Wednesday 2:00–3:00 PM
01 Salon E
Chair: Ray Browne, Bowling Green State U
“Don’t Throw Away That Treasure: Collecting and Archiving Popular Culture Artifacts for the Future.”
J. Fred MacDonald, MacDonald and Associates
Bill Schurk, Sound Recording Archives, BGSU
Alison Scott, Widener Library, Harvard U
Ron Simm, Museum Television and Radio, New York

Wednesday 3:15–4:45 PM
02 ACA/PCA Salon E

BUILDING NEW PROGRAMS IN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES
Chair: Ray Browne, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“A Minor to Comprehend Diversity of American Culture.” William C. Banfield, American Cultural Studies, U of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105.
“A Minor in Popular Culture Studies.” Yasue Kuwahara, English, U of Northern Kentucky, Highland Heights, KY 41099.
“Expanding into Popular Culture Studies.” Bonnie Plummer, English, Eastern Kentucky U, Richmond, KY 40475.
“The Increase in the Number of Popular Culture Courses in the American Studies and Communications Programs in the Last Ten Years in Turkey.” (Professor Kirtunc will give a longer version of the paper later in the conference.) Ayse Kirtunc, American Studies, Ege U, Izmir, Turkey.
“The Common Bond of Humor.” Larry Mintz, Art Gliner Center for Humorous Studies, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
“More Avenues and Hopes.” Douglas Noverr, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.

Wednesday 5:00–6:30 PM
1 PCA Room 309

SPORTS: Gender
Chair: Nancy G. Rosoff, Rutgers U, 377 B Armitage Hall, Camden, NJ 08102.
“She Got Game, but She Don’t Got Fame.” Susan Burris, Owens Comm. College, 300 Davis St., Findlay, OH 45840.
“The New Female Fan and the Gendering of Sports Fandom at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” Todd Starkweather, 1352 N. Greenview #1FF, Chicago, IL 60622.
“The Connection between Women’s Athletic Activity and Health.” Nancy G. Rosoff.
2 PCA Room 403

POPULAR CULTURE, RHETORIC, & COMPOSITION: Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Chair: Laura Gray-Rosendale, English, Northern Arizona U, Flaggstaff, AZ 86011.
“The Oprahfication of Literacy: Reading Oprah’s Book Club.” Mark Hall, English, U of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
“Updating the Prince: Dick Morris and Niccolo Machiavelli on Leadership in the Political Arena.” Richard Hess, Comm., Indiana U–Purdue U, Fort Wayne, IN 46202.
“Erasing Race: Cultural Rhetoric and the Myth of the Self-Made Man.” James V. Catano, English, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
“Teaching Television, Advertising, and Film: Designing Entry Level Courses in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies.” Laura Gray-Rosendale.
3 PCA Room 405

WORLD WAR I
Chair: M. Paul Holsinger, History, Illinois State U, Normal IL 61790.
“World War I Up Close and Personal: The Diary of William A. Elliot.” B. W. Aston, History, Hardin-Simmons U, Abilene, TX 79698.
“Through the Wheat: The World War I Fiction of Thomas Boyd.”