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Wednesday, February 8, 2006

12:00 - 5:00 p.m.  |  Atrium 2nd Floor / Boardroom Alcove |  Conference Registration

Panels 100 - 112
Panel Time 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

100  Pavilion I  |  Atomic Culture 1

The Atomic Environment: Coming to Terms with Nuclear Winter, Waste, and Wilderness

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

101  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 1

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

102  Pavilion III  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 1

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

103  Pavilion IV  |  Cormac McCarthy 1

Critical Responses to No Country for Old Men

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

104  Pavilion V  |  Grateful Dead 1

Panel Chair: Gary Burnett, Florida State University

My First Dead Show
Adam Perry, Independent Scholar

Compliments 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

105  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 1

Image and Imagination in Popular Culture: Continuing Manifestations of (mis)Representations of Indigeneity

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

106  Enchantment B  |  Pedagogies and the Profession 1

The Effectiveness of Web Based Course Design Tools and the Non- Traditional Student

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

107  Enchantment C  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 1

Frontiers

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

108  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 1

Sex, Rejection, Death, and Grief in Buffy

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

109  Enchantment E  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 19

Philosohy in the Whendonverse

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

110  Enchantment F  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 1

Shakespeare Adaptations: Additions and Omissions

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

111  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 1

Performance in a Beat Milieu

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

112  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 1

Back onto the Pedestal: Rereading the Pygmalion Myth

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 Dakota

Ready-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

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Panels 113 - 128
Panel Time 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

113  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 1

New Smoke Signals: American Indians in the Digital Age

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

114  Pavilion I  |  Atomic Culture 2

Atomic Film

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

115  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 2

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

116  Pavilion III  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 2

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

117  Pavilion IV  |  Cormac McCarthy 2

Critical Responses to Blood Meridian

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

118  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 1

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

119  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 1

Changing/Emergent Food Culture

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

120  Pavilion V  |  Grateful Dead 2

Postmodern Crossings: Nomad Music, the X-Factor, and Grateful Dead Communitas

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

121  Fiesta 4  |  International Experience: Latin American Studies 1

Rituals, Violence, and Creativity

Panel Chair: Jesús Tafoya, Sul Ross State University

Multivalent Macumba: Cannibalism, Modernism and Psychopomposity
Christopher W. Chase, Michigan State University

Ethnocide and History of Silence: Women and Native Salvadoran Regionalism
Rafael Lara-Martínez, New Mexico Tech

Measuring 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

122  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 2

Mixed-Blood Identity: Navigating the Indigenous Landscape

Panel Chair: L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University

Between Two Worlds
Charles Brashear, San Diego State University

123  Enchantment B  |  Pedagogies and the Profession 2

Teaching the American West through Film, Literature, and History

Panel Chair: Mike Pierce, Tarleton State University

Kay A. Reeve, Kennesaw State University
Dorothy Graham, Kennesaw State University
Linda Niemann, Kennesaw State University

124  Enchantment C  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 2

Hip-Hop Hybridity and the Visual Arts

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

125  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 2

Literature and Film

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

126  Enchantment F  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 2

Apocalyptic Shakespeares

Panel Chair: Melissa Croteau

"The Sun Will Come Out Taymora": Julie Taymor's Happy Titus Andronicus
Kim Fedderson and Mike Richardson, Lakehead University

To 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

127  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 2

Burroughs and Corso Cutting Up the Bomb

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

128  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 2

Entertainment and Gender Stereotypes

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

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Panels 129 - 147
Panel Time 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

129  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 1

Reading Race in Literary Text

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

130  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 2

Language, Rhetoric and the Oral Tradition: Issues in American Indian Identity

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

131  Pavilion I  |  Atomic Culture 3

Atomic Film

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

132  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 3

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

133  Pavilion III  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 3

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

134  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 1

Medea and Robert Wilson's Deafman Glance

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

135  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 1

Blogs I: The Blog Explosion: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous-A Round Table Discussin

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

136 Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 2

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

137  Sendero III  |  Film 1

Film I: Tales in Different Tongues: Non-Hollywood Narratives

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

138  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 2

Food Icons and Advertising: Mark(et)ing Subjectivies

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

139  Pavilion V  |  Grateful Dead 3

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


140  Fiesta 4  |  International Experience: Latin American Studies 2

Literatura y pedagogía (En español)

Panel Chair: Cida S. Chase

De la anécdota, al chiste, al minicuento: nuevas direcciones de la minificción en ` Latinoamérica
Lucero Tenorio-Gavin, Oklahoma State University

La 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 Oklahoma

Pablo Antonio Cuadra: vanguardismo y nativismo en Nicaragua
Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University

141  Enchantment A  |  Native/indigenous Studies 3

Theorizing Contested Spaces in Popular Dance, Literature and Television: Native Studies as Resistance and Sites for Counter-Hegemonic Classroom Discourse

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

142  Enchantment B  |  Pedagogies and the Profession 3

Video and the Web In The Classroom

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

143  Enchantment C  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 3

States of Being

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

144  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 3

Subjectivity, Space, and Perspective in the Whendoverse

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 University

The Terror of Silence/The Silence of Terror
Amanda Taylor, California State University, San Bernardino

145  Enchantment F  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 3

Shakespeare and the DVD

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

146  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 3

Ginsberg & Whitman, and Teaching the Beats

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

147  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 3

Issues of Sex and Gender

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

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Panels 148 - 163
Panel Time 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

148  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 4

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

149  Pavilion III  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 4

Resisting and Re-imagining Genre in Chicana/o Cultural Productions

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

150  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 2

Roman Writers in Modern Film

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

151  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 2

Blogs II: Blogging for Common Ground in the Classroom, Across the Curriculum, and Among Universities

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

152  Pavilion IV  |  Cormac McCarthy 3

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

153  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 3

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

154  Sendero III  |  Film 2

Film II: Film on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and Cinema

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

155  Pavilion IV  |  Grateful Dead 4

Online Tape Archives and Community

Panel Chair: Amanda Hirsh, Independent Scholar

Discussants
Gary Burnett, Florida State University
Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour

156  Fiesta 4  |  International Experience: Latin American Studies 3

Latinos: He, She and We (Bilingüe)

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

157  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 4

Blending Indigenous Traditions with American Pop Culture Sensibilities: Fashion, Music, and Fine Art

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

158  Enchantment B  |  Pedagogies and the Profession 4

Community, Pedagogy, and Memories

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

159  Enchantment C  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 4

Place and Identity

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

160  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 4

Lord of the Rings I-Cultural Codes

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

161  Enchantment F  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 4

Shakespeare and Film Authors

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

162  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 4

Apres Beat, le Deluge: Other Counterculture Writers

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

163  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 4

Rethinking Feminism

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 University

Voice and the Subaltern
Mary Alice Brittain, West Texas A&M University

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Panel 164
Panel Time 8:30 - 9:00 p.m.

164  Pavilion 1  |  Movie: Carhenge: Genius or Junk?

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

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Panel 200
Panel Time 6:30 - 8:00 a.m.

200  Breakfast - Area Chair Business Meeting

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Panels 201 - 219
Panel Time 8:00- 9:30 a.m.

201  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 2

Traveling the Road of Race, Resistance, and Reconciliation

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

202  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 3

Fancy Dancing: Hip Hop, Rap, and Pop in Indian Country

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

203  Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 1

Beyond the Traditional Written Word in Young Adult Culture

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)

204  Pavilion II  |  Comics and Popular Culture 1

Coloring America: Strategizing Cultural Identities in Contemporary Graphic Narrative

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

205  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 3

Game Studies I

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

206  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 4

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

207  Pavilion III  |  Experimental Writing and Aesthetics 1

A Skeleton of Conventions

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

208  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 1

Film, Culture, and Pedagogy in the

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

209  Sendero III  |  Film 3

Comparisons Right and Left: Cinema Outside the Theatre

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

210  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 3

Food Culture of Greater Mexico

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

211  Pavilion V  |  Linguistics 1

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

212  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 5

Biography and the Representation of Indigenous Resistances: Heroism, Personal Narratives, and Performativity

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

213  Enchantment B  |  Pedagogies and the Profession 5

Literature Text In The Classroom

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

214  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 5

Viewing Buffy

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

215  Fiesta 4  |  Shakespeare and Popular Culture 1

Shakespeare in the Modern Age

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

216  Enchantment F  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 5

But Is It Shakespeare?

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

217  Sendero I  |  Television 1

All across America: From the South to South Park to The West Wing

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

218  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 5

Snyder and Olson: The Politics of Bioregionalism, Ecocriticism, and Eco-Shamanism

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

219  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 5

Creative Writing

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

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Panels 220 - 238
Panel Time 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

220  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 3

Diversity Issues in African American Education

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

221  Fiesta 1  |  American History and Culture 1

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

222  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 4

City Cousins, Country Cousins, Ancient Cousins: Indians Being Redefined and Redefining Themselves

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.

223  Fiesta 4  |  California Culture 1

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

224  Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 2

A Reconsideration of Popular 19th Century Children's Literature

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

225  Pavilion II  |  Comics and Popular Culture 2

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

226  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 4

Game Studies II

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

227  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 5

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

228  Pavilion III  |  Experimental Writing and Aesthetics 2

Sounds Grate on Paper

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

229  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 3

The American West and "History"

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

230  Sendero III  |  Film 4

Beauty, Bound, Bridget

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

231  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 4

Food and Postcolonial Studies: The Empire Bites Back

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

232  Enchantment B  |  Gender 1

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

233  Pavilion V  |  Linguistics 2

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

234  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 6

Creative Contestation in Digital Spaces: Blood Memory, Cyberactivism, and Collective Trauma

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

235  Enchantment F  |  Rock'n Roll and American Fiction 1

We Could Be So Good Together:

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

236  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 6

Lord Of The Rings II - Historiography

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

237  Sendero I  |  Television 2

Television, Culture, & Identity in Contemporary America

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

238  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 6

Literary Women

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

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Panel 239 - 257
Panel Time 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

239  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 4

The Intellectual Rap on Rap

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

240  Fiesta 1  |  American History and Culture 2

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

241  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 5

Owls and Other Scary Things: New Perspectives in American Indian Literature

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

242  Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 3

Reading between the Lines and under the Surface

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

243  Pavilion II  |  Comics and Popular Culture 3

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

244  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 5

Technological Origins

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

245  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 6

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

246  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 5

Film and Technology: Technics and The Imagination

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

247  Sendero III  |  Film 5

Historical and Contemporary Concerns

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

248  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 5

Food and Identity

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

249  Enchantment B  |  Gender 2

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

250  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 5

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

251  Pavilion V  |  Linguistics 3

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

252  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 7

Indigenous Approaches to Higher Education I: From Boarding Schools to Self-Efficacy in Library Science: Early Influences and Today's Indigenous Intellectualisms

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

253  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 7

Feminism and Labor in Buffy

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

254  Sendero I  |  Television 3

International Television & International Connections

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

255  Fiesta 4  |  The Small Town in Literature, Film, T.V. and Music 1

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

256  Sendero II  |  Visual Arts in the West 1

The Power of Place in Western Art and Architecture

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

257  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 7

Women and the West

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

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Panel 258 - 276
Panel Time 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

258  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 5

Cultural Transformations in the African Diaspora

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

259  Fiesta 1  |  American History and Culture 3

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

260  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 6

American Indians and Forms of Artistic Expression: On Stage, in the Theater and in the Gallery

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

261  Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 4

Taking Back Power Once Denied in Young Adult Culture

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

262  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 6

Game Studies III

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

263  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 7

Panel Chair: Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University

John M. Yozzo, East Central University
Margie Kanter, Madrid, Spain
Larry Harper, Utah Valley State College

264  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 6

War, Memory, and Genre

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

265  Sendero III  |  Film 6

Bored with the Rings? Panel Forum on LOTR

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

266  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 6

Food, Ontology, and the Senses: Food Studies Takes On Descartes

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

267  Enchantment B  |  Gender 3

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

268  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 6

Mixed Marriages: Deadheads and Non-Deadheads

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

269  Pavilion V  |  Linguistics 4

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

270  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 8

Indigenous Approaches to Higher Education II: Literacy Models, Language, and Space as Tools for the Act of Learning

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

271  Pavilion II  |  Plenary Session: Native/Indigenous Studies

Plenary Session For The Native/Indigenous Studies Area: Where Do We Go from Here? An Open Forum for Discussions on Continuing Developments for the Area

Moderators: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University, and John Miles, University of New Mexico

272  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 8

Gaming I

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

273  Fiesta 4  |  The Small Town in Literature, Film, T.V., and Music 2

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

274  Sendero II Visual Arts in the West 2

Cowboys and Indians, Heroes and Villains, Fact and Fiction in Visualizing the West

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

275  Pavilion III  |  Westerns: Film and Television 1

Movies and Paperback Novels I

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

276  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 8

Women and Writing

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

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Panels 277 - 295
Panel Time 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

277  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 7

Re-Visioning the Myth: The Reworking of Tradition in Contemporary American Indian Literature

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

278  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 5

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

279  Pavilion IV  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 5

Chicana/o Cultural Legacies

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

280  Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 5

Empowerment in "Powerless" Situations

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

281  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 3

Myth and History in the Modern Story of Alexander

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

282  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 7

Game Studies IV

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

283  Fiesta 2  |  Distributive Learning and the Internet Classroom 1

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

284  Fiesta 3  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 1

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

285  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 9

The Construction of History and Culture in Film

Panel Chair: James Welsh

The Way We Live Now: Victorian Swindlers and their Victims in History, Fiction, and Film
Gayla McGlamery, Loyola College, Baltimore

Representing the Historical Turn: Transitions, Ruptures, and Spanish Film
Stanton McManus, University of Michigan

Mapping Iran and Apple Pie: Transnational Readings of Not With My Daughter (1991)
Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland College Park

Sucking Dracula: Mythic Biography into Fiction into Film
James Welsh, Salisbury University Maryland

286  Sendero III  |  Central and East European Popular Culture 1

Russia

Panel Chair: Jack J. Hutchens, University of Illinois

Public Places as Private Spaces: Queering Geography in Edward Limonov's EtoIa, Editchka
Katya Balter, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Vladimir Vysotsky's Projection and Construction of Russian Masculinity
Anthony Qualin, Texas Tech University

287  Enchantment B  |  Gender 4

Panel Chair: Jessica Holt, University of California, Berkeley

"A Necessary Evil": Sex Tourism as the New Slave Trade
Tracie Swanson, Texas Women's University

The Millennium's New Man: The Emergence of the Metrosexual Spectator
Scott Brown, Ohio University School of Film

A Rebel from the Waist Down: Marilyn Manson's Gender Performativity as Resistant Counterculture
Katie O'Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University

Speaking Metaphorically about Material Reality: Locating a Metaphorical Space to Talk About Gender
Jessica Holt, University of California, Berkeley

288  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 7

Panel Chair: Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters

Mendocino Dreamin': The Origins of the Sir Douglas Quintet
Steve Davis, Kingwood College

Human Error and Creative Variations in the Music of the Grateful Dead: Here Comes Sunshine
Mark E. Mattson, Fordham University

Forensic Oral History: Raising The Dead
Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters

289  Pavilion V  |  Linguistics 5

Panel Chair: Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University

Technical Collocation and Rhetorical Lexis in English-Spanish-English Translation
Alejando Curado Fuentes, University of Extremadura, Spain

Death of Metonymy
Navid Naderi, Allame Tabataba'I University, Iran

Politeness Strategies on Complaining that NNS Use in L2 Writing Based on Cultural Backgrounds
Adcharawan Buripakdi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

290  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 9

Indigenous Methodologies I: Incorporating the Indigenous Voice in "Traditional" Research

Panel Chair: Jeff Taylor, University of Lapland

Baa Nitsijikees (to Methodically Analyze) a Navajo Traditional Research Methodology
Herbert Benally, Dineh College, Shiprock Campus

American Indian Rhetorics: Communicating as Pan-Indian and as Traditional
Aretha Calamity, University of Arizona

Factors that May Impact Native and Asian American Cultural Identity Development: Seeking an Integrated Cultural Identity Model
Sara Cho Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, University of Wisconsin-Madison

291  Enchantment E  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 5

Eminem

Panel Chair: Donna Cox

Eminem's "Real Slim Shady" and the Immersion of Hip Hop Culture in Consumer Culture
Emmanuel Witzthum, Hebrew University

Shaping Language for New Expression: Gertrude Stein and Eminem
Alejandro Nodarse, Florida State University

Eminem Tells Stories: "Will the Real Hysteric Please Stand Up?"
Donna Cox, Grimsby Institute of Higher Education

292  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 9

Religion in the Whendonverse

Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State Univesity-Sacramento

Whedon's Biting Wit: Parodies of Religion in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Mara E. Donaldson, Dickinson College

The Shepherd's Crook: An Examination of the Enduring Power of Rejected Faith in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity
K. Dale Koontz, Cleveland Community College

"I offer her an apple. What can she do but take it?": Caleb's Evangelical Evil in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Tammy A. Kinsey, University of Toledo

What Would Joss Do? And Would Anyone Care? Religion and Audience Response in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Asim Ali, University of Maryland - College Park

293  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 6

Women, Truman, Physics, and Math: Infinite Variety on the Hydrogen Beat Jukebox

Panel Chair: Thom Young

Princess Hamlets: Joyce Johnson's Memoir, Minor Characters
Tina Zigon, Texas State University, San Marcos

"Hydrogen Jukebox": Mathematics as the Language of the Beat Generation
Clayton Dion, University of Western Ontario

The Cold Road: Reading Kerouac's On the Road Through Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
Jon Mitchell, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Charles Olson, Jazz, Jackson Pollock, and the Quantum Paradigm: Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose as Projective Art in a Quantum Field
Thom Young, Montgomery College

294  Fiesta 4  |  War and War Eras 1

Strategy, Popular Culture, and Generational Transmission

Panel Chair: Brad L. Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Smoke on the Water: The Confederacy Recaptures Galveston
Rusty Hawkins, Texas Tech University

Through the Eyes of Scarlett: Gone with the Wind
Natalie Farr, New Mexico Highlands University

Writing Our Father's Stories: Vietnam's Generational Transmission
Annette M. Rodriguez, University of New Mexico

Substitute History: Popular Culture as Personal History in In Country and Prisoners
Holly Clay, University of Tulsa

295  Pavilion III  |  Westerns: Film and Fiction 2

Movies and Paperback Novels II

Panel Chair : Stephen Weathers

Deadwood and the English Language
Brad Benz, Fort Lewis College

Zane Grey on the Sublime: "Riders of the Purple Sage"
Richard Hutson, University of California-Berkeley

To Avenge or Not to Avenge: Violence, Vengeance, and Vigilantism in Clint Eastwood's Westerns and in Mystic River
Leonard Engel, Quinnipiac University

"Ain't That a Wonderment?": The Limits of Enlightenment Thought in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Stephen Weathers, Abilene Christian University

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Panel 296
Panel Time 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.

296  Movie  |  Carhenge: Genius or Junk?

A Documentary Film Produced and Directed by David Liban

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Panels 297 - 299.19
Panel Time 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

297  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 8

Special Emphasis on American Indians in Film: From Stereotype to Personhood: The American Indian Film and Fiction

Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College

The American Indian in Film
Stephen Sylvester, Peru State College

The American Indian in Fiction
Carolyn Holbert, Matanuska-Susitna College

298  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 6

Panel Chair: Cheryl Wiltse

Lavengro: A Daughter's Search for Her Father
Bonnie Lovell, University of North Texas

Becoming Myself
Katherine Keaton Borok, University of Central Florida

A Tragic Contemporary Aztec Love Story
James M. Taggart, Franklin and Marshall College

Prescription for Comedy: The Genesis of Gene Wilder
Cheryl Wiltse, Texas Woman's University

299  Pavilion IV  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 6

Race and Gender in Contemporary Chicana/o Cultural Productions

Panel Chair: Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin

Reckoning with the Father: Contemplations of the ChicanoFather/Son Relationship in the Fiction of Ray Gonzalez and Luis Alberto Urrea
Christina Garcia, University of Texas at Austin

Not So Private: Breaking Through Gender Lines in Literature and Art
Alicia Montero, University of Texas at Austin

Passing and the Politics of Miscegenation in Contemporary Chican@ Fiction
Lydia Wilmeth, University of Texas at Austin

Revisiting the Past: Ray Gonzalez's The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories
Naminata Diabate, University of Texas at Austin

299.1   Pavilion I  |  Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 6

The Open Frontier in Critical Studies: The Scholarship of Children's/Young Adult Literature - A Roundtable Panel

Panel Chairs: Cindy Daniels and Gabrielle Owens

Theory, Culture, and Young Adult Literature
Gabrielle Owens, New Mexico State University

Young Adult Literature: The Open Frontier in Critical Studies
Cindy Daniels, State University of New York

Discussants
Margit Codispoti, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Diana Dominguez, University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College

299.2  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 4

Finding the Gods in Modern Film

Panel Chair: Kosta Hadavas

When Eros Lies in The Hand of Wong Kar-Wai
Nicholas Y. B. Wong, University of Hong Kong

Re-presenting the Mythological in the Film Sideways
Paula C. Yablonsky, University of New York at Albany

The Disneyfication of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Kosta Hadavas, Beloit College

299.3  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 8

Conflicting Consumers: Katamari Damacy and the Absurd-A Roundtable Discussion

Panel Chair: Judd Ruggill, University of Arizona

Wilson Bateman, Utah State University
Ken McAllister, University of Arizona
Robert McConkie, Utah State University
Kevin Moberly, North Carolina Wesleyan College
Ryan Moeller, Utah State University

299.4  Enchantment C  |  Creative Writing 8

Panel Chair: Carol Reposa, San Antonio College

Mimi McDonald, Virginia Tech
Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University
Diane Thiel, University of New Mexico
Jerry Bradley, Lamar University

299.5  Fiesta 3  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 2

Ecocritical Studies and Environmental Values

Panel Chair: Gwynne Middleton, University of Nevada, Reno

Folknography and African American Nature Stories: A New Reading of Gloria Naylors Mama Day
Leslie Wolcott, University of Nevada, Reno

Trash Animals: The Cultural and Historical Sorting of Species
Phillip David Johnson, II, University of Nevada Reno

Stories and Those Who Dare Tell Them
Anna McCarthy, University of Nevada, Reno

Displacing Notions of Nature: Examining Environmental Values in Robert Smithsons Mirror Displacements
Gwynne Middleton, University of Nevada, Reno

299.7  Pavilion III  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 6

Prospero's Books and The Tempest

Panel Chair: Gabrielle Malcolm

Presenting the Unpresentable: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books as Post- Modern Melodrama
Anne Petersen, University of Oregon

The Tempest, Propero/Brook: Gielgud, Greenaway and the New Masque, Part I
Catherine Digman, London College of Fashion
Karen Hay, Edge Hill University College

The Tempest, Propero/Brook: Gielgud, Greenaway and the New Masque, Part II
Gabrielle Malcolm, Edge Hill University College

299.8  Enchantment B  |  Gender 5

Panel Chair: Gypsey Teague

My Life at the Gym(s): Pumping Iron with and without the Mirror
Stephanie Gross, Husson College

ISO (In-Search-Of): Gender as Action in Online Personal Advertisement Profiles
Lisa Wagner, University of Louisville

The Popular Vagina
Courtney Spohn-Larkins, Colorado State University

The State of the Transgender Community: A Demographic Approach
Gypsey Teague, Clemson University

299.9  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 8

Towards a Grateful Dead Archive

Panel Chair: Kay Alexander, Independent Scholar

Discussants
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert Weiner, Mahon Library

299.10  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 10

Indigenous Methodologies II: Critical Themes in Researching Native Subjectivity

How Collective Efficacy Impacts Native Women in Higher Education
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From 'Here' to 'There' to Back 'Here' Again: An Illustration of How the Themes of Participation and Collaboration Were Applied in Research with the Sto:lo First Nation in British Columbia, Canada
Megan Gough, University of Saskatchewan

299.11   Enchantment E  |  Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture 6

Hip-Hop Historiographies

Panel Chair: Jennifer R. Young

Hip-Hop Scribes: Double-Consciousness Double-Crossed
Stafford Gregoire, LaGuardia Community College

"All I Need is One Mic": Nas and the Embodiment of The Message in the Twenty-First Century
Siobhan D. Carter, Indiana University

Phyllis Wheatley and Tupac Shakur: The Continuum of Elegiac Poetry in the African American Tradition
Jennifer R. Young, Hope College

299.12  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 10

Lord of the Rings III - Cultural Contexts

Panel Chair: Susan Johnson, California State University at Fullerton

The Myth of History: Intertexuality and the Historical Narrative of The Lord of the Rings
Jason Burnett, Indiana University Graduate Center

The Lord of the Rings: Myth, Faerie, and Modernity
Julie Redekopp, University of New Mexico

In Defense of Arwen
Mark Lewandowski, Indiana State University

Bored With the Rings: Non-Fans and the Cultural Reception of The Lord of the Rings
Margaret J. Tally, Empire State College

299.13  Fiesta 2  |  Silent Film 1

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Panel Chair: Rob Weiner, Mahon Library

The Crazy Caligari Carnival: Visual Influence of Robert Wiene's Caligari on director Tim Burton
Sara Montgomery, University of Utah

Dr. Caligari, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
William Parill, Southeastern Louisiana University

Screening of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1919 (67 minutes)

299.14  Pavilion V  |  Southwestern Literature 1

Panel Chair: Steve Davis

Cowboy Love: E. Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain
Edith Vandervoort, University of Texas Pan-American

Biblical Parallels in the Book of Hosea and Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass
Max Loges, Lamar University

Matrices: Eggs Boiled and Scrambled in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing
Dickie Maurice Heaberlin, Texas State University-San Marcos

The Shadows of Friday Night Lights
Mark Busby, Texas State University-San Marcos

Dagoberto Gilb vs. Texas Monthly: What Really Happened?
Steve Davis, Texas State University-San Marcos

299.15  Fiesta 1  |  The Beat Generation and Counterculture 7

Theology Bums: Spirituality in a Beat Context

Panel Chair: Thom Young

"A Letter to God": Kenneth Patchen's Theo/Teleology
Rose Pass, Colorado School of Mines

Nadiral Ecstasy in Jack Kerouac's Last Novels
Thomas Bierowski, Alvernia College

Beat Culture, Beat Lives, Beat Dharma: Three Takes
Horace Fairlamb, University of Houston-Victoria

Jack Kerouac's Rubáiyát: The Influence of Omar Khayyám"
Michael Skau, University of Nebraska at Omaha

299.16  Sendero III  |  Visual Arts in the West 3

Female and Native American Identity in the West

Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Patio Door Series
Rebecca Lawton, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum

Re-Gendering the West: No Ordinary Views by Women Photographers Septima M. Collis, Kate T. Cory, and Mary Schäffer Warren
Margaret Denny, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Painting and Protecting the Landscape of the American Southwest
Carolyn Kastner, California College of the Arts

299.18  Fiesta 4  |  War and War Eras 2

Special Session: The War in Iraq, Camp Casey, and the Emerging Anti-War Movement

This special session is an examination of the emerging anti-war movement, looking specifically at Camp Casey, the cultural aesthetics of the September 24 peace rally in Washington DC, and the media portrayal of the movement. Audience participation and discussion is welcomed.

Panel Participants: Lydia Kualapai, Tom Wells, Lori Noonan, Schreiner University

299.19  Native American Culture - Reception (To Be Announced)

Friday, February 10, 2006

8:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. 
  Atrium 2nd Floor / Boardroom Alcove  |  Conference Registration

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Panel 300 - 318
Panel Time 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.

300  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 9

Through the Eyes of Eyre and Alexie: Reframing Indian Film?

Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College

What Do You Mean We, Black Man?: Probing the Mainstream in Chris Eyre's Edge of America
Ron Denson, Ithaca College

Why are Native Americans Always Wearing Leather Breaches?
Julien R. Fielding, Lecturer, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Representing the Rez: The Films of Chris Eyre
Anna Krauthammer, City University of New York

301  Pavilion I  |  Arab Culture in the U.S. 1

Hybridity, Intertextuality, and Literature

Panel Chair: Heather M. Hoyt

Arab American Literature and Its Dialogue with Arab Cultural Heritage
Dalia Fadila, Al-Qasemi Academy & Bar Ilan University, Israel

The 21st Century Contact Zone: Redefining Hybridity through the Poetics of Naomi Shihab Nye
Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University

Signifyin(g) Toward Cultural Hybridities: Humor and Metaphor in Mohja Kahf's Poetry
Heather M. Hoyt, Arizona State University

302  Pavilion IV  |  Chicana/Chicano Literature 7

Panel Chair: Carmen Vidal-Lieberman, New Mexico Highlands University

Moving from Periphery to Center: Mestizaje in Autoethnographies of Gloria Anzaldúa and Richard Rodriguez
Patricia M. Perea, University of New Mexico

Ceremony: Imaginary/Real Poetics of Indigenous Liberation Struggles at Laguna against Nuclear Colonialism
Bazan Romero, New Mexico Highlands University

Like Water for Chocolate: Elisions of Revolutionary Identities at the Borders
Carmen Vidal-Lieberman

303  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 5

Greek Tragedy in Modern Film and Theater

Panel Chair: Howard Mayer

Re-presenting Blackness: Re-Positioning the Modern Black Experience through Re-presentations of Greek Tragedy and Myth
Marie Valverde, Indiana University

Eastwood Does Oedipus
Joseph J. Walsh, Loyola College in Maryland

Oedipus Anew: Recent Tellings of an Ancient Myth
Howard Mayer, University of Hartford

304  Pavilion II  |  Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 1

Collecting as a Means of Constructing Identity

Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson, Touro College

Telling Stories: The Collections and Recollections of a Sentimental Traveling Biblioholic
Nancy Bluemel

The Collecting of Fine Art and the Material Culture of the Parlor as a Means of Constructing an African-American Male Identity
Diane Matlock, George Washington University

305  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 9

Internet as Pornographic Medium

Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend

The Pornography of a Lesser God: Underground Story Telling in The Sims God Game
Ryan R. Schoon, Purdue University Calumet

Auschwitz Bitch: An Associative Archive of Historical Imagery in Internet Porn
Aaron Brewer, Independent Scholar

Virtual Communities, Real Dilemmas? Queer Identities and Nazi Fetishism
Danny Beusch, University of Warwick, England

306  Pavilion III  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 1

Panel Chair: Paul A. Fried

Popeye Docks in Sweethaven or the Arrival of the Outsider into the Uneasy Community
Jim Fitzmorris, Tulane University

A "Common Place" Assignment for Writing the Script, the Verse, or the Story
Michael W. Young, La Roche College

Writing from the Body
Catherine Houser, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Till You Can't Get It Wrong: Self-evaluation and a Music-practice Analogy in Creative Writing Workshops
Paul A. Fried, Minnesota State University, Mankato

307  Fiesta 1  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 3

Panel Chair: Mary Ellen Cohane, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Howling at the Moon: Wolves, Coyotes and the Construction of Wilderness Animals in Childrens Non-fiction Literature
Amy L Hayden, University of Illinois at Chicago

Gardening on a Golf Course: Reading Fight Club as a Template for Eco-Masculine Discourse
JohannPautz, Florida State University

After the Oil Crisis: Cultural Responses in Nancy Farmers The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Mary Ellen Cohane, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

308  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 7

Anthropology and Literature

Panel Chair: Lynn Marie Houston

Food and Athropology in the Work of Barbarba Pym
Patricia McErlain, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Culture, Imperialism, and the Creation of Gender Dichotomy: The Intrinsic Relationship between Feminist Anthropologic Theory and Global Contemporary Literature
Shelby Manney, University of Texas at El Paso

Life-Based and Fictional-Based Food Voices: Developing a Critical Social Consciousness
Meredith Abarca, University of Texas at El Paso

Ethnographic Work in the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary Role of the Text
Lynn Marie Houston, California State University Chico

309  Pavilion V  |  Gaming and Gambling Culture 1

Current Topics in Indian Gaming

Panel Chair: Jan Louise Jones

Are Casinos in Accordance with "Traditional" Native Values and Economics?
Raymond Orr, University of California-Berkeley

In Search of the Next Jackpot: One-Armed Bandits and Pueblo Responses in Art
Jane Sinclair, University of New Mexico

Indian Gaming in the Indian Territory: The Rise of Native American Casinos in Oklahoma
Russell Graves, Cameron University

Exploring Resident Attitudes about the Impacts of the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Montville, CT
Jan Louise Jones, University of Maine and Presque Isle

310  Enchantment B  |  Gender 6

Panel Chair: Joanna Clark, Cisco Junior College

In the Cut: Even the Right Man Is the Wrong Man
Niki Wilson, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

HBO's Original Series and the Crisis of Masculinity
Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College

"Hey Ladies": Gender Equality in Popular Culture
Barbara Nelson, Arizona State University
Amy Shinabarger, California State University, Northridge

"Girls Play with Dolls. Boys Play with Trucks." Swinging Right, Back to Stepford?
Joanna Clark, Cisco Junior College

311  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 9

Imrovisational Space: The Sonic Field of Postmodern Community

Jacques Attali's Noise and The Grateful Dead
Judy Brady, University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Crying Leonardo Words from out a Silk Trombone": Surrealist Impulses and Consensus Consciousness
Mark Tursi, University of Denver

"And Then Flew On": Improvisational Moments of Rhizomatic Assemblage in Grateful Dead Musical Experience
Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus

312  Enchantment C  |  Local Film Exhibition and Theatre Preservation 1

Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael

The Superba Theatre in Freeport, Illinois, 1915-1929: Small-City Exhibition, Tom Watson, and His Bicycle
David Resha, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Grand Venue for Grand Entertainment: The Grand Theatre, The City of Calgary, and Patterns of Civic Boosterism
Robert M. Seiler, University of Calgary

Of Majesty and Matinees/Of Mayhem and Murders: The (D)evolution of Pomona's Picture Palace
Kelli Shapiro, Brown University

Mining the Archives: Researching Primary Documents of the Griffith Film Exhibition Company
Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University

313  Enchantment E  |  Motorcycle Life and Culture 1

Panel Chair: Paul Nagy, Clovis Community College

Poetic Self-Realization of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Kathleen (Catalina) Aguilar, Fort Lewis College

Cultural Regionalisms and Motorcycle Travel
Martin Christiansen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Teach Like a Warrior: Lessons Learned While Motorcycling
Dan Close, Wichita State University

Pieta
Antonio Watkins, Saint Mary's College of California

314  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 11

Cultural Survivance I: Approaching the Age of Globalization from an Indigenous Perspective

Panel Chair: John Miles, University of New Mexico

Returning the World to Harmony: Getting to Peace in American Indian Tradition
Stephen Sachs, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Tribal Values in a Global Society
LaDonna Harris, Americans for Indian Opportunities

315  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 11

Othering

Panel Chair: Ximena Gallardo C., CUNY La Guardia

Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the Digital Divide in Film and Art
Janell Hobson, University at Albany, SUNY

R is for Race not Rocket: Black Representation in American SF Cinema
Adilifu Nama,California State University Northridge

"Rise My Friend": Homoerotic Subtext in Star Wars
Lindsay Ludvigsen, California State University Fullerton

A Fantastic Re-articulation: Carlos Avila's Foto-Novelas
Janani Subramanian, University of Southern California

316  Fiesta 4  |  Technical Communication 1

Technical Design and Culture: Knitting, Art, Dissection, and Surgery

Panel Chair: Debopriyo Roy

Knitting in the 21st Century: Re/Creating Cultural Connections
Becky Jo McShane, Weber State University

The Technologies of Upper Paleolithic Art and Their Implications for Current Technical Design Genres: A Case Study
Lisa A. Baird, Purdue University North Central

Taking the Gross out of Gross Anatomy: The Visual Rhetoric of Cadaveric Dissection
Fawn Musick, Texas Tech University

Information Design for Physical Procedures: A Case Study with Surgical Instructions
Debopriyo Roy, University of North Texas

317  Sendero III  |  Television 4

Teen Television

Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University

The Importance of Being Phoebe: The Witch as Seer in Charmed
Karin Beeler, University of Northern British Columbia

"Coming Out" on TV: The Evolution and Acceptance of Homosexual Relationships on Teen Television
David E. Goldberg, Villanova University

Joss the Buffy Slayer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Fetishizing of Violence Against Women
Scott Rogers, Weber State University

318  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 9

Women and Media

Panel Chair: Debbie Danowski

The Relaxation Puzzle: Role Strain, RedBook, and the Need States of Women
Michele Radi Fontaine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Realities and Representations: The Australian Women's Weekly Goes to War
Jan Kershaw, University of South Australia

Cover to Cover: Contemporary Issues in Popular American Women's Magazines
Debbie Danowski, Sacred Heart University

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Panel Time 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

319  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 6

Exploring, Building & Making Community

Panel Chair: Delia C. Gillis, Central Missouri State University

African Americans in the Southwest
Cortez Williams, University of New Mexico

Afro-Mexican Racial and Ethnic Self-Identity: Three Generations of the Thornton Family in Nogales, Arizona
Alva Moore Stevenson. UCLA

Eight Dollars a Day and Workin' in the Shade: African American Women in Las Vegas
Claytee D. White, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

320  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians today 10

Complicating Images from Powwow Highway to the Business of Fancy Dancing

Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College

They're "Good Ones" Even Though Gary Farmer Always Wears a Bad Wig: The Evolution of American Indian Protagonists in Recent Feature Films
Jim Charles, University of South Carolina-Upstate

The Business of Moviemaking: Sherman Alexie's Fancydancing in an American Studies Classroom
Petra Lina Orloff, Wayne State University

321  Pavilion I  |  Arab Culture in the U.S. 2

Image, Interpretation, and Identity

Panel Chair: Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University

Between Arab and American: Identity at the Hyphen
Sarah E. Azizi, University of New Mexico

One Book, Four Covers: Images between Self-Interpretation and Marketing I Imperatives
Samia Serageldin, Duke University

Is Arab Black or White?
Amina El-Annan, Yale University

Arab Identity: Recent Literary Constructions
Deborah Najor Alkamano, Henry Ford Community College

322  Sendero I  |  Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film 6

Homeric Representations in Modern Media

Panel Chair: Mary-Kay Gamel

Men of Darkness
Chris J. Mackie, University of Melbourne

Alessandro Baricco Re-interprets the Iliad: What is Homer's Message to the Modern Reader?
Giovanni Migliara, James Madison University

Penelope/Penelopiad
Geraldine Thomas, Saint Mary's University, Halifax

Tragic Violence in TROY
Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California at Santa Cruz


323  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 10

Blogs III: Using New Media in Graduate Education: The Case of the Blog

Panel Chair: Megan O'Neill, Stetson University

Blogging as Learning: Places of Production
Jen Almjeld, Bowling Green State University

Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?: Defining and Differing Identity Online
James Schirmer, Bowling Green State University

Toward a Practical Objective-Driven Blog: A Case Study
Sergey Rybas, Bowling Green State University

324  Pavilion III  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 2

Panel Chair: Stephen Weatherburn

Writing for You: Second-Person Point of View in the Creative Writing Classroom
John A. McDermott, Stephen F. Austin State University

Teaching Creative Writing 1 Online at Mohave Community College
Leo Mahoney, Mohave Community College

Metacognition in the Introductory Fiction-Writing Workshop
Stephen Weatherburn, Northern Arizona University

325  Fiesta 1  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 4

Panel Chair: Ken Hada

News from Somewhere: Richard Jefferiess After London and the Emergence of the Genre of the Ecological Dystopia
Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb, Houghton College

Ecopoetics after Charles Olson: Tongue Stones and Under World Arrest
Mikel Parent, Brandies University

History, Natural History, and the Limits of Postmodern Literary Analysis
Rufus Cook, National Cheng Kung University

I Thought I Left This Damn Stuff: An Ecocritical Reading of Askews Fire in Beulah
Ken Hada, East Central University

326  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 8

Anthropology and Lierature 2

Panel Chair: Meredith Abarca, University of Texas at El Paso

Cooking in the Contact Zone: Private Cooks in Public Spaces
Anita August, University of Texas at El Paso

Philosophy of "Constante y Positiva"
Rosa Pena, University of Texas at El Paso

Las Comadres in the Public Kitchen: Food Voices in Dialogue about Knowledge of the Public Kitchen
Rosario Rojas, Socorro High School, El Paso

If You Really Want to Hurt Me, Talk Badly about My Food
Roberto Tinajero, University of Texas at El Paso

327  Pavilion V  |  Gaming and Gambling Culture 2

Cultural Representation and Power Dynamics in American Gaming and Gambling

Panel Chair: Aaron J. Moore

From the Shell Game to the Big Store: Bunco, Gambling and Political Corruption in Denver, 1889-1896
Jane Haigh, University of Arizona

Holding 'Em and Folding 'Em: A Study of the Symbolic Uses of Poker/Gaming in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Awakening
Susan R. Batten, Wake Forest University

Who Gets to Play: Representations of Gender, Race and Identity in Online Poker Rooms
Joanna Slimmer, University of Texas at Austin

The Primary Influences on College Poker Players: An Examination of their Media Usage Behaviors and Student Performance
Aaron J. Moore and Phil Contrino, DeSales University

328  Enchantment B  |  Gender 7

Panel Chair: Loretta Capeheart, Northeastern Illinois University

Law Abiding Outlaws: A Rhetorical analysis of Bikers Against Child Abuse
Scott Clark, Westminster College, Salt Lake City

How a Sexualized Media's Portrayal of Women's Bodies Inform Our Society's Notion of the Beauty Ideal: What Messages Are Embedded within the Media's Portrayal of the Female Body?
Yolanda Sanders, New Mexico Highlands University

Women, Class, and Crime: Reading Kay Scarpetta and Kinsey Millhone
Loretta Capeheart, Northeastern Illinois University

329  Enchantment F  |  Grateful Dead 10

Tribute and Anti-Tribute Songs

Panel Chair: Christian Crumlish, Independent Scholar

Discussants
David Gans, Musician and Host, Grateful Dead Hour
Gary Burnett, Florida State University

330  Pavilion II  |  Libraries, Archives and Museums in Popular Culture 1

Public Faces: Presenting Ourselves, How Others Present Us

Panel Chair: Rhonda Taylor, University of Oklahoma

Promoting Information Literacy & Teacher-Librarian Collaboration through Social Marketing Strategies
Barbara Immroth and Bernard Lukenbill, University of Texas at Austin

Cinematic Portrayal of Librarians 1955-2005
Heather A. Phillips, University of Houston

331  Enchantment C  |  Local Film Exhibition and Theatre Preservation 2

Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University

An American Cinematheque: Dan Talbot and the New Yorker Theatre, 1960-62
Tom Yoshikami, University of Wisconsin-Madison

California Dreaming: Identity Development and the Formation of Canyon Cinematheque.
Casey A. Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"These Theatres Fit Into Stores": Automated Projection, Minicinemas and the Multiplex Movie Theatre
Christofer Meissner, Independent Scholar

The Death of the Multiplex! Are Hollywood's Ancillary Markets Dooming Theatrical Exhibition?
Doug McConville, University of Arizona

332  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 12

Cultural Survivance II: Politics and Place in an Era of Globalization: Colonial Histories and the Shaping of Current Struggles

Panel Chair: Dianne Bechtel, University of New Mexico

Indigenous Peoples and the Logic of Elimination: Settler Colonialism in Global Context
Patrick Wolfe, Victoria University of Technology

Hurricanes, Traditions, and the Future: The Impact of Hurricanes on the United Houma Nation
Josh Pitre, University of Arizona

Mi'kmaq Struggle for Self-Reliance
Cheryl Knockwood, Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs

Why the Event Flopped: Highlighting Cherokee Song and Dance at a 'Pow Wow'
Pamela Innes, University of Wyoming

333  Enchantment E  |  Oklahoma 1

Images, Perceptions, and the Land

Panel Chair: Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Inciting Riots and Shaping Perceptions: The Role of Newspapers in Oklahoma's Forgotten Race War
C. Michelle McCargish, Oklahoma State University

Early Hollywood Comes to Oklahoma: The Miller Brothers' Wild West
Sharon Hill, Northwestern Oklahoma State University

Extreme Oklahoma: Geography of the Sooner State
Sara Jane Richter and Kevin Richter

334  Fiesta 4  |  Popular Music 1

Visualizing 80s Rock

Panel Chair: Paul N. Reinsch

Going Nowhere, but Going Fast: Hard Rock "Life on the Road" Music Videos of the 1980s
Daniel Herbert, University of Southern California

"Seen Your Video/It's Phony Rock & Roll": The Music Video as Fraud in Punk and Post-Punk Performance
Carlos Kase, University of Southern California

Heavy Metal is Art: How the Misreading of This is Spinal Tap Distorted and Prevented the Filmic Representation of Heavy Metal
Paul N. Reinsch, University of Southern California

335  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 12

Literature

Panel Chair: Paul Q. Kucera

Samuel R. Delany's Allegory of Reading
Gary Lim, CUNY Graduate Center

Fatal Fallout and the Rise of the Machines: Science and Technology in H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay
Charles Harding, University of Colorado, Denver

Deep Space and Deep Ecology: Justifications for Population Control in the Science Fiction of L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Rob Brault, Winona State University

"To Love That Well Which Thou Must Leave Ere Long": Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and the End of History
Paul Q. Kucera, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

336  Sendero III  |  Television 5

Women, Gender, & Sexuality in Television

Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University

How a Sexualized Media's Portrayal of Women's Bodies Inform Our Society's Notion of the Beauty Ideal: What Messages Are Embedded within the Media's Portrayal of the Female Body?
Yolanda V. Sanders, New Mexico Highlands University

[Re]Creating Gender and Sexuality in FX's Nip/Tuck
MaryBeth Short, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Desperate Culture: An Analysis of I Love Lucy and Desperate Housewives
Lindsey Harvell & Erin Lamm, Wichita State University

Portraying Female Scientists as…in Grey's Anatomy
Reizelie Barreto, The Pennsylvania State University

337  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 10

Feminine Text

Panel Chair: Joanne Detore-Nakamura

The Spirit of Becoming Feminine
Tahseen Bea, Independent Scholar

Feminine Writing as an Alternative to the Patriarchal Language
Seda Peksen, Middle East Technical University

From Victim to Victor: The Friendship in Contemporary Women's Novels & Film
Joanne Detore-Nakamura, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Panel 338
Panel Time 11:45 - 1:15 p.m.

338  Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI  |  Keynote Speaker/Graduate Awards Luncheon

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Panels 339 - 353
Panel Time 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

339  Pavilion II  |  Africana Studies 7

CSA: Confederate States of America
Kevin Willmott, University of Kansas

"CSA: Confederate States of America," which was accepted for showing at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. "CSA" explores what the United States would be like if the South had won the Civil War. Filmed primarily in the Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas area, the film adds a creative spin to television documentaries. "CSA" has been sold to IFC films and will be presented by Spike Lee.

340  Pavilion I  |  Arab Culture in the U.S. 3

Performance, Art, and Media

Panel Chair: Dalia Basiouny

Essentialists and Innovators: Arab Music and Dance in America
Karim Nagi, Independent Scholar

Contemporary Arab Arts Exhibitions in the U.S.: Orientalism Revisited?
Sarah Rogers, MIT

Arafat's Burial as Media Event: Ritual Becomes Spectacle
May Farah, University of Colorado, Boulder

Arab American Women's Theater after 9/11
Dalia Basiouny, Helwan University, Egypt & CUNY

341  Sendero I  |  Captivity Narrative 1

Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University

Feminine Heroics?: The Exile of Magawisca's in Sedwick's Hope Leslie
Susan L. Hall, Cornell University

Captivity: A State of Mind Psychological Slavery as Reflected in Two American Epics"
Cindi Anderson, Pacifica Graduate Institute


342  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 11

Aesthetics and Utility

Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend

Virtual Exhibitions, E-Galleries, and New Modes of Aesthetic Exchange
Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Emporia State University

Dionysius and Savonarola: The Historic Split in Web Design
Margaret Batschelet, University of Texas at San Antonio

PowerPoint and the Culture of "Dummies"
Mary-Louise Craven, York University

343  Pavilion III  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 3

Developing Collaborative and Mixed Media Projects to Help Creative Writing Students

What unusual and innovative approaches can be used to help creative writing students explore who they are in relation to the world around them? During our panel discussion we will discuss experiences we have had working with young people in Arizona and Illinois on collaborative and multidisciplinary projects. We will also conduct a short creative writing workshop that relates to our topic.

Facilitators
Julie Hampton, Arizona State University
Daniel Godston, Poetry Center of Chicago

344  Fiesta 4  |  Culture of Fandom 1

Panel Chair: Gregory Thompson, Florida State University

The There that is There: How the Deadhead Community Pulled Together Over the November 2005 Internet Archive Incident - A Cultural and Rhetorical Analysis and Interpretation
Timothy D. Ray, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Visiting the Land of Enchantment: Towards a Web Ethnography of the Cult Film Fan
Justin Smith, University of Portsmouth, UK

Generations of Galactica: Understanding Divides in Battlestar Galactica Fandom
Sarah Toton, Emory University

A Dislike for the Whole World: The Rhetorical Construction of Anger and Identity in English Football
Scott L. Rogers, University of New Mexico

345  Fiesta 1  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 5

Panel Chair: Kendra Unruh

Discovering the Dimensions of Gender in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Twelfth Night: An Ecocritical Interpretation
Sumana Biswas and Madhumalati Adhikari, Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya

Steinbeck the Latent or Perhaps Blatant Ecofeminist: An Ecofeminist Critique of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Hannah Rankin, Fort Lewis College

The Nature of Dominance or the Dominance of Nature: An Ecofeminist Approach to Women in Love
Kendra Unruh, Wichita State University

346  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 7

War and Anxiety: Text and Context for Visions of Fear

Panel Chair: Lisa A. Baird

Contextualization of Terror: Four Readings of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School

Isolationism to Intervention: How Powerful was Hollywood?
R. Alexander D. Orquiza, University of Edinburgh

Touch of Evil (1958): Women and the Occult in Weimar Germany and Hollywood Film Noir
Barbara Hales, University of Houston-Clearwater

"The Global Citizen in Film: A Cinematic History of the Future"
Lisa A. Baird, Purdue University

347  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 9

(Un)Becoming History: The Loss of Traditional Foodways and Ways of Being

Panel Chair: Carole Counihan

From Frijoles to French Fries: The Encroachment of Gringolandia on Laredo Border Cuisine
Annette Olsen-Fazi, Texas A&M International University

Factors of Distance
Shawn Miller, University of Texas at El Paso

Food, Farm and Gardens in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, 1920-1960
Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University

Maintaining Mexicano Foodways in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
Carole Counihan, Millersville University

348  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 13

Cultural Survivance III: Politics, Place, and Sacred Histories in Indian Country

Panel Chair: Emily Moore, University of California Berkeley

Navajo People and Canyon de Chelly National Monument (AZ): Preserving Tribal Traditions
Raphaëlle Rolland-Francis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Native American Sacred Places Protection: Understanding the Issue and the Need for New, Comprehensive Legislation
Nicholas A. McDaniel, Eastern Kentucky University

A Whale Passes: Hogan's Sightings and the Makah Hunt
Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

349  Enchantment E  |  Popular Culture and the Classroom 1

Anime, Math, Language, and the Workplace

Panel Chair: Erik Walker, Plymouth (Mass.) South High School

Anime in Academia: Japanese Popular Culture in the Rhetoric Classroom
Deborah A. Scally, University of Texas at Dallas

Manga in the Classroom: The Possibilities of Narrative
Rachael Hutchinson, Colgate University

Illiteracy and Innumeracy: Independent or Dependent Problems
Betty F. Ramey and James T. Ramey, Francis Marion University

Student Perception vs. Employer Perception of Workplace Skills: Course Content that Prepares Students for the Real World
Connie S. Morris and Nancy Fisher, Wichita State University

350  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 13

Forum on Gaming

Panel Chair: C. Jason Smith, CUNY-La Guardia

Warrior Bodies and Wizard Minds: The Language of Identity in Role-playing Games
Morgan Reitmeyer, Colorado State University

Virtual Bodies: A Brief History of Fantasy and Gaming
C. Jason Smith, CUNY-La Guardia

351  Enchantment F  |  Special Event Screening: Carhenge: Genius or Junk?

A Panel Discussion with David Liban, Director of Carhenge: Genius or Junk

Is Carhenge a masterpiece of contemporary sculpture or sublime heap? In Carhenge: Genius or Junk?, director David Liban explores the to-scale replica of Stonehenge made out of 38 junked automobiles. This 30 minute film details the origins and obstacles of the monument's plight, how and why it was built, and the monument's relationship with the town of Alliance, Nebraska. A lively panel discussion follows the screening with the filmmaker, an award-winning author of western Americana, a New York art critic, and a public arts director. Audience participation in the exchange will also be welcomed. Don't miss this opportunity to explore popular and American culture through one of the most famous and even controversial of American sculptures.

Respondents
Gordon M. Church, Albuquerque Public Art Project Manager (retired)
Philip Heldrich, SWPCA Director and Author of Out Here in the Out There: Essays in a Region of Superlatives
Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., Visual Arts in the West Area Chair and Adjunct Faculty Parsons School of Design and John Jay College, CUNY

352  Fiesta 2  |  Special Film Topics: Weird and Wonderful the Films of Peter Greenaway

Panel Chair: Rob Weiner

Cannibal Culture: Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover as Cultural Critique of Thatcherism
Tom Prasch

Introduction and discussion of the film by Eric Levy

Screening of Greenaways Vertical Features Remake (1978, 45 minutes)

353  Enchantment B  |  Working Group: Native/Indigenous Studies

Working Group for The Native/Indigenous Studies and American Indians Today Areas: Teaching Introduction to Native American Studies

Moderators: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University; Richard Allen, Cherokee Nation: Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College; Tom Holm, University of Arizona

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Panels 354 - 372
Panel Time 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

354  Pavilion IV  |  Alfred Hitchcock 1

The Trouble with Gender

Panel Chair: Kate Faber Oestreich

Stuffing Birds, Taming Jaguarondis: Audience Complicity and Hitchcock's Sadistic Lovers
Kristy Conrad, Albertson College

Enter Sir John: Murder! and Queer Performance
Matt Ramsey, Stephen F. Austin University

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope: Murderous Homosexuality
Kate Faber Oestreich, Ohio State University

355  Pavilion I  |  Arab Culture in the U.S. 4

Immigrants, Exiles, and Citizens

Panel Chair: Lynne Rogers

New York in the Eyes of Ameen Rihani
Mootacem B. Mhiri, Vassar College

Arab Americans in the Wake of September 11th
Gregory Orfalea, Pitzer College

Between 'There's No Place Like Home' and 'No Place is Home': The Fiction of Arab-American Author Diana Abu-Jaber
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Negotiating Anger, Fear, and Difference in the Journey to America
Lynne Rogers, University of Connecticut, Avery Point

356  Sendero II  |  Central and East European Popular Culture 2

Poland

Panel Chair: Jack Hutchens

"The phenomenon of Micha? Wi?niewski: Celebrity of the Post-transformational Poland"
Ewa Mularczyk, University of Southern California, Las Angeles

Mother Pole has had Enough: Cinematic Re-reading of the Myth of Polish Motherhood in A Woman on Her Own and Nothing
Agnieszka Tuszy?ska, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Of War and Sisters: Crime and the Postmodern Post-transition Condition in Séstra and Wojna polsko-ruska
Jack J. Hutchens, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

357  Pavilion II  |  Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 2

The Collection - Marketed, Consumed and Exhibited on One's Body

Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson, Touro College

The Personal Implication of Shelly Tambo's Ear Adornments on One Woman
Nicole Maggio, Brock University

The Semiotics of Bakelite
Paul Acker, Saint Louis University

358  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 9

Panel Chair: Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College-Port Arthur

Fred Alsberg, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Danielle D. Billington, University of Minnesota
Phil Heldrich, University of Washington-Tacoma
Emily Bobo, University of Kansas

359  Fiesta 1  |  Ecocriticism & the Environment 6

Emerging Strategies and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Panel Chair: James Bishop

Situation Awareness and Naturalistic Decision Making: New Directions for Ecocriticism
Kyhl Lyndgaard, University of Nevada Reno

Contextualizing March of the Penguins
Megan Kuster, University of Nevada Reno

Night for Words, Words for Night
Paul Bogard, University of Nevada Reno

A Sociobiological Reading of Boyle's A Friend of the Earth
James Bishop, University of Nevada Reno

360  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 8

The American West as Experience, Film, and Myth

Panel Chair: Len Engel

Recognizing the Western: Just an American Genre?
David Conway and Kevin Russell, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, UK

Rob Roy: A Caledonian Western
Gordon Simpson, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, UK

Regionalism in the Road Movie: Complicating the South and Southwest in Easy Rider (1968)
P. Nicole King, University of Maryland-College Park

Tracking the Evolution and Devolution of an Icon: The Many Faces of Clint Eastwood's Characters
Len Engel, Quinnipiac University

361  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 10

Theorizing, Publishing, and Teaching Food and Culture: Open Forum

Panel Chair: Carole Counihan

Publication of Food and Culture Area Conference Papers
Lynn Marie Houston, California State University Chico

Teaching Food and Culture
Psyche Williams Forson, University of Maryland College Park
Kyla Wyzana Tompkins, Pomona College

Make it Your Own: Input On the 2nd Edition of the Food and Culture Reader
Penny Van Esterik, York University
Carole Counihan, Millersville University

362  Pavilion V  |  Horror 1

Horrin in Film and TV-Style, Technique, Genre

Panel Chair: Noelle Bowles

'Talk and the pain will stop': Death and Terror in the Argentinean Fotonovela in the 1970s
Carlos Roberto. De Souza

Hollywood Horror Comes to Berlin: Visual Style and Narrative Structure in Robert Siodmak's Nachts Wenn Der Teufel Kam
Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, Seoul

Paradigms of Metamorphosis and Transmutation: Thomas Edison's Frankenstein and John Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde
Richard J. Hand, University of Glamorgan, Wales UK

363  Pavilion VI  |  Integral Studies 1

Panel Chair: Leslie Goss Erickson

"The Microlevel": Giant Bodies without Organs
Daniel Gustav Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno

Ken Wilber's Transpersonal Stages of Consciousness and Bert Hellinger's Systemic Phenomenological Theory - What Kind of Literature is it after All?
Gustav Arnold, University of North Dakota

A Way Out of Flatland: Teaching Literature and Literary Theory from a Four-Quadrant Approach
Leslie Goss Erickson, Western Iowa Tech Community College

364  Sendero I  |  Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 1

The Power of Myth: Today and Yesterday

Panel Chair: L. Keith Williamson

Joseph Campbell and the Arthurian Romance: A Memoir and Report on Recent Research
Evans Lansing Smith, Midwestern State University

Joseph Campbell's "New Mythology" and the Rise of Mythopoeic Fantasy Marek Oziewicz, Asbury College and University of Wroc?aw
The Quiet Giant: A Rhetorical Criticism of the Prospectus from the August 19, 1896 Edition of the New York Times by Publisher/General Manager Adolph S. Ochs
Sandy Sipes, Wichita State University

Campbell Meets McLuhan: The Power of Myth and Media
L. Keith Williamson, Wichita State University

365  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 14

Cultural Survivance IV: Through the Eyes and Hearts of Indigenous Peoples' Struggles

Panel Chair: Depree ShadowWalker, University of Arizona

Hohnohke Evo'estaneheve: A Cheyenne Contrary Warrior's Role in Decolonization
Leo Killsback, University of Arizona

Movin' On: A Comparison of the Lives of the Mobile Nineteenth Century Woman
Karen Stoeber, Southern Illinois University

Survival: One Child's Journey, Through the History of Her Grandfather
Nonabah Sam, Institute of American Indian Arts

366  Fiesta 4  |  Popular Music 2

War and Country

Panel Chair: Mathew Haskins

The Concept of Home in Honky-Tonk Music
Thomas Barker, Texas Tech University

"Hillbilly Heaven": Capitol Records, Southern California, and the Nationalization of Country Music
Mathew Haskins, California State University, Fullerton

"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Goodnight, Germany": American Popular Music, The Committee On Public Information, and Propaganda in World War I
Kathleen E.R. Smith, Northwestern State University of Louisiana

367  Fiesta 2  |  Pssst! This is a session about Secrets: Do We Know Yours?

Panel Chair: Lynn Bartholome, Monroe Community College

Teaching about Secrets, Gossip, and Luird News
Emily Toth, Louisiana State University

One Hundred Thirty Years of Women's Secrets
Susan Koppelman, Independent Scholar

Respondent: Diane Wellins Moul, Bentley College

368  Enchantment F  |  Reality Television 1

Panel Chair: James Bell, College of the Ozarks

Current Favourites of the Screen: Reality versus Fiction
Hülya Önal, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

The Living Room: Reality, Television, and the Post-Socialist Home
Benjamin Hodges, University of Texas at Austin

On the Meaning of Cooking, Eating, and Preparing the Self at Big Brother Brazil
Fernando Andacht, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

369  Enchantment B  |  Shakespeare on Film and Television 7

Shakespeare's Families

Panel Chair: Richard Vela, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Wherefore art thou ecstasy?": The Queen Mab Incident in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Aaron Drucker, Claremont Graduate University

Invisible Hands, Strong Arms, and Vampires in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet
Gordon Lester, University of Guelph

Kate and Petruchio: Co-Heroes in an Alliance for Agency
Angelina D. Avedano, Ottawa University

Royal Dysfunction: Dysfunctional Families in Shakespeare and in Postmodern Film
Linda Drake, University of California, Riverside

370  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 14

Star Trek

Panel Chair: Astrid Winegar, University of New Mexico

The Enterprise and/as New Media Ethnographic Tool
Chris Leslie,CUNY-Graduate Center

Boldly Going to the Meaning of Life: Holmes and Moriarty on the Holodeck
Steve Hecox, Averett University

Star Trek: Cultural Relativism and the Prime Directive
Heather M. Butts, Columbia University Medical Center

371  Pavilion III  |  Technical Communication 2

Negotiating Online Collaboration and Intercultural Communication

Panel Chair: Kirk St.Amant

"Is Anybody Out There?": (Non)Collaboration in an Online Writing Course
Robin Evans, Oklahoma State University

Some Issues about Intercultural and Global Usability on the Web
Filipp Sapienza, University of Colorado

Culture, Communication, and Cyberspace: A Web-Based Approach to Teaching Students about Intercultural Communication
Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University

372  Sendero III  |  Television 6

In Their Shoes: Sex and the City and the Traditional Woman's Narrative

Panel Chair: Diana Hope Polley, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Spinsters and the City
Stephanie Oppenheim, Borough of Manhattan Community College

The Moors of Manhattan
Holly Messitt, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Anthropology at Home
Kimberly Engber, Hunter College

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Panels 373 - 391
Panel Time 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

373  Pavilion IV  |  Africana Studies 8

White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education

Book Signing & Reception Beacon Press for Noliwe M. Rooks, Princeton University

374  Pavilion III  |  Alfred Hitchcock 2

Theorizing Hitchcock

Panel Chair: Phillip Sipiora

Theorizing Pure Cinema: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of Hitchcock's Cinematic Ambitions
Gary McCarron, Simon Fraser University

Confusion and Transformation in Hitchcock's Vertigo
Marc Zagelbaum, SUNY-Buffalo

Gazing at The Wrong Man: Lacan, Zizek, and a Hitchcockian "True" Story
James Long, Louisiana State University

The Epistemology of Identity in Hitchcock's Search for Meaning
Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

375  Pavilion II  |  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 7

Meditations on the Father from Emerging Nonfiction Voices of Northern Utah

Panel Chair: Russ Beck

Paul McCartney, Ray Bradbury, and My Dad
Sarah Stoeckl, Utah State University

Keeping Your Composure: A Summer Guide
Matt Lavin, Utah State University

Stones in the Earth: A Generational Legacy of War
Ben Quick, Utah State University

Arid Climate Homes
Russ Beck, Utah State University

376  Sendero III  |  Central and East European Popular Culture 3

Ukraine and Yugoslavia

Panel Chair: Jack Hutchens, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Leksikon Yu Mitologije: Reading Yugoslavia from Abramovic to Zmurke
Jessie Labov, Stanford University

Ukraine's Paradigm of Perversity: The Postcolonial misfit in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
Amy Moore, University of California-Berkeley

377  Pavilion I  |  Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 3

Music Collecting

Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson

I Want My MP3s: Music Collecting in the Digital Age
Annelise Sklar, University of New Mexico

Collecting Indigenous-Influenced Music: GRAMMY and NAMMY Award Winners
Diana R. Thompson, Touro College

378  Enchantment E Creative Writing 10

Panel Chair: John Blair, Texas State University-San Marcos

Jodi A. Drinkwater, Butler Community College
Grant Sisk, University of Phoenix-Austin
Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College-Port Arthur
Hugh Tribbey, East Central University

379  Enchantment C  |  Film & History 4

Race, Class, City, and the World

Panel Chair: Ken Dvorak, San Jacinto College

Visions of Class-Passing in New York City: Class Mobility in Film and Popular Culture.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Heisters Heisted: Attica (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Blue Collar (1978)
Madonne Minor, Texas Tech University

Mis Dos Casas: Contesting National Discourses In Frances Negron-Muntaner's Brincando el Charco (1994) and Raquel Ortiz's Mi Puerto Rico (1995)
Shana M. Higgins, Indiana University

Saving Africa: Race, Diaspora, and Post-9/11 American Interventionism in Tears of the Sun (2003)
Robert Chester, University of Maryland-College Park

Discussant: Ken Dvorak, President, American Culture Association

380  Pavilion V  |  Horror 2

Real and Imaginary Horrors: From Tokyo to Graceland

Panel Chair: Noelle Bowles

J-Feminism? Japanese Gender-Revisionist Horor and the American Response
Mark Wegley, University of Arkansas-Monticello

Terrorizing the Imagination: Sato Hisayasu's Sadeian Excess
Jay McRoy, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Parkside

Bubba Ho-Tep & the Horror of the Nursing Home
Noelle Bowless, Kent State University

381  Sendero I  |  Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 2

The Healing Power of Myth

Panel Chair: Safron Courter

Developing a Personal Mythology through Mytho-ceramics
Jane Hendrickson, Tucson

Femme Fatale: Using Story and Myth to Shatter the Looking Glass and Map Out Wonderland
Dixil Rodriquez, Texas Woman's University

Contemporary Psychopomp: The Archetypal Roots of Counseling Hospice
Safron Courter, Pacifica Graduate Institute

382  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 15

Native American Lit I: Threads of the Indigenous Self in Literature: Agency, Identity, and Survivance

Panel Chair: Kristina Jacobsen, Columbia University

Testing the Chains: Agency and Resistance in Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories
John Miles, University of New Mexico

Coyote Discovers America: Cultural Survival and the Novels of Thomas King
Dawn Karima Pettigrew, West Carolina University

A Society Based on Names: Ray Young Bear's Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives
Laura Beard, Texas Tech University

"Whodunit?", or, "Who am I?": Detecting Indianness in Louis Owen's The Sharpest Sight, Bone Game, and Nightland
Yi-Ming Lee, National Taiwan Normal University

383  Enchantment B  |  Popular Culture and the Classroom 2

Popular Culture in the English, Social Studies, and Journalism Classrooms

Panel Chair: Erik Walker

Using Film to Support Content and Culture in the Classroom
Amy Neeman and David Newman, Johnson and Wales University

Put your Fist in the Air!: Punk Rock Meets English 110
Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State College of Science

Stereotypes in Stereovision: Using Turn-into-the-Twentieth Century Photography in an Introductory American Literature Course
Linda Joyce Brown, Mitchell College

Journalism for a New Generation: The Failure of High Schools to Update Journalism Curriculum and How Popular Culture is Part of the Solution
Erik Walker, Plymouth (Mass.) South High School

384  Fiesta 3  |  Popular Music 3

Video, Authenticity, and Protest

Panel Chair: Mathew Haskins

Of Lovecats and Japanese Babies: The Music Video Age and Surrealism
Dodie Miller, Minnesota State University, Mankato

The 13th Floor Elevators and the Concept of Authenticity in Rock Journalism
David Gurney, University of Texas at Austin

Bob Marley & The Wailers' Survival: A Pan-Africanist Pamphlet and Manifesto
Damien Colin, California State University, Long Beach

385  Enchantment F  |  Reality Television 2

Reality Television 2

Panel Chair: Liz Zollner

Dragging Gender: The Cosmetic Body [Re]places "Woman" through Hyper-Inscription
Tara Land, Colorado State University

The Reality of Reality Television: A Theoretical Survey of The Apprentice and Average Joe 2: Hawaii
Justine Lutzel, University of Rhode Island

The Spectacle of Inscribing Gender: The Swan
Simon Strick, Humboldt University Berlin

Hegemony Construction in Reality Television
Liz Zollner, University of South Florida

386  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 15

Communication and Community in FireFly

Panel Chair: Susan J. Wolfe

The Tradition of Food in Firefly
Maria Walters, Utah State University

Silent Speech: The Visual Language of Costumes in Firefly
Kiersten Honaker, Utah State University

Technology Makes the Man, Or Bringing a Pistol to a Laser Fight: The Divide Between Technological Haves and Have-Nots in the Firefly Universe
Cassie Wagner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us": Dystopian Frontiers in Josh Whedon's Firefly
Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota

387  Fiesta 2  |  Special Film Topics: James Bond

Panel Chair: Rob Weiner

How My Ex-Wife Taught Me to Love James Bond
Rob Weiner, Mahon Library

Special screening of Casino Royale (1967, 131 minutes)

388  Fiesta 1  |  Sports Culture 1

Panel Chair: Gregory Thompson, Florida State University

The Implication of Paul Willis' Conceptualization of Cultural Commodities for the Analysis of Sport Fandom as Cultural Practice
Marcus Free, University of Limerick
John Hughson, University of Otago

Ice Princesses: The Construction of Femininity in Figure Skating
Amy Trieu, Carleton College

Passive/Aggressive Adolescent Athletes: Gender Stereotyping on the Sports Page
KrisAnn Norby-Jahner, Kent State University

Fishing, Class, and Women: The Two Divides
John Bratzel, Michigan State University

389  Fiesta 4  |  Technical Communication 3

The Popular Meets the Technical in the Desert: Service Learning in the Technical Communication Classroom

Panel Chair: Denise Tillery

Ed Nagelhout, University of Las Vegas
Julie Staggers, University of Las Vegas
Denise Tillery, University of Las Vegas

390  Sendero II  |  True Crime 1

Panel Chair, Brad Duren, Panhandle State University

AMW vs. BTK: Leaving Truth Behind in the Search for a Serial Killer
L. Kelly,Wichita Eagle

The Shadow of Law & Order: Jung, Existentialism, and Audience Empowerment
Charlene Gill, Texas State University

Jean Murley Ann Rule and the Feminization of True Crime
Jean Murley, City University of New York

"I Am What You Made Me": The Made for TV Manson
Brad Duren, Panhandle State University

391  Pavilion VI  |  Wordcraft Circle: Native/Indigenous Studies

Wordcraft Circle, Fifteen Years and Counting: Mentoring Native American Writers and Storytellers - A Look Back (and Forward)

Moderator: Lee Francis, IV, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Speakers: Dawn Karima Pettigrew, Wordcraft Writer and Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Editor-In-Chief, Native Realities

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Panel 392
Panel Time 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

392  Enchantment C  |  Editor's Panel: Film & History 2

Breaking Into Print, or What Do Editors Want or Need?

Panel Chair: Jim Welsh, Founding Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly

Panelists
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Co-Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Co-Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Gary Hoppenstand, Editor, The Journal of Popular Culture
Gerald Duchovnay, Founding Editor, Post Script
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Editor, Journal of American Culture
Deborah Carmichael, Associate Editor, Film & History
James R. Knecht, Associate Editor, Film & History
Peter C. Rollins, Editor-in-Chief, Film & History
Richard Vela, Contributing Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly

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Panel 393
Panel Time 8:30 - 10:00 p.m.

393  Fiesta 4  |  Africana Studies 9

Roundtable on Crash

Discussants
Sherri Burr, University of New Mexico
Gerald Butters, Aurora College
Novotny Lawrence, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Jaya Ramesh, University of Washington
Noliwe M. Rooks, Princeton University
Demetria Shabazz, Oklahoma State University
Jonathan S. Tomhave, University of Washington

Saturday, February 11, 2006

8:00 - 11:00 a.m.  |  Atrium 2nd Floor / Boardroom Alcove  |  Conference Registration

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Panels 400 - 419
Panel Time 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.

400  Pavilion II  |  Alfred Hitchcock 3

Three Takes on Hitchcock

Panel Chair: Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University Commerce

Gyro-Exposure: The Hovering Mother/God in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
Kent Chapin Ross, Texas A&M University Commerce

Resistance to the Gothic in Alfred Hitchcock's Adaptation of Rebecca
Bernadette Bruster, LeTourneau University

Performance in North by Northwest
Mary Anne Chalaire, Texas A&M University Commerce

401  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 11

The Native Voices Graduate Film Program: Teaching American Indian Film

Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College

Daniel Hart, University of Washington
Luana Ross, University of Washington
Charlotte Cote, University of Washington
Jonathan Tomhave, University of Washington
Rosemary Gibbons, University of Washington

402  Enchantment E  |  Creative Writing 11

Panel Chair: Grant Sisk, University of Phoenix Austin

Robert Murray Davis, University of Oklahoma
John Blair, Texas State University San Marcos
Terry Smith, University of North Texas
Becky McLaughlin, University of South Alabama

403  Pavilion III  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 4

Panel Chair: David R. DiSarro

We Are All Pirates and Gypsies: Kathy Acker's Don Quixote and the Problem of Voice in Emerging Writers
Kelan Koning, California State University Northridge

Creative Politics in the Classroom
Ryan Solomon, Brigham Young University

An Argument for Teaching Spoken Word Poetry at the University Level
Erika Szostak, Loyola Marymount University

Parallels in Pedagogy: Legitimizing Creative Writing within the Academy by Examining Pedagogical Similarities between First-Year Composition and Introductory Creative Writing Classrooms
David R DiSarro, Southern Connecticut State University

404  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 11

The Language of Food: Food, Literataure, and Film

Panel Chair: Lucy West

Dandyism and Gastronomy in The Importance of Being Earnest
Ignacio Gay, University of Castilla, La Mancha

The Language of Food: Women's Culinary Subversion of the Symbolic Order in Film
China Medel, Portland State University

Feeding the "Class Unconscious" in David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming
Wenying Xu, Florida Atlantic University

I Didn't Go To Do It: How Food Found Its Way into Child of Many Rivers
Lucy West, Cathedral High School, El Paso

405  Sendero III  |  Historical Novel 1

Panel Chair: Brian Adler, Valdosta State University

History's "Other": What Defines the Historical Novel
Joseph Letter, Louisiana State University

The Classics of the Classical Historical Novels
Sonya Kirk, University of Reading

Jill Dawson's The Wild Boy of Aveyron: A Post-Enlightenment Look at Enlightenment History
Felicia Mitchell, Emory and Henry College

406  Pavilion V  |  Horror 3

Horror and Philosophy

Panel Chair: Desmond Harless

Preaching Murder: Morals, Aesthetics, and Politics in Seven and Saw
L. Andrew Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology

"I Can't Look!": Suspense, Dread and the Visible in the Horror Film
Adam G. Capitanio, Michigan University

Jung at Heart: The Path(ology) Taken in David Lynch's Lost Highway
Desmond Harless, Oklahoma State University

407  Sendero I  |  Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 3

Myth and the Power of Story

Panel Chair: Leslie Goss Erickson

Story Structure as Metaphorical Language of the Dialogic Self
Dimitrios J. Price Stalides, Southern Illinois University

Sideways, Wine Sales, and a Mythic Approach to How Stories Effect Popular Culture
Neora Myrow, Pacifica Graduate Institute

The Anson Lights
Judd H. Burton, Amarillo College, Moore County Campus

408  Pavilion I  |  Media and Globalization 1

The American West in Global Context

Panel Chair: Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University

The Japanese Romantic Imagination and the American Southwest: Spaceships and Cowboys in Japanese Anime
Jennifer deWinter, University of Arizona

Globotech or Half Dome? Small Soldiers, Big Business and the Aesthetics of Memory
Steve Andrews, Grinnell College

The Wrong Tools: Ondaatje's Absenteeism from Billy (the Kid) to Anil (the Ghost) By Ian Bickford, CUNY Graduate Center
Ian Bickford, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

409  Pavilion IV  |  Mystery/Detective Fiction 1

Aspects of America in the Detective Novel

Panel Chair: Linda Strahan, University of California Riverside

Unraveling the Truth: Quilts, Fabric Arts and the Mystery
Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Detecting Baltimore: Crime Writers and the Imagined Urban Scene
Deborah Shaller, Towson University

The Case of the College Professor Detective
Jewel Mayberry, Johnson and Wales University

One Lonely Night: An Anti-Communist Novel
Damien Colin, California State University Long Beach

410  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 16

Native American Lit II: A European Runs Through It: Dominant Ideologies in Indigenous Fiction

Panel Chair: Leah Sneider, University of New Mexico

The Spotlight Is, Was, and Will Continue to Be Broken: Marxist Ideas at Work in Sherman Alexie's Short Story
Katie Antholz, Wichita State University

N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn: Blending of Culture and Spirit
Troy McCloughan, Wichita State University

411  Enchantment F  |  Reality Television 3

Panel Chair: Tyler Blake

Food Taboos: The Cultural Factor of Fear and Survival
Jeremy Huffman Proctor, Colorado State University

If You Got It, Floss It: How MTV Cribs Depicts African American Consumption
Beatrina Greene, University of California, Los Angeles

Genre Stages in Reality Television
Tyler Blake, College of the Ozarks

412  Enchantment B  |  Religion and Popular Culture 1

Panel Chair: Wes Bergen, Wichita State University

Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ: A Jesus for Our Time
Rebecca Kuhn, Florida Atlantic University

Left Behind: Religion, Spirituality, and Education in the United States
Darin S. Harris, Georgia State University

Get Thee Behind Me, Lingo!: American Christianity's Drive to Update Its Language for Generation X
Melissa Edgington, Tarleton State University

The Lion Symbolism in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia
Dianne Shober, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

413  Enchantment C  |  Romance Fiction 1

Panel Chair: Cheryl Wiltse, Texas Woman's University

A Bizzare Narrative: Structuralism, Dissonance, and the Rhetorical Education of Wilkie Collins
Donna Souder, Texas Woman's University

Is Romance a Sell-Out: Strong Women Roles in Traditional Romance Films
Angela Pettit, Texas Woman's University

The Trickster: Challenging the Ideal Victorian Woman.
Georgia Headley, Texas Woman's University

From Scurvy Dog to Romantic Rogue: Tracing the Evolution of the Pirate Image in Popular Culture.
Charlene Green, Texas Woman's University

414  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 16

Film and Television

Panel Chair: Ximena Gallardo C.

Cold War Fears, Cold War Passions: Liberals and Conservatives Square Off in 1950s Science Fiction
Bryan E. Vizzini, West Texas A&M University

"Look Up and Share the Wonders I Have Seen": Farscape, Dismantling the Gender Binary
Susan Johnson, California State University at Fullerton

Odd Men Out: Accommodating Masculinities in Farscape, Firefly, and Serenity
Ximena Gallardo C., CUNY-LaGuardia


415  Fiesta 4  |  Technical Communication 4

Online Experience and the Reconceptualization of Literacy: Looking on the Bright Side of the Screen

Panel Chair: Sally Chandler, Kean University

Online Gaming, Literacy and Learning: A Gamer's Perspective
Ryan James Valdez, Kean University

Women/Technology: A Story of Female Sexuality and Slash Fiction
Nadia Lahens, Kean University

Classroom Consequences: The Influence of Digital Literacy in the Elementary Years
Danielle Moskowitz, Kean University

416  Fiesta 1  |  Texas Culture 1

Arts & Letters

Panel Chair: Mario Herrera

Those Cattle was Gone With The Wind
John Hanners, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Toward an Understanding of the Influence of Protestantism in Texas-Mexican Literary Culture
Héctor Pérez, University of the Incarnate Word

If Texas Were a Nation
Dick J. Reavis, North Carolina State University

417  Sendero II  |  The Asian American Experience 1

Panel Chair: Sherman Han

Ghosts with Agency: Contemporary Asian American Literature's Female "Sojourners"
Jennifer Haley, Texas A&M University

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Feminist Approach
Irene Chui-ying Lai, Brigham Young University Hawaii

The Prototype of "Asian Man": Gus Lee's China Boy and Honor & Duty
Sherman Han, Brigham Young University Hawaii

418  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 11

Issues of Gender and Participation

Panel Chair: Laura Head

Spinsters, Old Maids, and Single Women
Laura Mohsene, University of Texas at Dallas

Induction of Quota System the Ultimate Goal for Fair Female Participation in the Politics
Archana Sharma, Independent Scholar

Beyond Dualities: Moving Towards an Androgynous Quest
Laura Head, University of South Florida

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Panels 419 - 437
Panel Time 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

419  Pavilion II  |  Alfred Hitchcock 4

Intertextual Hitchcock

Panel Chair: Michael Dwyer

Heretical Villains: Hitchcock's Heroic Satans
Nicholas Haeffner, London Metropolitan University

"The Desire of the Analyst" in Marnie: Reading the Masculine Across Silent and Sound Technologies in Hitchcock
Barbara Gabriel, Carleton University

Hitchcock in the Late 70s: Technique, Memory and Forgetfulness
Abraham P. Socher, Oberlin College

It Takes the Village: The Urban Space and Avant-Garde Outside Hitchcock's Rear Window
Michael Dwyer, Syracuse University

420  Pavilion VI  |  American Indians Today 12

Workshop 1: Teaching Native Americans and Hollywood Cinema

Workshop Chairs
M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College and Eric Buffalohead, Augsburg College
Theresa Schenck, University of Wisconsin
Julien R. Fielding, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ron Denson-Ithaca College
Jim Charles-University of South Carolina-Upstate

421  Sendero II  |  Computer Culture 12

Blogs IV: What Blogs Are Good For

Panel Chair: Philip Baruth, University of Vermont

Nothing to Blog about: A Genealogy of Online Computer-Mediated Communication
Zorianna Zurba, Brock University

Teaching Web Activism and Advocacy through Service Learning
Andrew Chen and Philip Baumann, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Shhh! Librarians Blogging
Elisabeth Pankl and Jenna Ryan, Louisiana State University

422  Pavilion III  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 5

Panel Chair: Michael Theune

The Ones That Got Away: Uncovering Dramatic Situation to Reveal Lyric Intent
Renee Soto, Roger Williams University

The Dialogic Workshop: Conceiving a Bakhtinian Poetry Class for Beginners
Jennifer Maloy, Temple University

The Subsequent Poem: Writing as Re-Vision
James D'Agostino and Karen Carcia, Southeast Missouri State University

Structure and Surprise: A New Paradigm for Teaching Poetry Writing
Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University

423  Pavilion V  |  Cultural Production and the State 1

Performing the State Through Power and Imagination

Panel Chair: Michelle Stewart, Area Chair

The Order Imperative: Paradigms of Planning in SimCity 3000 and Tropico
Bascom Guffin, University of California Davis

Spectacular Visions: Seeing is Believing
Claudia Grinnell, The University of Louisiana at Monroe

Authoritarian Discourses of Care: Capital Health on the Walls of the City
Chris Kortright, University of California Davis

From CSI to Amber Alert: Crime Culture Industry in Dialogue and Performance
Michelle Stewart, University of California Davis

424  Enchantment E  |  Folk Music 1

Panel Chair: Christopher Smith, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University

The Songs They Are A-Changin': Evaluating Bob Dylan Protest Songs Outside the Context of the Sixties
David Aglow, University of New Mexico

"We Shall Overcome": A Case Study of Music and Political Agency in the Black Church
Brandi A. Neal, University of Pittsburgh

425  Fiesta 3  |  Food and Culture 12

Food and Culture: For(a)ging The Americas: The Encounter and Early American Food History

Panel Chair: Lynn Marie Houston, California State University Chico

Old World Dearth/New World Hunger
Hillary Eklund, Duke University

The Encounter and Early Mexican Food History
Janet Long-Solís, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The Cultural Semiotics of the Early American Kitchen
Kyla Wyzana Tompkins, Pomona College

426  Sendero III  |  Historical Novel 2

Panel Chair: Brian Adler, Valdosta State University

Fictional Historians: A Look at the Profession of History through Fiction
Dwight Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University

Metaphor and Biography in Rosario Ferre's House on the Lagoon
Kathleen Aguilar, Fort Lewis College

The Surgeon's Daughter: Walter Scott's Heteroglossic Text and the Ambivalent Colonial Scene
Almila Ozdek, George Washington University

Issues of History in Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces
Amy Shapiro, Indiana University

427  Sendero I  |  Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 4

The Power of Archetype

Panel Chair: Druscilla French

The Divine Child Archetype and its Emergence in Contemporary Films
Chaz Gormley, Sonoma State University

X-Men: Heroic Extremes in the Struggle for Anima
Victoria Hippard, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Archetype or Patriarchetype? A Brief History of The Symbolic Meanings of Thorn Trees
Kelly A. Greer, Central Missouri State University/Claremont Graduate University

The Wasteland Myth: Narcissus, Echo and Image
Druscilla French, Foundation for Mythological Studies

428  Pavilion I  |  Media and Globalization 2

Dynamics of Global Media

Panel Chair: Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University

Airlines Spin Disaster into Goodwill: A Rhetorical Criticism of Major Airlines' News Releases in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Eric Wilson, Wichita State University

The Rise of Modern Globalization, Imperialism, Colonialism, and Neo Liberalism: The Mainstream Media and Press Distortion on Hurricane Katrina
Jose G. Moreno, Oxnard College

The Global and Local Logic of Media
Lauren Movius, University of Southern California

Crafting a Pan-European Identity: Ford and FCN TV
James F. Royal, University of Florida

429  Pavilion IV  |  Mystery/Detective Fiction 2

Nineteenth Century Detectives and Their Direct Descendents

Panel Chair: Linda Strahan, University of California Riverside

Arthur Conan Doyle's Fiction of the Macabre
Charles Wukasch, Prairie View A & M University

The Whole of Her Sex": Women, Gender, and Class in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Shelley A. Sinclair, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

A Faceted Mirror: The Changing Face of Women in Detective Fiction
Warren Graffeo, Texas A&M International University

Detection as the Path to Madness: Loss of Identity in Paul Auster and Edgar Allan Poe
Kelly Connelly, Temple University

430  Enchantment A  |  Native/Indigenous Studies 17

Native American Lit III: Early American Indian Literature: New Directions and New Insights

Panel Chair: John Miles, University of New Mexico

Processing Soul Wounds: The Effects of Colonization on Native Male Gender Roles
Leah Sneider, University of New Mexico

The Narrative Strategy of S. Alice Callahan's Wynema
Laura Nesbitt, University of New Mexico

The Meta-Politics of American Indian Literature: The Real and the Imagined in Its Theories and Classifications
Dianne Bechtel, University of New Mexico

Recovering American Indian Literature: Where Are the Boundaries?
Stephen Brandon, University of New Mexico

431  Enchantment F  |  Reality Television 5

Panel Chair: Mark Ludorf

The Ritual of Brat Camp: Dark Play Providing Rites of Passage to the American Public
Katie Egging, University of Kansas

Agency and Representation in an Episode of The Dr. Phil Show
Joy Pasini, Rice University

Psychological Themes and Topics as Explored in Reality Television
Mark Ludorf, Stephen F. Austin State University

432  Enchantment B  |  Religion and Popular Culture 2

Panel Chair: Wes Bergen

Freud, Buddha and the Potential Postmodern Super-ego
Susan Isabel Stein, Texas Tech University

The Revenge of Gunga Din: Cults and the Occult in 1940's Popular Culture
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University

Christmakwanzukah: An Analysis of Christian Responses to "The Holiday Season"
Wes Bergen, Wichita State University

433  Enchantment C  |  Romance Fiction 2

Panel Chair, Cheryl Wiltse, Texas Woman's University

Exploding the Stereotype: The Heroine as Portrayed in the Silhouette Bombshell Series
Darcy Martin, East Tennessee State University

Sex, Lies, Mystery: The Age of Innocence in Holme's Here Lies the Truth
Shelly Woodcox-Unruh, Northlake Community College

Life and Truth Lie in the Gaps: Narratological Use of Gaps in Victorian Mystery Short Stories
Kathryn Williamson McClatchy, Texas Woman's University

434  Enchantment D  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 17

Engendering the Whendonverse

Panel Chair: Alyson Buckman

A Secret Agent, A Mechanic, and a Warrior Walk into a Bar: Gender Expectations and Genre-bending in Joss Whedon's Firefly
K. P. Key,St. Andrews Presbyterian College

[De]sissifying Men: Angel and Promasculinist Resistance to Buffyworld
Joy Piazza, University of Missouri-Columbia

The Geography of Firefly and Serenity: Feminist Spaces on the Patriarchal Frontier
Monique Hyman, Pierce Community College and Pasadena City College

"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think": The Male Gaze and Female Language in Firefly and Serendipity
Alyson Buckman, California State University Sacramento


435  Fiesta 4  |  Technical Communication 5

Communicating with the Public and Untangling Case Studies

Panel Chair: Christine Seifert

What "The Donald" Lacks in Hair; He Gains in User Knowledge or What The Apprentice Can Teach Students about Audience Analysis
Shelley Thomas, Weber State University

Habermas on Ecstasy: Scientific Information in the Public Sphere
Jonathan Arnett, Texas Tech University

The Rock and the Water Glass: Situating Case Studies within a Holistic Meta-View
Derek Ross, Texas Tech University

"Fortunately, I Won't Need Ethics. I'm a Technical Writer": Using Case Studies to Teach Ethics
Christine Seifert, Westminster College

436  Fiesta 1  |  Texas Culture 2

Arts & Letters

Panel Chair: Mario A. Herrera, Independent Scholar

The Texas Hunting Culture
Alan H. Roy

Football Texas Culture: Cheerleaders, Marching Bands, Pep Teams.
H.R. Scott

437  Fiesta 2  |  Women's Studies 12

Feminism: Recovery, Re-Imagining, and Rebellion

Panel Chair: Helen Gunn

The Feminist Recovery of Ellen Wood: Reviving a Victorian Pop Culture Icon
Nicola Tarrant-Hoskins, University of Kentucky

Re-imagining Truth: Feminist Appropriation of Myth in Comfort Woman and The Woman Warrior
Christina Ames, California State University, San Marcos

From Demeter and Persephone to Charlotte and Lo: Mother Blame, Daughter Rebellion and the Post-Feminist' Potent Revolt
Cassandra Fetters, University of Kentucky

Anything But Second: Simone de Beauvoir Lays the Groundwork for Third Wave Feminism
Helen Gunn, California State University, San Marcos

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Panel 438
Panel Time 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

438  Pavilion I  |  Lunch with Ms. Mentor, Emily Toth

Ms. Mentor Knows About You: Secrets of Academic Life

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Panel 439-449
Panel Time 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

439  Fiesta 1  |  American Indians Today 13

Workshop 2: Teaching Indigenous Filmmakers

Workshop Chairs: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College and Eric Buffalohead, Augsburg College

Traci Morris-Carlsten, University of Arizona
Petra Lina Orloff, Wayne State University
Anna Krauthammer, City University of New York

440  Fiesta 3  |  Computer Culture 13

Blogs V: Journalism and Other Narrative Forms

Panel Chair: Patricia Dooley, Wichita State University

Wired Ethos: Establishing Ethical Standards for Online Journalism Weblogs.
Janet Johnson, Texas Woman's University

The Genesis of a Blog: "The Vermont Daily Briefing"
Philip E. Baruth, University of Vermont

441  Fiesta 4  |  Creative Writing Pedagogy 6

Panel Chair: Jennifer Fink

(((Have You Heard?))): Using Locative Media to Teach Community Writing
Carol Spaulding, Drake University

Service Learning, Nature Writing, and the Creative Writing Classroom
Sandy Doe and Lee Christopher, Metropolitan State College of Denver

The Creative Writing Workshop as Viewed through an Olmsted Vernacular
Amy Webb, Emporia State University

From Catechism to Catch-22: Teaching Experimental Fiction in a Conservative Catholic Context
Jennifer Fink, Georgetown University

442  Enchantment A  |  Cultural Production and the State 2

Performing the State's Theatre on the Religious Stage

Panel Chair: Michelle Stewart, University of California Davis

Learning Civics, Learning Saints: The Litigation of Catholic Visual Culture in New Mexico's Public Schools
Kathleen Holscher, Princeton University

Fundamental Law: Religion and Psychosis as Explained by Lawyers and Judges
William Difede, University of California Santa Cruz

The Church of Meme: Science Fiction and/as Religion
Sha Lar, University of California Santa Cruz

443  Enchantment B  |  Endurance Sports 1

Panel Chair, Sally Goade, The Sage Colleges

Triathlete Journals
Iris Dunkle, Case Western Reserve University

Running Away (Fast) from the Cyborg
Madonne Miner, Texas Tech University

In Sickness and in Health: Endurance Athletes and Eating Disorders
Abigail Ruby, University of Iowa

444  Enchantment F  |  Media and Globalization 3

Film and TV in a Global Context

Panel Chair: Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University

The Creative Class is Competitive
Javier Ventura Urbina, UCLA, NMSU, Universidad CNCI, Juarez, Mexico

"We are sexy now": Explorations into the Re-vamping of Bollywood
Amita Nijhawan

A Couple of Couplings: US Reproductions of British Television Comedies
Jennifer Barnett, Independent Scholar

445  Enchantment F  |  Mystery/Detective Fiction 3

Multiplicities of the Narrative in the Detective Novel

Panel Chair: Linda Strahan, Univesity of California Riverside

Hard-Boiled Existentialism: the Crisis of John Rebus
Jason Payne, Ohio State University and Columbus State CC

Dinosaur Detectives and Discourse
Marcus Embry, University of Northern Colorado

Gente conmingo: Syrua Poletti and her Very Personal Kind of Detective Story
Gianna Martella, Western Oregon University

Crime-No Punishment: Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr. Ripley as the Twentieth Century Response to Russian Angst
Jennifer Sunseri

446  Enchantment C  |  Protest Music 1

Panel Chair: Christopher Smith, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University

Sonic Anarchy: The Making of the MC5
Mathew J. Bartkowiak, Michigan State University

"John Cooke you be a Knave": The Politics of Nostalgia in 17th-century England
Stacey Jocoy Houck, Texas Tech University

"Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?": Uncovering Heavy Metal Protest Music
Evan James Roskos, Rutgers University

"I fought the law and the law won": Rejection of and Resistance to Authority in Song Lyrics
Amy D. Shinabarger, California State University Northridge

447  Enchantment D  |  Remembering Lee Francis

Creative Writing Reading by Native/Indigenous Studies and American Indians Today Presenters

Moderators: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Marylhurst University and John Miles, University of New Mexico

448  Fiesta 2  |  Romance Fiction 3

Panel Chair: Cheryl Wiltse, Texas Woman's University

Evolution of Erotica in Contemporary Romance: Viewing the Body from a New Perspective
Kacie Jossart, University of North Dakota

Deflowering Pamela: Kathleen Woodiwiss in Negotiation with Samuel Richardson
Sally Goade, The Sage Colleges

The Use of the Doppelganger to Reveal the Duality of Man in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Lynda Davis, Texas Woman's University

449  Pavilion I  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy 18

Religion, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Panel Chair: Wes Bergen, Wichita State University

Suffering in Star Wars: A Biblical Perspective
Stacey Baker, California Baptist University

The End of the World, As We Know It: Apocalyptic Fantasy
Julie M. Hopgood, University of Northern Colorado

Science Fiction and Salvation
Dara Fogel, University of Oklahoma

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Thanks for participating in this year's conference. See you next year!