Friday 2:304:00 PM
224 ACA Room 307
CEMETERIES & GRAVEMARKERS
Chair: J. Joseph Edgette, School of Human Service Professions, Widener U, Chester,
PA 19013.
Early American Epitaphs of Death from Childbirth. Brenda Malloy,
PO Box 256, Westminster, MA 01473.
Epitaphs Reflecting Early American Diseases. Thomas A. Malloy, Mount
Wachusett Comm. College, Gardner, MA 01440.
Black December: The Monongah Explosion. Richard A. Sauers, Leanape
Investment Corp., PO Box 724, Morrisville, PA 19067.
Nearer My God to Thee: R.M.S. Titantics Victims.
J. Joseph Edgette.
225 PCA Room 308
BUSINESS/CORPORATE CULTURE: The Corporate Aesthetic
Chair: James Livingston, History, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Working, Spending, and Failing to Acquire the American Dream:
Redefining Success in the Late 19th Century. Jocelyn A. Wills, History,
Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 11210.
Consolidation and Consequence: The Corporate Vision of Henry Adams and
John Dewey. J. Patrick Linder, History, U of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Qualified Solidarity: The Strained Ethics of Co-Operative Capitalism.
Timothy B. Thering, History, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
Good Things for Good Living: Esquire and the Marketing of Mass Sophistication.
Stefan K. Cieply, Comp. Lit., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
TBA. James Livingston.
226 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Race
Chair: Joe Dorinson, Political Science/History, Long Island U, Brook-lyn, NY
11201.
A Mirror of Our Soul: Baseball Icons and Civil Rights. Ernest Strom-
230 ACA Room 403
JOURNALISM & MEDIA CULTURE
Chair: Tom Mascaro, Telecomm., BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
Rewriting Local Television News: Promoting Innovation in a Small Media
Market. Jimmie L. Reeves, School of Mass Comm., Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
79410.
For Entertainment Purposes Only? An Analysis of the Struggle to Control
Filmic Representations. Reba L. Chaisson, PurdueNorth Central, Westville,
IN 46391.
The Falsifiable Connection between the Upper Class, News Discourse, and
the Dominant Ideology. Fred Schiff, Comm., U of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.
An Analysis of the Transitional Period from Serious Documentaries to Celebrity
Newsmagazines. Tom Mascaro.
231 PCA Room 404
LIBRARIES & POPULAR CULTURE: Research Collections
Chair: Allen Ellis, Steely Library, Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY
41099.
Advertising as a Resource for Popular Culture Studies: The Hartman Center
at Duke University. Ellen G. Gartrell, Duke U Library, Durham, NC 27708.
Political Americana: The Politics and Popular Culture of Campaign Memorabilia.
Susan Szasz Palmer, Kroch Library, Cornell U, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Blood from a Turnip and Other Culinary Quandries: The Road
to Creating a Juvenile Cookery Collection. Roger C. Adams, Hale Library,
Kansas State U, Manhattan, KS 66506.
The University of Michigans African American Music Collection: Step
Two. William Shea, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, U of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
232 Room 405
CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION: Wartime Rhetoric & Post-war Literature
Chair: Mary Frances Hodges, Rhetoric & Writing, U of Arkansas, Little Rock,
AR 72204.
The Thetoric of Vallanginghams 1863 Ohio Gubernatorial Campaign.
Susan Hall, Independent Scholar and Author, c/o Dennis Hall, English, U of Louisville,
Louisville, KY.
What Happens When There Really Is a Conspiracy: Representations
of the KKK, KGC, and OAK in Conspiracy Theory Literature. Elaine Parsons,
History, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI 54901.
A Lost Opportunity: The Portrayal of African Americans and Slavery in
the Wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Childrens Periodicals.
Leslie Miller, History, U of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
The Rhetoric of Reconstruction in Arkansas History Textbooks. Mary
Frances Hodges.
233 PCA Room 406
BORDER CULTURE
Chair: Isaiah Smithson, English Lang. & Lit., Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville,
IL 62025.
Real and Cultural Borders Which Reflect Tension between Canadians
and Quebeckers, English and French. Melissa Clark-Jones, Sociology &
Anthropology, Bishops U, Lennoxville, PQ, Canada JIM 127.
Who Speaks for the Hillbilly? A Reading of Lee Smiths Oral History.
Martha Billips, English, Transylvania U, Lexington, KY 40508.
Necessary Boundaries and Borders. Marshall W. Fishwick, CIS, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Popular Conceptions of the Moral Character of Euro-Americans Migrat-ing
into the Northwest Territory and Kentucky in the 18th Century. Isaiah
Smithson.
234 PCA Room 407
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Chair: Camille McCutcheon, Library, U of South Carolina, Spartan-burg, SC 29303.
Frameworks of History: The Case of the Historians Autobiography.
Frode Molven, Centre for the Study of European Civilization, U of Bergen, Germany.
Biographies of Surfers: A Bibliography of Print, Video and Electronic
Material. Jill Spriggs, Library & Information Studies, Texas Womans
U, Denton, TX 76204.
Marketing the Self: P.T. Barnum as Autobiographer. Bonnie Carr,
English, Washington U, St. Louis, MO 63108.
Rattling (Exposing) the Family Skeletons in the Closet: Biographies of
Film Stars Penned by their Relatives. Camille McCutcheon.
235 PCA Room 408
EROS, PORNOGRAPHY, & POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: William E. Brigman, Social Sciences, U of Houston, Houston, TX 77002.
Ladies! Ladies! Ladies!: Representations of Womens Sexuality in
Woman-Run Porn Sites. Meredith Balderston, Georgetown U, Comm., Culture
& Technology, Washington, DC.
The Videos of Veronica Hart (Jane Hamilton). Joseph Slade, Tele-comm.,
Ohio U, Athens, OH 45701.
A Content-Analysis of Sex in Newsgroups. William E. Brigman.
236 PCA Room 409
NON-FICTION WRITING: Politics & Gossip
Chair: Dean A. Minix, Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY 41099.
Libertarian Utopia and Dystopian Film. James Henson, Government,
U of Texas, Austin, TX.
Dont Pin It on Nixon: A Political Career Told through Buttons.
J. David Fairbanks, U of Houston, Houston, TX 77002.
Whos Winning the Marilyn Gossip Competition: Fiction or Non-Fiction?
Cynthia Anderson, University Writing Program, U of Central Arkansas, Conway,
AR 72035.
Jihad, MacWorld Lexuses, and Olive Trees: How to Tackle Globaliza-tion
in the Classroom. Dean A. Minix.
237 PCA Room 410
WESTERN: Will Smith, Language, Technical Writing & Spoofs
Chair: Gary A. Yoggy, History, Corning Comm. College, Corning, NY 14830.
Remapping the Wild, Wild West: Will Smith and the Black Male Mystique.
Carol E. Henderson, English, U of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711.
Out of the Unchanging Silence. Klay Dyer, English, Brock U, St.
Catherines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1.
Technical Writing Goes West: The Impact of Technical Documentation in
the Development of the American Frontier. Max L. Rogers, 1711 Avenue J,
Nederland, TX 77627.
Spoofing the Western from Blazing Saddles and F Troop to Shanghai Noon.
Gary A. Yoggy.
238 PCA Room 411
RADIO: Potpourri
Chair: Jerry Donnelly, Mass Comm., Maryville, MO 64468.
The Mutual Radio Network and Its Relationship with Notre Dame Football.
Paul F. Gullifor, Comm., Bradley U, Peoria, IL 61625.
A Thousand Beautiful Watts: All Womens Radio at WHER-AM in Memphis.
Charles F. Ganzert, Comm./Performance Studies, Northern Michigan U, Marquette,
MI 49855.
Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., and the Zenith Radio Corporation. Harold
Cones, Biology & Environmental Science, Christopher Newport U, Newport News,
VA 23606.
A Rhetorical Analysis of Public Radio Underwriting. David Dzikowski,
Speech Comm., Pennsylvania State U, State College, PA.
239 PCA Room 412
HORROR: CINEMA
Chair: John Axel Kohagen, U of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.
Morality in the Modern Slasher Film. Jason Nado, English, Marquette
U, Milwaukee, WI.
Urban Legend and the Teenage Girl Killer: A New Paradigm? Anthony
Bleach, English, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
Resurrecting a Classic Horror Film: The Uninvited. Stephanie Branson,
Humanities, U of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI 53818.
Mastery of the Skull in Contemporary Horror Film and Fiction. John
Axel Kohagen.
240 PCA Room 413
CULTURAL CONFLICT & WOMEN: Then & Now
Chair: Stanley S. Blair, English, Monmouth U, West Long Branch, NJ 07764.
Whats the Use of a Bird? The Feather Debate in Turn-of-the-Century
America. Eileen Church, 4724 Mountain View Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17110.
Competing Feminisms: Female Characters in Conflict in Edith Whartons
The Custom of the Country. Carly Fornabio, English, Monmouth U, West Long
Branch, NJ 07764.
The 1996 Struggle to Re-Define Hillary Rodham Clinton: Public Portrait
of the Family. Kathleen German, Mass Comm., Miami U, Oxford, OH 45056.
The Matter of Time. Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, Marketing, Rutgers
U, School of Business, Camden, NJ 08102.
241 PCA Room 414
MUSIC: Kinks & Bowie
Chair: Thomas Kitts, St. Johns U, Jamaica, NY 11439.
Lola vs. Muswell Hillbillies: Contrasting Approaches to the Concept
Album. Steve Alleman, U of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, New
Orleans, LA 70148.
This Strange Effect: Kinky Cultural Inculcations. Michael J. Kraus,
Marian College, Fond du Lac, WI 54935.
Why Dylan Left Blind Willie McTell off Infidels. Stephen
Paul Miller, English, St. Johns U, Jamaica, NY 11439.
Think Visual as Concept Album about the Music Industry. Thomas Kitts.
242 PCA Room 415
TRAVEL & TOURISM
Chair: Felicia Campbell, English, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, NE 89154.
The Pull of Nostalgia: Film-Related Tourism in Iowa. Marty S. Knepper,
English, Morningside College, Sioux City, IA 51106; and John S. Lawrence, 758
Spruce St., Berkeley, CA 94707.
Backpackers in Zapatistaland. Carol Sullivan, 119 Walter SE, Albu-querque,
NM 87101.
Roughing It in Peru. Ruth Carrington, Box 123, Hysham, MT 59038.
In Search of: Three Contemporary Odysseys. Felicia Campbell.
243 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: American Arch. & Mural/Public Painting
Chair: Kathleen Curran, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106.
American Architecture and Mural Painting. Kathleen Curran.
The State of Liberty Spiritual: Religious Murals in American Civic Architecture.
Patricia Ricci, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022.
Art History and Its Methodologies: Probing a Portrait of Martha J. Lamb.
Judy Bullington, Western Oregon U, Monmouth, OR 97361.
244 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: Are Detective Novels Major Forces in Constructing Gender?
Chair: Peter Slade, Humanities & Social Science, Red Deer College, Red Deer,
AB T4N 5H5.
Sexuality and Diversity in the Early Hard-boiled Detective Novel.
Lewis D. Moore, English, U of District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008.
Constructing Masculinity in Dashiell Hammetts Early Novels.
Marc Seals, English, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Dana Stabenows (Re)Gendering Plots.
Karen E. Waldron, Lit. & Writing, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
04609.
Masculinity and the Professional Woman in Ian Rankins Mortal Causes.
Peter Slade.
245 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Films, Past & Future
Chair: Steve Anderson, English, U of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 72207.
Vietnam: The Forgotten Films. Lawrence Suid, 19C Hillside Rd., Greenbelt,
MD 20770.
History Is Like a Box-Office Tragedy: Forrest Gump and Life Is Beautiful.
Tim Blackmore, Info & Media Studies, U of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada N6A 5B7.
The Future of the Vietnam War Film. Steve Anderson.
246 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Central African Culture in the Afro-Atlantic World
Chair: Ina Fandrich, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Kongo Culture Before and During the Influence of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Mutombo NKulu NSengha, Intellectual Heritage, Temple U, Philadelphia,
PA 19122.
Congo Heritage in Brazil and the Caribbean. Kenneth Dossar, Intellectual
Heritage, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Congo Heritage in the United States. Ina Fandrich.
247 ACA Salon E
ROCK, FILM, & THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Chair: Anne Cheney, 1278 Sweeny Rd., Blacksburg, VA 24060.
Laying Rock n Roll to Waste: The Critical Tradition.
Steven Hamelman, English, Coastal Carolina U, Conway, SC 29528.
Knock the Rock: Early Opposition to Rock n Roll, 1955-1960.
Anthony Baltakis, Liberal Arts, Louisiana State U, Eunice, LA 70535.
Sky of Blue, Sea of Green: A Semiotic Reading of the Film Yellow Submarine.
Marianne Tatom, Austin, TX.
Drawing the Picture: Laurie Andersons Self-Portraiture. Jessica
Prinz, 2894 North Star Rd., Columbus, OH 43221.
248 PCA Salon F
FILM: Reconstructed Film Femininity
Chair: James Kirkland, English, East Carolina U, Greenville, NC 27858.
Youre Making Love to Me, Arent You?: Reconstructing
Feminity, Bette Davis, and Dark Victory. Robert Wilson, 513 Selfridge
Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015.
Cross-dressing and the Embodiment of the Woman Warrior in G.I. Jane.
Meredith Guthrie, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green,
OH 43403.
Heteronormativity as the Downfall of the Girl Gang in Russ Meyers
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Kristen Rees, 124 Conarroe St., Rear Apt.,
Philadelphia, PA 19127.
249 PCA Salon G
SF/F: Growth, Change, & the Quest
Chair: Susan Palwick, U of Nevada, Reno, NV 89503
Science Fiction: Evolution of a Genre. Lee F. Werth, Philosophy,
Cleveland State U, Cleveland, OH 44115.
A Genre Re-Classification of Sam Raimis Army of Darkness within
the Evil Dead Trilogy. Nathan Gordon, English, Northern Ilinois U, DeKalb,
IL 60115.
Ash Ketchum, Poke-Pilgrim: The Quest for Values in the Pokemon Animated
Series. Matthew Candelaria, English, U of Kansas, Lawrence KS 66045.
Suspension of Disbelief: Science Fiction as Conversion. Susan Palwick.
250 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: Representing/Re-presenting Culture
Chair: Amy Kiste Nyberg, Comm., Seton Hall U, South Orange, NJ 07079.
A Feminists Birds Eye View of the Black Canary. Kathleen
A. Daye, Womens Studies, Roosevelt U, Chicago, IL.
Garth Enniss Shoot and Media Passivity. Thomas Alan Holmes,
PO Box 70610 ETSU, Johnson City, TN 37614.
Its a Bird, Its a Plane, Its a Journalist: An Analysis
of Supermans Day Job. Amy Kiste Nyberg.
The World Ozymandias Made: Utopias in the Superhero Comic. Matthew
Wolf-Meyer, American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green,
OH 43403.
251 PCA Salon I
LITERATURE & VISUAL ARTS: The Potent Image
Chair: James Aubrey, English, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver,
CO 80217.
Double Vision: The Construction of Ironic Distance in OConnors
Fiction and in Her Early Work as a Cartoonist. Kelly Gerald, English,
Auburn U, Auburg, AL 36849.
Antonionis Blow Up: Frames of Reference in Film and Fiction.
Hiren Patel, 2345 Ash St., Denver, CO 80207.
Judging a Book Culture by its Cover: 150 Years of Artistic Interpreta-tion
of Hawthornes Tanglewood Tales. Danny Robinson, English, Bloomsburg
U, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Viva Las Vegas: Elvis, Las Vegas, and Postmodernity. Cathryn Davis,
428 Prospect Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215.
252 PCA Salon J
HISTORY & POPULAR CULTURE: Institutional Processes
Chair: Seymour Leventman, Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
Respondent: Jonathan White, Sociology, Colby College, Waterville, ME.
Advertising and American Popular Acculturation in Contemporary China.
Yuping Zhang, Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Selling American Culture: American Advertising as a Teaching Source in
European American Studies. Rob Kroes, America Institute, Plantage Muidergracht
12, U of Amsterdam, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Nether-lands.
Repositioning American Studies in the New Millenium: Wishful Thinking
by a Dutch Americanist. Mel van Elteren, Tilburg U, 5000 LE Tilburg, The
Netherlands.
253 PCA Salon K
THE BUSINESS OF SOAP OPERAWITH SOAP OPERA WEEKLY
Moderators: Kathy Lyday-Lee and Linda Ann Martindale, Elon College, Elon College,
NC 27244.
Mimi Torchin, Editor-in-Chief of Soap Opera Weekly along with Assistant Editor
Travis Kinsey, and columnist Connie Passalacqua (Marlena de LaCroix), will discuss
the organization, creativity, and dedication required to bring one of daytime
dramas leading publications to press 52 weeks a year.254 ACA Salon L
LAW & AMERICAN CULTURE: Issues of Social Justice
Chair: Teresa G. Phelps, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
Majority Backlash to Growing Economic and Political Power of Indian Tribes.
Vicki J. Limas, U of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, OK 74104.
The Law and Diversity Program: A Compelling Combination. Julie A.
Helling, Fairhaven College, WWU, Bellingham, WA 98225.
Theories of Narrativity in Truth and Reconciliation Reports. Teresa
G. Phelps.
255 PCA Room 501
ELIZABETHAN: Catholic to Protestant: The English Reformation
Chair: Judy Ann Ford, History, Texas A&M U, Commerce, TX 75429.
(A)Sexual Transformations: Historical and Artistic Representations of
Englands Virgin Queen. Rebecca Steinberger, History, College Miseri-cordia,
PA.
Forging Identities: John Foxe, William Tyndale, and the Problem of Religious
Affiliation in Sixtenth-Century Boston (Lincolnshire). Magnus Williamson,
Music, U of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England NE1 7RU.
The Church and the People: Lay Agency in Mirks Festial. Judy
Ann Ford.
256 PCA Room 502
CLOTHING, APPEARANCE, & THE BODY
Chair: Trish Cunningham, Ohio State U, 265 Campbell Hall, Columbus, OH 43210.
Fashioning the Feminine Adolescent Subject: An Analysis of Fashion in
Popular Adolescent Television Programs. Mary Pileggi and Lisa Holderman,
Beaver College, Glenside, PA 19038.
Cargo Pants: New Meaning for a Classic. Joseph H. Hancock,
Ohio State U, Columbus, OH 43210.
Restroom World Embodiment and Self-Expression in a Womans
Space. Beverly Gordon, U of Wisconsin, Human Ecology Building, Madison,
WI 53706.
The Chicken Hat: You Wouldnt Want to Be Without It.
Trish Cunningham.