The ACH Guide to Humanities-Computing Talks at the 2003 MLA Convention

The Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled this list of sessions with computing-related talks at the 2003 Modern Language Association Convention (in San Diego, 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 one session is free and open to the public: “Modes of Scholarly Communication”. 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 2003 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.

8: Electronic Theory and Criticism

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Cunningham A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Presiding: Vika Zafrin, Brown University

“Show, Not Tell: The Value of New Media Scholarship,” Cheryl E. Ball, Michigan Technological University
“The Simultaneous South: An Electronic, Multilinear Approach to Borges's ‘The South’,” Marjorie Luesebrink, Irvine Valley College, CA

Respondent: Thomas Swiss, University of Iowa

See http://www.ach.org/mla03 for further details.

65: Nabokov after Lolita: Pnin and Pale Fire

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., Ford C, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society.

Presiding: Charles D. Nicol, Indiana State University

“Pnin's Cinderella: His History,” Gerald H. Cahill, Jr., Jamaica Plain, MA
“The Problem of Fiction in Pale Fire and Thomas's Pale Fires,” Jonathan R. Bass, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Dramatic Interludes in Pale Fire,” Matthew I. Laufer, Columbia University
“Hypertextual Readings of Pale Fire,” Burcu S. Bakioglu, Indiana University, Bloomington

72: Teacher Preparation in English: The State of the Profession

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., Molly A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Presiding: Matthew Anthony Parfitt, Boston University

“The New Media Instructor: Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction,” Jeff R. Rice, University of Detroit Mercy
“The Writing Portfolio: Learning to Teach from Writing,” Rosemary Winslow, Catholic University of America
“The Madwoman in the Attic, the Sad Woman in the Basement, and the TAs in the Middle: Writing Centers, Writing Programs, and Teacher Preparation,” Melissa J. Ianetta, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; E. Shelley Reid, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater

Respondent: Dawn Skorczewski, Emerson College

98: Prisons, Universities, Electronic Media: Possible and Impossible Communities I

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Edward C and D, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Presiding: Jarrod L. Hayes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Political Fictions: Don DeLillo and Joan Didion,” Linda S. Kauffman, University of Maryland, College Park
“Inoperative Bodies: Electronic Media and the Inhuman in the War on Terror,” Scott O. McClintock, University of California, Fullerton
“Flourishing or Slight and Inaccessible Communities: The University and Other Contexts,” Ana M. Luszczynska, State University of New York, Buffalo
“Un-American Studies,” McKenzie Wark, State University of New York, Albany

103: Italy and the Cultures of Migration

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Point Loma, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Italian Literature.

Presiding: Graziella Parati, Dartmouth College

“Migrating Womanhood: From Italian to Italian American,” MaryJo Bona, State University of New York, Stony Brook
“Space, Race, and Female Subjectivity in Bertolucci's L'assedio,” Roberta Di Carmine, University of Oregon
“The Digital Landscape of Migrant Cultures in Italy (1993–2003),” Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

109: The Professional Dimensions of Technology in English Studies

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., Cunningham C, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Division on Teaching as a Profession.

Presiding: Randy Bass, Georgetown University

“Wired English Studies,” Anne Ruggles Gere, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Educational Technology, Faculty Roles, and Academic Labor,” Lawrence F. Hanley, City College, City University of New York

Respondent: Randy Bass

117: E-Teaching American Studies Internationally

Saturday, 27 December 2003, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m., America's Cup A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg

“Creating a Cultural Studies Consortium: The Genre Evolution Project,” Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Generating Customized Resource Web Sites: The Humbul Humanities Hub,” Marina Cacioppo, University of Oxford
“E-Teaching American Studies Internationally: www.acs-onweb.de,” Dorothea Fischer-Hornung; Wolfgang Holtkamp, University of Stuttgart

Respondent: Deborah Lea Madsen, University of Geneva

161: Prisons, Universities, Electronic Media: Possible and Impossible Communities II

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Upper Room 5A, San Diego Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Presiding: Paul Gordon, University of Colorado, Boulder

“Not Even the Lark Sees the Open (Heidegger): Limiting/Delimiting the Human in the Humanities,” Nancy Blake, University of Illinois, Urbana
“Race among Ruins: Whiteness, Writing, and Work in the New University,” Mike Hill, State University of New York, Albany
“New Media Art and Rhizomatic Instability,” Timothy C. Murray, Cornell University
“The Rhizomatic Community,” Henry S. Sussman, State University of New York, Buffalo

167: Language Learning and Technology I: Technology and Foreign Language Pedagogy

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Columbia 1, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics.

Presiding: Julie Anne Belz, Penn State University, University Park

“An Integrated SLA Model Combining Personal Web Sites with Course Management Systems in Second-Year French,” Christopher J. Ippolito, University of the Pacific
“Using Digital Video to Enhance Listening Comprehension and Cultural Competence,” Susan Carpenter Binkley, College of Wooster

183: The Subjects of New Media

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Betsy A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Elizabeth A. Walden, Bryant College

“The Silent Masses: The Subjects of Digital Cinema,” Michelle R. Stewart, State University of New York, Purchase
“Affect and Agency: Postsubjects in New Media,” Elizabeth A. Walden
“Virtual Movement: Visceral Affect and Dispersed Identification,” Petra Kuppers, Bryant College

184: Theorizing Visual Rhetoric

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Ford A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Christine L. Alfano, Stanford University

“Multivocal, Multimedia: A Bakhtinian Approach to Visual Rhetoric,” Alyssa J. O'Brien, Stanford University
“Spaces of Possibility in the Composition Classroom: Visual Tactics and ‘The Power to Impose a Hearing’,” David Paul Sherman, California State University, Dominguez Hills
“The Visual Performative as Deliberative Rhetoric,” Kevin Eric De Pew, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

190: Undergraduate Students as Collaborators in Foreign Language Research

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Torrance, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Presiding: Michael E. Geisler, Middlebury College

“Joys and Dilemmas of Working with Undergraduate Student Researchers in the Humanities,” Elizabeth Bernhardt, Stanford University
“The Re-creative Foreign Language Theater Practicum: Research with Students toward New Forms of Artistic Production and Reception,” Les Essif, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“RAP, the Research Abroad Program at the Univesity of Pittsburgh,” Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
“Using the Web to Enhance the Study of Literature: Three Projects for Advanced-Level German,” Anne Marie Green, Carnegie Mellon University; Caroline Schaumann, Emory University

195: Surfing the Internet to Rethink Medieval Culture

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Columbia 1, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on French Medieval Language and Literature.

Presiding: Barbara K. Altmann, University of Oregon

“Toward the Dynamic Transmission of Medieval Texts,” Amy Victoria Ogden, University of Virginia
“Medieval Women Online: New Digital Materials for Research and Teaching,” Stephanie G. Wood, University of Oregon
“‘Au moins, sera de moy memoire’: Reception History and the Société François Villon,” Robert Dabney Peckham, University of Tennessee, Martin

Respondent: Michel-André Bossy, Brown University

281: Digital Theory

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Upper Room 5A, San Diego Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism.

Presiding: Diana Jean Fuss, Princeton University

“On the Persistence of Visual Knowledge,” Wendy H. Chun, Brown University
“Of Kinetology,” Mark B. N. Hansen, Princeton University
“The Murmur of Machines: Theorizing the Interrelation of Code and Natural Language,” N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles

287: Why I Do (Not) Use Digital Resources

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Ford A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature.

Presiding: Malcolm Hayward, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Converging Research and Teaching: StreetPrint, a Digital Archive of Street Literature,” Gary D. Kelly, University of Alberta
“Using Digital Documents as Hyper-Textbooks,” Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology
“Something Wiki This Way Comes: Pros and Cons of a Collaborative Class Web Site,” Mark Phillipson, Bowdoin College

Respondent: Malcolm Hayward

296: Reciprocity in the Relation between Cognitive Science and Literary Studies: What Can We Offer to Them and Why Should They Care?

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Cunningham A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Nancy Lincoln Easterlin, University of New Orleans

“Woolf, Pinker, and the Theory of Mind,” Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky
“Hard Cases: On Being a Host in a Machine,” Blakey Vermeule, Northwestern University

Respondent: David John Herman, North Carolina State University

395: Language Learning and Technology II: Research on Technology in Foreign Language Learning

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Columbia 1, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics.

“Constructivism and Online Professional Development: A Study of the Beliefs and Practices of Four Foreign Language Teachers,” Ekaterina N. Koubek, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Integrating WebCT Discussion Activities in a College-Level Elementary Chinese Course,” Youping Zhang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Are CALL and SLA Theory Compatible? Evidence Supporting the Positive Role of Task-Based, Computer-Mediated Interaction in the ESL Classroom,” Bryan Smith, Texas Tech University

406: The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: Comparative Literature and Literatures in the Smaller-Market Foreign Languages

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Solana, San Diego Marriott

A special session.

Session leader: Caroline D. Eckhardt, Penn State University, University Park

“A Learned Society's Perspective: What Can Professional Associations Do?” Pauline Ruth Yu, University of California, Los Angeles
“A University Press Editor's Perspective: The Economic Crisis for Presses and the Options for Publishing on Foreign Language Literatures,” Mary E. Murrell, Princeton University Press
“A Department Head's Perspective: Economies of Scarcity and Economies of Excess—between Paper and Electronic Publishing,” C. P. Haun Saussy, Stanford University

408: Information Technology and the Profession

Sunday, 28 December 2003, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Upper Room 5A, San Diego Convention Center

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario

“The Humanities Mission in the Age of Information: Technology, Technique, History,” Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Inventing the Medium,” Janet H. Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology
“It's Not the Technology, Stupid!” Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia

Respondent: Richard A. Lanham, University of California, Los Angeles

420: The Place of French Studies in Various Visions for a Renaissance Center

Monday, 29 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Santa Rosa, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature.

Presiding: Cynthia Skenazi, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Making the Center Hold: The Place of the ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) in Medieval and Renaissance Studies,” Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University, Tempe
“Research Centers in a Digital Society: Strategies and Plans of the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto,” William R. Bowen, University of Toronto
“Various Visions for a Renaissance Center,” Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

438: Editorial Theory and Practice in the Computer Age

Monday, 29 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., America's Cup A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“‘The World with a Fence around It’; or, Has the Electronic Archive Rendered the Codex-Based Edition Obsolete?” W. Speed Hill, Lehman College, City University of New York
“The New Stemmatics,” Barbara Bordalejo, De Montfort University
“Technological Applications in Manuscript Editing: W. B. Yeats's The Speckled Bird as an Example,” William H. O'Donnell, University of Memphis

490: New Paradigms in Humanities Computing

Monday, 29 December 2003, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Del Mar B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Presiding: Stephen J. Ramsay, University of Georgia

“‘Is this a vision? is this a dream?’: Finding new dimensions in Shakespeare criticism,” Michael Best, University of Victoria
“Humanities Computing and Community of Minds: Situating the Individual in the Collective,” Mark V. Olsen, University of Chicago
“Cybernetic Constructivism,” Stephen J. Ramsay

See http://www.ach.org/mla03 for further details.

570: Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in the Academy

Monday, 29 December 2003, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Upper Room 5B, San Diego Convention Center

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University

Speakers: Robert A. Fischer, Southwest Texas University; Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University; Iain L. Crawford, University of Southern Indiana

Respondent: James F. Knapp, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

For copies of the CIT Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship and for Distance Education, please go to http://www.mla.org/reports/guidelines_evaluation_digital and http://www.mla.org/reports/statement_aaup_distance_ed.

574: Editing the Romantics

Monday, 29 December 2003, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Randle A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Keats–Shelley Association of America.

Presiding: Lisa Vargo, University of Saskatchewan

“An Editorial Project for the Future: The Letters of William Godwin,” Pamela Anne Clemit, University of Durham
“The Editor and Mrs. Smith: Who Is She?” Jacqueline M. Labbe, University of Warwick
“Editing Dramas That (Don't) Matter,” Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael Crews Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
“The Cenci Unbound: A Hypertextual Edition,” Cajsa C. Baldini, Arizona State University, Tempe

592: Digital Arthur

Monday, 29 December 2003, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Betsy A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Arthurian Literature.

Presiding: Laurie Anne Finke, Kenyon College

“Does Technology Matter? Arthurian Film on DVD,” Martin Barry Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University

603: Narrating the German Capital in the Age of Globalization: The “Impossible” Berlin Novel at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Monday, 29 December 2003, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Manchester 2, San Diego Marriott

A special session.

Session leader: Claudia Breger, Indiana University, Bloomington

“A ‘Historical Washbasin’: The Paradoxes of Narrating Berlin,” Walter Erhart, University of Greifswald
“Tracing History through Berlin's Topography: Historical Memories and Post-1989 Berlin Narratives,” Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Southwest Missouri State University
“Global Village Berlin: Rainald Goetz's Internet Diaries Abfall für Alle,” Brigitte Weingart, University of Köln
“Berlin Cuts: Monstrous Imagination and the City in Contemporary German Narratives,” Doerte Bischoff, University of Münster

610: The Josephine A. Roberts Forum: Twenty-First Century Foxe—The Online Genetic Edition of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Monday, 29 December 2003, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Randle A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Renaissance English Text Society.

Presiding: John N. King, Ohio State University, Columbus

“Textual Genetics and Protestant Martyrs: The British Academy Edition of Foxe's Martyrology,” Mark Greengrass, Sheffield University
“Print Reformation or Print Revolution? John Foxe and the History of Books,” Jesse Macliesh Lander, University of Notre Dame
“From Manuscript to Codex to E-Book: The Interactive Foxe,” Susan Wabuda, Fordham University, Bronx

647: Theorizing the Interface

Monday, 29 December 2003, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Randle A and B, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies.

Presiding: Neil Richard Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park

“Algorithm and Interface in the Electronic Scholarly Edition,” Raymond G. Siemens, Malaspina University College
“Reading beyond the Interface: The New Annotated E-Edition,” Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland, College Park
“Synthetic Databases, Idiosyncratic Analyses, and Scholarly Editing,” David Lee Gants, University of New Brunswick

649: Conflicts in Present-Day Englishes: What Is and What Should Never Be

Monday, 29 December 2003, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Betsy A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Present-Day English Language.

Presiding: Deborah H. Holdstein, Governors State University

“Performing Genres,” Regina A. Clemens Fox, Arizona State University, Tempe
“Student Language Use in Electronic Environments,” Laura L. McGrath, University of Georgia
“Of,” Eric J. Hyman, Fayetteville State University

Respondent: Deborah H. Holdstein

682: Language Learning and Technology III: Language Learning and Technology

Monday, 29 December 2003, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m., Columbia 1, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics.

“Technologies and Ideologies of Foreign Language Education,” Robert Train, Sonoma State University
“Computer-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education: Accounts from France, Germany, Spain, and the United States,” Julie Anne Belz, Penn State University, University Park
“ The Development of Pragmatic Competence in Telecollaboration: The Case of German Modal Participles,” Nina Vyatkina, Penn State University, University Park

687: Cyberspace and the Industrial Revolution

Monday, 29 December 2003, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m., Betsy A, Manchester Grand Hyatt

A special session.

Session leader: Jason B. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Rebuilding the Transatlantic Industrial Revolution Online,” Scott Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology
“The Victorian Archive and the Disappearance of the Book,” Dino Franco Felluga, Purdue University, West Lafayette
“Frankenstein's Futurity: AI, Robotics, and Turing Tests Online,” Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

695: California Connections

Monday, 29 December 2003, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m., Point Loma, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology.

Presiding: Bette G. Hirsch, Cabrillo College

“Getting to Know You: Developing a Web-Based Assessment Tool,” H. Jay Siskin, Cabrillo College
“The Absent Professor: Technical Innovation versus Student Expectations in a Hybrid French Civilization Course,” Gretchen V. Angelo, California State University, Los Angeles
“Spanish without Walls: Results from a Distance-Learning Language Course,” Robert James Blake, University of California, Davis

702: Beyond Difference: Contemporary Theories of Culture in Latin America

Tuesday, 30 December 2003, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., Leucadia, San Diego Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature.

Presiding: Carlos J. Alonso, University of Pennsylvania

“Indigenous Bodies and Audiovisual Narratives: Some Notes on Decolonization and Immaterial Labor,” Freya Schiwy, University of Connecticut, Storrs
“Queer Elsewhere: Global Divas and Border Patrol in Mayra Santos Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena,” Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois, Urbana
“The Emergent Paradigm of Textual Circuitry: Epistemological Reprocessing in Digital Society,” Phillip T. Penix-Tadsen, University of Pennsylvania
“Cultura y poder en América Latina: Los límites de la epistemología y los proyectos críticos de Antonio Cornejo Polar y Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui,” Silvia Bermúdez, University of California, Santa Barbara