Friday 12 Noon
191 PCA
Visit to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Guillermo de los Reyes and Paul Rich
will lead a tour of the Grand Lodge building, only three or four minutes from
the hotel and considered to be one of the most bizarrely decorated and ornate
secret society temples in the world. Meet by conference registration desk at
12 noon.
192 PCA
ACADEMICS III
Chair: Arlene Caney
Walking tour of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with Michael Salvato. From City
Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Benjamin Frankln Parkway reflects
the Citys version of the Champs dElysee. Some of the areas
most interesting architecture and sculpture line this important route. participants
will take a walking tour while discussing the Parkways most interesting
sights. Approximate time of the tour is one hour.
Michael Salvato, Art, Comm. College of Philadelphia. Contact msalvato@ccp.cc.pa.us
Friday 12:302:00 PM
193 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Racing
Chair: David Thompson, 1807 NW 104th St., Clive, IA 50325.
Never Private, Always Public: Racing Families and NASCARs Media
Microscope. Mark D. Howell, Comm., Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse
City, MI 49686.
The Reconstruction of Southern Masculinity: NASCAR in the Movies.
Wanda Ellen Wakefield, History, SUNY College, Brockport, NY 14420.
Dangerous Intersection Ahead: Figure 8 Racing at the Warren County (Iowa)
Fairgrounds. David Turbo Thompson.
194 PCA Room 310
DIME NOVELS
Chair: James D. Keeline, 5707 Spartan Dr., San Diego, CA 92115.
Howard R. Garis, Columbia University, and the Mother Goose Debate of 1929.
Joel Service Cadbury, 1240 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.
Villains in the Stories of Howard R. Garis. John T. Dizer, Jr.,
10332 Ridgecrest, Utica, NY.
Edward Stratemeyer, Correspondent and Art Critic: The Illustrators of
Stratemeyer Syndicate Books Issued between 1905 and 1940. James D. Keeline.
195 ACA/PCA Room 401
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: Writing the CV; Handling the Interview
Chair: Peter Rollins, PCA/ACA, Rt. 3, Box 80, Cleveland, OK 74020.
David Sokol, Art History, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607.
196 PCA Room 402
DISABILITY STUDIES
Chair: Lori Kelly, English & Womens Studies, Carroll College, Waukesa,
WI 53186.
Frankenstein Meets the Elephant Man: A Marxist Reading of Freaks and Freaker.
Cindy La Com, English, Slippery Rock U, Slippery Rock, PA 16052.
Disneys Hunchback of Notre Dame as Disability Narrative. Lori
Kelly.
A Holistic Perspective on Medical Models in Girl under Fire.
Ann Cook, Nursing, Carroll College, Waukesa, WI 53186.
197 ACA Room 403
JOURNALISM & MEDIA CULTURE: Media Wavelengths & Social Consumption
Chair: Joshua Gunn, Speech-Comm., U of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis,
MN 55455
Digitally Disseminating the Holocaust: Can Electronic Media Trans-form
Academic Debate? David E. Beard, Rhetoric, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Voting at the Speed of Contradiction: Peoples Views of Internet
Voting. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Annenberg School for Comm., U of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19104.
The Enduring Popularity of Advice Columns in American Journalism.
David Gudelunas, Annenberg School of Comm., U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104.
Prime Time Satanism: Stock Footage and the Death of Modern Occultism.
Joshua Gunn.
198 PCA Room 404
LIBRARIES & POPULAR CULTURE: Popular Cultures Effects on Libraries
Chair: Allen Ellis, Steely Library, Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY
41099.
The Popular Idea of Multiculturalism and its Influence on U.S. Govern-ment
Publications. David Horvath and Rachel Ann Augello, Ekstom Library, U
of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
Popular Culture in the Library Exhibit Case. Emilie C. White, Missis-sippi
State University Libraries, Mississippi State U, Mississippi State, MS 39762.
Library Latte: The Online Coffeeshop Bookstore Idea Now Brewing at Michigan
State University Library. Courtney L. Holton, Michigan State University
Libraries, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
199 Room 405
AMERICAN HISTORY: CULTURE & POWER
Chair: Frank Towers, History, Colorado State U, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
Commercialized American Public Entertainment: P.T. Barnum and Mass Entertainment.
John Springhall, History, Philosophy & Politics, U of Ulster, Coleraine
BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
W.E.B. Du Boiss Fight against the Bell Curve. Chris Leslie,
1711 8th Ave. #3, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
The American Ideal: A Story of Splendor and Squalor. Philip C. DiMare,
California State U, Roseville, CA 95661.
Wall to Wall America: Mural Art Narratives for the People, by the People.
Gulrig Buken, American Studies, Bilkent U, Ankara, Turkey.
200 PCA Room 406
GLOBAL IDEAS, VALUES, & HUMAN RIGHTS
Chair: Ray B. Browne, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
Borders to the Globalization of Human Rights. Raja Jayaraman, Sociology
& Anthropology, U of Western Sydney, MacQrthur, Sydney, Australia.
Idea and Value Exchange Worldwide: American Culture in the World.
Margaret J. King and Jamie OBoyle, Cultural Studies, 1123 Montrose St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19147.
Increase in the Number of American Culture Studies in the Last Decade
in Turkey. Ayse Kirtune, American Studies, Ege U, Izmir, Turkey.
201 ACA Room 407
POPULAR AMERICAN AUTHORS: Women & Lit.
Chair: Olivia Pass, General Studies, Nicholls State U, Thibodaux, LA 70310.
A New Level of Understanding: Myth and the Woman in Fiction. Jackie
Jackson, Lang. & Lit., Nicholls State U, Thibodaux, LA 70310.
The Lewinsky Phenomenon: Exploring Feminine Identity in Sylvia Plath,
Joyce Carol Oates, and Beyond. Erin ONeill, Humanities, ABAC 20,
Abraham-Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA 31794.
Sula Peace: Morrisons Hester Prynne? Michele Theriot, Lang.
& Lit., Nicholls State U, Thibodaux, LA 70310.
Hester Prynne: American Literatures First Woman to Run with the
Wolves. Olivia Pass.
202 PCA Room 408
GAY & LESBIAN: AIDS & Cultural Discourse
Chair: A.E. Kurth, German Literature, Sidney Sussex College, Cam-bridge, UK
Power and Pedagogy: Homosexual Identity and the Meaning(s) of AIDS Science.
Sean Kelly, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
The Dialectics of Defiance: David Wojnarowicxs Sex Series
(1988-89) and the AIDS Imaginary. Ara Hagop Merjian, Art, UC-Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94704.
The Cover Encounter: German Aspects of Gay Culture and AIDS. Astrid
E. Kurth.
Senior Seminar on AIDS in Contemporary Culture. Cherelyn Bush, English,
West Chester U, Chester, PA.
203 PCA Room 409
THE HOLOCAUST & THREE MEMORABLE CHOICES
Chair: Daniel Walden, Penn State U.
Bernard Malamuds Women: The Holocausts Forgotten People.
Evelyn Avery, Towson State U.
William Styorons Sophies Choice, A Reviewing. Rhoda
Sirlin, Queens College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
What Did Philip Roth Have to Say on the Holocaust? Daniel Walden.
204 ACA Room 410
NATIVE AMERICAN DRAMA may run over from last time slot.
205 PCA/ACA Room 411
RADIO: LOW POWER & THE COMMUNITYS ROLE IN COLLEGE RADIO
Chair: Robert Lochte, Mass Comm., Murray State U, Murray, KY 42071.
Legalized Free Radio: A Look at the Agenda of LPFM. Steven Dick
and Walter McDowell, Radio/TV, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, IL 62901.
Low Power FM: An Update. Jerry Donnelly, Mass Comm., Northwest Missouri
State U, Maryville, MO 64468.
Micro Radio Activists Confront FCC Policy through Comments on the Low
Power FM Radio Service Proposal. Andy Opel, 301B Westview, Carrboro, NC
27510.
206 PCA Room 412
AN ANNE RICE MISCELLANY
Chair: Kay Rout, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48823
Women and Vampires: Melodrama, Sympathy and Self. Milly Williamson,
Cultural Studies, U of North London, London, England N5 2AD.
Isolation versus Community among Vampires. Patricia Julius, ATL,
Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48823.
Anne Rices Merrick: Its Place in Her Work. Kathleen Rout.
207 PCA Room 413
CULTURAL CONFLICT & WOMEN: International Issues
Chair: Wenxin Li, English Lang. Studies, SUNY, Old Westbury, NY 11568.
Chitra Divakaruni: Women of India. Erangee Kumarage, English, Lehigh
U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
Women of Vile Condition: Catholic Campaigns against the Modern
Women in Mexico City, 1940-1960. Rodney R. Alvarez, History, U of
Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816.
Women in Conflict with All Cultures. Martina Sanchez, 482 W. San
Ysidro Blvd., #1850, San Ysidro, CA 92173.
Too American: Politics, Pop Culture, and Postmodernism in
Jessica Hagedorns Dogeaters. Denise Rodriguez, 129 Pennsylvania
Ave., Ocean Grove, NJ 07756.
208 Room 414
MUSICALS
Chair: Richard M. Goldstein, Fine Arts, Michigan Tech. U, Houghton, MI 49931.
Colorblind Casting in the Musical. Paula Marie Seniors, Ethnic Studies,
U of California, San Diego, CA.
The Capeman: Reconsidering the Flop. Channa Newman, 6542 Dalzell
Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.
The Musical Films of Frank Sinatra. Lisa R. Schneider, Comm. Skills,
Columbus State Comm. College, Columbus, OH 43215.
Musicals, Film to Stage. Richard M. Goldstein.
209 PCA Room 415
TRAVEL: Traveling in Postmodernity
Chair: Jon Volkmer, English, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA 19426.
Desiring Natures: Ecofeminism and Extreme Adventure Travel Writ-ing.
Kristin Jacobson, English, Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA 16802.
The Exiles Paradigm in Bill Brysons Travels. Maria del
Pino Santana Quintana, Calle Nestor de la Torre 27 30 C, 35006 Palmas de la
Gran Canaria, Spain.
Climbing Mount Everest: A New Breed of Tourist. Jolie A. Sheffer,
U of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Old Colonials vs. New Economies: Blurring Borders in the Postmodern Postnation
State Euro-transitional Era. Jon Volkmer.
210 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: Reading Boston
Chairs: Cheryl Nixon, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 02457.
Reading Fenway: The Art of Baseball and Culture of Boston. Alec
Marsh, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104.
The Boston Public Library: Public Learning and the Arts. Cheryl
Nixon.
Monument to the Consuming Self: Bostons Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum. A. Hildegard Hoeller, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 02457.
211 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: Can Bloodshed Lead to Justice?
Chair: Deane Mansfield-Kelley, English, U of Texas, El Paso, TX 79968.
Accumulating Violence in Dana Stabenows Kate Shugak Series.
Amy Hausser, 2916 Stratford Rd., Columbia, SC 29204.
Distributive Justice: Truth and Accountability in James Lee Burkes
Purple Cane Road. Barbara Bogue, English, Ball State U, Muncie, IN.
Margin of Error: The Pattern of Violence in the Travis McGee Novels.
Robert N. Funk, Louisiana State U, PO Box 1129, Eunice, LA 70535.
Flying the Black Flag: James Burke, Dave Robichaux and the
Viet Nam War. Deane Mansfield-Kelley.
212 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Marginalization of the War
Chair: Marc Jason Gilbert, History, North Georgia College and State U, Dahlonega,
GA 30597
Old Wars Never Die.... Dale Ritterbusch, Lang & Lit, U of Wisconsin,
Whitewater, WI 53190.
Things Change, or Do They?: A Study of Attitudes Toward Media Coverage
of the War and Its Veterans. Oscar Patterson, III, Comm. & Visual
Arts, U of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224.
In Pharoahs Scriptorium: Representations of the Lost War
in Vietnam in Post-War American Historical Writing. Marc Jason Gilbert.
213 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Organizing from the Roots
Chair: Michael Washington, History & Geography, Northern Kentucky U, Highland
Heights, KY 41099.
The Dynamic of the Reparations Movement on African American Culture.
Onaje Muid, 167 William St., Englewood, NJ 07631.
Historically Black Colleges and Black Popular Culture. Thomas Earl
Midgette, Inst. for Study of Minority Issues, North Carolina Central U, Durham,
NC.
Parallel Education, Leadership Development and Black Youth: Models of
Effectiveness in Cincinnati, Ohio, During the 2nd Half of the 20th Century.
Rodney Daniels and Michael Washington.
214 Salon E
IN CELEBRATION OF EMILY TOTH
Chair: Susan Koppelman, Tucson, AZ.
Walking the Red Brick Road: My Journey with Emily Toth. Mary Jane
Lupton, English, Morgan State U, Baltimore, MD 21210.
Rediscovering the Lost: Emily Toth and the Reclamation of Kate Chopin.
Suzanne Disheroon Green, Lang. & Comm., Northwestern State U, Natchitoches,
LA 71497.
Gossip, Exposure, and Exemplary Help. Sally Mitchell, English, Temple
U, Philadelphia, PA.
215 PCA Salon F
FILM: Women in FilmGender, Race, & Class
Chair: Karen Beardslee, 297 Park Ave., Cinnaminson, NJ 08077.
Race and Class in Possessed, Duel in the Sun and Salt of the Earth.
Chris Robe, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
From Mammies to Action Heroines: Female Empowerment in Black Popular Cinema.
Yvonne Sims, PO Box 146, Hopkins, SC 29061.
The Commodification of Latinidad in Hollywood Films Featuring Jennifer
Lopez and Salma Hayek. Isabel Molina, Annenberg School of Comm., U of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19147.
Archetypally Yours: The Failure of the New Neo-Womans Film.
Carolyn F. Segal, Humanities, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18017.
216 PCA Salon G
SF/F: Matters of Race
Chair: James Hissom, English, Institute of Tech., West Virginia U, Montgomery,
WV 25136.
Space Ships and Slave Ships: The Middle Passage in the Twentieth-Century.
Amy Anu-Birge, English, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
The Phantasmagoric in American Enslavement Narratives: Octavia Butler
Meets Ishmael Reed. Chezia Thompson-Cager, Maryland Inst., College of
Art, Baltimore, MD 21217.
There Goes the Neighborhood: Resistance and Apocalypse in Los Angeles.
Jacob Leland, English & American Lit., Brown U, Provi-dence, RI 02912.
The Innsmouth Look: Race, Narrativity, and Paranoid Process in the Late
Horror Fantasy of H.P. Lovecract. James Hissom.
217 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: Group Representation in Comics
Chair: Paul P. Somers, Jr., ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Victims, Villains, and Victors: Construction of Children and Teenagers
in American Superhero Comic Narratives. Anne Edwards, 1 Anders Close,
Aldersbrook Rd., Wanstead, London E11 3RZ, England.
The Image of Blacks in Underground Commix; New Liberal Agenda or Same
Racist Stereotypes? Bill Foster, Arts & Humanities, Naugatuck Valley
Comm. College, Waterbury, CT 06708.Reflections on Social Inequality in
American Society: Social Structure, Identity Politics, and the Uncanny X-Men.
Kelley Hall, Sociology & Anthropology, DePauw U, Greencastle, IN 46135.
The Humor of the Old Soutwest and the Comics. Paul P. Somers, Jr.
218 PCA Salon I
LITERATURE & VISUAL ARTS: Hamlet at the Movies
Chair: Beth Brunk, Writing Program, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
Th observd of all observers: Faces of Hamlet.
Eugene Saxe, English, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 80217.
These pursy times: Almereydas Hamlet. James Aubrey,
English, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 80217.
Actions that a man might play: Jungian Perspectives on Masculinity
in Hamlet. Steve Davis, 16 Chiles Ave., Asheville, NC 28803.
219 PCA Salon J
CIRCUSES & CIRCUS CULTURE
Chair: Robert Sugarman, Southern Vermont College, Shaftsbury, VT 05262.
The American Circus: Past and Future. Fred D. Pfening III, 1075
W. Fifth Ave., Columbus, OH 43212.
Animals, Entrepeneurs, and the Market. Brett Mazille, History, Cali-fornia
State U, Long Beach, CA 90840.
Youth Circus Training: A Phenomenological Look at Fern Street Circus.
Doyle Ott, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ 85280.
Clowns for the New Circus. Robert Sugarman.
220 PCA Salon K
TELEVISION HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, & CULTURAL FORM
Chair: Louis Scheeder, Drama, Tisch School, New York U, New York, NY 10003.
Televisions Repetition and Difference: 6mhz Channels and 535 Lines/
30 Frames Per Sec. Catherine E. Celebrezze, Sociology, New School of Social
Research, New York, NY.
The Performance of Containment. Louis Scheeder.
Minows Wasteland: How Vast Is It Now? Paul Campbell, LeMoyne
College, Syracuse, NY.
Big Brother Net-Works. June Deery, LL&C, Rensellaer Polytechnic
Inst., Schenectady, NY.