The 1999 SCMLA meeting will be held 28–30 October at the Marriott-Downtown Hotel in Memphis. The University of Memphis, the University of Mississippi, and Rhodes College will host the convention, with Susan Fitzgerald (Univ. of Memphis) acting as local arrangements chair and Karen Raber (Univ. of Mississippi) serving as treasurer. This year's theme, Intersections, will be reflected in a record 111 regular, allied, and special sessions; highlights will include plenary speaker Ellen Douglas and a special roundtable on Reading Popular Culture.