Dear REED and PERFORM Members, I am trying to put together the Spring 2009 MRDS Newsletter, and, as usual, I need your help. Please send news of publications, upcoming events, etc. to ma asap. As you probably know, the MRDS site, including the newsletter, has moved to the eServer at Iowa State. (Great thanks to Gloria Betcher and Jessie Hurlbut for this.) You can visit it at http://mrds.eserver.org/. To see the newsletter, just click on the Newsletter tab. I am still learning the ins and outs of the rather powerful software on the site, so please bear with me as we move ahead. One positive note is that you can find a handy list of MRDS sessions as well as other sessions and papers of in interest for the international Congress in Kalamazoo on the Spring 2009 Newsletter-in-Progress. I hope to hear from you soon. All the Best, Gerard PS Please reply to me directly ([log in to unmask]) rather than replying to the entire list. Gerard NeCastro MRDS Newsletter Secretary and sometimes Professor of English Chair, Arts & Letters Division University of Maine at Machias 4 Kimball Hall 9 O'Brien Avenue Machias, ME 04654 207-255-1293 [log in to unmask]