Session A (8:00-9:30 Thursday)

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Indigenous Women Speak

Chair: P. Jane Hafen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

P. Jane Hafen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: �Native Matters in the Academy: Looking for Apaches�

Gwen W. Griffin, Minnesota State University, Mankato: �Reclaiming Breath in Susan Power�s Roofwalker�

Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin: �Native Theory, Native Text: Nahualli and I Lak�ech or Indigenous Doubling in Rudolfo Anaya�s Albuquerque�

Joann Qui�ones-Perdomo, Minnesota State University, Mankato: �The West as Civil Rights Frontier in African American Literature�

Recovering Regional Chicano/a Literature

Chair: Jesse Alem�n, University of New Mexico

Lillian Gorman, University of New Mexico: �Expressions of Ambivalence: The Implications of Statehood in Nuevomexicano Narrative�

Tonya Troske, University of New Mexico: �The Inventive Racialization of Billy the Kid�

Emily Beenen, University of New Mexico: �Critical Race Theory and the Limits of Chicano/a Literary History�

Michelle P. Baca, University of New Mexico: �Epic History, Novelistic Discourse: Fray Angelico Chavez�s Regional Narrative, La Conquistadora�

On Texas, Local Heroes, and the �Nature� of the Place

Chair: Walter Isle, Rice University

Tom Bailey, Western Michigan University: �Houston in John Forsythe�s Local Hero�

Terrell Dixon, University of Houston: �Donald Barthelme and the �Nature� of Houston�

Walter Isle, Rice University: �Dave Galloway, Big Bend Desert Survivalist�

Lisa Slappey, Rice University: �Violence and Cultural Change in John Graves�s Goodbye to a River�

WAY South, WAY West: Writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand and Antarctica

Chair: Judy Nolte Temple

Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University: �Kia Hoki ki te Whenua: Potiki and the New M�ori Frontier�

Leslie Roberts, Canterbury University, New Zealand: �Remembering Out Loud: De-icing Antarctic Oral Tradition�

Judy Nolte Temple, University of Arizona: �Negotiating Difference: 19th Century Missionary Women�s Potrayals of Self and �Others��

Global Environmentalism and the Forging of New Epistemologies

Chair: Vanessa Hall, Purdue University

Joshua Dolezal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: �The New Ceremony of Consilience: Science and Storytelling According to Leslie Marmon Silko and Stephen Jay Gould�

Leigh Holmes, Cameron University: �Knowledge and Globalism in Gretel Ehrlich�s Islands, Universe, Home�

Vanessa Hall, Purdue University: ��As If A Story Would Guide Us�: Aesthetic and Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko�s Almanac of the Dead and Linda Hogan�s Solar Storms�

Sarah Wald, Brown University: �What the Palm Trees Are For: Linking Ecology, Eco-Criticism and Post-Positivist Realism in Yamashita�s Tropic of Orange and Viramontes�s Under the Feet of Jesus�

Studies in the New West

Chair: Melody Graulich, Utah State University

Stacy Coyle, �The New Decadent West: Annie Proulx and �The Governors of� Wyoming��

Jenny Emery Davidson, University of Utah: �Landscapes in Limbo: Region and Religion in the West�s Changing Wilderness�

Elizabeth Wright, Pennsylvania State University, Hazelton: ��A Happy Landscape�: Transnational Migration in Bharati Mukherjee�s Desirable Daughters�

Melody Graulich, Utah State University: ��I�m just a lonesome Korean cowgirl�: Adoption and National Identity�

Creative Reading �� Memory and Memoir

Chair: Sue Maher, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Laurie Clements Lambeth, University of Houston: �Fluid on the Brain�

Jackie Pugh Kogan, California State University, Northridge: �What Exists Before Memory: A Narrative in Five Generations�

Carmen Pearson, University of Arizona: �Resurrecting the Unremembered�