Call for Papers
The deadline for submission of all paper proposals, including those sessions with extended deadlines, has passed.
Proposals of 500 words and a 50-word abstract were to be submitted by March 30 (regular deadline sessions) or April 13 (extended deadline sessions) using our Online Proposal Submission Form. For more detailed information regarding specific panels, please contact the Presiding Officers directly.
Members may present only one paper per conference. Papers may not be read in absentia. Please, no multiple submissions of the same paper to different sessions, but requests to have the paper rerouted to another session are encouraged. It is not necessary to be a member of PAMLA in order to submit a paper proposal. However, all presenters must be current on their PAMLA dues by April 15, 2009, or they will not be included in the program. For membership information consult the Membership page on the website. For conference information, contact PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin: svonkin@netzero.com.
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Session Topics and Presiding Officers
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African American Literature
Brian Adler, UC Irvine, badler@uci.edu
American Literature before 1865
Amy Parsons, U of Wisconsin, Platteville, parsonsam@uwplatt.edu
American Lit. after 1865
Sarita Cannon, San Francisco State U, sncannon@sfsu.edu
Ancient-Modern Relations
Andrew Warren, UC Irvine, warrena@uci.edu
Asian Literature
So Young Park, Gustavus Adolphus College, sopark.phd@gmail.com
Atypical Nostalgia: Reflected, Refracted, and Projected Memory
Omega Burckhardt, The University of Kansas, omega.burckhardt@mu.edu
Autobiography
Seung-Hee Jeon, Harvard University, asianlit@gmail.com
Autobiography, Autofiction: Writing the Self
Catherine Montfort, Santa Clara University, cmontfort@scu.edu
Bay Area Writers: Beyond the "Beat Thing"*
Steve Dickison, San Francisco State University, steved@sfsu.edu
Beowulf and Related Topics
Keri Wolf, UC Davis, kawolf@ucdavis.edu
Chaucer and Related Topics
Brantley L. Bryant, Sonoma State University, brantley.bryant@sonoma.edu
Children's Literature
Tiffany Hutabarat, La Sierra University, animeno13@gmail.com
Classics (Greek)
Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College, rbarth@gettysburg.edu
Classics (Latin)
Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College, efinkelp@scrippscol.edu
Colonialism and Religion in French and Francophone Literature
Claudia Nadine, Lewis & Clark College, cnadine@lclark.edu
Comparative Literature
Friederike von Schwerin-High, Pomona College, friederike.schwerin@pomona.edu
Comparative Media: Media, Labor, and Biopolitics*
James Tobias, UC Riverside, jamestobias@mindspring.com
Composition and Rhetoric
Lash Keith Vance, UC Riverside, lashv@ucr.edu
Contemporary Italian Cinema
Fulvio S. Orsitto, California State U, Chico, forsitto@csuchico.edu
Cowboys and Indians: The American West in the European Cultural Imagination
Richard Sperber, Carthage College, rsperber@carthage.edu
Critical Theory
Nandan Choksi, Independent Scholar, anpadh@gmail.com
Disability Studies*
Beverly Voloshin, San Francisco State University, voloshin@sfsu.edu
East-West Literary Relations
Mike Sugimoto, Pepperdine University, Mike.Sugimoto@pepperdine.edu
Engaging/Enraging a German-Speaking Public
Karin Bauer, McGill University, karin.bauer@mcgill.ca
English (to 1700)
Hilda Ma, St. Mary's College of CA, hildahuema@gmail.com
English (1700 to present)
Heather Wozniak, UC Los Angeles, hwoz@ucla.edu
Ethics in Literary & Artistic Production of the French and Francophone World
Vera Klekovkina, Scripps College, Vera.Klekovkina@ScrippsCollege.edu
Ethnography and German Literature
Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College, ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu
Film and Literature
Jon Solomon, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champ, josolomo@comcast.net
Film Studies*
Matthew Snyder, UC Riverside, withsecretnoise@yahoo.com
Folklore and Mythology*
Sufen Lai, Grand Valley State U, lais@gvsu.edu
French and Francophone Literature*
Kevin Elstob, Cal State Sacramento, kelstob@csus.edu
French Cinema*
Marianne Golding, Southern Oregon University, golding@sou.edu
Gay and Lesbian Literature
Joshua Fenton, UC Riverside, joshua.fenton@ucr.edu
Germanics
Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University, hschlipp@odu.edu
Italian
Juliet Nusbaum, Columbia University, jsn2103@columbia.edu
Jewish American Literature*
Steven Axelrod, UC Riverside, steven.axelrod@ucr.edu
Jewish Literature and Culture in "Trans-Iberia": Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
Ana M. Rodríguez-Vivaldi, Washington State University, amrodriguez@wsu.edu
Latin American Film and Literature
Hector Mario Cavallari, Mills College, hm.cavallari@ekit.com
Latina/o Literature*
Edith Morris-Vásquez, Pitzer College, Edith_Vasquez@pitzer.edu
Linguistics
Aida Sakalauskaite, UC Berkeley, aidasaka@berkeley.edu
Literature and Philosophy
Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees, Western Washington U, agvoorhees@yahoo.com
Literature and Religion
Emily Merriman, San Francisco State U, estm@sfsu.edu
Literature & the Other Arts
Cassandra Van Zandt, Biola University, cassandra.vanzandt@biola.edu
Marriage and Family in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature*
Paige Prindle, UC San Diego, paigeann@hotmail.com
Medieval Literature
Kristin Noone, UC Riverside, knoon001@student.ucr.edu
Metaphor in Public Discourse
Sonia de Souza D. Bendorf, University of New Mexico, sdesouza5241@msn.com
Modern Austrian Literature
Laura McLary, University of Portland, mclary@up.edu
Modernism/Postmodernism*
Amy Robbins, Hunter College, amymrobbins@gmail.com
Narratives of Crime
Marja Mogk, California Lutheran U, mmogk@callutheran.edu
Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Alfred Drake, Chapman University, ajdrake@ajdrake.com
Oceanic Literatures and Cultures*
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai'i, sorr@hawaii.edu
Poetry and Poetics
Kathryn Stevenson, UC Riverside, kkstevens@hotmail.com
Post-Colonial Literature*
Parama Roy, UC Davis, proy@ucdavis.edu
Post-Colonial Women's Writing
Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas, Austin, snehal100@gmail.com
Profiles of the Metropolis in Contemporary Film
Aili Zheng, Willamette University, azheng@willamette.edu
Resistance and Collaboration: Filmic Testimony in the 1940s
Melanie Shreffler, EPM Communications, mshreffler@epmcom.com
Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
Robert Doran, University of Rochester, doran@stanfordalumni.org
Romanticism
Larry H. Peer, Brigham Young University, larry_peer@byu.edu
Scandinavian Literature
Tom Conner, Norbert College, tom.conner@snc.edu
Science Fiction*
Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade U, Hawaii, cedelson@chaminade.edu
Shakespeare and Related Topics
Catherine Zusky, zusky@umail.ucsb.edu
Caralyn Bialo, cbialo@ucsd.edu
Solitude and the Modern Metropolis
Ulrich E. Bach, Texas State University, ub10@txstate.edu
Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American)
John E. Cerkey, Virginia Military Institute, cerkeyje@vmi.edu
Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular)
Nicole Altamirano, Claremont McKenna College, naltamirano@cmc.edu
Studies in Literature and Science*
Lynn Wardley, San Francisco State University, lwardley@sfsu.edu
Teaching with the Internet and Technology
Jennifer Wood, Scripps College, jwood@ScrippsCollege.edu
The Graphic Novel: Word Meets Image
John D. Schwetman, U of Minnesota, Duluth, jschwetm@d.umn.edu
Thinking Through Food: Culture, Identity and Symbolism in Literature and Film
Cheleen Mahar, Pacific University, maharca@pacificu.edu
Traveling African Americans
Martin Japtok, Palomar College, mjaptok@palomar.edu
Virginia Woolf*
Perrin Kerns, Marylhurst University, pkerns@marylhurst.edu
Women and Work*
Susanne Weil, Centralia College, sweil@centralia.edu
Women in Literature
Melissa Baker, Arizona State University, Melissa.Baker@asu.edu
Young Adult Literature*
Elise Ann Wormuth, San Francisco State University, wormuth@sfsu.edu
Please do not submit proposals directly to the Presiding Officers.
Proposals were due by March 30 using our online paper submission system.