The 2000 SCMLA meeting will be held 9-11 November at the historic Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. Our Lady of the Lake University, Saint Mary's University, Trinity University, the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the University of Incarnate Word will host the convention, with Richard Pressman (Saint Mary's Univ.) acting as local arrangements chair and Marita Nummikoski (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio) serving as treasurer. This year's theme is Teaching Languages and Literatures: Histories, Practices, Speculations. Highlights will include plenary speaker Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press, and a reading by Latina writer Carmen Tafolla. Various special events will highlight and celebrate our work as teachers; a breakfast roundtable devoted to visual arts in the language and literature classroom will be held in conjunction with a specially arranged tour of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art.

SCMLA membership remains strong, with approximately 1,800 dues-paying members. Publications received by 2000 members include four issues of the South Central Review, summer and winter newsletters, and the San Antonio convention packet. To join SCMLA, write to Ede Hilton-Lowe, SCMLA, Dept. of English, Texas A&M Univ., College Station 77843-4227, or download a membership form from our Web site (http://www-english.tamu.edu/scmla/). Dues for joint members are $35; full professors, $30; associate and assistant professors, $25; instructors, retired professors, and graduate students, $20. The Web site features our online newsletter, which includes calls for papers, deadline and grant application information, and information on upcoming conferences.