Winter '08 Welcome & MELUS Announcements

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IMPORTANT MELUS ANNOUNCEMENTS:

22nd Annual MELUS Conference March 27-30, 2008 The Blackwell Hotel & Conference Center The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

MELUS: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.Conference Theme: Towards a Confluence of Multi-Ethnic Arts and the University

Confirmed Speakers: Luis Rodriguez, Jr., will give a reading and workshop on Thursday, March 27, 2008. Rodriguez is the author of Music of the Mill: A Novel, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., and The Republic of East L.A.: Stories, among other works of poetry and prose.The plenary address will be given jointly by Monica Brown and Guisela Latorre. Brown, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, is the author of Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives (U of Minnesota P, 2002) and the award-winning author of numerous multicultural children’s books. To learn more about Brown, visit http://www.monicabrown.net/. Latorre, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at The Ohio State University, is the author of Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California (forthcoming, U of Texas P).

All presenters, chairs, and respondents must be members of MELUS. Membership information can be found on the MELUS website: http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus/. All membership registration must go directly to MELUS, not the conference organizers. Hotel rooms have been set aside at The Blackwell Hotel & Conference Center, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, Ohio 43210, Phone: 614-247-4000, Toll Free: 866-247-4003, Fax: 614-247-4040, http://theblackwell.com/. Mention “MELUS Conference” for the conference rate.

The Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) is served by a number of airlines, including Air Canada, American, Continental, Delta, JetBlue, Midwest Connect, Northwest, Skybus, Southwest, United, and US Airways.

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MELUS Executive Committee Meeting
MLA Convention Chicago, Illinois
December 28, 2007
Embassy Suites Hotel

Convened: 10am

Present: Martha Cutter, Fred Gardaphe (Interim President), Wenxin Li, JoAnne Ruvoli, Derek Royal, , Jose Torres-Padilla.

1. President’s Report: Fred Gardaphe accepted interim appointment as President of MELUS.

2. Treasurer’s Report: Financial situation of organization is strong. See attached report.

3. MELUS Journal: See attached report; below are highlights.

3.1 Editor, Martha Cutter, reports that submissions are up and the acceptance rate was 10% for past year, slightly more selective than previous year (17%).

3.2 Subscriptions are generally up from 761 to 939, a 23 % increase, although library subscriptions are down.

3.3 Cutter proposes that Veronica Makowsky, former Editor of MELUS, receive a lifetime membership for her work as the journal’s editor. EC approved this motion unanimously.

3.4 EC approved $500 a year to pay graduate student to assist Book Review Editor, Betsy Huang. Prof. Huang’s institution will pay the other half of salary.

3.5 Cutter reported decrease in library subscriptions has to do with EBSCO’s “moving wall.”
EC decided to revisit issue after a year to see if subscriptions increase.

4. Programs

4.1 MELUS was represented in all relevant major literary conferences during the year, including two panels at the MLA.

4.2 In 2008, the organization will also have a panel in the 20th Century Literature Conference.

4.2 Two panels scheduled for the 2008 ALA Conference: one titled, “Immigrant Acts”: Homeland, Alienation and Citizenship in Multiethnic Literature; and the second is open.

4.3 Li will look into possible participation at American Studies Association conference.

4.4 Brigham Young University did not work out for 2009. Washington State University has stated its commitment to host the 2009 conference in conjunction with the Get Lit Literary Festival, usually convened in April. EC recommended that they submit a formal proposal with details before granting approval.

4.5 Gardaphe and Li will contact Program Committee at Ohio State to touch base on 2008 conference.

4.6 Two names proposed for Achievement Award: Juan Bruce Novoa and Gerald Vizenor.

5. Membership

5.1 Memberships are up significantly from previous year. See attached report.

5.2 After discussion, EC approved motion that any membership payment received after September 1 will be for the upcoming year.

6. Graduate Students

6.1 Panel proposal submitted and approved for the 2008 conference on the film, Shattering the Silence: The Case of Minority Faculty. Ruvoli has proposed this as a double session, one for the screening of the film, and the other for the respondent panel.

6.2 EC charged special committee, comprised of Gardaphe, Cutter and Long, to decide winners of travel award ($250) which goes to two graduate students presenting at the annual conference.

6.2 EC approved to denote said award as “The President’s Award.”

6.3 Ruvoli reported that a call for applications has been written and will be sent to graduate students soon.

7. Website

7.1 Ruvoli reports that the MELUS website has undergone several updates including the Announcement Page, the Officers Page, which now has a link to past presidents, and journal Editor Emeritus.

7.2 Still needs to be done: ongoing archival information. It has been a slow process gathering past conference programs and names of past awards winners.

8. Old Business

8.1 EC will review the approved election guidelines one more time to see if it is ready to submit to membership for approval.

8.2 Gardaphe will inquire into status of ACEE.

9. New Business

9.1 EC will review Constitution and By-Laws to see if revision is needed regarding succession to Presidency.

9.2 EC will also consider eliminating term limits for Treasurer.

Adjourned: 11:18

Respectfully submitted by

José L. Torres-Padilla
Secretary

Membership Chair’s Report & Agenda Items
Prepared by Derek Parker Royal, December 2007

Reports, Accomplishments, and Issues since MELUS Conference in March

Ø Year end membership numbers are up 28.15% from what they were in 2006. This is a significant increase in membership, especially given the fact that last year this time we were down 6.75% from 2005. (see separate sheet with membership statistics)

Ø As of December 25, we already have 89 members for 2008
o Of that number, 35 have joined since 1 November, 53 are lifetime members, and 1 is institutional members
o At this time in 2006, we had 145 members joining for 2007

Ø Last printing of the MELUS brochure was March 2007. We printed 200, and we have distributed them at various conferences (e.g., MELUS, ALA, 20th-Century Literature and Culture, MLA). We still have about a third of those left over for future use.

Ø In May 2007 I designed a bookmark with the MELUS logo as well as organizational and journal information. We had 1000 of them printed up at Color It Printing. They cost just under $200. It is my belief that this is a much more cost effective means of reaching members than the brochures.

Ø Membership and the MELUS Web page
o No membership complaints on the Website. It’s always up-to-date and useful to members. Thanks JoAnne!
o I’ve updated the membership application for 2008

Ø Membership and the Annual Conference
o The 2007 annual conference was a complete success in terms of MELUS membership. I experienced almost no problems with member concerning this conference. Lok Chua went out of his way to make sure that everyone understood that conference registration and MELUS membership should be handled separately.
o I believe that most of our increase in membership for 2007—including early membership numbers beginning in late 2006—was due to the outstanding job Lok Chua and everyone at CSU-Fresno did in advertising the conference.
o Over the past few months I have been in contact with Frederick Aldama and Anne Langendorfer about the 2008 conference. I have asked them to work with me on making sure that attendees at the conference know that MELUS membership and conference fees go to two different places. I have also offered any support they might need regarding current membership information. In early fall I had to contact them about the conference CFP, since many members were contacting me asking about that information, which was as yet unavailable.

Ø Since 2005, waiving or reducing conference fees for graduate students significantly increased membership numbers. Once again, I recommend that we continue this practice, if the option continues to be financially feasible.

Ø Questions and topics for discussion (carried over from March 2007 EC meeting):
o Do we want to resurrect the possibility of a MELUS Membership Directory?
o Concerning 2009 MELUS officer elections:
§ Should we begin making plans for developing means of online voting, or stick with paper/mail-in ballots?
§ We should begin establishing an outside body of MELUS members (including at least one past EC member) to coordinate the 2009 elections.


MELUS Treasurer’s Report, December 2007
MELUS Board Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (MLA)
December 28, 2007

• Funds reported on last financial statement, March 2007 = $68,691.74

Transactions since last statement

• Deposits, Credits = $11,426.25
• Checks = 6639.00
• Paypal (minus fees of 3%) = 2931.08
• Dividends and interest income = 1856.17
• Debits = $1,829.02
• 5 MELUS reimbursement checks = $1,000.00
• MLA Board Dinner (Marie Callendar) = 171.00
• Brochures and Printing = 658.02

Amounts in Current Accounts

• Orrstown Bank (.10%) = 9,077.91
• ING Direct Savings (4.5%) = 20,154.50
• ING CD’s (5%, 4.25%) = 47,049.18
• Paypal (4.6%) = 2,007.38

Total assets 12/21/2007 = $78,288.97

Respectfully submitted by Kim Martin Long

Statements available upon request.

Winter '08 - Call for Papers

Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies
Trujillo, Trauma, Testimony: Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and other writers on Hispaniola; Edited by Marta Caminero-Santangelo (University of Kansas) and Roy C. Boland Osegueda (La Trobe University)

Antipodas invites the submission of original papers dealing with literary representations of the era of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930-61, for a special issue: "Trujillo, Trauma, Testimony." Manuscripts which consider the novels In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat, either singly or in comparison with each other, are especially welcome, as are approaches which employ theories of cultural and historical trauma or of the testimonio genre. Discussions of other literary texts and testimonios representing Trujillo's dictatorship, including the 1937 massacre at his orders of Haitians within the Dominican-Haitian border, are also invited.

Articles should be submitted via email as an attachment. Use the title of your paper as the file name of the attachment. A cover letter containing the author’s name, full postal address and e-mail address is required. The format must be in accordance with the standard system of the latest MLA Style Manual. The document must be in Word, Times New Roman, font size 12 (including bibliography, notes and quotes), double spaced, A4 page size with one inch (2.5cm) margins all round. Use only one space after all punctuation. Numbered superscripts and their notes must be manually typed out (do NOT use automatic endnotes or automatic footnotes). Do not use page headers. Use no special formatting and turn off any custom "style" settings. Articles should have a minimum of 4,500 words and not exceed 6,000 words (including footnotes) and can be in English, Spanish or French. Footnotes should be kept to a maximum of 10, and not exceed 5 lines each. Avoid essay-like notes that detract from the primary text. All notes must appear at the end of the article before the bibliography. Please submit articles via email attachment no later than June 30th , 2008.

Articles and requests for further information should be sent to both: camsan@ku.edu and https://outlookweb.marshall.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=808d6e34707743b9b5eb94927df29e5f&URL=mailto%3aeditor%40antipodas.com.au . Antipodas is an international, peer-reviewed publication. For further information please visit the website https://outlookweb.marshall.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=808d6e34707743b9b5eb94927df29e5f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.antipodas.com.au .

Winter '08 - News & Events

THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.) New York City, New York (New York University) May 22-24, 2008

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Sixth Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

The conference this year will feature plenary sessions on New York and Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Law and Minorities. Plenarists include,

Arlene Davila, New York University, author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City, and Latinos, Inc., The Marketing and Making of a People

Rosemary Coombe, Law, Communications and Cultural Studies, York University, author of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, and "Legal Claims to Culture in and Against the Market"

Janet Jacobsen, Columbia, author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics, and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance

Jasbir Puar, Women's and Gender Studies and Geography, Rutgers University, author of "On Torture: Abu Ghraib," and "Queer Times, Queer Assemblages."

Neil Smith, CUNY Graduate Center, author of American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, and The Endgame of Globalization.

The conference will continue to host last year's highly successful "salon" panels by major cultural studies journals. Thus far, the following journals plan on hosting a journal salon:

Theory & Event
South Atlantic Quarterly
Boundary 2
Callaloo (special issue on Katrina and New Orleans)
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique
Rethinking Marxism
Women & Performance
Radical History Review
Signs (special issue on race/gendered logics of war and terror)
Public Culture
Critical Inquiry
Social Text

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by April 15, 2008, to be listed and participate in the program. See the registration page of the CSA conference website for details about fees at https://outlookweb.marshall.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=808d6e34707743b9b5eb94927df29e5f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.csaus.pitt.edu%2f.

Winter '08 - Job Announcements

Assistant Professor. African-American Literature, preferably with a focus on the 19th century. Tenure-line.
Ph.D. required; ABD applicants will be considered but must have the degree conferred by the time appointment begins. Candidates must have a strong teaching record and outstanding scholarly potential. The teaching assignment will include a range of undergraduate and graduate courses. 2/2 teaching load. Salary and benefits competitive. 9 month appointment per year; summer appointment possible. Position contingent upon funding. Letter, vita, writing sample not to exceed 30 pages, list of graduate courses, and dossier of recommendations to Hunt Hawkins, Chair, English Department, CPR 107, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-5550. Applications will be accepted until position filled. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. For ADA accommodations, please contact Nancy Serrano (813-974-8211 or Serrano@cas.usf.edu at least five working days prior to need. USF is an AA/EEO institution.


Assistant Professor Rhetoric/Composition and Director of Freshman Composition

Plattsburgh State University of New York invites applications for a full-timetenure-track assistant professorship in Rhetoric/Composition that includesdirectorship of the first-year composition program. Start date: fall 2008. Earned doctorate by appointment date. Ideal candidates will have English Ph.D. in Rhetoric/Composition or related field with teaching and someadministrative experience, especially in the areas of placement testing,assessment, and mentoring composition faculty. WAC/WID useful. Secondaryinterest is open but could include writing, literature and English Education. 2/2 teaching load with compensated summer responsibilities. Teachingfirst-year writing and other courses commensurate with expertise, includingGeneral Education and upper-division courses. University service andscholarship in rhetoric/composition required.SUNY College at Plattsburgh is an equal opportunity employer committed toexcellence through diversity.Review of applications begins November 5 and continues until the position isfilled. Original transcripts will be required prior to the start ofemployment. Please submit cover letter specifically addressing this position,curriculum vitae, scholarly writing sample (as MS-WORD document and/or hardcopy), and three letters of reference to Chair, Search Committee (PJ# 4853),c/o Human Resource Services, SUNY Plattsburgh, 101 Broad Street, Plattsburgh,NY 12901-2681.

Winter '08 - Calls for Proposals

Announcing the African American Women's Language Conference '08, March 7-8, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas.

Sponsored by Dr. Sonja L. Lanehart, Brackenridge Endowed Chair, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Panel topics include Variation in AAWL including Caribbean Languages, AAWL and Racial Identity, AAWL in/and Literature, AAWL in Education, Society, and Popular Culture.
Featured speakers include Grisel Acosta, Jennifer Bloomquist, Anne Charity, Charles DeBose, Jessica DeCuir-Gundy, Adrienne Dixson, Shelome Gooden, Lisa Green, Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Joycelyn Moody, Marcyliena Morgan, Iyabo Osiapem, Terri Pantuso, Renée Price, Jacquelyn Rahman, Elaine Richardson, Angela Rickford, Arthur Spears, Denise Troutman, and Alicia Wassink.

For more information regarding the conference, visit the conference website at http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/aawlc/AfricanAmericanLangConf08.htm or contact the conference organizer, Dr. Sonja Lanehart at (210) 458-6610, or sonja.lanehart@utsa.edu

Terri Pantuso, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of English, The University of Texas at San Antonio


The Italian-American Writers Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 62nd annual convention, held next year in Reno, Nevada, USA from October 9-11, 2008.

Submissions in any area of Italian-American writings, poetry, language, or related fields are welcome; graduate students are encouraged to submit. S ubmission Requirements: 300-word abstract. Submissions must be received by March 1, 2008. Send electronic submissions as a Word attachment to: rcote@email.arizona.edu Address print submissions to: Robert Cote Center for English as a Second Language 1100 East James E. Rogers Way P.O. Box 210024 Tucson, AZ 85721-0024 Panelists will be notified by March 15, 2008 and must secure or renew RMMLA membership by April 1, 2008. For more information, please see the RMMLA website, http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ or email Robert Cote, Panel Chair, at rcote@email.arizona.edu

-- Robert A. Cote, Ph.D. Candidate Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT); Instructional Support Specialist Center for English as a Second Language (CESL), University of Arizona (520) 626-2380

Winter '08 - New Book Announcements

EATING IDENTITIES
READING FOOD IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Wenying Xu

The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans. She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming—not simply in the sense of nourishment but, more importantly, of what we choose to eat, what we can afford to eat, what we secretly crave but are ashamed to eat in front of others, and how we eat. Food, as the most significant medium of traffic between the inside and outside of our bodies, organizes, signifies, and legitimates our sense of self and distinguishes us from others, who practice different foodways. Narrowing her scope, Xu reveals how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong) and places these identity issues in the fascinating spaces of food, hunger, consumption, appetite, desire, and orality. Asian American literature abounds in culinary metaphors and references, but few scholars have made sense of them in a meaningful way. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. Eating Identities is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Unlike most sociological studies, which center on empirical analyses of the relationship between food and society, it focuses on how food practices influence psychological and ontological formations and thus contributes significantly to the growing field of food studies. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts.

WENYING XU is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. January 2008, ISBN 978-0-8248-3195-0 208 pages, paperback, $29.00


On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University Press of Florida Cloth: $59.95 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3083-8 Pubdate: 9/30/2007

Refusing to take latinidad (Latino-ness) for granted, Marta Caminero-Santangelo lays the groundwork for a sophisticated understanding of the various manifestations of "Latino" identity. She examines texts by prominent Chicano/a, Dominican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American writers--including Julia Alvarez, Cristina García, Achy Obejas, Piri Thomas, and Ana Castillo--and concludes that a pre-existing "group" does not exist. The author instead argues that much recent Latino/a literature presents a vision of tentative, forged solidarities in the service of particular and sometimes even local struggles. She shows that even magical realism can figure as a threat to collectivity, rather than as a signifier of it, because magical connections--to nature, between characters, and to Latin American origins--can undermine efforts at solidarity and empowerment.

In the author's close reading of both fictional and cultural narratives, she suggests the possibility that Latino identity may be even more elastic than the authors under question recognize.

"From the early pages, in which Caminero-Santangelo asks us to explore stories of collective identity implicit in the social construction of Latino-ness, to the conclusion, which breaks through much of the confusion by calling on her readers to think about latinidad as commitment, Caminero-Santangelo gives us something weighty to chew on practically every page, and all of it in her smart, lucid, elegant prose."--Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University

"On Latinidad deals with complex issues in a very sophisticated, critical way. It is useful to scholars working outside the field as an introduction, not only to the background and contexts of Latino Literatures, but also to the current debates, trends, and directions in the field."--Delia M. Poey, Florida State University

Marta Caminero-Santangelo is associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. Marta Caminero-Santangelo Associate Professor, English University of Kansas (785) 864-2529 http://martacamsan.tripod.com/


DIGITIZING RACE: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Lisa NakamuraUniversity of Minnesota Press 304 pages 2007ISBN 978-0-8166-4612-8 hardcover $58.50ISBN 978-0-8166-4613-5 paperback $19.50

Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet. While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics."With Digitizing Race, Lisa Nakamura, one of the most perceptive observers of identity in the digital age, skillfully draws our attention to those taken for granted interfaces at which race and ethnicity are constituted, revealing the centrality of these techno-visual practices to contemporary political culture." —Alondra Nelson

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book’s webpage:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nakamura_digitizing.html


The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature
by Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Saez
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
ISBN: 1-4039-7796-8
$74.95
http://www.post-sixties.com

"The clear and incisive discussions about canon formation, ideologies
and the market are unprecedented and very much needed in the context of
globalization." -”Frances Aparicio, Author of Listening to Salsa

"ÂœDalleo and Machado Saez's intervention enriches the critical
discourse around the writings of U.S. Latino/a authors."-”Silvio
Torres-Saillant, Author of The Dominican Americans and An Intellectual
History of the Caribbean

In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the
post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon and the
Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature challenges the ways that Latino/a
literary studies imagines the relationship of art, politics and the
market. Dalleo and Machado Saez engage with the major critics from the
field to dispute the consensus view of Latino/a literature from the
1960s as politically committed and resistant to the market versus the
literature of the 1990s as apolitical and assimilationist due to its
commodification. This study argues that post-Sixties writers Pedro
Pietri, Ernesto Quinonez, Abraham Rodriguez, Junot Diaz, Angie Cruz,
Cristina Garcia and Julia Alvarez have not abandoned politics, but are
imagining creative strategies for revitalizing progressive thought
through the market.

Table of Contents: Sell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties
Latino/a Literature * Periodizing Latino/a Literature Through Pedro
Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes * Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties
Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction * Movin'™ on Up and Out:
Lowercase Latino/a Realism with Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz * Latino/a
Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Cristina Garcia'™s Dreaming in
Cuban * Writing in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights
Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez * New Directions: The
Post-Sixties Miami Imaginary

Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Saez are Assistant Professors of
English at Florida Atlantic University.