Saturday 12:30–2:00 PM

367 PCA Room 307
DANCE: Tactics in the Post-Modern City: Cultural Conventions or Contradictory Discourse?
Chair: Anna Blewchamp.
“Incorporating Popular Culture into Dance Ethnology.” Anna Blew-champ.
“Dance Ugly and Drool: Consumerism and Communitas in Urban Ecstatic Dance.” Lisa Sandlos.
“Urban Power Yoga: Western Popularization of an Eastern Movement Practice.” Jennifer Bolt-Mease.
“Desi Negotiations of the Dancing Body.” Susan McNaughton.
All are from the Faculty of Fine/Dance and Faculty of Cultural Studies, York U, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ONT, Canada M3J 1P3.

368 PCA Room 308
ELVIS
Chair: Larry Keeter, Sociology, Appalachian State U, Boone, NC 28608.
“For the Heart: Elvis Presley’s Last Recordings, 1975-77.” Paul C. Peterson, Politics, Coastal Carolina U, Conway, SC 29526.
“Elvis Is Leaving the Building: Cultural Entrophy and the King.” Tom Carlson, English, U of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152.
“Rock’n’Roll, Race, and Elvis Presley: Southern Youth in Dissent.” Michael Bertrand, History, U of Mississippi, University, MS 38677.
“Jealous Minds: Elvis, Entertainment, and the Blues.” Gordon Osling, English, U of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152.

369 PCA Room 309
CULTURE & RELIGION
Chair: Ingrid H. Shafer, U of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK 73018.
“American Culture Wars Abroad: Spiritual Warfare in a Polynesian Village.” Thomas Mullane, PO Box 81525, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.
“Preachers and Promiscuity: Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the 1920s.” Peter Powers, Lang. Lit. & Comm., Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17020.
“Latter-day Courtship Patterns.” Mary Jane Woodger, Religious Education, Brigham Young U, Provo, UT 84602.

370 PCA Room 310
ROMANCE WRITERS & WRITING
Chair: Anne K. Kaler, Gwynedd Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, PA 19437.
“Purity, Peril and Pleasure in the Inspirational Romance.” Lee Tobin McClain, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA.
“The Pursuit of Happiness: American Colonial and Revolutionary War Romances.” Rosemary Johnson-Kurek and Debra Lang, U of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43407.
“‘And I’ll Blow Your House Down’: Romance-Retelling of Historical Fairy Tales.” Diane Calhoun-French, Jefferson Comm. College SW, Louisville, KY.
“History and the Popular Romance.” Anne K. Kaler.

371 ACA/PCA Room 401
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: Dissertation to Book: Perils of Publishing
Chair: Ed Ingebretsen, American Studies, Georgetown U, Washington, DC 20009.

372 PCA Room 402
POPULAR CULTURE OF INDIA
Chair: Roger B. Rollin, Clemson U, Clemson, SC.
“Marginalized Sexuality in Film Literature: Experiments in Indian Cinema.” Manju Jaidku, English, Punjab U, Chandigath, India.
“Popular Culture and Identity: An Analysis of Some Oral Communities in India.” Nagalapalli Nagaraju, English, Hrunachal U, Itanagar, Aronachal Pradish, India 79111.
“India: Beyond Curry, Caste, and Cow.” Sundari Krishnamurthy, Hills-borough Comm. College, Dale Mabry Campus, Tampa, FL 33630.

373 PCA Room 403
CULTURE, LIT. & MUSIC IN SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Guillermo de los Reyes,
“The Poetry of Identity in 20th-Century Cuba: Teresa Melo’s El vino del error.” Sonia Feigenbaum, Modern & Classical Lang., U of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105.
“Rap Music and Culture from El Norte to La Isla and Back: The Ramifications of Rap in Puerto Rican Cultures.” Steve Poizat-Newcomb, Folklore & Folklife, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“Juan Rulfo and the Concepts of Culture in Mexico.” Trevor Stack, Anthropology, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“Distant Mirrors.” Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Modern Lang., Villanova U, Villanova, PA.

374 PCA Room 404
POETRY
Chair: Maura Gage, English, Louisiana State U, Eunice, LA.
“High Priest of the Popular: On the Poet Tony Medina.” Jonathan Scott, English, Borough of Manhattan Comm. College, CUNY.
“Why Unknown Poets Stay Unknown and the Anticipation and Fear of Fame: Richard Brautigan.” Tiffany Carolyn Knight, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
“Original Poetry.” Rose Callahan, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

375 PCA Room 405
HISTORY: Sectional Conflict & American Political Ideology
Chair: Frank Towers, History, Colorado State U, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
“Whig Resistance to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1844.” Lyon Rath-bun, Penn State U, Worthington Scranton Campus, Dunmore, PA 18512.
“Cultural Conflict on the Early 19th-Century Louisiana Border.” Michael Kimaid, History, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Genora Dollinger: Labor Activitist.” Carlton Jackson, History, Western Kentucky U, Bowling Green, KY.
“Rethinking Herrenvolk Democracy: The Impact of Immigration on Definitions of Race, Class, and Citizenship.” Frank Towers.

376 PCA Room 406
Animal Culture from previous time slot may run over.

377 ACA Room 407
POPULAR AMERICAN AUTHORS
Chair: Christina Vick, English, Louisiana State U, Eunice, LA 70535.
“What’s So Funny? Reading and Resisting ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.’” Joel Wingard, English, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 18018.
“Morrison’s Complex Vacillation in Female Objectification: Inter-national Politics and the Three Prostitutes’ Elaborate and Shifting Roles.” Kavita Ramdya, English, New York U, New York, NY 10012.
“Mothers and Fathers: La Malinche and Jose Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho.” Lee Hamilton, English, U of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, Tx 78539.
“On the Road with Larry McMurtry.” Christina Vick.

378 PCA Room 408
GAY & LESBIAN: Past & Present Lit.
Chair: Jeanne Harris, English & Philosophy, Arkansas State U, State University, AR 72467.
“Sexual Distinction: The Poetry of Michael Field and a New Creation of Lesbian Victorian Literature.” Sarah Mell, Resource Management, U of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
“Judging by the Cover: Images of Lesbians in ‘Adult’ Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century.” Susan Hubert, English, Western Michigan U, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
“The Lesbian In, Behind, and Above the Text: Late 20th-Century Lesbian Comix.” Anne N. Thalheimer, English, U of Delaware, Newark, DE 19719.
“Amistead Maupin’s Utopian Vision in Tales of the City.” Jeanne Harris.

379 PCA Room 409
IDENTITY & JEWISH LITERARY CULTURE
CHAIR: Sarah Kviat Bloch, U of California, Santa Barbara.
“Does ‘Radical Jewish Culture’ Produce Radical Jewish Rhetoric?” David Moscowitz, U of Indiana.
“Trading Identities: Judaica, Retail, and Cultural Literacy.” Sarah Kviat Bloch.
“What Are We Teaching Our Children? Jewish Children’s Books 1990-2000.” Fred Isaac, 1836 San Antonio, Berkeley, CA 94707.
“The Two Narrators in Spiegelman’s Maus: The Writer and the Graphic Artist.” Michael Shuldiner, English, U of Alaska, Anchorage, AK.

380 ACA Room 410
AMERICAN INDIAN: Logan’s Lament, 1774: An Ethnohistorical Perspective
Chair: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, English, SUNY, Fredonia, NY 14063.
“Violence and Retribution on the Trans-Alleghany Frontier: Logan’s Lament.” Alan Golden, History, Lock Haven U, Lock Haven, PA 17745.
“Logan the Mingo.” Joanne M. Golden, Lit. Reading & Lang. Ed., U of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711.
“Logan’s Speech: A Critique.” James L. Golden, 269 Littletown Qtr., Williamsburg, VA 23185.

381 PCA Room 411
RADIO: The Impact of Internet Radio & National Public Radio
Chair: Corley Dennison, Journalism & Mass Comm., Marshall U, Huntington, WV 52755.
“Internet Usage Effects on Traditional Radio Listening and the Diffusion of Web-casting.” Bradley C. “Bree” Freeman, Newhouse School of Public Comm., Syracuse U, Syracuse, NY 13244.
“New Technological Impact on NPR Affiliates.” Jennifer Eichenberg, PO Box 2614, Fayetteville, AR 72702.
“Commercial and Non-Commercial Radio Management Issues as Each “ramp up and back” to the Internet.” Deborah Nagle-Burks, Radio/ Internet Consultant, NewsTelling the Story, PO Box 1827, Pacifica, CA 94044.

382 PCA Room 412
GOTHIC: American
Chair: Louis H. Palmer, III, English, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT 05735.
“Gothic Prophecy: The Syncopated Other in Baldwin, Hurston, Morri-son, vanPeebles, and Wilson.” Barbara Lewis, Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire, Africana Studies, New York U, New York, NY 10003.
“A Haunting Desire: Female Sexuality in Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories.” Elaine Pigeon, d’Etudes anglaises, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 succ Centre-Ville, Montréal QC H3C 3J7 Canada.
“New Age Gothic: Theodore Roszak’s Dreamwatcher.” Louis H. Palmer, III.

383 PCA Room 413
THE SIXTIES
Chair: Carl Singleton, English, Fort Hays State U, Hays, KS 67601.
“Issues of the Sixties: Then and Now.” Kathleen Banks, Humanities, Penn State U, Harrisburg, PA 17103.
“Rethinking the Sixties.” Carl Singleton.

384 ACA Room 414
MUSIC: Meeting of the Editorial Board and Advisory Board, Popular Music and Society
Chair: Gary Burns.

385 PCA Room 415
MIDWESTERN POPULAR LIT.
Chair: Patricia Anderson, Dimondale, MI 48821.
“The Beginnings of Midwestern Poetry.” Bernard Engle, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Three Realistic Novelists Bemoan Small-Town Culture.” Irene M. Lander, 1957 Rampart Lane, Lansdale, PA 19446.
“Chicago Cityscapes in Midwestern Fiction.” David Anderson, 6555 Lansdown Dr., Dimondale, MI 48821.

386 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: 20th-Century American Art
Chair: David Sokol, Art History, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607.
“A Home for Artists Equity.” David Sokol.
“Encountering Modernism: Philadelphia Reacts to the PSFS Building.” David Brody, West Chester U, West Chester, PA 19383.
“‘Mirroring’ Landscape: Jackson Pollock, Peter Bale, and the Ideal Museum.” Bradley Bailey, Cast Western Reserve U, Cleveland, OH 44106.

387 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: What’s Next in Detective Fiction?
Chair: William R. Klink, College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD 20646.
“‘In Death’ and Beyond.” Carolyn A. Comeaux, Dev. English, South Texas Comm. College, Starr County Campus, McAllen, TX 78502.
“A Mystery by Any Other Name: Reflections on Titles.” Marybeth White, 1729 Cliffside Dr., NW, Albuquerque, NM 87105.
“Detective, and Crime Fiction in Latin America: Subverting the Form-ula.” Gianni M. Martella, Modern Lang. & Lit., Trinity U, San Antonio, TX 78212.

388 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Cinematic Images
Chair: Mitch Yamasaki, History, Chaminade U, Honolulu, HI 96816.
“Le Ly Hayslip’s and Oliver Stone’s Views of Vietnam in When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Heaven and Earth.” Loren Koanui, History, Chaminade U, Honolulu, HI 96816.
“In Country: Samantha’s Country in Bobbie Ann Mason’s Nevel and Emmett’s Country in Norman Jewison’s Film.” Jane Iwo, History, Chaminade U, Honolulu, HI 96816.
“A Rumor of War: A Memoir in Print and on the Silver Screen.” Kaweo Feeney, History, Chaminade U, Honolulu, HI 96816.
“A Bright Shining Lie: The Career of John Paul Vann in Neil Sheehan’s Book and in the HBO Made-for-Television Drama.” Po’omai Deleon Guerrero, History, Chaminade U, Honolulu, HI 96816.

389 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Resurrecting DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk
Chair: Ronald G. Coleman, History, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
“Market/Culture/Consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois as Culture Theorist.” Andrew Scheiber, U of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105.
“Double Consciousness in Black and White.” Mark L. McPhail, Comm. Miami U, Oxford, OH 45056.
“The Souls of Black Folk: DuBois’ Response to R.B. Haye’s Call.” Edward Leon Robinson, Ethnic Studies, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
“Ripping the Veil of Darkness: Slavery as Trope in DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Morrison’s Beloved.” Wilfred D. Samuels, English, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

390 PCA Salon E
FILM & HISTORY: International Perspectives
Chair: Peter Holloran, History, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA 01602.
“New York City and American Movies.” George J. Lankevich, History, CUNY.
“Andrzej Wajda’s Danton: After the Revolution, Who Rules?” Thomas W. Mullen, Social Sciences, Dalton State College, Dalton, GA 30720.
“Joseph Losey: The Blacklist and The Servant.” Nancy L. Bunge, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Cold War on a Wide Screen: Kinopanorama and the Soviet Film Industry.” James Knikonis, History, John Carroll U, University Heights, OH 44118.

391 PCA Salon F
FILM: Cinematic Violence—Escapism or Nihilism?
Chair: James Hewitson, English, U of Toronto, 7 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ONT M6J 3B9.
“Attitudes Towards Screen Violence: Speed and Natural Born Killers.” Eric Lowe, 314 S. Poplar St., Apt. 21, Oxford, OH 45056.
“The Dystopian City and Apocalyptic Desire in The Crow and The Crow: City of Angels.” Steve Macek, Mass Comm., Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA 17201.
“Beyond Regeneration: Recent Trends in Post-Holocaust Film.” James Hewitson.

392 PCA Salon G
SF/F: Test & Intertextuality in SF/F
Chair: Tom Petijean, Jr., English, Northwestern State U of Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA 71497.
“Translating Trek: Re-writing an American Icon in a Francophone Context.” Caroline-Isabelle Caron, History, McGill U, West Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T7.
“Standing on the Shoulders of Monsters: Intertextuality in Godzilla.” Tracy Candelaria, English, U of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.
“Charming Her Way In: Fantastic Inheritance in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Evelyn M. Perry, English, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA 01701.
“Dark Shadows: Shadowing Literary Masterpieces.” Tom Petitjean, Jr.

394 ACA Salon I
LITERATURE & SOCIETY
Chair: Connie Ann Kirk, Lang. & Lit., Mansfield U, PA.
“Folk Metaphors, Nature, and Mind in Lanterns on the Levee: The Autobiography as Cultural Artifact.” Janet Preston, Humanities, Embry-Riddle U, FL.
“‘And the Livin’ Is Easy’: Race and Civic Identity in the Writings of DuBose Heyward.” Stephanie E. Yuhl, History, College of Holy Cross.
“Mitford Mania: Why Millions Are Beating a Path to Jan Karon’s Small Town.” Judy Logan, Eastern Washington U, Graduate & Undergraduate Literary Studies.
“From Hey, Arnold! to e-Bay, from Hallmark to The New Yorker: Images of Emily Dickonson in Contemporary American Culture.” Connie Ann Kirk.

395 PCA Salon J
WORLD’S FAIRS: Material Culture at Fairs
Chair: Frederick J. Augustyn, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“‘Amusements and Diversions’: Books, Games and Toys at Fairs.” Roberta Zonghi, Rare Books & Manuscripts, Boston Public Library, Copley Sq., Boston, MA.
“Mobility for the Middle Class: Bicycles at the 1876 Centennial and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.” Frederick J. Augustyn.
“World’s Fair ‘Peep Shows’: Architectual Representation and the Souvenir.” Amy F. Ogata, Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture, 18 W. 86th St., New York, NY 10024.
“‘A Little Too Strange for the Average Russian’: Modern Art at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959.” Michael Krenn.

396 PCA Salon K
TELEVISION: Buffy & Her Friends
Chair: Sherryl Vint, English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5, Canada.
“When Harry Met Buffy: Buffy Summers, Harry Potter, and Heroism at the Turn of the Century.” Rhonda Wilcox, Humanities, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA 30204.
“The Reluctant Action Television Heroine: A Post-Structuralist Feminist Critique.” James T. Coon, Wingate U, Wingate, NC 28174.
“Reading the Vampire Slayer.” Sherryl Vint.
“Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, the TV Company Ate My Internet Site.” Djoymi Baker, Cinema Studies, U of Melbourne, Park-ville, Victoria 3052, Australia.

397 PCA Salon L
LAW IN LIT.
Chair: Daniel Larner, Fairhaven College, Western Washington U, Bellingham, WA 98225.
“Bartelby and the House of a Fool.” George Dargo, New England School of Law, Boston, MA 02116.
“The Modernism of An American Tragedy.” Paul J. Gudel, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA 92101.
“Revenge and Retribution v. Fairness and Balance: What the Dramatic Structure of Tragicomedy Reveals about the Ironies of Justice.” Daniel Larner.

398 PCA Room 501
SHAKESPEARE & POPULAR CULTURE: Politics of Casting
Chair: Stephen A. Tompkins, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
“Explaining the Unexplained: The Implications of Denzel Washington as Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing.” Vicky Gil, U of Zaragoza (Spain), Calle Castellv, 5-1S, Zaragoza 5004 Spain.
“Playing to the Audience: Rosencrantz with a Stutter.” Michael G. Marler, Brigham Young U, Laie, HI 96762.
“Where Are the Women of Our Discontent?” Stephen A. Tompkins.

399 PCA Room 502
GENDER: Politics
Chair: Sue Vanstone, Sociology & Equity Studies, Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, U of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Canada M5S 1V6.
“ChickClick: An Examination of ‘Grrl Power’ Online.” Laurie K. Jordan, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Neutral Spaces: Gender and Sex in Halfway Human.” Susan J. Wolfe, English, U of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.
“Striking Stories: Women Supporting a Strike in a Canadian Mining Industry.” Sue Vanstone.
“The New Identity Politics of the Fag Hag.” Debby Thompson, English, Colorado State U, Fort Collins, CO 80523.