UNM English Graduate Students Present at RMMLA

Several UNM English graduate students presented this past weekend at the 2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Albuquerque:

• Christine Kozikowski, “Charlemagne and the Creation of English Identity.”
• Lisa Myers, “Malory’s Forest of Irrational Love.”
• Bruce A. Carroll, “Laid Down and Broken: Law in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur.”
• Annarose Fitzgerald, “‘So I Will Tell You This’: Auricular Confession in Charlotte Mew’s ‘Saturday Market’ and ‘Ne Me Tangito’.”
• Gregory Evans, “Holy Crap, it’s a Coup!” and "Hermeneutics in the Classroom: Collaborative, Student-Centered Learning for the Twenty-first Century."
• Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen, “The Old French Word ‘Mortaise’ in the York Play of the Crucifixion.”
• Paul Formisano, “A River of Voices: Confluences and Cross-Currents in the Literature of the Colorado River.”
• Marisa Sikes, "Appropriating Joan: The Saint in Christine de Pizan’s Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc and The Legend of Billie Jean."
• Carolyn Kuchera, "American Primitives."
• Katherine Marie Alexander, "Collapsing the Boundaries Between Two Worlds: Language and Mourning in Mary Shelley."
• Ying Xu, "A Body of Troubled Site/Sight: Re-signifying Double Consciousness in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America."
• Leah Sneider, "Gender, Genre and Self-Determination in Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes."
• Bonnie Altamirano and Richard Vargas read during the "Readings by Poets from the University of New Mexico" session.

Session Chairs:

• Jen Nader: American Nineteenth-Century Literature - I & American Nineteenth-Century Literature - II
• Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen was elected chair for the Old and Middle English sessions at the 2011 RMMLA Convention in Scottsdale, AZ.