Saturday 2:30–4:00 PM

400 PCA Room 307
LEADERSHIP & LEADERSHIP STUDIES
Chair: Patrick White, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
“Distorted Images: Concepts of Leadership and Civil Society in Popular Culture.” Joyce Apsel, 925 Andover Terrace, Ridgewood, NJ 07450.
“The College Presidency: Reframing Visionary Leadership.” Gene C. Crume, Institutional Advancement, Tidewater Comm. College, Norfolk, VA 23510.
“Hail to the Chiefs: The College President as Public Figure in an Age of Collaborative Leadership.” Patrick White.

401 PCA Room 308
FOOD & POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Beverly Taylor, English, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
“Are Baked Potatoes More Exciting Than Men?: Henry Jaglom’s Eating.” Gerald Duchovnay, Lit. & Lang., Texas A&M U, Commerce, TX 75429.
“Eating Narrative.” James Newcomb, English, U of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38104.
“Eating Octopus: Consumption in Frank Norris’s Trilogy of Wheat.” Thomas Strychacz, English, Mills College, Oakland, CA 94613.

402 PCA Room 309
CULTURE & RELIGION
Chair: Ingrid H. Shafer, U of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK 73018.
“The Spiritual Path of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Universe.” Ivy Glen-non, Speech Comm., Women’s Studies, Eastern Illinois U, Charleston, IL 61920.
“Pulp Fiction and the Neo-Calvinist Conversion Narrative.” Meredith Neuman, English, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
“Rural and Urban Terror in the Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber I.” Curtis Shumaker, English, Iowa State U, Ames, IA 50014.
“Rural and Urban Terror in the Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber II.” Bryan Dietrick, English, Kansas Newman U, Wichita, KS 67213.

403 PCA Room 310
MEDIA COVERAGE OF SCIENTIFIC & POLITICAL EVENTS
Chair: Don J. Stewart, School of Business, USCA, Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801.
“‘Geno-Hype’: Media Coverage of the Human Genome Project.” Alice Mellican, c/o Diamond Middle School, Lexington, MA 02420.
“Effects of Television on Politics.” D.J. Stewart.
“Agenda Setting of International Issues in Two Canadian and Ohio Newspapers.” Debbie Phillips, Speech & Theatre, Muskingum College, New Concord, OH 43762.
“Decision 2000 and the Media: Bushwacked or Gored?” Don J. Stewart.

404 Room 401
WOMEN’S STUDIES: Undergraduates View the Cultural Roles of African-American Women
Chair: Simona J. Hill, Sociology & Anthropology, Susquehanna U, Selinsgrove, PA 17870.
“The Margin of the Margin: Octavia Butler and the Edge of Science Fiction.” Adam Cole and Branden Pfefferkorn, Susquehanna U.
“An Imitation of Life Any Day Now: Race, Gender, and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century.” Holly Slotterback, Susquehanna U.
“Collard Greens, ‘Pot Likkor,’ and Rejecting Black Barbie: Food and Body Image for African American Women.” Kari Monroe and Cathy Schoenleber, Susquehanna U.

405 PCA Room 402
MEDIA, RITUAL, & PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AMERICAS
Chair: Paul Rich, U of the Americas, Puebla.
“Hillary Clinton: Friend or Foe?” Crystal Ehlinger, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18104.
“Poetry and Public Discourse in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua.” Bruce Campbell, Modern & Classical Lang., St. John’s U, Collegeville, MN 56321.
“Political Ritualism in Mexico: El Informe Presidential.” Luis Ochoa Bilbao, Universidad de las Aemericas–Puebla, International Relations, Sta. Catarina Martir, Cholula, Puebla, 72820 Mexico.

406 PCA Room 403
LATIN AMERICA
Moderator: Robert Jeantet, Foreign Lang., U of Akron, Akron, OH.
“Reinvisioning Exile: Self/Other Relations in Contemporary Caribbean Novels.” Catherine West, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC.
“‘The Function of Sculpture in El lápiz del carpintero’ by Manuel Rivas.” Mercedes Tasende, Foreign Lang. & Lit., Western Michigan U, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
“The Downside of El Dorado: Popular Perceptions of the New American Economic Order in Contemporary France.” Robert Jeantet.

407 PCA Room 404
ORIGINAL POETRY
Chair: Sandra Meek, English, Berry College,
Jerry McGuire, Creative Writing, U of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.
Jack B. Bedell, English, Southeastern Louisiana U, Hammond, LA.
Paul Medus, English, Louisiana State U, Eunice, LA.

408 PCA Room 405
SF/F: Classic Stories, Modern Readings
Chair: Donald Palumbo, English, East Carolina U, Greenville, NC 27858.
“A Critical Analysis of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds and the Historical Narrative of Alien Abductions.” Timothy Mitchell, George-town U, Washington, DC 20016.
“From Fascist to Farce: The Transition of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers from Text to Film.” William R. Hunter, English, Edinboro U of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA 16444.
“Bradbury’s Best Bet: Fahrenheit 451 as Prognosis of the Information Age.” Joseph F. Battaglia, English, Bloomsburg U, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
“Twenty-Three Fractal Variations on a Theme in the Conclusions of Asimov’s Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries.” Donald Palumbo.

409 PCA Room 406
HISTORICAL FICTION
Chair: Dean Rehberger, Matrix, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“A Folly with a Silly Wench in It.” Anne Marie Flanagan, Humanities, U of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“Place of Peace: Shelby Foote’s Shiloh.” Jack H. White, U Honors Program, Mississippi State U, Mississippi State, MS 39762.
“The Failure of Memory: The American Civil War in Historical Fiction, 1938-1960.” Dean Rehberger.
“Behind the Big House: The African American Community in the Plantation Novels of Frank Yerby.” John Scott Wilson, History, U of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
“Building the perfect Scotsmen: Dorothy Dunnett’s Gemini in Cyber-space.” Elizabeth L. Rambo, English, Campbell U, Buies Creek, NC 27506.
panel may run later than 4:00 pm if time is needed.

410 PCA Room 407
AMERICAN LIT.: Great American Authors
Chair: Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA 23005.
“The Great Gatsby and ‘The Sheik of Araby.’” Michael Nowlin, English, U of Victoria, PO Box 3070 Stn. CSC, Victoria, BC Canada V8 W 3W1.
“Not Merely a ‘Guy Book’: Moby Dick’s Ismael as American Epic Hero.” Gary L. Harmon, English, U of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224.
“Father Abraham’s Lost Tribe: The Distortion of Franklin’s American Dream in Modern Novels.” Ralph Miller, English, U of Texas–Pan American, Edinburg, TX 76539.
“Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.” M. Thomas Inge.

411 PCA Room 408
MEN & MASCULINITY: Images in Film/Movies
Chair: Ashton D. Trice, Psychology, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
“Shadow Play and Masculine Sexuality in Film: Flawless and Eyes Wide Shut.” Terry Lee, English, Christopher Newport U, Newport News, VA 23606.
“Resolution in Contemporary Male Portraiture a’la Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing.” William A. Martin, English, McMaster U, Hamilton, ONT, Canada L8S 4L9.
“Removing the ‘Masc’: Redefining Masculinity in the Films of Bob Rafelson.” Jon S. Oberacker, Comm., U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
“The Representation of Men and Masculinity in the Musicals of World War II. Ashton D. Trice.

412 PCA Room 409
PACIFIC RIM POPULAR CULTURE: Other Dimensions
Chair: John A. Lent, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA.
“The East and the American Psyche.” Razia Khan, English, U of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
“Chinese Alternative Rock and Politics: The New Cultural Evolution.” David Drissel, Iowa Central Comm. College, Fort Dodge, IA 50501.
“Smap, Sex, and Masculinity in the Japanese Media: Constructing the Ideal Female Fantasy.” Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Journalism, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
“The Brick Show: An Exhibition of Polychrome Brick Buildings in Melbourne.” Derham Groves, Arch., Building & Planning, U of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia.
413 PCA Room 410
CULTURE & ENVIRONMENT
Chair: M. B. Neace, Mercer U, Macon, GA 31207.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, The North Roach Ponders.” Tok Thompson, 5656 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609.
“Ice-Fishing and Local Culture: Investing Identity on Eight Inches of Ice.” Heath Bowen, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“An Analysis of Media Representations of the Chemical Industry of Soviet-Era Literature.” Diana Mincyte, Sociology, U of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.
“Noodling: An American Folk Fishing Technique.” Deborah A. Salagas, Geography, California State U, Fullerton, CA 92824.
“Culture and the Natural Environment: Essential Bedfellows for Sustain-able Development.” M. B. Neace.
session may run over into next time slot if needed.

414 PCA Room 411
RADIO: Frank Sinatra, Native Alaskans, & World News
Chair: Charles F. Ganzert, Comm./Performance Studies, Northern Michigan U, Marquette, MI 49855.
“Dago Cool on the Radio: Career of Frank Sinatra.” Charles A. Coletta, 4891 Countryside Rd., Lyndhurst, OH 44124.
“Native Alaskan Community Radio: A Good Idea Derailed by NPR?” Joy Morrison, Journalism, U of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775.
“BBC World News Project at Concordia: Value, Treatment and Uses.” Howard Fink, Centre for Broadcasting Studies, Concordia U, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8.
Title TBA. Corley Dennison, Mournalism & Mass Comm., Huntington, WV 52755.
“Radio Studies in the Evolution of Mass Media Journals.” Frank Chorba, Mass Media, Washburn U, Topeka, KS 66621.

415 PCA Room 412
GOTHIC: Visual Media
Chair: Michelle E. Moore, English, SUNY, Binghamton, NY 13902.
“Inexplicability of Evil: Gothic Conventions of Horror and Mystery in Late Twentieth-Century American Reality-based Television.” Salita Bryant, English, U of Mississippi, University, MI 38677.
“Rebuffing Patriarchy: Gothic Literature, History, and Buffy the Vam-pire Slayer.” Larry T. Shillock, English, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA 17201.
“Having a Friend for Lunch: Modernism and the Gothic Cannibal.” Michelle E. Moore.

416 PCA Room 413
THRILLERS & THE ADVENTURE STORY IN POPULAR FICTION
Chair: Garyn G. Roberts, Comm., Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI 49686.
“Gothic Suspense and the Adventure Thriller: Guy Boothby’s Pharos the Egyptian.” Gary Hoppenstand, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Yankee Go Home: Crime and Anti-imperialism in the Noir Novels of Manuel Vazquez Montalban.” William J. Nichols, Lang., Lit. & Arts, Texas A&M International U, Laredo, TX 78041.
“A Character Analysis of the Nyoka the Jungle Girl Adventures.” M. Susan Beck, English, U of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI 54022.
“The Way Is to the Destructive Element: Observations on a Popular Culture Hero.” Robert Doak, English, Wingate U, Wingate, NC 28174.

417 ACA Room 414
MUSIC
Chair: T. Jeff Evans, English, U of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.
“The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll: Rock and the Blues Aesthetic.” Charles Gower Price, Music History, West Chester U, West Chester, PA 19383.
“Milt Gabler, Impresario Extaordinaire.” Frank A. Salamone, Sociology, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801.
“Lester Bangs and the Aesthetics of American Punk Rock.” T. Jeff Evans.

418 PCA Room 415
GEOGRAPHY
Chair: Joseph T. Manzo, Geography, Concord College, Athens, WV 24712.
“Marching from Mine Wars to Mountaintop Removal: Labor’s Assaults on Blair Mountain.” Roger Basham, George Towers, Geography, Concord College, Athens, WV 24712.
“Sharing Space with Pigs: Greater Cincinnati’s Big Pig Gig.” Macel Wheeler, Geography, Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY 41076.
“Prostitution and the Environment: A Thailand Example.” Joseph T. Manzo.

419 Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: Late 20-Century American Art
Chair: Alma Bennett, 604 Strode Tower, Clemson, SC 29634.
“Invented Languages: Peter Rose’s Performance Art and Video.” Craig Saper, U of the Arts, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
“Celluloid Arts: The Reel (Re)presentation of the Artist in (Fictional) 20th Century.” Dena M. Gilby, American Film, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 01915.
“Aromatherapy and Modern Spaces.” Ruth R. Miller, U of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
“Cindy Sherman’s Assaultive Eyes.” Alma Bennett.

420 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: How Does One Balance a Career and Sleuthing?
Chair: Marilyn Rye, English, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Madison, NJ 07940.
“A Slice of Death: The Popularization of the Forensic Sleuth.” Lois A. Marchino, English, U of Texas, El Paso, TX 79968.
“Tenure and the Academic Sleuth.” Marcia J. Songer, English, East Tennessee State U, Johnson City, TN 37614.
“The Hidden Costs of Success: The Paradigmatic Careers of Sonora Blair and Alex Cooper.” Marilyn Rye.421 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: During the War
Chair: Paul A. Bates, English, Colorado State U, Fort Collins, CO 80525.
“Post-Tet Montana and Vietnam: Montanans’ Attitudes Toward the War and Related Issues, 1968-1980.” Richard Wojtowicz, Libraries, Montana State U, Bozeman, MT 59717.
“Fearful Symmetry: Vietnam Alpha and Persian Gulf Omega.” W. Russel Gray, 62 Hamilton Cir., Philadelphia, PA 19130.
“Nixon and the Navy Seals.” Paul A. Bates.

422 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: The Poetics of Black Culture
Chair: Dawn Lundy Martin, English, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“Venus and Serena Williams as Hot Icons and Figures of Appearance and Disappearance.” Ronaldo Wilson, City U of New York.
“Soul in the Hole: The Underground Railroad of Diasporic Funk.” Duriel E. Harris, English, U of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607.
“Hear My Train a Comin’: An Acoustemology of Blackness in Space.” Mendi Lewis Obadike, 1500 Duke Univ., Rd. E2C, Durham, NC 27721.
“This Is Our Story: A Review of How African-American Families Use Narrative.” Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Regent U, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
“Uncomfortable Speech: Raciality in Postmodern American Poetry.” Dawn Lundy Martin.

423 PCA Salon E
WORKSHOP SESSION: The Television Series The West Wing
Introduction: Robert Fyne, Kean U
This session will show an episode from The West Wing entitled “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet.” The screening will be followed by a discussion initiated by Peter Rollins, but followed by contributions from the floor in true workshop fashion. If possible, participants are urged to view the episode in advance or to watch some recent episodes prior to the conference.

424 PCA Salon F
SLAPSTICK COMEDY/EARLY TELEVISION
Chair: Peter Seely, Comm. Arts, Benedictine U, Lisle, IL 60532.
“Goodness Had a Lot to Do with It: The Films of Mae West.” Don Morlan, Comm., U of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469.
“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: American Values on Television in the Atomic Era.” Peter Seely.
“Shakespeare and the Three Stooges.” Jon Solomon, 6651 North Placita Arquilla, Tucson, AZ 85718.

425 PCA Salon G
SF/F: History & Alternate History
Chair: Roy Sheldon, English, Washburn U, Topeka, KS 66621.
“The Future of the Past: Memory, History and Historiography in Science Fiction.” Beate Rodewald, 901 S. Flagler Dr., West Palm Beach, FL 33416.
“Out of This World: The Holocaust in Science Fiction.” Henry Gonshak, Liberal Studies, Montana Tech, Butte, MT 59701.
“Star Trek’s Mirror Universe: Agency and Alternate History.” Karen Hellekson, 16 Rolling Ridge, Jay, ME 04239.
“Alternate Worlds: Chance, Choice, Nazis, and Native Americans.” Roy Sheldon.

426 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: European Comics: Context & Influences
Chair: K.A. Laity, Medieval Studies, U of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.
“The Rhetoric of Parody in Claire Bretècher’s Le destin de Monique.” Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3P8.
“Different Drafts of ‘a Future Horizon’—Weird Science versus Nick der Weltraumfahrer.” Ole Frahm, Arbeitsstelle für Graphische Literatur, Universität Hamburg, Heimhuder Str. 71, Zimmer 209, 20 148 Ham-burg, Germany.
“Fantasy Voyages, Fairy Spells, Psychedelic Trips and Nightmare Voyages: Interludes in European Comics.” Ellen Vartanoff, 4418 Renn St., Rockville, MD 20853.
“Construction of a ‘Female Hero’: Iconography in Les Aventures Extra-ordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec.” K.A. Laity.427 PCA Salon I

GERMAN CULTURE: East Greets West
Chair: Chris Lorey, Culture & Lang. Studies, U of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB Canada I3B 5A3.
“Fashn Show or Striptease? East German Performance Artists Sabotage Consumer Desire.” Beret L. Norman, German, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
“You Can Still Get That? Material Culture, Identity, and Remembering the East German Past.” Martin Blum, English, Okanagan U College, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
“The Matter of Winckelmann and Herbert List’s Photography.” John L. Plews, Mod. Lang., U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alb, Canada T6G 2I6.
“Sport, Masculinity and Advertising in the German Newsmagazine Der Spiegel.” Martha Worsching, German, Loughborough U, Loughborough, LE 11 3TU United Kingdom.
428 PCA Salon J

WORLD FAIRS: Music at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904)
Chair: Yvonne Condon, Comm. Programs, Missouri Historical Society, Forest Park, Saint Louis, MO 63112.
“Music and the Wanamaker Organ at the 1904 St. Louis World’s.” Mary N. Hilton, Ed.D., Washington U, St. Louis, MO.
“Introduction in Pictures to Music at the Fair.” Yvonne Condon.
429 Salon K

TELEVISION: Prime-Time Animation, Reality, & Race
Chair: Pamela Colby O’Brien, George Washington U, Washington, DC 20007.
“Embracing the Television: A Look at Parody and The Simpsons.” William Connolly, 1384 Omara Dr., Union, NJ 07083.
“The Varying Effect of Controversy on Prime-Time Animation: Family Guy versus God, the Devil, and Bob.” Pamela Colby O’Brien.
“How Real Is The Real World?” Irina Negrea, English, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
“Prime-Time Race Relations in the New Millennium.” David Payson, Comm., Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435.
“Somebodies and Traumatized Bodies: The Simpsons, South Park, and Family.” Sue Barker, 7737 N. Eastlake Terrace, Apt. 3M, Chicago, IL 60626.
session may run later than 4:00 if time is needed.
430 ACA Salon L
LAW: Law, Film, & Television
Chair: Wythe Holt, U of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
“Law in Postmodernity: TV Court Shows and the Role of Legal Comedy.” Valerie Karno, English, U of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.
“Hollywood on Trial.” Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., History, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN 46222.
“Marijuana: No Laughing Matter? The Devil Weed on the Big Screen.” Carole Shapiro, Touro College, Fuchsberg Law Center, Huntington, NY 11743.
431 PCA Room 501

SHAKESPEARE & POPULAR CULTURE: Remix
Chair: Stephen Bretzius, English, Southeastern Louisiana U, Hammond, LA 70402.
“What It Takes to Be a Shrew.” Kelly A. Rivers, English, U of Tennes-see, Knoxville, TN 37996.
“Everybody in Shakespeare.” Megan Sanborn, Theatre & Dance, U of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
“Bianca’s Revenge, or Things to Love about 10 Things I Hate about You.” Melissa Croteau, 315 Playa del Sur, Apt. E, La Jolla, CA 92037.
“‘A Rose by any other name’: Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic.” Stephen Bretzius.
432 PCA Room 502

GENDER: Representations of Masculinity & Feminism
Chair: Christy Regenhardt, American History, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
“Russel Crowe and Gladiator: Reworked Representations of Masculinity.” Kathryn Lasky, Media Studies, U of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103.
“Marilyn Monroe and American Manliness.” Christy Regenhardt.
“RAW Is Gender: Chyna as Feminist Embodiment.” Kalene Westmoreland, English, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
“Where’s Poppa? Looking at Recent Debates over the Crisis of Masculinity in the Family.” Margaret Tally, SUNY, Empire State College.
Respondent: Wendy Blanton, U of Michigan, Dearborn, MI 48101.