Several English Department Faculty and Graduate Students attended, presented, and participated in the 75th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention held in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Mimi Gladstein, Alumna and Donor to UNM English department, gave the main keynote speech in the Sterling Keynote Panel and Opening Reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feroza Jussawalla<\/strong>, BILS Professor Emerita, along with alumna of medieval studies, Doaa Omran<\/strong>, and UNM English Instructor, Ying Xu<\/strong> presented in a panel entitled, \u201cContextualizing Literatures: Cross-cultural Critical Approaches.\u201d Omran chaired this panel as well as presented, \u201cExploring the Egyptian Abdel- Aziz Hamouda\u2019s Critical Trilogy: The Concave Lens, The Convex Lens and The Maze.\u201d Jussawalla presented, \u201cThe Critical Eye: Reading from a Cultural Perspective.\u201d Xu presented, \u201cA Pale Cadaver and an Aroused Phantom: Naturalism and Feminist shengji (Livelihood) in Xiao Hong\u2019s The Field of Life and Death (1934).\u201d Jussawalla has long wanted to create research on non-European critical theoretical models. As such, together, they presented papers on Indian, Arabic and Chinese literary critical approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Katherine Alexander, <\/strong>alumna and current Instructor, chaired the \u201cChinese Literature Before 1900, Session II\u201d panel and presented, \u201cPoetry for Children: Teaching with Literature in the late Qing,\u201d in the \u201cChinese Literature Before 1900\u201d session IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bee Chamcharatsri<\/strong>, Rhetoric and Writing Associate Professor, presented, \u201cCreative Writing for Multilingual Writers in First-Year Writing Classrooms: A Translanguaging Approach\u201d in the \u201cBeyond the Frontier: First Year Composition\u201d session IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brandy Reeves<\/strong>, American Literature PhD Student, presented \u201cHarjo’s Mother: Settler Colonial Violence of the Native Women’s Body,\u201d in the \u201cWestern, Southwestern, Chicano and Native American Literature\u201d session I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anne Turner<\/strong>, Rhetoric and Writing PhD Student, chaired \u201cTeaching English Composition\u201d panel and presented, \u201cA Pedagogy of Accessibility: Systemic Change for Disabilities in the Online Composition Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chrysta Wilson<\/strong>, American Literature PhD Candidate, presented, \u201cLess Than Perfect: Mestizaje, Monstrosity, and the Defective Male Body in Ernest Hogan\u2019s High Aztech,\u201d in the session, \u201cScience Fiction Literature and Film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alumna, Lauren Perry-Rummel <\/strong>(Ph.D. in English, UNM 2021),\u00a0 and Dr. Shelli Rottschafer<\/strong> (Ph.D., UNM 2005) presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association on a panel organized by Dr. Rottschafer, entitled, “Human Ties: Memoir, Language, and Identity, Subcategory Panel of the Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)”. Perry-Rummel’s work focused on Terry Tempest William’s\u00a0Refuge\u00a0<\/em>(1991), while Rottshafer’s presentation focused on Querencia in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina y Corina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drs. Perry-Rummel and Rottschafer were joined by Dr. Casey Kile Citrin<\/strong> (Albuquerque Academy) and Dylan Couch<\/strong> (University of Idaho).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several English Department Faculty and Graduate Students attended, presented, and participated in the 75th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention held in Albuquerque. Dr. Mimi Gladstein, Alumna and Donor to UNM English department, gave the main keynote speech in the Sterling Keynote Panel and Opening Reception. Feroza Jussawalla, BILS Professor Emerita, along with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}