Although the 1998 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.
18: Technology and Writing Courses:
New Trends, New Problems
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Union Square 3 and 4,
San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the
Association for Business Communications.
- "The Mouse That Roared: Computer-Assisted Writing and
the Urban Women's College," Louis J. Boyle, Carlow College
- "Voices Merged in Collaborated Conversation: The
Peer-Critiquing Computer Project," Mary E. Fakler, State
University of New York, New Paltz; Joan E. Penisse, State
University of New York, New Paltz
- "Teaching Bizcom with Technology---and Liking It," Paula
Foster, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "Technology, Distance, and Collaboration: Problems with
Expanding Networked Pedagogies," Linda Jean Myers, Texas
Tech University
23: Computers and the Great Language-Literature,
Research-Teaching Divides
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Fountain Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by
the Association for Computers
and the Humanities. Presiding:
Leslie Zarker Morgan,
Loyola College, Maryland
- "Bridging the Language-Literature Gap: Introducing Literature
Electronically to the Undergraduate Language Student",
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager,
San Diego State University
- "The Computer as Catalyst:
Where do Second Language Acquisition Research, Cultural Studies,
and the Less-Commonly Taught Languages Fit In?",
Nina Garrett, Wesleyan University
- "Computer Applications and Research Agendas: Another Dimension in
Professional Advancement",
Robert Fischer,
Southwest Texas State University
Further information is available
on the
World Wide Web.
25: Electronic Publishing and Tenure
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
California Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers
of German. Presiding: Albrecht Classen, University of
Arizona
- "Some Reflections on Electronic Publishing in the Context
of Tenure and Promotion Decision Making: The Perspective of
a Former Dean," Judith Popovich Aikin, University of Iowa
- "Ways to Being Published: From Drafts to Electronic Publishing
to Journal Articles," Dieter Jedan, Southeast Missouri
State University
- "Book Reviews Online: New Scholarly Endeavors, Western
Michigan University," Albrecht Classen
- "Tenure and the Online Editor," Joe Gene Delap,
Kansas Wesleyan University
30: Problems in Germanic Linguistics
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Garden Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by Delta Phi Alpha (National German Honor
Society). Presiding: Michael E. Schultz, New York University
- "Early Middle High German: Alliterating Word Pairs," John Michael
Jeep, Miami University, Ohio
- "Transitivity and Prepositional Phrases," Carlee L. Arnett, Ohio
State University, Columbus
- "German E-mail and Snail Mail Contrasted: Data from the Bay Area
German Project," C. Sean Ketchem, University of California, Berkeley;
James Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley; Prisca S. Schuler,
University of California, Berkeley
46: Blake and Hypertextuality
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.,
Franciscan Room A, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge
Association. Presiding: Alan Richardson, Boston College
- "Difference, Repetition, and the Nature of an Artistic Work,"
Terence Allan Hoagwood, Texas A&M University, College Station
- "Constructing the William Blake
Archive: A Progress
Report and Demonstration," Joseph Viscomi, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
- "Revelation in the Digital Expression," Nelson Hilton, University
of Georgia
- "The Iowa Blake Videodisc Project: A Cautionary History," Mary
Lynn Johnson, University of Iowa
48: International Technical
Communication
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.,
Union Square 11, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing. Presiding: Bill Karis, Clarkson University
- "Twist, Tango, and Tarantella: International Technical
Communication and the Dance of Cultures," Sam A. Dragga, Texas Tech
University
- "The Americanization of the Web: Implications of Technologies'
Effects on International Communication and Strategies for
Understanding International Audiences," Elizabeth Ruth Pass, James
Madison University
58: The Josephine A. Roberts Session:
Electronic Editing and Publication
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.,
Union Square 1 and 2, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Renaissance English Text
Society. Presiding: A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los
Angeles
- "Eclectic Circulation: The Functional Dynamics of Manuscript and
Electronic Literary Cultures," Margaret J. M Ezell, Texas A&M
University, College Station
- " `What Two Crownes Shall They Be?': `Lower' Criticism, `Higher'
Criticism, and the Impact of Scholarly Publication in the Electronic
Medium," Raymond
G. Siemens, University of Alberta
- "Renaissance Texts and Text Encoding," David
M. Seaman, University
of Virginia
77: Life Writing and Multimedia
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m.,
Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and
Life Writing. Presiding: Martin Alan Danahay, University of Texas,
Arlington
- "Case History and Photography in Sheila Ortiz Taylor and Sandra
Ortiz Taylor's Imaginary Parents: A Family
Autobiography," Timothy Dow Adams, West Virginia University,
Morgantown
- "Pain as a Symptom of (Not) Dying: Making Time in Sick: The
Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist," Tina Takemoto,
University of Rochester
- "Manuscript, Text, Hypertext: The Creation of a Literary Life
Archive," Susan Schreibman, University College, Dublin
- "Authoring Public Selves on the Web: Feminist Anxieties and Legal
Unknowns," Beth E. Kolko, University of Texas, Arlington
103: Is Our Labor Academic?
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m.,
Union Square 15 and 16, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Graduate Student Caucus.
Presiding: Mark R. Kelley, Graduate Center, City University
of New York
- "Putting the Bottom on Top: Listening to the Graduate
Student Caucus," Cary Nelson, University of Illinois,
Urbana
- "Organizing Charm: Electronic Publishing and
Academic Workplace Organization,"
Kent Puckett, Columbia University
- "At the Helm: Graduate Students and the Executive Council,"
Kirsten M. Christensen, University of Texas, Austin
- "Adjunct Labor and Race: A Historical Perspective,"
Ian H. Marshall, Graduate Center, City University of
New York
122: Ordinary Rhetoric and Writing II:
Everyday Culture
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m.,
Parlor 7, Continental Ballroom, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on History and Theory of Rhetoric
and Composition. Presiding: Susan Passler Miller, University of Utah
- "Netiquette: Electronic Sharing and Plagiarism," Alison
M. Fraiberg, University of Redlands
- "Political Debates and University Democratization, 1920-50", Jill
A. Eicher, Wayne State University
- "Popular Astrology, Science, and Social Class," Ryan John Stark,
Texas Christian University
129: Killing English with Technology
Sunday, 27 December 1998, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m.,
Union Square 11, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: Alexander Reid, Georgia
Institute of Technology
- "Have Computers Killed Peer Writing Groups?" H. Richard Jewell,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- "Hypermedia in the Hermeneutic Circle: Using Computers to Teach
Interpretation," John
Zuern, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- "Sex in the Machine: The Electronic Mail Discussion List as
Gendered Space," Dale Jacobs, East Carolina University
- "Student Ethos Issues in Computer-Assisted Writing and Literature
Courses," Mary Leonard, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Respondent: Alexander Reid
163: Technology in Second-Language
Learning: What Does Research Tell Us?
Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.,
California Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics. Presiding:
Richard Kern, University of California, Berkeley
- "What's Computer-Mediated Communication Good For? Small Group
Discussions and Computers in the Foreign Language Class," Lynne Frame,
University of San Francisco; Ilona Vandergriff, San Francisco State
University
- "The Effects of Technology on an Introductory French Curriculum:
Implications for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching," Carl
S. Blyth, University of Texas, Austin
- "Discourse Functions and Language Complexity in Synchronous and
Asynchronous Communication," Susana M. Sotillo, Montclair State
University
- "The Effects of Students' Authoring of Multimedia Materials on
Student Acquisition and Retention of Vocabulary," Ofelia R. Nikolova,
Southern Illinois State University
165: The Great War and Cultural
Memory
Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.,
Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century English
Literature. Presiding: Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth College
- "The Great War and Postmodern Memory," Michèle Barrett,
City University, London
- "Fairy Tale: Prefiguring Digital Anxiety," Mark
J. Williams, Dartmouth College
- " `They Shall Grow Not Old': `In Flanders Field' on the World Wide
Web," Victor Ernest Luftig, Brandeis University
187: Camino de Santiago at the
End of the Millennium
Monday, 28 December 1998, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.,
Terrace Room, Fairmont Hotel
A special session; session leader: Pilar del Carmen Tirado,
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
- "A New Pilgrim's Companion: Reassessing the `Libro
de Huespedes',"
Thomas D. Spaccarelli, University of the South
- "Camino de Santiago: Identidad cultural y modernidad
en el fin de milenio,"
Jose F. Colmeiro, Michigan State University
- "Surfing the Camino: Cultural Crossings on the World
Wide Web,"
Elizabeth Dawn Boretz, Eastern Oregon University
- "Pilgrimage to Santiago: A Contemporary Quest for
Ancient Wisdom,"
Pilar del Carmen Tirado
206: Ordinary Rhetoric and Writing III:
Academic Life
Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Parlor 7, Continental Ballroom, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on History and Theory of Rhetoric
and Composition. Presiding: David Bleich, University of Rochester
- "Faculty Descriptions of Teaching Materials," Cornelius Cosgrove,
Slippery Rock University; Nancy Ann Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock
University
- "Intellectual Intimacy: Mixing Personal and Formal Writing," Louise
Zanberg Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- "E-mail Mixing of Academic and Personal Lives," Patricia R. Webb,
Arizona State University
- "Writing Center Conversations as a Source for Theory," Jessica
B. Yood, State University of New York, Stony Brook
230: Adjunct Faculty: Slouching
toward Equity
Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Community Colleges.
Presiding: Pamela Ann Lim-McAlister, Vista Community
College, California
- "Searching for Good Practice in the Employment of Adjunct
Faculty Members,"
Jane Harper, Tarrant County Junior College,
Northeast Campus, Texas
- "Creating Web Sites for Adjuncts: Home Pages for the
Homeless,"
Suellyn Winkle, Santa Fe Community College, Florida;
Stephen John Robitaille, Santa Fe Community College, Florida
- "Unions, Politicians, and Faculty Positions,"
Karen Schermerhorn, Community College of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
233: The Creation and Use of Electronic
Editions
Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Union Square 1 and 2, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly
Editions. Presiding: John
Unsworth, University of Virginia
- "Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Kansas `Bartleby' Edition,"
Haskell S. Springer, University of Kansas
- "Shakespearean Apparatus? Explicit Textual Structures and the
Implicit Navigation of Accumulated Knowledge," Raymond
G. Siemens, University of Alberta
- "Toward an Electronic Edition of `The Yellow Wall-paper'," Shawn
Richard St. Jean, Kent State University, Kent
243: Teaching and Learning German
Monday, 28 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Far East Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by Delta Phi Alpha (National German Honor
Society). Presiding: John F. Reynolds, Longwood College
- "Redesigning German Language and Culture Teaching:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Literacy and
the Use of Multimedia Technology,"
Margarete B. Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College
- "Motivating and Activating Students in
German Classes,"
Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr, Temple University
249: The Seventeenth Century in the
Media: Cinema, Television, World Wide Web, CD-ROM
Monday, 28 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
Far East Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century French
Literature. Presiding: Richard E. Goodkin, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
- "Separated at Birth: The Man in the Iron Mask; or, A
Louis XIV for the Nineties," Richard E. Goodkin
- "Surfing Le Dix-Septième: Accessing French
Literature on the World Wide Web," Margaret M. Bolovan, Ohio State
University, Columbus
- "Hearing the Invisible: Baroque Power and Sexuality in Tous
les matins du monde," Marie-Michelle Strah, Cornell
University
- "Dandin on the Big Screen of History," James F. Gaines,
Southeastern Louisiana University
250: Approaches to Teaching
Iberian Medieval Literature
Monday, 28 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
California Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the Division on Spanish Medieval Language
and Literature. Presiding: Ivy Ann Corfis, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
- " `I Never Thought I Would Survive This Class': Teaching
Strategies for Ensuring the Survival of Undergraduates in
Medieval Spanish Literature Classes,"
Noel Fallows, University of Georgia
- "Let the Text Speak for Itself: Using Exempla to Teach
the Iberian Middle Ages,"
James A. Grabowska, College of Saint Benedict
- "Teaching Cancionero Poetry: Facilitating Intensive
Reading through Libra
Software,"
Stephen Dudley Johnson, Southwest Texas University
295: Interdisciplinary Work in German
Cultural Studies I: Teaching
Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.,
California Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth- and
Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature. Presiding: Sara
Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati
- "Mode d'Emploi: Assembly Kit for a Course in Nineteenth-Century
German Cultural Studies," Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
- "Teaching Music and Literature: The German Tradition," Jean
Leventhal, Wellesley College
- "Teaching the Weimar Republic to the Post-Generation X Student,"
Barbara Mennel, Bates College
- "Vienna 1900: An Interdisciplinary Web Site,"
Richard T. Gray, University of Washington;
Sabine Wilke, University of Washington
296: Language and the World
Wide Web
Monday, 28 December 1998, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.,
Union Square 10, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Language and Society.
Presiding: Janet Elizabeth Gardner, University of Massachusetts,
North Dartmouth
- "Academic MOO-ing and the Need to Be Heard: The Language
of MOOs and Their Effects on Scholarly Publications,"
Patricia R. Webb, Arizona State University
- "Kibitzing on the Net: Variation in Discourse among
Observers at an Internet Bridge Game,"
Cynthia Goldin Bernstein, Auburn University
- "French on the Net: The Latest Language War,"
Kenneth Troy Rivers, Lamar University
- "Cats, Chicks, and Spiderwomen: Images of Women on the
Web,"
Lisa Gerrard, University of California, Los Angeles
335: The Media and Language Change
Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Union Square 1 and 2, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Language Change. Presiding:
Leslie K. Arnovick, University of British Columbia
- " `That Big of a Deal': The Normalization of Popular Discourse,"
Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University
- "Race and the Rise of Network Standard American," Thomas Paul
Bonfiglio, University of Richmond
- "Variation and Change in E-Mail Style," Susan C. Herring,
University of Texas, Arlington
- "Language Change through the Internet," Dieter Stein, University
of Düsseldorf
341: Computer Methods in the Study of
Literature and Theory
Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Union Square 17 and 18, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in
Language and Literature. Presiding: Gina L. Greco, Portland State
University
- "The Computer and the Canon of Daniel Defoe," Joseph Rudman,
Carnegie Mellon University
- "Making Use of Statistical Measures of Style," David L. Hoover,
New York University
- "Using Hypermedia to Teach Literary Analysis and Theory,"
John
Zuern, University of Hawaii, Manoa
359: Digital Rhetorics: Readers,
Writers, Publishers I---Electronic Literary Texts in Languages Other
Than English
Monday, 28 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
California Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging
Technologies in Teaching and Research.
Presiding: David Bristol Dollenmayer,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- "The Enigmatic (Hi)Stories of Kaspar Hauser," Gabriele A. Wittig
Davis, Mount Holyoke College;
Robert Chapin Davis, Smith College
- "Hypermedia: A Nonmodern Approach to Literary Studies,"
Dorothy Diehl, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- "Same Texts, New Delivery (Con)Textos: Literatura Hispanoamericana
en Multimedia,"
Julia E. Aguilar, University of Pennsylvania;
José Miguel Oviedo, University of Pennsylvania
428: The Same River Twice: Time
Representation in Hypertext Literature
Monday, 28 December 1998, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.,
Union Square 10, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: N. Katherine Hayles, University
of California, Los Angeles
- "Dalí Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypertext,"
Stephanie
Strickland, New York, New York
- "Into the Light: Time in the Fluctuating Universe," Christy
Sheffield Sanford, Gainesville, Florida
- "The Mechanical Muse: Hypertext Constraints on Composition," Ellen
Strenski, University of California, Irvine
- "Circles and Sediments: Creation of Time in Hypertext Fiction,"
Marjorie C. Luesebrink, Irvine Valley College, California
448: The Aesthetics of Paranoia, circa
2000
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.,
Plaza Room B, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Psychological Approaches to
Literature. Presiding: Jerry Aline Flieger, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick
- "We the Paranoid 2," Peter T. Starr, University of Southern
California
- "Reading Schreher with Derrida: Archive Fever as Symptom," Eric
Lawrence Santner, University of Chicago
- "Digital Paranoia," Heidi L. Gilpin, University of Hong Kong
Respondent: Jerry Aline Flieger
474: Digital Rhetorics: Readers, Writers,
and Publishers II---Electronic Literary Texts in English
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.,
Union Square 10, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging
Technologies in Teaching and Research.
Presiding: J. R. Colavito, Northwestern State University of
Louisiana
- "Using Hypertextual Literature to Promote Interactive Learning and
Interdisciplinarity," Molly Abel Travis, Tulane University
- "Seriously Animated: Toward a Rhetoric of the Visually Moving and
Interactive," Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University
- "WAX, Hypermedia, and Textual Materialism,"
Matthew
G. Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia
- "The Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology: Digitizing Irish
Archives for the Next Millennium,"
Susan Schreibman, University College, Dublin
501: Legislating Language
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Union Square 1 and 2, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Language Change
- "Traditional and Computational Stylistics: Changing
Authorship Attribution in the Courts,"
Helen Aristar Dry, Eastern Michigan University
- "Language Science: The Ideological Secret Weapon of
Language Planning,"
José del Valle, Miami University, Oxford
- "Legislating Guaraní: Can Law Save a Language?"
Shaw N. Gynan, Western Washington University
- "The Emergence of a National Language Policy in Cuba,"
James K. Archibald, McGill University
503: Chaucer in the Classroom and the
Curriculum of the Twenty-First Century
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Franciscan Room A, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Chaucer. Presiding: Elaine
Hansen, Haverford College
- "Chaucer's Theoretical (Ir)Relevance," Richard Robert Glejzer,
North Central College
- "Queer Chaucer in the Classroom," Glenn D. Burger, University of
Alberta; Steven F. Kruger, University of Alberta
- "Chaucer Had Adam Scryven, We Have Bill Gates," Susan K. Hagen,
Birmingham-Southern College
- "Low-Tech Chaucer: An Iambic Alternative to the Analytical Paper,"
Peter Grant Beidler, Lehigh University
- "Teaching the Dream-Visions in a Non-Chaucerian Context," Maud
Burnett McInerney, Haverford College
- " `Of hir felaweship anon': Addressing the Audience(s) of the
Chaucer Web Site Consortium Project," Daniel T. Kline, University of
Alaska, Anchorage
529: The Content-Provider as Colleague:
Creating Institutional Spaces for New Media Teaching and Research
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
Union Square 22, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by
the Association for Computers
and the Humanities. Presiding:
Matthew
G. Kirschenbaum,
University of Virginia
- "The Problems of New Technology in the Old Academy",
David Lee Gants,
University of Georgia
- "A New Hybridity: The University as Web Site Publisher",
Neil
Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park;
Diane Krejsa,
University of Maryland, College Park
- "ok computer: Professing Literature in the
Para-Economy", Joseph
Tabbi, University of Illinois, Chicago
A talk originally scheduled for this
session---"Intellectual Property/Community
Property: The Cultural Contradictions of New Media Pedagogy", by
Randy Bass of
Georgetown University---has been cancelled.
Further information is available
on the
World Wide Web.
553: Metaphors and Computer
Technologies; or, How to Deconstruct the Information Age
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
Union Square 13, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: Wayne V. Miller, University
of California, Los Angeles
- "The Computer and the Information Revolution: A Myth of the
Information Age," Wayne V. Miller
- "The Internet as Advertising Narrative: Money for Nothing and Info
for Free," Bernd Klaus Estabrook, Illinois College
- "Uncovering the Impossibility of `Being Digital'," Robert
S. Bledsoe, Rice University
Papers and discussion area will be available by 1 December on the World
Wide Web.
559: The Future of Literary History:
Anthologies and the Changing Shape of the Past
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
Plaza Room B, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: David Damrosch, Columbia
University
- "Editing Textbooks without Shame," Gerald Graff, University of
Chicago
- "The Future of an Illusion: Why Anthologies Make Bad `Textbooks',"
Marjorie G. Perloff, Stanford University
- "A New Literary Geography: British Literary History Today," David
Damrosch
- "Ibsen on Disk: Text and Context on CD-ROM," Jerome
C. Christensen, Johns Hopkins University
569: Digital Rhetorics: Readers, Writers,
and Publishers III
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
Franciscan Room A, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging
Technologies in Teaching and Research.
Presiding: Gail E. Hawisher,
University of Illinois, Urbana
- "Copyright and the Politics of Student Writing," Andrea
A. Lunsford, Ohio State University, Columbus
- "The Problem of Authorship and the Promises of Networked
Communication," Michael S. Greer, National Council of Teachers of
English
- "Beyond Argument: Hypermedia and Pluralism in the Age of
Obsolescence," J. Yellowlees Douglas, University of Florida
- "Words to the Reader, Profits to the Writer: How an Internet Firm
Learned to Publish Quality Work for Less While Paying the Writer
More," Jon Reynolds, Raleigh News and Observer
574: Adventures in the
Corporatized Classroom
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, noon to 1:15 p.m.,
Union Square 21, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Radical Caucus in English
and the Modern Languages.
Presiding: John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University
- "Thinkpad U: Electronic Citizenship and the Public
Sphere,"
Rebecca C. Hyman, University of Virginia
- "Encrypted Colleagues Consuming Students: The Politics
of Technoculture,"
Bruce Krajewski, Laurentian University
- "Can Disciplinary Knowledge Survive Corporatization?"
David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University
Respondent: Donald Keith Hedrick, Kansas State University
581A: Cyber Ed: Academic Labor
and Technology
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m.,
Continental Ballroom 6, San Francisco Hilton
A forum. Presiding: Laura L. Sullivan, University of Florida
- "Notes on a Manifesto for Graduate Student Labor in the Electronic
Classroom," Stephanie L. Tripp, University of Florida
- "Does Technology Really Cause Unemployment?" Andrew T. I. Ross,
New York University
- "The Challenges of the Future: Passion, People, and Technology,"
Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona
- "Like a Pear: Institutional Impact of Telecourses that Teach
English," Randolph Acetta, University of Arizona
607: The Object in Cyberspace
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.,
Union Square 17 and 18, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: Biswarup Sen, Sigma
Marketing Group
- "Post-Cartesian Objects and the Making of Virtual
Reality," Biswarup Sen
- "Prosthetic Culture: Credit, Debt, and the Extension
of Self,"
Andreas Gerrot Kitzmann, University of Skovde, Sweden
- "Equatorial Savage as Radically Chic: Geographies of
Desire in the Age of Global Multiculturalism,"
Kavita S. Philip, Georgia Institute of Technology
Respondent: Virginia E. Eubanks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
631: Narrative in Science: Making It
Visible
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Franciscan Room A, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Literature and
Science. Presiding: N. Katherine Hayles, University
of California, Los Angeles
- "The Emergence of the Posthuman: Dawkins and Deleuze,"
N. Katherine Hayles
- "Computer Visualization and Postmodern Narrative," Timothy Lenoir,
Stanford University
- "Narratives about the Speed of Light," Luis O. Arata, Quinnipiac
College
659: Distance Education and Technical
Communication
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.,
Union Square 11, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing. Presiding:
Patricia Elder Cearley, South Plains College
- "Question: What Did You Like Best about Your Online Course in
Technical and Professional Writing? Answer: Anonymity," George Edward
Kennedy, Washington State University, Pullman;
Ann Marie Garnsey, Washington State University, Pullman
715: British Women Playwrights around
1800: Possibilities for Electronic Editing
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.,
Union Square 1 and 2, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: Julia H. Flanders,
Brown University
- "Access, Authorship, Archives, Historiography: Some Questions for
Electronic Editing of Women's Theater Materials," Thomas C. Crochunis,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- "Teaching Women's Theatrical Texts and Contexts," Katherine Newey,
University of Wollongong
- "On Editing Women Playwrights' Works in an Electronic
Environment," Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Oxford University
- "Real Editions for Real People: Editing and Encoding Women's
Theater Texts and Materials," Julia H. Flanders; Lauryn S. Mayer,
Brown University
718: Hypertext in Print?
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.,
Parlor 2, Continental Ballroom, San Francisco Hilton
A special session; session leader: William Cole, University of
Georgia
- "(Inter)Facing Pages: Staging the Scene of Reading in Print and
Electronic Texts," James Thomas Stevens, Cornell University
- "Hypertext in Print? Encyclopedias and Encyclopedia Novels,"
Martina E. Linnemann, University of Warwick
- "The Struggle between Author and Reader in Vladimir Nabokov's
Pale Fire," Laurie Frances Leach, Hawaii Pacific
University
Respondent: William Cole
734: New Technologies,
New Ethical Challenges
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.,
Union Square 13, San Francisco Hilton
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and
Professional Rights and Responsibilities.
Presiding: Nona Fienberg, Keene State College
- "Keeping in Touch and out of Trouble: E-mail, the Web,
and the Job Search,"
Maura
Carey Ives, Texas A&M University, College Station
- "A Dissertation in Cyberspace,"
Jo Malin, State University of New York, Binghamton
- "The Ethics of Teaching with Technology: The `Medium'
versus the `Message',"
Joel Goldfield, Fairfield University
747: Postmodern Site, Prose Medium:
Gender, Sex, and Money on the Net
Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 9:00 to 10:15 p.m.,
Squire Room, Fairmont Hotel
Program arranged by the Division on Nonfictional Prose. Presiding:
Paul Lauter, Trinity College
- "From Ulysses to Usenet: The Mythography of the New Frontier,"
Virginia E. Eubanks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- "Gay.com, Second Floor," Thomas Leon
Loebel, York University, North York
- "How My Dick Spent Its Summer Vacation: Internet Sex Diaries by
Tourists Returning from Thailand," Ryan Bishop,
Southern Methodist University;
Lillian S. Robinson, East Carolina University
Respondent: Paul Lauter
