Area Chair List for 2008

2008 Area Chairs

NOTE: The 2009 Area Chairs will be confirmed and posted by May 1, 2008.

[Proposal deadline extended: December 15, 2007 | Only one proposal may be submitted (one-page abstract & brief CV) to the Area Chair]

American Culture
American History and Culture	American Humor and Will Rogers (Co-Chairs)
Kelli Shapiro Brown U. Dept. of American Civilization Kelli_Shapiro@brown.edu	Peter C. Rollins, Co-Chair Ridgemont Media RR 3 Box 80 Cleveland, OK 74020 RollinsPC@aol.com	Steve Gragert, Co-Chair Will Rogers Memorial PO Box 157 Claremore, OK 74017 skgragert@willrogers.com
American Studies	Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age	California Culture
Paul D. Reich Rollins College English Dept. 1000 Holt Avenue - 2666 Winter Park, FL 32789 Phone: 407.691.1273 preich@rollins.edu	Scott Zeman New Mexico Tech. Humanities Dept. 801 Leroy Place Socorro, NM 87801 Phone: 505.835.5628 Fax: 505.835.5544 szeman@nmt.edu	Monica Ganas Azusa Pacific U. Dept. of Communications Studies PO Box 7000 Azusa, CA 91702-7000 Phone: 626.815.6000 ext 3497 Mganas@apu.edu
Integral Studies	Interdisciplinary Studies	Motorcycle Life and Culture
Daniel Gustav Anderson George Mason U. Cultural Studies MSN 5E4 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 dander5@gmu.edu	William Housel Northwestern Louisiana State U. School of Social Sciences Natchitoches, LA 71497 houselw@nsula.edu	Paul Nagy Clovis Community College English Dept. 417 Schepps Blvd Clovis, NM 88101 Phone: 505.769.4908 Fax: 505.769.4190 nagyp@clovis.edu
Oklahoma	Politics	Religion
Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw Northeastern State U. Dept. of Languages & Literatue 609 N. Grand Tahlequah, OK 74464 cowlisha@nsuok.edu	Leah A. Murray Weber State U. Political Science and Philosophy 1203 University Circle Ogden, UT 84408-1203 Phone: 801.626.6695 lmurray@weber.edu	Wes Bergen Wichita State U. Dept. of Religion Wichita, KS 67260-0076 Phone: 316.283.0369 wesley.bergen@wichita.edu
Senior Culture	Visual Arts of the West
Ken Dvorak San Jacinto College kendvorak@comcast.net	Please send proposals to pcaacaswtx@sbcglobal.net
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Computers, the Internet, & Technical Writing
Computer Culture (Co-Chairs)		Distributive Learning and the Internet Classroom
Joseph Chaney, Co-Chair Indiana U. South Bend Dept. of English Box 7111 South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Phone: 574.520.4870 Fax: 574.520.4538 jchaney@iusb.edu	Judd Ruggill, Co-Chair U. of Arizona Dept. of Media Arts Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: 520.621.7352 jruggill@gmail.com	Debopriyo Roy U. of North Texas Dept. of English Auditorium Building, 303 P.O. Box 311307 Denton, TX 76203-1307 Phone: 940.565.2131 Fax: 940.565.4355 droyusa@yahoo.com
Technical Communications
Lacy Landrum Oklahoma State U. Dept. of English lacylandrum@yahoo.com
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Ethnicity
Africana Studies	American Indian/Indigenous Film	American Indians Today
Delia C. Gillis U. of Central Missouri Dept. of History & Anthropology WOOD 136J Warrensburg, MO 64093 Phone: 660.543.8726 dgillis@ucmo.edu	M. Elise Marubbio Augsburg College CB 115 2211 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55454 Phone: 612.330.1523 marubbio@augsburg.edu	Richard Allen Cherokee Nation P.O. Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74465 Phone: 918.453.5456 rallen@cherokee.org
Arab Culture in the U.S.	The Asian American Experience	Buddhism in America
Lutfi M. Hussein Mesa Community College Dept. of English, Humanities, & Journalism 1833 W. Southern Ave Mesa, AZ 85202 Phone: 480.461.7367 Fax: 480.461.7644 lutfi_hussein@yahoo.com	Sherman Han Brigham Young U.-Hawaii Dept. of English 55-220 Kulanui St. Laie, HI 96762 Phone: 808.293.3633 hans@byuh.edu	Daniel Gustav Anderson George Mason U. Cultural Studies MSN 5E4 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 dander5@gmu.edu
Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture	Native Americans (Co-Chairs)
Jeanette Sanchez U. of Washington School of Drama Box 353950 Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206.543.5245 jeannie8@u.washington.edu	Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Co-Chair Bellevue Community College Dept. of Sociology 300 Landerholm Circle SE Bellevue, WA 98007 sara.sutlercohen@gmail.com	L. Rain Cranford, Co-Chair Michigan State U. American Studies Dept. cranfor6@msu.edu
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Gender & Technology
Gender & Technology (Co-Chairs)
Brian Still, Co-Chair Texas Tech U. English Dept. PO Box 43091 Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: 806.742.2500 ext 267 brian.still@ttu.edu	Amy Koerber, Co-Chair Texas Tech U. English Dept. amy.koerber@ttu.edu
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Film, Television, & Radio
Classical Representations in Popular Culture	Film Adaptation (Co-Chairs)
Kirsten Day Augustana College Classic Dept. 127 Old Main Rock Island, IL 61201 Phone: 309.794.7240 kirstenday@yahoo.com	Lynnea Chapman King, Co-Chair Butler Community College 1810 N. Andover Rd. Andover, KS 67002 Phone: 316.733.0071 ext 6284 filmswtx@hotmail.com	Andrew Tash, Co-Chair Phone: 316.304.2870 filmswtx@hotmail.com
Film Archive and Cultural Heritage	Film and History (Co-Chairs)
Janna Jones Northern Arizona U. School of Communication PO Box 5619 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5619 Phone: 928.523.3596 janna.jones@nau.edu	Tobias Hochscherf, Co-Chair Northumbria U. School of Social Sciences Lipman Building, #226 NE1 8St Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom tobias.hochscherf@northumbria.ac.uk	Christoph Laucht, Co-Chair U. of Liverpool School of Modern Languages Chatam Street Liverpool, L697ZR United Kingdom c.laucht@liverpool.ac.uk
Hitchcock	Local Film Exhibition & Theatre Preservation	Media and Globalization
Jason Landrum Southeastern Louisiana U. Dept. of English SLU 10861 Hammond, LA 70402 landrumjr@yahoo.com	Deborah Carmichael Oklahoma State U. Dept. of English 205 Morrill Hall Stillwater, OK 74078 debcar6569@aol.com	Carlos Salinas The U. of Texas - El Paso Phone: 915.747.6257 cdsalinas@utep.edu
Reality Television	Shakespeare on Film and Television	Silent Film
James Bell College of the Ozarks Dept. of English Point Lookout, MO 65726 Phone: 417.334.6411 ext. 4263 bell@cofo.edu	Richard Vela U. of North Carolina at Pembroke English, Theatre, & Language Dept. Pembroke, NC 28372 Phone: 910.521.6600 richard.vela@uncp.edu	Robert G. Weiner Mahon Library P.O Box 53841 Lubbock, TX 79453 Phone: 806.780.8775 rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
Television	Westerns: Film and Fiction
James Knecht Oklahoma State U. Dept. of English 205 Morrill Hall Stillwater, OK 74078 james.knecht@okstate.edu	Paul Varner Oklahoma Christian U. Dept. of Language and Literature P.O. Box 11000 Oklahoma City, OK 73136 Phone: 405.425.5333 paul.varner@oc.edu
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Human Relations
The Culture of Fandom	Gender	International Experience: Latin American Studies
Gregory J. Thompson pcaacaswtx@sbcglobal.net	Gypsey Teague Clemson U. Gunnin Architecture Library gteague@clemson.edu	Cida Chase Oklahoma State U. Dept. of Foreign Languages Stillwater, OK 74078 Phone: 405.744.5825 Fax: 405.744.5733 csc1937@okstate.edu
Women's Studies
Pat Tyrer West Texas A&M U. Dept. of English and Modern Languages Box 60908 Canyon, TX 79016-0001 ptyrer@mail.wtamu.edu
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Libraries, Archives, Museums, & Popular Culture
Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture (Co-Chairs)
Janet Brennan Croft, Co-Chair Head of Access Services U. of Oklahoma Libraries Bizzell 104NW Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405.325.1918 Fax: 405.325.7618 jbcroft@ou.edu	Rhonda Taylor, Co-Chair U. of Oklahoma 401 West Brooks, Room 120 Norman, OK 73019-6032 Phone: 405.325.3921 Fax: 405.325.7648 rtaylor@ou.edu
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Literature
Beats and Counterculture	Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative	Captivity Narratives
Gordon J. Marshall Halic U. American Culture and Literature Ahmet Vefik Pasa Cad. No: 1 Findikzade 34270 Istanbul Turkey gordonmarshall@halic.edu.tr	Melinda McBee Grayson County College 1212 Mistywood Lane Denton, TX 76209-1138 Phone: 940.442.5340 mcbee58@verizon.net	Deborah Carmichael Oklahoma State U. Dept. of English 205 Morrill Hall Stillwater, OK 74078 debcar6569@aol.com
Central and East European Popular Culture	Children and Young Adult Literature and Culture	Comics and Popular Culture
Jack Hutchens U. of Illinois Dept. of Comparative Literature Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217.333.4987 jackhutchens@yahoo.com	Diana Dominguez UT-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College 80 Fort Brown Brownsville, TX 78520 Phone: 956.544.8853 gypsyscholar@rgv.rr.com	Robert G. Weiner Mahon Library PO Box 53841 Lubbock, TX 79453 Phone: 806.780.8775 rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction)	Creative Writing Pedagogy	Eco-Criticism and the Environment
Jerry Bradley Lamar U. College of Graduate Studies Box 10078 Beaumont, TX 77710 Phone: 409.880.1721 Fax: 409.880.1723 jerry.bradley@lamar.edu	Philip Heldrich U. of Washington - Tacoma Interdisciplinary Arts & Science 1900 Commerce Street - Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402-3100 Phone: 253.692.4450 Fax: 253.692.5718 pheldrich@sbcglobal.net	Ken Hada East Central U. Dept. of English & Languages 1100 E. 14th Street Ada, OK 74820 Phone: 580.310.5557 khada@mailclerk.ecok.edu
Experimental Writing and Aesthetics	Folklore Studies	Historical Fiction
Hugh Tribbey East Central U. 329B Horace Mann Ada, OK 74820 Phone: 580.559.5524 htribbey@ecok.edu	Phyllis Bridges Texas Women's U. Denton, TX 76204 Phone: 940.898.2345 pbri41@msn.com	Cristine Soliz Diné College at Tuba City Humanities Division P.O. Box 1716 Tuba City, AZ 86045 Phone: 928.283.5113 Fax: 928.283.5350 csoliz@csoliz.com csoliz@dinecollege.edu
Horror (Literary and Cinematic)	Linguistics	Mystery/Detective Fiction
Steffen Hantke Sogang U. Dept. of English CPO Box 1142 Seoul 100-611 Rep. of Korea steffenhantke@hotmail.com	Nancy Mae Antrim Sul Ross State U. Dept. of Languages and Literature Alpine, TX 79832 Phone: 432.837.8152 nantrim@sulross.edu	Linda Strahan U. of California - Riverside Dept. of English Riverside, CA 92521-0323 Fax: 909.787.3967 lstrahan@ucr.edu
Myth & Fairy Tales	Postmodern Studies	Romance Fiction
S. Melissa Morphew Sam Houston State U. Dept. of English Huntsville, TX 77341 Phone: 936.294.1944 eng_smm@shsu.edu	Lynnea Chapman King Butler Community College 1810 N. Andover Road Andover, KS 67002 Phone: 316.733.0071 ext 6284 lynneaking@hotmail.com	Cheryl Wiltse Collin County Community College Preston Ridge Campus Communication & Humanities Dept. 9700 Wade Blvd., Founder's Hall #238 Frisco, TX 75035 Phone: 972.377.1546 UdonLover@aol.com
Science Fiction and Fantasy (Co-Chairs)
Ximena Gallardo, Co-Chair FH LaGuardia Community College English, Room E103 CUNY 31-10 Thomas Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101 ximena_gallardo_c@yahoo.com	Alyson Buckman, Co-Chair California State U. Dept. of Humanities & Religious Studies 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6083 Phone: 916.278.5335 abuckman@csus.edu	C. Jason Smith, Co-Chair FH LaGuardia Community College English, Room E103 CUNY 31-10 Thomas Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101 jsmith@lagcc.cuny.edu
Southwestern Literature	Theatre Studies	True Crime
Steve Davis Texas State U. - San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 sdavis@txstate.edu	Dallas Jeffers-Pollei Liberal Arts Division Phone: 505.624.7017 dallas.pollei@roswell.enmu.edu	Jim Yates Northwestern Oklahoma State U. Dept. of English, Foreign Languages, & Humanities 210 Vinson Hall Box 242 709 Oklahoma Blvd. Alva, OK 73717 Phone: 580.327.8469 jnyates@nwosu.edu
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Material Culture
Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections	Food and Culture (Co-Chairs)
Elizabeth Festa Office of the Dean of Undergraduates MS 6 PO Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251 elizabeth.a.festa@rice.edu	Lynn Houston, Co-Chair California State U. English Dept. Chico, CA 95929-0830 lmhouston@csuchico.edu	Melissa Salazar, Co-Chair U. of California School of Education One Shields Ave Davis, CA 95616 Phone: 916.833.1240 mlsalazar@ucdavis.edu
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Music
Grateful Dead (Co-Chairs)		Music and Politics
Nicholas Meriwether, Co-Chair U. of South Carolina South Caroliniana Library Columbia, SC 29208 Phone: 803.777.3133 meriwetN@gwm.sc.edu	Stan Spector, Co-Chair Modesto College 535 College Ave Modesto, CA 95350 spectors@mjc.edu	Christopher Smith Texas Tech U. Vernacular Music Center School of Music—Box 2003 Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: 806.742.2270 ext 249 Fax: 806.742.2290 christopher.smith@ttu.edu
Music and Tradition	Popular Music	Rap and Hip-Hop Culture
Christopher Smith Texas Tech U. Vernacular Music Center School of Music—Box 2003 Lubbock, TX 79409 Phone: 806.742.2270 ext 249 Fax: 806.742.2290 christopher.smith@ttu.edu	Mathew Haskins California State U.—Fullerton American Studies Dept. 800 N. State College Blvd. UH-313 Fullerton, CA 92831 Phone: 949.499.7667 mhaskins@fullerton.edu	Brian McNely U. of Texas—El Paso 11136 Loma Roja Dr. El Paso, TX 79934 Phone: 915.351.9700 Fax: 915.351.9705 brianmcnely@hotmail.com
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Special Topics
Chick Lit	Girlhood Studies	James Bond and Popular Culture
Amy Lerman Mesa Community College English Dept. 1833 W. Southern Ave. Mesa, AZ 85202 Phone: 480.461.7362 alerman@mail.mc.maricopa.edu	Abby Heller Phone: 832.259.3039 abigailheller@yahoo.com abigail.a.heller@nhmccd.edu	Robert G. Weiner Mahon Library P.O Box 53841 Lubbock, TX 79453 Phone: 806.780.8775 rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
The New Age Movement in Popular Culture	Philosophy and Popular Culture	Science & Medicine in Popular Culture
Marla K. Roberson Tri-County Technical College PO Box 587 Pendleton, CA 29670 Phone: 864.646.1753 mkroberson@gmail.com	Burcu Gurkan Halic U. burcugurkan@halic.edu.tr ebgurkan@gmail.com	Lynn Houston California State U. English Dept. Chico, CA 95929-0830 lmhouston@csuchico.edu
Transgressive/Exploitation Cinema
Robert G. Weiner Mahon Library P.O Box 53841 Lubbock, TX 79453 Phone: 806.780.8775 rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
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Teaching and the Profession
Pedagogies and the Profession	Popular Culture and the Classroom	Undergraduate Research
Gene Mueller Texas A&M - Texarkana Dept. of History Texarkana, TX 75505 Phone: 903.223.3136 gene.mueller@tamut.edu	Erik Walker Plymouth South High School Dept. of English & Journalism 490 Long Pond Rd. Plymouth, MA 02360 Phone: 508.224.7512 Fax: 508.224.6765 ErikMWalker@aol.com	Raymond A. Hall U. of Tennessee Africana Studies 1207 McClung Tower Knoxville, TN 37996 Phone: 865.974.5052 Rhall11@utk.edu
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War & War Eras
World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Wars
Brad L. Duren Oklahoma Panhandle State U. Dept. of Behavioral and Social Sciences 213 Hamilton Hall P.O. Box 430 Goodwell, OK 73939 Phone: 580.349.1498 uriahok@yahoo.com
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American Culture

American History and Culture

American Humor and Will Rogers (Co-Chairs)

American Studies

Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age

California Culture

Integral Studies

Interdisciplinary Studies

Motorcycle Life and Culture

Oklahoma

Politics

Religion

Senior Culture

Visual Arts of the West

Computers, the Internet, & Technical Writing

Computer Culture (Co-Chairs)

Distributive Learning and the Internet Classroom

Technical Communications

Ethnicity

Africana Studies

American Indian/Indigenous Film

American Indians Today

Arab Culture in the U.S.

The Asian American Experience

Buddhism in America

Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture

Native Americans (Co-Chairs)

Gender & Technology

Gender & Technology (Co-Chairs)

Film, Television, & Radio

Classical Representations in Popular Culture

Film Adaptation (Co-Chairs)

Film Archive and Cultural Heritage

Film and History (Co-Chairs)

Hitchcock

Local Film Exhibition & Theatre Preservation

Media and Globalization

Reality Television

Shakespeare on Film and Television

Silent Film

Television

Westerns: Film and Fiction

Human Relations

The Culture of Fandom

Gender

International Experience: Latin American Studies

Women's Studies

Libraries, Archives, Museums, & Popular Culture

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture (Co-Chairs)

Literature

Beats and Counterculture

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative

Captivity Narratives

Central and East European Popular Culture

Children and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Comics and Popular Culture

Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction)

Creative Writing Pedagogy

Eco-Criticism and the Environment

Experimental Writing and Aesthetics

Folklore Studies

Historical Fiction

Horror (Literary and Cinematic)

Linguistics

Mystery/Detective Fiction

Myth & Fairy Tales

Postmodern Studies

Romance Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy (Co-Chairs)

Southwestern Literature

Theatre Studies

True Crime

Material Culture

Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections

Food and Culture (Co-Chairs)

Music

Grateful Dead (Co-Chairs)

Music and Politics

Music and Tradition

Popular Music

Local Film Exhibition & Theatre
Preservation