Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Albuquerque in 2010! The 64th RMMLA convention will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 14 to 16 October. Our local host institution is the University of New Mexico. Proposals for special-topic sessions must be e-mailed by 1 November 2009 to rmmla@wsu.edu. The call for papers will be posted to our Web site in mid-November (www.rmmla.org). Join us in Albuquerque!

Returning to 2009, we are excited to be at the Cliff Lodge in Snowbird, Utah, for our 63rd annual convention, hosted by Weber State University, Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University, University of Utah, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah State University. Our keynote speaker is Stephen Trimble, Wallace Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center for 2008-09. Trimble's book Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America received the 2004 Utah Arts Council's Literature Program Nonfiction Book Award. He will also participate in a panel discussion on eco-literature and criticism. We are also happy to welcome current and former Utah poet laureates, Katherine Coles and David Lee, as well as polyartist, sonosopher, and poet/artist in residence at Utah Valley University, Alex Caldiero. The Spanish Ministry of Culture is sponsoring a session on the novelist José Javier Abasolo, who will be in attendance to discuss his work. We have more than 170 sessions on languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, pedagogy, critical theory, film, drama, instructional technology, and technical writing, with special sessions on scholarly publishing and effective CV writing, as well as poetry and prose readings, field-specific socials, film showings, and book displays. Optional excursions include Park City (home of the Sundance Film Festival), Salt Lake City, and a live performance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Convention participants are required to join RMMLA by 1 April. Yearly membership rates: $35 faculty members; $25 students, emeritus faculty members, independent scholars; discounted, three-year rates: $85 faculty members, $50 students, emeritus faculty members, independent scholars. Lifetime rates are also available. A postage supplement is required to receive a print version of the journal; otherwise, all RMMLA publications are freely available at www.rmmla.org. Payment of dues may be made by check, Visa, or MasterCard, online or sent to RMMLA, PO Box 642610, Pullman, WA 99164-2610 (509 335-4198; fax: 509 335-3708). Convention registration fees apply also.

RMMLA membership includes online access to the association's peer-reviewed journal, Rocky Mountain Review; the privilege of presenting convention papers and organizing panels, submitting articles, and being nominated to the executive board; and eligibility for all RMMLA research and travel awards.

The editors of Rocky Mountain Review encourage submission of scholarly articles and forum pieces on any topic of interest to our membership; see the RMMLA Web site for guidelines. Articles appearing in the online version of the journal undergo exactly the same review process as articles considered for the print journal. Articles destined for the online journal may be written in any language and may include multimedia components (graphics, audio, video, hyperlinks to other Web sites, etc.). Articles and essays accepted for publication in the online journal appear as soon as they have passed through the final review and editorial process, rather than on a fixed print publication schedule. The print version is published in April and November. Rocky Mountain Review is indexed by over a dozen literary indexing services and is available through JSTOR. RMMLA distributed many grants and awards in 2008-09 (see www.rmmla.org for guidelines). The recipient of the Neila and Candadai Seshachari Faculty Convention Travel Grant ($250; deadline 1 June) was Soophia Ahmad (Aligarh Muslim Univ.), who presented "Children as Signifiers of Nature in The God of Small Things" in the session of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).

The recipients of the Student Convention Travel Grant ($250, deadline 1 June) were Bridgette Arnold (Univ. of Texas, Arlington), who spoke on "Satire and Parody as Subversion in American Women-Authored Science Fiction" in the American Humor session, and Annett Krause (Ohio State Univ.), who presented "German Visions of India in Late-Medieval German Travel Accounts" in the German Literature before 1900 session.

The recipient of the Farr Award was Elizabeth Sheehan (Univ. of Virginia), for her paper entitled "Fashioning the New Negro Woman: The Aesthetics and Politics of Dress in the Crisis and Nella Larsen's Quicksand," presented in the Women's Caucus session in Reno. The Charles Davis Award ($100; deadline 15 December) had three recipients this year: Gladys Nubla (Univ. of California, Berkeley), for "Mourning a Lost Innocence: The Child of Sex Tourism"; Darcy Irvin (Univ. of California, Davis), for "'Sacred to the Memory': Image-Text in The Woman in White"; and Brandi Martinez (Univ. of Nevada, Reno), for "Out of the Closet and onto the Prose Page: Margaret Cavendish's Drama and the Shaping of Her Prose." The full text of the winning presentations are published in the fall issue of Rocky Mountain Review.

This year's RMMLA-Huntington Library Research Grant (deadline 1 February), carrying a stipend of $2,000 to cover one month of residency and research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, went to Sarah Gordon (Utah State Univ.) for her project "Medieval Representations of Disability, Physical Impairment, and the Notion of 'Cure.'" RMMLA also offers a faculty research travel grant and a research travel grant for an ABD student ($250 each; deadline 1 February).

2009 RMMLA Executive Board: President: Sura Rath (English, Central Washington Univ.); Past President: Albrecht Classen (German, Univ. of Arizona); Vice President: José Suarez (Spanish, Univ. of Northern Colorado); Delegates-at-Large: Gary Hatch (English, Brigham Young Univ.), Joy Landeira (Spanish, Univ. of Northern Colorado), and Tara Powell (English, Univ. of South Carolina); Graduate Student Delegates: Jennifer Brady (Spanish, Univ. of Colorado) and Katie Arosteguy (English, Washington State Univ.).

Secretariat at Washington State University: Executive Director, Joan Grenier-Winther; Senior Editor: Michael Delahoyde; Editor: Sabine Davis; Managing Editor: Nathanael Whitworth; Administrative Assistants: Jennifer Schiewe, Laurie Heustis, and Michaela Butler; Systems Administrator: Douglas Winther.

JOAN GRENIER-WINTHER
Executive Director