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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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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004


SALON E:  EXHIBITOR'S SPACE



Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.


Hotel Lobby

Cemeteries and Gravemarkers:  Cemetery Tour


This tour is sponsored by the Cemeteries and Gravemarkers Area of the American Culture Association.  An all-day [8:30am-4:30pm] excursion to various cemeteries in the San Antonio area will provide participants an opportunity to visit, investigate, and analyze gravemarkers found at selected burial sites.



Salon A

001       Horror I:  Horror Cinema

Chair:  Mehnaz Choudhury, Lehigh University


Videoscopic Horror:  Indirect Light and Symbolic Exchange in Manhunter

Mark Wildermuth, The University of Texas


Scare Tactics:  Generating Fear in Jeepers Creepers

James Knecht, Oklahoma State University


WordVirus and Golem:  A Treatment of Alterity in Freddy Vs. Jason

John Reeve, Texas Tech University


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003):  The Same Old Saw?

Mehnaz Choudhury, and

Stephen Tompkins, Lehigh University



Salon B

002       Creative Fiction I:  Fiction and Non-Fiction

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University


Ko-ko the Cat

Hank Hancock, Houston, Texas


A Seat at Tuke's Tea Party

Elisa Spindler, Texas State University


Beatrice

Madeline Sonik, University of British Columbia



Salon C

003       Native American Studies I: American Indian Literary History and the History of the Book

Chair:  Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, University of California, Santa Cruz


The Legacies of Literacy Instruction: Boarding School Pedagogy and American Indian Literacy, 1874-1910

Whitney Myers, University of New Mexico


Converging Winds: Policy, Protest, and the Making of a Tribal Library Movement

Alan Pannell, The University of Arizona


The Cherokee Phoenix, Print Culture in the Early Republic, and the Discourses of Removal

Stephen J. Brandon, University of New Mexico



Salon D

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Salon F

005       Science Fiction/Fantasy I:  Film and TV

Chair:  Deborah Scally, University of Texas at Dallas


Regenerations: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Doctor Who

Michael Robinson, Lynchburg College


From Lockets and Incubus to Esper and the Monitors:  Blade Runner and the Gaze Undermined

Tina Grabenhorst, University of Windsor


Alternative Spaces: The Postmodern Female Hero in Science Fiction Film

Martina Lipp, Hollins University


Rick Deckard As a Lorenz Attractor: Chaos in the Blade Runner Universe

Deborah Scally



Salon G

006       Literature & Politics I: African & African-American Literature

Chair:  Ja'net Daniels, California State University, Long Beach


The Tell-Tale Ring: Or, This Blue-Eyed Black Boy is Yours

Patricia A. Young, Western Illinois University


Parody of the Powerful

Olubunmi O. Ashaolu, University of California, Davis


Re-Altering Literary History: Investigating Authenticity in H.E. Wilson's Our Nig

Ja'net Daniels



Salon H

007       Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment I: Sprawl: Human Agency in the Landscape

Chair:  Sara-Jayne Parsons, University of Texas at Austin


The Managed Landscape

Dornith Doherty (Photographer), University of North Texas


Terra Nullis

Sally Packard (Installation Artist), University of North Texas


Reacting to Sprawl: Art and Human Agency in the Landscape

Sara-Jayne Parsons (Art Historian & Curator)



Salon J

008       World War I and II Panels: World Wars I:  World War I

Chair: Lourdes Rivera-Narváez, University of Puerto Rico


The Crude Reality: Wilfred Owen and the Horrors of War

Zuheily Díaz-Navarro, University of Puerto Rico


Lest We Forget: Battling the Realization of Mortality in the War

Chantelle MacPhee, University of Puerto Rico


Even To This Day: Remembering World War I

Lourdes Rivera-Narváez



Salon K

009       Mystery/Detective Fiction I:  Historical Mysteries: Present Issues Explored in Past Venues

Chair:  Gina MacDonald, Nicholls State University


Negotiating Alternative Paths: Inventing the Human Landscape of Prehistoric Louisiana

Andrew MacDonald, Loyola University


Medieval Feminist Detective Dame Frevisse Medier

Daryl Holmes, Nicholls State University


Peter Tremayne's Stern Seventh-Century Irish Sleuth, Sister Fidelma

Anita Tully, Nicholls State University, and Marie Sheley, Nicholls State University


Kiowa Shaman Detective Tay-Bodal:  Reconstructing Kiowa Cultural Realities

Gina MacDonald



Salon L

010       Women's Lives and Literature I:  Gender and Genre

Chair:  Mary Frances Heinsohn, Texas Tech University


Thoroughly Modern Mary: Apparitions of the Virgin in Popular Contemporary Writing

Deborah Sarbin, Clarion University


Cisneros' Caramelo as a Chicana Bildungsromane

Esra Öztarhan, Ege University, Turkey


Tennyson's The Princess and Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century:  Transatlantic Dialogue and Unmasking Anti-Feminism in The Princess

Mary Frances Heinsohn



Conference Rm. 1

011       Food and Popular Culture I:  Food, Bodies, and Ethnic Identity

Three panelists in this session have moved to other panels later in the day



Conference Rm. 2

012       Western Perceptions of East European Identities I:  Newspapers and Travelogues

Chair:  Marina Antic, University of Wisconsin-Madison


On The Trail of John B. Stetson, Jr.: An American Businessman in Warsaw

Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University


The Public Image of Bosnian Muslims in Great Britain and Ireland (1463 - 1878)

Neval Berber, National University of Ireland


Reading Russia through the U.S. and Vice Versa

Ted Hopf, Ohio State University


A Spanish View of an East European Conflict: Juan Goytisolo's Sarajevo Reports as Committed War Journalism

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University College, Dublin



Conference Rm. 3

013       World's Fairs I: Observations on the 1904 St. Louis Exposition

Chair: Yvonne Condon, Saint Louis, Missouri


Health Exhibits at the St. Louis World Fair

L. Margaret Barnett, University of Southern Mississippi


Anthropology at the St. Louis Fair

Thomas Prasch, Washburn University


"Elevating the Human Species": Scientific Baby Shows and the Popularization of American Eugenics

Diana Moyer, University of Tennessee



Conference Rm. 4

014       Sports I:  Exercise

Chair: Claudia Salamanca, Rutgers University


Running for Charity: Decentering a Sport

Andrew Suozzo, De Paul University


A Running Community

Sean Kelly, West Texas A&M University


The Workout Video: The Destruction of the Mirror

Claudia Salamanca



Conference Rm. 5

015       Shakespeare on Film and Television I

Chair:  Roberta N. Rude, University of South Dakota


Strong-armed Ophelia:  Lessons from The Lion King and A Mid-winter's Tale

Kristin Hanson, Louisiana State University


Receive the Blood:  Titus Andronicus on Stage and Screen

Gabrielle Malcolm, EdgeHill University - Lancaster University


The Gangster Macbeth:  Crime and Parody

Richard Vela, University of North Carolina-Pembroke


Taymor's Titus:  Ante-Historical Shakespeare

Matt Bolton, City University of New York




Conference Rm. 6

016       Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory I

Chair: Valarie Zapata, University of California, Riverside


Eyes on the Spy Kids: Seeing Hybridity in a Chicano Kid Flick

Lisa Cortez Walden, University of Texas at San Antonio


Made to be a Maid?: Examining the Image of the Latina Maid in Mainstream Film and Television

Rosa E. Soto, University of Florida


Phantom Tinseltown: Latinidad in Arteta's Star Maps

Valarie Zapata




Conference Rm. 7

017       Composition and Rhetoric I: PC and MM and Comp-Oh My!:  An Interactive Poster Session on Popular Culture and Multimedia in the Composition Classroom

Chair: Jennifer Consilio, Purdue University


Panelists:

Colin Charlton, Purdue University

Jennifer Consilio

Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University




Conference Rm. 8

018       Community Colleges in the 21st Century I:  Facing the Future

Chair:  Ken Dvorak, Distance Learning Program, San Jacinto College District, Texas


The Value of Teaching Popular Culture in the Community College

Philip Snyder, Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York


A Tough Row to Hoe: Planting the Seeds of Popular Culture in the Conservative Soil of a Community College

Jay Nelson, Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York


Cultural Renegades: Teaching Popular Culture in a Community College

Ken Dvorak



Conference Rm. 9

019       Religion and Popular Culture:  Religious Identity

Chair: Lisa Roy Vox, Emory University


The Causes and Effects of Conservative, Mainstream Religions on the South and Southwest

Kenneth D. Johnson, University of Southern Indiana


Christ, Anti-Christ, or Super-Hero? Green Lantern in the Late 20th Century

Bobby James Kuechenmeister, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire


Towards a Peaceful Sabbath:  An Authoethnography of Becoming a Jew

Iris Davis, Wichita State University


Teaching the End of the World: Popular Eschatology for Children's Books

Lisa Roy Vox, Emory University



Conference Rm. 10

020       American Studies I:  From Inside and Out:  Images of Mexicanas and Chicanas in Southwestern Literature

Chair:  Andrea Tinnemeyer, Utah State University


"And in two language everything made is expressed": Mexico, Mexicans Americans, and Hispanics in the Work of Mary Austin

Melody Graulich, Utah State University


"Beauty is silent, does not speak": Mapping the Body in Denise Chavez's Last of the Menu Girls

Liz Wright, Utah State University


Female Bodies on the Edge: Oliver Oatman and Lola Medina

Andrea Tinnemeyer



Conference Rm. 11

021       Asian Popular Culture I: Comic Art

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


New Type of Popular Culture in the Internet Age: Focusing on Personal Web Cartoons in Korea

Jae-Woong Kwon, Temple University


Chinese Cartoon Master Liao Bingxiong: A Poor Kid, Brave Caricaturist, and Kind 'Grandpa'

Xu Ying, International Journal of Comic Art


The Gendered Comic Market in Korea: An Overview of Korean Girls' Comics, Soonjung Manhwa

Sueen Noh, Temple University



Conference Rm. 12

022       Comic Arts and Comics I:  Language, Gender, and Identity

Chair: Kimberly Knight, California State University, Northridge


We Have All Been Sentenced: Language as Means of Control in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles

Stephen Rauch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Gender, Power, and Counterculture in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles and The New X-Men

Christopher Fan and Ashur Aiwase, New York University


Little Goth Girls:  Gender, Adolescence and the Corporeal in the Goth Comic

Kimberly Knight


Ironic Detachment and the Hypocrisy of Cool in Daniel Clowes' Ghost World

Thomas A. Holmes, East Tennessee State University



Conference Rm. 13

023       Computer Culture I: Extreme Gaming: Targeting the Rhetoric of Computer Game Controversies

Chair:  Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology


So That's What an Exploded Head Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Computer Game Violence

David Menchaca, University of Arizona


The Game Grind: Why Are X-Rated Computer Games So Boring?

Judd Ruggill, University of Arizona


Paranoid Politics: Telling Truths with Interactive Lies

Ken McAllister, University of Arizona


Beyond Freaks and Geeks: Will the Real Video Game Players Please Stand Up?

Randy Nichols, University of Oregon



Conference Rm. 14 

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Conference Rm. 15

025       Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth I:  Myth as Translational Tool:  Understanding our World Through Myth

Chair:  Stephen Y. Wilkerson, Pacifica Graduate Institute


Zen and the Art of Teaching Composition: Joseph Campbell's Monomyth as a Navigational Tool for Fostering Multiculturalism in the Writing Classroom

Kelly Sones Hancock, Middle Tennessee State University


Fantasy Theme Analysis Revisited: Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey

Carlnita P. Greene, University of Texas at Austin


The Death of Pan:  Joseph Campbell and a Mythological Perspective on the Current Ecological Crisis

Stephen Y. Wilkerson



Conference Rm. 16

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Conference Rm. 17

027       Civil War I:  Commemoration and Reenactment

Chair:  Randal Allred, Brigham Young University Hawaii


Reconciling with the Dead: Myth and Meaning in the Commemoration of the Civil War Soldier Dead

John R. Neff, University of Mississippi


"How Wholesome and Healing the Peace": The Gettysburg Eternal Light Peace Memorial in History and Memory

John Chappo, University of Southern Mississippi


Irrepressible Conflict? Reenactors vs. Historians vs. Hollywood

Christopher Bates, University of California, Los Angeles


"Did It Not Seem Real?  Was It Not as in the Old Days?" Battle Reenactment as Commemoration

Randal Allred




Wednesday, April 7, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.


Salon A

028       Horror II:  Vampires and Vampire Slayers

Chair:  Tim Boehme, Southwest State University


How Spike and Angel Got Their Souls Back

Tim Boehme


Spike's Road to Redemption:  Dead Bodies, Mad Lovers, Government Chips and the Slayer

Terry L. Spaise, University of California at Riverside



Salon B

029       Creative Fiction II: Drama

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University


The Blank Page

Elizabeth Coker, University of Texas at Dallas


All the President's Children

Eugene L. Arva, University of Miami


The Speed of Sound

Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University



Salon C

030       American Indians Today I:  Ancient Teachings-Ancient Method

Chair:  Jerry C. Bread, Sr., University of Oklahoma


Contemporary Native Music and Sound-A Reflection of Native Pedagogy

Jerry C. Bread, Sr.


Buffalo Extermination and Kiowa Peoplehood:  Covenant, Ceremony, and Storytelling

Christopher Thee, University of Arizona


A Theoretical Paradigm for American Indian Studies

Spintz R. Harrison, University of Arizona


  

Salon D

031    

Literature and Society I:  Themes, Machines, and Sentimental Schemes

Chair:  Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University


Greek Mythology in Modern Movies: Enduring Themes in a New Context

Daniel d'Oney, Albany College of Pharmacy


The Hollywood War Machine and the War in Iraq

Tom Pollard, National University, San Jose


The Hankie and the Knife: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century America

Paula Kopacz


  

Salon F

032       Science Fiction/Fantasy II:  Cyberpunk

Chair:  Carl Silvio, Monroe Community College


Futility is Freedom: Cyberpunk, Developing Technologies, and Bruce Sterling's Twenty Evocations

Diana Lynn Roston, Pasadena, California


The Naked Squirm:  Gender and the Body in the Work of James Tiptree, Jr. (cyberpunk)

Denell Downum, CUNY Graduate Center


Representations of Internet in Cyberpunk Fiction

Jorie Lagerwey, Los Angeles, California


The Difference Engine and the Ideological Implication of Steampunk

Carl Silvio



Salon G

033       Literature & Politics II: Theory and Practice

Chair:  Cody Marrs, University of Kansas


The Imperial Politics of "Escapist Rot": Depictions of Race, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Harlequin Novels, 1965 - 1979

Maura Seale, University of Minnesota


The Subject of Coincidence or Beyond Psycho-Marxism

Eyal Dotan, Tel Aviv University


Practical Emerson: Teaching Peace Through Ethnical Awareness

Andrew M. Sidle, Northern Illinois University


Disciplining New Historicism: Foucault, Marxism, and the Politics of Historiography

Cody Marrs



Salon H

034       Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment II

Chair:  Scott Hicks, Vanderbilt University


Establishing Ties between Environmentalism and Outdoor Recreation: Wendell Berry's Walk in the Woods

Christina Healey, Boston College


"Filling in the Holes": From Wasteland to Community in Louis Sachar's Holes

Tara K. Parmiter, New York University


Autobiographical Nature Writing:  the Personal as Catalyst for Change in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and Susanne Antonetta's Body Toxic

Candace Barlow, University of Washington


Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Ken Kesey: Ecocriticism as Countercultural Critique

Scott Hicks



Salon I

035       Popular Culture in the Age of Theodore Roosevelt I

Chair:  Daniel P. Murphy, Hanover College


On With The Show!: Theatrical Touring Companies During the Age of TR

Deborah Ford, North Dakota Humanities Council


"Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days": The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha

Thomas M. Spencer, Northwest Missouri State University


To Ignore is to Deny:  E.W. Kemble's Racial Caricature as Popular Art

Francis Martin, University of Central Florida


Children of the Dragon's Blood: Theodore Roosevelt as Historian

James H. Pruitt, Texas A&M University



Salon J

036       World Wars II:  World War II

Chair: Philip Harwood, University of Dayton


"I'll Be Happy When the Nylons Bloom Again": World War II is Good for the Music Business

Kathleen E. R. Smith, Northwestern State University of Louisiana


Government Media Construction of the African American Soldier Hero

Kathy German, Miami University


Between Ourselves: Leonard Banning, Kenneth Lander, and the Development of Nazi Propaganda throughout Europe

Philip Harwood



Salon K

037       Mystery/Detective Fiction II:  Reading Our Own: Readings of Detective/Mystery Fiction by the Authors

Chair:  Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University


Salsa, Drugs, and Rock-and-Roll

Felipe G. Gomez, University of Michigan


Stoop, the Thief

Steven Torres, Utica College


Death In-line

Viki Craig



Salon L

038       Women's Studies I:  Gendering Desire

Chair: 


Blaze IS Porn for Housewives: Harlequin Eases into Erotica

Amber Botts, Independence Community College


Seduction and Self-Love:  Sex in the Romance Novel

Victoria Somogyi, New York City, New York


Pornographing Girl Power:  Women in 2003 Blockbuster Film Season

M. Catherine Jonet and Laura Anh Williams, Purdue University


Resolute Maternity or the Art of Letting Go:  On Steven Shainberg's Secretary

Laura Camille Tuley, Dillard University



Salon M

039       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections I: Gendered Collecting: The Use and Fate of Some Historic Collections

Chair: Toni C. Mantych, University of California, Santa Barbara


Margaret, the 2d Duchess of Portland: A Connoisseur and Collector

Lynn Schibeci, University of New Mexico


Insanity, Undue Influence, and the Problem of Mrs. Fogg's Bequest

Kimberly A. Orcutt, Fogg Art Museum


"What I Admire, I Must Possess": Intimate Artifice at the Menil Collection

Pamela Smart, Binghamton University



Conference Rm. 1

040       Food and Popular Culture II:  The Economics of Food

Chair:  Beverly Taylor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


Good Food, the Great Equalizer: Reflections on TV Chefs

Craig Clifford, Tarleton State University


Will Work for Food: Knights, Samurai, and the Homeless

Carol Richards, Duke University


Food Consumption in the Economic Fables of Mary Wilkins Freeman and Alice Dunbar Nelson

Thomas Strychacz, Mills College

  

I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke: The Politics of Pop and Globalization in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Rebecca Nicholson, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 2

041       Western Perceptions of East European Identities II: Film and Popular Culture I

Chair:  Marina Antic, University of Wisconsin-Madison


A Gaze into the Balkans' Underbelly: The Films of Angelopoulos, Kusturica, and Manchevski

Tatjana Aleksic, Rutgers University


Soviet Superheroes: Contrasting Images of the USSR in American Media and Comics

Jack Hutchens, Emporia State University


Cinematizing Self and Other in Fording the Stream of Consciousness

Dragoslav Momcilovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison


The East European Files

Agnieszka Fulinska, Jagellonian University



Conference Rm. 3

042       World's Fairs II: Foreign Participation

Chair: Frederick J. Augustyn, Social Sciences, Cataloging Division, Library of Congress


The Birth of the Fair of Attractions: The Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867

Volker Barth, Paris, France


Bertram Mills, Olympia, and the Modernization of British Fairgrounds, 1921-1945

Sandra Dawson, University of California, Santa Barbara


Rival Appetites: The Paris City Council at the 1900 Paris World's Fair

Nancy L. Turpin, University of Illinois at Chicago


Richard M. Nixon and the International Exhibitions

Frederick J. Augustyn



Conference Rm. 4

043       Sports II:  Media

Chair: Stephen D. Mosher, Ithaca College


Smash Mouth English

Jacqueline Acuff, Texas A&M University


"You Gotta Stand for SomethingÖ":  Media Coverage of the Toni Smith Incident

Stephen D. Mosher



Conference Rm. 5

044       Shakespeare on Film and Television II

Chair:  Richard Vela, The University of North Carolina-Pembroke


Body and Movement for a Contemporary Film-Musical adaptation of the Casket Scene of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Carolina Conte, Ohio University


Postmodern Ghosts in Almereyda's Film of Hamlet

Mark Pizzato, University of North Carolina-Charlotte


Embracing the Body:  Prospero's Books and the Cinematic Embodiment of The Tempest

James Casey, University of Alabama


A Descent into the Tempest:  The Prospero Problem in Three Film Versions of Shakespeare's Last Play

Paul Haspel, Millikin University



Conference Rm. 6

045       Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory II

Chair:  Scott L. Baugh, Texas Tech University


Nuevas perspectivas de genero desde paises en vias de desarrollo/New Perspectives of the Underdeveloped

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Universidad de Huelva, Spain


Movies, Narratives, and Language: Border Identity in Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante

Susan Mendez, University of California, Riverside


Crossing, Entering, and Existing: The Illegal Mexican Migrant Farm Worker in Villase-or's Macho!

Ed Simmen, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla


Manifesting la Historia: Chicana/o Film and the Manifesto Document

Scott L. Baugh



Conference Rm. 7

046       Composition and Rhetoric II: Composing Popular Critical Race Cultures: Pedagogical Appropriations of Pop-Culture in the College Classroom

Chair:  Barbara J. Wilcots, University of Denver


Liberatory Pedagogy: Eliding Blackness in Teaching African American Science Fiction

Barbara J. Wilcots

  

The Hip-Hop Classroom: Writing and Unwriting Race and Class

Jessica Parker, University of Denver


Un(der)-Writing White Masculinity in Popular Culture: When Students See Their Own Constructions

Gary Norris, University of Denver



Conference Rm. 8

047       Community Colleges in the 21st Century II:  Facing the Future

Chair: Jay Nelson, Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York


Community Colleges in the 21st Century: Servants of Neoliberalism?

Scott H. Boyd, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois


The Virgins and the Dynamo: Computer-Based Learning Technology and the Teacher of Literature

Joseph Bodziock, Clarion University of Pennsylvania


Public Post-Secondary Education and the "Alberta Advantage"

James Martens, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada




Conference Rm. 9

048       Professional Placement ACA I:  Graduate Students: How to Survive this Convention

Chair: David Feldman, New York, NY


Come meet other graduate students, as well as luminaries from both the PCA and ACA, in an informal setting.  Want to meet Ray Browne, co-founder and grandfather of the Popular Culture Association.  Want to know what the organizations are all about?  Or how to get the most out of attending this convention?  Interested in finding about cheap, delicious food options in San Antonio outside of the Marriott? Here's your chance to have these and other questions about the PCA/ACA convention answered.




Conference Rm. 10

049       American Art and Architecture I: Oppression, Aggression, and Intimidation: Themes of Violence in American Art (Special Student/Teacher Session)

Chair: Robert Sheardy, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan


Images of Violence in Contemporary Native-American Art

Abbey Pintar, Kendall College of Art and Design


"Pow!" Violence in Illustration

Timothy Pospisil, Kendall College of Art and Design

 

Violence Sells: Aggression and Intimidation in American Advertising

Terry Vanden Akker, Kendall College of Art and Design


The Art of Murder

Robert Sheardy



Conference Rm. 11

050       Asian Popular Culture II:  Film, Robots, "High Art"

Chair: John A. Lent, Asian Cinema


Devil Rides, a Hidden Dragon, and The Hulk: An Analysis of the Shadow Abomination Archetype in Three Ang Lee Films

Ken Nordin, Benedictine University


The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in 'FLCL'

Brian Ruh, Indiana University


Nostalgia, the Search for Japanese Identity, and Tora-san as Cultural Icon

Toby L. Matoush, San Jose State University



Conference Rm. 12

051       Comic Arts and Comics II:  Connections of Place and Persona

Chair: Jason Tondro, University of California Riverside


Eisner's Hamlet on a Rooftop: A Critical Analysis

Jason Tondro


The Hero High Above the City

Frenchy Lunning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design


The Body and the City: No Man's Land and the New Metropolis

Matthew Wolf-Meyer, University of Minnesota


Drawn From Life: Gasoline Alley and the Perils of Autobiographical Art

Jeet Heer, Writer/Journalist, The Boston Globe, et al.



Conference Rm. 13

052       Computer Culture II: Woman (Dis)orders: Women Writing Back, Writing the Web (Roundtable)

Chair:  Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology


The Medical Profession: Psychiatry

Sandi Reynolds, Texas Woman's University


Pro-Anorexia Web Sites

Morgan Gresham, Clemson University


Drug Ads: Normalizing Mental Illness

Roxanne Kirkwood, Texas Woman's University


Reading the Visual Images of Femininity and Illness

Christa J. Downer, Texas Woman's University



Conference Rm. 14

053       Gay and Lesbian Studies II: World War II to Pre-Stonewall Constructions of Homosexuality

Chair: Jeffrey Dennis, Florida Atlantic University


So Far Away From Home: ONE Magazine's Queer Responses to Cold War Era Domestic Ideology

Angela Galik, University of Minnesota


Adam and Eve?: Virginia Prince, The First Transgender Person

Stephen Whittle, Manchester Metropolitan University


Someone's Looking:  Law, Technology, and the Homoerotic Image

Milton W. Wendland, University of Kansas


Chasing Trouble: Lost Boys and Homoerotic Desire in World War II Teenpix

Jeffrey Dennis



Conference Rm. 15

054       Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth II:  Myth and Culture:  Understanding Literature and Culture through Myth

Chair:  Leslie Goss Erickson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln


'O Mother, Where Art Thou?':  Mourning the Loss of the Great Goddess

Charlene Green, Texas Woman's University


Song of the Secret Fire:  The Music of Creation and the Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien

Lorraine S. Lipoma, University of West Georgia


Bending the Bow:  The Myth of Meaning

Anais N. Spitzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute


In the Shadow of Salomé:  Woman's Heroic Journey in Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salomé

Leslie Goss Erickson



Conference Rm. 16

055       Alfred Hitchcock I

Chair:  Rick Shale, Youngstown State University


Sadomasochism and Hitchcock's Neglected Cinema

Douglas MacLeod, University at Albany


Teaching Hitchcock in the Twenty-First Century

Rick Shale



Conference Rm. 17

056       Civil War II:  Local History and Regional Loyalties in the South

Chair:  Clarence Hooker, Michigan State University


"Hanged by the Neck Until He Is Dead": The Trial and Hanging of a Member of the 22nd Regiment Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) in Monroe, Louisiana, 1864

M. Scott Legan, University of Louisiana at Monroe


Traitors in Wheeling: Confederates in the Heart of Unionist Appalachia

Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University


Fugitives, Loyalists, Conscripts and Contraband: The Underground Civil War of Greater Memphis

Clarence Hooker



Conference Rm. 18

057       Southwest Ranching I: Ecological Issues

Chair:  Anthony Chiaviello, University of Houston-Downtown


Mesquite, Cactus, and Other Thorny Issues:  Land Use and Restoration in the Texas Brush Country

Trish Roberts-Miller, University of Texas


Ranching, Work, and Wilderness:  Working Out the Way We Work in Nature

J.C. Mutchler, University of Arizona South


Grazing vs. Ranching:  A Report on Freilich's Findings on Ecological Effects of Grazing Activity vs. Ranching Habits: Six Points

Anthony Chiaviello




Conference Rm. 19

058       Popular American Authors I: Autobiography and Biography/Memoir

Chair:  Olivia Pass, Nicholls State University


Auto-portraits: Constructing, Conducting an Autobiography

Catharine Savage Brosman, Tulane University


Creative Nonfiction: Oxymoron or Truism?

Olivia Pass





Wednesday, April 7, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.



Salon A

059       Horror III:  Horror Adaptations

Chair:  Marie A. Fitzwilliam, College of Charleston


Fatal Fornication:  Dracula, Contagious Diseases Acts, and AIDS Awareness

Sarah Lynne Peters, Texas A&M University


A Lingering Horror Achieved:  The Haunting as Fantastic Text

Paul Reinsch, University of Southern California


Madness and Obsession in The Club Dumas and The Ninth Gate

Josh Lindsey, Northeastern State University


Gothic Villains Humanized:  Darker Makeovers of Collins and Stephenson in Contemporary Film

Marie A. Fitzwilliam



Salon B

060       Creative Writing I

Chair: Jill Talbot, Southern Utah University


Presenters:

Tammy Walker, Tomball College

Sam Snoek-Brown, University of North Texas

Lynnea Chapman King, Butler County Community College



Salon C

061       American Indians Today II:  American Indian Image, Myth and Stereotype

Chair:  Tom Holm, University of Arizona


The Indian Scout Syndrome:  Colonizing Myths, Native American Warriors, and the Indian Sports Mascot

Tom Holm, University of Arizona


Native Americans in Popular Culture; Red Realities/White Perceptions

Douglas Miles, Sr., San Carlos Apache, and

Akimel O'Odham, Artist


Native Representations in Popular Culture Media:  Where Have All the Hollywood Indian Women Gone?

Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College


Nineteenth-Century Popular Art and the Semiotics of Empire

William Stratton, University of Arizona



Salon D

062       Literature and Society III:  Orwell, Berry, and Crews

Chair:  Gary L. Long, University of Mississippi


The Sincere Language of George Orwell and Wendell Berry

Lillian Daughaday, Murray State University, Kentucky


Hunger and the Paradox of Plenty in Harry Crews's Changing South

Elise S. Lake, University of Mississippi


Remaking the Self by Disciplining the Self:  Harry Crews's take on Modern America

Gary L. Long



Salon F

063       Science Fiction/Fantasy III:  Star Trek

Chair: 


You, Hugh:  Language Subjectification in Star Trek TNG's "I, Borg"

Dharmini Patel, Purdue University



Salon G

064       Literature & Politics III: We Got Class, Dammit!

Chair:  John R. Holmes, Virginia State University


Partisanship on Parade: A Bumper Crop of Causes

Laura Ann McCarley, Austin, Texas


Cooking Up Class: The Hierarchical Views of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Chef

Paul Thomas Murphy, University of Colorado


Twisted Lip and Legges Alery: Fashioning the Beggar's Body

Donna Crawford, Virginia State University


Dave Robicheaux's Hard-Boiled Populism

John R. Holmes



Salon H

065       Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment III

Chair:  Daniel Kerr, West Texas A&M University


Whole Earth Iconography: Locations and Representations of Landscape, Third Nature and Hybridity

Carolyn M. Gage, University of Arizona


Where There's Smoke, There's Ö Smokey!: A Critical Analysis of 50 Years of Smokey Bear Advertising

Melanie Armstrong, University of New Mexico


William Carlos Williams's Ecological Avatar, Francis of Assisi

Iris Ralph, University of Texas at Austin


Thoreau and the Great Green Myth: A Different "Word for Nature"

Daniel Kerr



Salon I

066       Popular Culture in the Age of Theodore Roosevelt II

Chair:  Daniel P. Murphy, Hanover College


The Old Way and the New: The Democratic Party Campaign Film of 1912

Mark Benbow, Resident Historian, Woodrow Wilson House


Rough Rider Redux: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest for a Division in 1917

Daniel P. Murphy, Hanover College


America After the Great War

Fred Isaac, Berkeley, California



Salon J

067       World Wars III:  World Wars I and II:  Military Issues

Chair:  Kent G. Sieg, History Office, United States Army Corps of Engineers


Implications of a Gramscian Analysis of American Civil Defense

Sean P. Murphy, University of Houston


Going Postal: Black Propaganda and Intelligence Forgeries 1940-1945

Liam O'Brien, Quinnipiac University


The Creation of Defense Forces in the United States: A History of a Homeland Security Resource

Kent G. Sieg



Salon K

068       Mystery/Detective Fiction III:  Hard-Boiled Detectives and Classic Mysteries Revisited

Chair:  Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University


To Hell with Ya: Katabasis in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

Eric Rawson, University of Southern California


In Search of Marginality: Sarah Paretsky, the Hardboiled Formula, and Historical Consciousness

Cindy Hamilton, Manchester Metropolitan University-Cheshire


Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Sarah Smith's The Knowledge of Water

Margaret Batschelet, University of Texas--San Antonio


Daddy's Girls:  The Inspector as Father Figure in Agatha Christie's and Dorothy Sayer's Golden Age Mysteries

Linda Strahan, University of California-Riverside



Salon L

069       Women's Studies II:  Gendering the Artistic Process

Chair:  Jessica N. Pabon, University of Arizona


Anna Murray Douglass: A Poetic Search-and-Rescue

M. Nzadi Keita


The Graffiti Canon: The Mis-Under-Non-Representations of Female Graffiti Artists

Jessica N. Pabon



Salon M

070       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections II:

The Materials of History: Stories of Collected Objects

Chair: Nancy Ann Arnold, University of California, Santa Barbara


Frames of Self-Reference: Willem van Haecht's "The Cabinet of Cornelis van der Gheest" as a Portrait of the Collector

Antoniette M. Guglielmo, University of California, Santa Barbara


Storied Things: Tracing the Collected Object in the Collecting Culture of 18th-Century Britain

Toni C. Mantych, University of California, Santa Barbara


Collecting as Historiography: Walter Benjamin's Collector and the Task of the Historian

Claire Sykes, University of Rochester


Reality and Authenticity at the Henry Ford Museum

Sarah Zenaida Gould, University of Michigan



Conference Rm. 1

071          Soap Opera I:  New Directions Or Not?

Chair:  M.J. Robinson, New York University


Starting Over as the "Real" World Turns: Genre Blending, Soap Opera and Reality TV in Daytime

M.J. Robinson


Cliffhangers and Climaxes: Can Soap Opera and Feature Films Mix?

Radha O'Meara, University of Melbourne


Marginalization: How Hispanic Media Perpetuates Stereotypes

Bernardo Enrique Pohl, Jr., University of Houston


All Our Mothers

Mary Devine, Salem State College



Conference Rm. 2

072       Western Perceptions of East European Identities III: Film and Popular Culture II

Chair:  Marina Antic, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Imagining Transylvania: Global Images and Local Visions

Cherie Michelle Wolter, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Eastern Girls, Western Boys: The Image of the Eastern European Woman in Birthday Girl

Agnieszka Tuszynska, Emporia State University


Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian Movies: A Content Analysis

Alma Redzanovic, Cedar Crest College


Western Perceptions of Aromanian Cultural and Ethnical Identity

Mariana Bara, University of Bucarest



Conference Rm. 3

073       World's Fairs III: Cultural Identification

Chair: Martin Manning, Co-Chair, World's Fairs Area


Erasing Local Tribes in the Making of Paradise: San Diego's Panama-California Exposition of 1915

Natchee Blu Barnd, University of California, San Diego


"The Isabella Road Has Been the Longest": Harriet Hosmer at the World's Columbian Exposition and the California Mid-Winter Fair

Kate Culkin, Pace University


Ethnic Identity and Nationalism at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Cheryl R. Ganz, University of Illinois at Chicago


The Politics and Popularity of Augusta Savage's "Lift Every Voice and Sing"' at the 1939 New York World's Fair

Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati



Conference Rm. 4

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Conference Rm. 5

075       Shakespeare in Popular Culture I/Shakespeare on Film and Television III:  Love's Labour's Lost

Chair:  Michael G. Marler, Brigham Young University-Hawaii


A Labour of Love, or a Lost Cause?:  Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost

Kelli Marshall, University of Texas-Dallas


Are the Words of Shakespeare Harsh after the Songs of Berlin?:

Re-Examining Love's Labour's Lost

Heather Violanti, The Shakespeare Institute


"A Jest's Prosperity":  The Ill-Fated Experimentations of Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost

Leslie O'Dell, Wilfrid Laurier University


Love's Labor: Lost at the Box Office

Michael G. Marler



Conference Rm. 6

076       Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory III

Chair:  B. V. Olguin, University of Texas at San Antonio


"Passing":  Its Effect on Chicano Culture

BJ Manriquez, Texas Tech University


The Repentance of Richard Rodriguez

Paul Guajardo, University of Houston


Against Gangxploitation:  Luis Rodriguez's Testimonial Discourse

B. V. Olguin



Conference Rm. 7

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Conference Rm. 8

078       American Music and Culture I

Chair: Quentin Vieregge, Texas Tech University


Johnny's Jeremiad

Quentin Vieregge


"Just an American Boy": Images of Class and Nation in the Songs of Steve Earle

Nick Baxter-Moore, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario


Rednecks with Marshall Stacks: The Queering of "White Trash"

Krista May, Texas A&M University, College Station


Calling the Audible: The Significance of the Springsteen Set List

Dan Stiffler, Randolph-Macon Woman's College



Conference Rm. 9

079       Professional Placement ACA II:  Graduate Students: The Job Hunt (Part 1)

Chair:  David Sokol, University of Illinois at Chicago


Panelists:

David Sokol

Angela Nelson, Bowling Green State University


Tips and strategies for graduate students for the ever-angst-ridden process of getting a job in academia.  Topics include strategies for c.v. preparation, interviewing, and evaluating the teaching opportunities that are available.



Conference Rm. 10

080       American Art and Architecture II: Magazines, Books, and Art

Chair: Ruth L. Bohan, University of Missouri, St. Louis


Picture Study and Pattern books: Shaping Visual Culture in Early-20th Century America

Marleen Hoover, San Antonio College


From Journal to Catalogue: The Transformation of the Arts and Crafts Ideology in Gustave Stickley's The Crafstman

Melissa Renn, Boston University


Whitman, The Soil, and the Commodified Pleasures of the Early 20th Century

Ruth L. Bohan



Conference Rm. 11

081       Asian Popular Culture III: Japanese Anime I: Gender and Politics in Studio Ghibli Films

Chairs: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art, and

Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy


Things Seen and Unseen: Politics of Vision in Tonari no Totoro and Mononokehime

Justin Jesty, University of Chicago


The Seven Ages of Woman: Female Archetypes in Majo no Takkyuubin

Patrick Drazen, Chicago, Illinois


Revolution as Tragedy: Miyazaki's Critique of Utopian Politics

Peter Y. Paik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


Sense or Sentiment? Female Longing in Isao Takahata's Omoide Poroporo

Wendy Goldberg



Conference Rm. 12

082       Comic Arts and Comic III:  The Comics Industry and Comics Universes

Chair:  Nicole Freim, Cardinal Stritch University


The Analysis of Artistsí Career Growth Factors in the Japanese Comic Industry

Kazuhisa Inoue, University of Tokyo


What's In a (Brand) Name?  The Case of Marvel Comics Versus Sony Pictures

Avi Santo, University of Texas Austin


Comics Universes as Fiction Networks

Jason Craft, University of Texas Austin



Conference Rm. 13

083       Computer Culture III: Who's Gaming? Computer Gaming and Identity

Chair: Judd Ruggill, University of Arizona


Virtual Women: On the Role of Female Gamers in Online Worlds

Aleks Krotoski, University of Surrey, UK


The Paladin and the Grad Student: Medieval Myth and Symbolism in Diablo II

Katherine McBirney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


"Nothing but vain fantasy": Representations of Culture in GemStone III

Peter Froehlich, Southeast Missouri State University


Virtual Selves, Performing "Others"

Monica Hulsbus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Conference Rm. 14

084       Gay and Lesbian Studies III: Queer Television

Chair: Bruce E. Drushel, Miami University


Six Feet Under and the Question of Positive Representation

Thomas Peele, Boise State University


"Do Gay Men Have Their Own Desires?": Peering Behind the Queer Eye

Robert Bateman, University of Virginia


Reality, Visibility, and (Hetero)Normativity: Representations of Gayness in "Reality" Television

Bruce E. Drushel



Conference Rm. 15

085       Myth and Mysticism in Young Adult Literature I: Fairy Tale and Rhetorical Magic

Chair: Todd B. Stevens, Villanova University


World-Disturbing Runes Set Forth: Re-Imagining the Fairy Tale Narrative in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter

Todd B. Stevens


Harry Potter and the Gothic Paradigm

Mary Gillen Kremmer, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma


Wild Magic-Place as Power in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Series

Christina Potter, University of Texas


Riddles and Art: Bridging the Real and Magical through Folk Narrative Forms in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Series

Katharine Duff Smith, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma



Conference Rm. 16

086       Film I:  Film Sociology:  Coming-of-Age, Capitalism, and Education

Chair:  C. K. Robertson, Georgia College & State University


Coming of Age in the Multiplex Generation: Applying Developmental Theory to College Flicks

Pat Somers, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and

Jim Settle, Texas State University


The Culture of Disease and the Dis-ease of Culture: Re-membering the Body in Fight Cluband Memento

Bennett Kravitz, University of Haifa, Israel


Film-Enhanced Education

C. K. Robertson



Conference Rm. 17

087       Captivity Narratives I

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Technologies of Escape: Octavia Butler Envisions the Dawn

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, New York University


Anxious Silences: Assimilation and Resistance in the Narrative of James Smith

Robert Cousins, Utah Valley State College


The Central Issue of the Family in Colonial Captivity Narratives

Todd Hendricks, University of Kentucky


Captive in the English Wilderness: Thomas Shepard's Autobiography as a Captivity Narrative

Sabine Klein, Purdue University



Conference Rm. 18

088       Southwest Ranching II: Discourse Issues

Chair:  Anthony Chiaviello, University of Houston-Downtown


Contested Social Identities of Public Lands Ranchers:  Agents of Destruction vs. Stewards of the Range

Rebecca J. Franks, University of Utah


The Challenge of Dialogue:  Attempting to Reframe an Environmental Issue

Alice Hopkins-Loy, University of New Mexico


Hooves that Heal:  Rethinking an Issue

Patricia Stich, Reno, Nevada


Stegner's Urban West:  The Cowboy Myth and Extractive Economies

Robert Jarrett, University of Houston-Downtown



Conference Rm. 19

089       Popular American Authors II: Visions and Re-visions in the Works of Popular American Women Writers

Chair:  Priscilla Leder, Texas State University-San Marcos


To Fight but Not to Kill: Creative Responses to War in the Science Fiction of Contemporary American Women Writers

Pat Evans, Texas State University-San Marcos


Feminizing the Poet Laureate: Tennyson in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Annuals

Kathryn Ledbetter, Texas State University-San Marcos


It's Magic, But Is it Practical?: Women's Power and Alice Hoffman's Sisterhood of Witches

Kim Wells, Texas State University-San Marcos


What Will I Do in Glory?: Women and Patriarchal Religion in the Works of Julia Peterkin and Caroline Miller

Priscilla Leder


  


Wednesday, April 7, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.


Salon A

090       Horror (Literary & Cinematic) I: Dreadful Apparitions and Intimations of Evil: Hauntings in 20th-Century Literature and Film

Chair:  John Toth, Antelope Valley College, California


"I live in the weak and the wounded": Session 9, Ambiguity, and the Origins of Evil

Scott Covell, Antelope Valley College


The Dark Lady and the Lady in the Dark: Mulholland Dr.as Gothic Sonnet

Mark Hoffer, Antelope Valley College


Dead Man Talking: Film Noiras Waking Nightmare

John Toth, Antelope Valley College



Salon B

091       Creative Writing II

Chair: Lynnea Chapman King, Butler County Community College


Presenters:

Jill Talbot, Southern Utah University

Philip Heldrich, Emporia State University

Renae Ford, University of Northern Iowa



Salon C

092       American Indians Today III:  Cast in a Different Light-A Different Perspective

Chair:  Richard Allen, Cherokee Nation


Ropiní the Wind:  Humor and Native Identity in Will Rogersí Political Commentary

Amy M. Ware, University of Texas, Austin


The Primordial Presence:  The Representation of the Southwest in Bearheart and Nightland

Iping Liang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipai Taiwan


Identification and Difference in D. H. Lawrence's American Writings

Aylin Bayrakceken, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey


"A Frybread and Diet Coke":  Traditional and Contemporary Food and Family Life in the Work of Luci Tapahonso

Jennifer McGovern, University of Iowa



Salon D

093       American Literature I: Literacy, Pedagogy, Class, and Protest

Chair:  Ryan L. Ruckel, Louisiana State University


Reading and Teaching Pietro di Donato's Ethnographic Novel Christ in Concrete

Rose De Angelis, Marist College


A Tree Alone: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Six Trees and Transitional Recognitions

Donald R. Anderson and Patricia Tarantello, Marist College


Gatsby in Barcelona: Thematic Parallels Between The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ultimas Tardes Con Teresa by Juan Marse

Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University


Public Lecture as Literature: The Cultural Phenomenon of the Lyceum Lecture Circuit and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ryan L. Ruckel



Salon F

094       Science Fiction/Fantasy IV: Joss Whedon's Universe

Chair:  Tanya Cochran, Georgia State University 


"Delimitation is Always Difficult": Ludovico's Technique Revisited in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Celia Kingsbury, Central Missouri State University


Re-Creating Self: Buffy as Patriarchy Slayer

Kim Kirkpatrick, St. Louis University


From Vampires to Space Cowboys: The Marketing Failure of Firefly

Stan Beeler, University of Northern British Columbia


Borrowing Her Body, Wearing Her Ways: The Rhetoric of Faith as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You?"

Tanya Cochran



Salon G

095       Masculinities I: Representations of Men and Masculinity on Film

Chair: Scott F. Stoddart, Marymount Manhattan College, NY


Masculine Technologies: Depicting the Family in Two Versions of The Fly

Dava L. Simpson, University of South Florida, Tampa


Exorcising the Feminine: Fight Club's First Rule

Nancy Rosenberg, University of Texas, Arlington


The Limp Dick: The Role of the Phallus in Basic Instinct

Graeme Metcalf; Brock University, Ontario


American Beauty: Lester Burnham's Grey Flannel Suit

Scott F. Stoddart



Salon H

096       Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment IV

Co-Chairs: Jason Laurendeau, University of Calgary, and

Shelley Pacholok, Ohio State University


The Rhetoric of Environmental 'Underdevelopmentí: The Mythology of the Double 'Whoreí and Agenda 21

Bridget Egan, Syracuse University


Deeply Californian: California Literature and Deep Ecology

Petr Kopecky, San Jose State University/University of Ostrava


Tales from the Deep: Mammoth Cave and American Literature

Joy Kennedy, Brazosport College


"How Deep is Your Ecology?": The Balancing Acts of Earth First!

Jason Laurendeau and Shelley Pacholok



Salon I

097       Manifest Destiny I:  Remembering the Alamo

Chair: Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico


Es santa mas no es mujer: The Riddle of Santa Anna in the 19th Century

Rolando Romero, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Drag Queens and Dishwashers: An/Other Tourist Encounter with the Alamo

Vida Mia García, Stanford University


Remembering the Alamo on Film: A Course for Undergraduate Popular Culture and History Students

Allen W. Ellis, Northern Kentucky University


Cultural Misunderstandings among Anglos and Mexicans in the Settlement of Texas

Angela Moyano, Universidad Aut-noma de Querétaro



Salon J

098       WWII, Korea and Vietnam Wars I:  War, Remembrance and Collective Memory

Chair:  Jeffery C. Livingston, California State University, Chico


Nietzsche and Nazis:  Michael Curtiz and Jack London's The Sea-Wolf

Mary Lynn Dodson, Amarillo College


Joseph Mankiewicz's "Unquiet American" and Hollywood in the 1950s

Robert L. Moore, Rollins College


Revisioning Vietnam; Rehabilitating Ourselves:  The Atlantic Monthly's Coverage of the Vietnam War, 1968 to 2003

Carol Lea Clark, University of Texas at El Paso


The "Buy-Centennial":  Combating the Vietnam Syndrome in the Me Decade

Jeffery C. Livingston



Salon K

099       Racial Constructions and Concerns I:  Narrative

Chair:  Amy Becker-Chambless, Texas Tech University


Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic

Jennifer Harris, University of Windsor, Ontario


Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives and Gothic Racial Revisions

Maisha Wester, Gainesville, Florida


Erasing the Daltons: Plurality and Interpretation in Percival Everett's Erasure

Virginia Nickles Osborne, University of Cincinnati



Salon L

100       Cultural Conflict and Women I: Women and Film

Chair:  CeCe Mikell, Lander University


The Legend of Fa Mu Lan: From Sixth-Century Chinese to Twentieth-Century American

CeCe Mikell


The Myth of Sisterhood

Suzy Griffin, Northeastern State University


Baad SuperMamas and White Butches: Women in Cleopatra Jones

Stephane Dunn, Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus



Salon M

101       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections III: Scraps of Life and Family Preserves: Our Growing Passion for Scrapbooking (A talk and workshop)

Chair: Lynn Bartholome, Monroe Community College and President, Popular Culture Association


Part 1: The Development and Appeal of the Scrapbooking Industry

Lynn Bartholome


Part 2: Scrapbooking Demonstration and Workshop*

Reenie Feingold, owner, Visual Horizons


*Attendees are invited to bring a small, written family memory or a cherished family recipe (on a recipe card) for use in the workshop. Your finished work will amaze you!



Conference Rm. 1

102       Food and Popular Culture III:  Food Fashions

Chair:  Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University


What's for Breakfast?: The 20th-Century American Diet in Women's Magazines

Meg Riordan, Drake University


For Foodies, All that Glitters May Be White Gold

Trevalyn Gruber, Texas Women's University


The Kicked-up Quiche for Manly Men: Shifting Demographics, FoodTV, and Men in the Kitchen

Grace Bullaro, CUNY-Lehman College


A King Fit for a Meal: The Body as Food under Mosaic Law

Thomas Horan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill



Conference Rm. 2

103       Western Perceptions of East European Identities IV: Literature

Chair:  Marina Antic, University of Wisconsin-Madison


West About East and East About West

Damjana Mraovic, Institute of Balkanology-Belgrade, Yugoslavia


Ingeborg Bachmann's Sentimental Journey through the "Haus Osterreich" and (Post)Colonial Discourse in Drei Wege zum See

Zorana Gluscevic, University of Massachusetts at Amherst


Kassandra: The Local "Austrian" at the European Periphery

Valentina Glajar, Texas State University-San Marcos


Perceptions of Russia in the Latest German Literature

Stefan Lange, United Kingdom



Conference Rm. 3

104       Television I:  Television: Comedy and Online Communities

Chair:  Jessica Stilwell, Georgetown University


Fans without Pity:  Online Communities, Television, and Popular Criticism

Jessica Stilwell


Must See TV in 3D:  Kramer Reality Tour and the Real-izing of Seinfeld

Deborah Gar Reichman, Brooklyn, New York


Coupling Crosses the Atlantic:  A Case Study in Reversioning

Jeffrey Griffin, University of Dayton



Conference Rm. 4

105       Sports IV:  Class

Chair: John F. Bratzel, Michigan State University


Fishing with Class: Outdoors Television Programming and the Great Divide

Jeff Charnley, Michigan State University


Class/Tribalism and Golf

Michael Schoenecke, Texas Tech University


Social Class and Fishing: Fly Fishers vs. the Other

John Bratzel



Conference Rm. 5

106       Shakespeare in Popular Culture II:  Shakespeare as Lens:  Class Aspirations and Consumer Culture, Alienation, and the Search for Political Reality

Chair:  Michael G. Marler, Brigham Young University-Hawaii


Strange Bedfellows:  Shakespeare, Modern Popular Music, Regrettable Hair Styles, and Bad Jobs in Food Service

Anthony D. Hoefer, Jr., Louisiana State University


Madness and Servitude: Results of Destruction in Harwood's The Dresser

Melissa R. Trosclair, Louisiana State University


"News Too Much for Christian Understanding"-or-How Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Patriarchy Can Reinvigorate Your Shakespeare Class, Too

Ray Rice, University of Maine at Presque Isle



Conference Rm. 6

107       International Experience: Mexican & Latin American Studies I:  Good Guys and Bad Guys

Chair: Dennis Seager, Oklahoma State University


When Popular Culture Becomes History, or Who was Evita Peron?

Gwendolyn Díaz, St. Mary's University


Hard-Boiled and Hung Out to Dry:  Detective Fiction and Narrative

Manipulation in Contemporary Spanish Novel and Film

Matthew J. OíNeill, Oklahoma State University


Superimposition of Mexican Iconography in Juan/John's Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Juanita Luna Lawhn, San Antonio College


Jesús Díaz:  From Patriot to Exile

Dennis Seager



Conference Rm. 7   THIS PANEL WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED AT 4:30 (137)

108      Western Painting and Sculpture I:  Reality, Fiction, and Politics in Creating and Collecting Images of the West

Chair:  Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York


"The Last Vibration of the Red Man's Requiem": Charles M. Russell's Trail of the Iron Horse

Robert L. McGrath, Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College


Joseph G. Butler's Indian Gallery: Creating Culture and Constructing History

Marie Watkins, Furman University



Conference Rm. 8

109       American Music and Culture II

Chair: Gary Burns, Northern Illinois University


It's a Legal Matter, Baby: The Permissions Process and the Rock 'n' Roll Scholar

Steven Hamelman, Coastal Carolina University


Brands, Britney, and Bricolage: The Role of Cultural Phenomena in Music and Fashion

Markian Saray, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario


Fan Culture, the Internet, and the British Influence in Popular Music Studies

Gary Burns



Conference Rm. 9

110       Biography I:  Metaphysical Biography

Chair:  Suzette Henke, University of Louisville


Transcendental Memory and the Emerson Biography

Audrey Raden, CUNY Graduate Center


Sylvia [Plath] As Popular Culture: Inside the Plath Archive

Deborah Phelps, Sam Houston State University


Cosmic Auto/Biography and Homo (In) Sapiens: John Vernon's Book of Reasons

Suzette Henke



Conference Rm. 10

111       American Art and Architecture III: Studio Art Session 1

Chair:  Leo Morrissey, Melbourne Beach, Florida


Fading Glimpses: Travel Snapshots

Dean Turner, Art Institute of Atlanta


Organic Forms

Alison Denyer, Savannah College of Art and Design


Self-Portrait (Time/Objects)

Leo Morrissey



Conference Rm. 11

112       The Asian American Experience

Chair:  Sherman Han, Brigham Young University-Hawaii


Look Like a Butterfly, Sting Like Bruce Lee: Modern Representations of Asian American Masculinity

Prisna Virasin, The University of Texas at Arlington


The Hagedorn / Ong Connection

Melissa M. Lotspeich, Texas Tech University in Lubbock


Gus Lee's Portrait of A Young China Boy

Sherman Han



Conference Rm. 12

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Conference Rm. 13

114       Computer Culture IV: Virtual for Real: Fantasy and Real Life Online

Chair: Ken McAllister, University of Arizona


Competing Strategies for Adapting Film Narrative to Video Games:

Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings

Harry Brown, Depauw University


Are You Game? Fantasy Baseball, Fanaticism and Online Gaming:

An Insider's View

Marijke E. Rutherford Marsana, Glendale College



Conference Rm. 14

115       Borders I:  Clash of Cultures

Chair: Ray B. Browne, Founder, PCA/ACA; Bowling Green State University


On the Margins of Two Borders: A Popular Culture Reading of San Angelo, Texas

Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University


Totally Bueno: Vernacular Type in the Valley

Leila Hernandez, University of Texas-Pan American


The Good, the Bad, and the Globalized: Border Transgressions in the Music of Manu Chao

William J. Nichols, Texas A&M International University


The Spanish Missions of Texas as Borderlands Icons

Joel D. Kitchens, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University



Conference Rm. 15

116       Myth and Mysticism in Young Adult Literature II:  Multicultural Tales through Time

Chair: Jackie Wilcox, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma


Myth and the Power of Menstruation in Robin McKinley's Deerskin

Jackie Wilcox


Dragons, Bears and Foxes in Korean Myth and Folktales

Eunha Jung, Olympic College


Are You a Real Indian?: Native American Myth in 19th-Century Children's Magazines

Stacy Elaine Pratt, Mississippi State University


Neo-Platonism in Narnia

Jonathan P. Heath, Manchester, Connecticut



Conference Rm. 16

117       Film II:  Of Time, Space, & New York City

Chair: Jeremiah Donovan, Indiana University


They All Matter, Don't They?: Elliptical Time vs. Real Time

in Vincente Minnelli's The Clockand Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7

Charles H. Meyer, University of Florida


Space Invaders:  Examining the Black Threat to White Space(s)

in Todd Haynesí Films Far From Heavenand Safe

Aisha S. Durham, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Falling Leaves: Synecdoche, Tragedy and Exhibit 13

Jeremiah Donovan



Conference Rm. 17

118       Captivity Narratives II

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


The Millenial Captivity Narrative of Jessica Lynch

Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University


Reading Testimony, Reading the Body: The Captivity of Sarah Taylor, Seventeenth-Century Indentured Servant

Amy N. Qualls, Auburn University


Slaves in Algiers, Captives in Iraq: The Ideological Persistence of the Barbary Captivity Narrative

Anne G. Myles, University of Northern Iowa



Conference Rm. 19

119       Popular American Authors III: American Postmodernism

Chair:  David Sabrio, Texas A&M University--Kingsville


A Corkscrewing Descent into a Subject: Postmodern Narrative in William Gass's "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country"

Billy Fontenot, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Father of Mine:  Playing with Origins in Jewish-American Postmodernism

Jason Ambrosiano, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Social Mediation Through Irony in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country

David Sabrio





Wednesday, April 7, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.



Salon A

120       Science Fiction/Fantasy V:  The Lord of the Rings

Chair:  Lynnette Porter, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


"All that is gold does not glitter":  Gender Ambiguity in Middle Earth

Betty F. Fisher, University of Tulsa


Changing Characterizations through Art: Galadriel, Arwen, and Eowyn

Lynnette Porter


Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle

Janet Brennan Croft, University of Oklahoma


Adapting To Your Audience: An Analysis of Peter Jackson's

Lord of the Rings Films As Compared to Tolkien's Original Text

Kenneth Danielson, Kutztown University, and

Christopher Couch, Messiah College



Salon B

121       Creative Writing III

Chair:  Sam Snoek-Brown, University of North Texas


Presenters:

Alex DeBonis, University of Cincinnati

Lee Voss, Texas Tech University

Terry Dalrymple, Angelo State University



Salon C

122       Native American Studies II: Reading Indians: Critical Perceptions and Analyses of the Narrative

Chair:  Stephen J. Brandon, The University of New Mexico


From Delirium to Coherence: The Language of Medicine Plants in Silko's Ceremony

Thomas Weso, Haskell Indian Nations University


Autobiography as Per-version: Ray Young Bear's Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives

Rob Appleford, University of Alberta



Salon D

123       American Literature II: Quests for Identity and Inspiration

Chair: Thomas H. Fick, Southeastern Louisiana University


Hollywood and Imperial History in Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle

Mary Caroline Cummins, University of California, Riverside


The New York School of Poets: Finding the Muse in Abstract Expressionism -- and Vice Versa

Linda Simone, Manhattanville College


Narrating Captivity and Identity: The Greek Exile and the Genesis of the Greek-American

Ilana Xinos, Louisiana State University


The Anxiety of Racial Categories in Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers

Thomas H. Fick



Salon G

124       Masculinities II: Masculine Identity, Race, and Class

Chair:  Dava L. Simpson, University of South Florida, Tampa


"Rodeo? Forget that . . . Give me PBR":  Professional Bull Riding, Race, and Masculinity

Julio Rodriguez, Randolph-Macon Woman's College


The Leisured Testes: White Ball-breaking as Surplus Masculinity in Jackass

Christina Tourino, St. John's University


19th-Century Technical Education and White "Industrial" Class Masculinity at the Virginia Military Institute

Jonson Miller, Virginia Tech


At Home: Locating the Site of White Maleness

Mark Harvey, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand



Salon H

125       Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture Research I: Librarians and Libraries in Popular Culture

Chair: Allen Ellis, Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University


"You Don't Look Like a Librarian!"

Ruth Kneale, National Solar Observatory/Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (NSO/ATST)


Recasting the Debate: The Sign of the Library in Popular Culture

Kornelia Tancheva, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University


Museums, Community Centers and a Chinese Restaurant:  The Status of South Dakota's Carnegie Library Buildings

Kelli Murphy, I.D. Weeks Library, University of South Dakota


EXCELSIOR! & Beyond: A Survey of Published Biographies & Autobiographies of Comic Book Pioneers

Doug Highsmith, California State University, Hayward, Library



Salon I

126       Manifest Destiny II:  Southwestern Studies in Gender and Literature

Chair:  Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico


Mexican/Mexican-American Gender Politics and Identity in the Southwest

Margie Monta-ez, University of New Mexico


Sculpted Saddles and Manifest Destiny: The Culture of Hero as Fatally Flawed in All the Pretty Horses

Nancy Van Leuven, California State University, Sacramento


Montezuma's Return and Santa Anna's Revenge: The Conquest of Mexico in the Wake of Texas Independence

Jesse Alemán



Salon J

127       Motorcycle Culture and Myth I:  Biking Epistemologies

Chair: Rich Remsberg, Author and Photographer


Bodhisattva Biker: The Buddhist Perspective of Life Actualized on a Motorcycle

Doris McCloskey, independent rider


Double Agent: Confessions of a Virtual Biker Babe

Amy Ruth Tobol, Empire State College


Believing is Seeing: How Brain Psychology Can Inform Biker Culture

Wendy Moon, University of Southern California


McLuhanism, Bricolage and the Custom Motorcycle: A Metaphor for Culture

Timothy A.D. Holmes, Cardiff University



Salon K

128       Mystery and Detective Fiction I: Hispanic Detective and Crime Fiction I

Chair: Luis Velarde, Western Oregon University


Ensayo de un crimen: A Metaphysical Reading

Gerardo Garcia Mu-oz, Arizona State University


Cinematography and Crime in Sergio Ramirezí Castigo divino (1988)

Jimena Ugaz, University of Colorado at Boulder


Short Eyes as Hard-Boiled Fiction

Luis Velarde



Salon L

129       Gender Studies I:  Fashioning Queer Looks

Chair:  Carrie Marjorie Peirce, Azusa Pacific University


'The Best Homosexual Possibleí: Brian Kinney's Queer Pedagogy

Terry Engebretsen, Idaho State University

  

Fashioning Queer Desire: Adi Nes Photographs for Vogue Hommes

Daniell Cornell, Associate Curator of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco


The Case of Freddie Martinez

John Peters-Campbell, Art History, Cortez, Colorado


Whose Not There?  Querying a Life in Two Genders

Carrie Marjorie Peirce



Salon M

130       Academics

Chair:   Arlene Caney, Community College of Philadelphia


The Accidental Public Intellectual: David Riesman and the Perils of Popular Social Science

David Haney, University of Texas at Austin


Culture and Consequence:  The French Connection

Michael Salvato, Community College of Philadelphia


Community-Based Cultural Education: Polish Saturday Schools

Geraldine Balut Coleman, Loyola Academy


The Relationship Between the State and Culture

Mildred Savard, Community College of Philadelphia

  


Conference Rm. 1

131       Food and Popular Culture IV: Food and Literature

Chair:  Beverly Taylor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


The Epicurean's Poisonous Love

Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University


From (Potato) Famine to Feast: The Irish Economic Miracle in the Four Foodie Novels by Maeve Binchy

Ellen Powers Stengel, University of Central Arkansas


From Fetish to Formula: Food and the Arab in Robert Browning's Ferishtah's Fancies

Paul R. Marchbanks, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


The Trials of Mr. Spicee:  Ethnic Eating at Expo 67

Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia University, Montreal



Conference Rm. 2

132       Horror (Literary & Cinematic) II: New Breed, Old Blood: Postmodern Gothic Horror Films

Chair:  Benjamin Joplin, State University of New York at Buffalo


Cannibal Ruptures: Jeepers Creepers and the Postmodern Gothic

Marla Wick, State University of New York at Buffalo


Rednecks and Remakes: Heading Back to Nature in Postmodern Gothic Horror

Jennifer Campbell, State University of New York at Buffalo


Ghost Therapy: Trauma and the Single Parent in The Sixth Sense, The Others, Signs, and The Ring

Benjamin Joplin



Conference Rm. 3

133       Television II:  Dating Reality TV

Chair:  Natasha Whitton, Southeastern Louisiana University


For Love or Money:  A Pride and Prejudice For the 21st Century

Natasha Whitton


Average Joe and the Not-So-Average Jane

Judith Lancioni, Rowan University


Who Wants to Marry a Construction Worker?:  Class, Gender,

and Joe Millionaire

Audrey Vanderford, University of Oregon



Conference Rm. 4

134       Sports V: Racing

Chair:  Daniel Simone, Warren County Community College


From the Tyme That He First Began to Riden Out: The Unspoken Code of Chivalry Among Drag Racers

Gretchen Lutz, Cesar E. Chavez High School & University of Houston

  

Weekend Warriors: The Survival and Revival of American Dirt Track Racing

Kendra Myers, University of Mississippi


Weekend Warriors: The Survival and Revival of American Dirt Track Racing

Daniel Simone



Conference Rm. 5

135       Peter C. Rollins:  In His Honor

Moderator:  Kenneth Dvorak, Director, Distance Learning Program, San Jacinto College District, Vice-President, SW/Texas PCA/ACA


This panel honors Peter C. Rollins, 2004 recipient of the PCA Governing Board Award for contributions to Popular Culture Studies and the Popular Culture Association.  As Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University, Rollins teaches courses on film and American Studies.  He is also the Film & History Association cofounder with Susan Rollins, author and editor of numerous books and articles, and a frequent consultant on national projects pertaining to film and culture. (See www.filmandhistory.org for details.)  He was President of PCA (1980-82) and the Director of Development for both the PCA and the ACA for nearly ten years and creator (with John S. Lawrence) of the PCA/ACA listserv.  Further back in time, he helped to found (with M.K. Schoenecke) the SW regional PCA/ACA.


Panelists:

Michael Schoenecke, Director, National PCA/ACA;

Texas Tech University

Ray Browne, Founder, National PCA/ACA;

Bowling Green State University

Michael Marsden, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Michigan


Panel presentations will be followed by comments from the audience.



Conference Rm. 6

136       International Experience: Mexican & Latin American Studies II:  Defining Mexican Americans

Chair:  Iván Figueroa, Oklahoma State University


A Chicano Soundtrack

Arturo Ramírez, Sonoma State University


Among Cultures: Growing Up Mexican, American, and Chicana

Mary Helen Pérez, Lee College


Frankensteins, Fathers, and Fatwas: Reflections on 'Mongrelizationí and the Chicano Movement

Moumin M. Quazi, University of the Incarnate Word


The Mexican-American Border: Two Thousand Miles of Hope and Tragedy

Iván Figueroa



Conference Rm. 7  THIS PANEL WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED AT 6:30 (164)

137       Western Painting and Sculpture II:  Modernist Experiences in the West

Chair:  Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York


The Canyon Suite: A Re-examination of the Early Work of Georgia OíKeeffe

Sharon Lorenzo, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York

"The Without Seen from the Within": Agnes Pelton's Desert Landscapes

Nancy Strow Sheley, California State University, Long Beach


Fauvism Heads West: The California Landscapes of Marguerite Thompson Zorach

Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.



Conference Rm. 8

138       American Music and Culture III

Chair: Kimberly Golden, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania


"Better Music for Rural Indiana": The Development and Cultural Significance of the Home Demonstration Club Choruses

Linda Pohly, Ball State University


Urban Sites for Places of Music: Where Country and City Meet

Gene Burd, University of Texas, Austin


Charting Identity: Music of the Scots-Irish

Kimberly M. Golden



Conference Rm. 9

139       Biography II:  Post-World War II Political Biography

Chair:  G.L. Seligmann, University of North Texas


Harry Truman vs. His Biographers

Kelly Woestman, Pittsburg State University


Cesar Chavez

Paul Henggeler, University of Texas-Pan American


LBJ vs. His Biographers

G. L. Seligmann.



Conference Rm. 10

140       American Art and Architecture IV: Modern American Art

Chair: Kathleen Spies, Birmingham Southern College


Attilio Piccirilli's Stonework on the Lincoln Memorial

Martin Haber, John Dewey High School, Brooklyn


The Showgirl as the City in American Art of the 1920s and 1930s

Kathleen Spies


"Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By:"  Ben Shahn and Civil Rights

De Anne Beachley, Community College of Southern Nevada


Man Ray and Electricity

Ashley Schmiedekamp, The University of Texas at Austin



Conference Rm. 11

141       Asian Popular Culture IV: Japanese Anime II: History and Reception of Miyazaki's Films

Chairs: Wendy Goldberg, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and

John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art


From the Wasteland (Nausicaa) to the Wonderland (Spirited Away): The History of Studio Ghibli

Marc Hairston, University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Space Sciences


The Changing Reception of Hayao Miyazaki in the U.S.

Charles Hatfield, California State University



Conference Rm. 12

142       Advertising II:  Image, Legitimacy, and Popular Culture

Chair:  Sammy R. Danna, Loyola University Chicago


Charles Atlas:  An American Fitness Icon

Sammy R. Danna


Simulacra Sells:  How Fashion and Consumers are Buying the Warhol Model

Kathryn Cornelius, Georgetown University


Corporate Branding: The Use of Children in Legitimation Advertising

Stephen Papson, St. Lawrence University


Something Old-Something New:  Strategies for Targeting Advertising to Senior Citizens

Michael Cornett, Professor Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago



Conference Rm. 13

143       Politics I: Public Opinion, Money, and Special Interests in the Political Mix

Chair:  Fran Hassencahl, Old Dominion University


Will We Be Dragged into War Again?: The American Fear of Propaganda before World War II

William N. Denman, Marshall University


Taft's Change of Heart

Janet Novak, University of Illinois at Springfield


Not Quite on the Payroll: Pleas of and Payments to Informal Agents in the Revolutionary War

Jeannette Smith, Gaithersburg, Maryland


Transition from Enlightened Secularism to Militant Hinduism: Contribution of Bharatiya Janata Party in Promoting Hindu Fundamentalism in the Political and Social Life of Contemporary India

Anjali Sharma, Ishan Institute of Management and Technology, India



Conference Rm. 14

144       Gay and Lesbian Studies IV: Representations of the Metrosexual and of African-American "Gayness"

Chair: Vincent Stephens, University of Maryland at College Park


"Öbecause nobody is supposed to know"?: Unpacking the Linguistic Inconsistencies of (and the Mainstream Fascination with) "Down Low"

Chris Bell, University of Illinois at Chicago


He's "Straight," But Loves Shopping and Facials: Is the Metrosexual for Real?

Gary R. Drum


Not Like the Others: Johnny Mathis, Black Masculinity, and the Contemporary Sex/Gender Economy

Vincent Stephens



Conference Rm. 15

145       Children's Literature and Culture I:  Meanings Beyond the Literal

Chair:  Harry Eiss, Eastern Michigan University


A Question of Abuse: A Psychoanalytical and Folkloric Approach to the Brothers Grimm's "Cinderella"

Melinda McBee, Prairie View A & M University


Compassion:  The Force that Drives the Star Wars Trilogy

Harry Eiss


Youíve Gotta Reach Emí to Teach Emí: Pop Culture as the "Ultimate" Pedagogical Tool in Hooking All Learners!

Elizabeth Johnson, Eastern Michigan University

  

Extreme Teaching for Extreme Time: LLC

Mary Kathleen Walsh, Eastern Michigan University


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Conference Rm. 16

146       Film III:  Adaptation to Film

Chair: Jane Tyler Ward, Cedar Crest College


Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: An Adaptation or a Distortion of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Ya-hui Irenna Chang, Texas Tech University


From Shakespeare to Malkovich: The Politics of The Dancer Upstairs

Thomas W. Mullen, Dalton State College


Male Disturbances of Identity: A Psychological Study of The Talented Mr. Ripley

Jane Tyler Ward and

Philip A. Nastasee, Cedar Crest College



Conference Rm. 17

147       Captivity Narratives III

Chair:  Mary Ruth Marotte, University of Tennessee


Following the North Star: Frederick Douglass and the Recovery of Political Resistance

John Pell, Western Washington University


Rethinking Captivity: An Examination of Racism, Revision, and Redemption in The Searchers

Sarah Pemelton, Western Washington University


Subduing the Wilderness: Who Captures Whom in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman"

Wayne Stengel, University of Central Arkansas



Conference Rm. 18

148       Disability Studies/The Body and Physical Difference

Chair:  Lori Kelly, Carroll College


Disability: Society's Limitation of the Body

Tracy M. Wendt, University of Tulsa


Fairy Tales of Normativity: Edward Scissorhands and Representations of Disability

Christy Tidwell, University of Texas at Arlington



Conference Rm. 19

149       Historical Novel I:  The Genre

Chair:   Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego


Ambivalent Dispositions: Locating Learning in Lydia Maria Child's Historical Fiction

Johanna McElwee, Uppsala University, Sweden


Documenting the Real in Honoré de Balzac's Illusions Perdues

Raina Forbes Uhden, Columbia University


Miss Ravenel's Conversion:  The Limits and Possibilities of the Historical Romance in 19th Century American Fiction

John Casey, University of Illinois at Chicago


A Special and Abiding Appeal to Human Intelligence and Emotion or a Genre Aureoled With a Pseudo-Sanctity?: Popular Historical Fiction In the Late 1800s and Early 1900s

Lynne Hinojosa, Baylor University


  


Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.


Salon A

150       Science Fiction/Fantasy VI:  Potpourri II

Chair:  Wendy Stengel, Washington, D.C.


Domestic Violence: The Alienated Animal in Science Fiction Film

Stephen Guidry, Georgetown University


Urban/Rural images in Batman and Spiderman

Elinor Lerner, Richard Stockton College


"Crackers Matter!"  The "Save Farscape" Campaign as Web-based Fan Activism

John Seibert-Davis, Alfred University


What Would GSIS Do?: Firefly's Gendered Social Interaction Scores

Wendy Stengel



Salon B

151       Creative Fiction III:   Border Stories: Fiction of Latino and Anglo America

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University


The Gringo Ayudante

Kelly Daniels, Western Michigan University


Red Rover, Red Rover

Rene Salda-a, Jr., University of Texas-Pan American


The Mystery of the Blue River and Searching for Abuelita

Dorothy Goepel, Miami University


Every Head's a World

José Skinner, University of Texas-Pan American



Salon C

152       Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film I:  From Demi-God to Divinity: Mythic Immortals Live On

Chair:  Albert Watanabe, Louisiana State University


A Hero by Any Other Name: Disney's Hercules as an Adaptation of Greek Myth

Betty Rose Nagle, Indiana University


 The Mythic Signature of Artemis in The Lord of the Rings

Rae Ann Kumelos, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara


Female Archetypes in Vonnegut, Irving, and King Novels

Heidi Strengell, University of Lapland, Finland


Bakst and Serov in Greece: Minoan-Mycenaean and Archaic Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Albert Watanabe



Salon D

153       Animal Culture I

Chair:  Deborah K. Phillips, Muskingum College


Fighting Dogs and Black Masculinity: A Textual Analysis of Images of Pit Bulls in Hip Hop Culture

Jere Recob Tesser, Georgia State University


Being in Dog Time

D.L. Pughe, University of Iowa


Gary Larson's The Far Side: A Humorous but Dark Document on the Complex Division Between the Human and Non-Human

Richard Sanzenbacher, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University


From Rabbit Ears to Puppy Tales: Animals in Ads on TV

Hana Noor Al-Deen, University of North Carolina at Wilmington



Salon G

154       Literature & Politics IV: Recalcitrance and Obedience

Chair:  Gary D. MacDonald, Virginia State University


"A Death is Near and I Have Touched It": Soldier Reaction to Public Executions During the Civil War

Steven Ramold, Virginia State University


Robert Hayden and the WPA

Rodger Doss, Virginia State University


The Literature of Northern Occupation: Cable, King, and DeForest in New Orleans

Kris Lackey, University of New Orleans


Thoreau: Environmental Exempla? Stripmining Ktaadn

Gary D. MacDonald



Salon H

155       Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture Research II:  Access to Popular Culture Research Materials

Chair:   Allen Ellis, Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University


From Doughnuts To Batman Comics: Popular Culture Research and Non-Traditional Resources

Evan J. Rusch, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University-Mankato

Amy Fry, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri, Kansas City


The Pornographic Digital Divide

Annelise Sklar, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, University of New Mexico


Casting A Wide Net: Collections in the Browne Library

Nancy Down, Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Study, Bowling Green State University


Collecting Popular Culture Materials in Academic Research Libraries:  Prejudices and Trends

Sarah Andrews, Main Library, University of Iowa Libraries



Salon J

156       WWII, Korea and Vietnam Wars II:  Eyewitnesses, Economics and Homeland Security

Chair:  Todd Pfannestiel, Clarion University


A Different Peace:  Morgenthau's and the Foreign Economic Administration's Plans for Postwar Germany

Martin Lorenz-Meyer, University of Kansas


The Concept of the War Crime Throughout History:  Did Lt. Calley Suffer for Our Sins?

Charles Wukasch, Austin Community College


Alone Amidst the Chaos:  Revisiting Vietnam through the Battlefield Diary of One Soldier

Todd Pfannestiel



Salon K

157       Racial Constructions and Concerns II:  Cinema

Chair:  Amy Becker-Chambless, Texas Tech University


Bending the Actual to the Stereotype: A Critique of Bend It Like Beckham

Vanessa Raney, Claremont Graduate University


America Under Siege: The Terrors of Race, Religion and Culture in Hollywood's The Siege

Rafia Mirza, University of Minnesota


The Shadings of Racism in The Color Purple

Amy Becker-Chambless



Salon L

158       Women's Studies I:  Women at War: Female Forces in the Courtroom, in Government, and on the Battlefield

Chair: Miriam Chitiga, Claflin University


Working Women and Repetitive Stress: Ghannam vs. USAID

Wendy Ghannam, Vienna, Virginia


Courage to Stand Alone

Loretto Lee Jones, Texas Tech University


Women on the Frontlines: The Trials and Tribulations of Women Leaders in Zimbabwe, a Postcolonial Nation in Southern Africa

Miriam Chitiga

  


Conference Rm. 1

159          Soap Opera II:  The Year In Review

Chair:  Suzanne Frentz, Loyola Marymount University


The panel will analyze the work of those who labor in the electronic fields of televised daytime serials.  Ratings, viewers, writers, storylines, revenue, and chat room threads will be examined.


Panelists:

David Feldman, Imponderables, New York City, New York

Dianna Reep, University of Akron

Mary Devine, Salem State College

Suzanne Frentz



Conference Rm. 2

160       Video Games I: They Can't Work it Out: Video Games and Society

Chair:  Nathan Garrelts, New Mexico State University at Alamagordo


The Narrowing Experience of "Experience" in Video Role-Playing Games

Brian Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma


Video Games and the Law:  Courts Outlaw Ordinances and Just Say No to Plaintiffs-So Far

Sandra (Sandy) Davidson, University of Missouri


Playing with Ourselves: A Psychological Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill

Sarah E. White and Marc C. Santos, Purdue University


What "Real" Girls Play:  Dispelling Myths of Virtual Equality

Jennifer Jenson, York University, Toronto, and

Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia



Conference Rm. 3

160B       Memory and Representation II

Chair:  Arthur G. Neal, Portland State University

  

From Popular Culture to Popular Memory: Race, Region,

and the Construction of Mythical Pasts

Ray B. Browne, Bowling Green State University


Miami: The City as Icon

Gary Harmon, University of North Florida


The Couch: An Experiment in Popular Iconography

Dennis Hall, University of Louisville


Visual Epistemology: Self-Reflexivity in the Documentary

Su Hi Choi, Temple University



Conference Rm. 4

161       Cars in American Culture & American Culture in Cars I: Choice Vehicles in Movement

Chair:  Tom Murphy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi


Social Actuarials: The Shifting Cause of Automobile Fatalities, 1900-1940

David Blanke, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi


Urban Disunities and the Planes of the Plane, or the Subject-ness of the Tracking Shot in Taxi Driver and The Straight Story

Mikel Parent, Brandeis University


The 'Optimized Lethality' of American Car Culture: Hybridity and the Postmodern Text

Tom Murphy



Conference Rm. 5

162       Shakespeare on Film and Televison I

Chair:  Roberta N. Rude, University of South Dakota


Magic Presences:  Visualizing Faeries in Four Films of A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Kemp, Mary Washington College


Jonson vs. Jones in Prospero's Books

Alexander McKee, University of California, Santa Barbara


Shakespeare in New York:  Disrupting the Illusion in Almereyda's Hamlet

Tom Rechtin, Binghamton University


Cinematic Technique and 'The Course of True LoveÖí

Howard Schmitt, University of Southern California



Conference Rm. 6

163       Archetypal Themes:  The Journey as Archetype

Chair:  Curtis Perry Otto, Hampton University


Walking the Christian Journey Archetype of the Chartrain Labyrinth:  A Study of the Relationship between Narrative and Symbol in Religious Discourse

Elizabeth McLaughlin, Bethel College


Journey to the Kingdom:  A Gestalt Approach to Hymnody

Christie Peterson, Horry-Georgetown Technical College


The "Voyage, Intended by God's Permission, in The Good Boat Adventure, From Fort Patrick Henry, on Holston River, to the French Salt Springs on Cumberland River"

Ron Gilbert, Lee University


Journey Corrupted:  Double Indemnity and Film Noir

Curtis Perry Otto



Conference Rm. 7  

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Conference Rm. 8

165       American Music and Culture IV:  Popular Music and Society Editorial Board Meeting

Chair: Gary Burns, Northern Illinois University



Conference Rm. 9

166       Biography III:  Biography and Revisionist History

Chair:  Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College


The Politics of Biography

Don Welsh, Swem Library, College of William and Mary


Autobiographical Harriet Jacobs Fictionalized by the "I/eye" of Linda Brent

Paula Anca Farca, Oklahoma State University


War Has Its Compensations: Henry Watterson and the Southern Imperialist Movement

Daniel Margolies



Conference Rm. 11

167       Asian Popular Culture V: Assorted Topics

Chair: John A. Lent


Evolution of Models and Strategies of Communication in Asia

Mazharul Haque, University of Southern Mississippi


An Exploration of Themes: Mainland Chinese and American Freshman Assimilation to University Life

Jessica Gisclair, Elon University


It Is More Then Just Talk: A Communicator Styles Analysis of Mainland Chinese Students

James Roux, Lynchburg College



Conference Rm. 12

168       Comic Arts and Comics IV:  Interpreting the World Through Comics

Chair: Amy Kiste Nyberg, Seton Hall University


He Stalks Two Worlds: Black Power Imagined through the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict in Marvel's Living Mummy Series

Charles D. Martin, Central Missouri State University


No Harm in Horror: The Ethical Dimensions of the Postwar Comic Book Controversy

Amy Kiste Nyberg


How to Face Neoliberalism and Make It as a Mexican Cartoonist: Oscar Gonzalez Loyo and the Ka-Boom! Experience

Héctor D. Fernández LíHoeste, Georgia State University


Philosophy and Comic Strips

Timothy Madigan, University of Rochester


  

Conference Rm. 13

169       Politics II:  Lost, Strayed or Stolen: U.S. Political Ideals

Chair:  Janet Novak, University of Illinois at Springfield


Making Concrete the Loss of National Innocence

John Shelton Lawrence, Morningside College, Emeritus


One Day, We'll Look Back and Laugh: The Frame of Ridicule in the 2000 Presidential Election

Stephynie Chapman Perkins, University of North Florida


Faith in Politics vs. Politics of Faith

Mel Seesholtz, Abington College, Pennsylvania State University


A Tenebrous Triangle: Hitler, Hussein, and "Dubya":  How the Specter

of Hitler Sustains the War in Iraq

Lisa Costello, Louisiana State University


  

Conference Rm. 14

170       Gay and Lesbian Studies V: Film Studies

Chair:  Todd D. Norris, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


Give It To Me Straight: Adaptation of Narrative Form in Gay Film

Daniel A. MacLeay, Southeast Missouri State University


Gay For Pay:  Commodity Logic, Contradiction, and the Figure of the Straight Gay Porn Star

Owen Pillion, University of Missouri

 

Beating Time: Autoeroticism as Survival in Moby Dick and Jeffrey Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey

Todd D. Norris



Conference Rm. 15

171       Children's Literature and Culture II:  Harry Potter

Chair:  Heather Williams, Monroe Community College


Disillusionment in the Forbidden Forest: Exploring the Dark Side of Harry Potter:  A Roundtable Presentation


Panelists:

Donna Cox, Monroe Community College

Holly Wheeler, Monroe Community College

Heather Willams



Conference Rm. 16

172       Film IV: Disaster & Action Films: Cybernetics & Politics

Chair:  Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College


Cyberbetics and Sinking Ships

Brendan Riley, University of Florida


Terminator III: The Rise of the Conscious Cyborg

Susan Kirtley, Western Oregon University


Reading Schwarzenegger:  The Subversive Appeal of Hollywood Action Films

Mark Rubinfeld



Conference Rm. 19

173       Historical Novel II: A Modern Take

Chair:   Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego


The Peabody in the Library: Elizabeth Peters and the Fin-de-Siecle

Leah Richards, Fordham University


Squirrel in the Stuffata: Food, History, and Late-20th-Century Consumption in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

Colin A. Clarke, Louisiana Tech University


Comics, Code-Breaking, and Magic: Nostalgia for the Recent Past in Contemporary Fiction

Beth Widmaier Capo, Illinois College


  



Wednesday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.


Salon F

174       Popular Culture Association Governing Board Awards Reception


2004 Honorees:

Regentsí Professor Peter C. Rollins

Sandra Cisneros, author

Jeff Krulik, filmmaker


Peter C. Rollins, Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University, teaches courses on film and American Studies.  He is also the Film & History Association cofounder with Susan Rollins, author and editor of numerous books and articles, and a frequent consultant on national projects pertaining to film and culture. (See www.filmandhistory.org for details.)  He was President of PCA (1980-82) and the Director of Development for both the PCA and the ACA for nearly ten years and creator (with John S. Lawrence) of the PCA/ACA listserv.  Further back in time, he helped to found (with M.K. Schoenecke)

the SW regional PCA/ACA.



Sandra Cisneros' first novel, The House on Mango Street, brought      an entirely new voice to American literature, describing the experience of narrator Esperanza Cordero, a Mexican-American girl living a hardscrabble existence in Chicago. As Bebe Moore Campbell put it, in the New York Times Book Review: "She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one."  The book bore the author's powerful descriptive talents: Comparing her house on Mango Street with the "real house" her parents had promised her, Esperanza notes, "The house on Mango street is not the way they told it at all. It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."

© by Rubén Guzman


Cisneros, who grew up in Chicago as the only daughter in a family of seven children, attended college on scholarship and was an ethnic anomaly as a graduate student at University of Iowa's renowned Writers' Workshop. There is a lyric quality to Cisneros' work that makes sense, given her alternate life as a poet  who has published several volumes of poetry.  Cisneros suffuses her poetry and fiction with healthy dose of Spanish and a feminine sensibility, female narrators who remember everything and for whom no detail or sensation is too small.  Paragraphs are often punctuated by lists and five-word snapshots. As Cisneros herself has said, she is a miniaturist.


Her poetry and a 1991 collection of stories, Woman Hollering Creek, would have to tide fans over until the long-awaited release of her second novel, 2002's Caramelo. . . . Like her first novel, the story is narrated by a Mexican-American girl; but the scope is a broader one, covering generations of a family as viewed through a cherished caramelo rebozo, or striped traditional shawl, which has been passed down through generations to the book's heroine.  . . . The novel began as an exploration of her own family, and the connection to Cisneros' own life is evident. Here as in other work, Cisneros fills in the gaps between Mexico and the U.S., personal myth and reality. (www.barnesandnoble.com/writers)


Jeff Krulik:  Best known for the notorious Heavy Metal Parking Lot (HMPL), Washington, D.C.-based Jeff Krulik produces documentaries dealing with arcane pop culture. In his films such as King of Porn, I Created Lancelot Link, Ernest Borgnine on the Bus, Obsessed with Jews, and Hitler's Hat, Krulik finds unusual people in normal situations or normal people in unusual situations and quickly zeros in on the ridiculous.


Krulik is a prolific artist who has shown his work all over the world. He has been involved in the film and television industry since the early '80s, including production, promotion and programming. He spent five years developing and researching programs for Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. Since May 1995, he's been an independent freelance producer.  (Pat Doyen, 2002, www.rmicweb.org)



  

Wednesday, April 7, 8:15 -9:45 p.m.


Salon A

175       Science Fiction/Fantasy VII:  Technology

Chair:  Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University


Amitav Ghosh and the Concept of Knowledge in a Global Culture

Anca Rosu, DeVry College of Technology


The Code Is Not the Text: Genetics and Programming in Science Fiction

Melissa Colleen Stevenson, University of California, Santa Barbara


Ideology and Science: Rhetorical Strategies of American and Soviet Geneticists in the 1930s

Dmitri Stanchevici, Texas Tech University


Red Biotechnology, Supervirulent Splices, and Customized Floor Models:  Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later

Grace L. Dillon



Salon C

176       Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film II: Historicizing Myth, Mythologizing History

Chair:  Paul Streufert, University of Texas at Tyler


The Labyrinth in Tim OíBrien's Going After Cacciato

Susan Farrell, College of Charleston


Singing the Past: History and the Politics of Memory in Barry Unsworth's The Songs of the Kings

Apostolos Vasilakis, Emory University


A Modern Myth Waxes and Wanes: A Consideration of the Battle at Sea in Ben-Hur (from Novel to Stage to Cinema to Cartoon)

William J. McCarthy, Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C.


Staging Pagan Rome: Sejanus and Jack Pulman's I, Claudius

Paul Streufert



Salon D

177       Animal Culture II

Chair:  Deborah K. Phillips, Muskingum College


The Future of Animal Rights, as Seen on TV

Asim Ali, University of Maryland, College Park


Farming the Zoo:  Picturing the Exotic Ordinary

Mary Benbow, University College, University of Manitoba


The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Animal Representation in Alien Conspiracy Culture

Richard Kahn, UCLA Paulo Freire Institute


Ebichu the Housekeeping Hamster: Gendered Misadventures in Japanese Animation

Brent Allison, University of Georgia



Salon L

178       Women's Studies II:  Women's Words, Women's Voices: Female Leaders in Literature and Music

Chair: Dora Ramirez-Dhoore, University of Texas-Pan American


Women in Texas: Telling Stories, Singing Songs

Kathleen Hudson, Schreiner University


Aphra Behn's Novel Elements

Shari Clevenger, Northeastern State University


Re"vision" of Victorian Womanhood: Feminism and the Authority of Perception in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

Angela Hough, Texas Tech University


Women Soldiers in Britain During the First World War: Challenges and Constraints

Lucy Noakes, University of Portsmouth, UK


Revision/ing Maria Cristina Mena's Children's Fiction

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore



Salon M

179       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections IV: The Serendipity of Collecting: Unexpected Discoveries, Methods, Directions, and Uses of Collecting

Chair: Nancy Ann Arnold, University of California Santa Barbara


Have You Read All These? Book Collecting and "Reaching Towards Infinity"

Howard Mayer, University of Hartford


Lew Who? Ben-Hur, Bibliography, and Bibliomania

Roger C. Adams, Kansas State University


Collecting Fine Art through Printed Material: Ray Cable's Art Scrapbooks

Laura A. Macaluso, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Collecting Silent Motion Picture Memorabilia: How Films in a Chicken Coop Wound Up at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Allison Denman Holland, University of Arkansas at Little Rock



Conference Rm. 3

179B     



THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004

  

SALON E:  EXHIBITOR's SPACE



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


Salon A

180       Ethnography & Everyday Life I:  Music, Radio and Performance: Burning Man, Hip Hop, and the BBC

Chair:  Julie Mactaggart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


Burning Man as Reflexive Ethnographic Experience: Participant Observation and the Study of Self

Jeremy Hockett, University of New Mexico


What's so German about Hip Hop in Berlin?:  Race and Cultural Identity in Berlin's Hip Hop Community

Inez H. Templeton, University of Stirling


Public Service Broadcasting, Communities and Interactivity: Examining the Presentation and Hosting of Content on BBCi and the Interactive Presenter Scheme

Lizzie Jackson, BBC Interactive Development and Services, University of Westminster


Buddies: A Longitudinal Study of Character, Community, and Behavior in Internet Communities

Julie Mactaggart



Salon B

181       African American Culture I: Racism, Structural Violence and Resistance

Chair: Michael Washington, Northern Kentucky University


Media Coverage of Civil Rights Demonstrations

Betty Attaway-Fink, Southeastern Louisiana University


The Role of African American Community Associations in Resisting Structural Violence: The Case of Hazelwood in Blue Ash, Ohio

Rodney Daniels, University of Cincinnati

 

Structural Violence in Education in Cincinnati: A Historical Perspective

Michael Washington



Salon C

182       Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film III:  Marriage Problems: Mythological Wives On Screen

Chair:  Susan Joseph, Howard University


The Classical Origins of Robin Stark

W. Marshall Johnston, Jr., and Pamela D. Lackie, California State University, Fresno


Forever Faithful?: Penelope in Contemporary Poetry and Film

Mary Economou Bailey, Deree, The American College of Greece


Lars Von Trier and Christa Wolf "Do" Medea

Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia


Walter Benjamin, Greek Tragedy, Translation, and Film: Replacing Resemblance with Re-Assembly in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Susan Joseph



Salon D

183       Film and Film Adaptation I: Sex

Chair: Diedre Ensz, Butler County College


Nobody Knows What Goes on Behind Closed Doors: The (Not So) New Family Values in Secretary

Brenda Boudreau, McKendree College


Corpus Collapsum: Power, Adaptation, Sexuality, The 3

Laura Miller, California State University-Northridge


"The sky settles everything": Space and Character in E. M. Forster's

and David Lean's A Passage to India

Suzanne Speidel, Sheffield Hallam University


Serious Sex and the Trivial Look: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

Deidre Ensz



Salon F

184       Science Fiction/Fantasy VIII:  Gods and Monsters

Chair:  Don Palumbo, East Carolina University


Binary Fallout: Christian Apologetics in Canticle for Leibowitz

and La Locura de Dios

Derek Thiess, University of Wisconsin, River Falls


Gods of the Fantastic and their Effect on the Narrative

Derek Blemberg, Northern Michigan University


Matt Wagner's Grendel and the Evolution of Violence

Jennifer K Farrell, Louisiana State University


The Monomyth in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination

Don Palumbo



Salon G

185       Literature and Visual Art I:  Art and Transformation

Chair:  James R. Aubrey, Metropolitan State College of Denver


Alphanumeric Labs: Language as a Visual Statement

August Highland, San Diego, California


"Reading" Tarot as a Popular Genre

Emily Auger, Wichita State University


Lies, Damned Lies, and Adaptation: The Case of Jakob the Liar

Mallory Young, Tarleton State University, Texas


"Killings" In the Bedroom: From Dubus Story to Debut Film

Gene Saxe, Metropolitan State College of Denver



Salon H

186       Science Fiction and Fantasy I: Major Works of Fantasy for Children

Chair: Geoff Klock, author, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why


Meg's Characteristic Growth in A Wrinkle in Time: From Sniveling Adolescent to Heroic Pre-teen

Stella Williams, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Alice's Deconstruction of Conventions in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Seungwon Kim, University of Texas at Arlington


The Child as an Agent of Change in Lois Lowry's The Giver

Lisa Reed, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Ozma of Oz:  Dorothy's First Journey Underground

Richard Tuerk, Texas A&M University-Commerce



Salon I

187       Jewish Studies I: Jewish Authors and Authors Writing About Jews

Chair:  Deborah Needleman Armintor, University of North Texas


Stifled Cries: The Maternal Voice in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl," "Rosa," and "Puttermesser and Xanthippe"

Mia Spiro, York University, Toronto


Henry Roth's Prolonged Residence on Writer's Block

Steven G. Kellman, The University of Texas at San Antonio


Everybody Loves Rayele: The Barones-A Crypto-Jewish Family

Rosalin Krieger, University of Toronto


Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ as (anti-)Holocaust Film and the Anxiety of Jewish Influence

Deborah Needleman Armintor



Salon J

188       Gay and Lesbian Studies VI: Queer Eyes on Queer Eye

Chair: Colleen Coughlin, Bowling Green State University


Discussants:

James D. Ross, Bowling Green State

Bailey J. Garvin, Bowling Green State

Joelle Ruby Ryan, Bowling Green State




Salon K

189       Mystery and Detective Fiction II: The Series Detective I

Chair: Landon Burns, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania


Is Experience the Best Teacher?  Growth of Detecting Skills in Long-Running Series

Mary P. Freier, Carleton College


Agatha Raisin and the Serial Romance

Amy Hausser, Midlands Technical College


Because This Was Venice, the Police Arrived by Boat: Donna Leon Says Weíre Out of Our Minds

Janet Alwang, Media, Pennsylvania


Some are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, and Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them

Landon Burns



Salon L

190       American Literature III: American Classics

Chair: Tom MacLennan, University of North Carolina at Wilmington


Kino-Eye/Camera Eye: Dziga Vertov's Influence on the Author Function in John Dos Passos' USA

Karen K. Gibson, Southworth Library, SUNY Canton


Too Much Voice (Not Enough Action)

Lissa Piper, Hamburg, New York


Looking Beyond the Surface: An Analysis of Women from Works by Edith Wharton

Kendra Haggard, Northeastern State University


The Collaborative Research Project and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

Tom MacLennan

Jane MacLennan, University of North Carolina at Wilmington




Salon M

191       Collecting and Collectibles I

Chair:  Ron Bishop, Drexel University


To Renew The Old World: Collecting as Cultural Production

Kevin Moist, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona


A Basket Case: An Ethnographic Exploration of Collecting Longaberger Baskets

Melanie Mills, Eastern Illinois University


Home Sweet Home: Blue Willow China as Collectible and Icon

Rhonda Harris Taylor, University of Oklahoma


The Testing of the Theory of Collecting Behavior

Adrian Rapp, with Lynda Dodgen, North Harris College



Conference Rm. 1

192       Protest Issues and Actions I

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


The Wooster Ten: Protesting the War in the Persian Gulf, 1991

Jessamyn Neuhaus, Denison University


Constructing a Revolutionary Myth in the Age of Globalization: Tensions within the Cultural Production of Zapatismo

Glen David Kuecker, DePauw University


After the Rebellion:Challenges Facing Post-Civil Rights Generation Movement Activism

Sekou Franklin, Middle Tennessee State University


The Other Bus Boycotts: Baton Rouge 1953 and Tallahassee 1956

Mike Pope, Writer, Tallahassee, Florida



Conference Rm. 2

193       British Popular Culture I:  Harry Potter: Power and Plurality

Chair:  Marilyn Faulkenberg, Menlo College


"You-Know-Who": The Naming of Names in the Harry Potter Series

Renard Doneskey, Southwestern Adventist University


The Snake Problem: Adolescence, Masculinity, and Power in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Linda Gill, Pacific Union College


Animals and Animagi: Beasts and Men in the Harry Potter Series

Winona Howe, La Sierra University


Discussant:  John Rogers, Vincennes University



Conference Rm. 3

194       Television III:  The Phenomenon of Oprah:  A Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Elwood Watson, East Tennessee State University


Panelists:

Jennifer Harris, University of Windsor

Danita Feinberg, University of South Florida

Elwood Watson



Conference Rm. 4

195       Sports VI: Literature

Chair:  Michael Cocchiarale, Widener University


The Familiar Uncommon Spectator: Jack London's Female Watchers in The Game and The Abysmal Brute

Scott Emmert, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley


Playing Catch: Constructing Postmodern Community at the Site of Loss in Donald Hall's "Baseball"

Ron Picard, Marquette University


Hand Signals: Sport and Popular Culture in the Fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason

Mark Graybill, Widener University


What's a Body to Do?: The Young Female Athlete in Recent American Short Fiction

Michael Cocchiarale



Conference Rm. 5

196       The Beat Generation and Counterculture I: Censorship, Bebop, Pollock and Place

Chair:  Katherine A. Bussard, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Howl: The End of Censorship and a New Direction for the Beat Generation

Jason Anthony Levy, New Mexico State University


The Beats and Bebop: Charlie Parker's Music and Visions of Ecstasy in the Minds of White Hipsters

Jason Rhea Kirby, University of South Carolina


Wanting to Write Like Pollock Painted: Comparing the Artistic Styles of Jack Kerouac and Jackson Pollock

Kevin Cavanaugh, Dutchess Community College


Space versus Place: The Function of the Street in Robert Frank's The Americans

Katherine A. Bussard



Conference Rm. 6

197       Film & History I:  Cinema and the Second World War

Chair:  David Lancaster, University of Leeds


Fred Zinnemann and the Salvaging of Germany

Lawrence Suid, Greenbelt, Maryland


Children's Time to 'Carry on:' Images of the Youth of Britain in World War II Workers Newsreels

Erwin F. Erhardt, III, Thomas More College


Heavy Doses of Patriotism: Marion Morrison and Iwo Jima

Robert Fyne, Kean University



Conference Rm. 7

198       Vietnam I:  Memoir

Chair: Thomas F. Morrissey, Community College of Rhode Island


Storm Brewed in Another Man's World: Leroy TeCube's Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story

Mary Emery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater


Songs of Innocence:  The Child Warrior in Vietnam War Narrative and American National Mythology

Jen Dunnaway, Cornell University


The Picture and The Thousand Words: Juxtaposing Literary and Graphic Narratives of the Vietnam Experience

Lt. Col. Jeffrey S. Wilson, U.S. Military Academy, West Point


No Longer a Thin Man: Looking Back Isn't All That Bad

Thomas F. Morrissey



Conference Rm. 8

199       Food and Culture I: Food Films and Advertising

Chair:  Lynn Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University


Hot Doughnuts! Krispy Kreme's Rise to the Top

M. E. Yeager and Leslie H. Blythe, Wichita State University


Counting Every Bite: Food and Feminine Power in Three Films

Heather OíConnell, Southeastern Louisiana University


Not Another Food Film

Anne Bower, Ohio State University-Marion


Lighten Up Martha: Appe/type and Stereo/tite

James Keller, Mississippi University for Women



Conference Rm. 9

200       Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative I

Chair:  Judith Carter, Amarillo College


Daphne Merkin's Enchantment: Living in Bewilderment

Maria Assif, Case Western Reserve University


Remolding Molly Brown: The Desirable, The Purchasable, The Unsinkable

Valarie Joyce, University of Maryland


Peggy Pond Church: The Telling of Her Life Through Her Poetry

Judith Carter



Conference Rm. 10

201       American Art and Architecture V: Studio Art Panel 2

Chair: Nancy Blair, Melbourne Beach, Florida


Drawing on Pictorial Traditions

Lynn Murray Spencer, Brevard Community College, Cocoa Beach


New Work

Jamie Oliver, Pittsburg State University, Kansas


When Spirit Speaks

Nancy Blair



Conference Rm. 11

202       Arthurian Legend I: Arthurian Fiction(s)

Chair: Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University


Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset, The Other "Shining Moment"

Robert K. Phillips, Lander University


The Natural and The Grail: The Modern Arthurian Hero

Jeanie Randall, Austin Peay State University


Twain's Connecticut Yankee and American Manifest Destiny

Tom Frazier, Cumberland College


Excalibur Redrawn! The Return of King Arthur in 19th-Century America

Michael A. Torregrossa, University of Connecticut, Storrs



Conference Rm. 12

203       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers I

Chair:  Thomas A. Malloy, Westminster, Massachusetts

Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery

Thomas J. Hannon, Slippery Rock University


By the Inland River: Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi

Jack White, Mississippi State University


Cattle, Cotton, and Trains: A Texas Panhandle Cemetery-Part I

Caroline Byrd, Blume Library, St. Mary's University


Cattle, Cotton, and Trains: A Texas Panhandle Cemetery-Part II

Rose Marie Cutting, St. Mary's University



Conference Rm. 13

204       Shakespeare in Popular Culture I:  Creating Relevancy through Pedagogy

Chair:  Tracey M. Gau, University of North Texas


Where is Gertrude?:  Hamlet Camp 2003

Lisa Dickson, University of Northern British Columbia


Teaching Politics in the Lancastrian Tetralogy

Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University


Radical Revisions of Shakespeare:  A Pedagogical Case Study

Ariane M. Balizet, University of Minnesota


Teaching Shakespeare in an Indian University

Sarbani Chaudhury, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India



Conference Rm. 14

205       Grateful Dead I:  Dead Words: Fiction, Poetry and Recent Books

Chair:  Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters


The Tomb of the Unknown Hippie: Reading from a Grateful Dead Novel

Matthew Armstrong, University of South Carolina, Greensboro


Home Before Daylight but Still "In the Dark":  A Review of Steve Parish's book

Alan Lehman, Independent Scholar


Living With the Dead: The Anatomy of a Grateful Dead Novel

Rob Weiner, Mahon Library, Lubbock, TX


Grateful Poesy: A Reading of Poetry Inspired by the Grateful Dead

Jon Ney, University of Calilfornia-Irvine



Conference Rm. 15

206       Children's Literature and Culture III: Images across Cultures

Chair: Joyce Litton, University of Ohio


Hello Kitty in America

Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan University


The Making of Absolutely Fabulous Girls in Young Adult Literature

Julie Robinson, University of Northern Colorado


Dinny Gordon in High School

Joyce Litton



Conference Rm. 16

207       Film V:  Cinematic Intersections: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Contemporary Cinema

Chair: Terry Moore, Ohio State University


Tracking Strangers in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep

Judith Mayne, Ohio State University


Mythical Time/Space and Fantastic Bodies: Accounting for Race and Gender in Hollywood's Embodied Economy

Maurice E. Stevens, Ohio State University


Avenging Violence and Fixing Race on the Way to Kill Bill

Ruby Tapia, Ohio State University


Tracing Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Film Noir

Terry Moore



Conference Rm. 17

208       Travel & Tourism I:  Ad-VENTURING Women

Chair:  Felicia Campbell, University of Nevada


Long Life and Adventure Travel

Felicia Campbell


"She's Leaving Home": Popular Women's Travel Writing and Narratives of Liberation and Transformation

Traci Fordham-Hernandez, St. Lawrence University


Sports Illustrated in South Africa: The Ndebele and Cultural Tourism

Carol Magee, Elon University


A Reading of "Born Beneath Pedro's Sombrero" from Born Beneath Pedro's Sombrero, Raised in a Corn Palace: Stories of Sorrow and Success, by Dawn Comer

Dawn Comer, Albion College



Conference Rm. 18

209       Popular Music I

Chair: Robert G. Weiner, Lubbock Public Library


Denis Johnson and Jesus Son

Tom Parrish, Texas Christian university


Specialized Punk Markets and Punk Authenticity: Why Punk Lives

Jessica Espinosa, University of Florida


The Ventures are from Oklahoma?: What I Learned Co-Writing the Oklahoma Music Guide

Hugh Foley, Rogers State University


Jamaican Song Lyrics as Multicultural Signifiers: Cultural Identity in Reggae

David V. Moskowitz, University of South Dakota



Conference Rm. 19

210       Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics I:  Popular Culture Topics in Spanish & French

Chair:  Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings


Attitude Affects or Effects of Attitude? Language Behavior in Three South Texas Border Communities

Kati Pletsch de Garcia, Texas A&M International University


"Eef ju taulk like dis": Spanglish, Spanish and Calo in Chicano Film

Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State College


Spanish and French Insults as Terms of Endearment

Agnes Ragone, Shippensburg University


Code Alternation/Code Mixing/Code Switching:  Codes of Resistance to Assimilation

María Eugenia Trillo, Texas Woman's University




THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.


Salon A

211       Ethnography & Everyday Life II:  Community-in-Action

Chair:  Matthew Wolf-Myer, University of Minnesota


Coin Laundry Heroes

Leah Smithey, Belmont University


The Globalization of Love: An Ethnography of an Internet-Based Community of Adoptive Parents

Emily J. Noonan, Georgia State University


The Sims Online: The Challenges of Honesty, Anonymity, and Objectivity in Ethnographic Research

Charles Elmore, Belmont University



Salon B

212       African American Culture II:  African American Popular Culture in Global and Educational Perspectives

Chair: Jerrilyn McGregory, Florida State University


The Dashiki Project Theatre: A Global Perspective

Stanley Coleman, Nicholls State University


Teaching Diversity Any Day Now

Hazel Rozema, University of Illinois at Springfield


The Local and The Global: Boxing Day by Any Other Name

Jerrilyn McGregory



Salon C

213       American Indians Today IV:  The Dance of Persistence

Chair:  Richard Allen, Cherokee Nation


Wawakipajinpi:Rebellion: Understanding the Evolution of the Grass Dance in Susan Power's Grass Dancer

Anastasia Wright, University of Georgia


Authentic is Whatever We Make It:  The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Hoop Dancing

Diana Meneses, Arizona State University


Raps to Remember: Raps to Represent: The Construction of Contemporary Native Identity in Hip Hop

Alan Lechusza Aquallo, University of California, San Diego



Salon D

214       Film and Film Adaptation II: Global Perspectives

Chair: Juan Alonzo, Texas A&M University


Adaptation and Cross-Cultural Differences: Blow Up

Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Absolutely Fabulous! Reclaiming Bollywood as Camp

Pashmina Murthy, University of Southern California


Paul Robeson's Imperial Masquerade: Race and Representation in 1930s British Colonial Films

Charles Gentry, University of Michigan


Contingency and Critique in Recent Chicano/a Cinema

Juan Alonzo



Salon F

215       Science Fiction/Fantasy IX:  Issues of Humanity

Chair:  James Davis, Troy State University


Becoming Other than Ourselves:  Difference and Hybridity in Species and the Xenogenesis Trilogy

Jae H. Roe, Sogang University


Who's Human?:  Men, Monsters or Aliens?

André Luiz Correia Lourenço, Universidade Estácio de Sá./UniSuam (Centro Universitário Augusto Motta)


Humanity and Technology in Science Fiction Films: Philip K. Dick and the Movies

Erin Hill-Parks, Georgetown University


Finding the Other Alien: The Search for Self in the SF films of Jack Arnold

James Davis



Salon G

216       Literature and Visual Art II:  Visualizing Culture

Chair: Carol Samson, University of Denver


Studies in Black and White: Sojourner Truth, Herman Melville, and Political Caricature in Antebellum America

Ellen Goldner, College of Staten Island


Mama, Don't Preach: The Ethnic Mother-Daughter Dynamic in Real Women Have Curves, Bend It Like Beckham, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Christina Vick, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Bend it like Bollywood: The Marking of Anglophone Movies by Indian Popular Cinema

James Aubrey, Metropolitan State College of Denver



Salon H

217       Science Fiction and Fantasy II: Projections of the Posthuman

Chair:  Richard Tuerk, Texas A&M University-Commerce


"Dark Mirrors" and "Lighthouses": Androids and Post-Human Sexuality in A.I. and Bladerunner

Levi Burkett, Southern Illinois University


Envisioning the Post-Human in the Post-City: Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell

Julian Cornell, New York University


"Who Are You?": Alien Resurrection and the Post-human Subject

Ximena Gallardo C., co-author of Alien Woman


Dark City, Gnosticism, Posthumanity

Geoff Klock, author of How to Read Superhero Comics and Why

 

 

Salon I

218       Jewish Studies II: The Impact of Real and Fictional Jewish History

Chair:  Deborah Glast, University of Texas at Permian Basin

  

Cantor Joseph Cysner: Confinement, Deliverance, and the Creation of the American Holocaust Haven in The Philippines

Bonnie Mae Harris, University of California at Santa Barbara


A People in the Desert: The Establishment of the Jewish Temple in the Permian Basin

Deborah Glast



Salon J

219       Gay and Lesbian Studies VII: Lesbian Literature and Culture

Chair: Alida Moore, University of Mississippi


Female Same-Sex Eroticism and the Crisis of Order in Early Modern English Culture

Moira P. Baker, Radford University


Peering Around the Closet Door:  The Lesbian Detective in the 'Year of the Queer

Siobhan Kelly, Wayne State College


Largely Laughless and Often Laughable: The L Word's Lack of Life, Laughter -
and Even Lesbians

Katja Hawlitschka, Wayne State College

Tokenism or Inclusion?: Race in Lesbian Detective Fiction

Alida Moore



Salon K

220       Mystery and Detective Fiction III: Constructing the Enemy: A Variety of Issues

Chair:  Patricia Prandini Buckler, Purdue University North Central


John Le Carré: Cold Polis and the Landscape of Self

Thomas Van, University of Louisville


Reconstructing the Enemy in Joseph Kanon's The Prodigal Spy and Los Alamos

Tricia Jenkins, Michigan State University


Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen: Ultimate Antidetective

Patricia Prandini Buckler



Salon L

221       Women's Lives and Literature II:  "New Women"

in Popular Fiction

Chair:  Pat Tyer, West Texas A&M University


Separation of the Spheres:  The Rise of the New Woman

in the Novels of Evelyn Scott

Pat Tyrer


"Womanhood Reinvented":  Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J.D. Robb's

'Deathí Series

Darcy Martin, East Tennessee State University


The Female Hero's Mythic Journey in Paulette Jiles' Enemy Women

Cynthia A. Gravlee, University of Montevallo


  

Salon M

222       Collecting and Collectibles II

Chair:  Ron Bishop, Drexel University


Cultural Diversity in the U.S.: A U.S. Postal Service Perspective

Timothy Ashmore, Morehead State University


I'm a Pepper: The History of Collecting Dr. Pepper Memorabilia

Jim Towns, Stephen F. Austin State University


Small Worlds: The Social Lives of Navajo Folk Art

Judith Hamera, California State University at Los Angeles



Conference Rm. 1

223       Dime Novels/ Pulps/ Juvenile Series Books I:  Autobiography

as Analysis

Chair: Marlena Bremseth, San Diego, California


Life and Lore on the High Seas:  Tthe John Paul Jones Novels

J. Randolph Cox, Editor, Dime Novel Round-Up


Pinkerton's Progeny:  The Influence of the Pinkerton Memoirs

on Detective Dime Novels

Pamela Bedore, University of Rochester


Bringing Together "Sister Carrie" and "Little Rosebud":  The Working-Girl

and the Story-Book Plot in Dorothy Richardson's The Long Day

Ann Kennedy, Rice University


Up Close and Personal: Selected Dime Novel Author's Letters to Frank OíBrien, Albert Johannsen, and Ralph Adimare, 1913-1935

Marlena Bremseth



Conference Rm. 2

224       British Popular Culture II:  Reimagining Lord of the Rings:

The Two Towers

Chair:  Marilyn Button,  Lincoln University


"You shall not pass":  Galdalf, Merlin, and the Wizarding Tradition

Frank Riga, Canisius College


Warrior Woman: Masks of Gender in The Two Towers

Maureen Thum, University of Michigan-Flint


Ellipses and Elisions: Aragorn and the Ambiguity of Identity

in The Two Towers

Judith Kollmann, University of Michigan-Flint


Discussant:  John Greenfield, McKendree College



Conference Rm. 3

225       Television IV:   Television, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair:  Thomas Patterson, Shepherd College


Humor and Cultural Domination: A Theoretical Model of Racism and Late Night Television Humor

Thomas Patterson


The Intersection of Italian-ness and Mafia Identity in The Sopranos

Sondra Cappuccio, Rutgers University, and

Megan Scala, Temple University


Gender or Race: The Erasure of Whiteness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mobina Hashmi, University of Wisconsin



Conference Rm. 4

226       Sports VII:  Baseball I

Chair:  Jim Vlasich, Southern Utah University


Conjuring Curses and Supplicating Spirits: Baseball's Culture of Superstitions

Joseph Price, Whittier College


Pete Rose and Ty Cobb: A Dichotomy, Not an Analogy

Charles Alexander, Ohio University


Win One for Old Bobo: The 1940 Detroit-Cincinnati World Series

Bruce Rubenstein, University of Michigan-Flint



Conference Rm. 5

227       The Beat Generation and Counterculture II: The Politics of Self, Society and Freedom in the Work of Jack Kerouac

Chair:  Jill Silos, University of New Hampshire


Cold War Culture and the Beats: The Underground Self in Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans

Penny Vlagopoulos, Columbia University


Politics of the Self: Complications of Postwar American Masculinity in Kerouac's On the Road

Victoria A. Elmwood, Indiana University-Bloomington


Beats and Travel: Challenging the Boundaries in Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Ozlem Karagoz, Dokuz Eylul University


"On the Road" to Freedom: The Beats, The Road and the 1960s Counterculture

Jill Silos



Conference Rm. 6

228       Film & History II:  American Culture and Motion Pictures

Chair:  David Lancaster, University of Leeds


Arthur Miller versus Columbia Pictures: The Strange Case of "Career of a Salesman"

Kevin Kerrane, University of Delaware


Open Range: The Post 9-11 Western

Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School


Filming in Florida: Hollywood before Hollywood

Gretchen Bisplinghoff, Northern Illinois University


Cinematizing Dystopia: Mad Max I

Metin Boþnak, Fatih University, Büyükçekmece, Istanbul



Conference Rm. 7

229       Vietnam II: Poetry and Songs

Chair: Eric Gadzinski, Lake Superior State University


Love at the Border:  Songs from North and South of the 17th Parallel

Jason Gibbs, San Francisco Public Library


War Poetry After 9/11:  Déjà Vu All Over Again

Dale Ritterbusch, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


"the iconoclastic of fact":  Ted Gosta's "Prisoner"

Eric Gadzinski



Conference Rm. 8

230       Food and Culture II: Cooks, Celebrity Chefs, and Kitchens

Chair:  Lynn Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University


The Cult of the Celebrity Chef

Pauline Adema, The University of Texas at Austin


The Rhetoric of the Celebrity Cookbook

Christine Mitchell, Southeastern Louisiana University


The Devil or the Physician: The Politics of Cooking and the Gendering of Cooks

Huey-ling Lee, National Chi Nan University


Social Changes Affecting Kitchen Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Lynn Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University



Conference Rm. 9

231       Biography IV:  Biography and Art

Chair:  Ninfa Nik, Texas Woman's University


"Bookmarks" for the Body: The Tattoo as Biographical Documentation

Mary Kosut, Manhattan College


Saving Private Ryan As Public Memory

Traci Christine Turner, California State University, Fullerton


Frida Kahlo: Realist Painter

Ninfa Nik



Conference Rm. 10

232       Popular American Art, Architecture, & Design

Chairs:  James Winebrenner, University of Florida, and

William H. Young, Independent Writer & Scholar, Lynchburg, Virginia


Matthew Nowicki, Le Corbusier, and Chandigarh:  The End of a Career

and the Culmination of Another

James Alexander, University of Alabama at Birmingham


The Dymaxion House and the Advertised Image of Modernity

Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts, NYC



Conference Rm. 11

233       Arthurian Legend II:  Grails, Holy and Otherwise

Chair: Donald L. Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University


The Inklings and the Grail: The Arthurian Quests of Charles Williams

and C. S. Lewis

Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University


Grail Themes in Contemporary Fiction: Spirituality and Religious Conflict

James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern University


Dissing Dan Brown: The Grail that Never Was

Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University


Radical Grails: Transforming the Wasteland in the Films of John Boorman

and Terry Gilliam

Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming



Conference Rm. 12

234       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers II

Chair:  David M. Gradwohl, Iowa State University


Massachusettsí Gravemarkers of the French and Indian Wars, Part I

Thomas A. Malloy, Westminster, Massachusetts


Massachusettsí Gravemarkers of the French and Indian Wars, Part II

Brenda Malloy, Westminster, Massachusetts


Standing Guard: Kansas Civil War Sentinel Statues

Randall M. Thies, Kansas State Historical Society



Conference Rm. 13

235       Computer Culture V: Class Meeting Online: Academic Weblogs

Chair: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend


Blogs in the Writing Classroom

Jennifer Thompson, Embry-Riddle University


"Welcome to the Blogosphere": Using Weblogs to Create Classroom Community

Tom Nelson and Jan Fernheimer, University of Texas at Austin


Using Blogs to Promote the Writing Process for ESL and Bilingual Learners

Karen Ogulnick, Long Island University

Sharla Jones, Northwest Vista College


Weblogs: Where the Personal, Creative, and Academic Meet

Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State University



Conference Rm. 14

236       Grateful Dead II:  Business, Culture and the Grateful Dead

Chair:  Julia Hardy, Muhlenberg College


Commerce, Move Me Brightly:  How Capitalism Killed the Dead

Don McCallister, Independent Scholar


The Grateful Dead: A Business Model for Teaching Graduate Business Courses

Barry Barnes, Nova Southeastern University


The Origins of DeadBase

Michael Dolgushkin, California State University - Davis


What's become of the baby? Thoughts on the Post-Garcia Dead

Daniel J. Dasaro, Independent Scholar



Conference Rm. 15

237       Children's Literature and Culture IV:  From the Oral Tradition

Chair: Joel Rudinger, Firelands College of Bowling Green State University


Death and Disney Movies

Lynda Dodgen, North Harris College, Houston, with

Adrian Rapp, North Harris College, Houston


Locating and Dislocating: Versions of "Rapunzel" and "Rumpelstiltskin"

Rebecca Sung, Providence University, Taiwan


The Sedna Legend

Joel Rudinger



Conference Rm. 16

238       Film VI:  Science Fiction Films: NASA, Journalism, & the Afterlife

Chair:  Donald Palumbo, East Carolina University


Space, The Final Frontier, and the Organizations that Help Get Us There

OíBrien Stanley, Lamar University, and

Nicki L. Michalski, Lamar University


Overcoming Space-Flight Villains: The Cinematic NASA and the American Dream

Susan K. Opt, Florida Southern College


Mass Com and Mars: How the Roles of Journalists Evolve over 50 Years of Sci-fi Adventure Films

John C. Yearwood, Lamar University


Living the Dream: Visions of the Afterlife in Vanilla Skyand Solaris

Patricia Williamson, Central Michigan University



Conference Rm. 17

239       Travel & Tourism II:  Time Travel: History via Travel

Chair:  David M. Dean, Frostburg State University


Cranking Across History: A Sampler of Cross-Country Bicycle Treks

David M. Dean


Times Travel: Where, Why and How the New York Times Is Telling Us To Go Since 9/11

Roger C. Saathoff, Texas Tech University


Secular Pilgrimage in the New Russia: The Life and Meaning of the Literary Museum

Michael Makin, University of Michigan



Conference Rm. 18

240       Popular Music II

Chair:  Robert Weiner, Lubbock Public Library


Johnny Came Marching Home: The Impact of the Vietnam War on American Popular Music

Jolan K. Warren, Youngstown State University


Steve Earle's Blues: The Problem of Persona in Popular Music

Geoffrey Stacks, Purdue University


Woody Guthrie: The Original Folk Hero and His Influence on Contemporary Artists

Natasha Vaitekunas, Middle Tennessee State University


Another White Boy Doiní Hip Hop: Using Bubbasparxxx to Situate Hip Hop as a Class Project

Ailecia Ruscin, University of Kansas




Conference Rm. 19

241       Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics II:  Film & Internet Language

Chair:  Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings


The Myth of the Mad Linguist: Attitudes about Language and Linguists in Forbidden Planet

Ian Roberts, Missouri Western State College


PH34R my L33T 9r4mm4R 5KilL$: The Academic Cost of L33t Speak and Net Slang

Marsha Foster, University of Cincinnati


The Language of Scam Spams: Linguistic Features of Fraudulent Financial-Transaction E-mails

Deborah Schaffer



Hospitality Suite Rm. 618

242       Health Issues in Popular Culture I: Health Politics in Popular Fiction, Film, and News

Chair: David Tanner, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences


Images of Health Insurance in Popular Film: The Dissolving Critique

Elizabeth A. Pendo, St. Thomas University School of Law


Grass Roots or Astro-Turf?:The Media and National Health Insurance in the Twentieth Century

Kimberly Weathers, University of Houston


Managed Care Nightmare:  Melodrama and the Negotiation of Health Care Reform in the Novels of Robin Cook

David Tanner

  



THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.


Salon A

243       Dance and Culture I: Popular Appropriations I

Chair:  Sondra Lomax, University of Texas, Austin


Carl Randall:  Broadway Song and Dance

Camille Hardy, Dance Magazine


Restaging the Gaze: Taking Theatrical Dance to Television

Colleen Dunagan, California State University Long Beach


Dancing Subversive Charm: From Melodrama's Macaire to Silent Film's Chaplin

Libby Smigel, University of Maryland College Park



Salon B

244       Creative Poetry I:  Original Works

Chair: Mary Leslie, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Presenters:

Tim Bradford, Oklahoma State University

Alex Richardson, Limestone College

Joel Chace, Mercerburg, Pennsylvania

John Jenkinson, Butler College



Salon C

245       Native American Studies III: From Memory Born: Historical (Re)representations in (Post)Colonial Space

Chair:  Nicolas Rosenthal, University of California at Los Angeles

Popular Memory and Aboriginal Heritage: A Case Study of the Niagara Falls Indian Village

Marian Bredin, Brock University, St. Catharines

 

The Morphology of a Mexicatl Myth: La Leyenda de los soles in Twentieth Century Nahuat Folklore

Kim McCord, Independent Scholar


From Political Propaganda to Cultural Icon: Recasting the Native Hawaiian 'Hula Girlí

Lydia Kualapai, Schreiner University



Salon D

246       Film and Film Adaptation III: Film Theory And Application

Chair: Nicholas Ruiz, Florida State University


The Breaking of the Classic Hollywood Three Act Narrative

GL Tyler, University of Colorado at Boulder


Adaptation or Something Like It: The Gambler

Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam


Understanding "Adaptation" in McFarlane's Novel to Film

Dennis Cutchins, Brigham Young University


Film and Media Studies as a Paradigm for Critical Theory in the New Millennium

Nicholas Ruiz



Salon F

247       Science Fiction/Fantasy X:  Gender

Chair:  Bonnie Noonan, University of New Orleans


Blood & Lipstick: Male Dread of the Femme Fatale in Science Fiction

Amy Woodworth, Rutgers University


"Would an Afternoon Off Cause Any Harm?": Superpowered Women and the Masquerade of Selflessness

Julie D. O'Reilly, Bowling Green State University


Where Few Men Have Gone Before: Science Fiction, Gender, and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Barry Grant, Brock University


"Science is science, but a girl must get her hair done": Representation of Women Scientists in Five American Science Fiction Films of the 1950s

Bonnie Noonan



Salon G

248       Masculinities III: Masculinity and Sexuality

Chair:  Gerald P. Mulderig, DePaul University, Chicago


Caught with Your Pants Down: Advertising, Humiliation and Masculinity

Neil M. Alperstein, Loyola College


Queer Eye on the Prize: The Stereotypical Sodomites of Summer

William Harris, Shippensburg University


Queer Eye and The Terminator:  The Multiple Masculinities of Modern American Culture

Randolph Splitter, De Anza College


Charting the Emergence of a Homoerotic Gaze in Twentieth-Century Photography:  The Male Body in the Work of Thomas Eakins, Herbert List, and George Platt Lynes

Gerald P. Mulderig


  

Salon H

249       Science Fiction and Fantasy III: Reading the Posthuman

Chair: Julian Cornell, New York University


Cyborg Bodies and Digitized Desires: The Posthuman Condition in Phillip K. Dick

Jennifer Attaway, University at Buffalo


Probing the Posthuman: Richard Powersí Galatea 2.2 and the Mind-Body Problem

Miranda Campbell, Concordia University


Rethinking the Prison of Flesh: Irruptive Embodiment in Cyberfiction

Stefanie Martin, University of Washington


Dead Girls and the Fantasy of Humanism: Desire, Gender, Technology and the Production of Subjectivity for Global Capitalism

Corella DiFede, University of California, Santa Cruz



Salon I

250       Jewish Studies III:  The Holocaust and Jewish Survival

Chair: Rachel Leah Jablon, University of Maryland


Disturbing Figures and Disruptive Behavior in Moishe-Leyb Halpern's In New York (a Long Yiddish Poem)

Marcela Sulak, University of Texas at Austin


Art Spiegelman's Maus: Second Generation "Ur" Text

Susan Jacobowitz, Queensborough Community College, CUNY


Invisibility as a Way of Life: Jewish Survival Strategies During the Holocaust

Ruben Kodjo Afagla, University of Kansas


Witnessing as Shivah/Memoir as Yizkor: The Formulation of Holocaust Survivor Literature as Gemilut Khasadim

Rachel Leah Jablon



Salon J

251       Motorcycle Culture and Myth II:  Riding Communities

Chair: William Graham Carrington, poet, writer, storyteller


Chicks on Bikes:  Dispelling the Myth of the Biker Babe

Nan Curtis, Neville Public Museum


Adventure Quests of Track-Day Motorcyclists

Geoff Crowther, University of Huddersfield


Hierarchies of Meaning and Value in the Classic British Bike Scene

James J. Ward, Cedar Crest College

  


Salon K

252       Mystery and Detective Fiction IV: Revisiting the Hardboiled Novel: Raymond Chandler

Chair: John Scaggs, Mary Immaculate College


Reconfiguring the Analyst and the Detective: The Obsessional and Analytic Economies of Raymond Chandler

Alexander Howe, University of the District of Columbia


Twenty-Five Dollars a Day, Plus Expenses: Blackmail and the Price of Knowledge in the Novels of Raymond Chandler

John Scaggs



Salon L

253       Cultural Conflict and Women II:  Autobiographical Acts in Literature and Material Culture

Chair:  Mahbub Jamal, Prince George's County Community College


Cultural Conflict and Women in the Slave Narrative

James Brian Wagaman, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg


Autobiographical Altars: Acts of Self and Subversion

Kelly Jasena Kromer, Louisiana State University


Cultural Conflict and Women in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Mahbub Jamal



Salon M

254       Collecting and Collectibles III

Chair:  Ronald Bishop, Drexel University


Making Home in Shangri-La: Expatriate Collections and History Making Abroad

Heather Hindman, Denison University


What Makes You Think that You Can Register for that China?

Julie Pong, Brock University


Don't Call Us, We'll Call You: Collecting Narratives in PBS' Find! and HGTV's The Collector Inspector

Ronald Bishop



Conference Rm. 1

255       Dime Novels/ Pulps/ Juvenile Series Books II:

Series Books - Fleshing Out the Characters

Chair:  Kathleen Chamberlain, Emory & Henry College


"She Made an Attractive Picture": Representations of the School Girl in Progressive Era Fiction

Kathleen Chamberlain


Both Shaken and Stirred: James Bond and Juvenile Series Books

Frank Quillen, East Tennessee State University


Into the Wilds for Fun and Profit: Series Books Visit the Great Outdoors

Bill Gowen, Editor, Newsboy


Dust Jackets and Frontispieces: Images of the Modern American Girl

MJ Fenwick, Memphis State University



Conference Rm. 2

256       British Popular Culture III:  Novels into Film

Chair:  Betsy Watson, Davenport University


Two Films and a Novel:  Graham Greene's The Quiet American

John Greenfield, McKendree College


Gangsters in Greeneland:  Graham Greene's Brighton Rock

John Rogers, Vincennes University


From Casterbridge to Kingdom Come: Thomas Hardy's Mayor in Novel and Film

Rob Watson, Grand Valley State University


Discussant:  Judith Kollmann, University of Michigan-Flint



Conference Rm. 3

257       Television V:  Drama:  Cops, Detectives, Lawyers, and Politicians

Chair:  Kami Chisholm, University of California, Santa Cruz


Epistemologies of Law and Order:  CSI and the New Television Detective

Kami Chisholm


Trial by Jury: Law and Order and the Hegemony of Juridical Discourse

Anthony Avruch, Bowling Green State University


Popular Music and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective

Leonard Heldreth, Northern Michigan University


Burning Bush: TV's Comic Turn on a Tragic Administration

Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University



Conference Rm. 4

258       Sports VIII: Football

Chair: Larry Lance, University of North Carolina


Tailgating and the Making of Men

Sylvester Frazier, Lamar University


The National Football League's Youth National Punt, and Kick Competition:

A Case in Point

David Burt, Francis Marion University


Fredrick Exley's Fan's Notes and The Metaphysics of Football

Matthew Pifer, Lake Superior State University


What a Difference a Year Can Make: Social Changes Resulting from the Transformation from a Losing to a Winning Professional Football Team

Larry Lance



Conference Rm. 5

259       Westerns and the West I:  Defining and Redefining the Western Tradition

Chair:  Nancy Cook, University of Rhode Island


"Words Maketh the Man": The Hamlet Scene in My Darling Clementine

David Lancaster, University of Leeds


Singing Cowboys and Their Cinematic Sidekicks:  Another Look at B-Westerns and the Western Tradition

Dixie Durham, Chapman University


"To Market, To Market":  Fast Food, Slow Food, and the Edible West

Nancy Cook


Marcial Lafuente Estefania, King of the Popular Western

John Donahue, Concordia University



Conference Rm. 6

260       Caribbean and Latin American Literature I:  Latin American Cinema and Popular Culture

Chair:  Mark Lokensgard, St. Mary's University of San Antonio


Turning Scarcity into Wealth, or the Boom of the New Brazilian Cinema

Cacilda Rego, The University of Kansas


Popular Catholicism, Broad Comedy:  Mazzaropi and Brazilian Cinema

Eva Bueno, St. Mary's University of San Antonio


Film and Faith:  Religion and Popular Spiritual Practice in Brazilian Cinema

Mark Lokensgard


Puerto Rican Identity and Representation in Cinema

Aminata Maraesa, New York University



Conference Rm. 7

261       Vietnam III:  Fiction by Americans

Chair: Margaret Stewart, Washburn University


Tim O'Brien's July, July: The Pain of Healing

Jay Gaspar, Brenau University, Georgia


Assorted Clerics and Devotees in Four Robert Olen Butler Novels

Ralph S. Carlson, Azusa Pacific University


"Dark Tourism" and Magical Realism: Tim O'Brien, John Mulligan,

John Lennon, and Malcolm Foley

Margaret Stewart



Conference Rm. 8

262       Film & History III:  Visions and Perspectives

Chair:  Deborah L. Blackwell, Texas A&M International University


Revisioning Contemporary History in the Age of Al Capone

J.E. Smyth, Yale University


Heroines and Hillbillies: Songcatcher and the History of an American Folk

Deborah L. Blackwell


Jesus, Mel, and Josephus: Faith, Politics, and History in Gibson's The Passion

Frank Klapak, Seton Hill University


W. C. Fields: A Comedy for Assimilation

Gordon Osing, The University of Memphis



Conference Rm. 9

263       Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative II

Chair:  Judith Carter, Amarillo College


Monica Ali: Using "Brick" and Mortar to Create Understanding under a Crescent Moon

Cheryl Wiltse, Texas Woman's University


John Phillip Santos and the Creation of Sacred Memories

Elizabeth Hayes Turner, University of North Texas


Homosexuality and Exile: Latin American Autobiography as a Political Tool

Miguel M. Marrero, Richland College, Dallas


  

Conference Rm. 10

264       Folklore and Popular Culture I: The Private Made Public: Popular Ritual and Performance

Chair:  Elisabeth Nixon, The Ohio State University


Sacred and/or Profane? Popular Culture Aspects of the Spontaneous Shrine Phenomenon

Sylvia Grider, Texas A&M University


Ritualized Fierceness: Non-violent Masculinity in the Gay Male Dance Circuit

Mick Weems, The Ohio State University


Remember Goliad? Battle Re-enactments and the Construction of Texas Revolutionary History

Leigh Clemons, Louisiana State University


Scaring the Hell Out of Unbelievers: The Interplay of Order and Chaos in Halloween Haunted Houses

Elisabeth Nixon, Franklin University



Conference Rm. 11

265       Arthurian Legend III: Mixed-Media Arthuriana

Chair: Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University


Harper to the Queen: Tristan in Post-War Music

Edmee and Jerome V. Reel, Clemson University


The Progressive Arthur? Rick Wakeman and Issues of Taste

Benjamin Earl, Cardiff University


Kevin Costner as Lancelot and the King(pin)'s Revenge

Ellen L. Friedrich, Valdosta State University



Conference Rm. 12

266       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers III

Chair:  Brenda Malloy, Westminster, Massachusetts


Encounters with Spanish Culture in the Cemeteries of Barcelona, Madrid

Gary Collison, Pennsylvania State University


Morte in Alabama: Tracking the Migration and Integration of Sicilian Culture into Birmingham, Alabama

James Alexander, University of Alabama


Sorrow and Hope: Post-World War I Manifestations in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Joyce Corbett, Ethnic Textile Council of San Diego


In Search of Jewish Vilna in New York and Vilnius: Burial Grounds, Mourning and Commemoration after the Holocaust

Anna Lipphardt, Berlin, Germany



Conference Rm. 13

267       Computer Culture VI: Aristotle's Dream: Coming to Terms with Online Genres

Chair: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend


boswell@johnson.com: blogging as a new literary poetics

Vicki Forman, University of Southern California


Weblogs: The New Rhetoric

Wioleta Fedeczko, Towson University


Technology and Worship Theology

Alec Sonsteby, University of Illinois



Conference Rm. 14

268       Grateful Dead III:  Cover Bands and Musicians Who Play Music of the Grateful Dead-Panel Discussion

Chair:  David Gans, Record Producer, Author, Musician


Discussants:

Mark Mattson, Fordham University

Peter Sawyer, California Institute of Integral Studies

Revell Carr, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina-Greensboro


  

Conference Rm. 15

269       Children's Literature and Culture V: Fantasy, Especially Harry Potter

Chair:  Sally Sugarman, Bennington College


Heroism, Empowerment and Loss: Reading Harry Potter in a Post September 11th World

Teresa B. Henning, Purdue University North Central


Thick as Thornberrys:  The Mixed Messages Nickelodeon Sends

Sally Sugarman



Conference Rm. 16

270       Film VII:  Comedy +: Sex, Money, Noir, & Documentaries

Chair: Bethany Yates, Texas Tech University


Sexual Humor as Comedy:  Woody Allen and His Films

Ming-May Jessie Chen, Providence University, and

Chu-Ju Fay Lin, Providence University


Money and Movies: Economics in Film

Karen L. Carmean, Converse College, and

Madelyn V. Young, Converse College


Fargoas Existentialist Noir, Yah?

Patrick McHenry, Columbus State University


Waiting for Guffman: Documentary Techniques Applied to Mocumentary Film

Bethany Yates



Conference Rm. 17

271       Travel & Tourism III:  Tourism and (Southern) Identities

Chair:  Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College


Religious and Touristic Identities at the San Antonio Missions

Thomas S. Bremer


The Recent Colonization of Ybor City, Tampa, Florida

Gregory V. Smith, University of South Florida


Promoting the Leisurely South: Tourism, Modern America, and Southern Identity

Rebecca C. McIntyre, San Antonio, Texas


Nostalgia Tourism and America's 1950s Automobiles in Today's Cuba: Issues of Authenticity, Cultural Commodification and Other Cultural Impacts

Wanda Mouton, Stephen F. Austin State University



Conference Rm. 18

272       SW/TX PCA/ACA Executive Board of Directors Meeting (Luncheon by Invitation only)



Conference Rm. 19

273       Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics III:  Perspectives on Changing English

Chair:  Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings


Happy in HEL: Parody, Humor, and the Teaching of the History of the English Language

Patricia Donaher, Missouri Western State College


"Booí Ií Loik Bekkam": English Pop Culture and the Rising tide of "Estuary English"

Alina Makin, University of Michigan


Discourses about AIDS in Post-Apartheid South African Culture

Felicity Horne, University of South Africa



Hospitality Suite Rm. 618

274       Health Issues in Popular Culture II: Pursuing Health in American Culture

Chair: Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences


Fear and the Regulation of Conduct Through Self-Help

Valérie de Courville Nicol, Concordia University, Montreal


Warrior Princesses at the Gym: The Role of Fighting in Women's Wellness

Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences


Health Behaviors in HIV-Infected Women: Looking at Adherence to Medications and Communication

Claudia L. McCalman (co-author, Mariza S. Alvarez), Southeastern Louisiana University


New Media and Sex Education in the Early Twentieth Century

Courtney Shah, University of Houston

  


THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.


Salon A

275       Ethnography & Everyday Life III:  Consumption, Bodies, and Selves

Chair:  Susan Falls, CUNY Graduate School


Resisting McCulture: Reclaiming Community and Cultural Democracy in Southern California

Monica Ganas, Azusa Pacific University


Tiny Bits of Carbon: An Everyday Ethnography of Diamonds

Susan Falls


Defining Transnational Bodies: An Analysis of Brazil-U.S. Beauty Contests

Suzana Miai, CUNY Graduate School


Searching for a New Self: Stories of Turkish Women in New York

Esin Egit, CUNY Graduate School


  

Salon B

276       Creative Poetry II:  Original Works

Chair: Maura Gage, Louisiana State University at Eunice


Presenters:

Gerald Locklin, California State University-Long Beach

Tony Moffeit, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Cloe Ryan, the-hold.com

Maura Gage



Salon C

277       American Indian Literatures & Cultures I: Harjo, Red Eagle,

and Salisbury

Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, SUNY Fredonia


Harjo's Conversive Poetry

Ana Olabarria-Ronzano, University of Deusto, Spain


This Song that Rejuvenates Culture: Music in Joy Harjo's Poetry

Michael Charlton, University of Oklahoma


Red Time: Flashing Back in Philip Red Eagle's Red Earth

Neil Harrison, Northeast Community College


Warrior Writers: Ralph Salisbury and Others Writing After War

Gretchen Ronnow, Wayne State College



Salon D

278       Film and Film Adaptation IV: Classic Hollywood Cinema

Chair: James Belpedio, Becker College


Melodramatic Representation of the Female through Gaze: A Feminist Interpretation of Broken Blossoms

Lan Dong, University of Massachusetts-Amherst


The Marx Brothers and the Studio System

Matthew Turner, Ohio University


The River, She was a Man: Edna Ferber, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, and the Masculinization of the Feminine in the Film Adaptation of Ferber's Show Boat

Angela Courtney, Indiana University Library


Lux Presents Excellence: Lux Radio Theater, Radio's Theater of the Imagination

James Belpedio


Sam Spade: Sap, Sexist, or Shamus?

Pat Smith Nickell, Texas Tech University



Salon F

279       Science Fiction/Fantasy XI:  Readings of Creative Writing

Chair:  Michael Cornelius, Wilson College


Panelists Reading Original Work:

Ed Higgins, George Fox University

Jennifer W. Spirko, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

David E. Nichols, Arlington, Texas



Salon G

280       Masculinities IV: Men and Dance

Chair:  Darcey Callison, York University, Toronto


Men in Dance

Arwyn Carpenter, York University, Toronto


Alternative Masculinities in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rave Dance Scene

Anthony P. Avery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Borrowing the Fear of "Biting," and "Busting New Moves": The Bboy Style on the Eastside-Austin, Texas

Sasha Vliet, University of Texas, Austin


Sacrificing Men in American Magazines (pre-1960): Dada and the Rite of Spring

Darcey Callison, York University, Toronto



Salon H

281       Science Fiction and Fantasy IV:  Posthuman Positions

Chair: Kim Wells, Texas A&M University


Toward a Posthuman Ethics

Dongshin Yi, Texas A&M University


Earth Threatened: NASA as Posthuman Savior

Melanie Rosen Brown, University of Central Florida


Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop: Visions of Posthumanity

Megan Moser, University of Texas at Dallas


The Virtual Subject in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film; an Excerpt from Virtual Sex: Playing the Posthuman in a Complex Culture

C. Jason Smith, co-author of Alien Woman



Salon I

282       Jewish Studies IV:  Special Session:  Readings by Poets Bonnie Lyons and Jane Lunin Perel

Chair:  Barbara Silliman, Providence College and University of Rhode Island


Readings from In Other Words: Monologues by Women in Hebrew Scripture

Bonnie Lyons, University of Texas at San Antonio


Readings from The Sea is Not Full and Cheetah Silk and the Carnelia Cycle: Jewish History, Gender, and Genocide

Jane Lunin Perel, Providence College, Rhode Island


A Discussion with the Poets follows the readings; this includes a question and answer session

Moderator:  Barbara Silliman



Salon J

283       Motorcycle Culture and Myth III:  Motorcycling Realities

Chair: Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University


Reality Bites Back

Christian A. Pierce, Georgia Perimeter College


Buying the Duck

Ted Bishop, University of Alberta


Reading the Ride, or Getting a Motorcycle Course Past the Administration

Katherine Sutherland, University College of the Cariboo


Ride for the Rainforest

Barbara Brodman, Nova Southeastern University



Salon K

284       Mystery and Detective Fiction V: Hispanic Detective and Crime Fiction II

Chair:  Gianna Martella, Western Oregon University


Hemingway as the Butt of the Joke in Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely and Paco Ignacio Taibo's Retornamos como sombras

Daniel Hunt, Idaho State University


The Detective Novels of Alejandra Rojas

Clemens Franken, Pontificia Universidad Cat-lica


A Detective on the Case: The Crime Fiction of René Vergara

Kate Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway


Family, Tradition and the Latina Private Investigator

Gianna Martella



Salon L

285       Cultural Conflict and Women III:  Women's Social Activism

Chair:  Kaitlin Palmer, Brigham Young University, Hawaii


Representations of Arab Women:  Some Recent Literary and Media Examples

Salwa Ghaly, University of Sharjah


Bathing Suits and Backlash: The First Miss America Pageants, 1921-1927

Kimberly Hamlin, The University of Texas at Austin


Child Prostitution in Thailand: Women as Cause, and Solution

Kaitlin Palmer



Salon M

286       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections V: Collecting

and the Formation of Community and National Identity

Chair: Michael Prokopow, Ryerson University


Seweryn Smolikowski as an Example of a Polish Print Collector

at the Turn of the 19th Century

Joanna Sikorska, National Museum, Warsaw


The Moscow Museum of Private Collections

Waltraud Bayer, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria


Clog Collecting in the Bai-mi Community of Taiwan

Chia-Li Chen, Graduate Institute of Visual Art Education, Hualien Teachers College, Taiwan


Damask Aristocracies: Collected Textiles in the Creation of American Identity

Whitney Martinko, Harvard University



Conference Rm. 1

287       Dime Novels/Pulps/ Juvenile Series Books III:  Robert E. Howard, Pulp Fictioneer

Chair: Mark Hall, El Cerrito, California


An Introduction to Robert E. Howard

Paul Herman, Editor, Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard and Graveyard Rats and Others: A Collection of Robert E. Howard Pulp Detective Stories


Texas as a Character in Robert E. Howard's Fiction

Mark Finn, Austin, Texas


Robert E. Howard, New Deal Fantasist

Rusty Burke, Editor, Wandering Star, Robert E. Howard Library


Robert E. Howard: The Gothic Tradition

Charles Gramlich, Xavier University of Louisiana



Conference Rm. 2

288       British Popular Culture IV: Addressing the Plight of the Working Classes in Victorian England

Chair:  Rob Watson, Grand Valley State University


Charles Dickens as Social Commentator:  Catalyzing Change through Oliver Twist

Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Oklahoma City Community College


From Practice to Theory: The Working People's College of Sheffield

Mary Angela Schwer, Fairmont State College


Taking Education into their Own Hands:  The Mechanicsí Institutes

Marilyn Faulkenburg, Menlo College


David Naismith:  Catalyst for Change in The Urban Mission Network

Marilyn Button, Lincoln University


Discussant:  Winona Howe, La Sierra University



Conference Rm. 3

289       Television VI:  Television Drama: Buffy, Alias, and Carnivale

Chair:  Cleatta Morris, Louisiana State University, Shreveport


HBO's Carnivale

Cleatta Morris


Television's Influence on Adolescent Identity and Relational Development:  Can Buffy Really Be a Role Model?

Armeda Reitzel, Humboldt State University, and

Andrea Casey, Humboldt State University


Promotional Campaigns in Alias

David Coon, Indiana University


  

Conference Rm. 4

290       Sports IX: NASCAR I

Chair: Lawrence Hugenberg, Youngstown State University


Hugs, Claws and Balls to the Wall: Women in Figure 8 Racing

Birgit Wassmuth, Drake University


Gender Bias in NASCAR: Why Aren't More Women Competing at Stock Car Racing's Top Levels?

Nicole Tutich, Loras College


The Evolution of the NASCAR Fan I

Barbara Hugenberg, Case Western University


The Evolution of the NASCAR Fan II

Lawrence Hugenberg



Conference Rm. 5

291       Westerns and the West II:  Expanding the Traditional Western:  Diversity in the Western

Chair:  Ray Merlock, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg


"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez":  The Hispanic Minority Western

Richard Predmore, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg


Smoke Signals and Skins:  Native American Myths and Realities in the Films of Chris Eyre

Jim Charles, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg


Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron:  Dreamworks Looks at the Native American and the Horse He Rode In On

Donald Knight, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg


Respondent:  Ray Merlock



Conference Rm. 6

292       Caribbean and Latin American Literature II: Matters of Identity in U.S. Latino Writing and Mexican Culture

Chair:  Patricia Montilla, Western Michigan University


U.S. Cuban Theater:  Music and the Evolution of Cultural Identity

Elsa Gilmore, United States Naval Academy


Between Island and Mainland:  Shifting Locations in Christina García's Fiction

Ada Savin, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines


Beauty, Gender, and Nationalism:  A Ritualistic Approach to Beauty Pageants in Mexico

Guillermo de los Reyes, University of Houston


Negotiating Cultures and Identities in Marie Arana's American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

Patricia Montilla



Conference Rm. 7

293       Vietnam IV:  Memorials and Symbols

Chair: Lynn Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater


War Memorials, Peace Memorials

Lynn Shoemaker


Symbols of Pride and the War That Won't End, Part IX

Paul Daum, New England College



Conference Rm. 8

294       Food and Culture III: Ethnic and Regional Foodways

Chair:  Lynn Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University


When 'Mex' Shed "Tex': Laura Esquivel's Own Mexican Revolution

Ellyn Lem, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha


Street Foods in Papine, St. Andrew, Jamaica: Their Role in the Foodservice Industry

Marjorie Gardner, University of Technology, Jamaica


From (Potato) Famine to Feast: The Irish Economic Miracle in the Four Foodie Novels of Maeve Binchy

Ellen Stengel, University of Central Arkansas


Changing Preparation Styles of a Sicilian Ceremonial Dish

John Cicala, Mount St. Mary College



Conference Rm. 9

295       Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative III

Chair:  Judith Carter, Amarillo College


Thomas Wolfe and Autobiographical Desire

Steve Bourdeau, University of Montreal


Creating a Generation Biography: An Experiment with the World

Elizabeth Townsend, University of Arizona


The Nature of Memory: Memory, Memoir, and Truth

Bonnie Lovell, University of North Texas



Conference Rm. 10

296       American Art and Architecture VI: Photography in the 20th Century

Chair: Richard Masteller, Whitman College, Washington


Body Parts: The Language of Hands in Early 20th-Century Literature and Art

Richard Masteller


The Photo-League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s

Elizabeth Van Arragon, Calvin College, Michigan


While the Citizen Looks On: Urban Realism and the Aesthetics of Foreignness

Marjorie Weinstein, University of Minnesota



Conference Rm. 11

297       Arthurian Legend IV: The Comics Get Medieval: Adaptations of Medieval Texts and Legends

Chair:  Michael A. Torregrossa, University of Connecticut (Storrs)


Contains Adult Content, Suggested For Mature Readers: Childhood Fairytales and Exploitation in DC Vertigo's The Children's Crusade

Robert A. Emmons, Jr., The Art Institute of Philadelphia


Dracula Sucks, But Vlad Doesn't: A Romanian Response to American Popular Representations of Vlad Tepes

Daniela Sovea, University of Connecticut (Storrs)


Why the Middle Ages? A Roundtable Discussion on Medieval Comics

Moderator:  Michael A. Torregossa



Conference Rm. 12

298       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers IV

Chair:  Jacqueline Thursby, Brigham Young University


Buddhist Burial Customs

Diane Kubota Matthews, Guaranty Insurance Services


Buddhist Gravemarkers in the Ke-Ei Community Cemetery, Kona, Hawaii

Scott J. Baird, Trinity University


Blooming Hearts and Vases: A Study of These Pennsylvania German Gravestone Motifs

Sandra Hardy, Spring, Texas


Ghost Town Cemeteries in Utah-Part III

Jacqueline Thursby



Conference Rm. 13

299       Shakespeare in Popular Culture II:  Cultural Representations in the 21st Century

Chair:  Tracey M. Gau, University of North Texas


"Words and Wisdom":  Baz Luhrmann's Use of Music as Intertext in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Jessica Tribble, Arizona State University


The Cult of Elizabeth:  Protecting the Queen in the 21st Century

Andrea Olivarez, West Texas A&M University


The Death of Shakespeare

Brad Hagarbome, University of North Texas



Conference Rm. 14

300       Grateful Dead IV: Assessments and Aspects of the Dead Experience

Chair:  Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters


Sometimes I Get a Great Notion: James Booker in the Jerry Garcia Band

Christian T. S. Crumlish, Independent Scholar


"The Thousand Stories Have Come Round to One": Studying the Dead

Nicholas Meriwether


Spinning: Ecstasy and the Grateful Dead Experience

Matthew Robertson, Independent Scholar


The Grateful Dead: A Musical Example of a High Performance Team

Barry Barnes, Nova Southeastern University



Conference Rm. 15

301       Children's/Young Adult Literature I:  History and Historical Representation in Children's Literature

Chair:  Jon-Paul Dyson, Strong Museum, Rochester, New York


Hank the Cowdog, Holes, and Josefina and her Friends: Southwestern History as Taught in Contemporary Fiction for Children

Virginia Raymond, University of Texas-Austin


Making Myths and Duping Mothers:  American Girlsí Novels as Cultural Capital

Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Sam Houston State University


Little Red Cowboy Hat:  Cultural and Regional Revisions of Folktales in Picture Books

Amie Doughty, Lake Superior State University


Taking the Prize: Gender, Class, and Culture in the Newbery Award Winners of the 1920s

Jon-Paul Dyson



Conference Rm. 16

302       Film VIII:  Women in Film I: Vixens & Victims

Chair:  Dan C. Shoemaker, University of New Mexico


"You Need a Mother's Care, My Child": The Inverted Love Triangle in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

Daniel Jones, University of South Dakota


Different Fates: Three Film Representations of Kept Women in America, Japan, and China

Wuming Zhao, Doshisha University, Japan


Eye Want Candy: Spectacle and Politics in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle

Dan C. Shoemaker



Conference Rm. 17

303       Travel & Tourism IV:  China: Getting To Know You

Chair:  Carol Williams, Travel & Tourism Area Chair


Stranded on the High Yangtze!: China, 2002

Carol Williams, Southwest Harbor, Maine


Ten Days That Shook My World: A Country Boy in China, 2003

Dan Fuller, Kent State University-Tuscarawas Campus


SARS, Contact Zones, and Cultural Understanding

Da Zheng, Suffolk University



Conference Rm. 18

304       Music PCA I:  Timeless and Around the World

Chair:  Joseph P. Fisher, George Washington University


Performing Hybridity: Reflexive Elements of Flamenco Fusion

Anthony Guest-Scott, Bloomington, Indiana

  

Could You Hum a Few Bars of That?: The Use of the Wordless Chorus in Classical and Popular Culture

Tony Smith


A Treasure Trove of American Sheet Music: The Josephine L. Hughes Collection

Amy Williams Boykin, Captain John Smith Library, Christopher Newport University


Something in the Way: Phallocentric Marginalization of Ride and My Bloody Valentine

Joseph P. Fisher



Conference Rm. 19

305       Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics IV:  Vocabulary in Popular Culture

Chair:  Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings


"Dog": Metaphor and Symbol in Hip Hop

Kristen Hauck, The University of Texas at Dallas


"Gadget": Thanks to British Sailors or French Merchandising?

Gregory Bender, Collingwood, Connecticut


Gadgets Are Everywhere: In Advertising, the Media, Collegiate Culture, and Electronic Technology

Doris Turkes, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College


Gestures and Speech Acts as Operant Conditioners: A Discourse Analysis of the Social and Pragmatic Development of Family Members in the Film Human Nature

Julia Boyd, Oklahoma State University



Hospitality Suite

306       PCA By-Laws Meeting

Chair:  Lynn Bartholome, President, Popular Culture Association



  

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.


Salon A

307       Ethnography & Everyday Life IV:  The Technology of/in Women's Lives

Chair:  Irmi Karl, University of Brighton


Technology and Women's Lives: Re-thinking Ethnographic Approaches

Irmi Karl


Experience 'Painí: Discourses of Childbirth in Chinese Popular Culture

Jianfeng Zhu, University of Minnesota


From Wilma Flintstone to Princess Mononoke: A Cross-Cultural Study of Women and Cartoons

Kelly Jean Ritter, University of Minnesota


Joining 'The Teamí: Life with the Colorado Climax, Colorado's Only Gay Hockey Team

Brian Frederick, University of Colorado



Salon B

308       Creative Writing IV

Chair:  Terry Dalrymple, Angelo State University


Presenters:

James Sanderson, Lamar University

Jason E. Murray, Bacone College

Barbara Zimmermann, Ball State University

Mary Smith Pritchard, Tarrant County College SE



Salon C

309       American Indian Literatures & Cultures II: Native Art and Native Women

Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, SUNY Fredonia


Luminous Threads: Indigenous Motifs in an International Exchange Art Project

Catherine Joslyn, Clarion University of Pennsylvania


Native Women Artists: Challengers of the Mainstream Ethnocentric Fallacy

Gulriz Buken, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey


Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Paiute, Mediator, and Woman

J. Genovese, University at Buffalo


Gender-Bending and Queering American Indian Studies

Deirdre Keenan, Carroll College



Salon D

310       Film and Film Adaptation V: The Villain Protagonist

Chair: Kathleen Thornton, University at Albany


The Horror, the Whore: Bret Easton Ellisí American Abject

Brooke Campbell, Emory University


Adapting American Psycho: An Intertextual Exploration in Gore, Humor, and the 1980s

Sarah White, University of Rhode Island


Michael Mann's Manhunter: The Profiler and Seeing Through the Eyes of the Other

Jason Landrum, Oklahoma State University


Hollywood Envisions Medieval Kings: Richard III

Kathleen Thornton



Salon F

311       Science Fiction/Fantasy XII:  Readings of Creative Writing

Chair:  Monica Evans, University of Texas at Dallas


Panelists Reading Original Work:

Eric Sonstroem, University of the Pacific

J. Otis Powell, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Monica Evans



Salon G

312       SW/Texas PCA/ACA Area Chairs Meeting & Graduate Student Awards Presentations

Moderator:  Philip Heldrich, Director, SW/Texas PCA/ACA



Salon H

313       Horror (Literary & Cinematic) III: Fear in Unexpected Places: Horror and the Literary

Chair:   Kellie Dawson, Cornell University


[Terror]tories of Textuality (or, PsychoTextual Horror): The Conflation of Physical Space and Cognitive Excess in Postmodern Horror Texts

Mark Wegley, University of Arkansas at Monticello


Culturally-Mandated Changes in the Character of Ichabod Crane

Lauryn Angel-Cann, University of North Texas


Elements of Urban Legend in James Dickey's "The Sheep Child" and "Falling"

Holly Clay, University of Tulsa


Rare and Unfamiliar Things: Vladimir Nabokov's "Monsters"

Kellie Dawson



Salon I

314       Folklore and Popular Culture II:  Mediated Images of Women

Chair:  Fran Gardner Perry, University of South Carolina Lancaster


The Blonde as a Metaphor for Women's Sexuality in the Dumb-Blonde Joke Cycle

Sheila Bock, The Ohio State University


Prayers and Curses: Ex Voto Influence in the Art of Frida Kahlo

Fran Gardner Perry


Depictions of Amish Women's Fashion in Popular Culture

Olivia Caldeira, The Ohio State University



Salon J

315       Motorcycle Culture and Myth IV:  Motorcycle Images

Chair: Gary L. Kieffner, University of Texas at El Paso

 

Pony Express: Free in America

Rick Erben, ABATE of Nebraska

 

The Mythic Reality of the Motorcycle: The Motorcycle as a Cultural Icon, Working Through Film

Jared Bailey, Miami University

 

Motorcycle Songs: A Self-Reflective Sing-A-Long

John F. Barber, University of Texas at Dallas

 

Highways, Hillsides, Houses and Harleys: Images of Motorcycles and Ideals of Place in Modern America

Ethel S. Goodstein, University of Arkansas

 

 

Salon K

316       Mystery and Detective Fiction VI: The Detective and Ways of Knowing

Chair:  Kathryn Swanson, Augsburg College


Inspector Maigret's Investigative Techniques as Seen from a Psychotherapist's Perspective

Christine Gaudry-Hudson, Millersville University


A Different Beat: The Native American Detective

Deane Mansfield-Kelley, University of Texas at El Paso


Underworld Vignettes: The Short Fiction of William Riley Burnett

Michael Larsen, St. Mary's University


Now I Become Myself:  The Search for Identity

Kathryn Swanson



Salon L

317       Media and Gender I:  Men, Women, and their Magazines

Chair:  Deborah K. Phillips, Muskingum College


Men as Exoticized Other in the Discourses of Japanese Women's Magazines

Barbara Holthus, University of Hawaii at Manoa


Extra/Ordinary Beauties: Female Celebrities, Men's Magazines, and the Cultural Recognition of Women

Ann M. Ciasullo, University of Oregon


Take My Advice

Laura Mohsene, University of Texas at Dallas


Maxim, Gear, & Stuff: Men's Magazines and the Management of Contempt

Jim Davis, Denison University



Salon M

318       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections VI:  Collections and Personal and Family History

Chair: Yvonne C. Murphy, SUNY Empire State College


Always Behind Me: My Collection of Mountains

Alison Franks, Independent Scholar & Fabric Artist, Albuquerque, NM


A Vernacular History for Vernacular Photographs

Kris Belden, Graduate Center, City University of New York


City Ancestor, Country Ancestor: Collecting Family History in Photographs

Amy Wink, Southwestern University, and

Stacey Short, Northern Illinois University


Kitsch and Tell: Personal Reflections on a Collection of 1960s Japanese Coffee Mugs

Michael Prokopow, Ryerson University



Conference Rm. 1

319       Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books IV:  Robert E. Howard Continued

Chair: Mark Hall, El Cerrito, California


Robert E. Howard and Poetic Narrative: Folklore vs. Folkliterature, the Bardic Tradition and Popular Modernities

Dean Franklin Coffman, Jr., Rock Valley College


Crash Go the Civilizations: Some Notes on Robert E. Howard's Use of History and Anthropology

Mark Hall


Scarlet Letters, Blood Meridians, and Red Nails:  Some Tentative Notes on Robert E. Howard as an American Classic

Steve Tompkins, Brooklyn, New York



Conference Rm. 2

320       Radio I:  Orson Welles & The Golden Age of Radio

Chair:  Steve Craig, University of North Texas


The Mercury Theater on the Air:  Orson Welles & R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island

Virginia Pruitt, Washburn University


The Shakespearean Camera of Orson Welles: Chimes at Midnight

Thomas E. Jones, Coastal Carolina University

  

Primitivism & Genius in Orson Welles' Radio Plays

Marguerite Rippy, Marymount University


La mort du papier's Radio Forecast of The War of the Worlds

Martin Boyden, University of Rochester



Conference Rm. 3

321       Television VII:  Television

Chair:  Woody Greenberg, Lynchburg College


Star Wars: The Battle between Cable, Direct Broadcast, Satellite, and Telecommunications

Woody Greenberg


Knowledge and Television

Skip Redd, Media Services Director


Education in an Age of Conspicuous Consumption

Aaron Cooley, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Oxygen, Spike, et al.:  Defining New Television Auteurs

Geoffrey Hammill, Eastern Michigan University



Conference Rm. 4

322       Conspiracy Theory I: Conspiracy Narratives

Chair:  Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University

  

Discourses of Conspiracy: Thomas Pynchon and the Illuminati

Rasmus Kjærgaard Rasmussen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark


"He probes her virtue, her motherhood": Abuse of the Maternal Body in Conspiracy Narratives

Amy L. Montz, Texas A&M University


Alien Order:  The X-Files, Reality TV, and the Complex Dynamics of National Anxiety

Jessica L. Metzler, Florida State University



Conference Rm. 5

323       Westerns and the West III:  Retelling the Western: New Places for the Marginal

Chair:  Helen M. Lewis, Western Iowa Tech


Reactionary Masculinity and Token Feminism in the 1990s Western: An Essay Video

Craig Rinne, University of Florida


"Mormon Women Don't Marry for What They Expect on Earth": Constructions of Women in Polygamy Outside and Inside Mormon Culture

Gae Lyn Henderson, University of Utah


Exodusters and Buffalo Soldiers: The Black Experience in Recent Western Novels

Don Melichar, Central Missouri State University


Thousand Tears, Thousand Pieces of Gold:  The Experiences of Chinese Prostitutes in the American West

Helen M. Lewis



Conference Rm. 6

324       Caribbean and Latin American Literature III: Retextualizing Images/Reworking Voices

Chair:  Jorge Febles, Western Michigan University


A "true icon of the past flits by":  Mythical Encounters and Magical Realism in William Faulkner's "The Old People" and Carlos Fuentes's Distant Relations

Terri Smith Ruckel, Louisiana State University


Nicolás Guillén's Poetry in Cuban Rap

Laura Redruello, Vanderbilt University


"Selling is More of a Habit":  Women and Drug Culture

Elaine Carey, St. John's University


Song as Text, Song in Text:  "He perdido contigo" in Corrales's El vestido rojo

Jorge Febles



Conference Rm. 7

325       Professional Placement ACA III:  Graduate Students:  Alternatives to Teaching at a Research University

Chair:  Diane Calhoun-French, Jefferson Community College


Teaching at a Small, Liberal Arts College

Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan University, and

William Jones, Virginia Wesleyan University


Teaching at Community Colleges

Diane Calhoun-French



Conference Rm. 8

326       Food and Culture IV: Class, Consumption, and Public Policy

Chair:  Lynn Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University


Old MacDonald Had a Farm: Agritourism, Salvation or False Hope?

Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego


The Restaurant Rake: The Seventeenth Century Sexual Libertine and the Twenty-first Century Epicurean

Sara Littlejohn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro


Food and Its Circumstances: Health, Convenience, and Pleasure

Mabel Gracia, University Rovira i Virgili, and Jesús Contreras, University of Barcelona   NOT ATTENDING?


WHO/FAO and the Food Industry: The Norbert Hirschhorn Report, the International Life Sciences Institute Lobby, and WHO/FAO Scientific Credibility

Leo Mahoney, Kafkas Universitesi, KARS-Turkey



Conference Rm. 9

327       Fashion, Appearance, and the Body I: Signs on the Body: Gender, Fashion and Sexuality

Chair: Judy Miler, Appalachian State University


Challenging Gender-specific Dress: Skirts for Men

Clarissa Esguerra, University of Georgia


"It's a laugh": Femininity and Cheeky Slogan T-Shirts

Agnès Rocamora, London College of Fashion


Sexy Fashion: What Ever Happened to THE Erogenous Zones?

Judy Miler



Conference Rm. 10

328       Teaching: Popular Culture and the Classroom I

Chair:   Erik M. Walker, Plymouth South High School, Massachusetts


The New 3 "R's": Rap, Race, and Resistance:  Critical Considerations in Teaching Popular Culture in Today's Schools

C.P. Gause, University of North Carolina-Greensboro


Funnies in the Classroom

Betty F. Ramey, Francis Marion University


Math for the Masses: Lessons from the Media

James T. Ramey, Jr., Francis Marion University


Beyond the Backstreet Boys: Integrating Popular Culture into Secondary Language Arts Instruction

Stacy Shaneyfelt, Slippery Rock University



Conference Rm. 11

329       The Beat Generation and Counterculture III: Romantic, Transcendental, Postmodern and Buddhist Nomadic Elements in Jack Kerouac's Work

Chair:  Matt Stefon, Middlesex Comm. College/Lowell City College


On the Road: Jack Kerouac's Quest Romance

Lorraine Stamp, University of Northern Iowa


American Transcendental Influences: Transcendental Superheroes in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums

Joseph Hill, Sam Houston State University


Postmodern Travel: Identity and Movement in Jack Kerouac

Trevor Price, University of Calgary


Lonesome Travelers: Dwight Goddard, Jack Kerouac, and an American Dharma

Matt Stefon



Conference Rm. 12

330       Cemeteries and Gravemarkers V: Tribute and Business Meeting

Chair:  J. Joseph Edgette, Widener University


All regular and new members and participants, as well as others with an interest in Cemeteries and Gravemarkers and other aspects of memorialization, are invited to attend and participate in this session.


The first part of this program will include a memorial tribute to honor Robert Pierce of San Francisco, California, a faithful and dedicated member of the Area who passed away on 07 October 2003.


A business meeting/open discussion will focus upon the state of our Area and future plans for its further expansion.



Conference Rm. 13

331       Computer Culture VII: Crossing Signals: How Weblogs Translate

Chair: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend


"Dear Blog": A Look at Adolescent Diary Blogs and Their Audiences

Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University


Between Friends: "Localized" Blogs and the Tension between Public and Private Spheres

Tom Hitchner, University of California Irvine


Carrying Literary Traditions into Cyberspace: Polish and English Weblogs in Comparison

Jakub Kazecki, University of British Columbia



Conference Rm. 14

332       Alfred Hitchcock II

Chair: Laurie Clements Lambeth, University of Houston


"Iím not against the police; Iím just afraid of them": Fear, McCarthyism, and Alfred Hitchcock

Nora Gilbert, University of Southern California


Woman as Monster: The Reinterpretation of the Lamia Figure in Hitchcock's Vertigo

Shannon Wilder, University of Georgia

  

Murderous, Miserable, Germans: Hitchcock Before and After the Holocaust

James Enelow, University of Texas at Dallas


Elastic Thread: Suspension of Suture in Hitchcock's Spellbound

Laurie Clements Lambeth



Conference Rm. 15

333       Children's/Young Adult Literature II:  Making Choices: Morality, Duty, and Autonomy in Children's Literature

Chair:  Susan Honeyman, University of Nebraska-Kearney


Anthropomorphic Characters in Children's Literature

Jena L. Hawk, University of Southern Mississippi


Mother May I? An Exploration of Absent/Monstrous Mothers as a Prerequisite for Female Heroes in Adolescent Culture

Diana Dominguez


Folkloric Questions of Agency Refined by Fairy-Tale Puppets

Susan Honeyman



Conference Rm. 16

334       Film IX:  Women in Film II: Actresses & Filmmakers

Chair:  Carol E. Mitchell, Springfield College


Smita Patil's Contributions to Indian Films of Art

Jagdish J. Chavda, University of Central Florida


Critics Who Can Make or Break a Career: The Case of Naomi Watts of 21 Grams

John R. Patton, Gainesville College


Cinematic Representations of Women Filmmakers and Film Directors

Jae Alexander, University of Southern Mississippi



Conference Rm. 17

335       Travel & Tourism V:  Special Session

Chair:  Nancy Kelly, Mother Lode Productions


Downside UP: How Art Changed the Spirit of a Place, a PBS documentary (56 minutes) presented by its maker, Nancy Kelly, with discussion afterwards.


Nancy Kelly produced and directed Thousand Pieces of Gold, the critically acclaimed American Playhouse Theatrical Feature Film, starring Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper, and the documentaries Cowgirls, broadcast by the National Geographic Explorer program, Sweeping Ocean Views, and A Cowhand's Song, both shown on public television.  See more on Downside UP on www.downsideupthemovie.org


Nancy Kelly, Producer/Director, Mother Lode Productions, 121 Greenbrae Boardwalk, Greenbrae, CA 94904; nkmomlode@earthlink.net.



Conference Rm. 18

336       Rock, Film, and Contemporary Arts PCA I:  "Talking About My Generation:" Identity and Rock and Roll

Chair:  Sheldon Schiffer, Georgia State University


Generation Y Bother?: An Analysis of Young American Songwriters & the Death of the Protest Song

Susan Burris, Owens Community College


Suis-Je Rock?  Defining French Rock and Roll, Rock Artists, and Rock Criticism - Rock & Folk, 1966-1969

Elisabeth Donato, Clarion University of Pennsylvania


The Count Who? Excerpt from the Upcoming Book Entitled You'll Wake the Neighbors! Contemporary Garage Rock's Nostalgic Links

Eric J. Abbey, Eastern Michigan University


The Performing Art of the Cover Song: Reifying the Past, Justifying the Present

Sheldon Schiffer



Conference Rm. 19

337       Composition and Rhetoric III:  (Il)Legal Rhetorics: Oprah, Abortion, Torture

Chair:  Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Cowboys and Celebrity: Reading Rhetorics at the Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey Trial

Jennifer Richardson, Washington State University-Vancouver


From Rowe to US Code, Title 18, 74, section 1531: A Pedagogy for Treating the Rhetorics of the Abortion Conflict

George Y. Trail, University of Houston


Musicals are Torture, but Are They Rhetorical?

Linda Horwitz, Lake Forest College




THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

  

Salon A

338       Dance and Culture II: Eastern Influences

Chair:  Joan Erdman, Columbia College


Dancing Utopia:  The Narratives of Nation and Gender in (Hindi) Courtesan Films

Pallabi Chakravorty, Swarthmore College


Chandra Namascar: The Feminine (Ecstatic Dance) Form in Yoga Culture

Heather Pultz, Artefacts, Washington, D.C.


Exploring Metaphors in Passages: A Chinese Dance Concert

Diane Letoto, University of Hawaiíi



Salon B

339       Creative Poetry III:  Original Works

Chair: Fred Alsberg, Southwestern Oklahoma State University


Presenters:

Jean Roelke, University of North Texas

Holly Schullo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Elline Lipkin, Prairie View A&M University

Fred Alsberg



Salon C

340       Native American Studies IV: Researching Indians: Methodological Concerns in the Ivory Tower

Chair:  Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, University of California at Santa Cruz


Methodologies - Past and Present

Lee R. Tallier, St. Edward's University


The Time Has Come: Decolonizing Research

Adelle Sanders, Governors State University


An Insider Perspective: The Rôle of Humbleness, Respect and Ethics when Doing Qualitative Research with Native American Women

Doreen E. Martinez, Colorado State University


Lessons of the Longhouse: The Clan-Based Model for Domesticity

Chris T. Cornelius, Native Arts Program Artist in Residence for the National Museum of the American Indian

 

 

Salon D

341       Film and Film Adaptation VI: The Hours

Chair: Jill Talbot, Southern Utah University


The Hours: Screening the Millennial Literacy Narrative

Scott Stoddart, Marymount Manhattan College 


Intermediated Moves:  From Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours

Maria Lindgren, University of Umeå


Virginia Woolf and the Female Gaze in Stephen Daldry's The Hours

Kate Waites, Nova Southeastern University



Salon F

342       Science Fiction/Fantasy XIII:  Roundtable on Writing Science Fiction

Chair:  Michael G. Cornelius, Wilson College


This workshop is intended to stimulate potential writers to develop their original ideas



Salon G

343       Masculinities V: Picking through the Bones of Masculinity: A Postmodern Reading of the Schizophrenic Subject in HBO's Six Feet Under

Chair:  Teresa Grettano, University of South Florida, Tampa


Mourning the Movement of an Echo: Reading the Absent Presence of Fatherhood(ness) and the Possibility of the Abject(ed) in Six Feet Under

Oren Whightsel, University of South Florida, Tampa


Running Away from (and Back to, Again, and Again): The Postmodern Schizophrenia of Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under

Teresa Grettano


Performing (Queer)Wife and (Straight)Son: The Schizophrenic Identity of David Fisher

Shelley DeBlasis, University of South Florida, Tampa



Salon H

344       Horror (Literary & Cinematic) IV: The Pleasures of Bad Taste: Horror Cinema Between Grindhouse and Arthouse

Chair:  Ian Hunter, De Montfort University


"I Panic the World": Benevolent Exploitation in Tod Browning's Freaks and Harmony Korine's Gummo

Jay McRoy and Guy Crucianelli, University of Wisconsin-Parkside


Bodies Sublime and Abject: Special Effects, Cinematic Technique, and Technological Horror in David Cronenberg's Films

Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, Seoul


The Horror of Progressive Politics: The Zombies Take to the Streets

Brian Vaught, www.severinestudios.com


Deep Inside Queen Kong: Anatomy of an Extremely Bad Film

Ian Hunter

  


Salon I

345       Civil War III: Revisiting the African-American Experience

Chair:  Victoria L. Harrison, Southern Illinois University


The Color Bar and the Persistence of Cultural Norms in Georgia's Confederate Ordnance Plants

Chad Morgan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


"An Interesting Experiment"-Integration on the Tracks of Kansas's Territorial Underground Railroad

Timothy C. Westcott, Park University


Mattie Griffith: The Mask of Poetry and the Masquerade as Female Slave in her 1856 Autobiography

Susan Grove Hall, University of Louisville


Redeeming "Redeemed" History: Conway Barbour in Arkansas

Victoria L. Harrison

  


Salon J

346       Literature and Visual Art III:  Materiality, Photography, Language

Chair: Gene Saxe, Metropolitan State College of Denver


Dramatizing Gender: Adaptations of Futurist Principles in the Work of Wanda Wulz and Mina Loy

Sharla Hutchison, Fort Hays State University, Kansas


A Portrait through Poetry: Julia Margaret Cameron's "Farewell of the Body to the Soul"

Melissa Hancock, Art Institute of Atlanta


Miss Parry's Glass Eye: Portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron in Virginia Woolf's Freshwater, Lynne Trussí Tennyson's Gift, and Helen Humphreysí Afterimage

Carol Samson, University of Denver


"God, she's a right looking eejit in the dress": Material Culture in James Joyce and Edna OíBrien

Michael Kenneally, Concordia University, Montreal



Salon K

347       History and Teaching Popular Culture I

Chair:  Seymour Leventman, Boston College


Morally Panicked:  Youth Culture and Social Education

Cameron White, University of Houston


Breaking Away:  Using Film in Teaching American Culture Abroad

Margaret Zoreda, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana


The Spongebob Factor:  Using Spongebob Squarepants in Social Studies

Traci Jensen, University of Houston


Horror High:  Starring Role in Adolescent Development

Kathleen Brown and Patricia Somers, University of Missouri


  

Salon L

348       Media and Gender II:  Television and Music

Chair:  Deborah K. Phillips, Muskingum College


"So are the days of our lives":  Haptics, Immediacy and Gendered Messages as Portrayed in Daytime Television

Sandra K. Halvorson, Florida State Universityi at Panama City


The Portrayal of Breastfeeding in Prime-Time Television

Kathryn Pallister, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada


Are We Happy Together?:  Male and Female Relationships in Popular Music

Deborah K. Phillips



Salon M

349           Poetry and Popular Culture I

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


There will be a short break midway through this session!


Frank O'Hara's Hollywood Aesthetic

Mark Silverberg, University College of Cape Breton


I Have the Common Touch: Anne Sexton, Pop Poetry, and the Problem of Celebrity

Robert Spirko, University of Tennessee


The Avant-Garde Celebrity in (Un)popular Art and Poetry

Ric Royer, Towson University


The Celebritization of Poetry: The Modern Poet as Cultural Icon

Olivia Birdsall, New York University


Underground, Avant-garde, Popular (and Such)

Kevin Thurston, Baltimore, Maryland


Edward Dorn's Populist Voice of the People

Matthias Regan, University of Chicago



Conference Rm. 1

350       The 'sixties I:  Music, Revolution, and Politics

Chair:  Paul Kauppila, San Jose State University


The Sound of the Suburbs: A Case Study of Three Garage Bands in San Jose, California, During the 1960s

Paul Kauppila


They Said They Wanted a Revolution: Rock Music and the Quest for the Counterculture Revolution

Shawn Selby, Ohio University


Spacesuits and Go-Go Boots: Gender and Far-Out Fashion in the 1960s

Laura M. Andre, University of New Mexico


"Money (That's What I Want)": Motown's Commodification of "Soul"

Bob Lewis, University of New Mexico



Conference Rm. 2

351       Video Games II: We are the Walrus: Identity and Identification in Video Games

Chair:   Nathan Garrelts, New Mexico State University at Alamagordo


"High Tech Blackface": Race, Sports Video Games, and Becoming the Other

David Leonard, Washington State University


Lara Croft Meets Aristotle:  Theatre Theory and Game Narratives

Katie Whitlock, The Ohio State University


Self, Community and Information in Multiplayer Online Games: A Pilot Study and Proposal for Further Research

Suellen Adams, University of Texas at Austin


Signs, Symbols, and Perceptions in Grand Theft Auto, Vice City

John A. Unger, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma



Conference Rm. 3

352       Radio II:  The Dark Side of the Force:  Radio, Ideology & Form in the 1930s

Chair:  Michael Coyle, Colgate University


Radio Blues: Radio as Fascism in Depression America

Jonah Willihnganz, Stanford University


His Master's Voice: Reith, Radio & "Parable Art"

Debra Rae Cohen, University of Arkansas


Broadcast Unionism: Organized Labor & Radio in the Thirties

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University


Radio, the Frontiers of Criticism, and T.S. Eliot in War Time

Michael Coyle



Conference Rm. 4

353       Conspiracy Theory II: Haunted Spaces

Chair:  Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University


The Ley of the Land: Tuley Hole, Tuley Falls, Convergent Ley Lines and Death of Small Appliances

Tony O'seland, Northeastern State University


Haunting the Academy: Ghosts, Spirits, and Angels as Objects of Academic Study

Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw



Conference Rm. 5

354       Westerns and the West IV:  Upholding the Myth:  Classical Values of the Western

Chair: Ann Barrow, York University, Toronto


Gunsmoke:  Myth and American Identity in Popular Culture

Tony Osborne, Gonzaga University


The Tie That Binds: Fathers and Sons in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By and Marin Ritt's Hud

Ann Barrow


Remember Some of the Alamo!:  The Alamo in Film

Derral Cheatwood, University of Texas at San Antonio


Re-Remembering the Alamo: The Place of Film in the Creation of the Alamo Myth

Larry J. King, Stephen F. Austin State University




Conference Rm. 6

355       International Experience: Mexican & Latin American Studies III:  Where There is No Border  (Interlingual: espa-ol e inglés)

Chair:  Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University


Chicana Feminism and Popular Culture in Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography

Manuel de Jesús Hernández, Arizona Sate University


Cultura popular fronteriza: en busca de la identidad perdida

Jesús Tafoya. Sul Ross State University

 

Paletitas de Guayaba: temas, elementos estil'sticos y estructurales

Cida S. Chase


Discusi-n de los trabajos presentados


  

Conference Rm. 7

356       Professional Placement ACA IV:  Graduate Students:  Alternatives to Academia

Chair:  David Feldman, New York City, New York


Discussant:  Carol Traynor Williams, Chair, PCA Travel and Tourism Area


An informal discussion with two popular culturists who have left academia to pursue other professions.  Carol Williams, formerly a professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago, is now a reporter at the Bar Harbor Times in Maine.  David Feldman, after receiving a graduate degree in popular culture, once worked in television and is now an author of twelve books and a board game creator.



Conference Rm. 8

357       Memory and Representation III

Chair:  Rosemarie Conforti, Southern Connecticut State University


Finding Nemo: The Representation and Naturalization of Substance Recovery Programs in Children's Media

Karen P. Burke, Southern Connecticut State University


(In)Side-Show Bob and The HMS Pinafore: The Art of Illusion and Signaling in The Simpsons

Charlie Dellinger-Pate, Southern Connecticut State University


Wrestling With Reality

Susan Clerc, Buley Library, Southern Connecticut State University


Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: A Consumer Culture Fairy Tale of the Metrosexual

Rosemarie Conforti



Conference Rm. 9

358       Biography V:  Biography of Musicians and Actors

Chair:  Avital Bloch, Universidad De Colima, Mexico


Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key: Woody Guthrie and the Memory

of the Dust Bowl

Kyle Livie, University of California


The Posthumous Narration of the American Dream Girl

in Joyce Carol Oatesí Blonde

Katarzyna Rozanska, University of Northern Iowa


Biography of the Sixties: The Life and Career of Joan Baez

Avital Bloch



Conference Rm. 10

359       Teaching: Popular Culture and the Classroom II

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


Combating Nostalgia with an Historic Analysis of Popular Culture

Linda Alkana, California State University, Long Beach


Using Japanese Anime in Composition Classrooms to Make Connections Between Post-Apocalyptic Scenarios and 9/11

Deborah Rard, California State University, Hayward


Popular Culture and Expository Writing

Angelique M. Davi, Bentley College


Composing Columbo: Popular Culture and the Writing Classroom

Karen Connolly-Lane, University of Minnesota


Teaching Film Through Sing-Alongs

Lane Roth, Lamar University



Conference Rm. 11

360       The Beat Generation and Counterculture IV: Technology, Aesthetics, Nomadic Ethics and Meat

Chair:  Thom Young, Francis Marion University


Aesthetics and Politics: Towards a Politics of the Dionysiac-Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Einstein, and Everson's "Dionysus and the Beat Generation"

J.E.D. LaCoste, University of Western Ontario


"The Dreaded Voyage into the World": Nomadic Ethics in the Work of Jane and Paul Bowles

Art Redding, Oklahoma State University


Cunnilingus as a Eucharistic Act: Sexuality and Ontology in Michael McClure's The Beard

Thom Young



Conference Rm. 12

361       Gothic Culture I:  Gothic Roots

Chair:  Louis H. Palmer, III, Castleton State College


Subtextural Feminism in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya

Jenna Hammerich, Iowa City, Iowa


The Vampire and Religion: Rymer's Varney and Stoker's Dracula

Mary Y. Hallab, Central Missouri State University


Giving Voice to the Monstrous

Jill C. Jones, Rollins College


Dead Letters:  The Gothic Gives Birth

Louis H. Palmer, III



Conference Rm. 13

362       Computer Culture VIII: Are We (in) the System?

Chair: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend


We Are Blog: Implications of Viewing the Blogosphere as a System

Andrew Chen, Michigan State University


Exploring the Blood-Screen Boundary: Virtual Communities and Social Systems

Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology


Softwar(e)

Andrew Goffey, Middlesex University, London



Conference Rm. 14

363       Alfred Hitchcock III

Chair: Diana C. Gingo, University of Texas at Dallas


Schematascope: Employing an Archetypal Myth-Modeling of Hitchcock's Bespectacled Characters

Bowen-M Moran, University of Manitoba


One or Many Hitchcocks:  éiûek and Deleuze on Hitchcock's Reverse-Platonism

Taylor Hammer, Emporia State University


Hitchcock's Intimate Relationship to Performance: Bonding the Sympathetic Subject and the Voyeur

Tripp Course, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale


Adaptation of the Orphic Myth:  Vertigoand Moulin Rouge

Diana C. Gingo



Conference Rm. 15

364       Silent Film I

Chair:  Robert Weiner, Lubbock Public Library


Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and the Legacy of Expressionism

William Parrill, Southeastern Louisiana University


Deterritorializing the (Political) Body in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

Ruxandra Radulescu, Emporia State University


Nature Conquered in The Wind

Freedonia Paschall, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 16

365       Madness in Literature I

Chair:  Branimir Rieger, Lander University


Schizophrenia in David Cronenberg's Film Spider

Branimir Rieger


Monkey on My Back: Baudelaire and the Questions of Self-Help Literature

Russ Pottle, Saint Joseph Seminary College


Thomas De Quincey and the Psychopathological Art of Murder

Ed Cameron, University of Texas-Pan American


Sadomasochistic Behavior in the Theatre of Harold Pinter

John DiGaetani, Hofstra University



Conference Rm. 17

366       American Literature IV: Faith in Art

Chair: Dan Miller, University of South Carolina-Aiken


Diabolical Power: McCarthy's Judge and Milton's Satan

Jolly K. Sharp, Cumberland College


Painting a Picture in the Mind: Famous Artists and Their Masterpieces in Recent Popular American Fiction

Mary Elizabeth Land, The Abbeville County Library System


Flannery O'Connor's Calvinist Humor

Michael Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University


The Millennial Sect in John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lilies

Dan Miller



Conference Rm. 18

367       Rock, Film, and Contemporary Arts PCA II: Special Session:  The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag

Chair:  Elisabeth Donato, Clarion University of Pennsylvania


The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag, a documentary by Sheldon Schiffer, is about a band in the mid-í90s made up of three guys in their mid-30s.  They explored the nostalgia for punk in a subversive and clever manner by appropriating the musicality of lounge.  The film has been screening at festivals and has been signed on by academic distributor, the Cinema Guild.  The film gives a provocative tale of what it is for young people to almost get famous in the music industry.



Conference Rm. 19

368       Composition and Rhetoric IV: Memory and Autobiography: The Rhetorics of Looking Back

Chair:  Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Remembering Memory: Digital Discourse and Classical Rhetoric

Mary Wright, Christopher Newport University


Competing Conceptualizations of Commemoration: The Difference between 'Looking backí to Shape the Future and 'Shaping the Futureí by Looking Back

Brian Bittner, Wayne State University


Fightin' Words from the Po' White South: Reading "Redneck" Rhetoric
Eva J. Shoop, Auburn University


  


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


Salon A

369       Vietnam V:  Special Film Presentation: First Kill

Chairs: Ann Kelsey, Whippany, New Jersey, and Marilyn Knapp Litt, San Antonio, Texas


Directed by Coco Schrijber, this award-winning Dutch documentary on Vietnam has not been widely screened in the U.S.  It includes interviews with several Vietnam veterans who evoke the contradictory feelings that killing produces:  fear, hate, seduction and pleasure.  First Kill also includes a discussion with Apocalypse Now screenwriter Michael Herr.  For the last ten years Herr has refused to give any interviews, but in First Kill he descends into his own dark experiences one more time.


  

Salon B

370       Creative Writing V

Chair:  James Sanderson, Lamar University


Presenters:

Andrew Perry, Rochester Institute of Technology

Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University

David Breeden, Schreiner College

Jerry Bradley, Lamar University

  


Salon C

371       Native American Studies V: The Culture of Native Education I: (Re)Framing Pedagogy

Chair:  Adelle Sanders, Governors State University


Global Awareness Strand: Four Directions Fine Arts Workshop: Summer Gifted Enrichment Program, Greyhills Academy (Secondary School), Navajo Reservation

Dorothy Massalski, University of Arizona


Ethnic Studies: Embracing Our Roots, Reaching for the Future

Reuben Ramirez, San Francisco State University

 

Black Hawk said itÖnow what?:  Incorporating 'Indian Autobiographiesí in the History Classroom

Michael Sherfy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Metis Identities: Caught in the Dream Catcher

Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes, University of Wisconsin, Parkside



Salon D

372       Film and Film Adaptation VII: Film Gender and Orientation

Chair: Lacey A. Dalby, Ohio State University


Queerness of Child Gazing in American Culture

Casey McKittrick, University of Arizona


Adapting Sexuality in The Beach

Tara Elliott, Grand Prairie Regional College


Bedazzling: Queer Representations in Modern Faust Interpretations

Lacey A. Dalby



Salon F

373       Science Fiction/Fantasy XIV:  Issues of Race

Chair:  Nikka Pierce, Michigan State University


The Memory of Whiteness: Kim Stanley Robinson's Melvillian Opus

John Carlberg, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


Race Monsters and Mutilated Bodies: Investigating Ethnicity in The X-Files

Janani Subramanian, University of Southern California


Science Fiction Television and the Construction of Race Relations in the Past, Present, and Future

Lisa Alexander, Bowling Green State University



Salon G

374       Masculinities VI: Constructions of Masculinity in Recent Hollywood Hits

Chair:  D. Matthew Ramsey, Denison University, Ohio


Dumb Blonde Jokes:  Masculinity and Homophobia as Counterbalances in Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde 2

Susan Swinford, Columbus Academy, Ohio


What's a Fellow to do? Or, Hugh Grant and Russell Crowe at the Lapin Agile

Jason Payne, Ohio State University, Columbus


"Youíre not a eunuch, are you?":  Pirates of the Caribbean's Postcolonial Masculinities

D. Matthew Ramsey


"Monks and Punks":  Constructions of Masculinity in Recent Hollywood Kung-Fu Action Movies

D. Scot Hinson, Wittenberg University, Ohio



Salon H

375       An Evening with The National Film Board of Canada

Introduction and Discussion Moderator:  Naaman Wood, Regent University-Virginia Beach


The National Film Board of Canada, the 2002 recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture, has graciously provided two documentaries for us to view.  They are as follows:


Almost Real: Connecting in a Wired World


In a decade, the Internet has changed not only the economy and jobs but has transformed our personal lives as well.  With insightful commentary by sci-fi writer William Gibson, virtual reality creator Jaron Lanier and 'post-nationalí writer Pico Iyer, this new documentary is a snapshot of the end of the first phase of the Internet-a far less utopian age than some had hoped.


The Internet has re-defined the essence of how we conceive of communications and relationships.  By focusing on six individuals for whom the Internet has become a lifeline, this intriguing documentary questions how the World Wide Web has transformed our sense of community.


The early promise of the Internet  could never have predicted people like these: a cyber punk in the middle of the English Channel who operates the first rogue Web server, a monk developing "wireless prayer technology," and a "gamer" who re-creates himself in an online game.  Even concepts of school, marriage and retirement are mutating: an eight-year old opts for home schooling; a retired couple moves into an Internet-controlled seniorsí complex; and a woman exchanges vows online with a man she's never met. 


In an age of dispersed families and far-flung relationships, this cast of characters has each found a way to connect with a community of like-minded soul . . . but at what cost?


47 min.; VHS video; Public Performance Rights Purchase $195, Rental $70


Women and Men


This film offers a look at the so-called "crisis" in relations between women and men today. Through the concrete experience of individuals, the film focuses on what makes relationships and love between men and women so problematic. By exploring the state of relations between the sexes, the film aims to capture the rich ambiguity between the sexes and, in doing so, uncover what remains workable and vital in their long-standing connection.


Director: Katherine Gilday; Producer: Germaine Wong

(more information not available at press time because the film is still in production)



Salon I

376       ACA Special Event:  A Screening of the Film Public Memory, by Filmmaker Amy Gerber


Public Memory is an important and timely documentary that

encourages Americans to think more deeply about the importance of memorials on our landscape.  With national memorials in the news, top memorial scholars in the United States focus on the complex issues that surround memorializing crimes against humanity.  Public Memory breaks new ground by taking a fresh look at how and why

the public remembers.


Amy Gerber has produced and directed over 30 documentaries and

art films.  She has won honors at numerous film festivals, including

Edinburgh International Film Festival; Film Forum Series, Los Angeles; African American Festival, Stanford University; Mill Valley Film Festival, Marin, CA, and Women In The Director's Chair, Chicago.  She was a director, editor and cinematographer of films for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Amy Gerber studied film and video at Pennsylvania State University, and received an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video.  She has been

invited to teach documentary studies at Hollins University in 2004.



Salon J

377       Literature and Visual Art IV:  Shakespeare on Film

Chair:  Tony Gengarelly, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts


Deep-Fried American Dream: Macbeth Under the Heat Lamp in Scotland, PA

L. Monique Pittman, Andrews University, Michigan


"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye": Almereyda's Fissured Flick

Erica Y. Lehmann, University of Toronto


Heaven's in the Library: Shakespeare's Humanism Singing in Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost

Adrienne A. Redding, Andrews University, Michigan


"Hope Hamlet" vs. Hopeless Hamlet: Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale as Comic Relief to the Big Budget Epic

CoryAnne Harrigan, Simpson College, Iowa



Salon K

378       History and Teaching Popular Culture II

Chair:  Seymour Leventman, Boston College


Teen Chicago:  Developing American Historical Consciousness

Jennifer Stevens, Michigan State University


Woodcraft Indians and Scientific Discourses During the Progressive Era:  The Case of Ernest T. Seton

Asako Nobuoka, University of New Mexico


The Magic of Harry Potter:  Learning Social Studies

Christopher Witschonke, University of Houston


X Marks the Spot?:  Pirates, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture

Neva Specht, Appalachian State University



Salon L

379       Cultural Conflict and Women IV: Forum: "Rooted in Our Memories: The Cultural Mid-Identities of the Hispanic Woman's Self-Identity"

Chair:  Liz Ann Baez Aguilar, San Antonio College


Panelists:

Norma Cruz-Gonzales, San Antonio College

Irma Luna, San Antonio College

Liz Ann Baez Aguilar



Salon M

380           Poetry and Popular Culture I (continued; see 6:30 p.m.)



Conference Rm. 1

381       The 'sixties II: Literature of the 1960s

Chair:  Robert J. Goldberg, Prince George's Community College


Representations of Race in the 'Sixties

Cheri Louise Ross, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg


Mad Libs and Magnetic Poetry: American Popular Culture and The Workshop for Potential Literature

Christy Wampole, Middlebury College


The Black Aesthetic: An Agenda or Not?

Charles Toombs, San Diego State University


Frodo: A Beowulfian Hero for the 1960s

Robert J. Goldberg



Conference Rm. 2

382       Video Games III: Exploding the Game: Video Games at Work in Culture, a Roundtable Discussion

Chair:  Nathan Garrelts, New Mexico State University at Alamagordo


Panelists:

P. Konrad Budziszewski, Indiana University at Bloomington

Gary Holbrook, Indiana University at Bloomington

Bob Rehak, Indiana University at Bloomington

Bryan-Mitchell Young, Indiana University at Bloomington



Conference Rm. 3

383       Television in Popular Culture I: Flipping Through the Channels

Chair:  Peter Piatkowski, University of Illinois at Chicago


Giles: "It's the end of the world." Buffy/Xander/Willow: "Again?!!"-"Doomed"

Amy Lillard, Northwestern University


Let's Talk About Sex: Buffy, Willow, and the Big O-pening to Hell

Ime Kerlee, Emory University


Timing is Everything: The Success of Dawson's Creekand the Failure of My So-Called Life

Andrew Coomes, Middle Tennessee State University


The Evolution of the Television Family

Peter Piatkowski



Conference Rm. 5

384       Westerns: Film and Fiction I

Chair:  Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University


Git Along Lilí Creatures: Horror, Sci Fi, and Other Elements in B Westerns, 1920-1940

David Sonenschein, San Antonio, Texas


Gauging the Extent to Which Eastwood's Westerners Expose or Embrace the Myth of Redemptive Violence

Allen Redmon, East Texas Baptist University


John Brown Goes to Hollywood: Santa Fe Trail and Seven Angry Men

Peggy A. Russo, Penn State University


Louis LíAmour's Hopalong Cassidy Novels

Paul Varner



Conference Rm. 6

385       International Experience: Mexican & Latin American Studies IV:  El espíritu creador: México y Nicaragua  (En espa-ol)

Chair:  Lupe Cárdenas, Arizona State University West


Nuevas voces femeninas nicaragüenses: estudio preliminar

Vincent Spina, Clarion University


La tradici-n de las calaveras en México y Texas

Frank Pino y Barbara González Pino, University of Texas at San Antonio


Elementos femeninos en Hasta no verte Jesús mío

Lupe Cárdenas


Discusi-n de los trabajos presentados



Conference Rm. 8

385B     Memory and Representation VI

Chair:  Arthur G. Neal, Portland State University


Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Monument

Caroline Nichols, College of William and Mary


Moving Pictures: The 9/11 Memorial and the Iteration of National Myth

Elle Ting, University of Western Ontario


Unconscionable or Communicable: The Transference of Holocaust Photography

Brian DeLevie, University of Colorado at Denver



Conference Rm. 11

386       Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture I:  Marketing, Information, and Material Preservation

Co-Chairs:  Janet B. Croft, University of Oklahoma, and

Rhonda Harris Taylor, University of Oklahoma


Social Marketing for Romanian Libraries:  Study of a Concept in a Social Context

Bill Lukenbill and Irene Owens, University of Texas


Museums as Popular Attractions

Alexandra Zbuchea, Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania


Art Text:  Interpretation or Manipulation?

Linda Levitt, University of South Florida


Scrapbooks vs. Archival Preservation:  "The Rest of the Story"

Jeanne Gaunce, Starchives, Oklahoma City

  


Conference Rm. 12

387       Gothic Culture II:  Gothic Branches

Chair:  Louis H. Palmer, III, Castleton State College


"Looking as though you're in control":  Janice Galloway and the Working-Class Female Gothic

Alexis Logsdon, City College, City University of New York


Steven King's Vintage Ghost Cars:  A Modern Day Haunting

Mary Findley, Vermont Technical College


Blood for Oil:  Gasoline and the Gothic Economies of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Chuck Jackson, University of Houston-Downtown


The Imp of the Perverse: Eminem and the Gothic Genre

Petra Lina Orloff, Wayne State University


  

Conference Rm. 13

388       Computer Culture IX: Double-Clicking on Culture: Did On-Line Lit Mags Save the World?

Chair: Joseph Chaney, Indiana University South Bend


Panelists:

Jaimes Alsop, Editor, The Alsop Review

Richard Long, Editor, The 2River View

Tom Dooley, Editor, Eclectica

Julie King, Poetry Editor, Eclectica

Bob McCranie, Editor, Red River Review

Paul J. Sampson, Columnist, Eclectica



Conference Rm. 15

389       Silent Film II:  Special Film Screening

Chair:  Robert Weiner, Lubbock Public Library


A special showing of the 1928 film The Wind, starring Lillian Gish



Conference Rm. 17

390       American Literature V:  Faith, Hope, and the Ties that Bind:  Reading Ourselves

Chair:  Kelly Wisecup, Texas Tech University


"Let's Get Semiotic:" Recoding the Self in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

Kelly Wisecup


Taking Life from the Land:  Sophus Winther's Grimsen Trilogy

Zelda Jean Rouillard, Western State College of Colorado


Elvis, Gary Gilmore, and God in Jon Hassler's North of Hope

Deanna Evans, Bemidji State University


Beyond Signification: The Realist Approach to Consciousness in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street(1973)

Benjamin Bird, University of Leeds, United Kingdom



Conference Rm. 19

391       Composition and Rhetoric V:  Images and Icons: Ways of Looking and Modes of Celebration

Chair: Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Bizarre Media and Temporal Hallucinations: The Image in Composition Theory

Christina Kapp, University of Central Florida


Ronald Reagan and the Rhetoric of Iconology

Richard Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne


Media/Technology Exposure and College Freshmen

Donna Meletio, University of Texas San Antonio




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



SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2004

  

SALON E:  EXHIBITOR's SPACE



SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.


Salon A

596       Horror V:  Horror

Chair:  Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Community College


In the Darkness of Profiling, Is the Shadow PTSD?

Nancy Parker, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University


The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch:  Reforming the Family Unit in The Lost Boys

Jeremy Tirrell, University of Texas at San Antonio


The Consolation of Horror in Cinematic Representations of the Holocaust

Philip L. Simpson



Salon B

597       The Small Town in Literature, Film, Television, and Song I

Chair:  Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


Hollywood's Small Towns:  Fantasies versus Realities

Karen Valihora, York University, Toronto


Looking Backward to Look Forward to Today:  Post-War Hollywood's Turn-of-the-Century Small Town

Linda Robinson, Northwestern University


From Small Town to Suburbia:  The Changing Image of Family and Community in American Film

Philip C. Dolce, Bergen Community College, New Jersey


Southern Discomfort:  Women with Attitudes in Film and Literature

Kelly J. Hart, Spearman High School, Texas



Salon C

598       Native American Studies IX: Framing The Struggles: Indigenous Activism, Relocation, and the Politics of Academia

Chair:  Kimberly Roppolo, McLennan Community College

 

Crucifying the White Man: Douglass Durham's Reinvention of the American Indian Movement

Sandra K. Baringer, University of California at Riverside

 

Trials and Tribulations of the Western Shoshone

Tom Wasson, Winnemucca Indian Colony

 

Working in John Wayne Country: Racist and Sexist Termination at the University of Washington

Robert Free Galvan, Independent Scholar


Relocation and Dislocation in David Treuer's The Hiawatha

John D. Kalb, Salisbury University



Salon D

599       Film and Film Adaptation XV: Adaptation Theory at Work

Chair: Dennis Cutchins, Brigham Young University


Digging for Gatsby: Using Film to Unearth the Roots of The Great Gatsby

Bryce Cundick, Brigham Young University


Adaptation Theory and the Works of Henry James

Rachael Decker Bailey, Brigham Young University


Migrating Film Titles: Examining Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Rachel Ligairi, Brigham Young University


Of Monkeys and Men: Minority Report's Precog "Other" on Page and Screen

Joel Karpowitz, Brigham Young University


Biography and Film: The Adaptation of A Beautiful Mind

Sandra Clark Jergensen, Brigham Young University


Huck Finn and R. P. McMurphy: Relationships Between Twain and Kesey

Josh Christienson, Brigham Young University



Salon F

600       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXII:  Heinlein III: This He Believed: Teaching Under the Radar II

Chair:  Lisa Edmonds, Wichita State University 


Heinlein's 'F' Words: Farnham's Freehold, Friday, and Bigotry

Brad Linaweaver, Author; Co-editor, New Libertarian's Special Heinlein Tribute Issue


Heinlein's Eternal Feminine: Redefining the Myth and Mythos of Woman

Lisa Edmonds


The Heinlein Juveniles: A Feminist Perspective

Kyle Bozeman, Troy State University



Salon G

601       Masculinities IX: Masculinity, Crime, Politics, and the Law

Chair:  Cherise Pollard, West Chester University of Pennsylvania


An Ethnography of Masculinities in Cityton Prison, South Wales

John Beynon, University of Glamorgan, Wales


Praxis of Deception: The Police Cult of Masculinity and the Blue Wall of Silence

Thomas W. Nolan, Springfield College, Manchester, New Hampshire


Masculinities, Violence, Crime, and the Socialization of Boys:  One Parent's Response

Merry G. Perry, West Chester University of Pennsylvania


Empire Redux: Bush Visits the Philippines

David Brody, West Chester University of Pennsylvania


  

Salon H

602       Dance and Culture VII: Bodies in Motion/Bodies in Theory

Chair:  Sherril Dodds, University of Surrey


Feet Don't Fail Me Now:  African American Drill and Step Team Performance

Brenda Lacey, State University of New York at Buffalo


The Body, Knowledge, and a Culture of Change:  Somatic Ecology

Robert Bettmann, American University & Blackbird Dance Ensemble


The "Trouble" With Modern Liturgical Dance; or, A Scholar Looks in the Mirror and Sees an Elitist Looking Back

Kent De Spain, University of Texas Austin



Salon I

603       National PCA/ACA Area Chairs Meeting

Chair:  Michael K. Schoenecke, Director, PCA/ACA



Salon J

604       Advertising IV:  Irony, Shifting Perceptions, and Cultural Acceptance

Chair:  Robert Baumgardner, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Profitable Showmanship? Entertainment, Advertising and American Business, 1890-1940

Chris Rasmussen, Fairleigh Dickinson University


The Original VW Beetle as Modern Hero

Bruce G. Vanden Bergh, Michigan State University


Legal Advertising: The Shifting Culture of Law Firms

Elizabeth Spradley, Stephen F. Austin State University


English in Spanish and Spanish in English: Cultures in Contact in Advertising

Robert J. Baumgardner, and

María Eugenia Montemayor, Universidad de Monterrey



Salon K

605       Mystery and Detective Fiction XII: Conventions, Boundaries,

and the Nature of the Genre

Chair:  Marilyn Rye, Fairleigh Dickinson University


Bad Sex in Women's Hardboiled Detective Novels

William Klink, College of Southern Maryland


"So Ugly, So Beautiful": Pornography and the Limits of Detective Fiction

in Ellroy's L.A. Quartet

Jim Mancall, Harvard College


Laura, Vera, and Wilkie: Deep Sensation Roots of a Noir Novel

Barbara Emrys, University of Nebraska-Kearney


Machismo and Murder: Playing with the Genre in Mystic River and Chronicle

of a Death Foretold

Marilyn Rye



Salon L

606       Gender and Material Culture II:  Objects, Spaces, and Community

Chair:  Ella Howard, Boston University


Old Man of the Mountain: Masculinity, Material Culture, and Regional Identity

Robin K. O'sullivan, University of Southern Maine


"Living as Americans Live": Company Towns and Family Values

Rachel Batch, Widener University


Masculinity, Poverty, and the Built Environment On the Bowery

Ella Howard



Salon M

607       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections X:  Chucherias and Mugreritos: Chicanas Talk Frankly about Collecting

Chair: Nonrna E. Cantu, University of Texas, San Antonio


I Beat the Owl Lady: A "Collection" of Personal Anecdotes on Collecting

Tey Marianna Nunn, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM


The Lure of the Unknown: The Call of the Garage Sale

Tey Diana Rebolledo, University of New Mexico


A Life of Collecting: A Meditation on Collectors, Collecting, and Preserving

Norma E. Cantu, University of Texas, San Antonio



Conference Rm. 1

608       Slapstick Comedy/Early Television I:  Wheeler, Woolsey, and The Three Stooges

Chair:  Peter Seely


Hassan Bin Sobah:  Native American, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, and Eastern European Stereotyping in The Three Stooges Films

Peter Seely, Benedictine University


Diplomaniacs:  Wheeler and Woolsey's Secret Mission Revealed

Joe D. Seely, Holland and Knight, LLC, Chicago, Illinois


Hang Hitler!:  The Three Stooges and their Potshots at Nazis

Lynn Rapaport, Pomona College


Roundtable Discussion on The Three Stooges and Columbia Pictures



Conference Rm. 2

609       Composition/Rhetoric I: Historical Rhetorics

Chair:  Davina Cummings, Florida Atlantic University


Negotiating Difference: A Postcolonial Critique of the Cultural Studies Composition Text

Joseph B. Wagner, University of North Carolina-Greensboro


Revealing the Middle Passage: Exploring Narrative Style in Contemporary Amistad Media

John Kille, St. Louis University


Analysis of Stanton's Address at the Seneca Falls Convention

Davina Cummings



Conference Rm. 3

610       Television in Popular Culture IV: Performing Gender

Chair:  Peggy Davis, Miami University


From Discipline and Punish to Discipline and Decorate: Queer Masculinities, Containment, and Modes of Representation in Reality Television

Melanie Maltry, Ohio State University


Monster Masculinity: Honey, I'll Be in the Garage Reasserting My Manhood

Peter Tragos, New Trier High School


Is a Kiss Just a Kiss?:  Pop Culture Pushes the Sexual-Preference Envelope

Norma C. Bucholtz, California State University-San Bernardino


What's Football Got To Do With It?  How Aliasí Super Bowl Episode Forever Altered Sydney's Tough Woman Performance

Peggy Davis



Conference Rm. 4

611       Sports XIV: Culture

Chair: Steve Oakey, Virginia Tech


By the way, do you play basketball?: Sports in Schoolgirls Stories in the Early Twentieth Century

Nancy Rosoff, Rutgers University


The Park in the Mall, the Fake Streetscape, and the "Jesus Saves" Skateramp (A.K.A. How to Turn a Skateboarder into a Religious, Law-Abiding Consumer):  Motivations Behind the Creation of American Skateparks

Kelli Shapiro, Brown University


Virtual Sport: The Development of a Postmodern Sport Model

Steve Estes, East Carolina University


The Cultural Expressions of Soccer: The Tango Strength, Efficiency, and La Belle France

Steve Oakey



Conference Rm. 5

612       Culture of Fandom II: Expressions of Fandom from Sports Culture

Chair:  Greg Thompson, Florida State University


Fan Identity and the Politics of Place: An Oral History of Postwar Football Broadcasting

Jeff Montez de Oca, University of Southern California


Henry W. Grady: Baseball's New South Prophet

Wes Singletary, Brookwood School/Tallahassee Community College


Balancing, Straightening and Refocusing the Picture of Jim Thorpe I

Douglas Noverr, Michigan State University


Balancing, Straightening and Refocusing the Picture of Jim Thorpe II

Robert Reising, University of North Carolina at Pembroke



Conference Rm. 6

613       Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory IV

Chair:  Casie C. Beasley, McNeese State University


A Chicana Discourse of Folklore in a Historiography:  An Analysis of Caballero

Rose M. Rodriguez-Rabin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln


La Llorona and La Malinche in the Literature of Anaya and Cisneros

Natalie Ryan, Angelo State University


The Reinvention of La Llorona in Cisnerosí "Woman Hollering Creek"

Casie C. Beasley



Conference Rm. 7

614       Vietnam X: The Vietnamese Diaspora

Chair:  Maureen Ryan, University of Southern Mississippi


Lan Cao's "Monkey Bridge":  Span, Barrier, Trap

Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University


The Use of American Popular Culture in Vietnamese-American Short Stories

Quan Manh Ha, Troy State University


People Singing a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature

Maureen Ryan



Conference Rm. 8

615       American Prison Writing III: Barred Value I

Chair: Stephen Steck, University of Montreal


Speaking Truth to Power: Prison Oral Tradition and Witness

Virginia Bemis, Ashland University


The Absent Focus: Male-Male Rape in African American Prison Autobiography

Auli Anneli Ek, University of California, Santa Barbara


Contemporary Prison Narratives: Form, Process and Materiality

Rebecca L. Bordt, DePauw University



Conference Rm. 9

616       Biography VI:  Biographical Image of "Big Daddy" in Literature, Film, Politics

Chair:  Camille McCutcheon, USC Spartanburg Library, University of South Carolina


Barn Burners: The Cold War Consensus and the Challenge to Big Daddy in Post World War II Films about the New South

William Jones, Virginia Wesleyan College


The Big Daddy Complex and U.S. Presidents from the South

Jean-Paul Benowitz, Penn State Harrisburg


Big Daddy's Brood: Simpering Sons and Delta Dawn Daughters

Camille McCutcheon



Conference Rm. 10

617       American Art and Architecture XIII: Japanese,

Japanese-American and African-American Art

Chair: Jessica Dallow, University of Alabama at Birmingham


The Japanese Influence in American Postwar Design: Loving the Alien

in the Age of Anxiety

Rachel Leibowitz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Asian Invasion: The Asian and Asian American Artist in America

Sarita K. Heer, Tulane University


"Can We Really Live Here?"Lezley Saar's Mulatto Nation

Jessica Dallow



Conference Rm. 11

618       Culture and Religion I

Chair:  Ingrid Shafer, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma


The Spiritualist Religion as Popular Science

Charles F. Emmons, Gettysburg College


Crossing Over: The Rhetoric of Validation in the Mediumship of John Edward

Jennifer Porter, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland


Yoga and Martin Heidegger:  Wexler's "mystical society," Martin Heidegger,

and the Discipline/Practice of Yoga

Neil J. Liss, University of Houston


Religion and Religious Symbolism in the Work of Ray Bradbury

John H. Esperian, Community College of Southern Nevada.



Conference Rm. 12

619       American Metafiction: Post 1945

Chair:  Kelly Wisecup, Texas Tech University


False Documents: The Search for Truth in E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel

Kyle Hetrick, University of Rhode Island


From Funhouse to Discotheque: John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and the Course of Postmodern Fiction

Sam Leonard, University of Tulsa


Embracing the Postmodern: Cybernetic Theory and Resistance in Pynchon and Priestley

Jacky W. Dumas, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 13

620       Comic Arts andComics XI: Crime Doesn't Pay - Detectives and Justice

Chair: Kerry Soper, Brigham Young University


Dick Tracy, Meet Mr. Darwin and Mr. Freud: The Intersection of Eugenics and Popularized Freudian Psychology in Chester Gould's Gallery of Criminal Grotesques

Kerry Soper


Barry Jordan, 'Ace Tenor Sax Maní:  Comic Strips, Black Newspapers, and the Detective Story Formula, 1954-1955

Angela M. Nelson, Bowling Green State University


The Police Detective Genre in Comics During the 1990s

Gerardo Antonio Vega, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 14

621       Children's/Young Adult Literature VII:  Bridging the Gap: A Round Table Discussion on Favorite Books and Becoming Life-Long Readers

Chair/Moderator:  Diana Dominguez, The University of Texas-Brownsville


Everyone is invited to this round table session in which we will discuss, first, books that have remained favorites through different stages in our lives, and, second, books that help younger readers (both children and adolescents) become life-long readers once they move into adulthood.  All and any participants are welcome to join in - you need not be a Children's/Young Adult scholar or expert, you need not be a parent or educator; the only requirement is that you have loved and still love books and want to talk about them with others who have loved and still love books.



Conference Rm. 15

622       Deviance and Popular Culture I

Chair:  D. Angus Vail and Phillip Vannini, University of Victoria


Women's Voices in a "Man's Game"

Ken Muir and Trina Seitz, Appalachian State University


Gender, Sexuality, and Romance in a Massive Multi-Player Online Game

Emily E. LaBeff, Midwestern State University


Virtual Communities in the Buffyverse

Mary Kirby Diaz, Farmingdale State University of New York


From Courtship to Sexual Relationships: The Evolution of Popular Song Lyrics




Dan Pence, California State University, Chico, and



Celine Pettyjohn, California State University, Chico



 



 

Conference Rm. 16

623       Journalism & Media Culture III:  Journalists and War Coverage

Chair: Rebecca C. Hains, Temple University


The American News Media and the Archetypal Figures of September 11

Rebecca C. Hains


A Comparison of the Spanish Press and American Press Coverage of the Recent War in Iraq

Jenny Achilles, Lamar University


"Memory and Imagination are the Great Deterrents": Martha Gellhorn at War as Correspondent and Literary Author

Giovanna DellíOrto, University of Minnesota



Conference Rm. 17

624       Jack London's Life and Works I

Chair: George R. Adams, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


To and From the Valley of the Moon:  The Common Ground Between Jack London and George Orwell

Sean Hoare, Marymount University


"Every dollar you feed it will return you two": Farming and the Ideology of Natural Capitalism in London's The Valley of the Moon

Doug Anderson, Southwest Minnesota State University


Jack London's Mate-Women

Terry J. Moore, Arizona State University


The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative

Jeanne Reesman, University of Texas-San Antonio



Conference Rm. 18

625       Music PCA V:  Timeless and Classic

Chair:  Barbara Rose Lange, University of Houston


Interior Dialogue, The Soundtrack: Defining youth, love and happiness with the music and lyrics of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

Jessica Sawrey, University of Georgia


Say Goodbye to Carolina:  Portrayals of Black Culture in the Music of Lyle Lovett

Ellen Kleiman, U.S. Defense Finance and Accounting Service


You've Got to Stand for Somethin':  John Cougar Mellencamp and the Construction of a Rural Midwestern Identity.

Mike Loy and Arnold S. Wolfe, Illinois State University


Nameless Sound:  Improvised Music in the Bayou City

Barbara Rose Lange


  

Conference Rm. 19

626       Civil War V:  Re-Visioning History and the Soldier's Life

Chair:  Lawrence F. Kohl, University of Alabama


The Red Badge in the Era of Shock and Awe

Michael Schaefer, University of Central Arkansas


I Keep You Close: Photographic Portraits of the Civil War

Pamela Venz, Birmingham-Southern College


The Birth of a Family: Civil War Soldiers and the Growth of the Domestic Family

Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida


How Irish Was the Irish Brigade?

Lawrence F. Kohl, University of Alabama


  


SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

  

Salon A

627       Horror VI:  Horror

Chair:  Diana Royer, Miami University


The Music of Gothic Film:  A Bridge Between Two Cultures

Greg Pepetone, Georgia College and State University


Teaching the Supernatural

Dean Bowers, Texas Tech University


Angels and Aliens:  The Supernatural Other in Popular Consciousness

Diana and Carl Royer



Salon B

628       Creative Fiction V: Fiction

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University


Writ in Water

Constance Squires


Fidelio Street

Carrie Hoffman, University of Southern Mississippi


X and Y:  A 21st-Century African-American Love Story

Tracy Fellers, North Carolina A&T State University



Salon C

629       Native American Studies X: Images and Realities: (Mis)Representations of Indigeneity in Popular Culture

Chair:  Sara Elizabeth Brandon, University of Campinas

 

Symbolic Racism, History, and Reality: The Real Problem with Indian Mascots

Kimberly Roppolo, McLennan Community College, and

Lee Francis, Jr., University of New Mexico

 

Representing Indians: Native American Actors on Hollywood's Frontier

Nicolas G. Rosenthal, University of California at Los Angeles

 

And the Injun goes how?/!: Representations of American Indian English in White Public Space

Barbara Meek, University of Michigan



Salon D

630       Film and Film Adaptation XVI: Cultural Tales: The Coens and Propp

Chair: Caryn Voskuil, Art Institute of Dallas


O Brother, What Art Thou?

Lesleigh Cushing, Colgate University


O Brother, Where Art Thou? Marries Popular Mythology to Popular Music

Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University

  

Deliverance: Adherence to Proppian Morphology in Novel and Film

Cherry Levine, Texas A&M University


The Disastrous Construction of 'The Feminine' in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Caryn Voskuil



Salon F

631       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXIII:  Heinlein IV:  The Future of Heinlein Scholarship (Roundtable)

Moderator:  Solomon Davidoff, New England Institute of Art and Communications



Salon G

632       Masculinities X: Hunks, Heroes, and the Subversion of Traditional Masculinity

Chair:  Merry G. Perry, West Chester University, PA


Character Portrayals as Visual Rhetoric: The Masculinity of Johnny Depp

Juliette Ludeker, West Chester University


The Rhetoric of Mysterious Masculinity and Heroism: Keanu Reevesí Identity and The Matrix

Merry G. Perry


Contemporary Riffs on the Blaxploitation Hero: Funky Brothers Fight "The Man"

Cherise Pollard, West Chester University



Salon H

633       Dance and Culture VIII: Popular Appropriations II

Chair:  Daniel P. Singh, University of Maryland


Querying the 'Popularí in Dance

Sherril Dodds, University of Surrey


Social Dancing or Theatrical Representation of Social Dance?: Why the Ballroom Dance Industry Hopes You Don't Know the Difference

Juliet McMains, Florida State University


Moving Past Words: Choreographed Parody and Situational Humor in Popular Film

Ted Bain, University of Maryland College Park



Salon I

634       The Small Town in Literature, Film, Television, & Song II

Chair:  Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University


Little House(s) on the (Canadian) Prairie:  Literary Representations

of Small-Town Life in Western Canada, circa 1900-1960

Tamara Palmer Seiler, University of Calgary


Red Bank to Paradise:  The All-Black Small Town

in Twentieth-Century African-American Fiction and Film

Jon-Christian Suggs, City University of New York


"Let the Broken Hearts Stand as the Price Youíve Gotta Pay":  Bruce Springsteen's Vision of the Dilemma of Responsibility in Small Town Life

Gary Leising, Northern Kentucky University


Science Fiction and Horror: Secrets of a Small Town

Kathleen D. Turner, Oklahoma Panhandle State University



Salon J

635       Advertising V:  Trademarks, Targets, Anti-Advertising, and (Mis)Representation

Chair:  John A. McDermott, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


The Hard-Boiled Consumer:  Dashiell Hammett and the Evolution of the Trade-Mark in Popular Fiction

John A. McDermott


Participate by Not Participating: A Contextual Analysis of Aguilera as the New Spokesperson for Buy Nothing Day 

Amanda Hanley, State University of New York at Potsdam


Will the 'Reel' Las Vegas Please Stand Up?: Native Discourses on the Representation and Misrepresentation of Las Vegas on TV and in Advertising

Tracy Tuttle, Barstow College



Salon K

636       Mystery and Detective Fiction XIII: Looking Backwards: Perspectives on the Past

Chair:  Marcia Songer, East Tennessee State University


(Re)Framing Lady Audley: Detecting a Critical Mystery

Susan Hillabold, Purdue University North Central


The Evolution of the 'Britishí Detective

Susan Weaver, Archbishop Blenk High School, Louisiana


History as Mystery or Mystery as History

John G. Cawelti, University of Kentucky, Emeritus


Robin Paige and Detective History

Marcia Songer



Salon L

637       Gender V

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


Gender and Age Representation in Prime Time Television

Trudy Mercadal-Sabbagh, Florida Atlantic University


Out of Time:  A Story of Romantic Friends from the 1930s to the Present

Cameron Scott, Austin, Texas


John Wayne is a Girl's Name:  Gender Performativity and John Wayne in the Film True Grit

Elizabeth Simon Ruchti, Ohio University


Gender Role Reversal in Bellydance:  The Sword as Transgressive Feminine Symbol

Ruel A. Macaraeg, University of Texas, Arlington



Salon M

638       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections XI and

Libraries, Archives, and Museums III: Discussion on Special Collections in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Chair:  Janet Brennan Croft, Bizzell Library, University of Oklahoma


Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts

Jody Blake, NcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas


Mann Collection on Home Economics

Linda Stewart, Cornell University


Special Collections at University of Colorado-Boulder

Michelle Visser, University of Colorado-Boulder



Conference Rm. 1

639       Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books V: Magazines and Paperbacks

Chair:  Alan Pickrell, Emeritus, Emory & Henry College


Wage Earners and Work: Pulp Science Fiction as Vernacular Theory

Eric Drown, George Washington University


From Argosy to Ocean Liner:  Frank Munsey's Argosyand the Development of Specialized Magazines

Sheri Hardee, University of South Carolina


The Crime/Noir Fiction of David Goodis

Kenneth Payne, Kuwait University



Conference Rm. 2

640       Composition and Rhetoric VIII:  Pedagogy

Chair: Michael Carlson Kapper, Purdue University


Discipline and Punish?: (S)Mothering as Composition Instruction

Witt Salley, North Arkansas College


Recoding the 'Realí: Making 'Virtualí Matter

Matthew S. Johnson, Indiana University


What is an Error, Anyway?: Teacher Awareness of Nonstandard English Dialects in College Freshman Writing

Maureen T. Matarese, Columbia University



Conference Rm. 3

641       Television in Popular Culture V: Crime & Law in Pixels

Chair:  Michelle Stewart, University of California, Santa Cruz


Against the Grain on The Practice: Alan Shore, Just or Justice?

Andrew Tash, Cowley College


The Character Development of Heroes and Villains from Darth Vader to Superman: The Creative Use of Flashbacks and Prequels in Modern Media

Kenneth Scott Culpepper, Baylor University


24: Technology, Mode of Production, and Mode of Presentation

Eric Vanstrom, University of California, Los Angeles


Crime Speak: Constructing Criminality in the Age of Law and Order

Michelle Stewart



Conference Rm. 4

642       Sports XV: Gender

Chair:  Marilyn Middendorf, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Gender 'Warsí in the World of Golf I

Tom Vickers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Gender 'Warsí in the World of Golf II

Donna Barbie, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Gender 'Warsí in the World of Golf III

Marilyn Middendorf



Conference Rm. 5

643       Law and Culture III: Law & Literature III

Chair: Wythe Holt, University of Alabama School of Law


Looking Backward At the Idea of Equality: Edward Bellamy in Retrospect

R. George Wright, Indiana University School of Law


"Father Chief Justice": Notes for a Play

Paul R. Baier, Louisiana State University Law Center



Conference Rm. 6

644       Literature & Politics V:  Class, Psychology & The Modern Novel

Chair:  Robert Scott Stewart, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia


Empire of Innocence

Aaron S. Rosenfeld, Iona College


Whiteness and Class Consciousness in Ethnic, Working Class Literature of the 1930s: Mike Gold's Jews Without Money and Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete

Chris Vials, University of Massachusetts


Immigrant Writing and the Politics of Consumerism

Douglas J. Goldstein, Barnard College


Modern Melancholy in the Novels of Richard Ford and Jonathan Franzen

Robert Scott Stewart



Conference Rm. 7

645       Vietnam XI: History and the Press

Chair: Oscar Patterson III, University of North Florida


"Waiting for tomorrow's yesterday":  Women War Correspondents and Vietnam

Catherine Calloway, Arkansas State University


How Long Does a Quagmire Make?

Oscar Patterson III


Roger (the Unmanned) Ramjet Flies over Vietnam: Drone Warfare and the Unmanning of the Battlefield

Tim Blackmore, Middlesex College, University of Western Ontario



Conference Rm. 8

646       American Prison Writing IV: Barred Value II

Chair:   Stephen Steck, University of Montreal

 

On Becoming a Poet

Writer Marilyn Buck

Presented by Mariann Garner-Wizard, Youth Emergency Service, Inc./

The Phogg Phoundation for the Pursuit of Happiness, Austin, Texas

 

Brothers and Keepersand Live from Death Row: Mapping Social Death in African American Personal Narratives in a Prison Nation

Elston L. Carr, University of California, Riverside


Structure, Voice, and Place: Poetry from the Inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility, Oahu, Hawai'i

Gay Sibley, University of Hawai'i at Manoa



Conference Rm. 9

647       Collegiate Culture I

Chair:  Ginny Schwartz, St. Lawrence University


Cold War History, Cold War Film:  Using Popular Films to Understand an Era

Ginny Schwartz


College Success: An Introduction to University Courses

Connie Morris and Nancy Fisher, Wichita State University


Education in Two-Year Colleges: Popular Perceptions and Student Realities

Bob Dunkle, Ivy Tech State College


David Auburn's Proof and the Complexities of Higher Education

Damian Hawkins, Broward Community College



Conference Rm. 10

648       American Art and Architecture XIV: Studio Art Session 3

Chair: Kathy Desmond, Endicott College


Depictions of Aging and Gender

Kathy Desmond


Memories from the  Warrior Culture

Marilyn Nelson, University of Arkansas


New Work

Tom Morrissey, artprofessor@excite.com



Conference Rm. 11

649       Culture and Religion II:  Postmodern Evil: New Visualizations of an Old Idea

Chair: Gregory Erickson, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York


Reading Evil After 9/11 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gregory Erickson


Evil Reloaded: The Politicizing and Re-Popularizing of Evil as a Concrete Construct in Rhetoric, Culture and Video Games

Richard W. Santana, Rochester Institute of Technology


American Self-identification as Global Crusader

Amit Ray, Rochester Institute of Technology


How the Virgin of Guadalupe Saved an Anglo Protestant

Victoria Gaitskell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada



Conference Rm. 12

650       American Metafiction: Post 1945 II: Donald Barthelme and John Barth: Language, Art, and Society

Chair:  Barry Lewis, University of Sunderland


"Holding in mind all works of fiction since the War, in all languages, how would you rate the present work, on a scale of one to ten, so far?": The Dissidence of Donald Barthelme

Barry Lewis


On Donald Barthelme's Snow White: Language and Malaise

Alan Rossi, Texas Tech University


Constructions of Abstraction and Representation in Donald Barthelme's Snow White and Fairfield Porter's "Lawrence at the Piano"

Marcus Weekley, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 13

651       Marvel Comics and Popular Culture

Chair:  Robert Weiner, Lubbock Public Library


Spider-Man, the Silver Surfer, and Jesus Christ: The Interaction between Superheroes and a Religious Figure

BJ Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University


The Mixed Up Super Hero: Early Marvel Comics and Romance

Rob Weiner, Lubbock Public Library



Conference Rm. 14

652       Grateful Dead VIII: Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives on the Grateful Dead

Chair:  Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina-Greensboro


Words Half Spoken and Thoughts Unclear: Is There Really a Grateful Dead Philosophy?

Stanley Spector, Modesto Junior College


Nothing To Hold (You Can't Let Go): Embracing The Uncanny In Grateful Dead Songs Of Home

James A. Tuedio, California State University-Stanilaus


Steal Your Face Right Off Your Head: Linking the Grateful Dead with the work of Gilles Deleuze

Joseph Holt, Independent Scholar


The Grateful Dead in Tales and Culture: Common Themes and Structure in Ancient Folktale, Modern American Music, and Community

Amanda Diederich-Hirsh, University of Chicago



Conference Rm. 15

653       Deviance and Popular Culture II:  "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?:  Vampires, Wraiths, and Zombies as Figurations of Containment

Chair:  Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento


Gothic Sunnydale: Desire and Race in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Alyson Buckman


Gothicism:  A Remedy for Starvation

Anne Erickson, Atlantic Cape Community College


The New Dorian Grey: American Zombie Films and the Disintegration of Morality

W. E. Waisala, Atlantic Cape Community College



Conference Rm. 16

654       Journalism & Media Culture IV:  Newspaper Visuals That 'Met The Enemyí

Chair: Samuel P. Winch, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg


"Suffern on the Steppes": Anti-Communist Satire in the Comic Strip Pogo During the Early Cold War

Eric Jarvis, King's College, University of Western Ontario


The Poisonous Pens: Editorial Cartoons and the Post-World War II Anti-Communist Hysteria

Alison Meek, King's College, University of Western Ontario


Visual Construction of the "Evil Genius"

Samuel P. Winch



Conference Rm. 17

655       Jack London's Life and Works II

Chair: Sean Hoare, Marymount University


London in the Writing Factory

Jeanine Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln


Governance, Tyranny, and Revolution in the Sea Tales of Herman Melville and Jack London

Peter R. Saiz, Prairie View A&M University


"A Thousand Deaths" Times Three

George R. Adams, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


The True Jack London: An American Life

Earle Labor, Centenary College



Conference Rm. 18

656       American Music and Culture VII

Chair: Judy Brady, Metro State College of Denver


"Hey Hey, My My": Your Hundred Favorite Rock Songs Since the Death of Rock 'n' Roll

Fred Ashe, University of Alabama, and

Nell Sullivan, University of Houston-Downtown


Are You Woman Enough to Be My Man?:  Pearl Jam and Third-Wave Feminism

Judy Brady



Conference Rm. 19

657       Romance Fiction: Beneath the Words: Engaging Aspects of Romance Novels

Chair:  Paul V. Fleming, Oklahoma State University


Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance-Reading Community

Sally Goade, Russell Sage College


Pleasure and the Reading of Popular Romance

Eva Y.I. Chen, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan


Hope, Faith, and Love: An Analysis of the Christian Romance Hero

Rebecca B. Fox, University of Kansas


Fantasy, Fiction, and Feminism:  (Re) Reading Romance

Marie Green, University of Saskatchewan



SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.


Salon A

658       Horror VII:  Horror Fiction

Chair:  Linda J. Holland-Toll, Newberry College


Queer Magic:  Homosexuality and Spiritual Praxis in Clive Barker's Sacrament

Tony Vinci, Monroe Community College


Bodies of Information:  Horror, Data, and Desire in Exquisite Corpse,

Frisk, and Quilted Heart

Deborah Wills, Mount Allison University


The Hound and the Rats

Steve Walker, Central Missouri State University


What's a Monster, Anyway?  The Changing Faces of Monstrosity

in Horror Fiction

Linda J. Holland-Toll



Salon B

659       Creative Fiction VI: Fiction

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University




 

Need Not Apply

Steven Williams, Texas Tech University





Life Without Elvis



John Brantingham, Mt. San Antonio College




Bright Lights Pawn Shops



Christopher Bloss, University of South Dakota



 



Findo's Campaign



Henry N. Rogers, University of Central Arkansas

  


Salon C

660       Native American Studies XI: Indian Bodies, White Eyes: The Body as a Site of Struggle in Visual Culture

Chair:  Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, University of California at Santa Cruz


Paper Feathers: A Comparative Study of the "Indian" Image in Brazil and the United States

Sara Elizabeth Brandon, University of Campinas, Brazil


Dancing With The Devil: The Potentials and Perils for Indigenous Cultural and Political Representation on the Internet

Jeff Taylor, University of Lapland


Native Americans in the Gaming Age

Beth Dillon, Portland State University


The Suspended Indian

John D. Miles, North Carolina State University



Salon D

661       Film and Film Adaptation XVII: "What a Wonderful World": Bowling for Columbine as Cultural Document

Chair and Respondent:  Roxana Galusca, Emporia State University


Disabled Bodies and a Fragmented Real: Bowling for Columbine Through the Lenses of Davis and Baudrillard

Katie Egging, Emporia State University


Bowling for Columbine:  A "repossessed commodity"

Roxana Galusca


Bowling for Dollars

Rebecca James, Emporia State University


Bowling for Columbine: Divulging the Ideology of Simulacra

Oana Pusca, Emporia State University

  


Salon F

662       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXIV:  Special Event:  Suzy Charnas

Introduction:  Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M University-Commerce


Born in Manhattan, New York, Suzy McKee Charnas was educated at Barnard College and New York University. The writer of original and highly regarded novels, she was awarded the Nebula Award, Mythopoetic Society Award for a best children's book, and a Gilgamesh Award for best fantasy stories. Her "Boobs," a short story, won the Hugo Award in 1989. A noted History and English teacher in a girl's high school in Nigeria, Suzy Charnas also served in the United States Peace Corps. Her books include: The Slave and the Free (Orb 1999), The Conqueror's Child (Tor 1999), The Furies (Tor Books 1994), Dorothea Dreams (Arbor House 1986), and The Bronze King (Houghton 1985). (http://www.femspec.org)



Salon G

663       Masculinities XI: Masculinity in Literature

Chair: Cheryl Wanko, West Chester University


Male Friendship: Presence and Affirmation in the Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Novels of Joe R. Lansdale

John A. Dixon, University of Lincoln, England


The Man With No Family Name: Deadwood Dick, Dime Novels, and Narrative Masculinity

Daniel Worden, Brandeis University


Lonesome Doves, Dancing Bears: Masculinities in Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian

David Willbern, SUNY Buffalo


Rakes and Fops:  Two Restoration Masculine Types

Cheryl Wanko



Salon H

664       Dance and Culture IX: Blue-Ribbon Roundtable on Publishing

Moderator:  Libby Smigel, University of Maryland College Park

Invited Speaker:  Joan Erdman, Columbia College


Respondents: 

Ted Bain, editor, Mid-Atlantic Almanack

Camille Hardy, Dance Magazine

Representatives of the Publishers exhibiting at the conference.


2:30:  Dance Area Lunch:  Following the final Dance and Culture panel, presenters and all dance enthusiasts and supporters are invited to have lunch together.  Plans for next year's meeting in San Diego will be discussed as

well as lighter matters.    Meet here in Salon H at 2:00 p.m.



Salon I

665       Drama and Theatre IV:  Theatre and Audience

Chair:  Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Martin Methodist College


Youth Theatre: The Final Frontier of Political Activism

Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Kent State University


Reviving an Old Tradition: All-Female Shakespeare at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College

Sharon Ammen, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College

Erin Goldstein, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College

Nicole DeNicolo, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College


Bridging the Gap, We Hope: Gender and Age in Academic Theatre

Kayla McKinney Wiggins



Salon J

666       Route 66 and Other American Highways I: On the Go and Staying Put:  The Impact on Place on Personal and Community Memory

Chair:   Jay M. Price, Wichita State University


The Effect of Roads on Eisenhower's Career

Benjamin Hruska, Wichita State University


A Field Guide to Gas Stations in Texas

W. Dwayne Jones, Preservation Dallas


Chicano Park and the Importance of Preserving Public Expression

Nedda Haeri, Wichita State University


"Swamp Gravy:" History, Community, and Social Capital

Stephen Simpson, Florida State University


Lewis and Clark: The First Roadtrip

Tom Nelson, Elon University



Salon K

667       Mystery/Detective Fiction IV:  Places and Spaces: Effect of Locale on the Mystery/Detective Genre

Chair:  Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University


MacCarter Brown: The Americanisation of an Australian Detective

Toni Johnson Woods, University of Queensland, Australia


From Adventure Novel to Literature of the Homeland: The Development of Early Detective Novels in German-Speaking Switzerland

Julia Karolle, John Carroll University


Keeping Harlem Clean: Domestic Detectives in Chester Himes' Harlem Cycle

Eve Dunbar, University of Texas-Austin



Salon L

668       Gender VI

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


Boys Becoming Men:  Balancing Sensitivity with Shallowness in Nick Hornby's About A Boy

Lauryn Angel-Cann, University of North Texas


Anger and Acceptance:  Masculinity and Emotion in Nick Hornby's How to Be Good

Charla King, University of North Texas


Masculine Stereotypes in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity

Krystal Hart, University of North Texas


Maiden, Mother, Crone:  The Three Aspects of the Goddess in the Drag Films Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, The Bird Cage, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Marla Roberson, University of Central Oklahoma, and

Gypsey Teague



Salon M

669       Professional Placement ACA V:  Graduate Students:  The Job Hunt (Part 2)

Chair:  David Feldman, New York, New York


Speaker:  Glenn Browne, Texas Tech University


Tips and strategies for graduate students for the ever-angst-ridden process of getting a job in academia.  Glenn Browne, of Texas Tech University's Institute for Internet Buying Behavior, will provide tips on job search strategies, and what to do when you actually manage to snag an interview.



Conference Rm. 1

670       Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books VI  Something for the Boys

Chair: Deidre Johnson, West Chester University


"Nice Sweater, Frank, nice sweater, Joe" - Gayly Parodying the Hardy Boys

James Gifford, Mohawk Valley Community College


Wm. S. Hart's Injun and WhiteySeries: Sentimental Stories

of a Boy and His Pet Indian

Alan Pickrell, Emeritus, Emory & Henry College


The Early Days of Youthful Motoring

John Dizer, Emeritus, Mohawk Valley Community College


Book Collectors Correspond with Edward Stratemeyer

James Keeline, San Diego, California



Conference Rm. 2

671       Composition/Rhetoric II: Rhetorics of Culture

Chair:  Danika M. Brown, University of Texas-Pan American


The Rhetoric of Motherhood

Abby Arnold, University of North Carolina-Greensboro


Sweating the Little Things in Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men

Walter Jost, University of Virginia


Angel for Hire: Wage Labor, Saving the World, and the End of Obligation

Danika M. Brown



Conference Rm. 3

672       Television in Popular Culture VI: Postmodern Theory Down the Tube

Chair: Christopher Malone, Northeastern State University

 

Imprisonment through Television

Joseph F. Brown, Auburn University

 

Coupon: The Movie (The Paper)

Ilya T. Wick, University of Madison, Wisconsin


Larry David and Homo Rhetoricus:  Contextual Freeplay in Curb Your Enthusiasm

Christopher Malone



Conference Rm. 4

673       Women's Studies IV:  Color and Culture: Women Traversing Racial, Corporeal, and Geographical Boundaries

Chair: Allison Boye, Texas Tech University


Sisters Fighting the Frontlines of Racism

Tanja Stampfl, University of New Orleans


Fat Pornography: A Legitimizing Force?

Laura Gladney-Lemon, University of Texas


Riding in Cars with Girls: Women Traveling the Asphalt Frontier

Alexandra Ganser, University of Oklahoma at Norman



Conference Rm. 5

674       Creative Writing Pedagogy II

Chair:  Laura Payne Butler, West Texas A&M University


"No woodland bloomed in spring without song": Reuniting Poetics and Rhetoric in College Composition

Stephanie Wade, Stony Brook University


Memory and the Five-Canon Poetry Writing Class

Tom C. Hunley, Western Kentucky University


Writing Center and the Creative Writing Classroom: A Match Made in Heaven or Match Play?

Laura Payne Butler



Conference Rm. 6

675       Literature & Politics VI:  The Contemporary American Novel

Chair:  Michael Manson, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia


A Quest for Agency: Cultural Politics in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams

Theda Wrede, University of Southern Carolina


Regional Flavour: The Self-Conscious Artist and the Politics of Literary Marketability in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Purna Chlowdhury, University of Ottawa


In Remembrance of Tra: The Crisis of Fordism in the Works of Hubert Shelby

Juan José Cruz, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canarias, Spain


"Regeneration Through Violence": John Nichols' American Blood

Michael Manson



Conference Rm. 7

676       Vietnam XII:  Vietnam War Films of Oliver Stone

Chair: Mitch Yamasaki, Chaminade University of Honolulu


Whom Were We Fighting?:  Depiction of American Soldiers in Oliver Stone's Platoon

Prescott Yuri, Chaminade University of Honolulu


Odyssey of a Vietnam War Veteran in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July

Andy Choor, Chaminade University of Honolulu


Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth: A Vietnamese Perspective in an American Film

Hulita Faitua, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Conference Rm. 8

677       American Prison Writing V: Teaching Inside

Chair: Stephen Steck, University of Montreal


Working as a Dramaturg and Director with Inmates

Laura Pattillo, Saint Joseph's University


Convicts as Writing Mentors for First-Year Composition Students

K. Limakatso Kendall, South Texas


Refuge Behind Clichés: Prison Profile Writing

Carolyn Kraus, University of Michigan-Dearborn


Prison Family Relationships: A Conversation

Toni K. Cyan-Brock ("wife of TDCJ#357316"), www.prisonersoflove.com



Conference Rm. 9

678       Collegiate Culture II:  Teaching Gender with/in Popular Culture

Chair: Geoff Weiss, Mt. Olive College


Using Science and Science Fiction to Question Biological Sex Dualism

Kasi Jackson, University of Houston


Exploiting the Exploiters: Using Ads and Music Videos to Teach Gender

Lisa Schroot-Mitchum, University of Kentucky


Teaching from the Margins: Personal and Pedagogical Queerness in a Conservative Classroom

Laurie Wood, Utah Valley State College


Dissonance and Homoeroticism in Eighties Action Films

Geoff Weiss



Conference Rm. 10

679       Art & Architecture XV:  Classical, Colonial, and Iconic Structures

Chair:  Derham Groves, The University of Melbourne


Shophouse City: A Cross-Cultural Survey of the Traditional Shophouse

Derham Groves


The Tower of Babel, Jack's Beanstalk and Other Icons of Technology

S. C. Kranc, University of South Florida


Isolation and Resistance: Strategies of Exhibition

Rosemarie V. Basile, Ohio University


One "Found" Dude, Two "Found" Chairs: Decontextualization, Mediated

Memories, and Researching Interiors

Chris RB Fay, University of Texas at Austin



Conference Rm. 11

680       Health Issues in Popular Culture IV: Health, Power, and Identity in American Culture

Chair: Jeannie Ludlow, Bowling Green State University


The Chill of the Law: Chiropractic, Medical Freedom, and Popular Culture

J.S. Moore, Radford University


The Misfits Who Finally Belonged:  How the Socially Unfit Became Socially Hip

Aimee Brown, The University of Texas at Dallas


Identities in Health Care: Toward a Model of Human Territoriality

John H. Sloan and Karen L. Sloan, The University of Texas at Tyler


Something Inside: Politics and the Fetus in Popular Imagery

Jeannie Ludlow



Conference Rm. 12

681       Anne Rice and Her Contemporaries I: My Vampire, Myself

Chair: Heather Surface, Bowling Green State University


AIDS and the Vampire Protagonist

Ami Marie Sommariva, The University of Kansas


The Vampire and the Red Queen: A Psychological Exploration of Blood and Darkness

Michelle Glaubiger, Sonoma State University


Vampires and the Fat Body: How Modern Vampire Tales Reinforce Fat Phobia

Heather Surface



Conference Rm. 13

682       Atomic Culture I:  Civil Defense and Containment

Chair:  Jeff Livingston, California State University, Chico


The Farmer and the Atom: The Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service and Rural Civil Defense, 1955-1970

Jenny Barker-Devine, Iowa State University


Strictly "a man's job" but with "a very domestic touch": The Culture of American Defensive Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War

Christopher John Bright, George Washington University


At Any Moment: Transitional Attitudes and Issues in Civil Defense, 1950-1955

David Burke, Auburn University

  


Conference Rm. 14

683       Grateful Dead IX:  Spirituality and the Music and Lyrics of the Grateful Dead-Panel Discussion

Chair:  Peter Sawyer, California Institute of Integral Studies


Discussants:

Julia Hardy, Muhlenberg College

Revell Carr, University of California, Santa Barbara

David Gans, Musician, Record Producer, Author

Stan Spector, Modesto Junior College



Conference Rm. 15

684       Deviance and Popular Culture III

Chair:  D. Angus Vail and Phillip Vannini, University of Victoria


Psychotropia: Medicine, Media and the Virtual Asylum

Lawrence Rubin, St. Thomas University


Graffiti Art and Deviant Youth Subcultures:  Rituals of Rebellion in East Central Europe

David Drissel, Iowa Central Community College


The Deviant Mr. Ripley

L. Scott Whitebird, Houston, Texas



Conference Rm. 16

685       Journalism & Media Culture V:  "Heritage Tourism"-Its Journalistic and Media Representations

Chair: James V. Catano, Louisiana State University


This session will feature two short video documentaries, Steel Voices: From Mills to Malls and Movies and Youngstown: Death of Steel City, USA, followed by a discussion by the four panelists.


Respondents:

James V. Catano

Charles Bane, Louisiana State University

Ashley Berthelot, Louisiana State University

Ann Glaviano, Louisiana State University



Conference Rm. 17

686       Cormac McCarthy I

Chair:  Paul Lynch, University of New Mexico


Blood Meridian and the American Sublime

Geoff Hamilton, University of Toronto


Cormac McCarthy's Definition of Manhood: A Restructuring of Patriarchy

Michael Heltgavin, Prince George's Community College in Maryland


Light as Language in Blood Meridian

Andrew Williamson, California State University, Sacramento


Bones, Fire, and War: Adaptation Theories in Blood Meridian, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Fight for the Waterhole

Benjamin Burr, Brigham Young University


"[A] witness against yourself": Confession, Judgment, and Vision in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian; or, What the Kid Saw

Zachary Dobbins, The University of Texas at Austin



Conference Rm. 18

687       Music PCA VII:  Rap

Chair:  Marti Ryan, Red Deer College


Party for Their Right to Fight!: War Party and First Nationsí Rap Music

Marti Ryan and

Karen Wall, Red Deer College


Classic Criticism, Lasting Lyrics, Real Relevance: The Intersection of the Streets of Rap and Academia

Sheryl Rinkol, Northern Arizona University


  

Conference Rm. 19

688       Geography I

Chair:  Joseph Manzo, Concord College


Teaching Australian Culture Using Elementary Popular Media (Finding Nemo)

Susan McCormack, University of Houston


The Geography of Lewis and Clark

Judy Ware, Fontbonne University


Bird Habitats and Suburban Sprawl

Joseph Manzo, Ron Canterbury, and George Towers, Concord College




SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.


Salon A

689       German Culture III:  Ostalgie I: Consuming the East?

Chair: Joseph Jozwiak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi


What is Ostalgie? The Development of a Phenomenon in Unified Germany

Sebastian Heiduschke, University of Texas at Austin


Goodbye Lenin-Welcome DDR?

Antonia Levy, CUNY, and Janine Ludwig, Humboldt University/Bard College


Ostalgie Consumption

Angelika Kraemer, and Kari Richards, Michigan State University


Commentator: Elizabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi



Salon B

690       Creative Fiction VII:  Fiction

Chair:  Constance Squires, Oklahoma State University




 

Shoveling Smoke

Stephen Garrison, University of Central Oklahoma


Broadcast Muse

Belinda Bruner, Oklahoma State University


Duck and Cover

Maria Bruno, Michigan State University


Marcie and the Lemurs

Christopher Givan, University of Central Oklahoma



Salon C

691       Native American Studies XII: Pop Medicine: Intersecting Politics and Indigenous Cosmological Frameworks

Chair:  Kimberly Roppolo, McClennan Community College

 

Popular Culture and Religion: Transformation of the Sun Dance of the Blackfeet

Blanca Tovias, University of New South Wales


Spirituality and the Politics of Diné Origins

Joseph Wilson, Michigan Technological University

 

'I Was an Indian in a Previous Lifeí: Understanding the Politics of Neoshamanism in an Era of Neocolonialism

Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, University of California at Santa Cruz

 

 

Salon D

692       Film and Film Adaptation XVIII: Spectacle and Spectator

Chair: Vincent Samarco, Saginaw Valley State University


The Traumatic Suspension as an Urban Spectacle in Phone Booth

Josephine Huang, State University of New York at Albany


Mirrors As Narrative Devices in the Films of Michael Curtiz

M. Brian Faucette, Appalachian State University


Making the Cut: Documentary Work in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath

John Smith, Clemson University


"The End of the World as We Know It," or the Remarkably Curative Powers of the American Family: Two Versions of The Ice Storm

Vincent Samarco


  

Salon F

693       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXV:  Workshop Session

Chair:  Barbara Silliman, Providence College, University of Rhode Island


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



Salon G

694       Masculinities XII and Men's Studies IV: MAMSA (Masculinities and Men's Studies Alliance) Annual Meeting

Co-Chairs: Merry G. Perry, West Chester University, and

Hartmut Heep, Pennsylvania State University, Schulykill Haven


This meeting is open to anyone interested in contemporary issues related to the expanding body of work on Masculinities and Men's Studies. Also, this forum provides an opportunity to join MAMSA (the Masculinities and Men's Studies Alliance) and to meet other members who share similar interests. We will discuss issues of interest to MAMSA members: recent scholarship in masculinities and men's studies, opportunities for shared scholarship and research, forthcoming conferences and opportunities, etc. Please bring your ideas for panels or special sessions for next year's conference. We invite you to send your suggestions for discussion or agenda inclusion to one of the Area Chairs: Merry G. Perry (mperry@wcupa.edu) OR Hartmut Heep (hxh17@psu.edu)



Salon H

695       Electronic Culture and Communications III:  New Forms:  The Arts and Electronic Culture

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


Interface Influences in Technology and Its Representation in Science Fiction

Christopher Ross, Portland State University


Hit Sluts, Page Pimps, Online Diarists and their Quest for Cyber Glory

Elizabeth Podnieks, Ryerson University


Boom-time: Pearl Jam's Cultural Capital for Sale in Hyperspace

Joshua Kupetz, Dickinson College



Salon I

696       Drama and Theatre V:  Theatre and Society: Politics, Truths, and Illusions;

Chair:  Ruth Monroe, Drury University


Hurl-ing through Customs: Irish Theatre Poses Questions Through Sport

Christie Fox, Sam Houston State University


Truth and Illusion: Can Theatre Show Us the Difference?

Bruce Partin, Roanoke College


Justice Sans Super-Hero in The Exonerated and Zoot Suit

Ruth Monroe



Salon J

697       Motorcycle Culture and Myth VII:  Motorcycling and the Self

Chair:  Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University

 

Reborn from the Ashes: Ghost Riderand the Phoenix Myth

Samantha Marsh, Texas A&M University

 

Pillion Rider Satori: A Matter of Sitting

Charlotta Koppanyi, Stockholm University

 

Women Who Ride: The Psyche of the Female Motorcyclist

Lisa Garber, Clinical Social Worker

 

Riding Through-and from-Sturgis

Jane Holwerda, Dodge City Community College

 

 

Salon K

698       Mystery/Detective Fiction V:  Quirks, Cuisine, Corpus, and Closure in Mystery/Detective Fiction

Chair:  Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University


Armchair by Candlelight: The Quirky Deductive Nature of Poe's Dupin

Eden Leone, University of Minnesota--Duluth


Really Radical Repasts: Sue Grafton's Culinary Critiques of Mainstream America

Sue Matheson, Red Deer College


The Violence of Reproduction in Lucha Corpi's Eulogy for a Brown Angel

Amy McGuff, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill


Defective Endings in Detective Stories

Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University



Salon L

699       Gender Studies II:  Gender, Feminism and the Global Woman

Chair:  Pam Butler, University of Minnesota


Ingrid Betancourt:  Challenging the System Within

Debra Marie Reynoso, Brigham Young University-Hawaii


Feminism, Representation, and Planned Parenthood's "Global" Women

Pam Butler

  


Salon M

700       Fashion, Appearance, and the Body V: Body Modifications and the Politics of Ritual 

Chair: Phillip Vannini, Washington State University


The State, the Body, and the Politics of Tattooing

Shyam Sriram, Georgia State University


To Die For:  The Seductive Power of the Tanned Body

Phillip Vannini and

Aaron M. McCright, The University of Chicago


  

Conference Rm. 1

701       Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books VII: 

Pulps and Series:  A Finale

Chair: Michelle Trim, Michigan Technological University


Strange Sisters and Deviant Dolls: Pulp Fictions of Lesbians

Melissa Sky, McMaster University


Judy Bolton: Tthe Teenage Detective with Class Consciousness

Stacy Nicklow, University of Southern Illinois


Romancing the Future: Using Modern Romance Novels to Prove Feminist Advances in American Culture

Michelle Trim


Calling All Sleuths:  The Magazine Mysteries of Sam and Beryl Epstein

Henri Achee, Houston Community College



Conference Rm. 2

702       Composition/Rhetoric III: (Cultural) Narrative in Composition

Chair:  Reid T. Sagara, California State University, Dominguez Hills


The Imaginary of Brazilian Female Artists

Maria das Vitorias Negreiras do Amaral, National Art Education Association


Complicating the Rhetoric of Cultural Narrative

Robert Affeldt, University of Texas-Pan American


Teacher-As-Cultural-Worker: A (Popular) Cultural Studies Approach to Writing Instruction

Reid T. Sagara



Conference Rm. 3

703       Video Games IV: Happiness is a Warm Controller: Shopping, Socializing, and Stealing Cars

Chair:  Nathan Garrelts, New Mexico State University at Alamagordo


Happiness is More Than the Stuff You Own: Life Lessons from The SIMS

Trenia L. Walker, University of Pittsburgh


150 Years of Chance Encounters in Poetry, Film, and Video Games

Ian Bogost, UCLA


Grand Theft Auto Vice City: Interactive Narrative, Hedonism and the Postmodern Aesthetic/Ethic

David Parry, Albany, New York


Born To Lose: Super-Powered Fatalism and Impossible Heroes in the First-Person Video Game

Mark Daley, Albany, New York



Conference Rm. 4

704       Racial Constructions and Concerns III:  Popular Culture and Education

Chair:  Amy Becker-Chambless, Texas Tech University


Racially Collaborative Writing: Finding and Destroying Offensive Likenesses on Paper

George Steele, Loyola Marymount University


Patriotic Paternalism and the War in Afghanistan: Media (Un)Coverage of Afghan Women After 9/11

Gwen Bergner, West Virginia University


Yo! Asians in the House: Asian American Hip Hop and the Spoken Word

Allison Adah Johnson, Occidental College



Conference Rm. 5

705       Creative Writing Pedagogy III

Chair:  Michael S. Kula, Rollins College


Writing to Grow: The Corderian Theory of Teaching Voice and Ethos

Nahal Rodieck, University of Arizona


Writing the Three Minute Play

Bettye Givens, Paris American Academy


Teaching the Short Play in the Creative Writing Classroom

Michael S. Kula



Conference Rm. 6

706       Literature & Politics VII:  Writers Reading from Their Works

Chair: George Moore, Area Chair, Literature and Politics


Reuben Ellis, writer and author of Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of NeoImperialism (U of Wisconsin) and Stories and Stone: Writing the Anasazi Homeland (Pruett Press);  Prescott College


Christopher Grimes, author of the forthcoming Public Works: Short Fiction, Very Short Fiction & A Novella from Fiction Collective 2; University of New Orleans


Linda Dove, poet and winner of the Alice Longan Award for Regional Southwest Writing; Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona


George Moore, poet and author of Headhunting and The Petroglyphs at Wedding Rocks (Edwin Mellen Press); University of Colorado



Conference Rm. 7

707       Local Film Exhibition and Theater Preservation I:  Film Exhibition: Contributing to Culture, Community, and Commerce

Chair:  Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University


The Rise and Fall of the Allen Empire: Movie Exhibition in Canada, 1906-23

Robert M. Seiler, University of Calgary


More Than Moving Pictures: Film Exhibition in 1930s Stillwater, Oklahoma

Deborah Carmichael



Conference Rm. 8

708       Presidential Panel on Teaching Popular Culture


This panel will explore creating and teaching specialized courses in popular culture.


Participants include:


Creating an On-Line Popular Culture Course

Lynn Bartholome, Monroe Community College, and President, Popular Culture Association


Creating and Teaching a Course in American Popular Culture

Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University; Past President, Popular Culture Association; and Editor, The Journal of Popular Culture


Teaching a Popular Culture Course as if it Were a Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting

Dennis Shaw, Miami Dade Community College and Florida International University


Following the presentations, there will be an extended question and answer period.



Conference Rm. 9

709       Leadership and Leadership Studies I

Chair:  Patrick E. White, Saint Mary's College


Leadership and Diversity:  Hidden Assumptions

Therese Hoffman, Lourdes College


Don't Hate Us Because We Are Popular:  Leadership Studies vs. Popular Culture

Tim Blessing, Alvernia College


Men of the Oval Office:  Puzzles and Paradoxes of the Presidency

Becky Smith, York College of Pennsylvania


Why Herd Cats?: Metaphors of Academic Leadership

Patrick E. White



Conference Rm. 10

710       American Art and Architecture XV:  Architecture Roundtable

Chair:  Gaylord Richardson, School of Arch. & Urban Design, University of Kansas


American Spatial Concepts

Gaylord Richardson


Palladianism Persists, Even in America

Rene Diaz, University of Kansas


Architecture for a Post-Urban Culture

Phillippe Barriere, University of Kansas

  


Conference Rm. 11

711       Culture and Religion III

Chair:  Ingrid Shafer, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma


Progressive Christianity and Evangelism:  A Communication Strategy

L. Keith Williamson, Wichita State University


Evangelicals and the Movies: A Study of Christianity Today

Shanny Luft, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Globalization and Identity of the Iranian Youth: Rupture or Transformation?

Seyed Masoud Mousavi Shafaee, Tehran University


Heathen not Savages: Images of Indigenous Chinese in Women's Missionary Magazines, 1869-1895

Janet Rice McCoy, University of North Texas



Conference Rm. 12

712       Anne Rice and Her Contemporaries II:  Anne Rice's Blood Canticle--Roundtable Discussion

Chairs/Discussants:  Joseph F. Ceccio and William A. Francis, University of Akron


Has Anne Rice really come to the end of her vampires and witches series?  This roundtable discussion will explore how well her latest novel Blood Canticle may serve to conclude both series.  Expect a lively mix of perspectives, relevant film clips, and numerous opportunities for audience participation.



Conference Rm. 13

713       Atomic Culture II:  The Atomic Imagination

Chair:  Scott Zeman, New Mexico Tech


Joshua Lederberg, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and the Fate of Life on Earth

Matthew Aberman, University of California, Santa Barbara


Nuclear Tourism and the Manhattan Project

Jenna Berger, University of Houston


Atomic Composition

Linda Ruth Harris, University of Maryland


The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: The Day Afterand the Resurgence of the Cold War

Aubrey Underwood, Georgia State University



Conference Rm. 14

714       Grateful Dead X:  Musical and Mythical Perspectives on the Grateful Dead

Chair:  Natalie Dollar, Oregon State University-Cascades


Music and Excitement: Buildups in the Music of the Grateful Dead

Mark Mattson & Charles Jacobus, Fordham University


That Old Time X-Factor: Contra Dance, Community, and Transcendence in the 21st Century

Revell Carr, University of California, Santa Barbara


Songs of the Dead: Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey

Lans Smith, Midwest State University

  

Music, Myth and the Grateful Dead Experience

Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters



Conference Rm. 15

715       Non-Fiction Writing I

Chair:  Dan Jones, Texas A&M International University


Huey Long's My First Days in the White House:  The Fascist Ambitions of an American Duce?

Philip Dubuisson Castille, Eastern Washington University


Codes and Ciphers:  The Pursuit vs. Concealment of Knowledge

Erin Hodgess, University of Houston-Downtown, and

Dan Jones



Conference Rm. 16

716       Photography: West and Southwest Culture and Visions

Chair:  Mario A. Herrera, Arts and Letters, San Antonio, Texas


THINKING BIG:  Contrasting Ansel Adamsí Parmelian Prints and His National parks Photographs

Rebecca Senf, Boston University


Sinaloa, Mexico:  A Fruitful Land with a Strong Will

Marco Antonio Santos-Ayala Acuna, Workshop Languages Institute School Director, Cuilacan, Sinaloa, Mexico


Western Views. History, Geography Written with Photos:  Crossover Views Scenes: Still Frames, Film, Video Tape-Infinite Opulence: Visions are Elegant

Mario Alberto Herrera



Conference Rm. 17

717       Cormac McCarthy II

Chair:  Paul Lynch, University of New Mexico


"Dont leave a dog alive if you can help it": Blood Meridian as Heroic Epic

Nicholas Lawrence, Texas A & M University


The Strange Power of Scars in All the Pretty Horses

Ruben Espinosa, University of Colorado at Boulder


Blood Meridian and American Pragmatism

Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Bath Spa University College


The Esoteric Popular, Cormac McCarthy, Zane Grey and the Virtual Transformations of Popular Culture

Allan Bourassa, St. Thomas University


Green Blood: Late Twentieth-Century Environmental Discourse in McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Cory Shaman, University of Mississippi



Conference Rm. 18

718       Folk and Protest Music

Chair:  Christopher Smith, Texas Tech University


The Strange Career of "Olí Man River"

Matthew Brown, UNC-Chapel Hill


Red Country

Jesse Drew, University of California, Davis


Riot Grrrl:  From the Margins to the Mainstream

Angela Simonson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


Alan Lomax, Folk Music, and the Romantic Politics of Race

Patrick B. Mullen, Ohio State University



Conference Rm. 19

719       Geography II

Chair:  John Morgan, Emory and Henry College


Bottom of the Harbor:  Staten Island as Liminal Space

James A. Kaser, Archivist, The College of Staten Island/CUNY


Expanding the Basement:  Self-Storage Facilities in Cincinnati

Lawrence Rasche and Macel M. Wheeler, Northern Kentucky University


The New River in Cyberspace

John Morgan

  



SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.



Salon A

720       German Culture IV: Ostalgie II: Writing (and Thinking) the East

Chair: Claude Desmarais, York University


Anti-Ostalgie: Answering the Kitsch Trend of Ostalgie

Anne Hector, University of Massachusetts, Amherst


The Wall in Our Minds? Recent (Re)Assessments of East German Politics and Culture

Elizabeth Mermann-Jozwiak and Joseph Jozwiak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi


Choosing a History: Kunst in der DDR

Heather E. Mathews, University of Texas at Austin


Commentators:  Antonia Levy, CUNY, and Janine Ludwig, Humboldt University/Bard College



Salon B

721       Creative Writing X

Chair: Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College - Port Arthur


Carol Lattimore, Texas Christian University

Larry Harper, Utah Valley State College

Millard Dunn, McKendree College-Louisville Centers

Deno P. Trakas, Wofford College

  


Salon D

722       Film and Film Adaptation XIX: Women Making Movies (WMM) Special Screening

Moderator: Chris George, Educational Marketing Coordinator for WMM



Salon I

723       Drama and Theatre VI:  The Texas Revolution:  A Performance Piece

Chair:  Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Martin Methodist College


Staging a Rebellion: The Texas Revolution in American Drama

Jim Lile, Texas A&M University-Commerce



Salon J

724       Motorcycle Culture and Myth VIII:  Motorcycling and Sexuality

Chair:  Barbara Joans, Merritt College


Queer Borderlands Moto Imagery

Gary L. Kieffner, University of Texas at El Paso


Femme Butch Desire and Biker Babe Mythos

Susan McCully, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and

Martha Marinara, University of Central Florida


Girl on a Motorcycle

Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University



Salon L

725       Gender Studies III:  Gender in the 21st Century: The More It Changes, The More We Stay the Same

Chair:  Meredith Guthrie, Bowling Green State University


The Playboy and the Centerfold:  Gender Images in Playboy Magazine

Angie Kirby-Calder, University of Houston


The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same:  Sexual & Societal Restrictions in the Harlequin Romance

Susan Hopkirk, Auburn University


Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1: A Surprisingly Feminist Film

Sara Netzley, Southern Illinois University


Britney Spears: 21st Century Lolita in Rolling Stone

Meredith Guthrie



Conference Rm. 1

726       Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books VIII: 

Joel Cadbury and Business and Organizational Meeting

Chair:  Alan Pickrell, Emeritus, Emory & Henry College


Howard R. Garis and His Newspaper Bedtime Stories:

The Case of The St. Louis Star

Joel Cadbury, Cornell University



Conference Rm. 2

727       Composition/Rhetoric IV: New Media, New Assignments

Chair:  Carlos Salinas, University of Texas-San Antonio


The Hospitality of Biometrics: Kairos, Embodiment, and the Marketing of Biometrics to Public School Lunch Cafeterias

Michael Harker, University of Oklahoma


Pre-Empting Plagiarisim: Academic Assignments for First Year Composition

Tracey M. Gau, University of North Texas


The End of the Outside World or the Sedentarization of Real Time: Putting Movement into the Third Horizon.

Robert Leston, University of Texas-Arlington


Iconology Reconsidered: Rhetoric and the Cultural Significance of New Media Icons

Carlos Salinas



Conference Rm. 3

728       Video Games V: The Long and Winding Video Game: Narrative and Intertextuality

Chair:  Nathan Garrelts, New Mexico State University at Alamagordo


The Death of Story? Narratology and Online Gaming

Kerry Blasingim, Southern Illinois University


Computer Games and the Electronic Future of Narratology

Will Slocombe, University of Wales, Aberystwyth


Disappearing Walls and Collapsing Floors: Teaching the Visual Intertext in Electronic Games

Mark Mullen, The George Washington University


Video Slasher: The Appeal of Shounen-ai and Yaoi

Sandra Watson, University of Arkansas-Monticello, and

Stephanie Watson, University of Arkansas-Monticello



Conference Rm. 4

729       Racial Constructions and Concerns IV:  Special Session: "The House We Live In" from RACE - The Power of an Illusion

Chair:  Amy Becker-Chambless, Texas Tech University



Conference Rm. 7

730       Local Film Exhibition and Theater Preservation II:  The "Boundaries" of Film Exhibition Space

Chair:  Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University


"In Our Case Segregation is Obligatory . . . ":  Interstate Theatres of Texas and the Segregation Issue, 1954-1963

Ron Wilson, University of Kansas


"A Revolutionary Concept in Screen Entertainment": The Emergence of the Twin Movie Theatre, 1962-1964

Christofer Meissner, Minnesota State University-Moorhead


Reconsidering the "Site-Specificity" of Expanded Cinema

Andrew V. Uroskie, San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley



Conference Rm. 9

730B       Advertising I:  I Buy, Therefore I Am: Shopping as an American Pastime

Chair: Sanjukta Ghosh, Castleton State College


The Secret's Out: The Business of Lingerie and the Construction of a Feminine Heaven

Chelsea Robitaille and Marsy Tellier, Castleton State College


Pinching Penneys: Shopping at America's Favorite Department Store

Sean O'Brien, Castleton State Colleges



Conference Rm. 11

731       Culture and Religion IV

Chair:  Ingrid Shafer, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma


Religious Schools and Cultural Change: A Catholic School Example I

Richard Ognibene, Siena College


Religious Schools and Cultural Change: A Catholic School Example II

Elaine Ognibene, Siena College


"Everything Will Be All Right": God, Angels, and Reconciliation in Andrew Greeley's Contract with an Angel

Warren McWilliams, Oklahoma Baptist University


Objectifying the Quest:  The Virgin Mary as Self

Rebekah Hamilton, The University of Texas-Pan American



Conference Rm. 12

732       Anne Rice III: Vampires and Witches, Oh My!

Chair: Kay Rout, Michigan State University


Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? Rowan Mayfair's Struggle

Tiffany P. Porter, Texas A&M University-Kingsville


Fallacious Immortality: Ayesha and Akasha, Queens of the Damned: H. Rider Haggard and Anne Rice

Abigail Bowers, Texas A&M University


The Vampire Within Us All

Christi Nicole Cruz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville


The End of the Line: Anne Rice's Three Families

Kay Rout



Conference Rm. 13

733       Atomic Culture III:  Atomic Images and Icons

Chair:  Scott Zeman, New Mexico Tech


Atomic Comics: Spiderman

Peter Allon Schmidt, Jr., University of Minnesota


The Stamped History of the Nuclear Age

Igor Drovenikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for History of Science and Technology


Half-Lives: Everyday Ephemera of the Nuclear Era

Mick Broderick, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia


"Taking Hell's Measurements": Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines and the Atomic Bomb from Hiroshima to Bikini

Scott Zeman, New Mexico Tech



Conference Rm. 14

734       Grateful Dead XI:  Spirit and The Grateful Dead "X-Factor": Finding It in Today's Music-Panel Discussion

Chair:  Gary Burnett, Florida State University


Discussants:

David Gans, Record Producer, Author, Musician

Revell Carr, University of California - Santa Barbara

Melinda Belleville, University of Kentucky

Jim Tuedio, California State University - Stanislaus



Conference Rm. 15

735       Non-Fiction Writing II

Chair:  Chris Birchak, University of Houston-Downtown


The Court of Last Resort

Chris Birchak


Hell Never Welcomed Two More Kindly Souls: Apostasy in Harry Middleton's The Earth is Enough

Kenneth Hada, East Central University, Oklahoma


Glimpses of Cuba: Pico Iyer's "An Elegiac Carnival" and Buena Vista Social Club

Kathleen Collins Beyer, Framingham State College



Conference Rm. 16

736       Photography I: Photographs to Represent Dynamic Relationships Between Nature and Policy Makers

Chair: Paul Hightower, Indiana State University


Samy Anderson, Indiana State University

Joe Tenerelli, Indiana State University

Paul Hightower



Conference Rm. 17

737       Cormac McCarthy III

Chair:  Paul Lynch, University of New Mexico


Spectatorship and Discrepant Awareness in The Border Trilogy

Richard Wallach


Gnostic Ecology in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark

Dianne Luce, Midlands Technical College


"[I]nto a night more dolorous": Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark as Absurd Phenomenon

Bill Prather, North Georgia College and State University


Huck in the Waste Land:  What Can Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reveal about Cormac McCarthy's Suttree?

Leslie Worthington, Auburn University


"Books lie": Taking Charge of the Rhetoric of Blood Meridian

Paul Lynch



Conference Rm. 18

738

  


SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 6:15 - 8:00 p.m.


Salon D

739       Film and Film Adaptation XX: Women Making Movies (WMM) Special Screening (continued from 4:30 p.m.)

Moderator: Chris George, Educational Marketing Coordinator for WMM




SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 8:15 - 9:45 p.m.


Salon F

740       Science Fiction/Fantasy XXVI:  Saturday Night Party/Movie

Introduction:  Barbara Silliman, Providence College, University of Rhode Island


A showing of the film The Forbidden Planet.



TBA

741       Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections XII:  Party


On Saturday evening in PCA President Lynn Bartholome's suite.  This will be announced