Friday 8:30–10:00 AM

125A Room 306
ESTABLISHING THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Chair: Ray Browne

125 ACA Room 307
CEMETERIES & GRAVEMARKERS
Chair: Janet Heywood, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
“Say It with Flowers in the Victorian Cemetery.” June Hadden Hobbs, Gardner-Webb U, Boiling Springs, NC 28017.
“American Poets: Contemporary Views of the Cemetery.” Kenneth Pobo, English, Widener U, Chester, PA 19013.
“Graveyards and the Landscape of Memory.” Brian Adler, University Honors Program, Valdosta State U, Valdosta, GA 31698.
“Landscape as Lesson: Morals and Melancholy in the 19th-century Cemetery.” Janet Heywood.

126 PCA Room 308
BUSINESS/CORPORATE CULTURE: Space & Place
Chair: TBA
“The Victorian Home: A Site for Business, Not a Refuge from Busi-ness.” Christiane Diehl Taylor, History, Eastern Kentucky U, Richmond, KY 40475.
“Places of Global Shape? The World of Consumption in Berlin, 1949-2000.” Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer, Center for European Urban History, Technische Universität Berlin.
“Out of Bounds: Prescriptive Telework Policies and Associative Human Behavior.” Janice Barnes, A. Alfred Taubman College of Arch. & Urban Planning, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

127 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Golf
Chair: Michael Schoenecke, English, Texas Tech U, Lubbock, TX 79409.
“Beyond Tigermania: Tiger’s Got Us Tongue-Tied, and What Can We Say about Him Next?” Tom Cook, Wayne State College, Wayne NE 68787.
“The Beatification of Payne Stewart.” Stephen D. Mosher, Exercise & Sports Sciences, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850.
“Tiger Woods: Changing Golf through Ethnicity, Physicality, and Performance.” Donna J. Barbie, Humanities, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U, Daytona Beach, FL 32114.
“The Cartoon Golfer.” Michael Schoenecke.

128 Room 310
DIME NOVELS, SERIES BOOKS
Chair: Bill Roach, Business, Washburn, U, Topeka, KS 66621.
“James Otis Kaler: A Bibliographical Survey.” John Kaler, 222 Bond St. North, Hamilton, ONT L8S 3W9 Canada.
“Urban Issues for Children: A Look at Boy’s Series Books, 1880-1916.” Elizabeth Frank, Marquette, U/Milwaukee County Zoo.
“French Pulp Fiction in Turn-of-the-Century.” Carol Ambruster, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“Friar Anselmo (1866)—A Confession in Code.” Bill Roach.

129 Room 401
THE COLLEGIATE CULTURE
Chair: Ginny Schwartz, Academic Resources, St. Lawrence U, Canton, NY 13617.
“Innovation, Integration and Instruction: A Pedagogical Case Study.” Beth Rushing, Sociology, Georgia College and State U, Milledgeville, GA 31061; Jane Rose, English, Speech, & Journalism, Georgia College and State U, Milledgeville, GA 31061; Amy Burt, Speech, Georgia College and State U, Milledgeville, GA 31061.
“New Student Orientation: Forming Connections through Popular Culture.” Ginny Schwartz.

130 PCA Room 402
HEALTH & DISEASE: Gender & the Cultural Study of Disease
Chair: Heather Schell, English, Miami U, Oxford, OH 45056.
“V-Weapons and Innocent Wives: Images of Women in VD Prevention Materials during World War II.” Ann Pfau, History, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
“The Un-Safe Sex: Gender, Disease and Community.” Lisa Lynch, Rut-gers U, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
“Going Home to Die: Gendered Geographies of the ‘Spread of AIDS.’” Meredith Raimondo, Women’s Studies, Barnard College, New York, NY 10027.
“Like a Natural Woman: Disease Evolution, and the Role of Women.” Heather Schell.

131 PCA Room 403
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES & POPULAR LINGUISTICS: Lan-guage in Public Forums
Chair: Deborah Schaffer, English, Montana State U, Billings, MT 59101.
“Beyond Entertainment Criticism: Breaching the Bounds of Politeness.” Linda DiDesidero, Liberal Studies, Capitol College, Laurel, MD 20708.
“Begging for God: The Language of Panhandlers and Faith.” Constance Ruzich, Communications, Robert Morris College, Moon Township, PA 15108.
“Courtroom Discourse: Legalese Confronts Streetese.” Milford Jere-miah, English, Morgan State U, Baltimore, MD 21251.
“The Story of E: The Productive Morpheme E - in Internet Vocabulary.” Deborah Schaffer.

132 PCA Room 404
PROTEST ISSUES & ACTIONS
Chair: Lotte Larsen, Hamersly Library, Western Oregon U, Monmouth, OR 97361.
“Dada’s Revolt against the Status Quo.” Tom McLaren, 47 Fayette St., Oakdale, PA 15071.
“Sor Juana’s Protests of Love: Poetic Justice in the 17th Century.” Virginia M. Bouvier, Spanish & Portuguese, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20924.
“The Medicalization of Dissent: Imagery of Disease and Radicalism in Caricature and Cartoon, 1880-1920.” Chloe Carroll-Burke, History, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

133 Room 405
Civil War: The Changing Roles of Women
Chair: William Hall, Comm., La Salle U, Philadelphia, Pa 19141.
“Women as a Factor of Dissent Against the Confederacy in North Florida.” Kevin Cronin, History, Valdosta State U, Valdosta, GA 31698.
“Harbingers of Change: The Diaries of Fannie A. Rhea Fain and Mary Pearre Hamilson.” Darcy Martin, College of Medicine, East Tennessee State U, Johnson, City TN 37614.
“Nursing Sisters in the Civil War.” William Hall.

134 PCA Room 406
SEA LIT.: Pirates, Demons & Commuters
Chair: Stephen Curley, General Academics, Texas A&M U, Galveston, TX 77553.
“The ‘eternal float of solution’: Speaker and Reader in Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Hugh Egan, English, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850.
“Using the Sea, its Creatures and its Environmental Problems to Create Eco-literature.” John Morano, Comm., Monmouth U, West Long Branch, NJ 07764.
“Islands and Riptides: A Case Study of One Novel.” James M. Hughes, English, Wright State U, Dayton, OH 45435.
“In Search of the Pirate John Lafitte: Legends, Lies, and Other Truths.” Stephen Curley.

135 PCA Room 407
AMERICAN LIT.: A Disturbed America
Chair: Louis J. Kern, History, Hofstra U, Hempstead, NY 11549.
“Popular Violence and its Alternatives.” Randolph Splitter, English, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 95014.
“The Awakening of Ellen Foster.” Tom MacLennan, English, U of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC 28403.
“The Bold Attempt Alone Demands Applause: Royal Tyler’s Literary Failure in The Algerine Captive.” Christina Riley Brown, English, U of Mississippi, University, MS 38677.
“William Wells Brown and Narratives of Flight and Miscegenation in the American House of Bondage—1853-67.” Louis J. Kern.

136 PCA Room 408
GAY & LESBIAN: Queering Pedagogy
Chair: Petra Dierkes-Thrun, English/Film Studies, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15218.
“Teaching ‘The Vagina Monologues’ and the Idea of Difference.” Thomas Peele, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.
“Barebacking: The Unprotected Practices of Queer Pedagogy.” Adale Shock, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13905.
“‘A Little Respect for the Vagina Fairy, Please’: Ma Vie en Rose in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Petra Dierkes-Thrun.

137 PCA Room 409
POPULAR ART, ARCH. & DESIGN
Chairs: James Winebrenner, College of Design, Construction & Planning, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; and William Young, Writer in American Studies, Lynchburg, VA 24503.
“Reflections of Imperial Rome in San Antonio’s Railroad Stations.” Nancy Reed, Classical Art and Archaeology, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX 79409.
“Industrial Design Architectural Prototypes: From Object to Environ-mental Scale.” James Winebrenner.
“Milking the Cows: Chicago’s Public Art Event and its Recurrence Elsewhere.” Joan Brigham, Media & Visual Art, Emerson College, Boston, MA 02116.
“The Skyline Defined and Redefined: The Reconstruction of an Urban Image.” James Alexander, Art & Art History, U of Alabama, Birming-ham, AL 35294.

138 ACA Room 410
AMERICAN INDIAN: INDIGENOUS LIT.
Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, English, SUNY, Fredonia, NY 14063.
“Creation and the Popol Vuh.” Lee Stauffer, English & Philosophy, New Mexico Highlands U, Las Vegas, NM 87701.
“Silko’s Prayers for the Land: Almanac and Gardens in the Dunes.” Richard Sax, English & Comm., Madonna U, Livonia, MI 48150.
“Todd Downing and the Archeology of European Colonialism.” Melissa Hearn, English, Northern Michigan U, Marquette, MI 49855.
“Badass Billy Remembers His Roots.” John K. Donaldson, Academic Ctr., George Washington U, Washington, DC 20052.

139 PCA Room 411
THEATRE: Re-visioning History & Drama
Chair: Thomas M. Barrett, History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686.
“The Stage Manager as Theologian in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.” Fran Polek, English, Gonzaga U, Spokane, WA 99223.
“Tartar in Pink Tights: The Mazeppa Theme in American Theater.” Thomas M. Barrett.
“Prince Hamlet/Don Michael: Retribution with Redemption?” Bruce L. Partin, Fine Arts, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153.

140 PCA Room 412
HORROR: Fiction & Cinema
Chair: Linda J. Holland-Toll, English, U of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557.
“Urban Horror and Paranoia in the Fiction of Christopher Fowler.” Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Comm. College, Palm Bay, FL 32909.
“Gender Boundary Transgressions in the Works of King, Koontz, and Rice.” Laura Colmenero-Chilberg, Sociology, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI 48221.
“What Are You Rewriting? The Horror of Possession in William S. Burroughs’s Fiction.” Tim Donovan, English, Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA 16802.
“Colliding Genres: The Effect of Cross-Generic Fiction on Reader Response.” Linda J. Holland-Toll, English, U of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557.

141 PCA Room 413
CULTURAL CONFLICT & WOMEN: Death, Sex, & Lit.
Chair: Cheri Louise Ross, Humanities, Penn State U, Capital College, Middletown, PA 17057.
“In the Name of Love: Death and the Women of Sunnnydale.” Lynne Edwards, Comm. Studies & Theatre, Ursinus College, College-ville, PA 19426.
“The Sexual Savior: The Role of the Female Protagonist in 20th-Century Dystopias.” George Savage, Lang. & Lit., U of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI.
“Epistolary Fiction and the Appendix to Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.” Stanley S. Blair, English, Monmouth U, West Long Branch, NJ 07764.
“‘These Fragments I Have Shored against My Ruin’: Barbara King-solver’s The Poisonwood Bible.” Cheri Louise Ross.

142 PCA Room 414
MUSIC: Country, Popular, & Hip Hop
Chair: John R. Patton, Gainesville, GA 30501.
“You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: A Look at Women Empowering Images in Country Music Videos.” Jack Holgate, Fine Arts & Mass Comm., Francis Marion U, Florence, SC 29501.
“Going Back to Compton with an Uzi on My Knee: Minstrelsy’s Continuing Legacy in Hip Hop.” Kevin Fellezs, History of Conscious-ness, U of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
“Hearing the High and Low in the Music of Tori Amos.” Kevin Clifton, Waterville, ME 04901.
“The Face of Country Music: Faith Hill and the Crossover Controversy.” John R. Patton.

143 PCA Room 415
CHILDREN’S LIT. & CULTURE: Folktales & Sociology
Chair: Joel Rudinger, BGSU, Firelands College, Huron, OH 44839.
“The Loss of Innocence: The Changing Themes in Children’s Literature.” Lillian Daughaday, Sociology, Murray State U, Murray, KY 42071.
“When Cops-and-Robbers Becomes Real.” Teri Toles Patkin, Comm., Eastern Connecticut State U, Willimantic, CT 06226.
“Caribbean Fairy Tales—Re-visioning the ‘Classics.’” Giselle Anatol, English, U of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.
“Grimm Justice: Suicide and Revenge in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” Joel Rudinger.

144 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: Modernism in American Art & Music
Chair: Laurette E. McCarthy, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN 47807.
“The ‘Truths’ about the Armory Show: Walter Pach’s Side of the Story.” Laurette E. McCarthy.
“America Reacts: Max Weber Paintings 1908-1920.” Kelly T. Denzer, U of St. Thomas, Lake Mills, WI 53551.
“Raising an American Voice: Copland, Barber, Harris, Gershwin, and American Photography.” Lara Downes, U of California, Davis, CA 95616.

145 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: Reinventing the Past
Chair: Susan Allen Ford, Lang. & Lit., Delta State U, Cleveland, MS 38733.
“Christie Noir: An Un-Cozy Reading of the ‘Queen of Crime.’” John Teel, English, Marshall U, Huntington, WV 25755.
“Abdicating Thrones Dominations: A Contemporary Dorothy L. Sayers.” Crystal Downing, English, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17339.
“Bits of Ivory: Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen Mysteries.” Susan Allen Ford.

146 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Culture Wars
Chair: Stephen Sossaman, English, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 01086.
“Deconstructing Vietnam War Strategy Games.” Stephen Sossaman.
“Cao Dai: The Only Religion Indigenous to Vietnam and Its Con-temporary Message.” Elizabeth Daum, PO Box 667, Henniker, NH 03242.
“The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization.” H. Bruce Franklin, English, Rutgers U, Newark, NJ 07102.

147 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Fiction & Community
Chair: Ronald Dorris, English & African American Studies, Xavier U, New Orleans, LA 70125.
“From White Mask to Black Skin: Progressive Resignification in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle.” Trisha Brady, 5700 Bunker Hill St., #705, Pittsburgh, PA 15206.
“The Ties that Bind: ‘Reclaiming Community’ in Gwendolyn Parker’s Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege.” Loretta G. Woodard, English, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI 48221.
“Homosexuality and the Politics of Assimilation in Black America.” Gregory Conerly, History, Cleveland State U, Cleveland, OH 44115.
“The Response of African Americans to Lindbergh’s Flight to Paris.” Mark Helbling, American Studies, U of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822.
“The Body Politic in Jean Toomer’s ‘Bona and Paul.’” Ronald Dorris.

148 PCA Salon E
FILM & HISTORY: Hollywood & History
Chair: Michelle Citrin, English, U of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
“The 21st Century Western.” Sara Quay, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 01915.
“Hollywood’s View of Women.” Kristen D. Hawley, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18104.
“The Cyborg Mystique: The Stepford Wives and Second Wave Feminism.” Anna Krugovoy Silver, Women’s & Gender Studies, Mercer U, Macon, GA 31207.
“Children, Adults, and the Use of Fairy Tales in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Sarah Skwire, English, OSU, Columbus, OH 43210.

149 PCA Salon F
FILM: Film Theory—“Where’s the Reality?”
Chair: Kate Fowkes, Media Studies, High Point U, High Point, NC 27262.
“Methods of Creating Character Identification in Film.” Donald Loffredo, Psychology, U of Houston, Victoria, TX 77901.
“Auteur Theory to Auteur Practice: Truffaut and Godard and the Moving Camera.” Raymond Foery, Comm., Quinnipiac U, Hamden, CT 06518.
“Manipulations Photographic and Virtual: Andre Bazin and the Sub-stance of the Real.” Asbjorn Gronstad, English, U of Bergen, Norway.
“The Sixth Sense: Cinematic Trick or Treat.” Kate Fowkes.

150 PCA Salon G
SF/F: The Matrix in Popular Culture
Chair: Matthew Kapell, Behavioral Sciences, U of Michigan, Dearborn, MI 48202.
“(Un)Linking the Reality of Littleton and the Virtual Reality of The Matrix.” John Hardin, Comm., U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.
“Postmodern Freedom: Eros, Magic, and the Power of Dreams.” Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, New York, NY 11215.
“Resistance is Stylist: Fashion, Rebelliousness, and Race in The Matrix.” Edward D. Miller, Performing & Creative Arts, College of Staten Island/ CUNY, Staten Island, NY 10314.
“Modernism and Postmodernism Come to Blows at Last: A Theoretical Take on The Matrix.” Matthew Kapell.

151 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: Social & Political Examinations from Several Countries
Chair: Joan Weston, History & Society Div., Babson College, Welles-ley, MA 02492.
“Political and Theoretical Implications of Non-Western Comic Arts.” Janet Hess, Art History, U of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
“Brazilian Pornographic Comics: A View on the Eroticism of a Latin American Culture.” Waldomiro C. S. Verguiero, Rua Jorge Tibirica, 266, Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, SP-Brasil 04126.
“Escobar: A Critical Resistance to Francoism through Comics.” Ana Merino, Hispanic Lang. & Lit., U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
“An Institutional Analysis of the Comic Book Industry in United States: 1938-1970.” Joan Weston.

152 ACA Salon I
LITERATURE & POLITICS: Cultural Dislocations
Chair: John R. Holmes, Lang. & Lit., Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23806.
“The Matter of World War II in John le Carre’s Fiction.” P. Larus Reed, Lang. & Lit., Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23806.
“Age and Politics in The Quiet American.” Donna Crawford, Lang. & Lit., Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23806.
“The Grotesque in American Humor: Max Adeler and Mark Twain.” David Dussere, Lang. & Lit., Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23806.
“‘When the pancake bell rings’: Carnival Feast and The Shoemaker’s Holiday.” John R. Holmes.

153 PCA Salon J
MEMORY & REPRESENTATION
CHAIR: Arthur G. Neal, Sociology, Portland State U, Portland, OR 97201.
“Trauma, Representation, and the Crisis of Memory.” Linda Belau, English, George Washington U, Washington, DC 20007.
“The ‘Rape of Nanking’: Japanese Perceptions of Fact and Fabrication.” Ma Ji Rhee, Foreign Lang. & Lit., Portland State U, Portland, OR 97201.
“Collective Trauma, Apologies, and the Politics of Memory.” Ridwan Nytagodien, Black Studies, Portland State U, Portland, OR 97201; and Arthur G. Neal.

154 PCA Salon K
SOAP OPERA: Perceptions Past & Present
Chair: Suzanne Frentz, Comm. & Fine Arts, Loyola Marymount U, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
“Love in the Afternoon: Does 24 Years Make a Difference? Ryan’s Hope vs. Port Charles.” Karrie Hollerbach, Mass Comm., Southeast Missouri State U, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701.
“All My Brothers.” Mary Devine, English, Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970.
“Farewell, My Lovely: The Last Days of Erica Kane?” Paul Baker, Art, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronoto, Ontario MST 1W1.

155 PCA Salon L
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: The Social & Historical Contexts of Music
Chair: William C. Banfield, American Cultural Studies, U of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105.
“Women in Rap: A Look at Women in the Industry through Their Image and Their Words.” Elizabeth Ortiz, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18104.
“A (Rap)prochement of Identities: Hip-Hop and the Gospel According to the Gospel Gangstaz.” John Hatch, Comm. & Arts, Regent U, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
“Sylvester, Blackness, and the Politics of Dancing.” Ranney Draper, English, U of California, Riverside, CA 92521.
“Black American Music: Cultural Studies as People Studies.” William C. Banfield.

156 PCA Room 501
BRITISH POPULAR CULTURE: Social Contexts
Chair: Carlos Ramet, English, Saginaw Valley State U, University Center, MI 48710.
Discussant: Marilyn Button, 6761 Pointe Inverness Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46804.
“Masculinity, Nationalism and Polo in Imperial India.” P.F. McDevitt, History, Rowan U, Glasboro, NJ 08028.
“Imperialism and Socialism: Manchester to Madras with Annie Besant.” Marcia Duncan, Mass. College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston, MA 02115.
“The Rhetoric of Complacency and Colonialism in British Boys’ Weeklies of the Mid 30s.” Jonathan Walters, English, Norwish U, Northfield, VT 05663.
“The Reception by British Churches of the American Film, From the Manger to the Cross (1913).” Dean Rapp, History, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.

157 PCA Room 502
ARTHURIAN LEGEND
Chair: Elizabeth S. Sklar, English, Wayne State U, Detroit, MI 48202.
“Casting Babylon 5: Arthurian Characters as Myth.” Christina Francis, English, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ 85287.
“Arthurian Legend on TV.” Bert Olton, 149 Gates St., Palmyra, NY 14522.
“Power of Vision in Excalibur.” Mark Lewandowski, U of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70506.