Several McNeese State University faculty members are attending the 66th annual South Central Modern Language Association meeting in Baton Rouge Oct. 29-31. SCMLA is a regional professional organization of English and foreign languages professors from a five-state area that includes Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Dr. Joe Cash, professor of English, has been elected to a three-year term for the office of English representative on the SCMLA Executive Committee. Cash is the first professor from McNeese to ever be nominated and elected to an office of the SCMLA and will take office at the meeting.

Dr. Molly Martin, assistant professor of literature at McNeese, will present a paper at the meeting on medieval literature titled "Castles in Malory: The Architecture of Gender."

Dr. Baerbel Czennia, assistant professor of literature at McNeese, will also present a paper on 19th century British novelist Walter Scott and his postcolonial imitators at the meeting. The title of her paper is “Waverley’s Cousins in the South Pacific: History and Fiction in Maurice Shadbolt’s ‘Season of the Jew’ and Other Postcolonial Novels from New Zealand.”

Dr. Stella Nesanovich, poet and recently retired professor of English at McNeese, and McNeese graduate assistant Angelina Oberdan will be reading and discussing the work of deceased poet and McNeese professor Leo Luke Marcello at the American Italian Historical Society Meeting in Baton Rouge Oct. 29-Nov. 1.