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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 |
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Atrium 2nd Floor / Boardroom Alcove | Conference Registration
Panel Chair: Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
Nuclear Winter in Popular Culture
William Knoblauch, Northern Arizona University
Burying Atomic History: The Mound Builders of Fernald and Weldon Spring
Jason Krupar, University of Cincinnati
Nuclear and Wilderness: America's Atomic Activities in National Parks, Forests, and Wildlife Refuges
Michael Amundson, Northern Arizona University
Panel Chair: Judith Carter
'Verbatim Renderings': The 'Monumental', Diary of Walt Whitman's Memoranda During the War
Jacob Stratman, Marquette University
Ambiguity and Life Narrative: Reading Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family
Annjeanette Wiese, University of Colorado at Boulder
A Slave Girl's Story and Kate Drumgoold's Struggle for a Voice
Matthew Towles, University of Kentucky
Fabiola Cabaza de Baca: New Mexican Home Economist and Author of We Fed Them Cactus
Judith Carter, Amarillo College
Panel Chair: BJ Manríquez, Southwestern University
No me digas, 'Yes': Resisting Americanization and New Mexicans' Early Struggles for Bilingual Education, 1848-1920
Özlem Boztafl Büyükyumak, Bilkent University [Ankara, Turkey]
The Mother Figure in Anzaldúa's Work
Maria Henríquez Betancor, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Violence, Shame, and Trauma: The Legacy of the U.S.-Mexico Border and Contemporary Chicana/o Drama
Jack M. Beckham II, University of California-Riverside
Revolucionarios en Ruedas: Lowriding and Rebel Art
Eric Castillo, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Benjamin Burr, Brigham Young University
"Confronting Murderous Men": No Country for Old Men and the Confrontation with W. B. Yeats's Heroic Idealism
Robert Boschman, Mount Royal College
Moral Narration in McCarthy's No Country for Old Men
Pete Rorabaugh, Georgia State University
"He Ort to Have Two": Eyes and Castration Anxiety in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
Nell Sullivan, University of Houston-Downtown
The Devil's Territory Revisited: No Country for Old Men and Cormac McCarthy's Eschatological Poetics
Manuel Broncano, University of León / University of Mississippi
Panel Chair: Gary Burnett, Florida State University
My First Dead Show
Adam Perry, Independent ScholarCompliments of Garcia: A Review of All Good Things, the Jerry Garcia Solo Box Set
Christian Crumlish, Independent Scholar"When the Secrets All Are Told and the Petals All Unfold": On Joycean Epiphany in Hunter/Garcia's "Wharf Rat"
Eric Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Panel Chair: Katie Antholz, Wichita State University
The Intersection of Sacred Native America and eBay
Lyle Deiter, Northeastern State University
A Toy Box Filled with Manifest Destiny
Richard Waters, Truckee Meadows Community College
Crystal(izing) Depictions of Native Peoples: The Tales of Alvin Maker Fantasy Novels
Margaret Mortensen Vaughan, Park University
Panel Chair: Charles Mohundro
Charles McDonald, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
David Reavis, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Joan Brumm, Texas A&M Univesity-Texarkana
Charles Mohundro, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Panel Chair: Maury P. McCrillis
Gunfighter Nation: Rap, Hip Hop, and the American Frontier
Allison L. Harl, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Hip-Hop Rhetoric and Soldier-Rhetoric in Hip-Hop
Robert Tinajero, University of Texas, El Paso
Rap/Country-Western Fusions and the New Anglo Slant: Whitey as the White Man's Wolf or Just Robbin' the Hood?
Maury P. McCrillis, Cape Breton University
Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
"You Made Me the Man I Am Today": Erotic Relationships between the Slayer Vampires
Erin Delaney, California State University, Northridge
Her Gift is Death: Trauma and Survival in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kristie Hernandez Camacho, National University
Grief Gets a Kick in the Ass: Twists, Turns, and Loss in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Colin Milroy, DePaul University
Panel Chairs: J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson
Serenity Found between The Man and The Monsters
Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo
"You're On My Crew": Ethical Prioritizing in Firefly
Barbara Stock, Gallaudet University
The Point of Faith's Dagger: A Cutting Edge Interpretation of Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson, Lakehead University
Panel Chair: Kelli Marshall
"Teach Me How to Bless":The Elizabeths of Loncraine's Richard III
Rachel Anderson, Grand Valley State University
The Modern Ophelia and the Cinematic Dumb-Show in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet
Carl Walker, University of California, Riverside
"With Additional Dialogue by William Shakespeare":Historiography, Emplotment, and The Black Adder
Erik Chandler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Bottom's Backstory vs. Kline's Charisma: Additions and Contradictions in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Kelli Marshall, University of Texas at Dallas
Panel Chair: Thom Young
Spontaneous Prose in Action: Jack Kerouac's Three-Act Play The Beat Generation and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy
Siobhan White, San Diego State University
Darkness Audible:Miles Davis's Influence on the Beats
Thomas Kageff, Claremont Graduate University
Beatitude in Bruce: Beat Movement Elements in Springsteen's Music of Protest
Patricia Hillen, Penn State University, Delaware County
From Howl to Hip Hop: A History of Contemporary Spoken Word in America
Laura Winton, University of Minnesota
Panel Chairs: Susan Wolfe and Roberta N. Rude, University of South Dakota
Fitting the Mold: The Progression of the Pygmalion Myth in Popular Culture
Joe Mahoney, University of South DakotaReady-made, Happy Endings to Misfit All Stories: Distortions of Love in the Pygmalion Myth
Courtney Huse Wika, University of South Dakota
Galatea as Protagonist, Cinderella or Hero
Lindsay Curington, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Of Saints and Cell Phones: Personal Symbols of Pro-Social Power in a Mayan Dream of Shamanic Election
Kevin P. Groark, University of Southern California
American Indians and the Digital Age: Communication in an Electronic Environment
Karen Sunday Cockrell, University of Missouri
JoLayne Sunday Kehle, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: An Anti-Communist Film
Damien Colin, California State University, Long Beach
Hollywood, Los Alamos, Nostalgia, and the Americanization of the AtomBomb: Roland Joffe's Fat Man & Little Boy
Christoph Laucht, University of Liverpool
Folding Paper Cranes: The Poetry of Atomic Warfare Marine Leonard "Red" Bird
Kurt Lancaster, Fort Lewis College
Panel Chair: Melinda McBee, Prairie View A & M University
Self-Reflection and Autobiography: Contemporary Muslim Women Situating the Believing Self
Katherine Platt, Babson College
Letters from the "Painful Planet": Frida Kahlo's Epistolary Relationship with Dr. Leo Eloesser, M.D.
Margaret Crosby, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Panel Chair: Kathleen Aguilar, Fort Lewis College
With Serpents beneath Their Feet: The Image of La Virgen and Coatlaxopeuh in the Work of Viramontes and Yolanda López
Sharla Hutchison, Fort Hays State University
Distortion or Revision?: Cabeza de Vaca and Nicolás Echevarría
BJ Manríquez, Southwestern University
Carpentier's Maravilloso and Castillo's Chicanas
Nicole Garrett, St. John's University
The Complexity of National Latino Identity in Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls' Social Club
Kathleen Aguilar
Panel Chair: Benjamin Burr, Brigham Young University
Blood Meridian's the judge and the kid, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman, and In Cold Blood's Dick Hickock and Perry Smith: Typicality and Violence in the Postmodern Novel
Daniel Weiss, Wayne State University
Offensive or Defensive Violence: A Richards and J. L. Austin Tenants of Rhetoric in Blood Meridian and Kill Bill
Janice DiGiulio, Governors State University
Mounted Clowns and Death Hilarious: Naked Apes and a Search for a Moral Center in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Michael Handran, Tarleton State University
Panel Chair: Robert Johnson, Midwestern University
Martha Marinara, University of Central Florida
Kelan Koning, California State University-Northridge
Pushpa V. K., Jahad University
James H. Bowden, Sullivan College
Panel Chair: Pauline Adema
The "Prime Meat": Red or White
Tonya Huseman, West Texas A&M University
Vegetarianism: Changing the World One-by-One
Alexandra Springer, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Elegy to a Tater Tot: Transatlantic, Celebrity Activism Reforms School Lunches
Amy Lerman, Maricopa Community College
The Great Garlic Cook-off: Cooking Contests, Commensality and Communitas
Pauline Adema, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters
Discussants
Judy Brady, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Stan Spector, Modest Junior College
Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus
Mark Tursi, University of Denver
Panel Chair: Jesús Tafoya, Sul Ross State University
Multivalent Macumba: Cannibalism, Modernism and Psychopomposity
Christopher W. Chase, Michigan State UniversityEthnocide and History of Silence: Women and Native Salvadoran Regionalism
Rafael Lara-Martínez, New Mexico TechMeasuring the Degree and Impact of Cross-Cultural Antagonism in Hispanic Studies
Barbara González-Pino, University of Texas at San Antonio
Frank Pino, University of Texas at San Antonio Tension, Conflict, Resolution: A Poet Tells His Stories
Mario Herrera, Independent Scholar and Writer
Panel Chair: L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
Between Two Worlds
Charles Brashear, San Diego State University
Panel Chair: Mike Pierce, Tarleton State University
Kay A. Reeve, Kennesaw State University
Dorothy Graham, Kennesaw State University
Linda Niemann, Kennesaw State University
Panel Chair: Jim Perkinson
The Postmodern Adventures of GrandMaster Flash, or The Work of Art on the Wheels of Steel
Adrian Duran, Memphis College of Art
Going "All-City" to "All-World": Mass Media, Urban Visual Cultures, and the Globalization of Hip Hop Graffiti
Kara Ja'Nice Crews, Temple University
Hip-Hop Percussion and Cubist Vision: "Africa" Climbing the Spine Like an Unwanted Mime at the Postcolonial Crossroads
Jim Perkinson, University of Denver
Panel Chair: Alan Lehman
Awake and Afraid: Gender and the Other in Octavia Butler's Dawn
Jessica Chapman, Appalachian State University
Science Fiction Poetry: Poetic Authenticity in a Make Believe World
Luisa Villani, University of Southern California
The Rhetoric of Cyberpunk in Sci-fi Genre: Examples from William Gibson's Neuromancer and Wachowski Brothers' Matrix Trilogy.
Yowei Kang, The University of Texas at El Paso
Popular and High Culture in Fantasy Film and Literature: A Look at Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Alan Lehman, Georgetown University
Panel Chair: Melissa Croteau
"The Sun Will Come Out Taymora": Julie Taymor's Happy Titus Andronicus
Kim Fedderson and Mike Richardson, Lakehead UniversityTo Burn Out or Fade Away: Shakespeare, the Kantian Sublime, and the Grunge Ethos in Almereyda's Hamlet
Michael Colson, Merced College
No Road Home: Morality and Redemption in Kristian Levring's The King is Alive
Michell Ward, Ohio University
Discourses of the Apocalypse in Shakespearean Film
Melissa Croteau, Geneva College
Panel Chair: Thom Young
Beat Terrorism: Methods of Literary Terrorism in William Burroughs's Red Night Trilogy
Stacey Suver, Florida State University
That's Not Writing! That's Plumbing!: William Burroughs and Cold War Labor
Kevin Birmingham, Harvard University
Embracing Apocalypse: An Apolitical Reading of Gregory Corso's Bomb
Jed LaCoste, The University of Western Ontario
The Poetry of the Poisoned Mushroom: Ginsberg, Corso, Waldman, and the Atomic Bomb
Carolyn Anne Kelley, University of Florida
Panel Chair: Sandy MacLauchlan
Jessica Simpson is a Comic Genius? Post Feminism, Gender Stereotypes, and the Comedy of Lucille Ball
Lindsie Smith, Westminster College
Relations, Gender Relations: The Expanding Role of Women in James Bond Films
Dustin Gann, Emporia State University
Give the Guys a Break: An Analysis of Male Characters in Chik Lit vs. Classic Literature
Sandy MacLauchlan, Tarleton State University
Panel Chair: Bryan Carter, Central Missouri State University
Keepin' It Real For the Dean: Charles Chesnutt and The Marrow of Tradition
Iris Nicole Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
"You Must be Able to Laugh at Yourself" Reading Racial Caricature in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and his Successors
Phoebe Wolfskill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Destroying Layla and Sarah: Discussing the Expression of Racial Identity, Elitism, and Audience in Ntozake Shange's Boogie Woogie Landscapes and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro
Amina McIntyre Indiana University-Bloomington
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Issues of Language and Identity in a Post-colonial Context: The French-speaking Native American Communities of Louisiana
Dominique Ryon, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods and Nobody Listens
Les Hannah, Kansas State University
American Indian Cultural Survival: Resistance in the Diaspora
Autumn Morning Star, University of Memphis
Panel Chair: Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: An Anti-Communist Film
Damien Colin, California State University, Long Beach
Hollywood, Los Alamos, Nostalgia, and the Americanization of the Atom Bomb: Roland Joffe's Fat Man & Little Boy
Christoph Laucht, University of Liverpool
Folding Paper Cranes: The Poetry of Atomic Warfare Marine, Leonard "Red" Bird
Kurt Lancaster, Fort Lewis College
Panel Chair: Delores Zumwalt
Belva Lockwood: Advocate, Attorney, Presidential Candidate
Phyllis Bridges, Texas Woman's University
Samuel Caldwell Colt, Inventor
Mary Ruthart
An Artist's Autobiography: Illusion, Reality, and Restoration in Thomas Nast's Personal History, 1846-1855
Fiona Deans Halloran, Bates College
"My People Saw Some Hard Times": Reminiscences of the Frontier Experience
Delores Zumwalt, Collin County Community College
Panel Chair: Sara Spurgeon
Mexico as Alien and Authority in Cisneros' Caramelo
Maya Socolovsky, Iowa State University
Virgins and Whores: The Construction/Deconstruction of Patriarchal Ideals and Mythos in Candaleria's 'El Patron' and Cisneros' Eyes of Zapata
Kristie Hernandez Camacho, National University
Empty Hope in Luis Rodriguez's Always Running
Lou F. Caton, Westfield State College
A Woman for a Son: Ethnicity and Lesbian Identity in Castillo's Early Texts
Sara L. Spurgeon, Texas Tech University
Panel Chair: Susan Joseph
Aspects of the Montage in the Video Version of Deafman Glance
William McCarthy, Catholic University of America
Robert Wilson's Black Medea: When the Avant-Garde Goes Too Far
Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle
Black Medea in a World of Color
Susan Joseph, Howard University
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Patricia L. Dooley, Wichita State University
Les Anderson, Wichita State University
Gabriel Adkins, University of Oklahoma
Jessica Marie Crespo, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University
Robert Johnson, Midwestern University
Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota
Crystal L. Elerson, University of North Texas
Millard Dunn, McKendree College
Panel Chair: John M. Gourlie, Quinnipiac University
Formal Aspects of Bollywood Love Story Hits
Eva Kolbusz Kijne, Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York
Pictures are Worth a Thousand Interpretations: Transnational Cinema and Spectatorship in Kim Ki-duk's films Bad Guy (2001), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring (2003) and 3-Iron (2004)
Brian Faucette, University of Kansas
Outsider and Indigenous Filmmaking of Native Americans in the Southwest
Liz Daggett, University of North Texas
Hero: The Hero's Many Faces
John M. Gourlie, Quinnipiac University
Panel Chair: Kyla Wyzana Tompkins, Pomona College
Eating Paradise: Nature and Place in Pineapple Advertising
Helen Robertson, University of Oklahoma
Naming and Renaming: Rhetorical Tendencies in the Language of Marketing and Consumerism
Evan Schneider, University of Rhode Island
Visualizing Consumption: Eating and the Male Gaze
Stacy Jameson, University of California Davis
Panel Chair: Eric Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Grateful Dead's Anti-Structural Phenomenon: Creating and Negotiating Communitas Through Music and Improvisation
Amanda Hirsh, Independent Scholar
Of Wikis, Archives, and Information: The Challenges of an Online Grateful Dead Community
Gary Burnett, Florida State University
Get Back Blogging On: A Survey of Grateful Dead Related Blogs
Christian Crumlish, Independent Scholar
Deadheads and the Rhetoric of Drugs
Elizabeth Carroll, Appalachian State University
Panel Chair: Cida S. Chase
De la anécdota, al chiste, al minicuento: nuevas direcciones de la minificción en ` Latinoamérica
Lucero Tenorio-Gavin, Oklahoma State UniversityLa novela de capa y espada: El capitán Alatriste de Pérez Reverte y el Zorro de Allende
Carmen Parrón-Salas, Oklahoma State University
Problemas y limitaciones de los maestros principiantes en Honduras: efecto en su panorama interno
Ana Palmore, University of Central OklahomaPablo Antonio Cuadra: vanguardismo y nativismo en Nicaragua
Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: E.A. Mares, University of New Mexico
Performing Resistance: Malintzin Tenepal in the Matachines Folk Dance
Damian Baca, Michigan State University
Rhetorical Sovereignty: Theorizing an American Indian (anti)Author Function
Kirby Brown, University of Texas at San Antonio
But I Saw It on TV!: The Reification of American Indian Reality in the Network Reality Programs World of American Indian Dance and Extreme Home Makeover
Patricia Trujillo, University of Texas at San Antonio
Panel Chair: Michael Perri
Using Narrative Films to Teach History
Tom Wagy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Strategies for Adding Audio and Video to Web Courses
Charles McDonald and David Reavis, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Using the Web to Enhance the Teaching of Active Reading
Michael Perri, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Panel Chair: Michael Berry
Kanye West May Be a Self-Proclaimed "Hip-Hop Legend," but Can He Be "Happy" in the Aristotelian Sense?
Maureen Paley, Lehigh Valley College
Beneath the Hustler's Cloak: The Mythologies of Urban Blight and the Many Faces of Jay-Z
Nikki Willis, University of Texas, Austin
Ontology, Authenticity, and Authorship in Rap Music
Michael Berry, Texas Tech University
Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
She's Unpredictable: Illyria and the Liberating Potential of Chaotic Postmodern Identity
Jennifer Hudson, Southern Connecticut State University
A Look at the Human Condition: Insight from The Gods Glory and Illyria In Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel
Nicole DeLaRosa, California Baptist University
"You are the one who sees everything" : Blindness, (Re)Vision and Shifting Perspective in the Interlocutor
Aaron Drucker, Claremont Graduate UniversityThe Terror of Silence/The Silence of Terror
Amanda Taylor, California State University, San Bernardino
Panel Chair: Anthony Guneratne
Shakespearean DVD Commentaries: Olivier And Kurosawa
Shawn Smith, Longwood University
DVDivas: or, Death Becomes the Director
Julia Griffin, Georgia Southern University
From Cervantes's Titian to Ivory's Shakespeare: The DVD and the Moving Image
Anthony Guneratne, Florida Atlantic University
Panel Chair: Thom Young
The Free Verse Rebellion: Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman
Laura Grace Dykes, University of Oklahoma
Trans-Atlantic Conversations: Parisian Influences on the Intellectual Heritage of Allen Ginsberg's Generation
Joanna Pawlik, Sussex University
Where's the Revolution: Beat Literature and the Contemporary Student
Michael Martin, Stephen F. Austin State University
Panel Chair: Katherine Low
The Naked Goddess: Reclaiming the Feminine Principle in a Pornographic World
Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University
Authentic Queer: Lesbian Text and Coalitional Politics
Melissa D. White, Fort Lewis College
The Sex Side of Faith: Religious Rhetoric Surrounding Mary Ware Dennett's "Sex Side of Life"
Katherine Low, Texas Christian University
Panel Chair: Delores Zumwalt, Collin County Community College
Psychoanalysis and the Making of the "Other"
Janella D. Moy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Political Ambiguities: Survivor Speech and the Politics of Race in Rape Survival Memoirs
Molly Burke, Rutgers University
Memoir/Autobiography and Feminism
Mary Smith Pritchard, Tarrant County College SE
Not by Carolyn Keene: Betty Biographer and the Case of the Missing Subject
Diane Wellins Moul, Bentley College
Panel Chair: DeNara Hill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Celluloid Liberation: Revisioning La Llorona Through Genre
Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin
Blending, Blurring, and Mixing Genres in the Work of Denise Chávez, Ana Castillo, and Nina Marie Martínez
Amara Graf, University of Texas at Austin
Autobiographical Relationships: The Trope of Marriage in Imaginary Parents
Crystal Kurzen, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Geoff Bakewell
Counterculture: Out of the 60s and into the 1960s
Tyler Fox, Ohio-Wesleyan University
Bodyworlds, the Marsyas Myth, and IMAX: Pre-Cinema, Post-Cinema, and Myth
Jeff Kuo, California State University, Long Beach
"Deque Viro Factus, Mirabile, Femina": Teiresias, Mel Gibson, and What Women Want
Geoff Bakewell, Creighton University
Panel Chair: Andrew Chen, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Writing from the Inside Out: LiveJournal and Authentic Voice in the Freshman Writing Course
Megan O'Neill, Stetson University
Weblogs and the Writing Center: A 3rd Space Pedagogy within Cyberspace
Michael Barnes, Stetson University
Moving the Conversation: Using Weblogs to Build Bridges between Writing Students, Faculty, and Institutions
Mike Keleher, Kennesaw State University
Panel Chair: Benjamin Burr
The Paradox of Domestication in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
Carole Juge, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne
Desert Prophet and Desert Sage: Connecting Edward Abbey and Cormac McCarthy
Mike Riding, Brigham Young University
Intertextuality and Adaptation: An Examination of All the Pretty Horses and Its Adapted Film
Benjamin Burr, Brigham Young University
Panel Chair: Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University
Catherine A. Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County
Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University
Jesse Gipko, Duquesne University
Debby Mountjoy, Tarleton State University
Panel Chair: Tracey K. Parker University of Arkansas
Nerdy Performances: Theatricality and Performance in Jared Hess's Napoleon Dynamite
Faye McIntyre, University of Manitoba
The Metafilmic Father: Thematizations of Medial Prohibition in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic
Joshua Gooch, University of Iowa
When Directors Have Daddy Issues: The Father-Son Relationship in the Films of Tim Burton
Lauryn Angel-Cann, Collin County Community College
"Do I lie to myself to be happy?": Self-help Culture and Fragmentation in Postmodern Film
Tracey K. Parker, University of Arkansas
Panel Chair: Amanda Hirsh, Independent Scholar
Discussants
Gary Burnett, Florida State University
Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour
Panel Chair: Iván Figueroa
La cultura Popular en la literature chicana
Maria I. Duke doe Santos, Independent Acholar and Consultant
La indentidad chicana en "Un hijo del sol" de Genaro Gonzàlez
Guadalupe Càrdenas, Arizona State University West
The House as a Masculine Metaphor in Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
Susana Perea-Fox, Oklahoma State University
Insight into a Puerto Rican Family
Ivàn Figueroa, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University
Indigenous Haute Couture
Jessica Metcalfe, University of Arizona
Johnny Horton's "Sweethearts": Honky Tonk Music and Reservation Radio in the Year 1950
Kristina Jacobsen, Columbia University
Reggae Music: Rez Style
Janelle Joseph, University of Arizona
"What the hell is that? That's not tradition": Manga, Resistance, and Northwest Coast Art
Emily Moore, University of California Berkeley
Panel Chair: Bryan Vizzini, West Texas A&M University
Community Leadership Pedagogy
Lila Walker, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Mathematics and Its Different Learning Approaches
Nancy Ressler, Oakton Community College Illinois
Memories of Mexican Farm Workers in Mississippi County, Arkansas
David Hulsey, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Panel Chair: Laurian R. Bowles
Reggaeton: Boricua Identity Negotiation through Shame and Pride
Nancy Vanessa Vicente, The Pennsylvania State University
The "New Speak" of White Suburban Ghettos: How the Language and Culture of Mainstream Rap has Transformed the Cultural Landscape of the Bourgeoisie
Gabrielle Naglieri, Boston College
Urban Griots and the Poetics of Place: Hip Hop in Accra, Ghana
Laurian R. Bowles, Temple University
Panel Chair: C. Jason Smith, CUNY-La Guardia
Teaching Etymology in the College Classroom: Creating a Language
JoNette LaGamba, University of South Florida, Tampa
Slinker and Stinker: The Latent Psychological Effects of Gollum/Sméagol from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Cari Crumrine, University of Florida
The Iconography of Evil in the Visual Art of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.E.D. LaCoste, The University of Western Ontario
Panel Chair: Richard Vela, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Actors as Directors of Shakespeare
Roy Pierce-Jones, University of Worcester
Visual Coding in Four Film Interpretations of Othello
Christina Angel, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Fragmentation and Suturing in Welles's Othello
Ryan McCormick, University of Notre Dame
The Awful and the Awe-ful: The Contradictions of Violence in Roman Polanski's Macbeth
Jesse Schlotterbeck, University of Iowa
Panel Chair: Thom Young
(Post)Modernism and the Beats: Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller as Generational Dopplegangers
Jennifer Hagen, Arizona State University
Midnight Cowboy Author James Leo Herlihy: A Post-Beat Counterculture Writer
Michael Snyder, University of Oklahoma
"Missing the Beat: Timothy Leary, a 'Middle-Class, Liberal, Intellectual Robot'"
Steven Harmon Wilson, Prairie View A&M University
Richard Brautigan: Mystery and Mythology
John Barber, University of Texas at Dallas
Panel Chair: Mary Alice Brittain
Gaslighting: Freud's Anti-feminist Legacy
Elaine Pigeon, University of Montreal
Logged In or Left Out? Cinderellas in Cyberspace
Jan Ray, West Texas A&M UniversityVoice and the Subaltern
Mary Alice Brittain, West Texas A&M University
A Documentary Film Produced and Directed by David Liban
Thursday, February 9, 2006 |
8:00 a.m - 1:00
p.m. and 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Atrium 2nd Floor / Boardroom Alcove | Conference Registration
Panel Chair: Kevin Butler, Texas Southern University
Equality or Bust!: The 1947 Journey of Reconciliation and the Effort to Desegregate the Jim Crow Transit
Jordan Ruth Bauer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Black Jews and Black-Jewish Relations in New York City, 1964-1972
Jake Dorman, UCLA
Hendrix: Highway Child Traveling the Global Borderland
Jose M. Irizarry Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
The War THEY Wage: Decolonial Anti-Oppression and the Medicinal Power of Song
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Red Rhymes: The Redvolution of Rap and Hip Hop
Rose Soza War Soldier, Arizona State University
How much is that Indian on the Internet?: The Dislocation and Deconstruction of Contemporary Native Identity in Popular Music
Alan Lechusza, San Diego State University
Panel Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons
Rolling Stone, Wanna See My Picture on the Cover
Becca Binns, Wichita State University
The Endless Quest for Authenticity: The Lord of the Rings in Teen Girl Culture
Rebecca Onion, University of Texas-Austin
Visual Literacy and Sin City: Graphic Novel, Graphic Movie and a Graphic Plea for Sanity
Phil Fitzsimmons, University of Wollongong (Australia)
Panel Chair: Iris Nicole Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
The Literary Palomar: Ethnic Attitudes of Assimilation, Gender Roles, and American Normality
Josué Aristides Diaz, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Dressed for the Ball: The Reinvention of Classic Fairy Tale Motifs in Graphic Narrative
Andrea Miller, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Composite Sketches of Ethnic Identity: Will Eisner's A Contract with God as Cycle Narrative
Derek Parker Royal, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Love Letters in Ancient Brick
Charles Boyes, Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario
Panel Chair: Judd Ruggill, University of Arizona
Out of Bounds Play: The Cultural Politics of Digital Games Modification
A. Brady Curlew, York University
Reading GUN: Complicit Gaming or Critical Engagement?
Daniel Griffin, University of Arizona
Missile Command and the Inception of Nuclear Apocalyptic Violence in Video Games
Martin Riggenbach, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Panel Chair: Sam Snoek-Brown, University of North Texas
Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University
Lesley Shelton, West Texas A&M University
Susan Rushing Adams, University of Texas at Dallas
Ed Higgins, George Fox University
Panel Chair: Tony Ruiz
A Roomier Stanza Brenda Hillman's Hypertext Poetics
Amaranth Borsuk, University of Southern California
The Nonfiction of Poetry or Poetic Nonfiction, What are Genre Boundaries and Where/Why do They Fall?
Jill Darling, Wayne State University
How Does Writing Perform?
Laura Winton, University of Minnesota
"No Pear / Like the Present:" Language Writing and the Emptiness of the Aesthetic Object
Morgan Myers, University of Virginia
The Experimental Eth(n)ic: The Cause of Innovation in American Ethnic Cultural Production
Tony Ruiz, University of Washington
Panel Chair: Ron Briley
"They paid to see this - Why?": Film as Primary Source in a Humanities Classroom
Christina Ashby-Martin, Texas Tech University
Film South of the Border: Teaching Latin American Cinema
Gary Elbow, Texas Tech University
Scarlett O'Hara Lives in Cold Mountain: Film, the Civil War, and the Contingency of History
Megan Kate Nelson, Texas Tech University
Comments: Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School/Film & History
Panel Chair: Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College
Hollywood Movie Murals in the Zone of Intensive Mural Experience
John Scenters-Zapico and Yowei Kang, The University of Texas at El Paso
A Comparison of Dialogue: Pulp Fiction and Paradise Lost
Melissa Newfield, New Mexico Highlands University
Comparative Comedy: Analogical Play in Stand-Up Comedy
Forrest Hatch, University of Arizona
B-Horror Kills the Left
Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College
Panel Chair: Mario Montano
"From Mexico's Heart": Oaxacan Cookbooks and the Representation of a Regional Ethnic Cuisine
Ronda Brulotte, University of Texas at Austin
Chihuahua's Food for Festive Occasions: A Travel Through Time And Lost Traditions
Jesus Tafoya, Sul Ross State University
Consuming the Inside: Internal Culinary Tourism in Northern Mexico
Mario Montano, Colorado College
Panel Chair: Melissa Curtin
Respek: Misunderstanding, Humor, and Ethnicity in Da Ali G Show
Rebecca A. Adelman, Ohio State University
Code-switching in MC Solaar's French Music
Beatrice Kelly, Sacramento State University
"More than a Pretty Girl:" The Evolution of Gender Differences in Popular Cultures
Amy Shinabarger, California State University Northridge
Barbara G. Nelson, Arizona State University
A Phonetic Study of "Role Language" Voice Qualities of Vocal Stereotypes of Good Guys and Bad Guys in Japanese Anime
Mihoko Teshigawara, Nagoya University
Satoshi Kinsui , Osaka University
Panel Chair: Laura Beard, Texas Tech University
Ira Hayes: Hero or Victim?
Barbara Witemeyer, University of New Mexico
A Boy's Life at Mission San Luis Rey: Pablo Tac and Indian Childhood in California's Spanish Missions
Vanessa Crispin-Peralta, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Piute Princess": Sarah Winnemucca's "Truly Troubling" Performances
Sandra Baringer, University of California, Riverside
Panel Chair: Gene Mueller, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Thinking Like a Boa Constrictor, or How to Digest a Text Twice as Big as Your Head
Becky McLaughlin, University of South Alabama
Literary Darwinists in the Composition Classroom
Mary Gathright Newell, Santa Fe Community College
Edit Assist: A Tool to Assist Instructors in Evaluating Electronically Submitted Papers
Charles McDonald and Theresa McDonald, Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
"And You MUST Sing Along": Buffy's Rejection of the Passive Watcher
Jennifer Malkowksi
Perceptions of Race(ism) in Buffy: The Active Viewer Confronts The Vampire Slayer
Patrick R. Grzanka, University of Maryland-College Park
Buffy at Play: The Deconstructing Trickster at Work in the Whedonverse
Brita Graham, Montana State University
Panel Chair:Jessica Tribble, Arizona State University
Drama and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
Damien Colin
Cell Phones, Self-help, and the Female Fool: A Study of How in Updating Shakespeare's King Lear Modern Audiences Would Have the Chance to Explore Current Ideologies about Communication, Visions of the Self, and Gender
Susan R. Batten, Wake Forest University"Far more fair than Black": Two Popular Adaptations of Othello
Katharine Liu, University of Birmingham
Prisoner of History: Harlem Duet and the Reincarnation of Othello
Elizabeth Gruber, University of Nevada Reno
Panel Chair: James Welsh
The Popularization of Shakespearean Plays in Modern Film: Travesty or Treasure?
Michelle Cooke, Collin County Community College
Love's Labor's Lost: Why the Shakespearean Musical Failed
Jolene Felkner, Warnborough University
Appropriating Shakespeare: Humor, Parody, and Adaptation
Richard Vela, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
How Vulgar, How Base, How Popular, How "Hollywood"? Should There Be Limits?
James Welsh, Salisbury University
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Skewes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Frank's Place: Coming Home to a Place We'd Never Been Before
Jan Whitt, University of Colorado at Boulder
Parity and Parody: Narrative Coherence and Parodic Discourse in South Park
Nicholas Marx, The University of Texas at Austin
Presidential Candidates and the Press in The West Wing and in the Real World
Elizabeth Skewes, University of Colorado at Boulder
Panel Chair: Thom Young
Prioritizing Nature: Ecocriticism in Charles Olson's Writing
Craig Stormont, Stony Brook University
Real Work, Gary Snyder, and Growing Up American: How I Came to Recognize My Country's Adolescence
Craig Carroll, University of Massachusetts
Gary Snyder and the Shamanic Poetic as Ecopoesis
Nicholas Foxton, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, United Kingdom
"The Desk is Under the Pencil": The Politics of Perception in Gary Snyder's Earth House Hold
Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Panel Chair: Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M University
Poetry: Panorama of Mankind
Ose Ojeahere, West Texas A&M University
Short Story: Grandma Mamie
Louis Orozco, West Texas A&M University
Drama: Regalia: A Dyslexic Play in One Act
Susan Greenwald, West Texas A&M University
Panel Chairs: Raymond Hall, University of Tennessee, and Jonnie Wilson, Texas
State University-San Marcos
Why "Legitimate" African-American Studies Programs Are Essential at Top American Universities
Nakia Henderson, University of Tennessee
African-Americans in Traditionally White Institutions Specifically the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Constance Park, University of Tennessee
African-Americans in the Hunt for Higher Athletic Administration Positions in NCAA Division I Universities
Larry Freeman, University of Tennessee
Panel Chair: Ken Dvorak, San Jacinto College District
"The American Renaissance" and the Politics of Cannonization
Lou Canton, Westfield State College
"Going up the Country": Country-rock, Country & Western, and the 1960s Era American Counterculture
Zachary Lechner, Temple University
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
City Indians, Urbanization, and the Evolution of Modern American Indian Tribalism
Patti Jo King, Northern Arizona University
Factors Affecting Oklahoma Cherokee Farmers' and Homegardeners' Decision Making in the Use of Traditional and Conventional Agroecological Management Practices
Mital S. Shah, University of Florida
What Happened to Paleoindians? New Theories on the Settling of the Americas
Michelle Hamilton, Brockington and Associates, Inc.
Panel Chair: Monica Ganas
From General Vallejo to the California Fruit Crate Label: The Destruction and Reimagination of Early California Culture
Joyce Moser, Stanford University
The Valley of the Moon and the Politics of Place: Jack London's California
Kevin Swafford, Bradley University
The Glamour of Fear: Commoditizing Huntington Beach
Kerry Gallegher, Azusa Pacific University
'Til Death Do Us Part or Whatever: Wedding and Funeral Performances in the Golden State
Monica Ganas, Azusa Pacific University
Panel Chair: Melinda McBee
G. A. Henty and Imperial Discourse
Hannah Swamidoss, The University of Texas at Dallas
"The Fascination and the Terror of It": Use of the Gothic in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books
Dawn Sardella-Ayres, University of California-Riverside/Hollins University
A World of Whispers: Style and Technique in The Wind in the Willows
Melinda McBee, Prairie View A&M University
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner, Mahon Library
Life Lessons through Peanuts: The Universal Appeal of a Children's-Character Comic Strip through Popular Culture
Linda Romero, University of Texas-Pan American
Oliver Harrington's Jive Grey and the Double V Campaign
David Hopkins, Tenri University, Tenri, Japan
Superman is Dead: The Function of the Superhero in Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Casey Applegate, New Mexico Highlands University
The Urotsukidoji Saga: Tentacle Sex and the Politics of Pornographic Pleasure
Shelley Smarz, Brock University
Panel Chair: Ken McAllister, University of Arizona
The Power of Structure
Ron Scott, Walsh University
Persistent Rhetoric for Persistent Worlds: The Stability of Ur-Real Rhetorical Forms in the MMORPG Genre
Marlin Bates, University of the Pacific
Information in an Alternate Universe: The Simultaneous Study of the "Real" and the "Artificial" in Virtual Play Spaces
Suellen Adams, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Brett Weaver, Fort Hays State University
Sam Snoek-Brown, University of North Texas
Annie Christain, University of South Dakota
Alifair Skebe, SUNY, University of Albany
Tara Hembrough, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Michael Golston
The Better Analogy Is with Music
Craig Dworkin, University of Utah
Needle Scratch Etudes Wild My Suburb
Mary Rising Clark, Independent Scholar
Sound Grates on Paper: The Politics of Unreadable Poetry
Michael Golston, Columbia University
Panel Chair: Peter C. Rollins
Wyatt Earp on Film: Fact or Fiction?
Jennifer L. Horst, University of North Texas
A Woman Homesteader and the Making of Heartland (1979)
Jessie L. Embry, Charles Redd Center, Brigham Young University
The Mystery of Will Kane's Will in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952)
Dennis Rothermel, California State University Chico
"Glory to the Defeated": The Ex-Confederate Soldier in John Ford's Westerns
Kathleen Brown and Brett Westbrook, St. Edward's University
Comments: Peter C. Rollins, Oklahoma State University and Co-Founder of SWPCA/ACA
Panel Chair: Micki Nyman, Saint Louis University
Masochistic Pleasures and Patriarchal Recuperation of "Deviant" Female Lead Roles
Jack Long, University of Arizona
The Mask of Beauty: Masquerade Theory and Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Lara Sumera, San Jose State University
Deconstructing "Woman" in Modern Jane Austen Adaptations: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary
Micki Nyman, Saint Louis University
Panel Chair: Psyche Williams Forson
Postcolonial "Preserves": The Metaphorics of Chutney in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
R.S. Krishnan, North Dakota State University
Table Trash and Stomach Pains: Rejects and Discards from the Family Table in GraceLand and A House for Mr. Biswas
Delores Phillips, University of Maryland College Park
Eating America: Food, Class, and Assimilation in Indian-American Writing
Melanie Haupt, University of Texas at Austin
From Hibiscus to Domestic Control: The Cultures and Politics of Food in Three Female African Novels
Psyche Williams Forson, University of Maryland College Park
Panel Chair: Erin Collopy, Texas Tech University
Breaking Boundaries in Gender and Popular Culture: The Literacy Exchange of Raymond Carver and Hairuki Murakmi.
Christopher Good, Miami University of Ohio
Gender and Social Change in Egypt: A Study of "Abd al-Quddus" Tow Narratives
Alham Albassam, University of Kuwait
Feminist Articulations and the Rebuilding of Irishwomen's Images in Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone
Wei H. Kao, National Taiwan University
Feminism in Russia: The Case of the Detective Novelist Aleksandra Marinina.
Erin Collopy, Texas Tech University
Panel Chair: Rebecca Adelman
Signs of the Times
Robert Baumgardner, Texas A&M University at Commerce
Contact Media: Duking It Out in Public
Shahrzad Mahootian, Northeastern Illinois University
Signs, Thought, and Perception in Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas
John Unger, Northeastern State University
Karla Kingsley, University of New Mexico
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Military Cadences
Rosita L. Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Panel Chair: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University
Blood Writing: Tribal Inheritance and Indigenous Communities in Digital Space
L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
European Indigenous Internet Representation: Potentials and Perils for the Sámi
Jeff Taylor, University of Lapland
Lorna Dee Cervantes's Treatment of Collective Trauma on Her Weblog
Erika Lynn Scheidegger, University of Geneva
Panel Chairs: Terry Dalrymple and John Wegner
The Terms of the Contract: Rock and Roll and the Narrative of Self-destruction
Jesse Kavadlo, Maryville University
Putting the Boogie in Boogieman: Rock and Roll and the Works of Stephen King
Cliffton Price, University of Cincinnati
The Magic Carpet Ride: 45 Years of Rock in American Prose Literature
Charles Goldthwaite, Shreveport, LA
We Could Be So Good Together: Rock and Roll and American Fiction
Terry Dalrymple and John Wegner, Angelo State University
Panel Chair: Leslie A. Donovan, University of New Mexico
Countries Unknown: Exploring the Roots of Middle-earth
Matt Bernstein, California State University, Northridge.
Aragorn and the Paths of the Dead: Odysseus Comes to Middle-Earth
Daniel Bellum, University of New Mexico
A More Perfect Troy: Minas Tirith and Tolkien's Reimagining of the Trojan War
Dawn Catanach, University of New Mexico
Aspects of Orientalism in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Astrid Winegar, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Paul Joseph Torre, University of Southern California
Vengeance, Healing, and Justice: Post 9/11 Culture through the Lens of CSI
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Colorado State University
These Are Our Stories: Law & Order Performs Contradictions and Provokes Cultural Debate
Raechelle L. Manis, University of Texas at Austin
Homer vs. Achilles: A Case of National Identity Building
Ioana Uricaru, University of Southern California
Thanks of a Grateful Nation?: Corporate America Welcomes Home the Troops
Paul Joseph Torre, University of Southern
Panel Chair: David Wallace
The Daughter Whom He Invented: The Father in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Lisa Ripley, Murray State University
Seen But Not Heard: Women in the Victorian Age
Lacie Osbourne, West Texas A&M University
Sunlit Rooftops: Demarginalizing the Domestic Novel with Vita Sackville-West's The Eduardians
David Wallace, West Texas A&M University
Panel Chairs: Raymond Hall, University of Tennessee, and Jessie Adolph, University
of Missouri-Columbia
Rap Music as a Continuation of the African-American Oral Tradition
Jessica Roth, University of Tennessee
Violence Toward Women in Rap Today
Davita Dantzler, University of Tennessee
Panel Chair: Ken Dvorak, San Jacinto College
"My Fellow Americans": A Study of American Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Cori Dodds, Wichita State University
Snapshot: A Rhetorical Examination of Cultural Narrative Created through Visual Images in Time Magazine
LaChrystal Ricke, University of Kansas
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Scary Stories: American Indian Horror Novels and Postcolonial Literary Theory
Christopher Teuton, University of Denver
The Owl's Song: A Different Look at Genre Classification as Hale Breaks New Ground
Patricia DiMond, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: Cara Swafford
Lassie, Fido, and Spot: Oppressed Inmates or Loved Companions?
Amy L. Hayden, University of Illinois-Chicago
"Everyone Lived Happily, Though Maybe Not Completely Honestly, Ever After" The Lessons of the Stinky Cheese Man and his Bookmates
Anna Hall-Zieger, Texas A&M University
Gingerbread Wishes and Candy(land) Dreams: The Lure of Food in Cautionary Tales of Consumption
Susan Honeyman, University of Nebraska-Kearney
"The Mark of Cain": Literary Tropes and the Embodiment of Evil in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Cara Swafford, Bradley University
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner, Mahon Library
Nine-Eleven and Popular Culture: In the Shadow of No Tower
Linda Alkana, California State University
Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism!: An Anti-Communist Comic Book
Damien Colin, Long Beach, California,
A Linguistic Education from Calvin and Hobbes
Lynn Swanbom, Tarleton State University
World Trade Center as Icon in Editorial Cartoons
Robin Murphy, Bowling Green State University
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Generation Text: A Study of ASCII Publishing
Joel Katelnikoff, University of Alberta
Artificial Life in Popular Culture
John Johnston, Emory University
Current Copyright May Be Wrong
Stephanie Milner, Fort Lewis College
Panel Chair: John M. Yozzo, East Central University
Brett Weaver, Fort Hays State University
Carol Reposa, San Antonio College
George McCormick, Cornell University
Melissa Houghton, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: Darren Connor
The Close Up Shot: Aesthetic Links between Early Westerns and the Avant-Garde
Kristiina Hackel, California State University Los Angeles
Fantasies of War: Realism and the Imagination
Lesley Marx, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Competing Visions: The Big Trail (1930) and The Bat Whispers (1930) Widescreen and Academy Ratio Versions
Harper Cossar, Georgia State University
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1893-1941
Sara Sullivan, University of Iowa
From Specialist to Multiplex: Marketing British Films in America
Darren Connor, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, UK
Panel Chair: Andrew Bateman, University of New Mexico
Chance Encounter: The Friendship and Collaboration of Jean Renoir and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the United States 1940-1943
Stuart McClintock, Midwestern State University
The Verbal-Visual "Touch": Reconsidering Ernst Lubitsch's Transition to Sound
Kyle J. Stine, University of Arizona
Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the Digital Divide in Film and Art
Janell Hobson, University at Albany, SUNY
Did Black Caesar Make It Onboard Ra's Ship?: Blaxploitation and the Emancipatory Aesthetic of Sun Ra
Andrew Bateman, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Marla Roberson
Stirring Up Trouble: Television Cooking Shows and Changing Representations of the American Housewife
Emily Klein, Carnegie Mellon University
Redolent of Celebrity: Chefs, Diners, Fame, Class
Gwen Hyman, The Cooper Union
Flavoring Culture: How cassia-cinnamonum Helps Bind Group Identity
Charles Feldman, Montclair State University
Eating Our Way to Heaven: The Ritual Use of Food in Religious Ceremonies
Marla Roberson, Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC
Panel Chair: Gerri Brightwell
More than Anything, He Needed Boots: Comic Book Superheroes and the Construction of Masculinity in Malcom Braly's On the Yard
Elayna Vanscoy, West Virginia University
The Representation of the Woman Artist against Thee Stereotypes of Marriage and Tradition in Henry James's The Tragic Muse and Gregorios Xenopoulos's The Actress's Husband
Maria Basli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Charlotte Temple, An Autopsy: The Physiology of Seduction
Angela Monsam, Columbia University
The Dirty Work of Detection: The Bad Mistress and her Bad Servant in Collins' Blind Love
Gerri Brightwell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Panel Chair: Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
Mourning for Jerry Garcia
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Mourning the Loss of Jerry Garcia: A Cultural Communication Analysis
Natalie Dollar, Oregon State University, Cascades
Playing In The Band: Online Memories of Jerry Garcia
David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour
Panel Chair: Robert Baumgardner
Differential Bilingualism: Vergüenza and Pride in a Spanish Sociolinguistics Class
Melissa L. Curtin, University of New Mexico
Pragmatic Variation in the Use of Reported Speech in Spanish Conversation
Kareen Gervasi, University of Central Florida
The Mexican Albur: Examining Gender, Power, and Solidarity
Nicole Houser, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
A Rose by Any Other Name Wouldn't be American: First Name Use among Spanish ESL Students
Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University
Panel Chair: Depree ShadowWalker, University of Arizona
Indian Arts and Crafts in the Boarding School Curriculum
Marinella Lentis, University of Arizona
The Impact of Imagery on Native Intellectualism
Derek Jennings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Choctaw Higher Education
Alisse Ali-Christie, University of Arizona
Collaborating Across Cultures and Disciplines: Rediscovering the Library and the Classroom in New Mexico
Paulita Aguilar, University of New Mexico Libraries
Jane Sinclair, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
Slaying the Deficit in Disability
Cyndi Headley,California State University, San Marcos
Her Work Shall Set Us Free: Immaterial Labor, Gender, and Bio-politics in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Susan Shin Hee Park, University of Minnesota
The Hellmouth Hath No Fury Like a Willow Scorned: The Feminine Challenge to Patriarchy and Its Limits in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cherily Lacy, Hartwick College
Images and Metaphor of the Domestic Feminine: Barthes, Buffy, and Joss Whedon Re-Humanize the Traditions of the Mythic Family
Donna M. Souder, Texas Women's University
Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University
Heritage Television: The Case of The Far Pavilions
Veena Hariharan, University of Southern California
Television or Terror-Vision: A Look at Zimbabwe
Prosper Mtandadzi
Explorations of Works Published in Installments: Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (print media) vs. Jerry Seinfeld's Seinfeld (televised media)
Jody Parsons, Northeastern State University
Panel Chair: Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
The Story of "America's Hometown"
Regina Faden, Executive Director of Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum
Place and the Popular Novel: Characteristics of Small-town Oklahoma as Portrayed in the Writing of Billie Letts
Joyce J. Green, The University of Oklahoma
Views of Small-town Life in the Southwest as told by Sanora Babb, Fred Harris, Jim Lehrer and J.A. Jance
V. Pauline Hodges, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
CUNY
Albert Bierstadt and the Geologists of California
Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
The West as Place in the Sculpture of Nancy Holt
Julia L. Alderson, Pacific University
Big Dreams for Real People: Housing at the Durham State Land Settlement
Katherine L. Carroll, Boston University
Panel Chair: Jean Stuntz
The Fictionalization of Western Women's Narratives
Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M University
Ecodegradation, Illness, and Grief: Women's Nonfiction and the Nuclear West
Dollie Buckhaults, West Texas A&M University
Cultivators of Civilization: Rural Women and Libraries in the Texas Panhandle, 1900-1920
Jean Stuntz, West Texas A&M University
Panel Chair: Tanya Price, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Using Indigenous Knowledge to Counter Western Knowledge, Dominance, and to Strengthen Local Governance in Nigeria
Geoffrey I. Nwaka, Abia State University
Caribbean Slave Women's Headwraps: Symbols of Creativity, Defiance, Desire and Eroticism
Steeve O. Buckridge, Grand Valley State
Revisiting Negritude: Race in the Realm of Identity
Majid Amini, Virginia State University
The Emerging Paradigm of Historical Trauma and Its Early Manifestations in Transforming the Embedded African-American Latent Slavery Culture
Onaje Muid, Reality House, New York
Panel Chair: Ken Dvorak, San Jacinto College District
No Neutral Spaces: Urban Planning, Social Fictions
Holly Wilson, Wichita State University
Authentic Reenactment or "Saccharine Moralism"?: Historical Pageantry and Commemorations of Lewis and Clark in the Twentieth Century
Wallace G. Lewis, Western State College
Trash: Looting and Private Property in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Susan Willis, Duke University
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Reservation Humor and Stand-up Comedy: From Will Rogers to Sherman Alexie
Margaret O'Shaughnessey, University of North Carolina
"There's No Business Like Show Business," Remix 1999: The Repackaging of American Indian Stereotypes in Broadway's Annie Get Your Gun
W. Douglas Powers, Susquehanna University
Embracing the Avant-Garde: Virgil Ortiz in Multiple Acts
Cynthia Chavez
Panel Chair: Christine McDermott
Where Magic Really Comes From: Knowledge, Choice, and Power in the Harry Potter Series
Stephanie Nettles, University of Northern Colorado
Becoming Un/a Bocón/a: A Study of Epic Theatre for Young Audiences in Bocón by Lisa Loomer
Jeanette Sanchez, University of Washington
Reformulating Happily-Ever-After: Fairy Tales and Sexuality in YA Literature
Christine McDermott, Stephen F. Austin State University
Panel Chair: Judd Ruggill, University of Arizona
Ultimate Spider-Man: Game Narrative and Interactive Literature
Joshua Cozine, University of Southern California
Multi-Media Narratives: Fragmented Readings or Holistic Storylines
Jennifer deWinter, University of Arizona
The Civil War Then and Now: From Birth of a Nation to Sid Meier's Gettysburg
Nicholas White, University of Arizona
Panel Chair: Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University
John M. Yozzo, East Central University
Margie Kanter, Madrid, Spain
Larry Harper, Utah Valley State College
Panel Chair: Nate Brennan
Recharting the Civil War's Geography of Memory in Cold Mountain (2003)
Tom Morgan, Claremont Graduate School
"It's What People Say We're Fighting For": Representing the Lost Cause in Cold Mountain (2003)
Robert M. Myers, University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven
Cold War Fears, Cold War Passions: Liberals and Conservatives Square Off in 1950s Science Fiction
Bryan E. Vizzini, West Texas University
Hiroshima at the Drive-in: Godzilla (1954) and the American Postwar Imagination of (Historic) Disaster
Nate Brennan, New York University
Forum Chair: Peggy Tally, State University of New York, Empire State College
Bored with the Rings: Non-Fans and the Cultural Reception of Lord of the Rings
Panel Chair: Melissa Salazar
From Tamales to the panza and the Kitchen: Cooking a Chicana Feminist Theatrical Performative Space
Norma Cárdenas, University of Texas at San Antonio
The Tao of Food: Ontology and Food in Babette's Feast
Carolyn Levy, Simon Fraser University
Learning "Taste": Questioning the Mind-body "Split" in Explaining Children's Eating
Melissa Salazar, University of California, Davis
Panel Chair: Marianne Cotugno, Miami University Ohio
Sadomasochism, Spirit, and Feminine Agency: What it Means to Stoop and Conquer as Interpreted by a Post-War Female Authorship
Rebecca Napier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tales of the "Great Bitch": Murder and the Release of Virile Desire in Norman Mailer's An American Dream
Mike Meloy, University of South Carolina
Harvard's President and His Controversial Comments: The Debate Regarding Women in Math and Science
Rachel D. Swartzendruber, Wichita State University
Conrad Richter's Southwest Women: A Reconsideration of Gender in the Fiction of Conrad Richter
Marianne Cotugno, Miami University, Ohio
Panel Chair: Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Discussants
Christian Crumlish, Independent Scholar
Kathy Burnett, Florida State University
Eric Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Panel Chair: Jesus Tafoya, Sul Ross State University
Discursive Constructions of Legitimacy in War Crimes Trials: Changes in the Discourse of Human Rights from Nuremberg to The Hague
Raymond Oenbring, University of Washington
What's So Funny about Peace, Love and Intertextuality: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of America (The Book)
Richard W. Hallett and Judith Kaplan-Weinger, Northeastern Illinois University
"I totally disagree with you and let me tell you why . . . ;" How Adolescent Girls Create Expert Knowledge on Internet Forums: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Jennifer Kontny, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Panel Chair: Paulita Aguilar, University of New Mexico Libraries
Creating Digital Resources for Indigenous Children
Vanessa Chavez, University of New Mexico School of Law
Keepers and Seekers of Fluency of Indigenous Languages
Delphine Redshirt, University of Arizona at Tucson
Vygotsky and Indigenous Cultures
Depree ShadowWalker, University of Arizona
Native American Dwelling, Space and Culture: An Analytical Dialogue
Chris T. Cornelius, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Moderators: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University, and John Miles, University
of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Joe Bisz
"PHAT LOOT FOR THE WIN!!!": Questing for a False Virtual Utopia
Robin Andreasen, South Texas College
Post-Borgesian Virtualities in the Desert-ed Carnival of the Ral
Joe Haske, Sout Texas College
Fluid Identities in the Virtual Reality of the Classroom
Liana Andreasen, South Texas College
Interpreting Tolkien and Customizing Roles in the Middle-Earth Collectible Card Game
Joe Bisz, CUNY Borough of Manhattan
Panel Chair: Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
David Lynch's Postmodern American Gothic
Brett Paice, The University of Notre Dame
Seeing the Nation: Small-Town America, the creation of an Ignorant Empire, and Thornton Wilders' Our Town
Ryan Poll, University of California - Davis
The Small Town in the Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Jill Gold Wright, Mount San Antonio College
High Brow, Low Brow, and High Stakes: Contested Terrains in John Estacio's and John Murrell's Grand Opera, Filumena
Tamara Seiler, University of Calgary
Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
CUNY
Joseph Henry Sharp's Glimpses of Transformation in Native America
Marie Watkins, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
Texas Cowboy as Myth: Visual Representations from the Late-Twentieth Century
Melynda Seaton, University of North Texas
Alfred Quiroz's Selected Histories for Americans: Sometimes Sordid, Sometimes Nasty, Sometimes Bizarre and Relatively Honest and Candid In-Your-Face History Painting from the American Southwest
Peter S. Briggs, Curator of Art, Museum of Texas Tech University
Panel Chair : Paul Varner
Women in Westerns: Heartland, The Ballad of Little Jo, Bad Girls, and The Quick and the Dead
Philip M. Haigh, North Carolina School of the Arts
A Different Man: Positioning Man of the West in the Interstices of Anthony Mann's Career
Cornelius Collins, Rutgers University
The Films of Budd Boetticher: Aesthetics of the B Western
Dale T. Adams, Lee College, TX
Hopalong Cassidy's Gun: Commodified Violence in Clarence Mulford's Bar 20 Novels
Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University
Panel Chair: Emily Clark
L'ecriture Feminine in the Hands of Men: Cunningham Rewrites Woolf
Hanan Muzaffar, Kuwait University
Supermom Doesn't Fly in Fiction
Corissa Bush, Sam Houston State University
Stomping in the Streets: Gender and Flanerie in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Emily Clark, The University of the Incarnate Word
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Present Myth: Old Stories and New Sciences in the Poetry of Carter Revard
Ellen Arnold, East Carolina University
Horsing Around With Chickens: A Traditional Jemez Game Confirms a Contemporary Displaced Identity in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn
Holly Martin, Appalachian State University
The Absence of Angels and Killing Time With Strangers and Life is "Not All This then That": The Context of a Dreamer's Reality in the Novels of W. S. Penn
Tammy Wahpeconiah, Appalachian State University
Panel Chair: Judith Carter, Amarillo College
"I Must Gather the Dreams They Spill": Multivocality and Performance in Memoir
Nicole McDaniel, Texas A&M University
Blogs: A First Person Narrative in Real Time
Elouise Ozyon, Rochester Institute of Technology
Authorship in Experimental Autobiographies of the 1960s and 1970s
Miriam Havemann, University of Bochum
I Led Three Lives: an Anti-Communist TV Show
Damien Colin, California State University Long Beach
Panel Chair: Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin
Remember the Alamo?: Representation, History, and The Ghost of John Wayne
Lacey Donohue, University of Texas at Austin
Canciones de la traicionera in Terri de la Peña's Latin Satins
DeNara Ann Hill, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Alejandro Escovedo and His Songs: Men Who Remember Fathers Raised by Women
Liz Espinoza, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Sara Day
The Relationship of Secrets and Power in Francis Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
Margit Codispoti, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
"I am Who I am": The Politics of Childhood in Deborah Ellis's Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
Wafaa Hasan, McMaster University
"Transforming What Was into What Cannot Possibly Be": Elements of Fantasy in the Holocaust Fiction of Jane Yolen and Lois Lowry
Sara Day, Texas A&M University
Panel Chair: Kirsten Day
Alexander the Conqueror as an Asian Reimagination of Western History
Arthur J. Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington
Alexander: Movie Mythistoricus
Ian Worthington, University of Missouri-Columbia
Looking with One Eye Blinded: The Pleasures of Unveiling Oedipus in Oliver Stone's Alexander
Louise Davis, Michigan State University
The Hekatomnid Connection: Alexander's Missing Link
Kirsten Day, University of Arkansas
Panel Chair: Ken McAllister, University of Arizona
Men and Videogames
Devin Monnens, University of Denver
Interactive Impotence: The Rhetoric of Videogames?
Dalyn Luedtke, University of Arizona
The Dramatism of Videogames: A Burkean Reading of WWII Games
Jason Thompson, University of Arizona
Panel Chair: Ken Dvorak, San Jacinto College
The Virtual Cocktail Party: Promoting Discussion Outside the Classroom Walls
Lawrence C. Clark, Houston Baptist University
Radical Disclosure, Feedback Loops, and Reflexivity: Notes from an Online "Faciltator" in Training
Jeremy Hockett, Michigan State University
Humanlike Interface and Its Impacts on the Effectiveness of Writing Website for ESL Composition Students.
Yowei Kang and Kenneth C.C. Yang, The University of Texas at El Paso
Panel Chair: Laura Palmer
Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry and Me: Finding a Voice (& Sanity) for Environmental Writing (& Activism)
Ken Steinken, University of Wyoming
Integrating Ecocriticism into the Secondary School Curriculum
Deborah Bass, University of Wyoming
Christianity and the Environment
Melissa McCoy, West Texas A & M University
Writing for Environmental Issues: An Eco-Feminist Perspective
Laura Palmer, Texas Tech University