Thursday 8:30–10:00 AM

21 ACA Room 307
CEMETERIES & GRAVEMARKERS
Chair: David M. Gradwohl, Anthropology, Iowa State U, Ames, IA.
“Gone to America! Life and Death of Czech Pioneer Immigrants in Texas.” Eva Eckert, Box 5432, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320.
“Crossed Boundaries: Creolizing Toussaint in Lacombe, Louisiana.” Jocelyn Donlon, English, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
“Gravemarkers: Affirmation of Life within a Catholic Community.” Scott Baird, English, Trinity U, San Antonio, TX 78212.
“Gravemarkers: Affirmation of Life within a Non-Catholic Community.”
Jennifer C. Purcell, English, Trinity U, San Antonio, TX 78212.

22 PCA Room 308
Business/Corporate Culture: The Construction of Corporate Culture
Chair: TBA
“Faxing into the Future: The Impact of Fax Machines on American Business, 1980-1990.” Jonathan Coopersmith, History, Texas A&M U, College Station, TX 77843.
“The Impact of Venture Capital on United Stats Popular Culture and the Perception of Instant Millions.” R. Jake Sudderth, Ocentrix, Inc. 6055 35th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98126.
“Making Managers at the University of Michigan.” Paul K. Ching, Program in American Culture, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
“Aqua Vests, Peanuts and Flare Buttons: Building Strong Organizational Cultures.” Barbara S. Hugenburg, Comm., Mount Union College, Alliance, OH 44601.

23 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Media
Chair: Linda K. Fuller, Comm., Worcester State College, Wilbraham, MA 01095.
“Television and Fishing: Setting the Rules.” John Bratzel, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48823.
“Reading the Draft: Presenting Power and Spectacle on ESPN.” Thomas Oates, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52246.
“Listenin’ to Mrs. Jones: A Critical Analysis of Nike’s Marion Jones Advertising Campaign.” Shiva N. Davis, 3 Terrace Dr., Box #6, Kent, OH 44243.
“Miller Time?: Time (and Ratings) Will Tell How Long Dennis Miller Will Rate as a Sportscaster on MNF.” Linda K. Fuller.

24 PCA Room 310
DIME NOVELS
Chair: Marlena Bremseth.
“Backwoods’ Brides and Blushing Frontier Maidens: Beadle’s Dime Novel Romances.” Carol Carney, Lit., Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711.
“Indianized White Women and Whitened Indian Women in Mary Derwent.” Teresta Trupiano Barry, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Indians on the Coffee Table: The Native American in The Saturday Evening Post, 1920-1950.” Harry Brown, English, Lehigh U, Beth-lehem, PA 18015.
“‘A Pernicious and Demoralising Literature’: Examining Censure and Defense of Dime Novels by Dime Novel Authors.” Marlena Bremseth.

25 PCA Room 401
ACADEMICS: Developing an Inter-disciplinary Popular Culture Course
Chair: Lynn Bartholome, English/Philosophy, Monroe Comm. College, Rochester, NY 14623.
Panelist: Philip Snyder, English/Philosophy, Monroe Comm. College, Rochester, NY 1623.
Participant: Gary Hoppenstand, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.

26 PCA Room 402
HEALTH & DISEASE: The Consumer Environment
Chair: Stephanie Hartman, Rutgers U, 500 Jersey Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07302.
“The Utilization of Health: Advertising, Consumers, Products.” Margot Wallace, Marketing Comm., Columbia College, Chicago, IL 60605.
“An Addictive Landscape: Pathological Gambling in Las Vegas.” Natasha Dow Schull, U of California, Berkeley, CA 94704.
“Eat Your Spinach: The Problematics of Food as Medicine.” Stephanie Hartman.

27 PCA Room 403
POPULAR CULTURE, RHETORIC & COMPOSITION: Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Chair: Kathleen Spencer, Humanities, Cincinnati State Tech. & Comm. Colllege, 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223.
“‘Mad Max’ Meets ‘Renaissance Man’: Choosing Popular Films for the Composition Classroom.” Kathleen Spencer.
“Looking through a Glass Onion: The Onion as a Lens on Mass Culture.” Brent Heffron, Rhetoric, U of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
“Writing by the Light of the Tube: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TV.” Bronwyn T. Williams, English, U of Louisville, Louis-ville, KY 40292.
“The Benefits of Using Popular Culture to Teach the Argumentative Essay.” Christine Qualtieri, Humanities & Comm., Drexel U, Phila-delphia, PA 19104.

28 PCA Room 404
PROTEST ISSUES & ACTIONS
Chair: Lotte Larsen, Hamersly Library, Western Oregon U, Monmouth, OR 97361.
“Our Clothes Can Set Us Free: Nineteenth-Century American Dress Reform.” Kathleen M. Torrens, Comm., California State U, Fresno, CA 93720.
“Songs of the American Suffragettes: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Uses of Creativity.” Susan M. Fredricks, Speech Comm., Penn State U–Dela-ware County, Media, PA 19063.
“Group Processes in Women’s Activism.” Nancy Wyatt, Speech Comm. & Women’s Studies, Penn State U–Delaware County, Media, PA 19063.

29 PCA Room 405
WORLD WAR II: Film
Chair: Robert L. McLaughlin, English, Illinois State U, Normal, IL 61790.
“Collaborators or Resistance Fighters? The Portrayal of the French in Hollywood during World War II.” Sally E. Parry, English, Illinois State U, Normal, IL 61790.
“Singing On to Victory: Lyrics of Songs in World War II Films of 1941-1945.” Dave Bertolotti, Humanities & Social Sciences, Kettering U, Flint, MI 58402.
“Fort Apache, Tokyo: Portrayals of the Japanese in Hollywood World War II Films.” Robert L. McLaughlin.

30 PCA Room 406
MADNESS IN LIT.
Chair: Branimir M. Rieger, Humanities, Lander U, Greenwood, SC 29649.
“Tarsem Singh’s Visual Techniques in ‘Losing My Religion’ and ‘The Cell.’” Branimir M. Rieger.
“Historicity and the Social Construction of Madness in Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III.” Don Lawson, Humanities, Lander U, Greenwood, SC 29649.
“Pedophilia in the Works of Benjamin Britten.” John DiGaetani, English, Hofstra U, Hempstead, NY 11551.
“The Social Construction of Psychopathology in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting.” Russ Pottle, St. Joseph Seminary College, St. Benedict, LA 70457.

31 Room 407
BIOGRAPHY: Merging Fact & Fiction
Chair: Hal Holway, English, U of California, CA 95616.
“‘The Real World’: A Fictional Place.” Jess Segal, 44 Orton Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905.
“Richard Halliburton’s Biography of Rupert Broke.” Emily Missner, School of Library and Information Studies, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
“lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians: A Post-Modern Genre Bender.” Mario Paduano, English, Tufts U, Medford, MA 02155.
“Autobiography and Fiction as Evidence in Literary Biography: The Case of Graham Greene.” Hal Holway.

32 PCA Room 408
GAY & LESBIAN: (Trans)Gendered Spaces
Chair: Tom Pearson, 99 Ocean Ave. Apt. 2L, Brooklyn, NY 11225.
“Subverting the Conventional through Spaces of Ecstasy: Exploring the Musical Narrative(s) of Queer Women in Rave.” Charity Marsh, Popular Music Studies, York U, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 2M7.
“Excitable Speech: Judith Butler, Mae West and Sexual Innuendo.” Angela Failler, Women’s Studies, York U, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 13P.
“Conceptual Transsexualism and ‘Coming Out’: Rethinking the Closet.” Catherine Gouge, English, West Virginia U, Morgantown, WV 26506.
“Counting Coup: Understanding of the Contemporary Native American Dance as a Site for Gender and Sexuality (Re)configurations.” Tom Pearson.

33 PCA Room 409
ADVERTISING: Soap, Children & Medication
Chair: Michael M. Cornett, Comm., Loyola U, Chicago, IL 60611.
“Medical Middlemen: The Marketing of Psychotropic Medications to Mental Health Professionals.” Deborah E. Renard, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan U, Kalamazoo, MI 49001.
“Advertising Gets Entertaining: A Case Study of Soap Advertisements in the 1930s.” Julianne Sivulka, School of journalism & Mass Comm., U of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
“Sharing Space with Adult Ads and Revealing Pictorials: Public Relations Placement Opportunities in Maxim.” Kurt Wildemuth, PO Box 5619, Comm., Northern Arizona U, Flagstaff, AZ 86011.
“Advertising to Children: What Are They Getting Away With?” Michael Cornett.

34 PCA Room 410
WESTERN LIT.: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
Chair: Wendy Chapman Peek, English, Stonehill College, 320 Wash-ington St., Easton, MA 02357.
“Cowboy Poetry: Worlds & Words of Present and Past.” Keith Reier-stad, Lit. Comp., Humanities, Ames Comm. College, Fort Lupton, CO 80621.
“The Pop Western as Theater: The Spoilers on Broadway.” James Belpedio, Becker College, Worcester, MA 01600.
“In Perils in the Wilderness: What It Means to Be Wild in Into the Wild and Into the Forest.” Anne M. Turner, The Writing Program, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
“Riding, Roping, and Romancing: Rodeo Riders in Modern Fiction.” Helen Lewis, English/Humanities, Western Iowa Tech College, Sioux City, IA 51102.

35 PCA Room 411
THEATRE: Farce, Melodrama, & Improv
Chair: David Bowman, English, Martin Methodist College, 433 W. Madison, Pulaski, TN 38478.“Theatre Sports: Developing an Improvisational Group.” Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Theatre, Kent State U, Trumbull Campus, Warren, OH 44483.
“Criminal Women and the Victorian Melodrama Turned Musical.” Mary Jo Lodge, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Actual Lives: Cripples in the House.” Chris Strickling, English, U of Texas, Austin, TX.

36 PCA Room 412
HORROR: Genre & Horror Cinema
Chair: Barry Keith Grant, Comm., Popular Culture & Film, Brock U, St. Catharines, ONT, Canada L2S 3A1.
“Whiteness and Vampire Films.” Mike McQueen, Journalism & Mass Comm., Florida International U, North Miami, FL 33181.
“The Apartment as a Cell of Horror.” Diana and Carol Royer, English, Miami U, Oxford, OH.
“Disorder in the Universe: John Carpenter and the Question of Genre.” Barry Keith Grant.

37 Room 413
WOMEN’S STUDIES: From Girls to Women—How Do We Grow?
Chair: Melanie Mills, Speech Comm., EIU, Charleston, IL 61920.
“Lives of the Little Girl Saints: Gender and Moral Education in Catholic Hagiography for Children.” Elizabeth A. Sheehand, Anthropology, American U, Washington, DC 20016.
“Little Eva Revisited.” Katie Hogan, 237 East 26 St., Apt. 2E, New York, NY 10010.
“Women’s Parental Relationships in Nora Robert’s Novels.” Lynda Dodgen and Adrian Rapp, North Harris College, Houston, TX 77073.
“‘When I Was a Girl’...Hey, Wait! I Still Am: Intergenerational Family Relationships as a Source of Social Support among Women.” Melanie Mills/Gina Bauswell.

38 PCA Room 414
MUSIC
Chair: Gary Burns, Comm., Northern Illinois U, DeKalb, IL 60115.
“So Rare! Private-Press Psychedelic Album Collecting and the Search for the Impossible Object.” Stan Denski, 95 N. Hawthorne Ln., Indianapolis, IN 46219.
“Jerry Lee Lewis: The Surviving Icon.” David Deacon, 89 Green Lane, Liverpool L18 2EP, UK.
“Eastern Pennsylvania ’60s Rock: The Barclay Story.” Erik Lindgren Arf Arf Records and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, PO Box 465, 112 Fuller St., Middleborough, MNA 02346.
“Narratives of Failure and Victimage in Life Stories of Rock Musicians.” Gary Burns and Jim Christopulos, Howard & the White Boys, 4636 N. Western Ave., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60625.

39 PCA Room 415
CHILDREN’S LIT. & CULTURE: Teaching
Chair: Larry Juchartz, English, Eastern Michigan U, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
“The Visual Impact of Historical Art Conventions in Caldecott Medal Books.” Sandra J. Jordan, Murray State U, Murray, KY 42071.
“Is It Possible to Teach Love? Portugal, 16th Century, an Example.” Claudia Sousa Pereira, Rua Progresso do Alentejo, II, 7000-691 Evora, Portugal.
“Team-Teaching ‘Remedial’ College Reading with Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein.” Larry Juchartz.
“Teaching Literature in a Multicultural Classroom: Using Popular Mediums to Break the Language Barrier.” Maureen Wiekenheiser, 11000 S. Stoney Creek, Carleton, MI 48117.

40 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: Homer, Bierstadt, & Eakins
Chair: Phoebe Lloyd, School of Art, Texas Tech U, Lubbock, TX 79409.
“Winslow Homer’s Croquet Scenes: When the Game of Croquet Is Not a Game.” Phoebe Lloyd.
“Albert Bierstadt: An Economic Reevaluation.” Kevin Murphy, U of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
“The Clerical Portraits of Thomas Eakins: New ‘Heroes’ for Modern Life.” Kimberely A. Orcutt, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 10021.

41 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: Family & Friends in Detective Fiction
Chair: Patricia P. Buckler, English, Purdue U North Central, Westville, IN 46391.
“Images of Family in Detective Fiction.” Cathy Goodwin, Marketing, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; and Cecelia Wittmayer, Academic Affairs & Marketing, Dakota State U, Madison, SD 57042.
“The Evolution of the Sidekick/Partner in Mystery Fiction.” Landon Burns, 540 Irvington Rd., Drexel Hill, PA 19026.
“Senior Citizen Sidekicks in the Novels of Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky.” Patricia P. Buckler.

42 Salon C
VIETNAM: Evolving Perspectives
Chair & Respondent: Barbara Kunkle, Arts & Sciences, Shawnee State U, Portsmouth, OH 45662.
“Development of Vietnam Endeavors.” Mary Hanna, Dev. of Vietnam Endeavors, PO Box 310, Toledo, OH 43697.
“Gap Nhau/Meeting: Vietnamese Poetry of the American War.” Eric Gadzinski, English, Lake Superior State U, Ste. Marie, MI 49783.
“Retrospect: North and South Vietnamese Writers of the American War/ Vietnam War.” Renate Prescott, English, Ohio State U at Geauga, Burton, OH 44021.

43 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Racial Dualisms as Political Rationales & Social Apologies
Chair: Carl Eugene Briscoe, Jr., Political Science, Lincoln U, Oxford, PA 19352.
“Desegregation as Political Spectacle in Mississippi Higher Education.” Mary Coleman, Political Science, Jackson State U, Jackson, MS 39217.
“‘Cross-over’ Politicians and Cross-over Artist, as Both Representative of a Particular Aspect of the On-going Process of Domestic Colonial-ism.” Neal Holmes, Political Science, Cheney State U, Cheney, PA 19319.
“Black Retrenchments in Resistance: Subversive Acts with Liberatory Symbols.” Judith Thomas, Humanities, Lincoln U, Oxford, PA 19352.
“Contemporary Racial Dualisms: The Politics of Legitimacy for Uncle Tom’s Re-emergence or ‘Niggers’ and ‘Niggettes.’” Carl Eugene Briscoe.

44 PCA Salon E
FILM & HISTORY: Screen Motifs & Interpretation
Chair: Robert Fyne, English, Kean U, Union, NJ 07083.
“Dimitri Tiomkin’s Film Music Gives the American West Some Russian Dressing.” Tony C. Smith, Creative & Performing Arts, Northwestern State U, Natchitoches, LA 71497.
“Hollywood’s Texas Rangers: Not a Mexicano Creation.” Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, 532 Osuna Rd., NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113.
“Hollywood’s Red Decade: Images of Radicalism on 1930’s American Movie Screens.” Michael S. Shull, Towson U, Baltimore, MD.
“Tragedy, Memory, and History: Historical Consulting and TLC’s Kent State.” Brad L. Duren, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Oklahoma Pan-handle State U, Goodwell, OK 73939.

45 PCA Salon F
FILM: 1930s & 1980s
Chair: Parley Ann Boswell, English, Eastern Illinois U, Charleston, IL 61920.
“Silent Voices: Women Filmmakers, 1896-1930.” Donna R. Casella, English, Minnesota State U, Mankato, MN 56002.
“Beyond the Movie Palaces: North Philadelphia Theaters in the 1930s.”
Joan McGettigan, Radio-TV-Film, Texas Christian U, TCU Box 298040, Fort Worth, TX 76129.
“Performance Over Patriarchy: The Soundtrack as Site of Female Power in His Girl Friday.” Robert Kilker, Lehigh U, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
“Hollywood Movies of the 1980s: Reflections of an ‘Evil Empire.’” Parley Ann Boswell.

46 PCA Salon G
SF/F: Humans & Humanity
Chair: Dennis M. Weiss, English & Humanities, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA 17405.
“All True Wealth Is Biological: The Family as Cornerstone in the Works of Lois McMaster Bujold.” Edward Dee, 172 Prospect Park West 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
“Friendship in the Star Trek Universe: Where Few Women Have Gone Before.” Wendy A.F. Green Stengel, Comm., Culture & Technology, Georgetown U, Washington, DC 20057.
“Foster Care Aboard Star Trek: Voyager.” Michele Reese, English, U of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201.
“Star Trek’s Human Nature.” Dennis M. Weiss.

47 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: Maus & Holocaust Narrative
Chair: Christopher Sharrett, Comm., Seton Hall, South Orange, NJ 07079.
“Deconstructing Narrative Voices in Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel.” Anne Stipo Nicol, HB 217, U of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294.
“Transmitting History and Transferring Trauma in Art Spiegelman’s Maus.” Elisabeth Friedman, Rhetoric, U of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
“The Holocaust in Comics.” Christopher Sharrett.

48 ACA Salon I
LIT. & POLITICS: Gender, Genre & Ethnicity
Chair: Philip Goldstein, English, U of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711.
“Blacks, Greeks, and Freaks: Othering as Social Criticism in Peyton Place.” David Myles Jones, English, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 54701.
“Golden Bowls: The Politics of Character in American Literary Realism.” James Salazar, Rhetoric, U of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
“‘The Politics of Love’: Marriage and Power in the Poetry of Mona Van Duy.” Yvonne C. Murphy, Cultural Studies, SUNY Empire State College, Hauppauge, NY 1788.
“Gender and Genre in Paretsky and Spillane.” Philip Goldstein.

49 PCA Salon J
MEMORY & REPRESENTATION
Chair: Arthur G. Neal, Sociology, Portland State U, Portland, OR.
“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.” Stewart Varner, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Depending on Memory: Intertextuality in Popular Fiction.” Jill Jones, Lang. Arts, Southwestern Oklahoma U, Weatherford, OK 73096.
“Transformative Re-membering in Phyllis Perry’s Stigmata and Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s The River Where Blood Is Born.” Yolanda Hood, U of North Carolina, Ashville, NC 28803.

50 ACA/PCA Salon K
Tribute to Agnes Nixon, Part 1: Soap Operas in the 21st Century
With the mentoring of the creator of radio soap operas, Irna Phillips, Agnes Nixon has become the most important figure in the history of television daytime dramas. Nixon created two enduring serials, All My Children and One Life to Live, that have entertained viewers for thirty years each. Nixon is currently working on developing storyline material for all of the ABC soap operas. She has won every possible award given to a television creator, except, of course, the Pat and Ray Browne Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture.
Denise D. Bielby, Sociology, U of California, Santa Barbara, and C. Lee Harrington, Sociology, Miami U, Oxford, authors of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life, discuss the future of daytime soap operas.
Respondent: Carol Traynor Williams, Manset, ME.

51 PCA Salon L
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION: Whose Internet?
Chair: Andrew Kurtz, Bowling Green State U, Firelands College, Huron, OH 44839.
“Both Sides of the Internet: Proponents and Critics.” N.J. Brown, U of Akron, Akron, OH.
“Social Research and the Corporate Possibility.” Samuel R. Smith, Center for Digital Culture, 1 South Point Dr. #706, Dorchester, MA 02125.
“New Technologies, Old Ideas.” Richard Wise, Media Arts, U of Luton, 75 Castle St., Luton, LU1 3AJ UK.
“Women and Children First: Recruitment of the Non-Traditional Extremist on the Internet.” Cathleen White, Holy Innocents Episcopal School, 7250 Riverside Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30328.

52 PCA Room 501
BRITISH POPULAR CULTURE: Criminals, Detectives, & Espionage
Chair: Frank Riga, English, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208.
Discussant: Judith Kollmann, English, U of Michigan, Flint, MI 48502.
“Fagin Redeemed: Recent Filmings of Oliver Twist.” Philip Momberger, English & Foreign Lang., U of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514.
“Sherlock Speaks: Images of Holmes in the Sound Era.” John Rogers, English, Vincennes, U, Vincennes, IN.
“A Most Remarkable Writer: The Simon Myles Mysteries and the Culture of Protest.” Carlos Ramet, English, Saginaw Valley State U, University Center, MI 48710.

53 PCA Room 502
ARTHURIAN LEGEND
Chair: Donald Hoffman, English, Northeastern Illinois U, Bryn Mawr at St. Louis, Chicago, IL 60625.
“Camelot and Troy: A Tale of Two Cities.” Thomas Hoberg, English, Northeastern Illinois U, Chicago, IL 60625.
“The Evolution of the Round Table.” Timothy Delaney, U of Houston, PO Box 1533, Victoria, TX 77902.
“Small World: The Academic Conference as Grail Quest.” Cynthia Wilds, 20458 Lochmoor, Harper Woods, MI 49225.
“Camelot in Comics.” Jason Tondro, 2233 Luann Lane #5, Madison, WI 53713.