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General Business Meeting:  Saturday, April 10, 7:00 p.m., Salon A. 

Awards given out at this meeting.


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FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2004


SALON E:  EXHIBITOR's SPACE



FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.


Hospitality Suite 618

PCA Board Meeting

Chair:  Lynn Bartholome, President, Popular Culture Association



FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.


Salon A

392       Comic Arts and Comics V:  The African Comics and Cartoon Scene

Chair: John A. Lent, Editor, International Journal of Comic Art


Move Over Tarzan, There Are African Comics: An Overview

John A. Lent


A History of Kenyan Cartooning

Patrick Gathara, Association of East African Cartoonists


How Asterix Learned Swahili: The Tanzanian Appropriation of a French Comic

Jigal Beez, Universitåt Bayreuth


Talking Health: Kenyan Cartoonsí Depiction of AIDS

Levi Obonyo, Temple University



Salon B

393           Poetry and Popular Culture III

Chair:  Michael Basinski, The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo


Le Spoken Word sur le Main: Conflicts and Confluences of Anglophone and Francophone Performance Poetry in Quebec

Corey Frost, City University of New York


The Shine on the Light Night Dial: Rock 'ní Roll's Presence in Contemporary Poetry 

Erin Keane, Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts


Poetry In and Through Rock and Roll

Cynthia Nichols, North Dakota State University


The Media Poetry of David Trinidad

Tom O'Connor, SUNY Binghamton



Salon C

394       American Indian Literatures & Cultures III: Sherman Alexie and Stephen Graham Jones

Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, SUNY Fredonia


Sherman Alexie's Transformation of "Ten Little Indians"

Margaret O'shaughnessey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


A Fancydance of Death and Personal Identity: Sherman Alexie's Vision in Story, Poem, and Film

Richard A. Sax, Madonna University


Steven Graham Jones's The Bird is Gone: A Surprising Breakthrough in American Indian Literature

Tom Matchie, North Dakota State University


Nightmare and Reality: The Novels of Stephen Graham Jones

John K. Donaldson, The George Washington University



Salon D

395       Film and Film Adaptation VIII: The Business of Movies

Chair: Neil Dryden, University of California, Santa Barbara


Ideology and Cinema: Walter Benjamin on Totalitarianism

Yuliya Salauyova, International University Bremen


Commodifying the Imperial Gaze: MGM's 1950 Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901)

Sumita Lall, University of California, Santa Barbara


The Calculus of Media Commodities: Harry Potter and the Failure of Criticism

Neil Dryden



Salon F

396       Science Fiction/Fantasy XV:  Representing Sex

Chair:  Suzanne Scott, University of Southern California


Erasing the Scars: The Implications of Magical Healing in Harry Potter Slash Fiction

Suzanne Scott


From Yeoman Janice Rand to Captain Kathryn Janeway: How Far Have We Come?

JoAnne Podis



 Salon G

397       Men's Studies I:  Violence and Masculinity

Chair:  Hartmut Heep, The Pennsylvania State University


Soft-Living Civilians and Sadistic G.I.'s: A Battleground for Manhood

during World War II

David P. Duckworth, Woodside, New York


Mystic River-Murky Flow:  Male Sexuality as Means of Dominance

Hartmut Heep


The Illustrated Aryan:  Masculinity, Ideology, and Gender Among Racist Skinheads

Robert Nill, Anti-Defamation League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


"How a Slave Was Made a Man":  Negotiating Black Violence

and Masculinity in Antebellum Slave Narratives

Sarah Roth, Widener University



Salon H

398       Memory and Representation I

Chair:  Arthur G. Neal,  Portland State University


Ghosts in the National Graveyard of Gender:  Digging up Minefields

of Masculinity in Popular Film and Independent Documentaries

Gordene MacKenzie, Merrimack College


"In God We Trust" or, the Cultural Work of the United Statesí National

Currency; an Attempt in Cultural Iconography

Heinz Tschachler, Universitåt Klagenfurt, Austria


Economic Perspectives on a Participatory Culture

Mary King, Portland State University


Contemporary Revisions of the Ned Kelly Narrative in Australian Culture

Nathanael OíReilly, Western Michigan University



Salon I

399       Circus and Circus Culture I

Chair: Robert Sugarman, Southern Vermont College


Ringling Brothers:  Cinderella in the Circus

Michael Means, University of Dayton


The Jack London Club:  The Circus and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

Janet M. Davis, The University of Texas at Austin


Strong Women and Cross-Dressed Men:  Representation of Gender by Circus Performers during the 'Golden Age of the Circus,í 1860-1930

Marcy W. Murray, Ringling Museum of Art, University of South Florida


Painter Maria Izquierdo and the Circus

Maria de Jesus Gonzalez and Jesse Sloan, University of Central Florida



Salon J

400       Composition and Rhetoric VI:  Must See Rhetoric: TV-Daytime, Sitcoms, Reality

Chair: Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Unveiling the Victim: Exploring the Reception of Rape Narrative

in Daytime Talk TV

Sara Biggs-Chaney, Indiana University


Rhetorics of Television

Kerry-Ann Brown, Florida Atlantic University


The Rhetoric of The Bachelor: (Re)Presenting Love, American Style

Jennifer Wingard, Syracuse University



Salon K

401       Mystery and Detective Fiction VII: The Series Detective II

Chair:  Lewis Moore, University of the District of Columbia


Piecing Fragments into Novels: Jill Paton Walsh's Continuation

of the Dorothy L. Sayersí Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Saga

Marty Knepper, Morningside College


Dumb Luck and Slapstick: Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum at Work

Rachel Schaffer, Montana State University at Billings


System and Self: Philosophy and Religion in John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Series and Other Fiction

Lewis Moore



Salon L

402       Gender I

Chair:  Gypsey Teague, Langston University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma


When Bobby Sang the Blues:  Song Lyrics and the Shifting Gender of the Speaker

Gloria Smith Bragg, Texas Woman's University


Staked Claims:  Female Masculinity, Nationalism, and Gender Identity Politics

Christina Borel, Simmons College, Boston


Postcolonial Theory in the Eastern-European Context:  Prose of Oksana Zabuzhko

Natalia Monakhova, National University 'Kyiv Mohyla Academyí, Kyiv, Ukraine


Herland

Nancy Nangeroni, Co-Host, GenderTalk Radio, www.gendertalk.com



Salon M

403       Teaching: Popular Culture and the Classroom III: Popular Culture In Practice in American High Schools Today

Chair:   Erik M. Walker, Plymouth (Mass.) South High School


Rendering the Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Popular Culture in High School

Steve Hilsabeck, Carolyn Grimaldi, Colby Vargas, and

Peter Tragos, New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois


The Classroom as Carnival and the Teacher as Foolosopher

A. J. Grant, Robert Morris University


Of Suicides, War, Dystopias, and Heartbreak: Having Students Study Cultural Perceptions of "Teen Angst" in Popular Culture

Erik M. Walker


  

Conference Rm. 1

404       Sea Literature I: Voyages

Chair:  Stephen Curley, Texas A&M University


We Despaired of Ever Tasting the Sweets of Liberty Again: The Rhetoric of Slavery in Barbary Captivity Narratives of the Early Republic

Daniel E. Williams, Texas Christian University


"The intolerable ennui of nothing to do, and nowhere to go": Melville's Treatment of Boredom Out at Sea in White-Jacket

Daniel Paliwoda, SUNY-Stony Brook


Competing with Hawthorne: John Lawrence's African Cruise Aboard USS Yorktown

C. Herbert Gilliland, U.S. Naval Academy


Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Juvenile Sea Literature as Captivity Narrative

Stephen Curley


  

Conference Rm. 2

405       British Popular Culture V:  Harry Potter Redux

Chair:  Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Oklahoma City Community College

  

Harry, Hogwarts, and Theories of Childhood and Pedagogy

Craig Svonkin, University of California, Riverside


It's All Greek to Harry:  The Classical Influence on Rowling and Lewis

Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside


Discussant:  Rob Watson, Grand Valley State University



Conference Rm. 3

406       Television VIII:  TV \ Wrestling

Chair:  Dustin Tahmahkera, Bowling Green State University


"If you smell what the Rock is cooking" and Other Catchphrases:  Promotional Rhetoric, Persona, and Narrative in World Wrestling Entertainment's Monday Night RAW

Dustin Tahmahkera


Wrestling With the Rules: Understanding the Cosmology of the WWE

Ernesto Cruz Caceres, University of Kansas


Trading in Heels for Boots: The Rise of Strong Female Characters in Pro Wrestling

Sam Ford, Western Kentucky University


What Television Did and Does to Sports

Louis Bosshart, University of Fribourg-Frieburg



Conference Rm. 4

407       Sports X: NASCAR II

Chair: David Thompson, Loras College


Heir to the Throne: Media's Role in Promoting Tony Stewart as the Next "Intimidator"

Michael McHugh, Loras College


Not Fast Enough, Just Furious: Driving Behaviors of NASCAR Video Game Players

Christopher Savaglio, Loras College


Kicking the Habit: NASCAR, Nextel, and a New Ear

Mark Howell, Northwestern Michigan College


Kickiní up dirt and puttiní down roots: Keith Simmons and NASCAR's Dodge Weekly Racing Series in Eastern Iowa

David Thompson



Conference Rm. 5

408       Westerns and the West V and VI:  Recasting the Western:  The Female Leads in Johnny Guitar

Chair:  John Donahue, Concordia University


A successful experiment in 2003, we will actually watch the Western Johnny Guitar in back-to-back sessions, followed by general discussion-perhaps continuing the issues of revisionist Westerns.  Bring popcorn!  Bring food!



Conference Rm. 6

409       Caribbean and Latin American Literature IV: Violence and the Sacred

Chair:  Armando González-Pérez, Marquette University


Mexican American Ghosts and Spirits

Graciela P. Rosenberg, The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College


An Obscured Thesis

Ernesto Difilippo, Eckerd College


Yoruba Rituals and Feminist Discourse in Three Afro-Cuban Plays

Armando González-Pérez



Conference Rm. 7

410       Vietnam VI:  Vietnam in Film and Fiction

Chair: Lawrence Suid, Greenbelt, Maryland


Le capitaine Conan

Alan Farrell, Virginia Military Institute


Why the Film We Were Soldiers Is Not About the Korean War

William Keelty, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

  

From Los Alamos to Saigon to Baghdad and Back Again: Examining Anadromous in Bradford Morrow's Ariel's Crossing

John Bowers, University of St. Francis, Illinois



Conference Rm. 8

411       African American Culture III: The Struggle for the Souls

of Black Folk

Chair: Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Rutgers University


Magic and Medicine: Hoodoo in Mississippi

Phoenix Savage, Nashville, Tennessee


Hoodoo as Healthcare: Destruction of the "Old Tradition"

Katrina Hazzard-Donald



Conference Rm. 9

412       European Literature and Culture

Chair:  Robert Jeantet, The University of Akron


Patriot Games: Translation, Censorship and the Representation of Modern-Day Spain

David R. Thompson, Millikin University


Putting an End to History: Michel Houellebecq and the Problem of Scientific Communitarianism

Jerry A. Varsava, University of Alberta


The Formation of Popular Perceptions of the French in American Media

Robert Jeantet



Conference Rm. 10

413       American Art and Architecture VII: Early American Art

Chair:  Phoebe Lloyd, Texas Tech University

 

The Necessity for the Death of the Indian

Phoebe Lloyd


The Other Americans: Constructions of Difference in Representations of Native American Indians

Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Clark University


"Man of a Thousand Faces:" Henry David Thoreau in Recent American Portraiture

Mark Sullivan, Villanova University



Conference Rm. 11

414       The Beat Generation and Counterculture V: The Avant-Garde,

The Wobblies, Olson and OM

Chair:  Erik Mortenson, Wayne State University


Gary Snyder's Debt to the Wobblies: A New Poetry from the Shell of the Old

Rod Philips, James Madison College, Michigan State University


Charles Olson: The Political Ego Condemned

Craig Stormont, Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College


The Decay of the Avant-Garde: William S. Burroughs, Surrealism, and the Process of Disenchantment

Davy Reggers, University of Antwerp


"Miserable Picnic, Police State, Garden of Eden"? The Chicago Democratic Convention and the Politics of OM

Erik Mortenson



Conference Rm. 12

415       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers VI

Chair: Susan Olsen, Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery


Almost Heaven: The American Rural Cemetery As Metaphor

Elisabeth Roark, Chatham College


"I will turn their mourning into joy":  Memorials of Solace and Comfort

Janet Heywood, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery


Evelyn Beatrice Longman-Cemetery Sculptor

Lee Sandstead, Montclair State University


Marvelous Mosaics

Susan Olsen



Conference Rm. 13

416       Southern Literature and Culture I:  Mothers, Religion, and Feminism: Identity in Contemporary Southern Literature

Chair:  Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota

 

Youíve come a Long Way. . . Mommy?:  Contemporary Representations

of the Southern Mother

Aimee Berger, Texas Wesleyan University

 

Sexual and Religious Reconciliation in Lee Smith's Saving Grace

Kathaleen E. Amende, Tulane University

 

The Two Sutpen Faces This Time: Clytie in the Novels of William Faulkner and George Garrett

Laura Hoffer, University of Tennessee

 

 

Conference Rm. 14

417       Journal Editors Special Session: Publish and Prosper, a Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Michael T. Marsden, Academic Vice President, St. Norbert College,

De Pere, Michigan


This session is a discussion on what it takes to be published in academic journals and the importance of getting your work out there for consideration.  Everyone is welcome to attend and graduate students are especially encouraged.  The panel of discussants consists of editors of a number of fine journals.  You won't get better advice or information than you will here!


Discussants:

Felicia Campbell, Editor, Popular Culture Review

Gary Edgerton, Editor, The Journal of Popular Film and Television

Gary Hoppenstand, Editor, Journal of Popular Culture

Kathy Merlock Jackson, Editor, Journal of American Culture

William M. Jones, Editor, Journal of American Culture

Peter C. Rollins, Editor-in-Chief, Film & History:

An Interdisciplinary Journal

James M. Welsh, Editor-in-Chief, Literature/Film Quarterly

Michael T. Marsden, Editor, The Journal of Popular Film

and Television



Conference Rm. 15

418       Children's/Young Adult Literature III:  Changing the Angle: Different Perspectives on Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chair:  Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University


Does Multicultural Mean "Hetero-Cultural"?  Examining Homosexuality in Picture Books for Children

Amy Pattee, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


Perspectives on Teen Literature: Keeping Teens Engaged through Current Popular Trends

Erin V. Helmrich, Ann Arbor District Library


High-Brow Harry Potter: Teaching JK Rowling's Series as College-Level Literature

Laura Baker Shearer, Dallas, Texas


Publishing Young Adult Fiction with a University Press: Issues and Complications

Mary Jane Hurst



Conference Rm. 16

419       Film X:  Women in Film III:  Heroines & Cultures

Chair:  Sanjukta Ghosh, Castleton State College


Production Process in The Third Man:  The Evolution of a Heroine

Greg Lyons, Central Oregon Community College


1950s Invasion Films and the Nasty Business of Baby-Making

Sam Worley, Arkansas Tech University


Frida: Frida Kahlo's and Diego Rivera's Mad Gift, A Derridean View

Roberta Imboden, Ryerson University, Toronto


Bend It Like Chadha: Accommodating the Empire in the Films of Gurinder Chadha

Sanjukta Ghosh



 Conference Rm. 17

420       Captivity Narratives IV

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Iím in Between: Redefining Identity in Accounts of Alien Abduction

Patricia Felisa Barbeito, Rhode Island School of Design


Angled Vision: La Malinche and the Captivity Narrative

Lisette Blanco-Cerda, Purdue University


Abducting Women: What Made the SLA Women Revolutionaries?

Karen Lee Boren, Rhode Island College


White Captivity as Justification of Indigenous Confinement: The Case

of Frog Lake, Western Canada, 1885

Kate Higginson, McMaster University



Conference Rm. 18

421       American Music and Culture V:  Recorded Music

as Memory, Myth, and Milestone

Chair: William L. Schurk, Sound Recordings Archivist, Jerome Library,

Bowling Green State University


Blues Technology: From Automobiles and Telephones . . . to Computers

B. Lee Cooper, Newman University


Del Shannon: The Musician as Myth Maker

Howard A. DeWitt, Ohlone College


Hiroshima Remembered in the Music of Japan and the West

Arlene Caney, Community College of Philadelphia


"Hunting the Hun": The World War I Recordings of Arthur Fields

William L. Schurk



Conference Rm. 19

422       Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics V: 

English in Special Uses

Chair:  Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings


It's a Wonderful Life: An Analysis of Language & Attitudes in the Holiday Newsletter

Pricilla Riggle, Truman State University, and

Susan Burris, & Andrea Van Vorhis, Owens Community College


For the Love of Joe: The Language of Starbucks

Constance Ruzich, Robert Morris University


The Language of Advertisement

Yousif Elhindi, East Tennessee State University


   


FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

  

Salon A

423       Comic Arts and Comics VI:  Styles and Genres

Chair: Gene Kannenberg, Jr., University of Houston Downtown


Understanding Production: The Stylistic Impact of Artisan

and Industrial Methods

Mark C. Rogers, Walsh University


Hey, Kids-Comics!: The Rhetoric of the Paratext in Fantasy Comic

Books for Children

Gene Kannenberg, Jr.


The Relationship of Verbal and Visual Narrative Structures:

The Genre Crossing of Comic Books

Jason Zahrndt, University of Louisville


Transcending Comics: Crossing the Boundaries of the Medium

in Works by Alan Moore

Annalisa Di Liddo, State University Milan




Salon B

424       Martial Arts:  What's Artistic About the Martial Arts?

Chair:   Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego


"Practice": A Series of Artworks Based on the Practice of Aikido

Belinda Peters, Photographer


The Martial Arts as a Spiritual Practice

Lyle Deiter, Northeastern State University


Romance/Sex as Action/Violence: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Jiang-Hu

Hsuehching Shih, Texas A&M University-Commerce



Salon C

425       American Indian Literatures & Cultures IV: Native Circles, Ideas, and Literature

Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, SUNY Fredonia


Significance of the Circular in American Indian Life and Thought

John Haddox, University of Texas, El Paso


Why White Men Can't Steal Indian Ideas

Lee Stauffer, New Mexico Highlands University


From Classroom to Canyon: Studying American Indian Literature Outside the Walls

Conrad Shumaker, University of Central Arkansas


"We Chose to Stay Outside": Spatialization in Black Eagle Child

Tracey Watts, University of Texas, Austin



Salon D

426       Film and Film Adaptation IX: Behind and Beyond the Silver Screen

Chair: Jodi Egerton, University of Texas


"Meet Me on the Big Screen": Guy Maddin's Dracula and the "Theatre Film"

Milan Pribisic, Millikin University


Stop Making Sense: Aesthetic Rockumentary and More?

Adam Hilton, Texas State University


The Pleasure of Craft: Film Adaptation from Prose by the Pro's

Maria Squerciati, Kutztown University


Adapting Allegory from Stage to Screen: Orpheus Descending and The Fugitive Kind

Mary Anne Chalaire, Texas A&M University -- Commerce


Beyond the Multiplex: The Alamo Drafthouse and Experiential Theatre

Jodi Egerton



Salon F

427       Science Fiction/Fantasy XVI:  Potpourri III

Chair:  Peter Goldstein, Juniata College


Robert E. Howard vs. The Desert of the Real (Conan)

Charles Hoffman, Van Nuys, California


Speak of the Dead: The Impact of the Ghostly Dead in Six Feet Under

Barbara Silliman, Providence College, University of Rhode Island


Animation as Parody in Space Ghost: Coast to Coast

Peter Goldstein



Salon G

428       Men's Studies II:  Representations of Masculinity

Chair:  Hartmut Heep, The Pennsylvania State University


Beer, Baywatch, and Homosexual Hair

Katarzyna Chmielwska, Indiana University


Do Insurance Companies Like Mensí Sexuality?

Richard Keenan, Wayne State College


Sports Medicine and Perceptions of Masculinity

Charles R. Levine, New York City, New York



Salon H

429       Dance and Culture IV: Dance Informances I: The Dance Event

Chair:  Libby Smigel, University of Maryland College Park


Participants in the Dance Field Trip on Thursday evening will be welcome to participate as panel respondents


Urban Club Dance as a Performance Event

Daniel P. Singh, University of Maryland College Park


Hip Hop as a Contemporary Popular Culture

Vanessa Jackson Johnson, The Community College of Baltimore County


Festas Junias: Dance Community in Brazil

Pegge Vissicaro, Arizona State University



Salon I

430       Circus and Circus Culture Panel II

Chair: Robert Sugarman, Southern Vermont College


The Savage East in the Wild West: Buffalo Bill's Reenactment of the Boxer Uprising

John R. Haddad, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg


From the Backyard to the Backlot: The Circus as Hollywood Star

Mort Gamble, Fairmont State College


Reconstructing the Big Show in Miniature: Circus Toys and Models

Catherine A. Wilkins, University of Minnesota


Towards an Aesthetic of the Circus

Robert Sugarman




Salon J

431       Motorcycle Culture and Myth V:  Images and Icons

Chair: Sputnik Strain, Texas Motorcycle Rights Association


Cowboys with Chrome Horses

William Graham Carrington, poet, writer, storyteller


Biker: The Organizing of an American Icon

Jennifer Bratyanski, University of Alabama


The Motorcyclist as Primitive

Steven E. Alford, Nova Southeastern University


The "Pale-Faced Ali": Evel Knievel, Backlash, and the Search for the "Great" White Hope

Randy D. McBee, Texas Tech University



Salon K

432       Mystery and Detective Fiction VIII: The Perceiver and the Perceived in Detective Fiction

Chair:  Jim Pierson, Calif. State University at San Bernardino


Earl Derr Biggers's Charlie Chan: Antithesis of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Christiane Luehrs, Fort Hays State University, and

Robert Luehrs, Fort Hays State University


Paula M. Woods Reads Paula L. Woods

Paula Woods, Baylor University


The Indigenous Point of View in American and Australian Mystery Novels

Jim Pierson



Salon L

433       Gender II

Chair:  Gypsey Teague, Langston University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma


But What About Ty and Pete?:  Agrarianism, Patriarchy and the Plight of the Masculine in A Thousand Acres

Susanne Stahl, Creighton University, Nebraska


The Real Monster in the House:  Demolishing Gender Myths With Discovery Channel's Monday Night Lineup

Cynthia Burkhead, University of North Alabama


Gender Construction and Uncle Tom's Cabin

Tracey Colvin, Loyola Marymount University


It'll Pass:  NYPD Blue's Sipowicz and Adaptive Masculinites

Marc Ouellette, McMaster University



Salon M

434       Southwestern Literature

Chair:  Steve Davis, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos


"Kindred Spirits": John Graves and Texas Monthly

Cory Lock, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas


Texas Literary Outlaws

Steve Davis



Conference Rm. 1

435       Sea Literature II:  The Romantic Element

Chair:  Stella Thompson, Prairie View A&M University


The Unromantic Sailor: Dana's Two Years Before the Mast

Gerald Concannon, Massachusetts Maritime Academy


"A fine beginning of a romance with a shipwreck": Maria Edgeworth's Patronage and the Ethic of Independence

Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University


Sea Sand and Ebb Tide: The Solitudes of Self and Other

Stella Thompson



Conference Rm. 2

436       British Popular Culture VI:  Religion, Power, Fiction and Film

Chair:  Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside


Jane Austen's Clergy in Fiction and Film

Betsy Watson, Davenport University


Serve Tea and Serve God or Serve Thyself:  Religion and Power in British Women Writers Between the Wars

Marcia Duncan, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences


The Heyday of the British Anglicans: Use of Film for Religious Purposes, 1930-1939

Dean Rapp, Wheaton College


Discussant:  John Greenfield, McKendree College



Conference Rm. 3

437       Television IX:  Reality TV

Chair:  June Deery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Reality TV and Commercial Culture

June Deery


Ceiling Fans and Spray-Painted Couches: Hyperreality and Theatricality in Trading Spaces

Katherine Casey-Sawicki, University of Florida


As real as you can get: An Analysis of Viewers, an Understanding of Reality Television

Lisa Joniak Athearn, University of North Florida



Conference Rm. 4

438       Sports XI: Baseball II

Chair:  Yasue Kuwahara, Northern Kentucky University


A Fenway Almanac

Susan Cottler, Westminster College


Yogiisms and Stengelese: Baseball's Gifts to American English

Roger MacDonald, Saint Mary's University


Ichiro, Godzilla, and American Dream: Japanese Players in the Major League Baseball

Yasue Kuwahara



Conference Rm. 5

439       Westerns and the West V and VI:  Recasting the Western:  The Female Leads in Johnny Guitar

Chair:  John Donahue, Concordia University


A successful experiment in 2003, we will actually watch the Western Johnny Guitar in back-to-back sessions, followed by general discussion-perhaps continuing the issues of revisionist Westerns.  Bring popcorn!  Bring food!



Conference Rm. 6

440       Caribbean and Latin American Literature V: The Language of Film

Chair:  Holly Nibert, Western Michigan University


Enchanting Melodies:  Charlie Chaplin in the Poetry of Fina García Marruz

Stacy Hoult, Valparaiso University


Medellín at the Movies:  Film Narrative and the Crisis of National Lettered Culture in Colombia

Corey Shouse, St. John's University


Aspects of Language Use in Real Women Have Curves

Holly Nibert



Conference Rm. 7

441       Vietnam VII:  Creative Writing

Chair: Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur, Valdosta State University


"Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam"

Paul Clayton, San Francisco, California


"Battle Dressing"

Dana Shuster, San Antonio, Texas


"Molololailai"

Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur



Conference Rm. 8

442       African American Culture IV: Pan-Africanism and the Concept of Liberation

Chair: Jerry Persaud, SUNY, New Paltz


An Arrow Called Brotherhood: Alex Haley's Roots and Afrocentrism

C. Casey Cobb, University of Tennessee


Maroonage and the Concept of Pan-Africanism in Louisiana

Ronald Dorris, Xavier University of Louisiana


Pan-Africanism: Cultural & Intellectual History in the Caribbean

Jerry Persaud



Conference Rm. 9

443       Medieval Popular Culture I:  Updating the Medieval Romance

Chair:  Wendy Goldberg, University of Connecticut


Generic Tradition and Transformation in the Popular Havelok the Dane Romance

Kimberly Bell, Sam Houston State University


The Green Knight and the Modern Landscape

Chris York, Winona State University


Hyperreality and the (Neo)Medieval Romance

Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Northern Kentucky University


The Effects of Popular Marian Devotion on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

R. L. Smith, Northwest Vista College



Conference Rm. 10

445       American Art and Architecture VIII: Architecture, Sculpture, Decoration

Chair: Eric Van Schaack, Colgate University


Decorative Ironwork around 1900

Madeline C. Yurtseven, Indiana University


Augustus Saint Gaudensí Amor Caritas

Eric Van Schaack


The Architectural Patronage of Archbishop John Carroll: How Catholic and How American Were They?

Matthew E. Gallegos, Texas Tech University


Social and Personal Dynamics in John Rogersí Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations

Michael Clapper



Conference Rm. 11

446       The Beat Generation and Counterculture VI: Feminist and Gender-Based Perspectives on the Beats

Chair:  Lori Horvitz, University of North Carolina at Asheville


Mardou as the "Beat Down" Voodoo Queen: The Stereotype of the African-American Woman in Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans

Heather Salter, Northwestern State University of Louisiana


Representations of Beatnikdom: Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters and Diane di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik

Katie Stewart, University of Glasgow


Gender and the Beats: On the Road as Critique of the Family Wage

Donovan S. Braud, Loyola University Chicago


An Homage to Kerouac and Ginsberg: Reconsidering the Beats as a Feminist Model

Lori Horvitz



Conference Rm. 12

447       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers VII

Chair:  Gary Collison, Pennsylvania State University, York


The 1920s: The American Dream Turned Into A Nightmare

Richard A. Sauers, Lenape Investment Corp.


Rural Women Small Business Owners: Catering to the Grieving

Sherry Robinson, Pennsylvania State University


The Death Care Industry: A Space Odyssey

Helen Sclair, Chicago, Illinois



Conference Rm. 13

448       Southern Literature and Culture II:  Gender Roles in Contemporary Southern Literature

Chair:  Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota

 

Dominance and Docile Bodies:  The Role of Ideological State Apparatuses in Oral History

Erica Abrams Locklear, Louisiana State University

 

A Tomboy's Rebellion:  Reading The Member of the Wedding as a Queer Bildungsroman

June Itaba, Rutgers University

 

Beyond the Wallpaper:  Crossroads of Region, Gender, and Intellectual Life in the Fiction of Gail Godwin and Doris Betts

Tara Powell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Sports, Politics, and the Corruption of Power in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

Frank Fury, Drew University

 

 

Conference Rm. 14

449       Civil War IV:  Images, Icons, and National Identity in the Press: A Group Project and Presentation

Chair:  Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota


Images of the U.S. Flag as a National Symbol During the Civil War

Jennifer Moore, University of Minnesota, with

Hazel Dicken-Garcia


The Torn Flag: National Identity in Selected Media During the Civil War

Hazel Dicken-Garcia, with

Jennifer Moore and Sanjay Asthana


A Crisis of Americanism: Newspaper Coverage of John Brown's 1859 Raid at Harper's Ferry and a Question of Loyalty

Brian Gabrial, University of Minnesota


Discourse of Nation in a Union and a Confederate Newspaper During the Civil War

Sanjay Asthana, Middle Tennessee State University, with

Hazel Dicken-Garcia


  

Conference Rm. 15

450       Children's/Young Adult Literature IV:  Deciphering the "Other" in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chair:  Nancy Gomez, University of Louisiana-Lafayette


Redemption on the Mountain: Cynthia Rylant's Appalachian Literature and the "Hillbilly" Stereotype

Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Book 2 of a Cross-Cultural Children's Literature Series with a Focus on Korea

Robert Hays, The University of Texas-Pan American


The State of Children's Literature in Nicaragua

Israel A. Linarte, The University of Texas-Brownsville


Perceptions of Stereotypes in Hispanic Children's Literature

Nancy Gomez


  

Conference Rm. 16

451       Film XI:  Film & Gender: Femininities & Masculinities

Chair:  Kathryn Lasky, University of Southern Maine


Before and After: The Makeover in Film

Angela Dancey, The Ohio State University


Skirting Conventions: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Brenda J. Dugé, Kent State University


Masculine and Racial Markers in Hip Hop Cinema:  Bulworth, Training Day,

and 8 Mile

Melvin Donalson, Pasadena City College/California State University-Los Angeles


Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

A Case Study of Performance and Gender Construction

Kathryn Lasky



Conference Rm. 17

452       Captivity Narratives V

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Trauma and Subjective Destitution: Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

and the Impossibility of Mourning

Linda Belau, University of Texas, Pan American

  

Silence and Contrast: Mary Rowlandson between the Two Hands of God

Phillip Mitchell, University of West Georgia


Love and Horror: Reading Indian Captivities as Domestic Adventure

Linda Sumption, Eastern New Mexico University



Conference Rm. 18

453       Music PCA II:  Country Music

Chair: Don Cusic, Belmont University


The Wizard of Nashville: or, How the Wizard of Nashville met Garth Brooks, Mr. Midnight, and Other Stories

James Elliott, Belmont University


Bloodshot Records and the Country-Western Tradition of Performative Authenticity

Sean Chadwell, Texas A&M International University



The Light Crust Doughboys: A Texas Radio Tradition

Dennis Harp, Texas Tech University


The Genres of Country Music

Don Cusic



Conference Rm. 19

454       Health Issues in Popular Culture III:  Fear, Conflict,

and Identity in Global and Local  Health Contexts

Chair: Kristi Siegel, Mount Mary College, Wisconsin


Africa's Epidermis: Miasmatism and Mortality in Wanderings in West Africa

Jessica Howell, University of California, Davis


Doctoring Images: Literary Subversion of Male Medical Authority in 19th-Century Fiction

Karen Sloan and John Sloan, The University of Texas at Tyler


The Hardboiled War Hero: Locating the Disabled Body in Classic Film Noir

Leila Granahan, California State University at San Marcos


Return of the Repressed: The "Bugs" Strike Back

Kristi Siegel



Hospitality Suite 618

455       ACA Board Meeting

Chair:  David M. Sokol, President, American Culture Association



  

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.


Salon A

456       Comic Arts and Comics VII:  Portrayals of Women in Comics

Chair: Nicole Freim, Cardinal Stritch University


From Defending Democracy to Defending Domesticity: Wonder Woman

in the 1950s

Francinne Valcour, Arizona State University


The Hernandez Brothers and Latina Womanist Expressions

María Ochoa, San José State University


The Revenger's Tragedy: Women, Anger, and Vengeance

Nicole Freim



Salon B

457       Creative Writing VI

Chair: Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University


Presenters:

Hugh Tribbey, East Central University

Erica Woiwode, California State University, San Marcos

Clay Reynolds, University of Texas at Dallas

James A. Moore, Angelo State University



Salon C

458       Native American Studies VI: The Culture of Native Education II:  Struggles and Politics of Re-Edification

Chair:  Lee R. Tallier, St. Edward's University

 

If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything: A National Reading Club for Native Children

Loriene Roy, The University of Texas at Austin


Starting a Native American Studies Program in Times of Retrenchment

G.H. Grandbois, Creighton University

 

Changes in the Demographic Profile and Academic Progress of Aboriginal Students at the University Manitoba, 1976 to 2003

Peter Nunoda and Loreen Wallace, University of Manitoba

 

Tribal/Cultural Identity of the Diné

Lloyd Lee, University of New Mexico


  

Salon D

459       Film and Film Adaptation X: The Future and the Past of Humanness

Chair: Susan Zlomke, Ouachita Baptist University


Posthuman Cinema: The Case of Frankenstein

William S. Haney II, American University of Sharjah


Scientific Spirituality: Blade Runner and Mercerism

Susan Meindl, University of Dayton


the eXistenZial dilemma

Craig Sinclair, University of Massachusetts-Amherst


Platonic Eugenics in Whose Interest: Coerced in The Handmaid's Tale,

Voluntary in Gattaca

Susan Zlomke



Salon F

460       Science Fiction/Fantasy XVII:  The Matrix

Chair:  Jim Canacci, Kent State University, Trumbull


Wombs, Portals, and Fluidity:  Gendered Bodies and Spaces in The Matrix

Christina Francis, Arizona State University


The Color of Zion: The Growth and Popularization of the American Captivity Narrative from Frederick Douglass to The Matrix: Revolutions

Adrian L. Cook, University of Texas at Dallas


A Matrix Theory: Why the Wachowski Brothers Succeeded Where Gibson Failed

Jim Canacci



Salon G

461       Men's Studies III:  Masculinity in Film and Writing

Chair:  Hartmut Heep, The Pennsylvania State University


Men of Steel:  The Masculinity of Robots in Postmodern Science Fiction

Ira Wells, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada


Celebrity Culture and Racial Masculinities: The Case of Will Smith

David Magill, University of Kentucky


Give Men A Break:  Top Ten Movie List

Don Corrigan, Webster University



Salon H

462       Dance and Culture V: Dance Informances II

Chair:  Hayley Kodesh,  University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa


Creating a Chinese Dance Teaching Method for Non-Chinese Society: A Lecture and Demonstration

Su-Lin Tseng, York University


From Isadora Duncan to Classic Modern Dance:  A Lecture and Short Performance

Valerie Henry, American University & Valerie Henry Dance


"tumbling stones and dancing bones": Somatics bridges the performer-audience gap in contemporary danec:  A Lecture/Demonstration

Ray Eliot Schwartz, University of Texas Austin



Salon I

463       Professional Placement PCA I: Ms. Mentor Sez: Do's and Don't's on the Job Market

Chair:  Emily Toth, Louisiana State University



Salon J

464       Motorcycle Culture and Myth VI: Motorcycling and One-Percenters

Chair: Barbara Bustillos-Cogswell, 2 Bikers and a Writer Productions

 

Hell's Angels and the Illusion of Counterculture

John Wood, Temple University

 

Motorcycle Gang Induction Ceremonies in the Deep South

Lisiunia A. Romanienko, Louisiana State University

 

Hogs, Angels, and Outlaws: Visual Ideology of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Lisa Meloncon Posner, University of South Carolina

 

 

Salon K

465       Mystery and Detective Fiction IX: Setting: A Kaleidoscope of Purposes and Effects

Chair:  Sarah Fogle, Emry-Riddle University


Death in Ireland: The McGarr Mysteries of Bartholomew Gill

Jack Crowley, Montana Tech of the University of Montana


Murder Deep in the Heart (and Edge) of Texas

Lois Marchino, University of Texas at El Paso


"The Evil That Men Do": David Lindsey's Stuart Haydon Series

Sarah Fogle



Salon L

466       Gender III

Chair:  Gypsey Teague, Langston University, Oklahoma City


It May Not Be Vulgar, But It Sure Is Queer:  Queer Identity and Relationships in Gone With the Wind

Susie Scifres Kuilan, Louisiana State University


Whores and Horses:  Racial Erasure and the Reification of White Hegemony in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven

Gina Dorré, Tulane University


Gender Linguistics:  Sex in the City as a Feminine Discourse Community

Leslie A. Gautreaux-Edwards, University of Louisiana


If Only I was Like Mary-Kate and Ashley:  Construction of Girlhood Through Representation, Consumption, and Identity

Mary Napoli, Pennsylvania State University



Salon M

467       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections VII:  Revolution and Subversion: Collecting as Resistance

Chair: Stacey Short, Northern Illinois University


Friendster.com Says I Have More Friends Than You: Internet Community and the "Real" Pleasures of Collecting, Keeping in Touch, and "Faking"

Carson Metzger, University of New Mexico


Collecting the Wolf:  How Our Collections Change Us

Leigh Kirkland, Georgia State University


Nostalgia and Decay: The Collecting Habits of the Cultural Revolutionary

Elizabeth Dunn, Benicia, California


Poke Box Politics

Mary Titus, St. Olaf College



Conference Rm. 1

468       Sea Literature III: Image Making

Chair:  Teresa Coronado, University of Oregon


Robert Hayden's "Sea Poetry"

Fred M. Fetrow, U.S. Naval Academy


"Nature Speaks of Man":  How a Modern Poet Uses "The Seafarer"

Elaine Cho, Texas Woman's University


Imaginative Privation and Aesthetic Production in American Literature of the Sea

Matthew Cordova Frankel, University of Rhode Island


An Ocean of Space: An Examination of Place in the Lyrics of Great Big Sea

Teresa Coronado



Conference Rm. 2

469       Rock III:  Radio's Intellectual Voices: Public Radio & the BBC

Chair:  Robert Lochte, Murray State University


Milking the Corporate Cash Cow While the Cultural Crops Wither: The State of Public Radio Cultural Programming

Paul A. Hennerich, Webster University, and

Kris M. Markman, University of Texas at Austin


A Special Relationship:  The Friendly Voice "For Our Comfort in the Dark Days the BBC Gathered Some Friendly Voices From America." BBC Year Book, 1944

Deborah Wilson, University of Lincoln


Producing The NPR Sound:  A Descriptive Study of Audio Technique

David Dzikowski, Pennsylvania State University



Conference Rm. 3

470       Television in Popular Culture II: Locating and Surviving "Reality"

Chair:  Daniel Smith-Rowsey, University of Southern California


Surviving Survivor

Kimberly Jackson, State University of New York, Buffalo


The Reality of Returning to TV's Essence

Daniel Smith-Rowsey



Conference Rm. 4

471       Sports XII:  A Meeting with Farideh Koohi-Kamali, Editor,

Palgrave MacMillan Press


This meeting will be a discussion of the requirements for the publication of a collection of sports essays.  All Sports-area panelists are welcome to attend.



Conference Rm. 5

472       Westerns and the West VII:  Celebrating the Genre They Could Not Kill:  Riding Point on the Best Dang Westerns of the Century

Chair and Ranch Foreman:  Ray Merlock, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg


The Best Western Films: Best A-Western, Best Scene, Most Overrated Western, Most Important Western of 1930s...

Jack Nachbar, Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University


B-Western Saturday Matinee Movies:  Best B-Western of the 1930s, Best B-Western Star; Most Liberal, Most Conservative; Strangest; Best Reflector of Its Era...

Philip Loy, Taylor University


Television Westerns: Best Three Western Television Series, Best TV Western Episode; Best Lead; Most Unusual; Most Unjustly Unappreciated Series...

Gary Yoggy, Corning Community College


The Showdown:  Audience members may bring their own categories and lists to express their own critical and aesthetic positions.   Check firearms at the door to avoid a shoot-out!



Conference Rm. 6

473       Caribbean and Latin American Literature VI: Intertextualities and Odd Textualities

Chair:  Esther Santana, Northeastern Illinois University


Intertextual Paradox in Rubén Darío's "Cosas del Cid"

Ismael Aguado Ramírez, Western Michigan University


Discurso par-dico y otras herejías del 'Divinoí Vargas Vila

Esther Santana



Conference Rm. 7

474       Popular American Authors IV

Chair:  Huey Guagliardo, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes: Hemingway in Key West

William Chernecky, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Language and Action: Female Detectives in Fiction from Nancy Drew to J.D. Robb

Barbara Cicardo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette


Science and Sexuality in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and The Last Gentleman

Huey Guagliardo



Conference Rm. 8

475       African American Culture V: Problematizing Hip Hop: The Hope and Moral Implications of Hip Hop for Our Youth

Chair: Marilyn D. Lovett, Prairie View A&M University


Evolution of Hip Hop Parallels in Power and Consciousness

Quan Lateef, Western Michigan University


The Hip Hop Curriculum

Latanya Hinton, University of Pennsylvania


Check the Rhyme: Problematizing the Moral Implications of Hip-Hop Culture

Emery Petchauer, Regent University


Plant My Feet on Higher Ground: The Hope of Rap for Youth

Marilyn D. Lovett



Conference Rm. 9

476       Medieval Popular Culture II:  Re-Imagining the Middle Ages

Chair:  Kathryn Laity, University of Houston-Downtown


Is the Perfect Girl Dead?

Jennifer Stoy, University of California, Santa Barbara


The Use of Anglo-Saxon Charm Texts in Online Neo-Paganism

Richard Scott Nokes, Troy State University


Medieval Heavy Metal: Decoding the Band In Extremo's Performance as Spielmånner

Mara Taylor, University of Pennsylvania


From Boethius to Vanna: The Wheel of Fortune in Modern Popular Culture

Chris Harris, Florida State University



Conference Rm. 10

477       American Art and Architecture IX: Clement Greenberg/Vincent Scully

Chair:  Alice Goldfarb Marquis, La Jolla, California


Clement Greenberg Keeping His "Eye" on the Ball

Alice Goldfarb Marquis


Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Rhetorical (Re)Production of Jackson Pollock in the 21st Century

Ilana Bing, Bar Ilan University, Israel


The Architectural Humanism of Scully

Krista Sykes, University of North Carolina



Conference Rm. 11

478       Teaching: Popular Culture and the Classroom IV

Chairs:   Erik Walker, Plymouth (Mass.) South High School, and

David Nordman, Coe College


The Vietnam War, Frame-by-Frame: Teaching Recent History

with Hollywood Films

Derek N. Buckaloo, Coe College



Popular Culture, Current Events and the American History Survey

Jonathan Mercantini, Canisius College


Enjoying the Unfamiliar: Using Pop Culture to Teach Chinese, Japanese,

and Korean History

David Nordmann



Conference Rm. 12

479       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers VIII

Chair:  Scott J. Baird, Trinity College


The Invention of the Past:  Medievalism in Oakland Cemetery

June Hadden Hobbs, Garner-Webb University


"Death possesses a good deal of real estate": Mortuary References in Hawthorne's American Notebooks

Richard E. Meyer, Western Oregon University


Southern Literary Tombstones

John Bayne, Atlanta, Georgia


Grave Decoration: A Central Theme in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country

Lydia Johnson, Shelby, North Carolina



Conference Rm. 13

480       Southern Literature and Culture III:  The South Reconsidered:  Placing the Delta

Chair:  Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota

 

Panelists:

Deborah Chappel, Arkansas State University

Van R. Hawkins, Arkansas State University

Ruth Hawkins, Arkansas State University

 

 

Conference Rm. 14

480B     Grateful Dead V:  The Sociology of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon

Chair:  Jim Tuedio, California State University - Stanislaus


A Portable Community: Forces Facilitating Repeated Interactions at Shows

Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina - Greensboro


A Multidisciplinary Consideration of the Grateful Dead: Mapping the Trip

Natalie Dollar, Oregon State University - Cascades


Deadheads, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Community

Gary Burnett, Florida State University


"I want to say to my sisters and my brothers": The Rhetoric of Family in Deadhead Culture

Elizabeth L. Caroll, Appalachia State University



Conference Rm. 15

481       Children's/Young Adult Literature V:  Forging New Paths: The Adventurer in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chair:  Diana Dominguez, The University of Texas-Brownsville


Alice and Alice in Wonderland: A Comparative Analysis of Carroll's

and Disney's Wonderful Girl

Virginia Ramos, The University of Texas-Brownsville


New Mothers, Other Mothers: Performance and Transgression

in Gaiman's Coraline

Catherine McLaughlin, University of Calgary-Alberta


Buffy Meets Harry:  The Mythic Hero in Adolescent Culture

Ruth Caillouet, Ashland University



Conference Rm. 16

482       Film XII:  Hitchcock in a Minor Key: Non-Canonical Films

Chair: Phillip J. Skerry, Lakeland Community College


Creating an American Thriller: Hitchcock's Saboteur

Phillip J. Skerry


The Paradine Case Case

Dennis Perry, Brigham Young University


"Hitchcock in Love" or "Three's Company on the Riviera": Sex and Sexuality

in To Catch a Thief

Raymond Foery, Quinnipiac University

  


Conference Rm. 17

483       Captivity Narratives VI

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Self-Defining Strategies in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Andrea K. Frankwitz, Biola University


The Gendered West: Adolescent Girls and the Cults of Captivity and Domesticity

Cynthia Ragland, Central Connecticut State University


Allegories of the Slave: Wrecking the Republic in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage

Brian D. Sweeney, Brown University


"It is good for me that I have been afflicted": Suffering and Agency in Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

Leanne Evans, University of Western Ontario


Captivated by the Pregnant Body:  The Pregnancy Memoirs of Louise Erdrich and Carole Maso

Mary Ruth Marotte



Conference Rm. 18

484       Music PCA III: In Tribute to Michael J. Kraus

Chair:  Thomas M. Kitts, Brooklyn, New York


The Place of the Midwest in the Cultural Geography of Rock and Roll

Steve Alleman, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans


"Goin' back to my plow'": Technology and Music's Return to "Cottage Industry"

James W. Martens, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada


Philip Roth, Bob Dylan and The American Holocaust

Stephen Paul Miller, St. John's University, New York


The Emergence of the Rock Album in the 1960s

Thomas M. Kitts



Conference Rm. 19

485       Politics and Popular Culture

Chair:  Tony Brown, Oklahoma State University


George W. Bush, the War with Iraq, and the Cowboy Myth

Karen Dodwell, Utah Valley State College


A State of Emergency:  The Siege and 9/11

Chris Kortright, University of California-Santa Cruz


Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Reactionary Modernism

Sarah Watts, Wake Forest University



  

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.


Salon A

486       Comic Arts and Comics VIII:  Beyond Human - The Fantastic

and Unusual

Chair:  Nicole Freim, Cardinal Stritch University


Moorcock's Razor:  Marvel UK, and Crosscurrents in American

and British Heroic Fantasy

Larry Rodman, Accotink Academy


Post-Human Use of the Superhero in Comic Books

Brian Curtis, Texas Tech University


Supercrip: Disability and the Supervillain

Jose Alaniz, University of Washington - Seattle


Holocaust Avengers: From The Master Race to Magneto

Kathrin M. Bower, University of Richmond



Salon B

487       Creative Writing VII

Chair: Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College


Presenters:

William Woods, Schreiner College

Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College

Philip Baruth, University of Vermont

Chip Dameron, University of Texas at Brownsville



Salon C

488       American Indian Literatures & Cultures V: Forum:  What's New?  Catching Up with, American Indian Studies

Moderator: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, SUNY Fredonia


Join us for a lively discussion of what's new in American Indian Studies-books, teaching, scholarship, trends.  All are welcome.

 

 

Salon D

489       Film and Film Adaptation XI: Who Was and Is the Hero?

Chair: Rebecca Housel, Rochester Institute of Technology


Forging the Ring

Judith Caesar, American University of Sharjah


Men's Business: The Assertion of Masculinity in the Coen Brothersí Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There

Philip Postma, University of South Dakota


The Shadows of Prisms and Personal Prisons:  Visual Metaphor and Character Imagery in Scott Hicks' Adaptation of Hearts In Atlantis

Brian Thornton, Texas Tech University


Up, Up and Away: Hollywood Heroes Flying High

Rebecca Housel



Salon F

490       Science Fiction/Fantasy XVIII:  Heinlein I: Infinite Possibilities: Defining the First Grand Master of SF

Chair:  Robert Gorsch, Saint Mary's College of California


Robert A. Heinlein's Role in American Cultural History

Arthur Dula, Esq., University of Houston


The Last Utopian Novel? Robert A. Heinlein's For Us, the Living

Robert James, West Los Angeles College


Robert Heinlein's Challenge to the Bureaucratic State

Christopher Leslie, City University of New York Graduate Center


The Golden Age of Heinlein

Robert Gorsch



Salon G

491       Masculinities VII: Men and the Cultural Performance of Masculinity

Chair:  Andrew J. Manno, Raritan Valley Community College, New Jersey


My Memory Stick is Bigger Than Yours: Male Geeks and the Subculturing of Traditional Masculinity

Deborah S. Bowen, University of South Florida, Tampa


Cheaters Might Never Prosper, but Liars Sure Do: Masculinity, Poker Culture, and the Valorization of Deception

Andrew J. Manno


Fishing for Manhood in Benjamin Britten's Opera Peter Grimes

Stephen Arthur Allen, Rider University, New Jersey


"Everyday Heroes":  Male Sentimentality, Masculine Domesticity, and the War on Terror in Marvel Comicsí The Call of Duty

Hamilton Carroll, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta



Salon H

492       Dance and Culture VI: Transcultural Perceptions

Chair:  Joan Erdman, Columbia College


Cultural Cocktails: The Choreography of Gregory Maqoma

Hayley Kodesh, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa


Fusion of Dance Forms and Cultures in America: Original + Original = Fused Hybrid, or Fusion + Fusion = Another Fused Hybrid

Amanda Nora, University of California Irvine



Salon I

493       Professional Placement PCA II:  Successful Strategies

for Job Hunting

Chair:  Linda J. Holland-Toll, Newberry College


Panelists:

Richard G. Hunt, Delaware Valley College

Angela Nelson, Bowling Green State University


This panel, now in its fourth year, will feature a job interview demonstration,

and a question and answer period.



Salon J

494       Drama and Theatre I: Degrees of Ethnicity in Performance: Balinese, Jewish, and Gypsy Influences

Chair:  Eric Wiley, University of Texas-Pan American


The Cinematic Gestus of Julie Taymor

Tony Medlin, Texas Woman's University


Ethnicity as Self-Referential Humor in the Algonquin Round Table

Tom Fuschetto, South Texas Community College


The Development of Jewish Characters in the American Musical

Don Whittaker, Northwestern State University


Romani/Gypsy Performance in the South of France

Eric Wiley



Salon K

495       Mystery and Detective Fiction X: Interview with Gillian Linscott


Interviewers:

Nancy Ellen Talburt, University of Arkansas

Juana Young, University of Arkansas



Salon L

496       Women's Studies III:  Celluloid Princesses: Challenging Women's Images on Film and in the Media

Chair: Susan J. Wolfe, University of South Dakota


Some Day My Prince Will Come: A Feminist Analysis of Classic Disney Films

Mandy Baker and M. Geneva Murray, Texas Tech University


The Specter of Alice: Theorizing the Girl in Contemporary Horror Films

Allison Boye, Texas Tech University, and Kara Marler Kennedy, Rice University


Oprah and Martha: Permissable Power and the Limits of American Female Ambition

Mireille Djenno, University of Wisconsin - Madison


Beauty and Class in Miss Congeniality: Galatea as Miss New Jersey

Susan J. Wolfe and Roberta Rude, University of South Dakota



Salon M

497       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections VIII: Literary Collecting

Chair: Jean Casella, Director of the Feminist Press


Literary Collecting: "The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe" and Other Stories about Women and Fatness

Susan Koppelman, Writer, Tucson, Arizona


Collecting Grace Sartwell Mason: Bringing Stories of Our Past and Present Back to Life

Diane Wellins Moul, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts


How to Collect Gossip (oops, Oral History): Grace Metalious and Kate Chopin

Emily Toth, Louisiana State University



Conference Rm. 1

498       American Prison Writing I: Against the Machine

Chair: Stephen Steck, University of Montreal


In the Spirit of U.S. Prisoner #89637-132: Leonard Peltier's Leavenworth

Prison Blues

Scott Palmer, Tufts University


Words Will Set You Free: The Liberation of Jimmy Santiago Baca

Brenda Kae Jones, Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility



Conference Rm. 2

499       Radio IV:  The Power of Radio in Social Conflict

Chair:  Jerry Donnelly, Northwest Missouri State University


Sports Talk Radio, Minority Education, & the Zoo:  A Case Study of Racial Insensitivity in Boston

Thomas J. Healy, Salem State College


Conflict Resolution & the Public Airwaves:  Radio Talk Show Hosts as Third Parties in Social Conflict

Johannes Botes, University of Baltimore

Jennifer Langdon, George Mason University


The Intellectual as Amateur Broadcaster:  BBC Talks 1946-1956

David Snodgrass, Florida Southern College



Conference Rm. 3

500       Culture of Fandom I: Expressions of Fandom form Music and Popular Culture

Chair:  Greg Thompson, Florida State University


Spreadheads, Spreaks, and Long-Haired 'Freaksí:  The Community Surrounding Widespread Panic

Hope Nelson, Florida State University


Trekkers Vote!

Astrid Vicas, Saint Leo University


Recreational Revolution: Social Apathy in Jam-Band Culture

Joshua Youngblood, Florida State University



Conference Rm. 4

501       Sports XIII: Race

Chair:  Tom Cook, Wayne State College


Black American & Black Athletes: Black College Athletes & Power

Darryl Scriven, Southern University


Hooks, Jabs and Deadlines

Peter Williams, County College of Morris


The Kobe Bryant Case: Preparing for the Next "Trial of the Century"

Tom Cook



Conference Rm. 5

502       Austin City Limits: A Celebration

Chair:  Ray Merlock, Communications, University of South Carolina


Austin City Limits, produced and presented by KLRU, is the 2004 Recipient of the American Culture Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture.


Panelists:

Texas as the Spiritual Home of Country Music

Don Cusic, Music Business Program, Belmont University


Austin City Limits:  Stretching the Boundaries of Country Music

Tracey E. W. Laird, Agnes Scott College, Georgia


Television Production Values in Austin City Limits

Ray Merlock


Respondents:

Ed Bailey, Vice President, Brand Development, KRLU

Terry Lickona, Producer, Austin City Limits



Conference Rm. 6

503       Caribbean and Latin American Literature VII:  Cultura popular e imaginario social

Chair:  Jorge Febles, Western Michigan University


Populismo cultural y dictadura:  el campo cultural en la Venezuela perezjimenista

Raquel Rivas Rojas, Universidad Sim-n Bolívar


Identidades puertorrique-as:  re-lecturas de la cultura popular en Una noche con Iris Chac-n de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

María Teresa Vera, University of Houston


El Carnaval Dominicano: Un estudio del Carnaval en La fiesta del Chivo

Carolina Mendoza-Serrano, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 7

504       Vietnam VIII:  History, Research, and Memory

Chair: Stephen Maxner, Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University


First American Intervention in Cochin China, 1845

Elizabeth Daum, Henniker, New Hampshire


The Vietnam Archive and Virtual Vietnam Archive: Resources for Students and Scholars of the Vietnam War

Stephen Maxner



Conference Rm. 8

505       Journalism & Media Culture I:  Media Culture: Crazes, Compulsions, and Cons

Chair: James Von Schilling, Northampton Community College


Boredom and the Birth of Modern Media Culture

Paul Gorman, The University of Alabama


The Mass-Mediated Wooly Mammoth: 1800-Present

Patricia L. Dooley, Wichita State University


The Con in America, from Dukes of Deception to Lies, and the Lying Liars

Who Tell Them

Jack Estes, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY


Davy Crockett: King of the Baby Boom

James Von Schilling



Conference Rm. 9

506       Medieval Popular Culture III:  Theorizing the Medieval

Chair:  Gene Kannenberg, Jr., University of Houston-Downtown


Homo, Hetero, Historical?: Exploring the Pop Lit Versions of the Life of Edward II

Michael G. Cornelius, Wilson College


King Alfred's Boethius:  The Oralization of a Literary Text

Laurel Lacroix, Houston Community College-Southwest


Iconography: Visualizing Rhetoric(a)

Ernest J. Enchelmayer, Troy State University


The Rhizome and the Errant Self: The (Neo)Medieval Quest for the Holy Grail

Wendy Knepper, Harvard University



Conference Rm. 10

507       American Art and Architecture X: Modern, Postmodern, and the Future for American Art and Architecture

Chair:  Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University


The Myth of the International Style: Reassessing the Definition of 'Modern Architecture" in the U.S.

Lisa D. Schrenk, Norwich University


Michael Gravesí Influence on Postmodern Architecture

Julia M. Chytil, The Toledo Museum of Art/Bowling Green State University


The Postmodern Landscape: The Absurd Landscape

Thomas J. Mickey, Bridgewater State College


Want to Make Art-Why Not go to Wal Mart, Saks 5th Avenue, or the Garden?

Elaine King



Conference Rm. 11

508       The Beat Generation and Counterculture VII: International Perspectives on the Beats

Chair:  Simona Bondavalli, Wake Forest University


Kerouac and Pamuk: In Search of Breasts, Bliss, and the Beatific Vision in Turkey and America

Fran Hassencahl, Old Dominion University


"A real poet, a famous one": Adrian Rawlins and "Beat" in Australia

George Mouratidis, University of Melbourne


European and American Cultures of Spontaneity: The Beat Generation and "Cobra"

Sigmund Ro, Adger University College


Pasolini's Ginsberg: Re-reading the King of May through an Italian Lens

Simona Bondavalli



Conference Rm. 12

509       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers IX

Chair:  J. Joseph Edgette, Widener University


Diaries and Journals: First Person Narratives of Death, Burial, and Memorialization in Colonial New England, Part II

Laurel Gabel, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts


Virtual Cemeteries and Gravemarkers

Thomas E. Graves, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania


Bridging the Past: Cemetery and Gravemarker Ephemera

J. Joseph Edgette



Conference Rm. 13

510       Oklahoma Culture:  Images and Words

Chair:  Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


Dirt and Determination:  Voices from the Dust Bowl

Doris Akers, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


"The False Story Which Set Tulsa on Fire":  Newspapers and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Michelle McCargish, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


Writing Oklahoma:  Contemporary Oklahoma Writers and the Master Myths

Joey R. Brown, Missouri Southern State University


The Oddities of the Oklahoma Panhandle:  Terrain, Towns, and Traditions

Sara Jane Richter



Conference Rm. 14

511       Grateful Dead VI:  Commerce and the Influence of the Grateful Dead-Panel Discussion

Chair:  Barry Barnes, Nova Southeastern University


Discussants:

Don McCallister, Independent Scholar

Mike Dolgushkin, California State University - Davis

David Gans, Record Producer, Author, Musician

Daniel J. Dasaro, Independent Scholar



Conference Rm. 15

512       Children's/Young Adult Literature VI:  Female Mentors and Role Models in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Chair:  Beth Rips, Northwest Missouri State University


Stereotyped Female Roles in Folk Tales:  Some Implications through Resistant Reading

Junmin Kuo, Indiana University-Bloomington


Intertextual Mythic Landscape with Elaine and Lancelot in Anne of Green Gables: Anne's Feminist Discourse with Gilbert

Lance Weldy, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Children's Literature and Family Ideology: Narratives and Counternarratives of 'Realí Mothering

Shelly Park, University of Central Florida


Marcy Lewis, Paula Danziger, and Me:  Reflections on The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Beth Rips



Conference Rm. 16

513       Film XIII:  Movie Morality:  Sin & Redemption

Chair: Kenneth D. Nordin, Benedictine University


Sin and Salvation in the Documentaries Devil's Playgroundand Hell House

Robert Holtzclaw, Middle Tennessee State University


Perceptions of Entertainment Media in Pleasantville

James F. Nelson, Monroe Community College


It's Not Easy Being Pink: Tarentino's Ultimate Professional

Stephen Weinberger, Dickinson College



Conference Rm. 17

514       Captivity Narratives VII

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Meaningful Suffering in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Joy Rives, University of California, Irvine


Victims and Activists: The Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Harriet Jacobs

Linda Urschel, Huntington College, Indiana


Captivity, Kinship, and Economies of Exchange: The Transculturated Subject in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Kathleen Washburn, University of California, Los Angeles


Enslaved Motherhood: the Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Harriet Jacobs

Mary McCartin Wearn, Georgia Institute of Technology



Conference Rm. 18

515       American Music and Culture VI

Chair:  Garth Alper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette


Crossing Over from Pop to Jazz and Vice Versa

William P. Nye, Hollins University


Vocal Appropriations of Blackness on the Early Vaudeville Stage: Sophie Tucker and Elsie Janis

Eden Kainer, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Using the Blues as a Lens Through Which to Examine Jazz.

Garth Alper



Conference Rm. 19

516       Creative Writing Pedagogy I:  Special Poetry Writing Workshop (Open to All): Inventio in the Poetry Classroom: Using a Problem-Analysis Heuristic to Transform Student Experience


Workshop Leaders:

Jay Carson, Robert Morris University

John Lawson, Robert Morris University




FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.


Salon A

517       Science Fiction/Fantasy XIX:  Film

Chair: 


Complement & Counterbalance: R2D2 as "Machine Protagonist" in Star Wars Films

Roy Sheldon, Washburn University


Imaging History:  Science Fiction Films and the Idea of History

William Patrick Day, Oberlin College


Better Living Through Chemistry?:  Forbidden Planet's Reimagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest

Susi Paterson, The University of New Hampshire



Salon B

518       Creative Writing VIII

Chair:  Laura Butler, West Texas A&M University


Presenters:

Toni Jensen, Texas Tech University

Lee Ann Mortensen, Utah Valley State College

Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University

Jerry Hamby, Lee College



Salon C

519       Native American Studies VII: Special Event: Through His Spirit, Mind, Heart, and Body, We Connect: Remembering Lee Francis

Hosted by: Kimberly Roppolo and Sara Sutler-Cohen

 

This special panel honoring Lee Francis, a bedrock and touchstone for many members of the Native Studies area, consists of readings by Native American/Indigenous Studies Area scholars



Salon D

520       Film and Film Adaptation XII: Feminism and Film

Chair: Nikki Lask-Aitken, Illinois State University


The Uncanny's Time Machine: Gender, Cinema, and Technoetics in Dove's Interactive Movie Installations

Livia Monnet, Université de Montréal


Allegory of Desire and Death, or Feminist Realism: Joyce Chopra's Film Adaptation of a Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates

Nadja Gernalzick, Johannes Gutenberg Universitåt


Revising the Legend: The Changing Legacy of Women in Three Versions of Cimarron

Jacqueline Gruenwald, Southern Illinois University


Reclaiming Agency from the Patriarchy: How Procreation Leads to Command in Margaret Edson's Wit

Nikki Lask-Aitken



Salon G

521       Masculinities VIII: Visual and Verbal Representations of Males

Chair:  Jeff Ebbesen, West Chester University


Mr. Monk as Lethal Weapon?  The Evolution of the Action Hero

Stacey Peebles, University of Texas, Austin


"The Fight's Over":  Boxing Films and Masculinity

Joseph Moser, University of Texas, Austin


Cyborg's Dream/Rambo's Nightmare: A Linguistic Analysis of Male Film Narratives

Renee Gurley, California State University, San Bernardino


Refiguring Madison Avenue Masculinity: Montage as Subversive Practice in the Classroom

Jeff Ebbesen



Salon H

522       Celebrity Culture I:  The Beatles, Elvis and Rubber Ducky

Chair: Lotte Larsen, Area Chair, Protest Issues and Actions


The Beatles' Star Image and the American Myth of Success

Michael Frontani, Elon University


Celebrity Web Pages

Weiyan Wang, Southwest Missouri State University


Rubber Duckie, You're the One!: The Making of a Toy Celebrity

Lotte Larsen



Salon I

523       Professional Placement PCA III:  Job Letters and CV Workshop

Chair:  Richard G. Hunt, Delaware Valley


This panel is a discussion and workshop on how to construct job letters and CV's and how to write a good letter and, using examples, how to avoid bad ones.  The workshop will provide hands-on experience.  Red pens, in other words, will be provided.



Salon J

524       Drama and Theatre II:  American Theatre Traditions

Chair:  Susan Anthony, DePauw University


Avery Hopgood, Broadway's Forgotten Neil Simon of the 1920s

Jack R. Stanley, The University of Texas-Pan American


The Rise and Fall of the American Dinner Theatre

Fergus G. Currie, Palm Springs, California


Hucksters of the Symbol in 19th-Century American Theatre and the Great Audience

Christopher Francis White, Sam Houston State University


All That is Good and Delightful Comes from Britain: American Theatre and the "Cultural Cringe"

Susan Anthony



Salon K

525       Mystery and Detective Fiction XI: Business Meeting and Cocktail Party



Salon L

526       Gender and Material Culture I:  The Cultural Work of Women's Work

Chair:  Ella Howard, Boston University


Material Culture in the Lives of Native American Women in Indian Territory, 1830-1865

Donna L. Akers (Choctaw), Purdue University


Silhouettes and Samplers: Anne Orr and the Colonial Revival Needlework of the 1920s and 1930s

Jennifer Van Horn, University of Virginia


Arbitrating Culture: Sexuality, Domesticity, and Courtship of Three Southern African American Middle Class Women 1880-1950

Angela Winand, DePaul University



Salon M

527       Collecting and Collectibles IV

Chair:  Ron Bishop, Drexel University


Ownership, Display, and Sale of Works Without Clear Provenance

David M. Sokol, University of Illinois-Chicago


Special Panel Discussion, open to all

Given the current journalistic and legal attention to the return of Holocaust-era art, the ongoing battles over the Elgin Marbles, the misuse and appropriation of Native American ceremonial and burial artifacts, and heightened awareness about the illegal exportation of art from Laos, Cambodia, and South America, there is a need to discuss the ownership, display, and sale of works without clear provenance.



Conference Rm. 1

528       American Prison Writing II: Masking Politics

Chair: Stephen Steck, University of Montreal


A Cell of One's Own: Autobiographical Writings of Women Political Prisoners

Heidi OíNuanain, University of Ulster


Breaking the Code: Compulsive Masculinity and the Convict Ethic in Edward Bunker's Dog Eat Dog (1996)

Howard Cunnell, University of London


Interpreting the Prison: The State Penitentiary in The Shawshank Redemption

Jan Alber, University of Freiburg


Doing Time in/as "The Monster": Abjection, Testimony and Reviving the Dead on Ray Hilly's "Prison Show"

Kimberly Drake, Virginia Wesleyan College



Conference Rm. 2

529       Advertising III:  Color, Music, and Emotion as Advertising Tools

Chair:  Dave Allan, Saint Joseph's University


Full-Spectrum Colors in Advertising: Using Color Research Replication to Enhance Students' Experience of Color in Ads

Lee Jolliffe, Drake University


Crayola Crayons: An American Icon

Elizabeth Armstrong Hall, Manassas, Virginia


An Integrated Approach to Emotional Branding: Engaging Consumers in an Experience Economy

Patricia K. Felkins, Loyola University Chicago


Effects of Popular Music in Advertising on Attention, Memory, Attitudes and Conation

Dave Allan



Conference Rm. 3

530       Television X:  Gender Issues in Television

Chair:  J.P. Williams, Defiance College


I will Once again Betray the Sisterhood:  The Limits of Feminism in the West Wing

J.P. Williams & Danielle Dupré, Touro Law Center


Snobs and the City: The Real vs. The Ideal

Caroline Gallrein, Georgia State University


"Oh, Yeah. Iím Heading for a Storybook Ending": Fairy Tale Elements and Influences in HBO's Sex and the City

Dana Eatman, Texas A&M University


The Roof is on Fire in the Funhouse

Ann Taylor, Northern Kentucky University, and

Pamela Tyahur, Northern Kentucky University



Conference Rm. 4

531           Poetry and Popular Culture IV

Chair:  Michael Basinski, The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo


The Poetics of Small Press Poetry

Michael Basinski


An Appraisal of Contemporary Female Small Press Poets

Diane Marie Ward, SUNY at Buffalo


Unearthing Androla

Ann D. Androla, Erie, Pennsylvania



Conference Rm. 5

532       A Critical Eye:  Gary Edgerton's Contributions to the Study of Film, Television, and American Culture

Chair: Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan College


A special session to honor Gary Edgerton, the 2004 American Culture Association Governing Board Award Recipient for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture Studies.  Brief tributes will be followed by an informal question and answer session in which Edgerton will answer questions on his work.  Edgerton is the author or editor of five books, including Ken Burns's America, Television Histories:  Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, In the Eye of the Beholder:  Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, Film and the Arts in Symbiosis:  A Reference Guide, and American Film Exhibition:  An Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure, 1962-1980.  He also co-edits The Journal of Popular Film and Television and is currently working on an interpretive history of American television.  Throughout his career, Edgerton has focused on the socio-industrial contexts of media and how these larger underlying institutional structures shape the content which affect large audiences.


Living and Mediated Memories:  In Memory of Gary R. Edgerton

Terry Lindvall, Regent University


Looking Over "The Edge," A Tribute Trilogy: Part One: There's Something About Gary; Part Two: G.E.: He Brings Good Things to Write; Part Three: Beyond Guru: A Great Guy

George Plasketes, Auburn University


A Man for All Media:  Gary Edgerton's Contributions to Sociocultural Analysis of Mass-Mediated Culture

Michael T. Marsden, Dean of the College and Academic Vice

       President, St. Norbert College, and

Jack Nachbar, Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University


Respondent:  Gary Edgerton, Old Dominion University



Conference Rm. 6

533       Literature and Visual Art V:  Writers Meet Visual Art

Chair: Mallory Young, Tarleton State University, Texas


Visual Art and Literary Discourse: Pictorial Dimensions in Margaret Atwood's Fiction

Teresa Gibert, Universidad Nacional de Educaci-n a Distancia, Madrid


Nathaniel Hawthorne as Art Critic: Expatriate Artists and the Italian Experience during the 19th Century

Tony Gengarelly, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts


Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, and the Popular Romantic Imagination

Danny Robinson, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania


Identity, Diversity, and Social Justice: Using Contemporary Art to Teach Students

Victoria Burke, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas



Conference Rm. 7

534       Vietnam IX: Writers Forum

Chair:  Dale Ritterbusch, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater


Members of the Vietnam Area are encouraged to read selections of their creative poetry, fiction, and nonfiction related to the war and its aftermath.



Conference Rm. 8

535       Journalism & Media Culture II:  Journalism and Community

Chair: Susan Weill, Texas State University


The Changing Definition of Women's News

Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville


The Decline of the Country Correspondents in Small Newspapers

Les Anderson, Wichita State University


Media Distortion: Alabama's Ten Commandment Controversy

R. Tyler Spradley, Stephen F. Austin State University


Ira Harkey: The Challenges of Publishing and Editing the Pascagoula Chronicle in Mississippi During the Desegregation of Ole Miss in 1962

Susan Weill


Respondent: Ira Harkey-Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Author



Conference Rm. 9

536       Popular Culture and Medievalism I:  Medieval Religious Themes

Chair:  Ruth McClelland-Nugent, St. Louis, Missouri


Most Highly Favored Lady: Mary as Merchant Wife, Anchorite and Fairy Princess in English Cycle Plays

Elizabeth Cawns, Louisiana State University


Andy Warhol's Portraits as Medieval Religious Imagery

Stephen Clarke Gould, Graduate Theological Union


"Jesus Saves! (The Rest Take Full Damage)": Religious Controversy and Dungeons & Dragons

Ruth McClelland-Nugent and Rob Haulton, St. Louis, Missouri



Conference Rm. 10

537       American Art and Architecture XI: De(con)structing Representation: Stereotypes and the Construction of "Self" and "Other"

Chair: Dena Gilby, Endicott College


Of "Mammies" and "Minnies": Betye Saar's Aunt Jemima Liberated and Jean Lamarr's Minniehaha Lives! and the Transformation of Stereotypes

Dena Gilby


Of White People by White People: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Exploration of the Fiction of "Whiteness" and "Native American Identity"

Cynthia Fowler, Wentworth Institute of Technology


Looking for Evidence of Us: The Teleological Construction of the World in Time-Life's "World Library" Series

Gabrielle Watling, Endicott College


Choka Watching Oprah: Tom Jonesí Photographic Representations of Ho-Chunk Family, Community, and Identity

Melanie Herzog, Edgewood College, Madison


  

Conference Rm. 11

538       The Beat Generation and Counterculture VIII: On the Border and Janine Pommy Vega

Chair:  Kurt Hemmer, Harper College


Burroughs on the Border: The Night the Gringo Got Killed in Joe's Place

Juan Ochoa, University of Texas Pan American


Beats on the Border: Mexican American Writers and the Beat Generation

Rob Johnson, University of Texas Pan American


Screening of As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega

Kurt Hemmer



Conference Rm. 12

539       Fashion, Appearance, and the Body II: Ideal Beauty: Transformation and Diversity

Chair:  Mary Adams, University of Louisiana at Monroe


The Latinization of Popular Culture in the U.S.: The Ideal of Feminine Beauty as Sign of Cultural Transformation

Sylvia Veronica Morin, University of Houston


Colonizing the Dark 'Otherí: Alek Wek and Media Representations of Diversity

Rachel Corbett, University of Iowa


False Face: Permanent Cosmetics, Consumerism, and the Role of Ritual

Mary Adams



Conference Rm. 13

540       Texas Culture:  Dildos, Beer Joints and the Martial Arts:  A Texas Nexus

Chair:  Wallis Sanborn, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin


The Device that Dare Not Speak Its Name:  The State, Sexuality and the Sale of Dildos in Texas

Phoebe Godfrey, Texas A & M International University


Poems Overheard in Texas Beer Joints

Marty Lewis, The University of Texas-Brownsville


Dance Hall Revival

Gail Folkins Koehler, Texas Tech University


Modes of Martial Discourse:  The Combat Arts in West Texas

Wallis R. Sanborn



Conference Rm. 14

541       Musical Theatre

Chair:  Samuel Goldstein, Daytona Beach Community College, Area Chair of Musical Theatre


Jesus Christ Superstar:  A Multi-Media Presentation

Ann Andaloro, Morehead State College


Defeminization in Annie Get Your Gun:  A Comparison of the Life, Legend, and Mystique of Annie Oakley

Lois Fennelly, Bethune-Cookman College


Moulin Rouge and Avant-Garde Art

Susan Ingram, University of Hong-Kong


I Was Just Trying to Be A Good Mother:  The Curse of Mothers from the Grimm Tales in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods

Sara Nicole Groe, University of Central Arkansas



Conference Rm. 15

542       Elizabethan Studies I: Writing Men: Hellfire, Prefaces, Politics, and Poetry

Chair:  Kimberlee Keeline, University of Southern California


Where There's (Hell)fire, It May only Be Smoke

James R. Wright, Triton College


Early Modern and Contemporary Book Prefaces: Essays in Renaissance Self-Fashioning

Eva Gold, Southeastern Louisiana University


The Courtier Poets

Jan McArthur, Delgado Community College


"Penelope Spins Apace" and Weaving Women Disappear: Deloney and the Clothing Industry

Kimberlee Keeline



Conference Rm. 16

543       Film XIV:  International Adoption: Two Documentary Films by Judy B. Oskam

Chair:  Judy B. Oskam, Texas Tech University


Special Panel:

Filmmaker Judy B. Oskam will screen and discuss two 30-minute documentaries, Chinese Daughter-American Girl and International Adoption: Changing Culture One Child at a Time.



Conference Rm. 17

544       Media and Globalization I: Communicating Cross-Culturally

Chair:  Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University


English on Signs in Xiamen and Brownsville

Mimosa Stephenson, University of Texas at Brownsville


The Cross-Cultural Effects of Digital Television on Population Control

Janice Fowler, Texas Woman's University


Women Doing It Themselves: Exploring the Local and the Global in an Online Gift Economy

Doreen Piano, Georgia Institute of Technology


"An Englishman Born and Bred, Almost": Mass Media and the Struggle for Identity in The Buddha of Suburbia

Elizabeth Sirkin, Case Western Reserve University



Conference Rm. 18

545       Music PCA IV:  Kinks, Clash and Vinyl

Chair:  David Schimpf, Marian College


Vinyl's Final Spin: How Technology has Altered the Music Listening Experience

Larry Etling, Valdosta State University


"Did the Clash Sell Out?" Lessons about Politics and the Music Business

Michael Cary, Seton Hill University


"Long-Haired, Dope Group Anarchists":  Mainstream Dailies and Music Trade Journals React to Rock Festivals, 1967-1973

Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State University


Hoping all the Verses Rhyme II: Art and Hope with The Kinks in the '90s and Now

David Schimpf


  

Conference Rm. 19

546       Kansas Region I: Kansas Culture/Kansas Literature

Chair:  Jay Price, Wichita State University


Geronimo in Kansas

Denise Low, Haskell Indian Nations University


The Kansas Poems of B. H. Fairchild

Craig Goad, Northwest Missouri State University


A Theory of Kansas Institutional Culture

Jay Price




FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.


Salon A

547       Science Fiction/Fantasy XX:  Heinlein II: This He Believed: Teaching Under the Radar I

Chair:  Oscar De Los Santos, Western Connecticut State University


Have Monomyth, Will Travel: The Hero's Journey in Heinlein's Juvenile Novels

Peter McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University


Conspiracy, Paranoia, and the Alien Takeover Plot: Before and After Heinlein's The Puppet Masters

Oscar De Los Santos


Heinlein's Rejection of Bourgeois Gods:  Incest and Archetype in Heinlein's World as Myth Books

William Patterson, UC-Santa Cruz Heinlein Scholar 2003-04



Salon B

548       Creative Writing IX

Chair: Millard Dunn, McKendree College-Louisville Centers


Presenters:

Ken Jones, The Art Institute of Houston

Joseph R. Chaney, Indiana University South Bend

Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College - Port Arthur

Mark Busby, Texas State University - San Marcos



Salon C

549       Native American Studies VIII: Self-Determination and Indigeneity: Exploring the Impact of Law and Policy on Culture

Chair:  Joseph Wilson, Michigan Technological University

 

The Miíkmaq-Canadian Treaty Relationship: A 277-Year Journey of Rediscovery

Cheryl Knockwood, University of Arizona


Treaty 8 and Protection of Indian Religious Freedom

Raymond Cardinal, University of Arizona

 

Self-Determination of Native American Culture Through Federal Cultural Property Laws

Sherry Hutt, Rogers College of Law


Exploratory Paper on Depression Among Hopi and Navajo

Kate Cronkite, St. Edward's University New College



Salon D

550       Film and Film Adaptation XIII: 19th-Century Women in Modern Cinema

Chair: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University


Jane Austen in Bollywood: Sense and Sensibility Travels Well

Sue Parrill, Southeastern Louisiana University


Good Girls Stay Home and Have Children: MTV's Wuthering Heights

Sarah Wakefield, Prairie View A&M University


Austenmania: 1990s Film Appropriations of Jane Austen's Emma

Elżbieta Foeller-Pituch



Salon G

551       German Culture I: Germans: Order, (Dis)Ability and (In) tolerance?

Chair:  Claude Desmarais, York University


(In)tolerance: The Brothers-Keepers in the Media and Public Eye

Janet Holmgren, Pacific Lutheran University


Who's the Monster?: Disability in Veza Canetti's Work

Claude Desmarais


The Role of Ordnung and Sicherheit in German Life and Culture

Allen E. Hye, Wright State University



Salon H

552       Composition and Rhetoric VII:  The US Military: Recruitment, Representation, Reduction

Chair: Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Visualizing the Marines: How Military Service is Visually Represented on the U.S. Marinesí Recruitment Website

Shawn Apostel, Clemson University


All's Fair: War Literature, Film, and Popular Culture in an English Composition Class

Margaret Stiner, Baldwin-Wallace College


War in Black and White: Reductive Strategy in the Rhetoric of Right and Left

Royce K. Murcherson, Richland College



Salon I

553       Comic Arts and Comics IX:  The French Influence

Chair: Chris Eklund, Purdue University


Autobiography as Authenticity in Contemporary French Comics Production

Bart Beaty, University of Calgary


Flaubertian Irony in Comics: The Case of Pierre La Police

Fabrice Leroy, University of Louisiana, Lafayette


Aspects of the Fantastic in Jean-Claude Servaisí Work

Luc D. Guglielmi, University of Louisiana, Lafayette


Unchained Reality: Poststructuralist Narrative and Identity in Helene Cixousí The Book of Promethea and Alan Moore's Promethea

Chris Eklund



Salon J

554       Drama and Theatre III:  "A 21st-Century Conundrum:

Technological Communication" (A Performance Piece)

Chair:  Mical R. Whitaker, Georgia Southern University


Presenters:

Belen D. Calingacion, University of the Philippines-Diliman

Joacobus N.P. tenBroek, Georgia Southern University

Mical Whitaker



Salon K

555       Creative Poetry IV:  Original Works

Chair: David Ray Vance, Houston, Texas


Presenters:

Nate Graziano, Green Bean Press, Manchester, New Hampshire

Catherine Kasper, University of Texas at San Antonio

David Ray Vance, Houston, Texas



Salon L

556       Gender IV

Chair:  Gypsey Teague, Langston University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma


From Playboy to The Wall Street Journal:  Media Impact on Women's Self Image

Carolyn Harper, Sam Houston State University


Caught in the Web:  Images of Women on the Internet

Kandi Tayebi, Sam Houston State University


Aguilera's Shout Out for "All the Girls Around the World"

Ginger Fray, Sam Houston State University


Mass Media & The Dissemination of Queer Images

Christina M. Molieri, Program Coordinator for Philadelphia's LGBT Community Center, The William Way Center



Salon M

557       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections IX:  Surrounded by Things: Motivations of Collectors, Hoarders, and Vendors

Chair:  Amy Wink, Southwestern University


The Gambler's Rush

Julia Penelope, Independent Scholar, Lubbock, Texas


Poet of the Flea Market: An Artist's Coming of Age among the Second-Hand

Yvonne C. Murphy, SUNY Empire State College


Unchecked Accumulation Tendencies

Noni Pratt, Co-Artistic Director, Conway & Pratt Projects, Inc.


Flea Market Vendors: Handling the Invaluables

Merry Conway, Co-Artistic Director, Conway & Pratt Projects, Inc.



Conference Rm. 1

558       Business and Corporate Culture

Chair:  Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara


A New Deal for Wine:  California Wine Marketing and Lobbying in the 1930s

Lisa Jacobson


From Romance to PMS:  Images of Women and Chocolate in Twentieth-Century America

Kathleen Banks Nutter, Fashion Institute of Technology


The Perspective of Japanese Organizational Culture:  The Theme of Matsuri

Christina Chung, University of Southern Mississippi



Conference Rm. 2

559       Radio V:  Radio History & Imagination

Chair:  David Dzikowski, Pennsylvania State University


Mail Order Radios: Home Receivers Offered in the Sears Roebuck & Montgomery Wards Catalogs, 1920-1950

Steve Craig, University of North Texas


Blackface Broadcasting: The History & Influence of Radio Minstrelsy

Noah Arceneaux, University of Georgia


John Brinkley: Radio Pioneer Offers First Viagra

Frank Chorba, Washburn University



Conference Rm. 3

560       Television XI:  Children's TV

Chair:  Pamela OíBrien, George Washington University


"What's the Sitch, Wade?":  Are Disney's Animated Television Characters Becoming Better Role Models?

Pamela OíBrien


Community Landmarks on Local TV:  A Look Through Children's Eyes

Tatyana Dumova, Buckeye Internet & Media Consulting


Understanding "Da Rules": The Characterization of Children, Adults

and Fairies in The Fairly Oddparents

James T. Coon, Wingate University



Conference Rm. 4

561    Poetry and Popular Culture V:  Poetry, Poets and the Small Press: Texas

Chair:  Kemp Gregory, San Antonio, Texas


The Remnant Versus Random House: What the Small Press and Its Wilderness Editors Can Mean

Kemp Gregory


Original Poetry Presentation

Sharon Ankrum, Poet, Austin, Texas


Selected Reading of Poetry

Charles Fuhrken, University of Texas, Austin


The Big Shoulders of the Small Presses: Poems Carried Up From Underground

Wendy Barker, University of Texas, San Antonio


Original Poetry Presentation

DP Hymel, Poet, San Antonio, Texas



Conference Rm. 5

562       Law and Culture I: Law & Literature I

Chair: Wythe Holt, University of Alabama School of Law


Popular Culture and the Adversarial Ideology

Michael Asimow, UCLA Law School

 

Living Trees and Dead Traditions: Evolutionary Explanation in Law and Culture

Allan C. Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto


Legal Writing: A Criminal Offense Against Plain Prose

Robert Barshay, Prince George's Community College, Maryland


Capitalism, Slavery, and the Constraint of Legal Choice

Wythe Holt



Conference Rm. 6

563       Rock, Film and Contemporary Arts ACA

Chair:  Donna Waller Harper, Nashville State Community College


The Search for God in Secular Media from the Twilight Zone to X-Files

Justin Young, Murray State University


Performing Nostalgia: Literariness of the Beatles

Ken Womack, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona


The Greatest Rock Album You Never Heard: The Disheartening Commercial Journey of the Rainmakers

Paul Peterson, Coastal Carolina University


The Movie Queens: How To Become Movie Queens and Movie Critics in Nashville

Donna Waller Harper



Conference Rm. 7

564       Memory and Representation V

Chair: Ray Browne, Bowling Green State University


Early Elvis,or the King of Rock as Hillbilly Cat: Myth and Southern History Revisited

Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University


Who Said Dixie Had a Monopoly on Myth? Eva Emery Dye, Sacagawea, and Visions of Empire in the Historical Romance

Sheri Bartlett Browne, Tennessee State University


Blood Myths: From the 'One-Drop' Rule to Segregated Blood Banks in the Twentieth-Century South

Frankie L. Winchester, American University, Washington, D.C.


Creation Myths and Stories: Comparative and Cross-cultural Study of the Hindu and the Australian Aboriginal Myths and Stories

Raja Jayaraman, University of Western Sydney



Conference Rm. 8

565       African American Culture VI: Mammies, Moguls and Mothers as Activists: Black Women in Hip Hop, Media, Literature, and Politics

Chair:  Venus Opal Reese, University of Texas at Dallas


The Black Mother Cultural Position and Social Activism

Sherri Parks University of Maryland, College Park

Lovell Smith, Loyola College, Baltimore


Sitcoms, Videos and Multimedia Moguls: The Pressure for African American Women to Replicate Extreme Images Present in Multiple Media Forms

Channelle D. James, University of North Carolina at Greensboro


Memory as Surveillance: An Ever Watchful Presence/Influence

in Toni Morrison's Treatment of Black Women in Text

Althea Tait, University of Tulsa


Hip-Hop's Mammy: Lauryn Hill

Venus Opal Reese



Conference Rm. 9

566       Popular Culture and Medievalism II:  Wine, Women, Song, and Heroic Archetypes

Chair:  Ruth McIntosh, University of Northern Iowa


The Demand of Wiglaf: Conceptualizing a Scantily Drawn Character into a Fully Realized Archetype

Murphy Townsend, Appalachian State University


Laudine and Yvain: Modern Reconciliations of Love and Marriage in Children's Versions of Chretien deTroyesí Knight With the Lion

Laura Boercker, Purdue University


Finding Truth about Medieval Women in Medievalist Fantasy Film: A Knight's Tale

Ruth McIntosh

  

Time Past in Time Future: Medieval Simplicity in Contemporary Music

Kara Cahill, University of Northern Iowa




Conference Rm. 10

567       American Art and Architecture XII: Spanish Revival, Latino Roots, and Artistic Texan Women

Chair:  Anni Kazdagli Trent, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento


San Antonio's Artistic Vernacular: The Popularization of Latino Roots

Timothy A. Jones, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio


Scaffolding Across Texas:  Women Creating Murals

Marianne Berger Woods, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin


The Birth of a Style: Global Politics and other influences on the Development of the Spanish Revival in the U.S. in the 1920s

Anni Kazdagli Trent

  


Conference Rm. 11

568       Horror IV:  Horror Within and Beyond Genre

Chair:  Christopher Sharrett, Seton-Hall University


Mad World, Mad Film:  The Paradoxes of Donnie Darko

Brad Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


Bog Man as Bogeyman:  British Folkloric Roots in Phil Rickman's Novels

Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake University


Sorry, Romero!  The Last Man on Earth Had the Prototypic Zombie Destroyer

James Iaccino


Noe and the Horrors of the West

Christopher Sharrett


  

Conference Rm. 12

569       Fashion, Appearance, and the Body III: Fashion Diffusion and Innovation: from Sub Culture to Mass Fashion.

Chair:  Tasha Lewis, Ohio State University


From Rags to Riches: the Diffusion and Innovation of Hip-Hop Fashion

Tracey Valentine, Regent University


Cargo Pants:  from Work Clothes to Dress Casual

Joseph Hancock, The Ohio State University


From Fabulous to Glamorous: Fashion Change in Hip-Hop Culture

Tasha Lewis



Conference Rm. 13

570       Southern Literature and Culture IV:  Theoretical and Critical Interpretations:  Contemporary Southern Literature Revisited

Chair:  Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota

 

Peanuts for Pearls

Jo LeCoeur, University of the Incarnate Word

 

Nostalgic Racism:  A Marxist Analysis of Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle

Jeremy Christensen, University of South Dakota

 

Staring into the Abysses with All Demanding Eyes:  Seeing Flannery OíConnor's Work through the Lens of Nietzsche

Vasile Stanescu, University of Texas

 

 

Conference Rm. 14

571       Grateful Dead VII:  Spiritual Dimensions of the Grateful Dead

Chair:  Julia Hardy, Muhlenberg College


Wharf Rat: A Spiritual Journey

Jon Ney, University of California, Irvine


The Grateful Dead and God: Is There a Theology for Deadheads?

David Bryan, Union Theological Seminary


The Nature and Practice of Deadhead Spirituality

Peter Sawyer,  California Institute of Integral Studies


Taoist Perspective in the Lyrics of John Perry Barlow's "Let it Grow"

Melinda Belleville, University of Kentucky



Conference Rm. 15

572       Elizabethan Studies II:  English Drama: the Plague, Clothing, and Women

Chair:  Kimberlee Keeline, University of Southern California


"Who Dares to Make Mockery of Our Woes?":  Plague and the York Corpus Christi

Play," Jim Gilbert, American University


"I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience"': Curtain Lectures in Shakespeare's Othello

LaRue Love Sloan, University of Louisiana, Monroe


Dressing the Leg: Stockings in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age

Sally Romotsky, California State University, Fullerton


Tricky Ladies: An Examination of the Female Trickster Figure in Restoration Drama

Kathy Whitaker, Georgia Southern University



Conference Rm. 16

573       Electronic Culture and Communications I:  What'll They Think of Next?  Emerging Technologies in Electronic Communications

Chair:  Bosah Ebo, Rider University


Battles for Your Living Room: The Impact of Technological Choice on What You Will See on Television

Woody Greenberg, Lynchburg College


Wireless Technology and Popular Culture : Convergence and Communication

A. Paul Chacko, University of Buffalo


Using Multimedia As a Communication Tool

Leo Chan, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


Nature on the Net: Technical Writing and Environmental Advocacy in the Age of the Internet

Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University



Conference Rm. 17

574       Collective Behavior:  Panics, Fads, and Hostile Outbreaks

Chair:  V. J. Brown, Jr., Shepherd College, West Virginia


John Murrell and the Mississippi Insurrection Scare of 1835

Josh Rothman, University of Alabama


Problems Encountered in Scientifically Investigating Sociogenic Illnesses in School Systems

Winfrey M. Ruffin, Jr., Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania


Mass Hysteria and Collective Delusions:  The Last Two Decades of the Twentieth Century

V. J. Brown, Jr.


The Incredible Shrinking Penus:  Collective Delusions or Culturally Created Quasi-Hoaxes?

James R. Stewart, Professor Emeritus, University of South Dakota



Conference Rm. 18

575      Eros, Pornography, and Popular Culture I

Chair:  William E. Brigman*, University of Houston-Downtown


*Professor Brigman has passed away; we will miss his charming personality, his amenability and good will, and his wit.  Terry Caesar will be chairing this panel in Professor Brigman's stead.


Sex in Elevators

Terry Caesar, St Mary's University


Man Killers: American Girls in Toreador Pants, 1940-1970

Leigh S. Roethke, University of Minnesota


Pink Collar Porn: Case Study-The Babysitter

Julie Willett, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 19

576       Kansas Region II: Engendering Place-Based Education in Kansas:  Pedagogical Approaches to Integrating Research into Place-Based Teaching

Chair: Amy Sage Webb, Emporia State University


Means of Mapping Place

Ellen Hansen, Emporia State University


Regional Art

Hiram Lucke, Emporia State University


Kansas Public History

Karen Manners Smith, Emporia State University


Kansas as Literary Region

Amy Sage Webb



FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.


Salon F

577       Reception in Honor of the 2004 ACA Governing Board Award Recipients


Recipients:

Gary Edgerton

Austin City Limits, Edward L. Bailey and Terry Lickona


All Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference participants and their guests are invited to join in celebrating with Gary Edgerton and the representatives of Austin City Limits, the 2004 recipient of the ACA Governing Board Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture Studies.


Gary Edgerton, who holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Massachusetts, is the author or editor of five books and dozens of book chapters, refereed journal articles, and invited, contracted, or review essays on various topics in film, television, and American culture.  He co-edits The Journal of Popular Film and Television and serves as professor and chair of the communication and theatre arts department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.


Austin City Limits:  Since its premiere on the Public Broadcasting Service in January 1976, Austin City Limits has showcased artists ranging from Willie Nelson to Phish, championing performers who display exceptional musical and songwriting talent. The only program on television devoted to American roots music, Austin City Limits presents the best homegrown musicians in country, blues, bluegrass, folk, rock'n'roll, soul, swing, tejano, and zydeco. Thanks to Bill Arhos, the innovative creator of Austin City Limits, in collaboration with Terry Lickona (producer) and Gary Menotti (director), the show has become a beloved fixture of PBS programming. Every week, millions of viewers around the country tune in for the intimate jam sessions, watching their favorite artists perform against the signature lights of the Austin skyline. The program's title was inspired by a road sign on the outskirts of the city. (http://txtell.lib.utexas.edu/stories).  The representatives for Austin City Limits who are joining us are:


Edward L. Bailey, Vice President, Brand Development for Austin City Limits, KLRU-TV


Since being named the Director of Austin City Limits 25th Anniversary in 1998, Ed has spearheaded its expansion as a diversified music brand. In 2000, the new Austin airport opened including an Austin City Limits exhibit and merchandise store. In 2001, the Best of Austin City Limits Country series was created for CMT.  In 2002, the Austin City Limits Music Festival debuted - with the economic impact to the city estimated at over $25 million. In 2003, President Bush awarded Austin City Limits the National Medal of Arts. This year, to coincide with the 30th Anniversary, Austin City Limits will open its vast archives and release a new line of DVDs.


Before moving to Austin, Ed was part of the launch team that opened the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. His responsibilities included managing $40 million in corporate sponsorships - including AT&T, Radio Shack, Pepsi, and Levi Strauss.  He supervised merchandise and licensing contracts with dozens of vendors involving hundreds of products bearing the Rock Hall logos. Ed built strategic relationships with Graceland, Rolling Stone, Fender, Gibson, MTV, VH1, and Sony He played pivotal roles in developing the national RRHOFM Traveling Exhibit Tour, historic Concert for the Hall of Fame, and promoting the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies. 


Ed began his career as an advertising executive - and for six years supervised the advertising and market development for Cedar Point Amusement Park & Resorts - Ohio's most visited tourist destination.  His experience building public/private partnerships has lead to consulting assignments with several nonprofit and entertainment organizations including; Paul Allen's Experience Music Project in Seattle, Farm Aid, the Buddy Holly Center, and the River Music Experience.


Ed serves on the advisory committees of the Austin Music Foundation, Austin Film Festival, and Saveur Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival - America's largest wine and food festival.  He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit marketing, strategic fundraising, and cultural economic development. He has been a feature presenter at IEGs Annual Sponsorship Summit, International Amusement Parks & Attractions Annual Meeting, SXSW Music Festival, and the University of Texas McCombs Graduate School of Business.


Terry Lickona, Producer, Austin City Limits


Terry Lickona has been the producer of the award-winning PBS music series Austin City Limits since 1978. In addition, he has produced numerous other specials and series for public television, cable, syndication and home video.  He is responsible for creative control and supervision of all aspects of production, including talent, budget, staff, format and post-production.


Now in its 29th consecutive year on public television, Austin City Limits is the longest-running popular music series on American television today, and is considered the premiere showcase for the most original and innovative singers, songwriters and musicians that America has to offer.


Terry has produced several fundraising specials for PBS in the past 3 years, including Don McLean: Starry, Starry Night (2000), All-Star Bluegrass Celebration I (2002), All-Star Bluegrass Celebration II (2003), and a brand new music show celebrating the í50s and í60s called At The Drive In (2003).


Since 1981, Terry has also produced over a dozen major specials for public television, basic cable, HBO, Cinemax, domestic and foreign syndication, Home Video and DVD, plus a Texas Music Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and a Gulf Coast Music Festival at The Woodlands Pavilion in Houston.


Terry is a Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), President of the Texas Chapter of NARAS, and has served as Co-Chairman of the Television Committee for the annual Grammy Awards on CBS since 2000.  A native of Poughkeepsie, New York, Terry has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1974.

  



FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 8:15 - 9:45 p.m.


 578       Community Colleges (Two-Year Colleges) III:  Party

(8:30 p.m.)

On Friday evening in PCA President Lynn Bartholome's suite.  This will be announced during the panels.



579       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXI:  Area Business Meeting and Party

Chair:  Wendy Stengel, Washington, D.C.


This gathering will be in the hotel room of either Wendy Stengel or Barbara Silliman; the definite location will be announced at the conference.



Salon B

580       Creative Fiction IV: Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University


Legend of the Phoenix Flames, When Halloween Loses Its Legs

Clay Matthews, Oklahoma State University


Your Money Or Your Life

Susan Thames, University of Central Oklahoma


 A Clever Tongue in His Head

Amy Gottfried, Hood College





Clodhoppers

Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Arizona


Revolutions

Maria Brandt, Monroe Community College



Salon D

581       Film and Film Adaptation XIV: Controversial Cinema: Discussing Race, Religion, and Politics at the Dinner Table

Chair: Iris M. Lancaster, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Coming to Terms with National Guilt Through Adaptation: Bad Day at Black Rock

Sybille Campbell, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Christ Imagery in Cool Hand Luke

Terry Peterman, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Pushing the Envelope in The Postman Always Rings Twice: Censorship Issues in Tay Garnett's 1946 Film

Connie Meyer, Texas A&M University-Commerce


In the Shot: Capturing the Passing of Sara Jane Johnson Using Mise En Scène in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life

Iris M. Lancaster



Salon G

582       German Culture II:  R.A.F.: Terrorism in Germany in the '70s and Beyond

Chair: Janet Holmgren, Pacific Lutheran University


Baader as Pop Idol: Christopher Roth's RAF-Hagiography

Jason Williamson, University of Texas at Austin


The Corpses Which Would Not Die: Cultural Representations of the RAF Body

Ilke Rasch, University of Michigan


  

Salon I

583       Comic Arts and Comics X:  Area Business Meeting

Chair:  Nicole Freim, Cardinal Stritch University



Conference Rm. 2

584       Radio VI:  Radio Christians, Rebels, and Pirates

Chair:  Jerry Donnelly, Northwest Missouri State University


Localism & Diversity:  A Survey of Low Power FM

Greg D. Newton, Ohio University

Amber Smallwood, Bloomington, Indiana


Radio of Our Own:  Low Power FM & Jeffersonian Democracy

Jerry Donnelly


K-Love & WAY-FM: Fresh Voices in Christian Radio

Robert Lochte, Murray State University



Conference Rm. 3

585       Television XII:  Special Event:  Fifty Years of Children's Television:  From Howdy Doody to Spongebob

Moderator:  Mike Brody, University of Maryland


This session, a film by Mike Brody, is more than a look at a half a century of children's television:  it is a glimpse into our own popular culture and the television shows that most of us grew up with.  Bring a drink and a snack and settle in for 50 minutes of memories and fresh ideas.



Conference Rm. 4

586           Poetry and Popular Culture VI:  (De)Appropriating Hip-Hop

Chair:  Jamerson Maurer, University of Buffalo


Public Enemy #1: Reclaiming the Avant-Garde for the Hip-Hop Poetic

Jamerson Maurer


The Poetics and Language of the Videos of Public Enemy

Mark D. Cunningham, University of Texas (Austin)


The Beats Behind the Beats: Missy Elliott, Mainstream Rap, & Rhythmic Subversion

Susannah Bartlow, University of Buffalo


Thieves in the Night?: An Examination of Sampling as Operant in Hip-Hop Music

Michael Idland, University of Buffalo



Conference Rm. 5

587       Law  and Culture II: Law & Literature II

Chair: Wythe Holt, University of Alabama School of Law


The Massacre at Fall Creek:Frontier Justice and the Indian Question

Robert Felix, University of South Carolina School of Law


Social Change and Family Law in Popular Film and Cinemaeducation

Mixon Ware, Eastern Kentucky University, with

Katie Cook, Samantha Courtney, and Jessica Grace

Eastern Kentucky University


Unreliable Narrators/Speaking with Authority:

Intersections of Gender, Law, and Literature

Debora L. Threedy, College of Law, University of Utah


A Species of Jurisprudence:  Arthur Miller's Theater of Judgment

Denis Jonnes, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan



Conference Rm. 6

588       Popular American Authors V:  Utopia Gone Wrong

Chair:  Guy Litton, Texas Women's University


Charles Lane and Fruitlands: Timon Lion, Svengali, or St. Simeon Stylites?

Larry Carlson, College of Charleston


"We All Cried": Louisa May Alcott, Fruitlands, and the Transcendental Blues

Daniel Shealy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


A Neurotic Utopia: Charles King Newcomb at Brook Farm

Guy Litton



Conference Rm. 9

589      



Conference Rm. 11

590       Horror (Literary & Cinematic) V: Archetypal Figures: Ghosts and Vampires

Chair:  William DiFede, University of California at Santa Cruz


Sadako vs. Literary Paternity or The Ring and Feminism

Landon Cowan, Brigham Young University


Intermedial Shades of Dracula

Johan Callens, Free University of Brussels


Fulcanelli as a Vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his Vampiric Monster: The Frankenstein and Dracula Myths in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos

Brad OíBrien, Francis Marion University, South Carolina


The Critical Fantasy of Mina Harker and the Representations of an Alternative Subjectivity

William DiFede



Conference Rm. 12

591       Fashion, Appearance, and the Body IV: Fashion History and Marketing:  Telling the Story in Fact and Fiction

Chair:  Trish Cunningham, The Ohio State University


Marketing an American Classic: Pendleton Woolen Mills and the Women's [19]49íer Jacket

Jessa J. Krick, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Utopian Materialism through Formal Wear in Women on the Edge of Time

Meaghan Rand, University of Texas at Arlington


The Marketing of Brands: the Atlas Underwear Company in the Early 20th Century

Trish Cunningham


  

Conference Rm. 13

592       Southern Literature and Culture V:  Culture and Literary Perspectives

Chair:  Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota

 

Attacking Leviathan:  Postmodern Literature and the Old South

Kate Cochran, Northern Kentucky University

 

Hannah's Yonder Stands Your Orphan and Cultural Exchange

Dan Dayringer, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma


Southern Literary Discourse and the African American Writer

Kimberly Smith, SUNY Stony Brook


Oprah's Book Club and the American Dream

Malin Pereira, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

  


Conference Rm. 15

593       Elizabethan Studies III:  The State of Early Modern/Renaissance Popular Culture Studies

Chair:  Kimberlee Keeline, University of Southern California


An open discussion of trends in Popular Culture studies about England from 1400-1700



Conference Rm. 16

594       Electronic Culture and Communications II:  Virtually Anywhere:  Geography & Electronic Communications

Chair:  Cathleen White, Director of Educational Services, Cleveland Corporate Services


Cruisiní the Main: Chinese Youth and the CyberCafe

Jerry L. Loving, Central State University


Deleuze, Role-Playing Games, and the Idea of Non-Virtual Reality

Jeffrey P. Cain, Sacred Heart University



Conference Rm. 18

595       Eros, Pornography, and Popular Culture II

Chair:  William E. Brigman*, University of Houston-Downtown


*Professor Brigman has passed away; we will miss his charming personality, his amenability and good will, and his wit.  Julie Willett, Texas Tech University, will chair the panel in Prof. Brigman's stead.


Endearing and Enticing Innocence: Competing Ideologies in the Evolution of American Child Pornography Law

James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown


Born Again Into the Patriarchy: The Christian Right's War on Pornography

John Ernst, Heartland College


Rethinking the Concept of 'Communityí in the Electronic Age

William E. Brigman