2006 Conference Program  Entire Program

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

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