Summary of Sessions

2: Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates

Sunday, 27 December 2009, 2:00–5:00 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention and MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Jeffrey A. Schneider, Vassar University; Susan Schreibman, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

This workshop will offer facilitated discussion of a variety of types of work in digital media (e.g., thematic research collections, research tools, instructional technology) and identification of effective strategies for documenting, presenting, and evaluating such work. The workshop will be limited to thirty participants and will address the concerns of both members of review committees and candidates coming up for review. Preregistration is required.

120: Virtual Worlds and Pedagogy

Monday, 28 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Gloria B. Clark, Penn State University, Harrisburg

• “Rhetorical Peaks,” Matt King, University of Texas, Austin (more details)
• “Virtual Theater History: Teaching with Theatron,” Mark Childs, Warwick University; Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr University
• “Realms of Possibility: Understanding the Role of Multiuser Virtual Environments in Foreign Language Curricula,” Julie M. Sykes, University of New Mexico
• “Information versus Content: Second Life in the Literature Classroom,” Bola C. King, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Literature Alive,” Beth Ritter-Guth, Hotchkiss School (more details)
• “Virtual World Building as Collaborative Knowledge Production: The Online Crystal Palace,” Victoria E. Szabo, Duke University
• “Teaching in Virtual Worlds: Re-Creating The House of Seven Gables in Second Life,” Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University
• “3-D Interactive Multimodal Literacy and Avatar Chat in a College Writing Class,” Jerome Bump, University of Texas, Austin (more details)

For abstracts and possibly video clips, visit www.fabtimes.net/virtpedagog/.

141: Locating the Literary in Digital Media

Monday, 28 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science

• “‘A Breach, [and] an Expansion’: The Humanities and Digital Media,” Dene M. Grigar, Washington State University, Vancouver
• “Locating the Literary in New Media: From Key Words and Metatags to Network Recognition and Institutional Accreditation,” Joseph Paul Tabbi, University of Illinois, Chicago
• “Digital, Banal, Residual, Experimental,” Paul Benzon, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• “Genre Discovery: Literature and Shared Data Exploration,” Jeremy Douglass, University of California, San Diego

170: Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal

Monday, 28 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Speakers: Cheryl E. Ball, Kairos (http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/)

Keith Dorwick, Technoculture (http://tcjournal.org)

Andrew Fitch, Interval(le)s

Jon Cotner, Interval(le)s (www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/intervalles4/contentsinter4.php)

Kevin Moberly, Technoculture

Julianne Newmark, Xchanges (http://nmt.edu/~xchanges/)

Eric Dean Rasmussen, Electronic Book Review (www.electronicbookreview.com)

Joseph Paul Tabbi, Electronic Book Review

The journals represent a wide range of audiences and technologies. The speakers will display the work that can be done with electronic publications.

For summaries, visit www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kxd4350/ejournal.

198: Interactive Arts: The Languages of Public Space

Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 405, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Melissa Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speakers: Frances Charteris, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jon Cotner, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Fitch, University of Wyoming; Aaron Levy, University of Pennsylvania; Cary Wolfe, Rice University

For abstracts, visit www.artsofthepresent.org.

212: Language Theory and New Communications Technologies

Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Jefferson, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Language Theory

Presiding: David Herman, Ohio State University, Columbus

• “Learning around Place: Language Acquisition and Location-Based Technologies,” Armanda Lewis, New York University
• “Constructing the Digital I: Subjectivity in New Media Composing,” Jill Belli, Graduate Center, City University of New York
• “French and Spanish Second-Person Pronoun Use in Computer-Mediated Communication,” Lee B. Abraham, Villanova University; Lawrence Williams, University of North Texas

215: Learning from Assessment

Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Office of Research

Presiding: Donna Heiland, Teagle Foundation

Speakers: Laura C. Mandell, Miami University, Oxford; David Samuel Mazella, University of Houston; John Ottenhoff, Associated Colleges of the Midwest; Laura Rosenthal, University of Maryland, College Park

245: Old Media and Digital Culture

Monday, 28 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Washington C, Loews.

A special session.

Presiding: Reinaldo Carlos Laddaga, University of Pennsylvania

• “Paper: The Twenty-First-Century Novel,” Jessica Pressman, Yale University
• “First Publish, Then Write,” Craig Epplin, Reed University
• “Digital Literature and the Brazilian Historic Avant-Garde: What Is Old in the New?” Eduardo Ledesma, Harvard University

254: Web 2.0: What Every Student Knows That You Might Not

Monday, 28 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Laura C. Mandell, Miami University, Oxford

Speakers: Carolyn Guertin, University of Texas, Arlington; Laura C. Mandell; William Aufderheide Thompson, Western Illinois University

For workshop materials, visit www.mla.org/web20.

264: Media Studies and the Digital Scholarly Present

Monday, 28 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature

Presiding: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona University

• “Blogging, Scholarship, and the Networked Public Sphere,” Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University
• “The Decline of the Author, the Rise of the Janitor,” David Parry, University of Texas, Dallas
• “Remixing Dada Poetry in MySpace: An Electronic Edition of Poetry by the Baronness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in N-Dimensional Space,” Tanya Clement, University of Maryland, College Park
• “Right Now: Media Studies Scholarship and the Quantitative Turn,” Jeremy Douglass, University of California, San Diego

For abstracts, links, and related material, visit http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mla2009 after 1 Dec.

265: Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop

Monday, 28 December 2009, 1:45–3:45 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Office of the Executive Director

Presiding: John David Cox, National Endowment for the Humanities; Jason C. Rhody, National Endowment for the Humanities

This workshop will highlight recent awards and outline current funding opportunities. In addition to emphasizing grant programs that support individual and collaborative research and education, this workshop will include information on new developments such as the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. A question-and-answer period will follow.

268: Lives in New Media

Monday, 28 December 2009, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 305–306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing

Presiding: William Craig Howes, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

• “Blogging the Pain: Disease and Grief on the Internet,” Bärbel Höttges, University of Mainz
• “New Media and the Creation of Autistic Identities,” Ann Jurecic, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• “‘25 Random Things about Me’: Facebook and the Art of the Autobiographical List,” Theresa A. Kulbaga, Miami University, Hamilton

322: Looking for Whitman: A Cross-Campus Experiment in Digital Pedagogy

Monday, 28 December 2009, 7:15–8:30 p.m., 410, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Matthew K. Gold, New York City University of Technology, City University of New York

Speakers: D. Brady Earnhart, University of Mary Washington; Matthew K. Gold; James Groom, University of Mary Washington; Tyler Brent Hoffman, Rutgers University, Camden; Karen Karbiener, New York University; Mara Noelle Scanlon, University of Mary Washington; Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University, Camden

Visit the project Web site, lookingforwhitman.org.

338: Beyond the Author Principle

Monday, 28 December 2009, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California

• “English Broadside Ballad Archive: A Digital Home for the Homeless Broadside Ballad,” Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carl Stahmer, University of Maryland, College Park
• “The Total (Digital) Archive: Collecting Knowledge in Online Environments,” Katherine D. Harris, San José State University

  Through a study of online, digital archive projects, including my own Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive, I examine the creation and re-creation of traditional definitions of the “archive.”
  The Poetess Archive: http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/
  The Forget Me Not Archive: http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/

• “Displacing ‘Shakespeare’ in the World Shakespeare Encyclopedia,” Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr University

  I'll be sketching my experiences with two challenges to the author function raised by the design of an online encyclopedia. First, the difficulty of defining terms for inclusion and exclusion when space is no longer a limiting factor on what counts as “Shakespearean”. Second, the challenges and opportunities of user-contributions, when a single editor, team (or contributor) is not the guarantor of meaning.

361: Making Research: Limits and Barriers in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Robin G. Schulze, Penn State University, University Park

• “The History and Limitations of Digitalization,” William Baker, Northern Illinois University
• “Moving Past the Hype of Hypertext: Limits of Scholarly Digital Ventures,” Elizabeth Vincelette, Old Dominion University
• “Transforming the Study of Australian Literature through a Collaborative eResearch Environment,” Kerry Kilner, University of Queensland
• “A Proposed Model for Peer Review of Online Publications,” Jan Pridmore, Boston University

362: Digital Connections: Dromology in the Novel

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Adams, Loews.

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

Presiding: Chantal Zabus, University of Paris 13

• “Dromomaniacs on Their Way: Jose Manuel Prieto’s Narrative of Space-Lapses,” Ilka Kressner, University at Albany, State University of New York
• “The Body in the Blind Spot and the Acceleration of Primary Observation,” Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University, Morgantown
• “Skimming Through: The Role of Public Intellectuals in the Information Age,” Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Villanova University

Respondent: Chantal Zabus

370: Strange Encounters: Meetings between Students and Scholarly Editions in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 405, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Marta L. Werner, D’Youville University

• “The Student Confronts the Scholarly Edition,” Peter L. Shillingsburg, Loyola University, Chicago
• “Clio, Calliope, and Editing in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Erick R. Kelemen, Fordham University, Bronx
• “Video Games and the Scholarly Editions of Tomorrow; or, What Our Students Can Learn from Playing Spore,” Steven E. Jones, Loyola University, Chicago
• “If You Have to Ask, You Can’t Afford It: Value, Price, and the Bibliographic Code of the Scholarly Edition,” Paige Morgan, University of Washington, Seattle

377: Sites of the Aesthetic: Between the Real and the Spectacle

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century German Literature

Presiding: Lutz Koepnick, Washington University

• “Reconfiguring the Aesthetic in Contemporary German Photography,” Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University, Bozeman
• “Sightseeing: Transparency and the Spectacle of Spectatorship,” Eric Jarosinski, University of Pennsylvania
• “The Theatrical and Spectacle in Digital Environments,” Roberto Simanowski, Brown University
• “The Mobile Antiaesthetic,” Nora M. Alter, University of Florida

380: Digital Scholarship

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography

Presiding: Daniel Joseph Martin, Rockhurst University

• “A Primer for Digital-Media Authorship,” Victoria E. Szabo, Duke University
• “Generationality and Digital Scholarship in Composition,” Bob Whipple, Creighton University
• “Composing a Multimodal Dissertation on Multimodal Composition,” Jason Helms, Clemson University

395: Online Discourse and Linguistic Innovation

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Congress A, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Language Change

Presiding: Felicia Jean Steele, University of New Jersey

• “Tracking Contemporary Language Change: Preliminaries to Using the Web as Linguistic Corpus,” James Hearne, Western Washington University
• “Evidence of Contemporary Language Change Using Data-Mining Techniques,” Kendra Douglas, Western Washington University
• “Moar Epic Lulz Plz: Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED) and the Birth of a New, Developing Variety of English,” Valéria Souza, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

For abstracts, visit steele.intrasun.tcnj.edu/mla2009.

413: Has Comp Moved Away from the Humanities? What’s Lost? What’s Gained?

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing

Presiding: Krista L. Ratcliffe, Marquette University

• “Turning Composition toward Sovereignty,” John L. Schilb, Indiana University, Bloomington
• “Composition and the Preservation of Rhetorical Traditions in a Global Context,” Arabella Lyon, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• “What Composition Can Learn from the Digital Humanities,” Olin Bjork, Georgia Institute of Technology; John Pedro Schwartz, American University of Beirut

For abstracts, visit www.marquette.edu/english/ratcliffe.shtml.

420: Digital Scholarship and African American Traditions

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

Speakers: Anna Everett, University of California, Santa Barbara; Howard Rambsy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Tanji Gilliam, University of Pennsylvania; Jade Petermon, University of California, Santa Barbara

490: Links and Kinks in the Chain: Collaboration in the Digital Humanities

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 410, Philadelphia Marriott.

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

Presiding: Tanya Clement, University of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Jason B. Jones, Central Connecticut State University; Laura C. Mandell, Miami University, Oxford; Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia; Timothy B. Powell, University of Pennsylvania; Jason C. Rhody, National Endowment for the Humanities

For abstracts, visit lenz.unl.edu/mla09 after 1 Dec.

493: Emergent Chicana/o Literacies and Literary Forms

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom C2, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

Presiding: Sheila Marie Contreras, Michigan State University

• “The Pedagogy of Pictures: Gilbert Hernandez and the Lessons of Iconoclasm,” William Erwin Orchard, University of Chicago
• “From Pencils to Pixels: Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Online Presence and the Innovation of Literary Form,” Erin Hurt, University of Texas, Austin
• “Mucha Michele Serros: A Chicana Role Model in Cyberspace,” Crystal M. Kurzen, University of Texas, Austin
• “Reading the Unpublished: Virtual Presses and Their Role in the Chicana/o Literary Field,” Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez, University of California, Merced

  Part of my presentation will deal with alternaCtive publicaCtions, which may be accessed through the following link:
  alternativepublications.ucmercedlibrary.info/

512: Journal Ranking, Reviewing, and Promotion in the Age of New Media

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention

Presiding: Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas, Austin

Speakers: Daniel Brewer, L’Esprit Créateur; Mária Minich Brewer, L’Esprit Créateur; Martha J. Cutter, MELUS; Mike King, New York Review of Books; Joycelyn K. Moody, African American Review; Bonnie Wheeler, Council of Editors of Learned Journals

575: Gaining a Public Voice: Alternative Genres of Publication for Graduate Students

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 7:15–8:30 p.m., 405, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession

Presiding: Jens Kugele, Georgetown University

• “Animating Audiences: Digital Publication Projects and Their Publics,” Jentery Sayers, University of Washington, Seattle
• “Blogging Beowulf,” Mary Kate Hurley, Columbia University
• “Hope Is Not a Husk but Persists in and as Us: A Proposal for Graduate Collaborative Publication,” Emily Carr, University of Calgary
• “The Alternative as Mainstream: Building Bridges,” Katherine Marie Arens, University of Texas, Austin

593: Media and Cultural Identities in Mexico Post-NAFTA

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:00–10:15 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews.

A special session.

Presiding: Hilda Chacón, Nazareth University of Rochester

• “A Land of Migrants? Migration, National Identity, and the Mexican Media,” Beth Ellen Jörgensen, University of Rochester
• “Personalizing the Political: Human and Drug Trafficking in Post-NAFTA Films,” Margarita Vargas, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• “Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and United States Cultural Identity in the Global Era,” Hilda Chacón

605: Teaching Literature through the Large Lecture: Pedagogy, Strategies, Innovations

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:00–10:15 p.m., 305–306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Literature

Presiding: Nancy J. Peterson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

• “Personalizing the Megalecture,” Heather Dubrow, Fordham University
• “From the Big Bang to a Large Lecture: Teaching Literature in Le Moyne’s New Core Program,” J. Christopher Warner, Le Moyne University
• “Powerpoint: A Conversion Narrative,” Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania

625: Making Research: Collaboration and Change in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Maura Carey Ives, Texas A&M University, College Station

• “What Is Digital Scholarship? The Example of NINES,” Andrew M. Stauffer, University of Virginia
• “Critical Text Mining; or, Reading Differently,” Matthew Wilkens, Rice University

  Recent work and relevant materials at http://workproduct.wordpress.com

• “‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’: Using a TEI-Encoded Dylan to Help Understand the Scope of an Evolving Community in Digital Literary Studies,” Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria; Raymond G. Siemens, University of Victoria

  See the original youtube video widget, now at http://etcl.uvic.ca/wp-content/uploads/tei/Dylan_TEI.mp4

627: Media and Conflict

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Other Arts

Presiding: Thomas W. Keenan, Bard University

• “Rumor Has It … and the Media Doesn’t,” Amitava Kumar, Vassar University
• “Gaza Blogging,” Salah D. A. Hassan, Michigan State University
• “Breaks, Cuts, and Black Holes,” Katherine Cora Harrison, Yale University

632: Quotation, Sampling, and Appropriation in Audiovisual Production

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Film

Presiding: Nora M. Alter, University of Florida; Paul D. Young, Vanderbilt University

• “‘We the People’: Imagining Communities in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party,” Badi Sahar Ahad, Loyola University, Chicago
• “Pinning Down the Pinup: The Revival of Vintage Sexuality in Film, Television, and New Media,” Mabel Rosenheck, University of Texas, Austin
• “Playful Quotations,” Lin Zou, Indiana University, Bloomington
• “For the Record: The DJ Is a Critic, ‘Constructing a Sort of Argument,’” Mark McCutcheon, Athabasca University

643: New Models of Authorship

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Carolyn Guertin, University of Texas, Arlington

• “Authors for Hire: Branded Entertainment’s Challenges to Legal Doctrine and Literary Theory,” Zahr Said Stauffer, University of Virginia
• “The Digital Archive in Motion: Data Mining as Authorship,” Paul Benzon, Temple University, Philadelphia
• “Scandalous Searches: Rhizomatic Authorship in America’s Online Unintentional Narratives,” Andrew Ferguson, University of Tulsa

For abstracts, visit mavspace.uta.edu/guertin/mla-models-of-authorship.html.

655: Today’s Students, Today’s Teachers: Technology

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 410, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Teaching as a Profession

Presiding: Christine Henseler, Union University, NY

• “Ning: Teaching Writing to the Net Generation,” Nathalie Ettzevoglou, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Jessica McBride, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• “Online Tutoring from the Ground Up,” William L. Magrino, Jr., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Peter B. Sorrell, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• “Using Facebook for Online Discussion in the Literature Classroom,” Emily Meyers, University of Oregon

656: New Technologies, New Rhetorics

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 309, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

Presiding: Peter Leslie Mortensen, University of Illinois, Urbana

• “Exploiting Kairos in Electronic Literature: A Rhetorical Analysis,” Cheri Rene Crenshaw, Dixie State University
• “The Printed Word, Pronunciation, and the Decline of Occult Rhetoric,” Ryan J. Stark, Penn State University, University Park
• “Abstract Science and Communication: The Creation of Modern Physical Chemistry and Learning to Talk about It,” Gabriel Joseph Cutrufello, Temple University, Philadelphia

663: Translating Machines

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews.

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

Presiding: Nandini Bhattacharya, Texas A&M University, College Station

• “Impossible Music: Vaucanson and the Invention of the Hypervirtuosic,” Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama
• “Android Automata between Artisanal and Philosophical-Theological Cultures in the European Enlightenment, 1720–80,” Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University
• “Automatons, Mechanical Dolls, and Present-Day Avatars: Will the Real Simulacra Please Stand Up?” Jacqueline M. Fulmer, University of California, Berkeley

676: The Impact of Obama’s Rhetorical Strategies

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Presiding: Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University

• “Keeping Pace with Obama’s Rhetoric: Digital Ecologies in the Writing Program and the White House,” Shawn Casey, Ohio State University, Columbus
• “Classroom 2.0 Connecting with the Digital Generation: Pedagogical Applications of Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Use of Twitter,” Jeff Swift, Brigham Young University, UT
• “Obama Online: Using the White House as an Exemplar for Writing Instruction,” Elizabeth Mathews Losh, University of California, Irvine
• “Made Not Only in Words: The Politics and Rhetoric of Barack Obama’s New Media Presidency as a Moment for Uniting Civic Rhetoric and Civic Engagement,” Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania; Dominic DelliCarpini, York University of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Linda Adler-Kassner

706: Digital Africana Studies: Creating Community and Bridging the Gap between Africana Studies and Other Disciplines

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Adams, Loews.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

Presiding: Zita Nunes, University of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Kalia Brooks, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts; Bryan Carter, University of Central Missouri; Kara Keeling, University of Southern California

710: Frontiers in Business Writing Pedagogy: New Media and Literature Strategies

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication

Presiding: James K. Archibald, McGill University

• “New Media and Business Writing,” Harold Henry Hellwig, Idaho State University
• “Bringing Second Life to Business Writing Pedagogy,” R. Dirk Remley, Kent State University, Kent
• “The Literature of Business: An Approach to Teaching Literature-Based Writing-Intensive Courses,” Scott J. Warnock, Drexel University

Respondent: Mahli Xuan Mechenbier, Kent State University, Kent

753: A Linguistic Focus on Spanish and Portuguese in the United States

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Adams, Loews.

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Presiding: Maria Conde, Columbia University

• “First-Language Loss in Latino Bilingual Children Growing Up in the United States,” Jennifer B. Austin, Rutgers University, Newark
• “Expressions of Conditionality by Heritage Speakers of Portuguese,” Gláucia Silva, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
• “Scholarly Journals and the Digital Age: What Are the Ramifications for Hispanists?” Sheri Spaine Long, University of Alabama, Birmingham