Reservations can now be made at the Palmer House Hilton. M/MLA members are guaranteed a special room rate of $155 for a single or double, $175 for a triple, and $195 for a quad. To secure the special rate, be sure to make your reservation by 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 15, 2006 and please mention that you will be attending the M/MLA Convention when calling the hotel's reservation line (1-877-865-5321). You can also make online reservations here: once you enter your dates to check availability and click "Go," you can enter the Group/Convention code MML to get the convention rates.

Not presenting but interested in attending?

Convention-Related Links:

• Index of sessions (with days and times of all sessions and links to abstracts)
• Convention Program
• Papers In Advance
• Forms:
  • For participants: The Membership/Pre-Registration Form (due June 1) is now online (also available as a printable .pdf document). Participants who are already 2006 members can use the Pre-Registration Form.

The M/MLA warmly thanks our co-sponsor:

Loyola University Chicago
Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the College of Arts and Sciences

and our 2006 area co-hosts:

Ball State University, Department of Modern Languages and Classics
Central Michigan University, Department of English Language and Literature
Columbia College Chicago, Department of English
DePaul University, Department of Modern Languages
Eastern Illinois University, Department of English
Eastern Michigan University, Department of English Language and Literature and the Journal of Narrative Theory
The Harold Pinter Society
Illinois State University, Department of English
Indiana University Bloomington, Department of English
Indiana University Kokomo, Humanities Department
Michigan State University, Department of English
Northeastern Illinois University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Northwestern University, Department of English
Roosevelt University, Department of Literature and Languages
University of Chicago, Department of English
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
University of Michigan, Department of English and LSA Departments of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota, Department of English and Department of French and Italian
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of English
University of Notre Dame, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of English and Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Department of Languages and Literatures
Valparaiso University, Department of English

Informal Convention Theme

Please feel free to print and post this flyer.

Possible topics might include:

Bridging "The Great Divide"	Camp consumption and queer
Art and craft/s	performativity
Novel to film, film to novel	Histories of high and low culture
Rhetoric and poetics	Cultural Studies
Jazz, hip hop, rock & roll, and literature	The Aesthetic of ordiary life
Slang, spanglish, and other variants in literature	Feminist Popular Culture
High middle ages, low middle ages	Vulgarity
Filming the canon	Between high and low
Fan cultures	What's lower than low?
The Wisdom of popular genres	Merchant & Ivory, Barnes & Noble,
Cultural and subcultural capital	Oprah & Faulkner
Contact zones	Strange bedfellows
Cosmopolitanism	Cultural gatekeeping
Sensationalism	Shifting technologies
Alternative public spheres	Issues of access