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Edgewalking on the Western Rim WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Ann Putnam, President University of Puget Sound Karen Ramirez, Co-President-Elect University of Colorado at Boulder Nicolas S. Witschi, Co-President-Elect Western Michigan University Tara Penry, Past President Boise State University Robert Thacker, Executive Secretary/Treasurer St. Lawrence University Nancy Cook (2007) University of Montana Alex Hunt (2007) West Texas A&M University Walter Isle (2007) Rice University Victoria Lamont (2007) University of Waterloo David Cremean (2008) Black Hills State University Anne Kaufman (2008) Milton Academy Bonney MacDonald (2008) Union College Sara Spurgeon (2008) Texas Tech University Drucilla Wall (2009) University of Missouri-St. Louis Jose Aranda Jr. (2009) Rice University Michael K. Johnson (2009) University of Main at Farmington Pierre Lagayette (2009) Universite’ Paris-Sorbonne Angela Waldie (2009) Grad. Student rep, University of Calgary Joyce Kinkead (2009) Utah State University To nominate a WLA member for the Executive Council: Find out if your nominee is willing to serve. Write the name and affiliation of your candidate on the flipchart in the registration area. Council members must be WLA members and must attend the next three WLA meetings. All nominees are advised to attend the Business Meeting. 2007 WLA Sponsors and Partners Grateful acknowledgments go to the following sponsors and partners: The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Rainier Pacific Bank Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Bedford St. Martin’s Publisher Pacific Northwest Writers Association Tacoma News Tribune University of Puget Sound Office of the President Office of the Academic Dean Student body Science, Technology, and Society Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching Susan Resneck Pierce Endowed Professorship of Humanities and Honors University of Washington Tacoma Student body Tacoma Community College Pacific Lutheran University Seattle University Seattle Pacific University St. Martin’s University The Charles Johnson Society Program in African-American Studies Washington and Lee University University of Washington Press University of Washington Seattle Department of English Special thanks go to colleagues in the University of Puget Sound English department and especially Department Chair Denise Despres, Beverly Conner, Julie Christoph, Tamiko Nimura, Bill Kupinse; to Sabine Barcatta, Bob Thacker, members of the WLA Executive Council; to Courtney Putnam, Sarah Caldwell, Sarah Stall, Heather Clifford, Holly Jones, Walter Andrews; to Gary Luke of Sasquatch Press for use of the title, “Edgewalking on the Western Rim.”
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Edgewalking on the Western Rim �

WEstERn LitERatuRE association

ExEcutivE counciL

Ann Putnam, PresidentUniversity of Puget Sound

Karen Ramirez, co-President-ElectUniversity of Colorado at Boulder

Nicolas S. Witschi, co-President-ElectWestern Michigan University

Tara Penry, Past PresidentBoise State University

Robert Thacker, Executive secretary/treasurerSt. Lawrence University

Nancy Cook (2007)University of Montana

Alex Hunt (2007)West Texas A&M University

Walter Isle (2007)Rice University

Victoria Lamont (2007)University of Waterloo

David Cremean (2008)Black Hills State University

Anne Kaufman (2008)Milton Academy

Bonney MacDonald (2008)Union College

Sara Spurgeon (2008)Texas Tech University

Drucilla Wall (2009)University of Missouri-St. Louis

Jose Aranda Jr. (2009)Rice University

Michael K. Johnson (2009) University of Main at Farmington

Pierre Lagayette (2009)Universite’ Paris-Sorbonne

Angela Waldie (2009)Grad. student rep, University of Calgary

Joyce Kinkead (2009)Utah State University

To nominate a WLA member for the Executive Council:Find out if your nominee is willing to serve. Write the name and affiliation of your candidate on the flipchart in the registration area. council members must be WLa members and must attend the next three WLa meetings. all nominees are advised to attend the Business Meeting.

2007 WLA Sponsors and Partners

Grateful acknowledgments go to the following sponsors and partners:

the Greater tacoma community Foundation

Rainier Pacific Bankcharles Redd center for Western

studies Bedford st. Martin’s Publisher Pacific northwest Writers associationTacoma News Tribune

university of Puget sound Office of the PresidentOffice of the Academic Dean Student bodyScience, Technology, and Society Center for Writing, Learning, and

Teaching Susan Resneck Pierce Endowed

Professorship of Humanities and Honors

university of Washington tacomaStudent body

tacoma community college Pacific Lutheran university seattle universityseattle Pacific university st. Martin’s universitythe charles Johnson society Program in african-american studies

Washington and Lee universityuniversity of Washington Pressuniversity of Washington seattle

Department of English

special thanks go to colleagues in the university of Puget sound English department and especially Department chair Denise Despres, Beverly conner, Julie christoph, tamiko nimura, Bill Kupinse; to sabine Barcatta, Bob thacker, members of the WLa Executive council; to courtney Putnam, sarah caldwell, sarah stall, Heather clifford, Holly Jones, Walter andrews; to Gary Luke of sasquatch Press for use of the title, “Edgewalking on the Western Rim.”

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WEDNESDAy, O CTOBER 17

1–4 p.m. Executive Council Meeting.....................................................................................................Pavilion B

4–7 p.m. Registration ................................................................................................................................Rotunda

5–6:30 p.m. Executive Council Dinner .................................................................................................... Indochine

7:30 p.m. Welcome ............................................................................................................................... Pavilion A ann Putnam, WLa President Bill Baarsma, Mayor of tacoma Ronald thomas, President, university of Puget sound Hart Edmonson, student Body President, university of Puget sound Wil Johnson, student Body President, university of Washington tacoma

David Guterson .................................................................................................................... Pavilion A Reading and Q & a session sponsored by the students of the university of Washington

Reception to follow with music by the Keaton Wilson Jazz combo

THuRSDAy, O CTOBER 18

8 a.m.–5 p.m. Registration ................................................................................................................................Rotunda

8 a.m.–5 p.m. Book Exhibit ............................................................................................................................Pavilion C

thursday 8–9:�5 a.m. session one

1A A Sense of Place: Politics, Geology, and MemoryPavilion B chair: nancy owen nelson, Hassayampa institute for creative Writing

susan cummins Miller, Geologist and author “clean as Bone, Firm as stone: Earth science and Place in the Frankie MacFarlane Mysteries” ann Ronald, university of nevada, Reno “Politics and Prose”

nancy nelson, Hassayampa institute for creative Writing “then and now: the importance of Place in My search for Dad”

susan Lang, Hassayampa institute for creative Writing “the Language of Plants and Place: a novelistic treatment of the Way World view, attitude, and

necessity are interwoven into Words”

1B Intertextualities: Roethke, McMurtry, Guthrie, and Blood RunCenter chair: George Lensing, university of north carolina, chapel Hill

George Lensing, university of north carolina, chapel Hill “theodore Roethke’s ‘north american sequence’ and t.s. Eliot”

chadwick allen, the ohio state university “Earthworks as technologies of indigenity in Blood Run”

chen xu, Hangzhou Dianzi university “an interpretation of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove”

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cassandra Mathias de Kanter, Rice university “Empty Masculinities in the Global/Local american West”

1C Insiders/Outsiders: Jimenez, Laxalt, Anaya, and Lummis2nd Floor Brdrm chair: Gary scharnhorst, university of new Mexico

Monika Madinabeitia, Mondragon university, the Basque country “a Basque Portrait of the american West: Koioteren Arrastoa by Edorta Jimenez”

David Rio, university of the Basque country “Robert Laxalt’s Sweet Promised Land: a Western Basque classic”

Patrick Hamilton, college of Misericordia “Worlds apart: cosmopolitanism, the Bildungsroman, and the West in Rudolfo anaya’s Bless Me

Ultima and alfredo vea’s La Maravilla”

tereza M. szeghi, colby college “amateur anthropology and cultural authority in charles Lummis’ A Tramp Across the Continent”

1D Cultural Crossings: Approaches to Identity and Authenticity inSouth Willa Cather chair: Jacqueline Harris, utah state university

Jacqueline Harris, utah state university“Les Filles du Roi and Female Destination in Shadows on the Rock”

Jacoba Mendelkow, utah state university“Re-Reading Willa cather’s Bastard Daughter: My Antonia”

sarah sisson, utah state university“the Fetes of Louis xiv: community celebrations and imported culture in Willa cather’s Shadows on the Rock”

sarah stoeckl, university of oregon “an authenticating Hand: Willa cather, Gertrude stein, and the Right to Write about War”

1E Troubled and Troubling Origins:North unearthing the Past of the “Golden State” chair: susan Bernardin, sunY college at oneonta

Molly crumpton Winter, california state university, stanislaus“california statehood and John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquin Murieta”

Melody Graulich, utah state university“Excavating the chumash in The Sharpest Sight”

susan Bernardin, sunY college at oneonta“the Memories that are not ours: Louis owens, Bone Game, and the Making of the Golden state”

Paul Formisano, university of new Mexico“‘Keep it Like it Was’: Western Resistance to american imperialism in The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta and The Monkey Wrench Gang”

1F Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Reservation BluesPavilion A chair: Drucilla Wall, university of Missouri, st. Louis Ed Wiltse, nazareth college “Indian Killer across the Razor Wire”

Patrick Gleason, university of california, san Diego“voices of the Dead: Gothic interpellation in sherman alexie’s Indian Killer”

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David Peterson, university of nebraska, omaha “‘those horses rose from everywhere’: Hybridity and Healing in sherman alexie’s Reservation Blues

and Joy Harjo’s She Had Some Horses”

connie Bracewell, university of arizona“alien Landscapes: Diaspora within sherman alexie’s Indian Killer, Gerald vizenor’s Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, and Robert a. Heinlein’s stranger in a strange Land”

1G Racing Time in the Desert SouthwestPavilion F chair: nathaniel Lewis, st. Michael’s college

Bonney MacDonald, union college“crossing the Great Basin: Range and Motion in the Desert southwest”

nathaniel Lewis, st. Michael’s college“Morta in Ruins: crosstown traffic”

stephen tatum, university of utah“Morta in Ruins: Home on the Range”

1H Border Landscapes and NarrativesPavilion E chair: John M. Gourlie, Quinnipiac university John M. Gourlie, Quinnipiac university “Lone star: Forget the alamo” amy Fatzinger, university of arizona “Remembering stories of survival in velma Wallis’s Two Old Women and Raising Ourselves”

Jose aranda Jr., Rice university “Geronimo’s autobiography as Border narrative”

Michael K. Johnson, university of Maine, Farmington “Bride of Brokeback Mountain”

thursday 8:�0–9:�0 a.m. coffee Break (Pavilion Prefunction)

thursday 9:�0–�0:45 a.m. Plenary (Pavilion a)

Northwest Literature: A Backward Glance to See the Future chair: Glen Love, university of oregon, WLa Past President

Richard Etulain, university of new Mexico, WLa Past President

Barbara Meldrum, university of idaho, WLa Past President

Laurie Ricou, university of British columbia, WLa Past President

Harold simonson, Pacific northwest scholar, university of Washington

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thursday �� a.m.–�2:�5 p.m. session two

2A Speaking Into the Silences of Women’s LivesSouth chair: anne Kaufman, Bridgewater state college

Erin Gayton, Duke university “Walls Made of Gold: investment and Gendered subjectivity in Dorothy M. Johnson’s The Hanging

Tree (�957)”

catherine Holmes, college of charleston “‘the Re-mystification of nearly Everything’: another Look at Myth, Metaphor, and Mobility in

Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping”

Jennifer Dawes adkison, idaho state university “Recovering and Reading Women’s stories: teaching archival Research”

amy Brumfield, idaho state university “such Was My Fate”

2B Offshore Winds and Westerlies: A Gathering of ReadersPavilion B chair: Beverly conner, university of Puget sound Beverly conner, university of Puget sound “the Wheelman”

Beth Kalikoff, university of Washington tacoma “the next Meal is oobleck”

Jackie Pugh Kogan, california state university, northridge “Flight”

sarah Jane sloane, colorado state university “the Relay”

2C History, Memory, Nostalgia, and the urban WestCenter chair: William Handley, university of southern california

Jessica Bremmer, university of southern california “the Malady of nostalgia in The Love of the Last Tycoon: a Western”

Jonathan Hamrick, university of southern california “Road Maps of Desire in ‘the Great Wrong Place’: (urban) Ecology and (Literary) Memory in

christopher isherwood’s A Single Man”

Brett Myhren, university of southern california “the Problem with the Past: chandler’s Detective, ahistoricism, and Los angeles”

cody todd, university of southern california “apostles and authority: interpretations of the outlaw in the Western crime tradition”

2D Sherman Alexie: Rez-ervationistPavilion A chair: Kyoko Matsunaga, Hiroshima university

Kyoko Matsunaga, Hiroshima university “uranium, salmon, and survival: a Hiroshima citizen’s view of sherman alexie’s Poetry”

David c. Kopp, northern arizona university “‘indian style’: the Exploitation and novelty of ‘indianness’ in sherman alexie’s Reservation Blues”

angela Elliott, centenary college “sorrow and survival: the storyteller’s Journey in sherman alexie’s Reservation Blues”

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Lee schweninger, university of north carolina, Wilmington “‘always on the in-between’: ambiguity in sherman alexie’s Film The Business of Fancydancing”

2E Place as Pedagogy and Research2nd Floor Brdrm chair: Jennifer sinor, utah state university

“Placing the academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and identity” Jennifer sinor, utah state university Rona Kaufman, university of Puget sound chuck Bergman, university of Puget sound

“imagining the West in a First-Year Writing and Rhetoric seminar”Julie nelson christoph, university of Puget sound

2F Barry Lopez: Fictions and Nonfictions of Western NatureNorth chair: sara spurgeon, texas tech university

ashley May, texas tech university“the Power of Perception: Discovering identity through the natural World in the Works of Barry Lopez”

Kyle cyree, Emerson college“the Return to a World Forgotten: Literary trends in naturalist Writings of Barry Lopez”

Bernadette Brown, texas tech university“Barry Lopez and the art of teaching Poetry”

Jennifer Powell, texas tech university“storyline and Evolution in Barry Lopez’ Winter Count”

2G The Word for World is ForestPavilion F chair: Kathleen Moran, university of california, Berkeley

Kathleen Moran, university of california, Berkeley “‘Lions and tigers and Bears, oh My’: the Western Forest as Filmic Metaphor”

christine Palmer, university of california, Berkeley “Parable of the tree: Earthseed, acorn, and Deep Roots in octavia Butler’s Western utopias” Greg Wright, university of nevada, Las vegas “Masculine violence and Brutality in Wallace stegner’s The Big Rock Candy Mountain”

2H Zitkala-SaPavilion E chair: tiffany aldrich MacBain, university of Puget sound

tiffany aldrich MacBain, university of Puget sound“a Penetrating cold: White contact and contagion in american indian stories”

Margaret urie, university of nevada, Reno“‘Boarding school Blues’: the american indian school Experience and Zitkala-sa’s Resistance”

Maureen salzer, university of Wisconsin, superior “Writing culture through Rhetorical Practice: Zitkala-sa’s autoethnographic Discourse”

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thursday �2:�5–�:45 p.m. Past President’s address and Luncheon (Pavilion D)

12:15 p.m. Luncheon

1–1:45 p.m. “Past (P)resident’s Address: ‘Edgewalking with Feeling’” Tara Penry, WLA Past President Boise State university

thursday 2–�:�5 p.m. session three

3A Sherman Alexie: Poetry and Short FictionCenter chair: Gwen Griffin, Minnesota state university, Mankato

Yvonne Rutford, university of Wisconsin, superior “Women’s Journey toward inner strength and Renewal: two Perspectives in short narratives by

sherman alexie and terry tempest Williams”

Dani Johannesen, northern arizona university “the Poetry of Play; the Beauty of Basketball: aesthetics and athletics in selected Works by

sherman alexie”

Patrick scanlan, Fairfield university “Edgar Finds His own Way”

Jill Gatlin, university of Washington “alexie alarm: Difference and Political Poetics in the classroom”

3B Landscapes and IdentitySouth chair: Lyra Hilliard, utah state university

Linda K. Karell, Montana state university“‘a Bearable Past’ in Western Women’s Memoir: Gail caldwell’s A Strong West Wind”

Daryl W. Palmer, Regis university“William stafford’s twofold allegiance: Poetry of the Prairie West and the northwest”

Matt Burkhart, university of arizona“‘travels in a Glittering World’: tracing Routes in irvin Morris’s Prose”

stephen cook, california state university, sacramento“How Red states Become Purple: the Way of the Progressive cowboy”

3C Sky Curving to The Horizon: Creative Readings2nd Floor Brdrm chair: Pamela steinle, california state university, Fullerton

Russ Beck, utah state university“the Gentrification of My inheritance: the Buying and selling of spring city, utah”

Josh Dolezal, central college “selway by Headlamp”

Pamela steinle, california state university, Fullerton “Dislocations: notes on seeking a sense of Place on the Edge”

John Bennion, Brigham Young university Reading from Falling Toward Heaven

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3D Writing Western Women’s Biographies: The Process,Pavilion A Challenges, and Rewards chair: Melody Graulich, utah state university

susanne George Bloomfield, university of nebraska, Kearney

Judy nolte temple, university of arizona

Mary clearman Blew, university of idaho

Melody Graulich, utah state university

3E Robert Penn Warren’s Western IconographyNorth chair: Keri overall, tarrant county college, northwest campus

Keri overall, tarrant county college, northwest campus “Power and Death: Birds of the West in Robert Penn Warren’s Poetry”

Douglas Mitchell, university of Mobile “the tragic West of Robert Penn Warren’s ‘Brother to Dragons’”

Janis Johnson, university of idaho “twice-vanishing indians in Robert Penn Warren’s ‘chief Joseph’”

victor strandberg, Duke university “Robert Penn Warren’s ‘Western Exposure’”

3F Class/Race/Culture: Cisneros, Kingsolver, Villareal, and RobinsonPavilion B chair: susan n. Maher, university of nebraska, omaha

susan n. Maher and Michael carroll, university of nebraska, omaha “amphibious Women in cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek”

Pamela Pierce, university of arizona “Romancing the southwest: Kingsolver’s constructions of Land and culture”

christina Roberts, seattle university “intergenerational trauma and spiritual Healing in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach”

tom J. Hillard, Boise state university “‘in the Midst of Great Futility’: villarreal’s Pocho as a naturalist novel”

3G The Price of Empire: Jeffers, Politics, and WarPavilion F chair: shaunanne tangney, Minot state university

shaunanne tangney, Minot state university “‘Did you think you would go laughing through France?’: Decadent stylistics and anti-War Protest

in Robinson Jeffers’ ‘tamar’”

Ron olowin, st. Mary’s college of california “What can war but endless war still breed?”

Peter Quigley, university of Hawaii“natural Music and Political neutrality: nature as critique of culture in Jeffers and abbey”

Joseph M. Flora, university of north carolina, chapel Hill “Robinson Jeffers’ Dear Judas and The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot”

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3H Representations of ImmigrationPavilion E chair: Linda Ross, instructor Emeritus

Linda Ross, instructor Emeritus “‘are We there Yet?’: immigration in the Western states”

vincent Perez, university of nevada, Las vegas “the new nativism and the Mexican northwest: immigrant narratives and news Media Fictions”

christine Hill smith, Front Range community college “‘todos estan haciendo tamales’: Bilingual (English-spanish) children’s Picture Books with

Western themes”

Daniel Griesbach, university of Washington “Grapes, sunshine, and Labor: Recipes for Representation from viramontes and sun-Maid”

thursday �:�0–4:45 p.m. session Four

4A Edgewalking Figures and Spaces in Asian American LiteratureSouth chair: tamiko nimura, university of Puget sound

tamiko nimura, university of Puget sound“Rememory as coalitional Resource: Los angeles and Little tokyo in nina Revoyr’s Southland”

caroline Yang, university of illinois, urbana-champaign “the chinaman/woman in ambrose Bierce’s and sui sin Far’s Narratives of the West”

vince schleitwiler, university of Washington“Etymology of a Double cross: toshio Mori and the Riddle of nisei Jive”

Ji-Young um, university of Washington “‘God in a Pair of Green Fatigues’: the no-no Boy and the nisei soldier”

4B The Pacific Northwest and Beyond: Four ReadingsNorth chair: Philip Heldrich, university of Washington tacoma

Matt Briggs, author“the Double E”

Philip Heldrich, university of Washington tacoma “to touch the Earth Will Make You strong: Reflections on William stafford’s Methow River Poems”

nicholas o’connell, author“Reading from Denali: A Novel”

Peter Donahue, Birmingham-southern college “Reading from Avard in Duwamps”

4C Workshop for Graduate StudentsPavilion A your Future in Print: Advice for Graduate Students on Publication and Professionalization chair: angela Waldie, university of calgary

Melody Graulich, utah state university

Lisa szabo, university of alberta

Evelyn Funda, utah state university

Laurie Ricou, university of British columbia

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4D The City on a Hill: Popular Representations of Polygamy andCenter Other Social Experiments chair: nancy cook, university of Montana

nancy cook, university of Montana “negotioating class Difference in the american West: the Example of Healdsburg, ca”

Jason de Kanter“american Kingdom: Romantic american nationalism and the Mormon Migration”

Jeremy Ryan Ricketts, university of new Mexico “‘a scrofulous sore on the social Body’: nineteenth-century anti-Mormon novels and the

Literary construction of Mormons”

Mikage Kuroki, university of california, Riverside “D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land: the suburban city on a Hill”

4E West of Memory: Creative ReadingsPavilion B chair: Robert sickels, Whitman college

Diane Warner, texas tech university“Witnessing” and other poems by Diane Warner

David stevenson, Western illinois university “crystal,” an excerpt from the novel Forty Crows

Brittney carman, university of idaho “Believing owl, saying owl: a Personal Essay”

E. annie Lampman, university of idaho “the art of Firewood: a Personal Essay”

4F Snow Peaks and Inner Fires: Washington Volcanoes inPavilion F Environmental Literature, Popular Culture, Poetry, and Music chair: alan Weltzien, university of Montana, Western

alan Weltzien, university of Montana, Western “Mount st. Helens in Poetry and Music”

Jerry Dollar, siena college“Making the Mountain Paradise: Rainier in Environmental Literature and Popular culture”

Denise von Glahn, Florida state university“‘thinking Like a Mountain’ in Music: composing on nature’s Behalf”

4G Emily Carr, Cady Wells, and Olivier Messiaen: Eye and Ear forPavilion E Transcendent Places chair: susan J. tyburski, colorado school of Mines

susan J. tyburski, colorado school of Mines “the Forest as tabernacle: the Mystical vision of Emily carr”

carmen Pearson, Mount Royal college“Emily carr’s Eco-feminist self-Portraiture in Klee Wyck”

Lois Rudnick, university of Massachusetts, Boston“Queering Modernism: cady Wells, southwest Modernism, and the northwest school”

nicole sheets, university of utah“an Ear for utah: Exploring the Music of olivier Messiaen”

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thursday 5 p.m. Pavilion a

Readers Theatre presentsPaint Your Wagon, adapted and directed by David Fenimore, university of Nevada, Reno

thursday 5 p.m. Pavilion F

Molly Gloss, reading and book signing

Introduction by John C. Davies, Portland State university

thursday �–7 p.m. Graduate student Dinner at varsity Grill 1114 Broadway, Tacoma 98402

thursday 7:�0 p.m. Pavilion D

Distinguished Achievement Award Lecture: Sherman Alexie

Welcome and blessing, Native American Student Organization of university of Washington Tacoma and First Nation from university of Puget Sound

Introduction by Alex Kuo, Washington State university

Sponsored by the Students of the university of Puget Sound, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association

After the lecture join us for no-host cocktails in the Rotunda

FRIDAy, O CTOBER 19

7–8 a.m. Past Presidents’ Breakfast ....................................................................................Tacoma Ballroom IV

8 a.m.–5 p.m. Registration ................................................................................................................................Rotunda

8 a.m.–6 p.m. Book Exhibit ......................................................................................................................... Pavilion C

Friday 8–9:�5 a.m. session Five

5A Pacific Northwest Literature of Resource ExtractionPavilion B chair: alex Hunt, West texas a&M university

alex Hunt, West texas a&M university “northwestern Westerns: Ernest Haycox, Labor Politics, and Resource Extraction”

arlene Plevin, olympic college “Water Runs through it: sustainability and the Ethical spirit in Peterson, Miller, and White”

Barbara cook, Mount aloysius college“trickster in the cascades: Louis owens, Logging, copper Mines, and northwestern Rainforests”

Eric Heyne, university of alaska Fairbanks “White Gold and Black Gold: Heroes and villains of Resource Extraction in alaska”

5B Enchantment and Irony in Strange and Wondrous PlacesPavilion A chair: David copeland Morris, university of Washington tacoma

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Michael L. Johnson, university of Kansas James Work, colorado state university “a Western Montage: or, He Do the Whole Place in Different voices”

David copeland Morris, university of Washington tacoma “the Bill Gates Wilderness and the Marriott at Enchanted Lakes”

David Rothman, conundrum Press “‘not a sport but a way of life’: Deep Ecology, ski Mountaineering, and the Legacy of Dolores

Lachapelle”

5C Writing the West: The Silence on the Other Side of MythCenter chair: sean Prentiss, university of idaho

sean Prentiss, university of idaho“still Be Perfect”

Joe Wilkins, Waldorf college“and all of them Were Dark”

steven coughlin, university of idaho“Looking West: Where Has the Romance Gone?”

Ben Quick, university of arizona“the Boneyard”

5D The Numinous Journey Across the SouthwestSouth chair: sandra L. Dahlberg, university of Houston, Downtown

sandra L. Dahlberg, university of Houston, Downtown“contemporary crusades: Performing Los Moros y cristianos (the Moors and the christians) in the Post–september �� american West”

tom Lynch, university of nebraska, Lincoln“strange Lands: Promoting the ‘strange’ in charles Fletcher Lummis and arthur Groom”

Don scheese, Gustavus adolphus college“Pursuing the Prehistoric Past: the anasazi in Recent Books by David Roberts and craig childs”

amy t. Hamilton, university of arizona “Mary austin’s Body Language: Walking and Writing the Wilderness”

5E The Machine in the Garden2nd Floor Brdrm chair: candace Barlow, university of Washington candace Barlow, university of Washington “the ‘Wild’ or Wilderness?: Exploring Rick Bass’s vision for Environmental sustainability”

Phillip David Johnson ii, university of nevada, Reno“Reading Bioregional aesthetics: sublime immersion and Ecological Restoration in Freeman House’s Totem Salmon”

Michael Gorman, Missouri state university “the Poet Laureate and american Pastoral ideology”

travis Mason, university of British columbia “Pacific icarus, or Pacific ‘R us: Longing for Home and Flight in the northwest”

5F Examining Authors’ Lives and WorksNorth chair: Len Engel, Quinnipiac university

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Len Engel, Quinnipiac university“texas, Louisiana, and Montana: a sense of Place in the novels of James Lee Burke”

scott Knickerbocker, albertson college of idaho “organic Formalism in John Witte’s The Hurtling”

Jeffrey chisum, university of southern california“swallowed by the void: the Riddle of Walter van tilburg clark and His Muse”

Bill toth, Western new Mexico university “From Place to (dys)Place: Richard Brautigan and the Dysfunctional narrator”

5G Raymond Carver on Film and in the ClassroomPavilion F chair: timothy Bintrim, saint Francis university

timothy Bintrim, saint Francis university“teaching the Heinle Film adaptation of Raymond carver’s ‘cathedral’”

sarah clere, university of north carolina, chapel Hill “Jindabyne as counterpoint to Raymond carver’s ‘so Much Water so close to Home’”

Elizabeth B. Baker, college of charleston “Raymond carver in the composition class”

Kevin Maier, university of alaska, southeast “stuck in Raymond carver’s america”

5H On the Margins of the Popular WesternPavilion E chair: victoria Lamont, university of Waterloo

victoria Lamont, university of Waterloo“Westerns Before Westerns: Emma Ghent curtis’s The Administratrix (�889)”

christine Bold, university of Guelph “Where Did the Black Rough Riders Go?”

aliza s. Wong, texas tech university“on the italian Frontiers of the american West: Emilio salgari and the adventures of italian-Made cowboys”

Jefferson D. slagle, st. Bonaventure university “‘Enthusiastically approved and commended’: the Letter of Endorsement as Western Genre”

Friday 9–�0 a.m. coffee Break (Pavilion Prefunction)

Friday 9:�0–�0:45 a.m. session six

6A Truest Grit: Memoir vs. Fiction and the Slippery Nature ofCenter Authenticity chair: Willard Wyman, author of High Country

Willard Wyman, author of High Country“truest Grit: Memoir vs. Fiction and the slippery nature of authenticity”

Kacy Lundstrom, utah state university“Braided Essays: spanning Wider spaces of interpretation”

Karen M. Wilcox, Park university “once upon a Myth in Montana”

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Rosalie Benoit Weaver, Bemidji state university “When Myth Meets Reality: the search for the ‘Real Myth’ of the West in Breaking clean”

6B Cather (Session I): Mining Willa Cather’s LettersPavilion A sponsored by the cather society chair: Robert thacker, st. Lawrence university

ann Romines, George Washington university“Letters Home: Willa cather Writes to Her Parents”

Janis P. stout, texas a&M university “Busy Emulating Wister and Remington: a cather Letter of �9�2 and the Question of

intentionality”

steven B. shively, utah state university “‘Faithfully yours’: cather, Religion, and Her Letters”

Jacqueline Zeff, university of Michigan, Flint“the Pioneer spirit takes the [other] Field: Football and the Fiction of Willa cather”

6C Wild Tales: A Creative PanelNorth chair: David cremean, Black Hills state university

David cremean, Black Hills state university“soulstice”

twister Marquiss, texas state university, san Marcos “Long Range: My Personal and one-sided Battle with annie Proulx and Publishing Fiction”

Lowell Mick White, texas a&M university “Wildlife Rehabilitation”

Gerald Locklin, california state university, Long Beach Reading from his creative work

6D Visions in the Western FilmPavilion B chair: victoria Lamont, university of Waterloo

Jeanette Palmer, university of nevada, Las vegas “Reconstructing american indian characterization in Film, or it’s o.K. if Everyone in the Western

Wears a Gun Belt and a cowboy Hat”

Robert B. olafson, Eastern Washington university “norman Reilly Raine’s tugboat annie: the Making of a Pacific northwest (secoma) Heroine in

Fiction and Film”

Paul Wilson, university of utah “From the Page to the screen: Fast Food Nation and Environmental Rhetoric in the new West”

neil campbell, university of Derby “Defining the neo-Western: a case study of David Jacobson’s Film Down in the Valley (2005)”

6E Spirits and Ghosts: Tess GallagherSouth chair: Ron McFarland, university of idaho

Ron McFarland, university of idaho“thinking about tess Gallagher’s Ghosts”

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stacy Gillett coyle, university of Denver“Raising the Dead: tess Gallagher and the necromantic tradition”

David scott, Boise state university“tess Gallagher’s Book of short stories, The Lover of Horses”

6F Bret Harte, Zane Grey, Owen Wister, and Rites of Passage2nd Floor Brdrm chair: John c. Davies, Portland state university

John c. Davies, Portland state university “the oldest thirteen-Year-old in captivity: Rites of Passage and Young narrative centres in

Outside the Gates (Molly Gloss, �98�), Ricochet River (Robin cody, �992), The Sky Fisherman (craig Lesley, �995), and The Whistling Season (ivan Doig)”

J. solomon, university of southern california“‘not the california You Mean’: Western Regionalism and transnationalism in Bret Harte’s The Crusade of Excelsior”

John Donahue, champlain Regional college“War, immigration, and Divided Loyalties in Zane Grey’s The Desert of Wheat”

6G under Western EyesPavilion F chair: Len Engel, Quinnipiac university Karl Germeck, utah state university “Framing the Word, un-framing the Picture: image and text in Don normark’s Chavez Ravine,

1949: A Los Angeles Story”

Jamie Robertson, new York Mills Regional cultural center“attending the Beautiful and Mutilated World: Photographs of Robert adams and Poems of William stafford”

colin Robertson, nevada Museum of art “Yosemite Forsaken: the art and Letters of chiura obata”

Eric chilton, university of arizona “Grand canyon skywalk”

6H Metaphors in DeclinePavilion E chair: Jose aranda Jr., Rice university Gioia Woods, northern arizona university “Michael ondaatje, Global cowboy”

sarah McFarland, northwestern state university“animated animals: new Frontiers of twenty-First century Environmentalism”

sharon Reynolds, Palomar college “Fact or Fancy: the american West in The New Yorker cartoon”

Matthew Heimburger, university of utah “Between a Rock and a Hard Gaze: tracking the self-conscious Ecologist in three Modern

american nature Writers”

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Friday �� a.m.–�2:�5 p.m. three special sessions

I. The Art of Sherman AlexiePavilion B chair: Jane Hafen, university of nevada, Las vegas Jane Hafen, university of nevada, Las vegas “critical Responses to sherman alexie”

Gwen Griffin, Minnesota state university, Mankato “alexie’s Recent Work”

Patrice Hollrah, university of nevada, Las vegas“Gender in alexie’s Writings”

Drucilla Wall, university of Missouri, st. Louis “alexie’s craft”

II. The Journals of Lewis and Clark as Western LiteraturePavilion A chair: David L. nicandri, Director, Washington state Historical society

David L. nicandri, Director, Washington state Historical society

Robert carriker, Gonzaga university

William Lang, Portland state university

Pierre Lagayette, université de Paris iv, La sorbonne

III. The Literary Arts in the Pacific NorthwestPavilion F chair: ann Putnam, university of Puget sound Margit Rankin, seattle arts and Lectures

Lyall Bush, Richard Hugo House

Gitana Garofalo, Hedgebrook—a retreat for women writers

Pam Binder, Pacific northwest Writers association

Friday �2:�0–�:45 p.m. session seven

7A The Forest Within: Creative Readings2nd Floor Brdrm chair: Judy nolte temple, university of arizona Evelyn Funda, utah state university “‘Plant Dimes, Harvest Dollars’ and other Lies of idaho sagebrush country”

Judy nolte temple, university of idaho “Remember: a Personal Essay”

scott Elliott, Whitman college“Reading from In the Olympics”

christine shearer-cremean, Black Hills state university “too tough to Experience trauma?”

7B Willa Cather (Session II)Pavilion A sponsored by the cather society chair: Joseph M. Flora, university of north carolina, chapel Hill

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charmion Gustke, George Washington university “sex, Waste, and Empire in A Lost Lady”

Matt Hokom, Fairmont state university “Pompei, the House of the tragic Poet, and A Lost Lady”

Richard Harris, Webb institute “The New York Times index as a tool for cather Research”

Patrick K. Dooley, st. Bonaventure university “are all Religious Experiences on Par?: Religion and the sacred in Willa cather and William James”

7C Sons, Fathers, Warriors: Masculinity in the Works of Sherman Alexie South chair: Becca Gercken, university of Minnesota, Morris

Becca Gercken, university of Minnesota, Morris“the Business of crazy Horse: indian Honor and Masculinity in sherman alexie’s Fancydancing”

Georgia Johnson, university of idaho“My Father is a Fish: a ‘Red Reading’ of Fathers and sons in the Poetry and Films of sherman alexie”

Janis Johnson, university of idaho “Finding a Father in Flight”

David Moore, university of Montana “‘i’m smarter than You!’: alexie and the ironies of Representative individualism”

7D Charles Johnson and the West (Session I)Center sponsored by the charles Johnson society chair: Marc c. conner, Washington and Lee university

William nash, Middlebury college“charles Johnson and the Decline of the West: the Growth of a second Religiousness for Black america”

William Gleason, Princeton university“‘it Falls to You’: Fiction, Philosophy, and Western Ethics in Johnson’s ‘Executive Decision’”

Linda selzer, the Pennsylvania state university “Buddhism Going West: Black Dharma”

Jim McWilliams, Dickinson state university“the Quest for Freedom in ‘soulcatcher’”

7E Natural and unnatural Worlds: Raymond Carver’s AmericaNorth chair: tim steckline, Black Hills state university

tim steckline, Black Hills state university“‘Didn’t the ushers Buy that split-Level?’”: Raymond carver’s Routinizing the Grotesque”

Eric M. stottlemyer, university of nevada, Reno“‘nothing closed off that Little circle of Blue’: a Postmodern, Ecocritical Reading of Raymond carver’s ‘cathedral’”

Keith Kumasen abbott, naropa university“Raymond carver the anonymous Potlatch: social class and Property in ‘Why Don’t You Dance?’”

carrie crockett, university of nebraska, Kearney“Ways with Words: the verbal talents of Raymond carver’s intercessory characters”

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7F Soundings: Four Northwest PoetsPavilion B chair: Hans ostrom, university of Puget sound William J. Kupinse, university of Puget sound “as is”

Hans ostrom, university of Puget sound“the coast starlight”

Muriel nelson “Feeding the venus Flytrap”

ashley Elaine Reis, university of oregon“Wyoming Poems”

7G A Poetics of Geographies of the WestPavilion F chair: John streamas, Washington state university

John streamas, Washington state university “the Left-Leaning Loner in Discourses of the Greening West”

Hilary Hawley, Washington state university“What once Was Fluid is now Fixed: the Damming of the columbia”

Erik t. carter, Washington state university“Frontier slippages across the Western Rim: confluence of Missionary ideology in connecting the Pacific”

Kathleen a. Boardman, university of nevada, Reno“Place and the art of Memory in Western Life Writing”

7H On the Road with Lewis and Clark and Cormac McCarthyPavilion E chair: John trombold, Linfield college John trombold, Linfield college “Fictional Expansion with Lewis and clark: Richard neuberger’s adventure in Literature”

Jason Williams, university of new Hampshire“Lewis and clark Go to the Fair: imperialism, Eugenics, and centennial Representations of sacagawea”

James E. Bishop, university of nevada, Reno “on the trail of the american Man: Gender in the Journals of

Lewis and clark”

nell sullivan, university of Houston, Downtown“the abandoned Photograph and the Exclusion of Women in cormac Mccarthy’s The Road”

Friday 2–�:�5 p.m. session Eight

8A Salmon and Sage: A Panel Reading by Northwest WritersCenter chair: allen Braden, tacoma community college

susan Rich, Highline community college

David Long, Pacific university

Derek sheffield, Wenatchee valley college

Kevin Miller, olympia High school

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8B The Long Arm of the Nineteenth CenturyNorth chair: Ludwig Deringer, RWtH aachen university Ken Egan, Drury university “imperial strains: Poetry and Empire in the nineteenth-century u. s.”

Gary scharnhorst, university of new Mexico “Parodies of Late nineteenth-century Western Fiction and the Failure of Realism”

Elisa Warford, oxnard college“‘carpet-sweepers for their Harems and Electric Light Plants for their temple shrines’: Global capitalism in The Octopus”

Wendy Witherspoon, university of southern california “a tale of two Murderers: charles Brockden Brown’s (Gothic) ‘Edgar Huntly’”

8C Literary Potpourri I2nd Floor Brdrm chair: nicolas s. Witschi, Western Michigan university

nicolas s. Witschi, Western Michigan university“‘off the Reservation with Forty Kinds of War Paint on’: Dime novel Journalism, the outlaw Henry starr, and native american autobiography”

scott MacFarlane, independent scholar“the Hippie narrative: a new Wild West in the Works of Kesey, Brautigan, and Robbins”

Margaret Doane, california state university, san Bernardino “Reality Rewritten and Romanticized in the short stories of May stewart Doane”

Michelle Balaev-saterlee, auburn university “Pacific Formulations of identity, Place, and trauma in the Post-nuclear novel”

8D Charles Johnson and the West (Session II)Pavilion A sponsored by the charles Johnson society chair: William Gleason, Princeton university

Marc c. conner, Washington and Lee university “charles Johnson and the West: Place, time, and the

Meaning of Home”

Gena E. chandler, virginia Polytechnic institute and state university “Manifest Destinies, creation Myths: Richard Wright’s and charles Johnson’s intellectual Modernities”

Gary storhoff, university of connecticut, stamford “‘opening the Hand of thought’: Eastern Meditation, Western action in Dr. King’s Refrigerator and

Other Bedtime Stories”

8E Wildlands, Near and Far: Creative ReadingsSouth chair: Richard Hunt, Delaware valley college Richard Hunt, Delaware valley college “clearcutting Los angeles”

Jerry D. Mathes ii, university of idaho“ahead of the Flaming Front”

seth Bovey, Louisiana state university, alexandria“contact with the Wild”

Margot case, author“Down the Road”

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8F Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land (Session I)Pavilion F chair: Hal crimmel, Weber state university

Hal crimmel, Weber state university “teaching about Place in an Era of Geographical Detachment”

Brad Monsma, california state university, channel islands “uplift and Erosion: together along the san Gabriel Front”

Rochelle Johnson, albertson college of idaho “Rediscovering indian creek: imagining community on the snake River Plain”

John Price, university of nebraska, omaha“idiot out Wandering around: a Few Words about teaching Place in the Heartland”

8G Stories, Sketches, Diaries, and Tales of DisasterPavilion E chair: Richard Hutson, university of california, Berkeley

Richard Hutson, university of california, Berkeley“andy the Liar: B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family (�907, �9�0)”

Rebecca Raglon, university of British columbia“Logging stories in British columbia: From Woodsmen of the West to The Golden Spruce”

Kristina Gundersen, university of Puget sound“Princess Francois’ Fairyland: the opal Whiteley story”

David Mogen, colorado state university“Healing Dreams”

Friday �:�0–4 p.m. session nine

9A Literary Potpourri IIPavilion F chair: Jennilyn Merten, university of utah

Jennilyn Merten, university of utah “american Zion: Big Love, Polygamy, and Desert Retreats”

Jette Morache, college of southern idaho“through Desert Bedrock: the Big Wood River”

9B Literary Potpourri IIIPavilion E chair: troy stoddard, utah state university

troy stoddard, utah state university “Walking with Hemingway: creating identity through tourism”

Jacqueline Megow, oklahoma state university“‘Hold on to your pants; they’re slipping’: the Hollywood Western Parody and Gender”

9C Readings by Mary Clearman Blew and Susanne George BloomfieldPavilion B Mary clearman Blew, university of idaho “Remember”

susan George Bloomfield, university of nebraska, Kearney “on the Line”

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Friday 4–5 p.m. Pavilion a

Reading by Charles Johnson

Introduction by Marc C. Conner, Washington and Lee university

Friday 5–� p.m. Rotunda

Book Signing and Reception with Charles Johnson

Sponsored by the Charles Johnson Society, the Program in African-American Studies at Washington and Lee university, the Department of English at the university of Washington, Seattle, and university of Washington Press

Friday �:�5–�� p.m. Museum of Glass

WLA Awards Banquet and Dance

Including a poetry reading and book signing by Tess Gallagher

Music by the Rosewood QuartetDance music by the Swing Society

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saturday 8–9:�5 a.m. session ten

10A Willa Cather and Helen Hunt JacksonPavilion B chair: Karen Ramirez, university of colorado, Boulder

Karen Ramirez, university of colorado, Boulder“‘Maybe entertainment is the story of survival’: american indian self-Representation in the Ramona Play”

Lisa Bouma Garvelink, Kuyper college“the West as Willa cather’s sacred Ground: the song of the Lark”

anne Kaufman, Bridgewater state college“‘affectionately from us both’: Edith Lewis’s Presence in Willa cather’s Letters”

10B Agrarian use and AbusePavilion E chair: angela Waldie, university of calgary

angela Waldie, university of calgary “Reading Locally: a Literary Parallel to the �00-Mile Diet”

Randi Eldevik, oklahoma state university “From ‘Man with a Hoe’ to ‘the country caesar’: Edwin Markham, Byron Herbert Reece, and the

Portrayal of agrarian Experience in american Poetry”

Matthew cella, shippensburg university “When threshers attack: agrarian violence and Land use in Western Literature”

Elizabeth J. Wright, the Pennsylvania state university “can Wal-Mart Make You Pregnant?: Middle-class consumption and infertility in Ruth ozeki’s

My Year of Meats”

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10C Sherman Alexie: GeographiesCenter chair: Patrice Hollrah, university of nevada, Las vegas

Jennifer Ladino, creighton university “‘a Limited Range of Motion?’: Multicultural seattle and spatial Mobility in sherman alexie’s

Ten Little Indians”

Dagmar stuehrk scharold, university of Houston, Downtown “construing and constructing the Paranormal in sherman alexie’s Indian Killer”

Lindsey claire smith, oklahoma state university “images of the city in the Works of sherman alexie”

Linda Palen Ruzich, university of nevada, Reno “‘Flight of Fancy’: violence and Reclamation in sherman alexie’s Flight”

10D Weathering the West: Creative ReadingsPavilion F chair: Beverly conner, university of Puget sound

Gwendolyn cash James, columbia Basin college “Prior claim” and other poems

Joli sandoz, the Evergreen state college creative nonfiction from Weathering, a book in progress

Randy White, Writer “a Land as Far away From My Home, as Heaven”

Diane Bush, utah state university “the secret canyon”

10E Intertextualities: Connection and RecoveryNorth chair: cheryll Glotfelty, university of nevada, Reno

cheryll Glotfelty, university of nevada, Reno “Daring acts of Literary Recovery: Lawrence i. Berkove and the sagebrush school”

Rajalekshymy achath, utah state university “Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, susan Ward, thomas Hudson, Wallace stegner, and

ambiguous Relationships”

tamas Dobozy, Wilfrid Laurier university “charles D’ambrosio in Philipsburg”

Rod Rice, south Dakota school of Mines and technology “Grotesques on the Plains: Wright Morris’s The Works of Love and the influence of sherwood

anderson”

10F Rivers, Oceans, Plains: Hemingway, London, and McCarthySouth chair: Edgar H. thompson, Emory and Henry college

Edgar H. thompson, Emory and Henry college “no country for People Period: Ernest Hemingway, cormac Mccarthy, and the Rest of us in the

Big two-Fisted West”

Hisayuki Hikage, Reitaku university “Jack London and Water”

tara Hembrough, oklahoma state university “Man’s need for companionship and Romantic Love: Homoeroticism and Failed Heterosexuality

in Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain”

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saturday 9–�0 a.m. coffee Break (Pavilion Prefunction)

saturday 9:�0–�0:45 a.m. session Eleven

11A Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land (Session II)Pavilion F chair: Hal crimmel, Weber state university

Lisa slappey, Rice university “the Bayou and the ship channel: Finding Place and Building community in Houston, texas”

Paul J. Lindholdt, Eastern Washington university “Gifts and Misgivings in Place”

Ray Winter, university of california, Merced “Fusing Horizons: Preservational Persuasion in the Phenomenological Reception of John Muir’s

My First Summer in the Sierras”

11B What Lodges in the Heart: Creative ReadingsPavilion B chair: Liz stephens, the ohio state university

Liz stephens, the ohio state university “that’s a Wrap: attempts toward summarizing the Entire West, and the Fruitlessness of trying”

christina Robertson, Great Basin institute “What Lodges in the Heart”

naveed Rehan, university of alberta“Bozeman—a Place to Heal”

theresa Heflin Bacon, tarrant county college, northwest campus “a Florida Girl’s Love affair with Robinson Jeffers’ Rocky california coastline: to [Big] sur with Love”

11C Pacific Northwesterners: Kesey, Snyder, and H.L. DavisCenter chair: Linda Lizut Helstern, north Dakota state university

Linda Lizut Helstern, north Dakota state university“Fossil Love, carbon Footprint: Gary snyder in the Post-natural Moment”

stephen cooper, troy university“‘Reflected through cobwebs from an attic window’: narrative Point of view in Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion”

Michael velez, university of nevada, Las vegas“From Burnt River to shoestring valley: careful Homesteading in H.L. Davis’ oregon novel Honey in the Horn”

teresa Ryan, university of nevada, Reno “the trouble with Paradise: Eden and the Failure of Environmental Discourse”

11D “What’s in it for me?”: Emerging Writers and the Craft of Raymond CarverPavilion E chair: Ron McFarland, university of idaho

Dan Berkner, university of idaho

todd imus, university of idaho

Jeff Lepper, university of idaho

Kendall sand, university of idaho

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11E Speaking the Silences in Me: Constructing Literary Narratives of Race and SexualityPavilion A chair: noreen Lape, columbus state university Linda trinh Moser, Missouri state university “silences and Gaps in asian american Literary History: teaching onoto Watanna’s Me: A Book of

Remembrance”

noreen Lape, columbus state university “Reading Roger Hamilton and speaking the unspeakable”

Kristin taylor, columbus state university“Exposing the sexual Predator: My conversations with nora ascough”

Beth Keefauver, university of tennessee, Knoxville “Damsels in Drag: Female Masculinity and Heroic Performance in the Frontier narratives of

caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnham”

11F Northwest Writers/Writing the NorthwestNorth chair: Beth Kalikoff, university of Washington tacoma

Mark Walhout, seattle Pacific university “Jonathan Raban’s seattle”

Robert Bennett, Montana state university “the Pacific northwest sublime: Garage Rock, Grunge, and the Literature of sherman alexie and

chuck Palahnuik”

Florence amamoto, Gustavus adolphus college “Waking up in Washington: Dreaming and awakening in John okada’s No-No Boy and Momoko

iko’s Gold Watch”

Robert c. Lyon, Retired, Bellevue, Washington “From Bellingham Bay to okanogan: the Historical struggle for today’s Easy Passage across the

Gorgeous north cascades Highway in the Works of Joann Roe”

11G Sarah Winnemucca, Mourning Dove, and Luther Standing BearSouth chair: ann Lundberg, northwestern college

nicole tonkovich, university of california, san Diego “Performing authenticity: sarah Winnemucca in san Francisco”

Kyhl Lyndgaard, university of nevada, Reno“sarah Goes to Washington”

Kerry Fine, university of Montana “Place and identity, a numinous Mixture”

Peter L. Bayers, Fairfield university“Luther standing Bear, Lakota Masculinity, and Resistance to Euroamerica”

saturday �0:45–��:45 a.m. Pavilion a

WLA Business MeetingPresentation of the Willa Pilla Award

saturday �2:�0 p.m. sheraton, lobby entrance

Buses leave for Seattle day trip

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Deb and Edith Wylder Award Outstanding service to the WLA

�99� Helen stauffer�994 George F. Day�995 Glen a. Love�99� thomas J. Lyon�997 Jim Maguire�998 Barbara Meldrum�999 ann Ronald2000 James c. Work200� susan J. Rosowski2002 stephen tatum200� Robert thacker2004 Melody Graulich2005 Gerald Haslam 200� Phyllis Doughman2007 Laurie Ricou

J. Golden Taylor AwardBest essay submitted to the WLA conference by a graduate student

�98� Linda a. Hughson-Ross�987 cheryl Burgess Glotfelty�988 nancy cook�989 nathaniel Lewis�99� Evelyn i. Funda�994 David Mazel�995 Phil coleman-Hull�99� Wes Mantooth�997 Jonathan Pitts�998 anne L. Kaufman�999 Jenny Emery Davidson2000 Jenny Emery Davidson 200� virginia Kennedy2002 Laurie clements Lambeth200� Matthew R. Burkhart2004 ianina arnold2005 John Gamber 200� angela Waldie2007 Patrick Gleason

Thomas J. Lyon Book Award Outstanding book in western American literary criticism �998 andrew Elkins, The Great Poem of

the Earth: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril

�999 tom Pilkington, State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture

2000 susan J. Rosowski, Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature

200� Gary scharnhorst, Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West

2002 James M. cahalan, Edward Abbey: A Life200� audrey Goodman, Translating

Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region

2004 nathaniel Lewis, Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship

2005 stephanie LeMenager, Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States

200� David Dorado Romo, Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893–1923

2007 John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture

Frederick Manfred AwardBest creative writing submission to the conference

200� Lee ann Roripaugh2002 Michael L. Johnson200� Laurie clements Lambeth2004 terre Ryan200� Russ Beck2007 Joshua Dolezal

WEstERn LitERatuRE assoication aWaRD WinnERs

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

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Don D. Walker AwardBest essay published in western American

literary studies

�979 Jarold Ramsey�980 Forrest G. Robinson�98� anthony Hunt�982 Richard slotkin�98� Robert Roripaugh�984 Melody Graulich�985 William Lemon�98� Margery Fee�987 Roger stein�990 Lee clark Mitchell�99� Glen a. Love�992 Roxanne Rimstead�99� annette Kolodny�994 susan Lee Johnson�995 stephen tatum�99� susan K. Bernardin�997 Gary scharnhorst�998 Forrest Robinson�999 Krista comer2000 chadwick allen200� susan Kollin2002 victoria Lamont200� susan scheckel2004 stephanie LeMenager2005 susan K. Bernardin 200� Janet Dean2007 stephen tatum

Louis Owens AwardGraduate Student presenters contributing most

to cultural diversity in WLA

200� Elixabete ansa-Goicoechea200� Jennifer J. clark2007 naveed Rehan

Susan J. Rosowski AwardOutstanding teaching and mentoring

WEstERn LitERatuRE assoication aWaRD WinnERs

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

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28 Western Literature association 42nd annual conference

inDEx

abbott, Keith Kumasen 7Eachath, Rajalekshmy �0Eadkison, Jennifer Dawes

2aaldrich MacBain, tiffany

2Hallen, chadwick �Bamamoto,Florence ��Faranda Jr., Jose �H

Bacon, theresa Heflin ��BBaker, Elizabeth B. 5GBalaev-satterlee, Michelle

8cBarlow, candace 5EBayers, Peter L. ��GBeck, Russ �cBennett, Robert ��FBennion, John �cBergman, chuck 2EBerkner, Dan ��DBernardin, susan �EBinder, Pam special

session iiiBintrim, timothy 5GBishop, James 7HBlew, Mary clearman �D,

9cBloomfield,

susanne George �D, 9c

Boardman, Kathleen a. 7GBold, christine 5HBovey, seth 8EBracewell, connie �FBraden, allen 8aBremmer, Jessica 2cBriggs, Matt 4BBrown, Bernadette 2FBrumfield, amy 2aBurkhart, Matt �BBush, Diane �0DBush, Lyall special session

iii

campbell, neil �Dcarman, Brittney 4Ecarriker, Robert special

session iicarroll, Michael �Fcarter, Erik t. 7G

case, Margot 8Ecella, Matthew �0Bchandler, Gena E. 8Dchilton, Eric �Gchristoph, Julie nelson2Echisum, Jeffrey5Fclere, sarah 5Gconner, Beverly 2B, �0Dconner, Marc c. 7d, 8Dcook, Barbara 5acook, nancy 4Dcook, stephen �Bcooper, stephen ��ccoughlin, steven 5ccoyle, stacy Gillett �Ecremean, David �ccrimmel, Hal 8F, ��acrockett, carrie 7Ecyree, Kyle 2F

Dahlberg, sandra L. 5DDavies, John �Fde Kanter, cassandra

Mathias �Bde Kanter, Jason 4DDeringer, Ludwig 8BDoane, Margaret 8cDobozy, tamas �0EDolezal, Josh �cDollar, Jerry 4FDonahue, John �FDonahue, Peter 4BDooley, Patrick K. 7B

Egan, Ken 8BEldevik, Randi �0BElliott, angela 2DElliott, scott 7aEngel, Len 5F, �GEtulain, Richard Plenary

Fatzinger, amy �HFine, Kerry ��GFlora, Joseph M. �G, 7BFormisano, Paul �EFunda, Evelyn 4c, 7a

Garofalo, Gitana special session iii

Garvelink, Lisa Bouma �0a

Gatlin, Jill �aGayton, Erin 2aGercken, Becca 7cGermeck, Karl �GGleason, Patrick �FGleason, William 7D, 8DGlotfelty, cheryll �0EGorman, Michael 5EGourlie, John M. �HGraulich, Melody �E, �D,

4cGriesbach, Daniel �HGriffin, Gwen �a,

special session iGundersen, Kristina 8GGustke, charmion 7BHafen, Jane

special session iHamilton, amy t. 5DHamilton, Patrick �cHamrick, Jonathan 2cHandley, William 2cHarris, Jacqueline �DHarris, Richard 7BHawley, Hilary 7GHeimburger, Matthew �HHeldrich, Philip 4BHelstern, Linda Lizut ��cHembrough, tara �0FHeyne, Eric 5aHikage, Hisayuki �0FHillard, tom J. �FHilliard, Lyra �BHokom, Matt 7BHollrah, Patrice �0c,

special session iHolmes, catherine 2aHunt, alex 5aHunt, Richard 8EHutson, Richard 8G

imus, todd ��D

James, Gwendolyn cash �0D

Johannesen, Danielle �aJohnson, Georgia 7cJohnson, Janis �E, 7cJohnson, Michael K. iHJohnson, Michael L. 5BJohnson, Phillip David 5E

Johnson, Rochelle 8F

Kalikoff, Beth 2B, ��FKarell, Linda K. �BKaufman, anne 2a, �0aKaufman, Rona 2EKeefauver, Beth ��EKnickerbocker, scott 5FKogan, Jackie Pugh 2BKopp, David c. 2DKupinse, William J. 7FKuroki, Mikage 4D

Ladino, Jennifer �0cLagayette, Pierre special

session iiLamont, victoria 5H, �DLampman, E. annie 4ELang, susan �aLang, William

special session iiLape, noreen ��ELensing, George �BLepper, Jeff ��DLewis, nathaniel �GLindholdt, Paul J. ��aLocklin, Gerald �cLong, David 8aLove, Glen PlenaryLundberg, ann ��GLundstrom, Kacy �aLynch, tom 5DLyndgaard, Kyhl ��GLyon, Robert c. ��F

MacBain, tiffany aldrich 2H

MacDonald, Bonney �GMacFarlane, scott 8cMadinabeitia, Monika �cMaher, susan n. �FMaier, Kevin 5GMarquiss, twister �cMason, travis 5EMathes, Jerry 8EMatsunaga, Kyoko 2DMay, ashley 2FMcFarland, Ron �E, ��DMcFarland, sarah �HMcWilliams, Jim 7DMegow, Jacqueline 9B

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inDEx

Meldrum, Barbara PlenaryMendelkow, Jacoba �DMerten, Jennilyn 9aMiller, Kevin 8aMiller, susan cummins �aMitchell, Douglas �EMogen, David 8GMonsma, Brad 8FMoore, David 7cMorache, Jette 9aMoran, Kathleen 2GMorris, David copeland

5BMoser, Linda trinh ��EMyhren, Brett 2c

nash, William 7Dnelson, Muriel 7Fnelson, nancy owen �anicandri, David special

session iinimura, tamiko 4a

o’connell, nicholas 4Bolafson, Robert B. �Dolowin, Ron �Gostrom, Hans 7Foverall, Keri �E

Palmer, christine 2GPalmer, Daryl W. �BPalmer, Jeanette �DPearson, carmen 4GPerez, vincent �HPeterson, David �FPierce, Pamela �FPlevin, arlene 5aPowell, Jennifer 2FPrentiss, sean 5cPrice, John 8FPutnam, ann special

session iii

Quick, Ben 5cQuigley, Peter �G Raglon, Rebecca 8GRamirez, Karen �0aRankin, Margit special

session iiiRehan, naveed ��B

Reis, ashley Elaine 7FReynolds, sharon �HRice, Rod �0ERich, susan 8aRicketts, Jeremy Ryan 4DRicou, Laurie Plenary, 4cRio, David �cRoberts, christina �FRobertson, christina ��BRobertson, colin �GRobertson, Jaime �GRomines, ann �BRonald, ann �aRoss, Linda �HRothman, David 5BRudnick, Lois 4GRutford, Yvonne �aRuzich, Linda Palen �0cRyan, teresa ��c

salzer, Maureen 2Hsand, Kendall ��Dsandoz, Joli �0Dscanlan, Patrick �ascharnhorst, Gary �c, 8Bscharold, Dagmar stuehrk

�0cscheese, Don 5Dschleitwiler, vince 4aschweninger, Lee 2Dscott, David �Eselzer, Linda 7Dshearer-cremean,

christine 7asheets, nicole 4Gsheffield, Derek 8ashively, steven B. �Bsickels, Robert 4Esimonson, Harold Plenarysinor, Jennifer 2Esisson, sarah �Dslagle, Jefferson D. 5Hslappey, Lisa ��asloane, sarah Jane 2Bsmith, christine Hill �Hsmith, Lindsey claire �0csolomon, J. �Fspurgeon, sara 2Fsteckline, tim 7Esteinle, Pamela �cstephens, Liz ��B

stevenson, David 4Estoddard, troy 9Bstoeckl, sarah �Dstorhoff, Gary 8Dstottlemyer, Eric M. 7Estout, Janis P. �Bstrandberg, victor �Estreamas, John 7Gsullivan, nell 7Hszabo, Lisa 4cszeghi, tereza M. �ctangey, shaunanne �Gtatum, stephen �Gtaylor, Kristin ��Etemple, Judy nolte �D, 7athacker, Robert �Bthompson, Edgar H. �0Ftodd, cody 2ctonkovich, nicole ��Gtoth, Bill 5Ftrombold, John 7Htyburski, susan J. 4G

um, Ji-Young 4aurie, Margaret 2H

velez, Michael ��cvon Glahn, Denise 4F

Waldie, angela �0BWalhout, Mark ��FWall, Drucilla �F, special

session iWarford, Elisa 8BWarner, Diane 4EWeaver, Rosalie Benoit

�aWeltzien, alan 4FWhite, Lowell Mick �cWhite, Randy �0DWilcox, Karen M. �aWilkins, Joe 5cWilliams, Jason 7HWilson, Paul �DWiltse, Ed �FWinter, Molly crumpton

�EWinter, Ray ��aWitherspoon, Wendy 8BWitschi, nicolas s. 8cWong, aliza s. 5H

Woods, Gioia �HWork, James 5BWright, Elizabeth J. �0BWright, Greg 2GWyman, Willard �a

xu, chen �B

Yang, caroline 4a

Zeff, Jacqueline �B

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WLA Conferences, Presidents, and Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

year Location President DAA Recipients

�9�� salt Lake city, utah c. L. sonnichsen vardis Fisher

�9�7 albuquerque, new Mexico Delbert E. Wylder Frederick Manfred

�9�8 colorado springs, colorado Jim L. Fife Frank Waters

�9�9 Provo, utah Morton L. Ross Walter van tilburg clark

�970 sun valley, idaho Don D. Walker Henry nash smith

�97� Red cloud, nebraska John R. Milton Harvey Fergusson, John G. neihardt

�972 Jackson, Wyoming thomas J. Lyon a. B. Guthrie Jr.

�97� austin, texas Max Westbrook Paul Horgan

�974 sonoma, california John s. Bullen Wallace stegner, J. Golden taylor

�975 Durango, colorado Maynard Fox Jack schaefer

�97� Bellingham, Washington L. L. Lee William stafford

�977 sioux Falls, south Dakota arthur Huseboe thomas McGrath

�978 Park city, utah Mary Washington Edward abbey

�979 albuquerque, new Mexico Richard Etulain Wright Morris

�980 st. Louis, Missouri Helen stauffer sophus Keith Winther, Bernice slote

�98� Boise, idaho James Maguire Dorothy Johnson

�982 Denver, colorado Martin Bucco thomas Hornsby Ferril

�98� st. Paul, Minnesota George Day n. scott Momaday

�984 Reno, nevada ann Ronald Gary snyder

�985 Fort Worth, texas Gerald Haslam William Eastlake, américo Paredes

�98� Durango, colorado tom Pilkington Benjamin capps, Don D. Walker

�987 Lincoln, nebraska susan J. Rosowski Larry McMurtry, thomas J. Lyon

�988 Eugene, oregon Glen Love Ken Kesey, Max Westbrook

�989 coeur D’alene, idaho Barbara Meldrum ivan Doig, Mildred R. Bennett

�990 Denton, texas Lawrence clayton Elmer Kelton

�99� Estes Park, colorado James c. Work ann Zwinger

�992 Reno, nevada Joseph Flora Louise Erdrich

�99� Witchita, Kansas Diane Quantic tony Hillerman

�994 salt Lake city, utah stephen tatum James Welch, Wayne chatterton,

�995 vancouver, British columbia Laurie Ricou Robert Kroetsch

�99� Lincoln, nebraska susanne K. George tillie olsen

�997 albuquerque, new Mexico Gary scharnhorst Rudolfo anaya

�998 Banff, alberta Robert thacker Rudy Wiebe

�999 sacramento, california Michael Kowalewski James D. Houston, Gerald Haslam

2000 norman, oklahoma Robert Murray Davis Joy Harjo

200� omaha, nebraska susan naramore Maher Patricia Hampl, Roderick nash

2002 tucson, arizona Judy nolte temple annette Kolodny, alberto Rios

200� Houston, texas Krista comer sandra cisneros, saldívar Family

2004 Bozeman, Montana susan Kollin Mary clearman Blew, thomas King

2005 Los angeles, california William R. Handley Gerald vizenor, Joan Didion

200� Boise, idaho tara Penry terry tempest Williams2007 Tacoma, Washington Ann Putnam Sherman Alexie

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