la cárcel : Ser y espacio en Marqués y Piñero
            Roberto Irizarry, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Friday
21B.    Visual Representations I-B. Two presentations moved from 11:00 and 11:30
                 Friday morning (from Session 21)

        Organized and chaired by Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:30   Distorting Lens, Disabled Soundtrack, or Why Film Can’t Hear Literature Any Better Than It Sees: The Case of  Dracula
Alan Lutkus,  State University of New York at Geneseo

5:00   Visual Representation of The Age of Innocence  
            Sarah Miles Watts,  State University of New York at Geneseo

Friday
41.  LATIN AMERICAN XIV.  Poetry
         Chaired by Gastón Fernández, Clemson University

4:30   Alaíde Foppa ante la palabra
Oralia Preble-Niemi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

5:00    Luz y sombra en la poesía de Amelia del Castillo
José R. de Armas, Denison University

5:30    Color, erotismo, religiosidad y rebeldía en una poética femenina
Amelia del Castillo, PEN Club de Escritores Cubanos-Exilio

Friday
42.  LATIN AMERICAN XV
             Chaired by Leonor Álvarez de Ulloa, Radford University

4:30    On Building a Boyhood: Representations of the Child in Bryce Echenique’s Un mundo para Julius and Bayly’s Yo amo a mi mami
Brian N. Stiegler, Salisbury State University  

5:00    El Cristo de espaldas, obra esperpéntica de la violencia colombiana
Juan Carlos Valencia, Truman State University

5:30    La crónica como ficción y la ficción como crónica en los relatos de Carlos Monsiváis
Lori Celaya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Friday
43.  SPANISH VII.  Carmen Martín Gaite: In Memoriam
         Organized by José L. Murillo-Amo, Marshall University
          Chaired by Nancy Norris, Western Carolina University

4:30    Sentimental Journey and the Commodification of Memory in “Irse de casa” de Carmen  Martín Gaite
Carla Olson Buck, College of William and Mary

5:00    Love in Franco’s Time According to Gaite’s Usos amorosos de la posguerra
española
José L. Murillo-Amo, Marshall University

Friday
44.   FRENCH V. Nineteenth Century Literature
            Chaired by Noelle Wynne, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:30    Modern Knights: Chivalry and Honor in Victor Hugo’s Novels
            Jennings Craig, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

5:00    Nudity in Art: Is it Lascivious or Chaste?  A Paradox in Emile Zola’s L’Oeuvre
            Julie English-Hendrix, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Friday
45.  HISPANIC LINGUISTICS III
           Chaired by Alfredo B. Torrejón, Auburn University

4:30  Opposite Phonologies: A Parameter of Rhythm in Germanic and Romance
          M. Stanley Whitley, Wake Forest University

5:00   Bilingual? Bicultural? …Bi-identity? A Survey Study
           Lourdes Sánchez-López, University of Alabama at Birmingham

5 :30  The Acquisition of the Spanish Voiceless Stops in a Study Abroad Context
          John J. Stevens, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Friday
46.  PEDAGOGY IV
            Chaired by Susan F. Crampton, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

4:30    Libraries, They’re Not Just for Geeks Anymore: Foreign Language Skills and the Academic Librarian
            JoEllen Morrison, Marymount College of Fordham University

5:00   Proust pour tous
            Michèle Magill, North Carolina State University

5:30    What is the Language Lab Coming to?
            Stéphane Charitos, Columbia University

Friday
47.  STUDY ABROAD II
            Organized and chaired by Juan Manuel Sampere, Estudio Internacional Sampere, Madrid

4:30   Dificultades del estudiante americano en la adquisición de la lengua española  
            María Lobato, Estudio Internacional Sampere, Madrid

5:00    The Graduate and Undergraduate Study of Spanish Language and Literature in
         Spain
            Miguel R. Ruiz-Avilés, Austin Peay State University

Friday
7:30-9:30        CONFERENCE BANQUET              Ballroom, Warwick Center

Music by Tuppence
Simon Spalding and Sara Kirtland

SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS

Saturday
48.  LATIN AMERICAN XVI.  Sabina Berman and Jesusa Rodríguez
        Session in Honor of George Woodyard
           Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech
         Chaired by Catherine Larson

9:00    Corporeal and National Identity in Jesusa Rodríguez’s Performances
          Margarita Vargas, University of Buffalo

9:30    La pistola de Sabina Berman
         Laurietz Seda, University of Connecticut

10:00    Professors and the Mexican Stage: Berman’s Adrian, Usigli’s Oliver, and My Own Meddlesome Meditation
Stuart Day, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:30   The Impo(r)tence of the Male Intellectual in the Theatre of Sabina Berman
   Francine A’Ness, Dartmouth University

Saturday
49.  LATIN AMERICAN XVII.  Perspectives on Latin American Women Writers
            Chaired by Teresita J. Parra, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00    History and National Identity in Carmen Boullosa’s Llanto: novelas imposibles (1992)
Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Duke University

9:30   La novela de aprendizaje y su protagonista
            Norma A. Rivera-Hernández, Millersville University

10:00  An Analysis of Gender Roles in Realist Novels of Clorinda Matto de Turner
        Mary Garland Jackson, Central Michigan University

Saturday
50.  SPANISH VIII.  Nineteenth Century Literature
            Chaired by George Mansour, Michigan State University

9:00     La España del siglo XIX como descrita por un viajero cubano
            Gregorio C. Martín, Duquesne University

9:30     Patterns of Conflict: the Individual and Society in Spanish Romantic Novels
            Sheila Ackerlind, United States Military Academy, West Point

10:00   Estructura y sentido de misterio en la rima LXX de Bécquer
            Eugene B. Hastings, Morehead State University

Saturday
51.  HISPANIC LINGUISTICS IV
            Organized and chaired by Juan C. Zamora, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

9:00    Spanglish, mito o realidad
            César Alegre, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

9:30    Sobre los pronombres en español
            Esther Castro, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

10:00  Prensa femenina y actos de habla ilocutivos y perlocutivos
             Florinda Ruiz, Roanoke College

10:30   Break

11:00  Alternancia español/inglés en niños hispanos de escuela primaria
           Margarita Valle, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

11:30   ¿Ciber Espanglish?: Préstamos y calcos en el lenguaje del Internet
              Beatriz Verdasco, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

12:00   Malas palabras en España e Hispanoamérica
            Juan C. Zamora, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Saturday
52.  VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS III.  Representations in Literature and the Media
            Organized by Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
            Chaired by Margaret Ozierski, Duke University

9:00    Food For Thought, Food For Feminists: A New Social Construct in Multicultural    Literature
Terry Shepherd, Millikin University
Cheryl Toman, Millikin University

9:30   “Eigenartig leere Bilder”: Sebald the Skeptical Mnemonist
            Martin Klebes, Northwestern University

10:00  Inner dialogue in Judith Hermann’s Sommerhouse Später and Lorrie Moore’s  Birds of America
Erika Stevens, Duke University

10:30   Break

11:00  Images in Word and Film
            Molly Hamblin, Independent scholar

11:30  Media Complicity in State Department War Crimes
             Kevin Teng, Northwestern University

Saturday
53. GERMAN II.  Distance Education Panel
            Organized and chaired by Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

  9:00-10:00      German Studies Through UNC's Video  Network
                        Helga G. Braunbeck, North Carolina State University
                        Kevin Kennedy, Appalachian State University
                        Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
                        Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Saturday
54.  PEDAGOGY V.  Using the Web
            Chaired by Melinda Johansson, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:00    Instructional Material on the Web for Spanish Through Music
            Z. David Zuwiyya, Auburn University

9:30    Some Web-based Activities for the Rest of Us
           Alfredo B. Torrejón, Auburn University

10:00  The Use of a Web-based Lesson to Teach Students about the Day of the Dead
             Anastacia G. Kohl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:30   WebCT and Supplemental Activities: Using E-mail and A-synchronous  Discussion for Two Online French Courses
Charles Gidney, Coastal Carolina University

Saturday
55.  FRENCH VI.  Perspectives on Literature, Film, and Linguistics
            Chaired by James P. McNab, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

9:30   Naming the Nation: Allegory in Claire Denis's Chocolat
            Carolyn Durham, The College of Wooster

10:00  La productivité du coup et la sémantique puissancielle
            Marina Nielsen, Independent scholar

10:30   Break

11:00  Camille and Paul Claudel: un jeu de reflets
           Lorraine E. Reams Murphy, Peace College

11:30  The Concept of Time in Four Early Twentieth Century French Plays
            D. Hampton Morris, Auburn University

Saturday
56.  LATIN AMERICAN
      Chaired by Ann Ortiz, Campbell University

9:30    Anotaciones sobre la narrativa temprana de Sarduy
            Leonor A. de Ulloa, Radford University  

10:00    Sobre el detalle y la elipsis en Cobra de Sarduy
          Justo C. Ulloa, Virginia Tech

Break

11:00 La marginalidad en Hechos consumados (1981) de Juan Radrigán
            Lisa A. Barboun, Coastal Carolina University  

11:30  El metateatro : la relexividad discursivo en Obituario
           Lourdes Betanzos, Auburn University

Saturday
57.  GERMAN III. German Literature
            Chaired by Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

10:30  Encounters with Contemporary Authors: The Loyola College Literature Seminars in Berlin
Finley Taylor, University of Central Florida

11:00  “Da hatte sie mich in einen Sack gesteck”: Befreiungsversuch des jungen Goethe aus der Despotie der Liebe
Kevin Kennedy, Appalachian State University

Saturday
58.  LATIN AMERICAN XVIII.  Mexican Theatre  
           Session in Honor of George Woodyard
                Organized by Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Tech
             Chaired by Stuart Day, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:00  Frida Kahlo: Mirror Images and Reflections on Popular Culture
           Sarah Misemer, University of Kansas

11:30  The Work of Mexican Set Designer Philippe Armand: Or the Art of Intimate Sets
           Tim Compton, Northern Michigan University

12:00   Tiempo prestado, tiempo robado: Escenificando el SIDA en  “A tu intocable persona” de Gonzalo Valdés Medellín
Manuel Medina, University of Louisville

Saturday
59.  LATIN AMERICAN XX.  Poetry  
           Chaired by Peter Thomas, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

11:00  La poesía guatemalteca del siglo XIX a vista de pájaro
            María A. Salgado, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:30  Ghostly Forms in the Poetry of José Juan Tablada
            Ronald J. Friis, Furman University

12:00  Identifying Delmira Agustini
            Kerri Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday
60.  SPANISH IX. Nineteenth Century Literature
           Chaired by John P. Gabriele, The College of Wooster

11:00  Figures of Addiction in Fortunata y Jacinta
           Lance Gutiérrez, Radford University

11:30  The Animals We Are: Images of Bestial Reduction in La Regenta (1885) and Fortunata y Jacinta (1887)
Louis Bourne, Georgia College and State University

Saturday
61.  MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: Medieval Literature and the Marvelous
           Organized and chaired by Z. David Zuwiyya, Auburn University

11:00   Una interpretación más para Don Melón, pintoresco personaje de El libro de buen amor
Efraín Garza, Columbus State University

11:30   Le miracle de l’argent dans Le Croissant en prose (1454), edité par Michel le Noir, 1513
Michel Raby, Auburn University

12:00   The Art of descrivre: A Few Remarks on the Marvelous in the Chevalier de la Charrette
Sarah Jane Murray, Princeton University

Saturday
62.  PEDAGOGY VI.  Technology Workshop Session

11:30-12:30    Creating Interactive Language Exercises for the Web
                        Melinda Johansson, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Saturday
12:30    MIFLC BUSINESS MEETING                        Lakeside Hall 127

Index of Participants in Conference Sessions
(references are to session numbers)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Ackerlind, Sheila 50
Alegre, César 51
Anastasio, Pepa 37
Anderson, Kerri 59
A’Ness, Francine 48
Archibald, Brigette Edith 26
Armas, José R. de 17, 41
Balestra, Alejandra 16
Barbas Rhoden, Laura H. 14
Barboun, Lisa A. 56
Barron, Elizabeth 19
Bautista, Karina A. 15
Beauvois, Margaret 23
Bell, Carolyn 40
Berrada, Taieb 3
Betanzos, Lourdes 56
Bixler, Jacqueline 10 , 12, 23, 29, 38, 40, 48, 58
Bourne, Louis 60
Braunbeck, Helga G. 53
Buchert, Fátima E. C. 11
Buck, Carla Olson 43
Bulman, Gail 29
Burt, Raymond 53, 57
Caballereo, I. Carolina 31
Camí-Vela, María 1, 4
Canales, Carlos 10, dramatic reading
Castillo, Amelia del 41
Castro, Esther 51
Celaya, Lori 42
Charitos, Stéphane 46
Chatzidimitríou, Ioanna 3
Chen, Zhuyan 8
Clark, Barbara 20
Cohen, Deborah J. 10, 40
Colón, Jennifer A. 25
Compton, Tim 58
Corradini Corrado 30
Cottle, Michaela Voss 18
Craig, Jennings 18, 44
Crampton, Susan F. 11, 19, 46
Cruz-Cámara, Nuria 37
Day, Stuart 48, 58
Deville, Jennifer 3
DeWeese, Pam 7
D’Introno, Francesco 35
DiPuccio, Denise dramatic reading, plenary session
Dupré, Sonia 16
Durham, Carolyn 36, 55
Durham, Scott 21
English-Hendrix, Julie 44
Fernández-Marcané, Leonardo 17, 34
Fernández, Gastón 41
Forster, Merlin 24
Freire, Jesús 10
Friis, Ronald J. 30, 59
Fulks, Barbara 20
Gabriele, John P. 39, 60
García Armero, Carmen 32
García-Castañon, Santiago 13
Garrido Martínez, Aleida 34
Garza, Efraín 61
Garzón-Arrabal, Celia 38
Gidney, Charles 54
Gilmore, Elsa 11, 29
Godev, Concepción B. 28
González-Rivera, Jeandelize 15
Guijarro-Crouch, Mercedes 20
Gutiérrez, Lance 60
Hamblin, Molly 52
Hart, Anita M. 27
Hastings, Eugene B. 5, 50
Hermann, Eliana C. 7
Hernández, Carmen N. 16
Hernández, Javier 4
Hernández-Chiroldes, Alberto 17
Hudson, Ofelia M. 17, 34
Irizarry, Roberto 40
Jackson, Mary Garland 49
Jacobus, Everett J. Jr. 18
Jensen, Birgit A. 26
Johansson, Melinda 54, 62
Kaplan, Gregory B. 37
Kennedy, Kevin 53, 57
Kirtland, Sara banquet
Klebes, Martin 52
Kohl, Anastacia 54
Korosy, Alice 5
Kronik, John plenary session
Lapaire, P.J. 19, 36
Larson, Catherine 48
Lerat, Catherine 11
Lobato, María 47
Lucero-Hammer, Graciela 20
Lunsford, Kern L. 16
Lutkus, Alan 21, 21B
Magill, Michèle 46
Magnarelli, Sharon 38
Maíz-Peña, Magdalena 20
Malin Mark R. 6
Mansour, George 28, 50
Marie, Elisabeth 3
Martín, Gregorio C. 50
Martínez, Agustín A. 35
Martínez, Delmarie 4
Matus-Mendoza, Mariadelaluz 16
McNab, James P. 8, 55
Medina, Manuel 58
Mihaly, Deanna 14
Miller, Elaine 24
Miller, Martha LaFollette 27
Misemer, Sarah 58
Moreno, Iani 12, 40
Morris, D. Hampton 55
Morrison, JoEllen 46
Morton, Julia Centurión 2
Mount, Joann McFerran 9
Mount, R. Terry 6, 27, banquet  
Murillo-Amo, Jose L. 13, 43
Murphy, Lorraine E. Reams 55
Murphy, Peter G. 14
Murray, Alison 1
Murray, Sarah Jane 61
Nalbone, Lisa 5
Nielsen, Marina 55
Noiset, Marie-Thérèse 19
Norris, Nancy A. 32, 43
Ortiz, Ann 9, 56
Ozierski, Margaret 33, 52
Palls, Terry 40
Parks, Theodore H. 14
Parra, Teresita J. 2, 49
Parrat, Noémie 33
Parrilla, Osvaldo 6, 13
Pattroni, Rossana 2
Peña, Luis H. 20
Peñas-Bermejo, Francisco J. 27
Peterson, Justin 39
Phillips, Carla 23
Portela, Miren Edurne 14
Preble-Niemi, Oralia 41
Pressley, Elizabeth 23
Quinn-Sánchez, Kathryn 49
Raby, Michel 61
Richards, Donnie D. 22, 32
Rider, Valerie 8
Rivera-Hernández, Norma A. 49
Roggendorff, Paul 30
Romeiser, John B. 8, 22
Ruiz, Florinda 51
Ruiz-Avilés, Miguel R. 32, 47
Saborío, Linda 31
Salgado, María A. 39, 59
Sampere, Juan Manuel 47
Sánchez, Francisco Javier 13
Sánchez, María-Luisa 7
Sánchez-Boudy, José 17, 34
Sánchez-López, Lourdes 45
Sandlin, Betsy A. 31
Sanhueza, María Teresa 30
Santaballa, Sylvia 9, 25
Santoyo, Julio César 35
Seda, Laurietz 48
Seidman, Michael 22, 36
Seiple, JoAnne banquet
Shaul, Michele 25
Shaw, Amy K. 19
Shepherd, Terry 52
Smith, Danielle 33
Sotomayor, Carmen 22
Spalding, Simon banquet
Speck, Oliver 1, 21, 33, 52, 53
Stevens, Erika 52
Stevens, John J. 16, 45
Stiegler, Brian N. 37, 42
Strickland, William reception
Tatum, Lee 26
Taylor, Finley 56
Teng, Kevin 52
Thomas, Peter 2, 14, 59
Toman, Cheryl 52
Torrejón, Alfredo B. 45, 54
Trujillo, Laura 7
Ulloa, Justo C. 56
Ulloa, Leonor A. de 42,  56 
Unruh, Vicky 11, 38
Valencia, Juan Carlos 42
Valle, Margarita 51
Vargas, Margarita 48
Vargas, Mirta Corpa 7
Vérdasco, Beatriz 51
Versenyi, Adam 12
Watts, Sarah Miles 21, 21B
Weston, Rosemary 35
Whitley, M. Stanley 45
Whitmarsh, Rosa Leonor 34
Whittingham, Georgina 10
Woodyard, George 24
Woodyard, George (sessions in honor of) 10, 12, 24, 29, 38, 40, 48, 58
Wooten, Jennifer 31
Wynne, Noelle 44
Young, Dolly Jesusita 23
Zamora, Juan C. 51
Zatlin, Phyllis 29
Zupsich, Gina K. 33
Zuwiyya, Z. David 54, 61

 MIFLC Review
Journal of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference

We invite you to submit your 2001 MIFLC paper for the forthcoming issue of MIFLC Review.  Please follow the guidelines stated in the Editorial Policy described below.  The deadline for submissions is December 30.

The MIFLC Review was established in 1990 under the editorship of Leonor A. Ulloa and is the annual publication of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). It publishes critical studies on the modern languages and literatures as well as interdisciplinary, comparative, Iinguistic, and pedagogical studies. Submissions must be based on papers and presentations at the annual MIFLC meeting. Papers prepared only for oral delivery and lacking proper documentation will not be considered.

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The author should send the original manuscript and two copies, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to the Editor of the MIFLC Review. The deadline for submissions is December 30.

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