2007
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Panel Chair: Kelli Shapiro, Brown University
"Watch Uvalde Grow": The "Selling" of One Texas Town, 1880-1917
Jennifer Lawrence, Tarrant County College - SoutheastPracticed Place and Negotiated Race: The Co-production of Race and Space in Pankey, Arkansas
Jill Somers, California State University - FullertonA Real Case of the Blues: The Discourse of Authenticity in the Redevelopment of Chicago's Bronzeville Neighborhood
Matthew Pavesich, University of Illinois - ChicagoDuking It Out: Baseball and the Struggle over Civic Identity in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Meg Frisbee, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Melinda McBee
The Promised Land: Mary Antin, Immigrant Autobiography, and the Divided Self
Joyce Moser, Stanford UniversityNarrating the Community: The Form and Politics of Hutterite Self-Representation
Ann Mary Olson, Harvard University"It Ends at the Beginning and Begins at the End": Technique and Narrative Voices in Karen Salyer McElmurray's Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey
Melinda McBee, Prairie View A&M University
Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
"Fettered and depraved by some spell": Inverting and Subverting the Captivity Theme in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
Sarah Elizabeth Blythe, University of KansasMary Rowlandson's Adventures in Wonderland
Sebastian Frank, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Spare me the pain describing my feelings": Telling the Tale of Mary Kinnan
Christina Riley-Brown, Mercyhurst College
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner
The Artistry of Comics
Jackson Sutliff, Missouri State UniversityFoucault's Ideas of Power in V for Vendetta
Justin Lerberg, The University of Texas at ArlingtonGolden, Silver and Bronze: The Ages and Histories of Superhumans
Michael Stock, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel Chair: Stella Hockenhull
Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers' Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production
Randall BarnesD. W. Griffith and His Chase Scenes
George Pavlou, Cyprus CollegeNeo-Romantic Landscapes: Second World War Painting and the Films of Powell and Pressburger
Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton
Panel Chair: Philip L. Simpson
Human/Nature, Redux: The Cultural Politics of the Dead on Display in Reunified Germany
Kris Vander Lugt, Iowa State UniversityNight Vision: Utopian Themes and Post 9/11 Angst in the Films of M. Night Shymalan
Mary Findley, Vermont Technical CollegeHostile Territory: Torturous Twists and Turns of Genre in Hostel and Wolf Creek
Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Community College, Melbourne
Panel Chair: Jesús Tafoya, Sul Ross State University
The Lexical Focus in English/Spanish Technical Language
Alejandro Curado Fuentes, University of ExtremaduraPower and Ideology in the Use of Spanish Reported Speech
Kareen Gervasi, California State University, San Bernardino"Dame todo el power": An Examination of Code-switching and Power In Song Lyrics
Amy D. Shinabarger, California State University, Northridge
Panel Chair: Ellen L. Arnold, Eastern Carolina University
Southern Borderlands in Geary Hobson's The Last of the Ofos
Lindsey Claire Smith, Oklahoma State UniversityA Storyteller's Words: Reading, Writing and Interviewing Mr. Sequoyah Guest
Christ Teuton, University of DenverColonial and Postcolonial Sites of Contention in the Indigenous Southeast and Southwest: Place and Identity in Conley, Tapahonso, and Ortiz
Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Bradley University
Panel Chair: Gene Mueller
Metaphors and Miasma: Faculty Suicides and the Social Construction of Meaning
Caroline Hartse, Olympic CollegeOn the Cultural Politics of Media Literacy
Kevin Howley, DePauw UniversityTransforming the Adult Literacy Classroom into a Support Group of Learners: The Search for Teaching Methods that Address the Head and Heart
Ariel Ingle, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Kevin Kosanovich
Homo-Social Discourse and Mien in Memphis Rap Culture
Kelly Daniels, University of Memphis"True Niggas Ain't Gay": The Confluence of Prison, Hip-Hop, and Homophobic Culture
Matthew Blanton, University of Wisconsin-Madison"No One Can Do It Better": The Poetics of Race, Space, and Place in the Hip Hop Album
Kevin Kosanovich, College of William and Mary
Panel Chair: Steve Davis
Linking a Campus with Literature and Illegals: The Teaching of TC Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain
Patricia Hillen, Penn State University, Delaware CountyJohn Graves, Writer
Mark Busby, Texas State University-San MarcosTexas Monthly and the Texas that Was
Dick J. Reavis, North Carolina State University
Panel Chair: Sally Emmons-Featherston, Rogers State University
Increasing Affect: The Effect of Music in Buffy Episodes
Lori M. Butler, Rogers State UniversityMeta-Acting: Going Beyond the Craft of Acting in Buffy
David Blakely, Rogers State UniversityElectric Arcs: Character Development in Buffy
Frances E. Morris, Rogers State UniversitySlaying the Stereotypes: Working With and Against "Western" Stereotypes in Buffy
Sally Emmons-Featherston, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: James Yates, Northwestern Oklahoma State University
They Lived. Then Were Loved: On Jessica, Elisa, Justina, Nixzmary and Deconstructing the Tabloids' Obsession with the Martyred Latina
Marta Alaina Holliday, University of IowaDisturbingly Real: Fiction, Film, and the Serial Killer
Sue Orenstein, Muhlenberg CollegeParadise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills: Panopticism and the Rhetoric of True Crime
James Yates, Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Fran Gardner, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Lisa Hammond Rashley, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Panel Chair: Lynne M. Getz
An Autumnal Performance: Popular Culture, Science and the Sacred at Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Barry Joyce, University of DelawareImitating Homer: The New York Times, Popular Reading Magazines, and the American Myth of Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann
Judd Burton, Texas Tech UniversityThe Family That Collects Together Stays Together: The Problem of Pothunting and the Contested Construction of Wetherill Family Memory
Lynne M. Getz, Appalachian State University
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
N. Scott Momaday in Literature, Film and the Oral Tradition: Non-Indian Student Response
Jim Charles, University of South Carolina UpstateBlack Goose's Map of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Oklahoma Territory and Recent Research in Kiowa Ethnogeography
William Meadows, Southwest Missouri State UniversityEmancipatory Discourse? Reading Photographs in the Native American Autobiographies Black Elk Speaks and While the Locust Slept
Jennie MacDonald, University of Denver
Panel Chair: Antonio Jocson
Speaking from and for the Self: The Lectern as the Site of Emerson's Construction of Himself as a Public Intellectual
Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany, SUNYPsychotraumatology and Nineteenth Century Authorship: Thomas Hardy and the "Gifts" of Trauma
Jillmarie Murphy, Schenectady County CollegeThe Genealogy of a Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Fragments Between Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun" and "The Italian Notebooks"
Antonio Jocson, Prairie View A&M University
Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
Crossing Over, Turning Back: Harriet Jacob's Exodus
Linda Tucker, Southern Arkansas UniversityThe Confession of Nat Turner: The Authorial Voice in America's Famous Slave-Rebel Narrative
Patrick H. Breen, Providence CollegeNat Love Starring as Buffalo Papoose: Complicity and Condemnation in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Paul D. Reich, Rollins College
Panel Chair: Derek Parker Royal, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Blurred Borders: The Graphic Novel and Adolescent Literature
Susan Stewart, Texas A&M University-CommerceOrality Nouveau: Performance in Graphic Narrative and the Oral Tradition
Andrea Miller, Texas A&M University-CommerceWhat's in a Name?; or, Gutter Talk: The Problem of Critical Language in the Study of Comics
Derek Parker Royal, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Panel Chair: Sean Johnston
Annie Christain, University of South Dakota
Sarah J. Den Boer, University of South Dakota
Courtney Huse Wika, University of South DakotaSean Johnston, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: Peter Pabisch
Tolkien from Text to Screen
Julie Redekopp, University of New MexicoBeyond Influence and Adaptation: Film Noir and Radio Mysteries of the 1940s
Kyle J. Stine, University of IowaMexico and Maximilian, the Habsburg - Right and Wrong Views in Literature and Film
Peter Pabisch, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: James Grove
Shortening Get Shorty
Robert Murray Davis, University of Oklahoma in NormanThe Endless Philosophical Journey of Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket
Phillip Sipiora, University of South FloridaFilm Adaptation as Self Interrogation: The Case of Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Smoke Signals
James Grove, Mount Mercy College
Panel Chair: Gary Burnett
Nomadic Musical Audiences: An Historical Precedent for the Grateful Dead
Jake Cohen, University of WashingtonFrom Soquel to San Jose: The First Acid Tests
Rick Dodgson, University of Tennessee, MartinCommunity or Collocation: The Grateful Dead and the San Francisco Oracle
Gary Burnett, Florida State University
Panel Chair: Daniel Gustav Anderson, University of Idaho
TSK and Integral Post-metaphysics
Robert Bruce Alderman, Independent ScholarAesthetics as an Unspoken Medium for Self-Reflexivity: The Intersection between Foucault and the Integral Notion of the Aesthetics of Existences
Cecelia Suhr, Rutgers UniversityCircumventing the Cartesian Prophylactic
Jann Marson, Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: Christopher J. Smith, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University
To Live in a Land where Justice Is a Game: Bob Dylan's Protest Songs
Virginia Gannaway, California State University, FullertonWe Provide Rebellion for You Wholesale: A Critical Look at the Marketing and the Sell of Punk Counter-culture
Bryan L. Jones, Northwestern State UniversityJoe Strummer: A Transcending Punk Narrative
Paul Vega, University of Arizona
Panel Chair: W. Clark Whitehorn, University of New Mexico Press
Commentator: John R. Wunder, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Shifting Gears: A Comanche Family from the Plains to the Classroom
Eric Tippeconnic, University of New MexicoThe "Omaha Way" of Eunice Woodhull Stabler, 1885-1963
Elaine M. Nelson, University of New MexicoA Journey to Freedom: The Life of Richard Oakes, 1942-1972
Kent Blansett, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Tom Wagy
Introducing Philosophy through Film
David G. Miller, Florida Atlantic UniversityCommunicating with Comics: How Teachers Can Engage Their Students with This New Medium
Gary Jackson, University of New Mexico
My Man Godfrey: Slapstick, Tragedy, and a New View of Poverty
Tom Wagy, Texas A&M-Texarkana
Panel Chair: Donna Cox
Wiley @ Columbus: Hip Hop and Subjectivity
Phyllis L. Burns, Otterbein CollegeI Never Walk Alone: Public Enemy's Paranoid Collectivity
Aaron Bibb, University of Wisconsin-Madison"[J]erking Your Chain": Eminem and Linguistic Strategies
Donna Cox, Grimsby Institute of Higher Education
Panel Chair: Alyson R. Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
Non-Heteronormativity and Gender Ambiguity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Lea Popielinski, Ohio State University"Look, they got boy whores!": Geographies of Queer Sexuality in Firefly and Serenity
Monique Lacoste, University of Washington"What If You Just Start Attracting Male Demons?": Male Homoeroticism and the Monstrous in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Marco Torres, San Jose State University
Panel Chair: Emily Dial-Driver, Rogers State University
Nihilism Revisited: Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jim Ford, Rogers State UniversityThe Illogic of the Soul in Buffy
Renee Turk, Rogers State UniversityThe Meaning of Life Is Not 42: Finding Meaning in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emily Dial-Driver, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: Mary Alice Brittain
Discourse and the Gender Gap at National Geographic Magazine
Kate van Gelder, University of Washington TacomaThe Shifting Rhetoric of American Feminism
Mary Alice Brittain, West Texas A&M University
Panel Chair: Tracy Campbell
The Laws of the Indies and The Land Ordinances: American Planning Grids and the Making of Place in New Mexico
Karen L. Rogers, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research CenterCreating Landscape, Contesting National Identity: Popular Narrations of Boulder Dam in 1930s America
K. Maria D. Lane, University of New MexicoBringing Down the House: Building Demolition as Theater in the Era of Urban Renewal
Bernard L. Jim, Case Western Reserve UniversityThe Creation of an American Icon: Eero Saarinen, the Gateway Arch, and the Architectural Competition to Transform the St. Louis Riverfront, 1946-1950
Tracy Campbell, University of Kentucky
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Dams in the Rivers and Weeds in the Grass
Waleila Carey, Comanche Nation CollegeLeadership: An American Indian Perspective
Jody Kehle, University of Texas
Karen Cockrell, University of Missouri
Panel Chair: Robert R. Rodriguez
Actor and Appearance Collide: Self-Knowledge and Autobiography
Burcu Gürkan, Halic University-TurkeyDriven by Faith: The Puritans and Marilyn Manson
Bruce Plourde, Temple UniversityPlaying Cat and Maus: Art's Dual Representation
Amy Otis, University of Northern ColoradoThe Life and Theater of Rodolfo Usigli: A Biographical Interview
Robert R. Rodriguez, Prairie View A&M University
Panel Chair: Daniel Gustav Anderson
Shop Happy: Buddhism, Gender and the Clear Consumer's Mind
Susanna Bartlow, University at BuffaloSand Mandala: The Sacred as Secular Cultural Offering in America
Carolyn Roark, Baylor UniversityGroovy Buddhas: The Buddha Image in Cool Culture
Paul Byron, McMaster UniversityAmerican Bodhisattva!: Pop Icons as Exempla of Mahayana Aspiration in Bodhisattva Archetypes and Being and Ambiguity
Daniel Gustav Anderson, University of Idaho
Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
The Captivity Narrative of Mr. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
M. Carmen Gomez Galisteo, IUIEN-Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, SpainFictions of Servitude: Literary Representations of French Men and Women Enslaved in North Africa from the Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Centuries
Jessica Nyamugusha, Yale UniversityRepresentations of Slavery in Captivity Narratives: Problems in Historiography
Paul Harper, Sophia University
Panel Chair: Shelley Smarz
Manga in the 1930s: Norakuro and Kids' Culture of Militarism
David Hopkins, Tenri University, Tenri, Japan"Tell Me, What Are Your Thoughts on Yoai?" Boy Love Comics and the Tradition of Slash Fan Texts
Shelley Smarz, Brock University
Panel Chair: Hugh Tribbey
George Hartley, Ohio University
The Art and Poetry of Biomarkers: A Digital Collaboration from the Basement of Time
Nat Hardy, Rogers State UniversityJulian Grater, Open Hand/Open Space Studio, Reading, England
Hugh Tribbey, East Central Oklahoma University
Panel Chair: Roz Berrystone
Horror Hosts and the 19 Eighties Cultures
Samuel Schottenstein, Simmons College, BostonThe Myth Of Catastrophism and Its Effect on the Disaster Movie
Roz Berrystone, RMIT University in Melbourne
Panel Chair: Philippa Gates
Negative Narrative Space and the Avenging Angel in Christopher Nolan's Memento (Mori)
Kent Chapin Ross, Texas A&M University-Commerce"Make My Day": The Contexts of Politics, Culture, and Film Noir in Dirty Harry
Christopher McColm, University of California, RiversideSoftboiled Adaptations: The Maltese Falcon, Hardboiled Detective Fiction, and Pre-Noir Hollywood
Philippa Gates, Wilfrid Laurier University
Panel Chair: Katie O'Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State University
Games, Guns, and Gasdgets: Maxim Magazine's Effort to Stabilize A Masculinity "In Crisis"
Katie O'Donnell Arosteguy, Washington State UniversityStories of Non-gendered Societies: Science-fiction Tales, The Modern American Utopias
Dr. Claude Safir, University of ParisCoaching Behaviors in Intercolloegiate bowling Competition: An Ethnographic Study of Gender Communication and Athlete Behavior
Bianca Mohtagnino, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Barry Smolin
"I'd Never Heard Anything Like It": Scotty Stoneman and the Bluegrass Roots of Jerry Garcia's Improvisational Approach
Revell Carr, University of California at Santa BarbaraWyrd Folk/Freak Folk, Whatever Ya Wanna Call It: The "Other" Hippie Underground Breaks the Surface
Barry Smolin, KPFK, Los AngelesCold Roses: A Skeleton Key to the Music of Ryan Adams
Matthew Armstrong, Writer, Greensboro, North Carolina
Panel Chair: Christopher J. Smith, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University
Transforming Tradition: Celebrating the Anglo Dead along the Mexican Border
Roberto Vela, Texas Tech University"I'm for Freedom, An' for Union Altogether": Jacksonian Cultural Exchange in Antebellum New York
Shannon Crenshaw, Texas Tech UniversityCharles Mingus in Transition: Black Identity and Jazz Composition in 1950s America
Scott Strovas, Texas Tech University
Panel Chair: Delores Amorelli, University of Florida
The Politics of Narrative in James Mooney's The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Louis Bury, The Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkAmbiguous Native Representations in Popular American Writers: Mark Twain and John Steinbeck
Jeffrey Turpin, The University of Texas at San AntonioOn and Off the Reservation: Place and Memory in Ray Young Bear's Black Eagle Child and Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians
James Stapp, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Beth Maxfield
Technologies of Personal Performance: Critically Engaging Popular Personal Writing in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom
Melissa Tombro, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign9/11 and Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom
Robin Murphy, Bowling Green State UniversityOn Your Mark! Get Set! Go?
Deborah Bailey, East Central Oklahoma UniversityConnecting With Voices of Culture and History: When Classroom and Archives Meet
Ann Massmann, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Sonia Sanchez and Tupac: Beyond Ekphrasis
Mia Fiore, Drew UniversityThe Signifying(g) Soulja: Tupac Shakur and the Hip Hop Master Trope
Justin De Senso, New Mexico State UniversityMe Against the World: Cultural Representation in Orientalism, Africanism, and the Lyrics of Tupac Shakur
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania
Panel Chair: Joe Bisz, CUNY-Borough of Manhattan
Magic: The Key to Fantasy Literature
Brian Cowlishaw, Northeastern State UniversityThe Philosopher and the Philologist: Tolkien, Heidegger, and Poetic Language
Dawn CatanachThe Morality of Orcs
Zach Watkins, University of New MexicoThe Function of Sorrow in Fantasy Fiction
Sarah Bowman, University of Texas at Dallas
Panel Chair: LaChrystal Ricke
Jem and the Holograms
Marcia Kear, University of South DakotaThe Religious Rhetoric of South Park
Sabre Ryan Nap, Missouri State UniversityAnimated Degradation: Derogatory Speech and Violence in The Family Guy
LaChrystal Ricke, University of Kansas
Panel Chair: Sherman Han
White Skins, Yellow Masks: How Visibly Invisible Asian America Is within Popular Culture
Meaghan Kozar, Michigan State UniversityGao Xingjian, Amy Tan, and Mark Twain: Demons Lost and Found
Edwin Brinson, Texas A&M University-CommerceAsian Factors in Gus Lee's Novels
Sherman Han, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Panel Chair: Susan Greenwald, West Texas A&M University
Woman's Poetry
Lee Leafloor, West Texas A&M UniversityThe Succubus
Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M UniversityFrame
Susan Greenwald, West Texas A&M University
Hosted by the Hyatt Regency Hotel, this opening evening social mixer honors our presenters and distinguished guests for their contributions to the study of Popular and American Culture. Come, relax, and enjoy light refreshments and beverages. This is a great opportunity to mingle and meet old and new acquaintances.
Panel Chair: Shelby Crosby
Skullduggery: Prescott Bush, Yale's Skull and Bones, and the Folklore of Geronimo's Missing Head
David Miller, Cameron UniversityThe "Ferret Out the Lesbians" Legend: Johnnie Phelps, General Eisenhower, and the Power and Politics of Myth
Donna Knaff, Saint Louis UniversityThomas Jefferson, Founding Father and Cultural Icon
Shelby Crosby, D'Youville College
Panel Chair: Tom Holm, University of Arizona
Placing Transnationalism
Nicholas Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCommodifying Indigeneity: Popular Culture and the Biocolonialism of Indigenous Peoples
Sharon Cabana, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIndigenous Sources and the Media: A Critique on How Three Newspapers Invoke Native Voices
Courtney Linehan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
From Captive to Convert: "Feigning" Indian in the Eighteenth-Century
Robbie Richardson, McMaster UniversityCaptive Desires: The Enforced Institutionalization of Gays and Lesbians
C.R. Junkins, University of South FloridaCaptivity and the Collective Consciousness in Turkish Science Fiction
Defne Turker Demir, Halic University-Istanbul, Turkey
Panel Chair: Daniel S. Margolies
Unearthing Ancestral Voices in Literature: Retracing Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima to Villagrá's Historia de la Nuevo México
Rosa A. Martinez, California State University, ChicoMi Salsa is NOT Like Your Salsa
Lissette Ledesma, University of ArizonaSouth of my North and North of my South: Mexican Migration, Traditional Musical Culture, and Hybridization in the Transnational American Southeast
Daniel S. Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Panel Chair: Ramzi Fawaz
Playing Cat and Maus: Art's Dual Representation
Amy Sue Otis, University of North Colorado"The 99": the World's First Muslim Superheroes
Rebecca Gorman, Metropolitan State College of Denver"I Never Imagined That You Could Use That Appliance For Torture": The Closure of Art and Innocence in Satrapi's Persepolis
Joshua Grasso, East Central UniversityBig Trouble in Smallville: The Rise of the Teenage Superhero in the 20th Century
Ramzi Fawaz, The George Washington University
Panel Chair: Daniel Griffin, University of Arizona
Playing with History: On the Relationship of Video Games and Cultural Authority
Jennifer deWinter, University of ArizonaPlaying With Power: Electronic Gaming in Modern Society
Brian Hilton, Texas A&M UniversityPlaying with Happiness: The Rhetoric of Emotions in Computer Games
Kelly Myers, University of Arizona
Panel Chair: David Wallace, University of Texas at Arlington
Lynda Letona, University of South Dakota
Jim Tolan, Borough of Manhattan CC
Melissa Houghton, Oregon State University
John Yozzo, East Central Oklahoma University
Panel Chair: Robert Hamilton
Women Stay Home: Wife Swap "Extremes" Can't Hide the Visual Domestic Messages
Dana Herrera, University of New MexicoTravis Bickle, Taxi Driver, and Modern Man
Paul Salvatori, University of OttawaSex, Silence, and Social Disintegration: Batalla en el Cielo
Jeremy L. Lehnen, University of New MexicoThe Discursive Diamond: Myth, Politics, and Masculinity in Field of Dreams
Robert Hamilton, Manchester Metropolitan University
Panel Chair: Alan S. Ambrisco
The Paradox of Horror: An Aristotelian Analysis
Todd Lavin, Clarion University of PennsylvaniaMonstrous Masculinity and the Abject in Todd Solondz's Happiness
Adam Wadenius, San Francisco State UniversityMonstrous Outcasts and Modern Relativism in Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf and Grendel
Alan S. Ambrisco, University of Akron
Panel Chair: Melissa Salazar
How Do We Do Food Studies: A Series of Methodological Conversations
Svend Skafte Overgaard, University of CopenhagenThe Application of Q Methodology in Studies of Food and Culture
Keiko Goto, California State University
Chico Tiffany, Cornell University
Jennifer Tiffany, Cornell UniversityMichel Foucault's The Use of Pleasure as a Food Studies Text
Jamaica Jones, New York University
Panel Chair: Richard Freed, Eastern Kentucky University
Breakfast on Pluto and The Crying Game: More in Common than First Meets the Eye
Richard Freed, Eastern Kentucky UniversityNot a Cinematic Hair Out of Place
Allen Herring, University of New MexicoI Am Jack's Fragmented Self: Mind, Body, and Masculinity in David Fincher's Fight Club
Wendy Perry, University of Toledo, OhioKathy Acker's Deconstruction of the Female Subject in Blood and Guts in High School
Micah Robbins, Texas State University
Panel Chair: Mary Goodenough
"In and Out of the Garden": Sacred and Profane in Deaddom
Mary Goodenough, Independent Scholar, Sebastopol, CABuddhism Through the Eyes of the Dead
Paul Gass, Coppin State UniversityGrateful Dead Theology
David Bryan, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Panel Chair: Rhonda Taylor, University of Oklahoma
Leisure Reading, Listening, Viewing, and Playing: Popular Books, Audio Books, Videos, and Videogames in Academic Libraries
Jessica Moyer, SUNY Oneata
Christy Donaldson, Montana State University at BozemanThe Growth of Comics Collections in Academic Libraries
Julie Piacentine, University of MichiganDo Lawyers Have a Sense of Humor?: Collecting Legal Fiction in the Academic Law Library
Paula Seeger, University of Minnesota
Panel Chair: Paul Nagy, Clovis Community College
City vs. Cycle: The Centripetal vs. the Centrifugal
Kosuke Miyata, City University of New YorkThe Longer the Ride, the Greater the Divide: A Discursive Analysis of Motorcycle Culture(s)
Zachary A. Schaefer, Texas A&M University"Whiteness" on Wheels: Contested Countercultural Racial Identity in Easy Rider
Andrew Hannon, University of Massachusetts at BostonMotorcycle Culture and Hollywood Films from 1946 to Present
Mark Bunting, Illinois State University
Panel Chair: Sara Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
"Inner life of people little understood": Gertrude Bonnin, William F. Hanson, and the Complicated Landscapes of The Sun Dance Opera
Julianne Newmark, New Mexico TechWounded Knee in Popular Culture: Memory, Identity, and Appropriation
Petra Lina Orloff, Wayne State UniversityIdentity, Truth, and Memory in Sherman Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing"
Summer Ward, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Alyson R. Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
"It's a place": Angel's Hyperion Hotel and the Visualization of Space
Tammy A. Kinsey, University of ToledoMiranda's "Medicine" and River's "Cure" in Serenity
Cyndi HeadleyThe Fall of the House of Angel: Poe's Influence in Buffy Season Two
Joseph J. Darowski, Michigan State University"There's No Place Like Home" on the Hellmouth: Subjectivity and Place in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alyson R. Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
Panel Chair: Lacy Landrum
A Genre of Genetics: DNA Mapping, Merging Identities, and Ancient Migrations in Mesoamerican and Southwestern Native Populations
Citlalin Xochime, New Mexico State UniversityA Genre of Technical Reporting: A Graphical Adaptation of 9/11
David Edgell, Texas Tech UniversityPerchlorate and the Press: The Hazards of Reporting on Ambiguity
Margaret Batschelet, University of Texas at San AntonioFire Safety for People with Disabilities: The Evolving Messages
Lacy Landrum, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Jonathan Cristol, Bard College
Christian Mysticism Meets TV Sci-Fi: Eternal Life and Heavenly Visitations in The X-Files
Helynne Hanson, Western State College of ColoradoWishing for the Monster: Repentant Skeptics in Cryptozoology Television Documentaries
Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College of DenverBalancing, Bandwagoning, and the Federation-Dominion War in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Jonathan Cristol, Bard College
Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson
Stevie Smith: The Belief of Uncertainty
Pat Gott, University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointCombodities: Have We Come Such a Long Way, Baby? or My Ruffled Armor, the Isolation of Lace
Erika R. Szostak, Loyola Marymount UniversityFirespitting Poetic Justice: Jayne Cortex and Joy Harjo, Female Poets Leading Bands
Diana R. Thompson, Touro College
Panel Chair: Kelli Shapiro, Brown University
Built and Written Memorials: Global Literature, History, and Culture in an Age of Mass Catastrophe
Jon Readey, University of VirginiaNYC Public School Memorials: Principals, Fallen Soldiers, and 9/11
Michele Cohen, New York City School Construction AuthorityDirt and Death: Ground Zero and the Cultural Struggle Over Catastrophic Space
Leah Rosenberg, Emory UniversitySelling a Culture of Sacrifice: Sacred Consumerism and the National Memory of 9/11
Anthony Kolenic, Michigan State University
Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College
American Indian Women and Autobiography: Communal, Historical, and Mythical Narratives of the Self
Elisa James, New Haven, CTRemembering Selu: Decolonizing, (Re)Constructing, and Healing Cherokee Femininity
Kirby Brown, University of Texas at San Antonio
Panel Chair: Celeste Heinze
Fea is as fea does: Revisions and Reiterations of Latina Beauty in Ugly Betty
Olga Herrera, University of Texas at AustinReading the Sun-Maid Raisin Girl: Social Literacy and Environmental Justice in Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus
Celeste Heinze, Purdue University
Panel Chair: Daniel Wolkow
Alan Trever, Eastern New Mexico University
Dallas Jeffers Pollei, Komikazee.com Eastern New Mexico University
Chris McCroskey, Komikazzee.com Eastern New Mexico University
Daniel Wolkow, Komikazee.com Eastern New Mexico University
Panel Chair: Ken McAllister, University of Arizona
Working at Play: Computer Game Modding, the Culture Industry, and the Construction of the New Knowledge Class
Kevin Moberly, St. Cloud State UniversityPutting Gamers to Work: The Culture Industry and the Dialectic of Computer Game Mods
Rylish Moeller, Utah State UniversityVideo Game Mods and the Interactive Audience
Matthew Wysocki, University of Illinois, Chicago
Panel Chair: Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota
Robert Johnson, Midwestern State University
Lyzette Wanzer, San Francisco, CA
David Wallace, University of Texas at Arlington
Amy Gottfried, Hood College
Panel Chair: Erwin Erhardt
Voice and Image Relations in Fail-Safe, Dr. Strangelove and War Games
Dan Chyutin, New York UniversityBurning Bushes, Cats in Trees: The Explosion of Desire and Cold War Containment in Pleasantville
Stephanie S. Gross, Husson College, MEPanic on the Streets of London: Moral Panics, Religion, and Capitalism in 28 Days Later and Seven Days to Noon
Paul Booth, Manchester Metropolitan (UK)The Cold War and Science Fiction Television in 1960s America
Erwin Erhardt, Thomas More College
Panel Chair: Eva Kolbusz-Kyne
Creating the Modern World
Carina Johnson, University of ArizonaThe Paradoxes of Iranian Cinema
Reza Poudeh, Texas Southern UniversityConservative Role of Myth in Bollywood Storytelling: Ramayana in Popular Love Stories
Eva Kolbusz-Kyne
Panel Chair: Mario Montano
Going South: The Centralization of Border Food
Jesús Tafoya, Sul Ross State University"From Mexico's Heart": Oaxacan Cookbooks and the Representation of a Regional Ethnic Cuisine
Ronda L. Brulotte, University of OklahomaTexas-Mexican Border Cuisine: Culture Change, Revitalization, and the Immigration of Food
Mario Montaño, Colorado College
Panel Chair: Gypsey Teague, Clemson University
Am I His Wife or Hers: The Rollercoaster Ride of a Transgender Wife
Marla Roberson, Tri-County Technical CollegeTransforming Transphobia in the Media and on the Streets: Transgender Activism Goes Global
Gordene MacKenzie, Merrimack CollegeThe Reconstruction of the Viking Myth in Klingon Culture
Gypsey Teague, Clemson University
Panel Chair: Rebecca Adams
The 1998 Furthur Festival Data: A Portrait of Deadheads AJD
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at GreensboroRespondent: Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
Panel Chair: Janet Croft, University of Oklahoma
Spirit of the Centennial: A Dialectic of Representation at the Women's Museum: Institute for the Future
Linda Czuba Brigance, SUNY FredoniaChristmas Trees, Disney, and Bauhaus: Exhibition Sales of Crafts and Design in U.S. Museums, 1949-1960
Jennifer Donnelly, Université de ParisCollecting the Visually Disreputable: The Museum of Bad Art
Monica Kjellmann-Chapin, Emporia State University
Panel Chair: L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
Crossing American Borders with Indigenous Nations Studies
Gabriel S. Estrada (Nahuatl), California State University, Long BeachRainbows Seen in the Night: Indigenous Perspective on Gardner's Creativity Study
Dorothy Clare Massalski, University of ArizonaIndigenous Way to Indigenous Issues
Tzu-Yi Hsu, University of South Dakota
Mark C. Daniels (Diné, Ho-Chunk, Ute), University of South Dakota
Hsin-Mei Li, University of South DakotaThe Case for an American Indian "Sesame Street"
Hugh Foley, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: Shelley Thomas
Plastic Hegemony: Resistance and Complicity Negotiated on Dr. 90210
Elaine Baumgartel, University of New MexicoBeing "Made Up": Semiotics, Pedagogy, and Identity in America's Next Top Model
Bradley Houston Lane, Indiana University"You ARE the Father": Representations of Race, Class, and Family on Maury
Andrew Goodridge, University of ArizonaRace, Ratings, and Reversal: "Teleugenics" and Survivor 13
Shelley Thomas, Weber State University
Panel Chair: Cheryl Wiltse, Collin County Community College
Recreating the Romance Novel: Postmodern Feminism and Its Influence on Heras and Heros
Adrianna M. Bayer, Humboldt State UniversityWhat Women Want: Desire, Intersubjectivity, and Happily Ever After
Kacie Jossart, University of North DakotaTranscending the Romansa Novel
Stephanie Santos, UCLA Asian American Studies CenterOh No! Mr. Rochester Just Ripped Plain Jane's Bodice! Elements of Romance Fiction in Jane Eyre
Andrea Laurencell, New York University
Panel Chair: Leslie Donaldson
"Use the Force, Luke": American Exceptionalism and the Original Star Wars Trilogy
Jennie Leland, University of MaineThe Dark Side, Of Course: Racial Politics and Representations of Blackness in the Star Wars Trilogies
Rob Prince, Bowling Green State UniversityFate, Destiny, Predestination or Just Plain Bad Judgment (Day): The Terminator Trilogy
Jonathan Strawn, University of New MexicoCogito Ergo Proxy: I Think, Therefore I Am, Almost: An Examination of the Apocalypse in Dai Sato's Ergo Proxy
Keith Brown, The University of North Texas
Panel Chair: Kirk St.Amant
Deliverable Literacies: Teaching Collaborative Project Management in the Service-Level Technical Communication Classroom
Robert Schafer, Texas Tech UniversityEncouraging a Culture of Citizenship Through Technical Communication
Marianne Cotugno, Miami University MiddletownCulture-General or Culture-Specific: Introducing Intercultural Technical Communication to the Classroom Using Subject-Matter Experts
Nicole St. Germaine-Madison, Texas Tech UniversityA Film-Based Approach Comparative Cinema to Teaching International Technical Communication
Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University
Panel Chair: Scott Rogers, Weber State University
Veronica Mars and Changing Attitudes Towards Justice in a Post-9/11 America
Tamy Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Melissa Swihart, University of Nebraska-Lincoln"Paradise Found": The Depiction of Sin, Social Contract, and Redemption in Television's Apocalyptic Program Lost
Emily White, Texas Woman's UniversityThe Lost Fan's Burden: Class Consciousness and the Price of Lost Fandom
Scott Rogers, Weber State University
Panel Chair: Kathleen A. Hudson, Schreiner University
"Thy Native Empire": The Semiotics of Breastfeeding in Popular Culture
Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community CollegeSupporting the Nail: The Role of a Shojo Manga in Promoting Independence and Self Worth
Paige Cunningham, University of Washington TacomaBelle and Brunhilde: Archetypes of Women in Literature and Life
Kathleen A. Hudson, Schreiner University
Stephanie Gaines, Schreiner University
Panel Chair: Lise Kildegaard
Alice's Adventures in the New Wonderland: Selling the Railroad through Popular Gendered Discourse
Deirdre Egan, St. Norbert CollegeWhich Way Should We Go? Railroad Stations and the Formation of Gendered Space in Chicago
Laura Milsk Fowler, Southern Illinois University-EdwardsvilleAcross the Continent: Frances Palmer and the Social Imaginary of the Frontier
Lise Kildegaard, Luther College
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Prime Minister Bill Mulroney's "Raison D'Etat" and the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, 1984-1990
Marine Le Puloch, University Paris 7-DiderotAboriginal Women vs Canada: Aboriginal Mothers, Resistance, and Activism
D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario)International Repatriation of the Sacred and the Ceremonial in Foreign Collections
Honor Keeler, Independent Scholar, Alexandria, VA
Panel Chair: Monica Ganas
Not Just a Golden State: Three Anglo "Rushes" in the Making of Southern California
Glen Gendzel, San José State UniversityOld People Power in an Age of Youth: The Californian Ethel Percy Andrus and the Early Years of the American Association of Retired Persons
Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Library of CongressConnections of Disbelief: Network Narrative Cinema and the Real California
Tim Posada, Fuller Theological SeminaryThe Rest is Mystery: Historical Amnesia in the Land of Poppies
Monica Ganas, Azusa Pacific University
Panel Chair: Beth Hernandez
La Malinche Crosses the Border: Chicano/a Resistance in the Visual Arts
Regan Postma, University of Kansas"Con tu Labia Traicionera": "La Puñalada Trapera" as Epigraph in Cisneros' Woman Hollaring Creek
Lydia Wilmeth, University of Texas at AustinPrivate Matters in the Public Sphere: Chicana Sexuality in History
Beth Hernandez, University of California, Merced
Panel Chair: Jennifer de Winter, University of Arizona
Dust, Documents, and the Digital Age: The Value and Uses of Expert Knowledge and In-the-ground Experience for Immersive Multimedia Heritage Preservation Projects
Damien Huffer, University of ArizonaHow Many Lines of Code Does it Take to Get to Make an Educational Game Fun?
Ken McAllister, University of ArizonaWhere the Rubber Meets the Road: Quality Assurance in Educational Game Development
Judd Ethan Ruggill, University of Arizona
Panel Chair: Bambi Haggins, University of Michigan
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace: Playing Equal in a Man's World
Stephanie Wooten, University of MichiganHobbesian Equivalence: Violence, Otherness, and Recognition in Smallville Slash Fan Fiction
Anne Kustritz, University of MichiganSuper Mario Bros.: Playability and the Princess
Anna Jonsson, University of MichiganGender Bending, Performance and Fandom in NBC's Scrubs
John Royer Laughlin, University of MichiganSometimes When We Touch: Performing the Pleasures of Pain in Fight Club, Jackass: The Movie, and Jackass Number Two
Bambi Haggins, University of Michigan
Emily Chivers Yochim, University of Michigan
Panel Chair: Tobias Hochscherf
Representing Ghandi
Mazhar Hussain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiBrave New Land: An (Anti)Foundational Re-Writing of Colonial Contact in Brazil
Kiley Jeanelle Guyton, University of New MexicoCricket in British and Post-Colonial Feature Films
Tobias Hochscherf, Northumbria University
Panel Chair: Carol M. Dole
Authorizing the Film: Film Novelization, Film Adaptation, and Great Expectations
Anthony Rafalowski, University of Missouri-ColumbiaPlain Jane: The Physical Portrayal of Jane Eyre in Film
Jennifer NapodanoDancing with Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Carol M. Dole, Ursinus College
Panel Chair: Simona Fojtova
Feminist Encounters of the Third Kind: Where First World Feminism Meets Second World Activism
Simona Fojtova, Transylvania UniversityThe "Geritol" Wife and Mother: A Look at Representations of Older Women on Prime Time Television
Trudy Mercadal-Sabbagh, Florida Atlantic UniversityGirls with Guns: The Conflation of Women and Weapons as Fetish Objects in Japanese Animation
Deborah Scally, University of Texas at DallasGender Politics in Korean Television Drama
Angela Drummond-Mathews, Richland College
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner
From the English King of Hearts to the American Queen of Clubs: The Generic and Gendered Modifications of Casino Royale (2006) and the Resulting American Heroic Identity of James Bond via the Transposition of the Image Based History of the Bond Girl
Lisa Funnell Wilfrid, Laurier UniversityBINARY BOND: Ethics, Ethnics, Aesthetics, and Sex
Anthony Synnott, Concordia UniversityThe Feminization of M: Gender and Authority in the Bond Films
Tom McNeely, Midwestern State UniversityDreams that Money Can Buy: The James Bond Saga as aSymptom of Social Distress and World Culture
Robert W. Rieber, Fordham University
Panel Chair: Rhonda Taylor, University of Oklahoma
Cameron University Celebrates its Centennial: Exhibit Preparation
Jeanne Gaunce, Cameron University
Judy Neale, Cameron UniversityProblems in Building and Maintaining a Women's Self-help Collection in a Non-profit, Special Library
Danielle Kwock, Fresh Start Women's FoundationPicture This: An Undergraduate Foray into Digital Media Preservation
Amanda Viana, Bridgewater State University
Panel Chair: Kimberly Roppolo, University of Lethbridge
To Save the Savages: Historical Perspectives on Mission Education in the Southwest
Jaime Kathleen, Eyrich, University of ArizonaClothing and the Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Band, Chippewa), University of ArizonaThe English-only Movement from a Navajo Perspective
Martha Dailey, University of ArizonaBalancing Tradition and Testing: Educational Leadership in Indian Country
Lee Francis, IV (Laguna), National Director, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Panel Chair: Jeremy Huffman Proctor
Issues of Black, White and Grey: Addressing the Grey Areas that Exist between the Classification of the Reality Television and Documentary Genres
Sara Lea Davis, New Mexico State UniversityThe Possibility of Post Documentary Style: The Meeting of Documentary and Fiction in the Era of Reality TV
Kotaro Nakagaki, Tokiwa University, JapanCommodifying Reality: The Advent of Advertainment and the Future of Television Commercials
Jeremy Huffman Proctor, Colorado State University
Performance Piece: "My Life as a Sim: When it Comes to Dating, I'm the Slayer"
Stacia Laura Yeapanis, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Panel Chair: Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
The Fictional Town of Stepford, Conneticut: Utopia or Combat Zone?
Malene A. Little, University of South DakotaIreland of the Mind: Edna O'Brien's Small Town Traumas
Shirley Peterson, Daemen College
Panel Chair: Amy Lerman
Growing Up Shoujo: Gender Roles and Independence in the Girl Comics of Ai Yazawa
Tania Darlington, Chico State UniversityEvery Woman Wants to be Skinny, Right? Gender Performance in Liza Palmer's Conversations with the Fat Girl and Andrea Rains Waggener's Alternate Beauty
Jessica Wyatt, Lakehead UniversityWerewolves of Chic Lit
Kristen Abbey, Felician CollegeFusing the Feminine and Feminist Heroes
Kathleen Miller, Baylor University
Panel Chair: Gregory J. Thompson
How the Heisman Trophy was Won and Lost: A Tale of America, Football, and Celebrity
Gregory Selber, University of Texas-Pan American"Playing the Game": Cricket in British and Post Colonial Cinema
Tobias Hochscherf, Northumbria UniversityBranch Rickey and Berry Gordy, Jr.: Exploitation of Cultural "Crossover"
Robert F. Lewis, II, University of New Mexico
Racing Hearts: Gender, Sexuality and NASCAR's entry into Romance Literature
Gregory J. Thompson, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: Julie Staggers
Reading Rooms as Information Delivery Systems
Ed Nagelhout, University of Nevada at Las VegasReading Three-Dimensional Models as Technical Rhetoric
Denise Tillery, University of Nevada at Las VegasInformation Architecture as Public Access in "Real" and Electronic Reading Rooms
Julie Staggers, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
The Status Atop the US Capitol and American Identity
Kathya Miller, Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: William Housel, Northwestern State University
Performing Racial "Etiquette" in Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying
Russ Chace, Southern Arkansas UniversityRace and Comedy, A Path to Empowerment
William Housel, Northwestern State UniversityA Black Vision of a White World?: Ted Joans, Artist, Musician and Beat Poet
Gordon J. Marshall, Halic University-Turkey
Panel Chair: Kelly Baker
I Swear: Three Visions of American "Independence" in Film and Literature
Michael Broek, University of EssexBored in LA: An Ethical View of Nathanael West's Homer Simpson in The Day of the Locust
Angela Spentzaki Silva, University of Nevada, Las VegasThe Eye of the Beholder: Depictions of American Immigrants as the "Other"
Jacqueline May, Florida Atlantic University
"100% Americanism" or 100% Americans: The Ku Klux Klan as Representative of 1920s America
Kelly Baker, Florida State University
Panel Chair: Suzan Shown Harjo, The Morning Star Institute
Look at the Heart of The Searchers: The Centrality of Look to John Ford's Commentary on Racism
M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg CollegeMartin Pawley, Quarter Cherokee-the Rest Welsh: American Indian Identity and Blood in The Searchers
Richard L. Allen, Cherokee NationIndians BC (Before Costner) and AD (After Dances with Wolves): The Hyerdahl Effect on Indians in Film
Leslie D. Hannah, Kansas State University
Panel Chair: Kenneth Prestininzi
The Others' "Other" in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit
Josué Aristides Diaz, Texas A&M University, CommerceModern Day Bandidos: The Construction and Portrayal of the East L.A. Gang Member in Bound by Honor: Blood In/Blood Out (1992)
Patricia Garcia, University of Texas at AustinStage Performance: A Performance Analysis of the Stage Presence of Selena
Alicia Rodriguez, University of Washington, BothellMedea Vendida: An Examination of the Difficulties of a Radical Chicana Motherhood on a Political and Symbolic Stage
Kenneth Prestininzi, Brown University
Panel Chair: Diana Dominguez
A Shared Path of Growth in Books on Asian-American Children and Young Adults
Weimin Mo, University of South Florida
Wenju Shen, Valdosta State UniversityNative Voices: Building a Better Collection of Children's Books by and about American Indian People
Susan Webb, Henry G. Bennett Library, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Sandra Thomas, Henry G. Bennett Library, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Tom Dooley, Managing Editor and Fiction Editor, Eclectica
Joseph Levens, Editor, Summerset Review
Paul Sampson, Non-Fiction/Miscellany Editor, Eclectica
Matthew W. Schmeer, Editor, Poetry MidwestVandoren Wheeler, Faculty Advisor, M Review
Panel Chair: Lawrence Clark
The Literati of Savant Guardism: Campus Literary Journals as Pedagogical Aesthetic
Nat Hardy, Rogers State UniversityChallenging Boundaries and Binaries: Teaching Point of View as a Bridging Technique
Jan Harrow, The University of AdelaideTexturize and Digitize: Narrative Theory Applied
Sandra Maresh Doe, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Lee Christopher, Metropolitan State College of DenverReducing the Fear Factor: Using Online Conferencing in the Creative Writing Seminar
Lawrence Clark, Houston Baptist University
Panel Chair: Gregory J. Thompson, Rogers State University
Give Prince a Chance: Rock, Race, Gender and Sexuality
Brian Comfort, University of Massachusetts-BostonPower, Pleasure, and the Construction of Masculinity within World Wrestling Entertainment
Patrice N. Delevante, Simmons College
Panel Chair: Jennifer A. Fremlin
NIP TUCK: Over the Top, Under the Radar, Subverting Reality, HyperReality, and the SurReal OR How Nip Tuck Reconfigures the Brave New World of the HyperReal and the SurReal
Robin Gunther, Huntington UniversityCut Them, Clean Them, or Pimp Them, But Let Me Watch: Voyeurism and the Gratification of Instant Transformation
Jacqueline Allen Trimble, Huntington UniversityWorld's Biggest Celebrity Fix Extreme Loser Club: The Weigh-in as National Money Shot
Jennifer A. Fremlin, Huntington UniversityThe Ethics of Reality Television Producers
Richard Crewe, College Misericordia
Panel Chair: Lynnea Chapman King, Butler Community College
George Lucas was quoted in 2006 saying "I predict that by 2025 the average movie will cost only $15 million." What do cinephiles make of Lucas' prognostication?
Panel Chair: Stacy Jameson, University of California, Davis
Gertrude Stein's Chef in Paris
Wenying Xu, Florida Atlantic University"We Don't Want Any of Their Slop at Our House": Food Fights in Chicago during the Progressive Era
Stephanie Jass, Adrian CollegeQuesadillas with Chinese Black Bean Puree: Eating Together in "Ethnic" Neighborhoods
Jean Duruz, University of South AustraliaFood, Language, and Culture: The Eating Habits of English-Speakers in Southwest France
Gilles Desmons, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse, France
Anne A. O'Mahoney, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse, France
Panel Chair: Diana Polley, Southern New Hampshire University
Escape to Freedom: Women on the Road
Diana Polley, Southern New Hampshire UniversityBath-ing Beauties
Stephanie Oppenheim, Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeLipstick and a Knapsack: Wartime Women Writing on the Road
Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeNo Escape: Credibility and Identity in Women's Captivity Narratives
Holly Messitt, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Panel Chair: Nicholas Meriwether
Postmodern Material Culture and Accidental Folkloristics: Studying Deadhead Pipecraft
Nicholas Meriwether, Oral Historian, University of South Carolina"Keep Your Day Job": Tie Dyes, Veggie Burritos, and Adam Smith in the Parking Lot
Steve Gimbel, Gettysburgh College"Are You Kind?": The Relationship Between Behavior, Meanings, and Levels of Involvement and Ideological Embeddedness in the Jamband Subculture
Pam Hunt, Kent State University
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner
Radioactive Bond: Nuclear Weapons in the 007 Phenomenon
J. Christoph Laucht, University of LiverpoolKiller Hat Model: Peter Sellers' James Bond and Celebrity Culture
Jennifer Swift-Kramer, William Paterson University
Panel Chair: Janet Croft, University of Oklahoma
The Popular Culture Institute: A Proposal Addressing Issues of Popular Culture Materials Acquisitions and Access through Community Building
Jessica DuVerneay, University of Michigan
Kelly Weger, Independent scholarCountering Memory: Peter Eisenman's Berlin Holocaust Memorial
Barry Laga, Mesa State CollegeRemembering Waco: The Branch Davidian Siege in the Dick J. Reavis Papers
Joel Minor, Texas State University
Moderators:
Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
L. Rain Cranford (Muskogee), Michigan State University
Panel Chair: C. Jason Smith
"God is Love, Gaius": Redefining Humanity and Godhead in Battlestar Galactica
Joe Bisz, CUNY-Borough of ManhattanDeconstructing Dr. Gaius: Mirrors and Shades of Evil in Battlestar Galactica's Struggle for Survival
Liana Andreasen, South Texas CollegeAlienware: Starships as Transformative Metaphors in Battlestar Galactica
C. Jason Smith, CUNY-LaGuardia
Panel Chair: Amy Lerman
From Bridget to Opal: Producing and Consuming Identity
Kathryn Inskeep, Drew UniversityColleen Grows Up: A View of Women's Popular Fiction in Ireland after the Celtic Tiger
Erika Anderson, Boston CollegeThe Trap of Beauty: The Altering Perceptions of Beauty in Women's Twentieth Century Fiction
Paula Kent, Tarleton State UniversityDesperately Seeking Therapy: Confessional Trauma in Stacey Richter's "The Beauty Treatment"
Nat Hardy, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: Carlos Salinas
Designing Play, Designing Information: Learning from Popular Uses of Technology
Kellie Rae Carter, Georgia Southern UniversityEncoding and Decoding Dashboard Communication
Emil B. Towner, Texas Tech UniversityThe Rhetoricity of Maps: A Critique of GIS Visual Displays
Carlos Salinas, University of Texas at El Paso
Panel Chair: Kelli Shapiro, Brown University
"Fighting for the Past": North and South Magazine's Civil War Imagery and the Reinscription of the Lost Cause Myth
Jeremy Ricketts, University of New MexicoReal Flower Children or Just the Garden Variety? Sixties Stereotypes Reconfirmed or Contradicted in a Recent Study of 1967 High School Graduates
Laura Mohsene, University of Texas-DallasThe Age of Aquarius Returns to Kent State: An Analysis of the Evolution of a Cultural Icon into a Heritage Tourism Destination
Ann Carden, State University of New York-FredoniaMarrying Decade Nostalgia with Nostalgia for the Present: The Transformation of VH1
Bryce McNeil, Georgia State University
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Tom Holm, University of Arizona
Woody Kipp, Blackfeet Community College
Patricia A. Loew, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William C. Meadows, Southwest Missouri State UniversityPhilip H. Red Eagle, Tacoma, Washington
Panel Chair: Lutfi M. Hussein, Mesa Community College
Self-Identification in Arab-American Women Poetry
Hadeer Abo El Nagah, SUNY CobleskillPalestinian Musical Heritage: The Past and the Current in Arab American Communities
Issa Boulos, University of ChicagoInfluencing Identity Philosophy: An Examination of North African Memoirs' Impact on Western Thought
Hatch Forrest, University of ArizonaNew Developments in the Arab American Novel
Gregory Orfalea, Pitzer College
Panel Chair: Jack Hutchens
Emailing Kafka: Epistolary Culture and the Modern Secretary
Andrew A. Schmitz, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NYThe Burden of Celebrity: Reality and Representation in Voskovec & Werich's On- and Offstage Performances
Holly Raynard, Center for European Studies, University of FloridaWho Is the Man? Post-communist Masculinities in Contemporary Czech Cinema
Marcela Kostihova, Hamline University
Panel Chair: Ramiro Jaurez Ruiz
Chistes y Bromas: Chicana/o Narrative Grows Up
Anne E. Goldman, Sonoma State UniversityAnzuldúa's Facultad & Experimental Poetics: Modern or Post?
George Hartley, Ohio UniversityMemory and Bicultural Representation in Don Novack's Chavez Ravine Photography
Karl Germeck, Utah State UniversityA Thematic Analysis of Rolando Hinojisa's Latest Novel We Happy Few
Ramiro Jaurez Ruiz, University of Houston
Panel Chair: Diana Dominguez, University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Applying Children's Literature in Educational Theatre
Mei-Man Huang, Graduate Institute of Children's LiteratureTowards a Better Health Plan: Social Justice, Exploitation, and Illness in Chicano/a Literature for Children and Adolescents
Jesus Montaño, Hope College
Panel Chair: Andrew Chen, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Blogging the Nation: Autoethnographic Writing and Imagined Public Sphere on the Chinese Internet
Weihua Wu, New York UniversityWestern Media and Chinese Bloggers
Ying Jiang, University of AdelaideFrom Image to Image: (Un)Conventional Rhetorics in Imagined Spaces
Dorene Ames, Washington State University
Panel Chair: Diana Thompson, Touro College
Brave New World: Popular Culture and the Creative Writing Classroom
Leslie Wilson, Pepperdine UniversityHey Mr. DJ: Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour as Research Paradigm in the Creative Non-Fiction Classroom
J. Brian Schwartz, New York UniversityOppression of the Aesthetic through the Creative Writing Community
Nigel Medhurst, Fresno State UniversityDelirious in Academe: New Media and the Lyric Body
Cynthia Nichols, North Dakota State University
Ntozake Shange in Performance: Mixing Poetry with Music and Dance
Diana Thompson, Touro College
Panel Chair: Lynnea Chapman King, Butler Community College
Making Histories out of Absences - Greek Archaeological Films
Nancy Stein, Florida Atlantic UniversityMoana, Tabu, and Legong: Silent Lyricism in the South Seas
Richard Ward, University of South AlabamaThe Duality of the Image in Triumph of the Will
Britta Herdegen, University of FloridaMythologizing the History of Easter Island through Documentary Films
Laura J. Boyd, National Geographic, Washington, DC
Over the last two years, the nominated best picture films grossed less than $100 million on an average, falling even from 2005 to 2006 to $48 million. During the same period, 13 films, none nominated for best picture, have entered the all-time U.S. Box office top 50, grossing a minimum of $234 million. Does this disparity reflect a lack of relevancy in the Oscars? Can a "Best Picture" really make less than $60 million domestic?
Panel Chair, Lynn Marie Houston
Food and Sensual Subjectivity: Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River
Lisa Angelella, University of IowaWhat Does Our Hunger Really Mean? A Lesbian Appetite
Abigail Moore, State University of New York at OswegoConsuming the Self: Starvation as Fulfillment in Knut Hamsun's Hunger and Paul Auster's Moon Palace
Annette Olsen-Fazi, Texas A&M International University
Panel Co-Chairs: Brian Still & Amy Koerber, Texas Tech University
"Just Roll Your Mouse Over Me": Designing Virtual Women for Customer Service on the Web
Sean Zdenek, Texas Tech UniversityGenderized Language in Computer-mediated Communication
Roy Winegar, Grand Valley State UniversityThe Gender Gap in Information Technology: Where Are the Women?
Smitha Appukuttan, The University of South Dakota
Janell Scardino, The University of South Dakota"Devoted to Improving the Female Figure": Innovations in Foundation Garment Textiles and Technology in the Postwar United States
Cristina R. Nelson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Nineteenth-Century Networking": Discussing Motherhood in the Ladies' Home Journal
Sarah Grossman, The University of New MexicoWomen Artists and Early Computer Art
Grant Taylor, Lebanon Valley College
Panel Chair: Jim Tuedio
All Ears, All Body: The Strange Attraction in Nonlinear Musical Embodiment
Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus"And the Music Played the Band": The X Factor, Merleau-Ponty and the Chiasm
Stan Spector, Modesto Junior CollegeListening Session: Meta Dead and Anti Dead
David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour
The screen debut of James Bond, broadcast live on CBS-TV in the U.S. on October 21, 1954 as part of the "Climax Mystery Theater." Running time: 50 minutes. Starring Barry Nelson as "Cards Sense" Jimmy Bond, Linda Christian as the Bond girl, and Peter Lorre as the villain, Le Chiffre, with Michael Pate as Clarence Leiter. Casino Royale has been adapted three times, and this was the first time Bond ever appeared on the screen. In a nationality twist, "Jimmy Bond" is a CIA agent, and "Clarence Leiter" is Bond's British ally.
Panel Chair: Rhonda Taylor, University of Oklahoma
Choosing What to Read: Company Control of Libraries and Reading in the Textile South, 1920-1950
Bart Dredge, Austin CollegeThe History of the Library Card Catalog
Kim Radcliff Smith, University of OklahomaBlood-smutch'd Notebooks and Hospital Museums: Collecting the Civil War in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days
Elizabeth Ann Festa, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
Discussants:
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee), The Morning Star Institute
Courtney Lewis, UNC Chapel Hill
Ronald Lewis, Independent Scholar
Nolan Little Bear (Blood [Kainai]), University of Lethbridge
Alfred Young Man (Cree), University of Lethbridge
Jeanne Northrop, Western Washington University
Panel Chair: Ximena Gallardo
Discovering the Child Archetypes Found in Children's Fantasy Literature from 1980-1999
Kristine Ortiz, University of Asia and the PacificNice, Good, or Right: Faces of the Wise Woman in Terry Pratchett's "Witches" Novels
Janet Brennan Croft, University of Oklahoma LibrariesGender Matters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series and Beyond
Ximena Gallardo, City University of New York-LaGuardia
Panel Chair: Amy Lerman
From Chick Lit to Chick Flick: Bridget Jones Onscreen
Reshma Dhrodia, York UniversityIs it or Isn't It? Deconstructing (Not) Chick Lit Anthologies
Allison Fagan, Loyola University Chicago"What I Learned from White Girls": British "Chick Lit" and the African American Reading Audience
Corrie Claiborne, Claflin University
Panel Chair: Rick Mott
MyDeathSpace: Death and Technical Communication in Online Social Networking
Amelia Guimarin, University of California at IrvineDigital Rhetoric and Religion
Christopher Jones, Missouri State UniversityThe Convergence of CMS, XML, & IA: Using DITA to Prepare Students for the Evolving Role of the Technical Communicator
Rick Mott, New Mexico Tech University
Panel Chair: Ryan Dearinger
Pop Culture on the Periphery: The Childlike Lives of Children in Territorial Prescott, 1860-1900
Rhonda Tintle, University of OklahomaQuilts Are More than Covers: A History of the Quilting Metaphor
Dena Kenney, University of New MexicoBuilding Railroads, Constructing Manhood, and Defining Progress: Utah and the Transcontinental Railroad
Ryan Dearinger, University of Utah
Panel Chair: Sharon Hileman
(Re)membering Past Presences: The "Contact Worlds" of David Albahari's Bo(a)rder Narratives
Bela Gligorova, NOVA International SchoolsImage, Text, and Stillness in Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900"
Yoon Sook Cha, University of California, BerkeleyMaggots in the Rice or Avenging Heroines?: Female Mythological Icons in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands
Debby Katz, City University of New YorkReading Tehran in Life-Writing: Memoirs of the Iranian Diaspora
Sharon Hileman, Sul Ross State University
Panel Chair: Daniel Gustav Anderson, University of Idaho
Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance, a short film by Alexander Grey
Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance is a fascinating, interdisciplinary interpretation of the volatile worlds of global finance and international trade. Featuring commentary from economist Arnoud Boot, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dzongzar Khyentse Rinpoche (director of The Cup), the film applies a Buddhist analysis to the functioning of worldwide finance and trade. Running time: 30 minutes
Panel Chair: Jack Hutchens
Social Organization of Scythian Societies Based on Funerary Customs
Meysam Labbaf Khaniki, Archaeology, University of TehranCaptain Pronin in the Early Post-Soviet Space: Constructing a Positive New Russian Identity
Daria Kabanova, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPhenomenon of Reality TV in Modern Russia
Natalya G. Khokholova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign
Panel Chair: Domino Renee Perez
"Talk of a Struggle with These Mexicans": William Gilmore Simms, Literary Legacies, and Contemporary Chicana Writers
Lacey Donahue, University of Texas at AustinDirty Reading: Coordinating Theoretical and Popular Responses to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls Social Club
Erin Hurt, University of Texas at AustinBuilding New Dreams: Redefining Gender Identity in Rodolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
Andrés Muñoz, University of Texas at BrownsvilleSanctifying Sexuality: Transgression and the Cinematic Papi Abuelo
Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Jason Thompson, University of Arizona
Towards an Expanded Definition of Rhetoric: The use of the Real to support the ur-Real in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)
Marlin Bates, University of the PacificNationalism, History, and Rhetoric in Computer Game Pedagogy
Nick White, University of Arizona"A Call To Duty": A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Veiled Political Messages Within Call Of Duty: The Finest Hour
Wendi Jewell, University of Oklahoma
Panel Chair: Jonathan Strawn
Dreaming Back: Tracey Moffat's Bedeviling Films
Alessandra Senzani, Florida Atlantic UniversityNational American Values in Historical Perspective
Anna Trepakova, Moscow Lomonosov State UniversityBoxers, Sharks, and a New Hope: The Reaffirmation of American Identity in 1970s Cinema
Jonathan Strawn, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Jan Whitt
Suddenly Last Semester: What Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer Taught Me about the Queer Dis-ease
Brad Houston Lane, Indiana UniversityEnough Isn't Enough: Hollywood's Take on Stopping Domestic Abuse
Kim Bowers, University of Texas at ArlingtonFrom the Wilderness into the Closet: Conflicting Images of the West in Brokeback Mountain
Jan Whitt, University of Colorado
Panel Chair: Lynn Marie Houston
The Social Life of Maize: Neo-liberalism, Food Security, and Non-Market Exchanges in Southern Zambia
Nicholas Sitko, University of ColoradoConnecting Risk and Value in Organic and Natural Milk
Alisa Zlotoff, University of ColoradoWhat's for Supper on the Continent of Oysters?
Michael McKernan, Independent ScholarThe End of Organic as We Know It? Market Growth and Moral Boundaries in the Organic Foods Industry
Michael Haedicke, University of California, San Diego
Panel Chair: Mark Mattson
The Modern Tourhead: Conflicted Kindness in the Mobile Community of Grateful Dead, U.S.A.
Eric Leventhal, Washington UniversityHuman Error and Creative Variations in the Music of the Grateful Dead: Here Comes Sunshine (1992-1995)
Mark Mattson, Fordham UniversityMeta Dead and Anti Dead
David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour
Panel Chair: Almila Ozdek
The Landscape Conceals: Shifting Spaces in the British Historical Novel
Tom Bragg, University of FloridaHow Walter Scott's Historical Novels of Seventeenth Century Scottish Civil Wars Imagined a Political Ethics
Norm Fischer, Kent State UniversitySir Walter Scott's Waverley and the (Re)writing of History
David Pendery, National Chengchi UniversityJoseph Conrad's Nostromo: Counter-Memory to Institutional History
Almila Ozdek, George Washington University
Panel Chair: Patricia Rosas Lopátegui
Elena Garro y su faceta desconocida de poeta
Carmen Julia Holguín-Chaparro, University of New MexicoEl juicio de un muerto: reconstrucción del fusilamiento del general Felipe Angeles
Susana Perea-Fox, Oklahoma State UniversityElena Garro: Being and Otherness
Nuri L. Creager, Oklahoma State UniversityLa vida de una novela: Testimonios sobre Mariana
Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, University of New Mexico
This is a discussion from various scholars about the current Bond movie Casino Royale.
Rob Weiner, Angela Farmer, J. Christoph Laucht, Will Parrill, Rob Prince, Joe Eldred, Brian Hilton, Jennifer Swift-Kramer, Brian Hilton, Delia Gillis
Discussants:
Charlotte Coté (Nu-Chah-Nulth), University of Washington
Dax Thomas, Independent Scholar
Jonathan S. Tomhave, University of Washington
Film screening and discussion of The Draughtsman's Contract
Director: Peter Greenaway, 1982 UK (104 minutes)The Draughtsman' Contract, a 1982 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a period piece set in 1694. It was Greenaway's first commercial feature, and it placed him on map of international filmmaking. The award-winning score by Michael Nyman also shot the composer into international stardom. The film works on the viewer like an intricately structured enigma, one that seems on the surface to be ordinary, but underneath has many layers that need examining in detail. Roger Ebert perhaps summarized the film best when he said, "What we have here is a tantalizing puzzle, wrapped in eroticism and presented with the utmost elegance. I have never seen a film quite like it."
Panel Chair: D. Shane Gilley
Scarfacination: Gangsta Politics, Manufacturing Authenticity, and the Hypercommodification of Obsession in De Palma's Scarface
Rob Prince, Bowling Green State UniversityHug It Out: Hip Hop and White Masculinity in HBO's Entourage
Nikki Willis, University of Texas at Austin"Knock 'em out the Box": Rap Videos as the Site of Ideological Unconscious Struggle
D. Shane Gilley, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: James Bell
Before Our Very Eyes: Reality Television and the Search for the Paranormal
Amy Mattson Lauters, Wichita State UniversityReality Check: Re-Contextualizing Survivor for a Post-Colonial World
Anne Zimmermann, University of Central Florida"Truly Believers in the Supernanny Way": The Rhetoric of Repentance, Revival, and Reform in Supernanny
James Bell, College of the Ozarks
Tyler Blake, College of the Ozarks
Discussion of The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity
Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb
Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University
The Impact of the Television Series The Sopranos on American Culture
Robert J. Kelly, Brooklyn College, CUNYQueers Without Borders: New Queer Media Texts and Butch/FTM Border Wars
Brittany Luck, University of FloridaUbiquitous Mothers and Absent Fathers: Parental Relationships in Gilmore Girls
Colleen Thorndike, Francis Marion University
Hosted by the SW/TX PCA/ACA, this social mixer-award ceremony honors those graduate students whose work has been selected to receive awards in ten academic categories of popular and American culture studies. Among the awards given are the prestigious ABQ Convention and Visitors Bureau Award for Southwestern Culture and the Charles Redd Center Award for Western Studies.
The Peter C. Rollins Book Award is awarded annually to the "best" book in popular culture studies and/or American culture studies. Designed to reward genuine research and lucid expression, the award bears the name of Peter C. Rollins, Co-founder of the organizations. Join us as we celebrate the achievements of our award winner. Congratulations to all.
Panel Chair: Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego
Counter Captivity Narratives: Adoption and Alienation In Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
Mike Kolakoski, University of ArizonaTracing Identity and Belonging: The Familial Circumstances of Three Children's Adoption Stories
Walter Collins, University of South Carolina, LancasterDisney's Adoptees: Animated Films, Bastard Nation, and the NCFA
Laurel Jenkins-Crowe, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Panel Chair: Ken Rivers
Dead Trees and Fossil Fuels: Hitchcock's De(con)struction of Nature
Mike Griffiths, Rice UniversityThe Palette of Emotions: Hitchcock's Use of Color in Vertigo
Ken Rivers, Lamar University
Panel Chair: Lutfi M. Hussein, Mesa Community College
The New Syria Party in Detroit, Michigan (1926/27)
Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan-DearbornOrientalisms in Practice: A Consideration of the Portrayal of Arab Culture in the U.S. Court System
Mark Hanshaw, Southern Methodist UniversityNot Bombers, Bedouins, Nor Billionaires: Expanding Arab-American Cultural Narratives Beyond the Stereotypes
Rosina Hassoun, Michigan State UniversityProjecting Culture: Perception of Arab and American Film
Carroll Hodge, University of Southern California
Panel Chair: Mathew Haskins
"And Will She Remember Me 50 Years Later": Dealing with the Past in Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jason Dupuy, Louisiana State University"Che Guevara and Debussy to a Disco Beat": Pop Culture References in the Music of the Pet Shop Boys
Antares Russell Alleman, University of Texas at Arlington"Porous with Travel Fever": Reading Joni Mitchell's Hejira Through the Beat Literary Tradition
Reid Kerr, Western Washington University
Come join us for a showing of "Once More with Feeling", the Buffy musical episode.
Be warned! Singing assuredly will occur.
Panel Chair: Warren Graffeo
J.E.P. Muddock: The Man Who Was Dick Donovan
Bruce Durie, University of StrathclydeMurder, Mystery, and the Ministry: Detective Fiction and Leadership in the Episcopal Church
David A. Tait, Rogers State UniversityUnraveling the Truth: Quilts, Fabric Arts, and the Mystery
Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityThe Othered Detectives
Warren Graffeo, Texas A&M International University
Panel Chair: Paul Varner
Tales of Vengeance: Narratology in Western-Themed Video Games
Jeff Roche, The College of Wooster
Selling the Story as Souvenir: Travel and Tourism in the Literature of the American West
Allison Harl, University of Arkansas FayettevilleWhores, Ladies, and Calamity Jane: Gender Roles and the Women of HBO's Deadwood
Kathleen E.R. Smith, Northwestern State University of LouisianaTalking Cowboys: B.M. Bower's Flying U Ranch (1914)
Richard Hutson, University of California, BerkeleyConsumer Fiction: Series Westerns Since 2000
Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University
Panel Chair: Mary Louise Penaz
Challenging Cultural Scripts: The Autobiographical Works of a Blind Poet
Marja Mogk, California Lutheran UniversityThe Private and the Public
Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, American University of SharjahBuilding Ibadan on Ake: Childhood Influence and the Making of Adult Activism in the Autobiographies of Wole Soyinka
Senayon S. Olaoluwa, University of the WitwatersrandDrawing History: Interpretation in the Illustrated Version of the 9/11 Commission Report and Historical Biography
Mary Louise Penaz, University of Houston
Panel Chair: Jack Hutchens
Sexual Politics, Family and Consumption: Liubov' v troem in NEP-era Russia
Katya Balter, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignTransgressions: Tracing the Modern Gay Rights Movement in Poland
Jack J. Hutchens, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Panel Chair: T. Jackie Cuevas
Truth in Fiction: Sheila Ortiz Taylor's Southbound
Crystal M. Kurzen, University of Texas at AustinPocha Humor: Monica Palacios and the Transgression of Boundaries
Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson, University of New MexicoNavigating Tensions for a Communal Discourse: The Chicano Border Artist as Agent of Culture
Christina Garcia, University of Texas at AustinChicana Feminism, Post-Borderlands
T. Jackie Cuevas, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Alice G. Pineda
Boys will be Boys: Sex and Body Image in Young Adult Literature
Vanessa Harbour, University of WinchesterFar from Escapism: Participatory Gamer Rewriting Masculinity
Yi-Te Lin, Graduate Institute of Children's LiteratureWho is Edward Cullen and Why are Teenage Girls in Love With Him? An Allegorical Approach to Stephenie Meyer's Young Adult Fiction: Twilight and New Moon
Alice G. Pineda, Simon Rivera High School
Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson
Collecting Robert Sabuda: Master of Movement and Marketing
Rhonda Harris Taylor, University of Oklahoma
Nancy Larson Bluemel, Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: Judd Ethan Ruggill, University of Arizona
NBA 2K7 and the Taylorization of Leisure
Andrew Baerg, University of Houston-VictoriaNex-Gen Apologetics: Technological and Metaphysical Ephemera
Daniel Griffin, University of ArizonaSamus Aran the Gunfighter: The Western and the Metroid Universe
Martin Riggenbach, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Panel Chair: Daniel Weiss
Familiar Violence in the Keeping of Culture: Parracide in McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road
Erik Rangno, University of California, Irvine
Unproduced and Unwanted: Cormac McCarthy's The Stonemason at the Kennedy Center
Alan K. Newton, Pine Crest SchoolBlack and Red: Wampirism and Blood
Jinhua Li, Texas Tech UniversityCormac McCarthy and Violence and the American Dream
Daniel Weiss, Wayne State University
Panel Chair: Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University
Fred Alsberg, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota
Ken Jones, The Art Institute of Houston
Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Brooklyn, NY
Panel Chair: Len Engel
Mike Leigh's Films of the Eighties: APortrait of English Society
Elena Staffoni, City University of New York"We're Talking About Unchecked Aggression Here Dude": Crime, Class, and War in The Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski
Nancy Comoreau, University of MarylandIdiocracy: Mike Judge, Fox Studios, and the American Eugenics Movement
Layne Parish Craig, University of Texas, AustinIn the Outlaw Tradition: Woody Guthrie's Tom Joad
Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque
Million Dollar Baby: The Deep Heart's Core
John M. Gourlie, Quinnipiac UniversityFrom Christian Morality to Hyper-sexuality: Disney's Adaptation of The Little Mermaid
Alison Betts, University of Arizona
Jenna Vinson, University of ArizonaCrossing the Line: Abstraction in The Last Temptation of Christ
Scott Krzych, Oklahoma State UniversityBring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia: Sam Peckinpah's Macabre, Over-the Top, Morality Tale
Len Engel, Quinnipiac University
Panel Chair: Melanie Haupt
Society of the Appetite: Celebrity Chefs Deliver Consumers
Signe Hansen, University of Cape TownDon't Swallow! Gender, Race, and Xenophobia on Sex and the City's Menu
Steffi Sommerfeld, Gottingen University, GermanyFood, Family, and Marijuana? Weeds Re-Invents the Suburban Mother
Elizabeth Beaulieu, Appalachian State UniversityKing-Sized Candy Bars and Canapés: Mothers, Food and Power in Gilmore Girls
Melanie Haupt, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Eric Levy
The Fugitive in American Culture: A Friend of the Devil? - Jack Straw: A Story Told In Three Songs
Melinda Belleville, University of Kentucky
"Seven-Faced Marble-Eyed Transitory Dream Doll": The Grateful Dead as Experimental Composers
Eric Levy, University of Illinois at ChicagoThe Grateful Dead Meets The Mothers of Invention
Jay Williams, University of Chicago
Panel Chair: Lucero Tenorio-Gavin
Una polémica literaria de mediados de siglo en Contemporáneos
Antonella Calarota, Wagner CollegeLa influencia de Kafka en Cien años de soledad
María Maldonado, Oklahoma State UniversityDes-haciendo la magia de la soledad: García Márquez en Vivir para contarla
Lucero Tenorio-Gavin, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Long Beach
In the Name of: The Lives and Stories of Two Stó:lô Elders
Meagan Gough, University of Saskatchewan
Marshale Naatonobaa, Consultant, Navajo Nation MuseumComing Down from the Stars: An Osage Vision of Motion and Life in Las Vegas
Lauren Grewe, University of RichmondStorytellers: Listening to Native American Women Writers
Karen Stoeber, Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleIndigenous - From the Inside Out: A Dakota Transformation
Belinda Joe (Dakota Hunkpati), Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: Kathleen Dunley
Elements of Postmodernism in The Science of Sleep
Doug McConville, University of ArizonaLacan and Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Postmodern Look at the Self in Popular Anime
David Purkiss, University of Texas, ArlingtonThe Space Between: Sebald's Ruins and Historical (Re)Construction in The Emigrants and Austerlitz
Kathleen Dunley, University of Colorado
Panel Chair: Scooter Pégram
Nommo Rhyme & Reason-Power of the Spoken Word: The Rhetorical Significance of Hip Hop
Rabiyah A. Karim-Kincey, Clark Atlanta UniversityWorld Wide Underground: Hip-hop and Youth Activism in the U.S., Cuba, and South African
Bryan Gibel, Univeristy of Chicago
Representing Reality through French Hip-Hop: Integration, Exclusion, and Expressions of Identity among Young Haitian Males in Montréal
Scooter Pégram, Indiana University Northwest
Panel Chair: Liana Andreasen, South Texas College
Pixelated Palettes: (Re)Creating the Textual Arts in the Spheres of Digital Influence
Richard Mandigo, California State Univeristy-Chico
Estrangement, Cognition, and Recognition: The Role(s) of Science in Science Fiction
Rob Brault, Winona State UniversityDon't Forget the Pitons on the Climb into Your Mind: A Plea for Philip K. Dick as Prose Stylist
Steven WolfeInnies, Outies, and Others: Violence and the Body in the Works of Jack Womack
Devon Bryce, University of Alberta
Panel Chair: Lynn Bartholome
Sex & Elaine Benes: Comparing Seinfeld's New Woman to Carrie Bradshaw and Friends
Caitlin Collins, The University of Texas at AustinRunning to Stand Still: The Development of C.J. Cregg on The West Wing
Elizabeth A. Skewes, University of Colorado at Boulder(Agent) Sydney Bristow: J.J. Abrams' Alias and the Destabilization of Identity
Vincent Tomasso, Stanford University
Sebastian De Vivo, Stanford UniversityLilith the She-Demon: Evolution of a Femme Fatale
Lynn Bartholome, Monroe Community College
Panel Chair: Russell Graves
An Irish View of American Mythic Tradition: Doyle, Kearney, and Campbell
Brain K. Hudson, Northeastern State University, OKPrincipal(ed) Enterprises: Capitalizing on Material Culture in Melville, Hawthorne, and Southworth
Jeff Pettineo, University of Texas at DallasThe Mainstreaming of Poker: A Historical Review of the Media's Role in Transforming Public Perception of the Game
Aaron J. Moore, Rider UniversityThe Texas Rangers in Oilfield Novels
Dick Heaberlin, Texas State University-San MarcosTen Versions of the Same Scene? Exploring Cultural Landscapes on the Great Plains
Russell Graves, Cameron University
Faces of Africa in Ecuador - This 14-minute documentary explores displaced African population or Afroecuatorianos. Having maintained their rich cultural heritage because of their relative isolation, they are now threatened as the government of Ecuador opens their villages to tourism.
Raymond Hall, University of Tennesee-KnoxvilleAfter Shocks: Traumatic Experiences of the Civil Rights Movement on Children and the Residual Effects - This 20-minute documentary is a critical examination of why numerous experiences of children involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Vanessa Vann, California State University-Fullerton
Moderator: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
Eric Buffalohead, Augsburg College
Tom Holm, University of Arizona
Sara Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
Beccie Seaman, Elizabeth City State University
Panel Chair: Kimberly N. Parker
How Does Hip Hop Culture Define 21st Century Youth?
Terra Bialy, University at BuffaloLooking for "My Man Blue": Constructing the African American Boy's Role Model
Jung-hee Park, SungKyunKwan University"A place where mothers love you and tell you": Exploring African American Mother-son Relationships in Four Young Adult Novels
Kimberly N. Parker, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Panel Chair: Judd Ethan Ruggill, University of Arizona
What Templates and Textbooks Don't Teach about Design Documentation
Jason Cootey, Utah State UniversityGame for Translation? Language and Immersion in the Japanese RPG
Rachel Hutchinson, Colgate UniversityVideogame Preservation
Devin Monnens, University of Denver
Panel Chair: Kenneth Hada, East Central University
Beyond Desert Solitaire: A Rhetorical Analysis
John Farnsworth, Santa Clara UniversitySouthern Nonfiction Nature Writing and Ecocriticism: Janisse Ray and James Kilgo
Dong-oh Choi, Chungnam National University, KoreaEver the Ecologist: Travels with Steinbeck in Search of Consilience
Kathleen Hicks, Arizona State University
Panel Chair: Sasha Spencer
Remembrance of Things Past: The Last September
Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bretagne Sud LorientVisual Postmemory? Nostalgia and Melancholy in Ken Loach's Land and Freedom
Rania Eleftheria-Kosmidou, University College, DublinThe Representation of the Military Dictatorship in Argentina
Meghan Gibbons, University of MarylandHow Newsreel and Radio Broadcasts Shape Memories of Significant Events
Sasha Spencer, Northern Arizona University
Panel Chair: Lynn Marie Houston
Mindful Eating: Reshaping Our Experiences with Food and the Environment
Cher Holt-Fortin, State University of New York, OswegoSpinach and Globalization
Susan Willis, Duke UniversityMad Cow Disease and Racism on the Border
Lynn Marie Houston, California State University, Chico
Panel Chair: Jake Cohen
Unlimited Devotion: The Performance of Identity of Jamband Fans
Christina Allaback, University of OregonJambands and Sonata Form
Jake Cohen, University of WashingtonMy Band Is Better Than Your Band: Inside America's Jamband Scene
Elizabeth Yeager, University of Kansas
Panel Chair: Suzan Shown Harjo, The Morning Star Institute
Native Portrait Artists: When is a Portrait a Portrait?
Patricia Vervoort, Lakehead UniversityConsumption and Candor: Native American Tribal Museums
Rebecca S. Hernandez (Mescalero Apache), University of California, Los AngelesCrawdad Baskets: Weaving Red Black Basketry Narratives
L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
Panel Chair: Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
"Loafers and Lobbyists Will Get Out": Politics and Personality at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention
Brad L. Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State UniversityThe Cowgirls of the 101 Ranch
Sharon Hill, Northwestern Oklahoma State UniversityThe Oklahoma Panhandle: Home of Opposites and Oddities
Sara Jane Richter, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Panel Chair: Wes Bergen, Wichita State University
Drumming the Electron: Romanticism and Technophobia in Contemporary Pagan Music
Christopher W. Chase, Michigan State UniversitySalvation Also to the Geek: A Comic Book Theology
Jeremy Garber, University of DenverRevolution through Revelation: Comic Books as Liberation Theology
Beth Davies-Stofka, Front Range Community CollegeFaith and Existence: An Exploration of Battlestar Galactica
Andrew Kronenwetter, Rochester College
Panel Chair: Richard Vela
Theatrical Power in To Be or Not To Be and Hamlet
Lars Soderlund, Purdue UniversityThe Interface of Theatre and Film: The "Classic" Shakespeare Films of Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh
Vivian Ching-Mei Chu, National Taiwan University"Chaos is come again!" Acting Othello in A Double Life and Stage Beauty
Leslie O'Dell, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityOn Actors and Their Audiences in Some Recent Shakespeare Adaptations
Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Panel Chair: Alicita Rodriguez
But, Is It Art?
Heather S. Orr, Western State College of Colorado
Melissa Myers, Western State College of ColoradoThe Struggle between Art and Science in Body Worlds
Joseph Starr, Independent ScholarForced Impregnation: Frankenstein's Laboratory at Body Worlds
Christine Jespersen, Western State College of Colorado
Alicita Rodriguez, Western State College of Colorado
Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University
The Unruly Woman in the Kitchen: Paula Deen and the Food Network
Peter Alilunas, The University of Texas at AustinF.A.T. Chance or Fat Chance?
Kristen Lambert, The University of Texas at AustinDr. Phil: An Example of the Self-Help Jeremiad
James D. Ponder, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner
Laughing in the Face of Death: Gender and Dark Humor in Slasher Films
Angela Farmer, Auburn UniversityHorror Movie Fans and Their Motivations for Indulging in the Genre
Andrew DeVos, John Hopkins UniversityMotifs of "Crisis" and "Decay" Present in Filmed Representations of New York in the 1970s and 1980s
John Cline, University of TexasShort Trangressive Cinema Pieces (20 mins) King of the Jews
As a bookend to this panel we will show, Jay Rosenblatt's short film about Christian anti-Semitism which has been described by one critic as "A Rorschach test for religious intolerance."
Panel Chair: Peter C. Rollins, Director of Center
Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
Ken Dvorak, Associate Editor and Special Editor: Reality TV
James Knecht, Associate Editor and Proceedings
Robert Fyne, Book Review Editor
Solomon Davidoff, Film Review Editor
Tobias Hochscherf, Controversial Films and SWPCA
Christoph Laucht, Controversial Films and SWPCA
Ron Briley, Editor, Pedagogy
Steve Brown, Video and Webmeister
Susan Rollins, Business Manager, Center for the Study of Film and History
| John Jeffrey Barlow is the featured 2007 conference
keynote speaker. In 1971, he began operating the Bar Cross Land and Livestock
Company, a large cow-calf operation in Cora, Wyoming where he grew up. He
continued to do so until he sold it in 1988. He co-wrote songs with the
Grateful Dead from 1971 until their demise in 1995.
In 1990 he and Mitchell Kapor founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He currently serves as its Vice Chairman. In 1990, he first applied William Gibson's science fiction term Cyberspace to the already-existing global electronic social space now generally referred to by that name. Until his naming it, it had not been considered any sort of place. |
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He speaks, consults, and writes for a living. He has written for a wild diversity of publications, ranging from Communications of the ACM to The New York Times to Nerve°. He was on the masthead of Wired for many years. His piece for Wired on the future of copyright, The Economy of Ideas, is now taught in many law schools. His manifesto, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace has been widely distributed on the Net and can be found on more than 20, 000 sites. Partly as a consequence of that, he was called "the Thomas Jefferson of Cyberspace" by Yahoo Internet Life Magazine back when such cyber-hyperbole was fashionable. He is a recognized commentator on information economics, digitized intellectual goods, cyber liberties, virtual community, electronic cash, cryptography policy, privacy, and the social, cultural, and legal conditions forming in Cyberspace. He also works as a consultant on such matters with the Vanguard Group, Diamond Cluster Exchange, and the Global Business Network. He is also a member of the External Advisory Council of the National Computational Science Alliance. In recent years, he has devoted much of his time and energy helping to "wire" the Southern Hemisphere to the North and has traveled extensively in Africa. His Wired piece, "Africa Rising", describes the first of these journeys. More recently, he has been working with Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, in an effort to get all of Brazil's music online. We are honored to welcome John Jeffery Barlow as our featured SW/TX keynote
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Panel Chair: Tanya Price, University of Missouri-Kansas
African Rhythm in Caribbean Revelry: Trinidad's Carnival
Jessica Hentchel, University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleChavez' Boliviarian Revolution
Beka Jalata, University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleThe Garifuna or "Black Caribs"
Felix Adam, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Panel Chair: Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
Embodied Memory: The "Hiroshima Maidens"
Alison Fields, University of New MexicoRehearsing for Armageddon: Planners, Citizens, and the Culture of Civil Defense in Baltimore, 1950-1959
Eric S. Singer, American UniversityLaughing All the Way: Growing Up Atomic
William M. Hagen, Oklahoma Baptist University
Panel Chair: Ginny Fugarino
Girls Schools Stories: Sexuality of Budding Victorians
Abby Heller, University of HoustonSex and the Single Sleuth: Girl Detectives in Young Adult Literature and Television
Barbara Duffey, University of Houston"I almost wish I wasn't a woman": Self and Sexuality in Nell's Story
Ginny Fugarino, University of Houston
Panel Chair: Diana R. Thompson
LAM and the Pop Culture Institute
Jessica DuVerneay, University of Michigan
Kelly Weger, Independent ScholarWell-Dressed and Teaching: the Collections of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Diana R. Thompson, Touro College
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Sex Worker Activism Online: Technologies of Resistance or Marginalization?
Shawna Ferris, McMaster UniversityThe Problems and Pleasures of (Un)Protected Gay Sex in Chat Rooms
Christopher J. Perez, University of MarylandTeaching Web Activism and Advocacy through Service Learning: What We Learned
Andrew Chen, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Philip Baumann, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Panel Chair: Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University
Cyndy Hendershot, Arkansas State University
Anthony Oldknow, Eastern New Mexico University
Nicole Louise Reid, University of Southern Indiana
Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University
Panel Chair: Roger Hecht
Place and Politics in Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
Incoronata Inserra, University of Hawaii at ManoaPerceptions of Land in Catalonia-17th Century
Maria Notonia Marti Escayol, Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaMyth, Place, and the Environmental Resistance in "Pom Poko"
Roger Hecht, SUNY, Oneonta
Panel Chair: Janna Jones
Alexander's Conquest of Northwest India, Cinematic Narrative and Power Discourse
Archana Verma, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, ShimlaCasting Decisions That Create a Particular Historical "Reality" Within Films
Rhea Emery-MorrisParadise Now: Time, Victimhood, and Identity
Barkuzar Al Dubbati, George Washington UniversityA Plan for All of Us: The 1993 American Film Preservation Board Study
Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University
Panel Chair: Stacy Jameson
Look Who's Coming to Dinner: Images of Eating and Ingestion in Salo, Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
LeAnn Lewis, University of New MexicoKung Fu and Kebab Culture: Negotiating Transnational Identity in Anno Saul's Kebab Connection
Erika Nelson, University of North TexasRegard(ing) the Consumptive Response: Eating, Morality, and Social Differentiation in Chocolat
Stacy Jameson, University of California, Davis
Panel Chair: Rebecca Adams
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
Mark Mattson, Fordham University
Panel Chair: Lisa Moody
Negotiating the Protean Faces of Historical Fiction: Historical Representation and the Issues of Ethics
Yu-yen Liu, National Taiwan Normal UniversityEx-centric Historiography in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Mustafa Kirca, Middle East Technical University
Nineteenth-Century Narrative Techniques in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance
Lisa Moody, Louisiana State University
Panel Chair: Mathew Haskins
American Influences of the Birth and Development of Recorded Sound in Europe
William Howland Kenney, Kent State UniversityThe Springsteen State: A Space for Identity Politics
Patricia Hill, Penn State University, Delaware County"Now We're 80s Ladies": Gender: Race, Class and Religion in Female Country Music, 1987-1989
Dana C. Wiggins, Georgia State University
Panel Chair: Deborah Carmichael
Placing Memory, Exploring Context: Local Exhibition and Winter Park, Florida's Mid-Century Theaters
Denise Cummings, Rollins CollegeManufacturing Fun: One Theater's Role in Creative Economy
Donna De Ville, University of Texas-AustinMain Street Movies: Local Film Exhibition Promotions and Problems in 1930s Oklahoma
Deborah Carmichael, Oklahoma State University
Panel Chair: Sara Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
Seton's Woodcraft Indians: Flatterers or Wannabes?
Barbara Witemeyer, University of New MexicoAmerican Indians in Comics: The Italian Series, "Tex Willer"
Marinella Lentis, University of Arizona"Atanarjuat": Three Permutations of the Bleeding Throat
Vu Pham, Independent ScholarRe-writing the Indian: White Racial Fantasies in Into the West
Delores Amorelli, University of Florida
Panel Chair: Erik Walker, Plymouth South High School
Engaging New Literacies through Graphic Novels
Gretchen Schwarz, Oklahoma State UniversityAn Action Research Study on the Effects of Graphic Novel Use in an Adult Literacy Course
Janet C. Dunlap, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
Susan Dameron, Oklahoma State University-TulsaThe Year of Africa: The Use of African Literature and Tales in English and Sociology Courses
Amy Neeman, Johnson and Wales University
David Mewman, Johnson and Wales UniversityThe Integration of Classical Literature into the Contemporary Classroom
Michael Alvarez, South Torrance High School, Torrance, CA
Panel Chair: Richard Vela
Not Another Teen Shakespeare Movie: She's the Man
Jolene Mendel, Axia CollegeLatinness in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Dan Hendel De La O, San Jose State UniversityThe King Died, Long Live King Rikki
Bilge Cantekinler, Mercyhurst College
Panel Chair: Delia C. Gillis, University of Central Missouri
Katrina-Reflections, Stories, Impacts and Images: Photographs from the New Orleans Environmental Education Program
Anna Leslie, University of Montana at MissoulaBelly of the Basin, New Documentary on Post-Katrina New Orleans-The documentary centers the voices of those considered the least in the aftermath of the storm, to discuss race, class, and gender issues. The documentary is an activist work meant to encourage in depth dialogue about the state of New Orleans and direct action to aid in the rebuilding of lives.
Roxana Walker-Canton, Connecticut College
Tina Morton, Howard University
Panel Chair: Barry Joyce, University of Delaware
Beyond Cowboys and Indians: Understanding the Relationship between Tourism, Identity, and Narrative in the American Southwest
Jennifer Fang, University of DelawareOnce Upon a Time in the West: Stories as History in the American Southwest
Veronica Ory, University of DelawareFrom the Long Walk to Glen Canyon Dam: Contested Landscapes and Negotiated Identities in the Southwest
Lara Pascali, University of DelawareCrafting Traditions: The Production and Consumption of Southwestern Identities
Janneken Smucker, University of Delaware
Panel Chair: Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
"Never Ever Gonna Fade Away": Bertolt Brecht Changes His Mind, The 1980s Dance Apocalypse, and Other Adventures in (Post) Nuclear Culture at the Liminal Edge
Barry J. Cochran, West Texas A&MThe Hole at the End of the World: Deconstruction and Tim O'Brien's The Nuclear Age
Alicia Gibson, University of MinnesotaUnderneath the Mushroom Cloud Tree: Atomic Imagery in the Art of Jay DeFeo
Keely Orgeman, Boston University
Panel Chair: Linda Alkana
Molly Goodnight: Pioneer Woman of the Texas Panhandle
Phyllis Bridges, Texas Woman's UniversityMy Father's Death Certificate
Robert Kirschten, Prairie View A&M UniversityThe Lord of the Night
Linda Niemann, Kennesaw State UniversityEx's in Texas
Delores Duboise, Texas Tech UniversityWhen the Professional Is Personal: Reading my Father's Letters Home from the Front
Linda Alkana, California State University-Long Beach
Panel Chair: Amy L. Hayden
Roald Dahl's Revolting Reviews
Karenina Lines, California State University of FullertonStaring into the Yellow Eyes of Speciesism without Blinking: The Social Construction of Oppressive Human-animal Relations in Where the Wild Things Are
Amy L. Hayden, University of Illinois, Chicago
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Knit Two Together: Knitblogs, Knitalongs, and a Digital Culture of Material Artifacts
Heather E. Pristash, Bowling Green State UniversityWill You Be My Facebook Friend?
Melanie Lightner, Wichita State UniversityBlogging in the Upper Level Composition Courses
Andres Villagra, Pace University
Panel Chair: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Anti Communist Hysteria? My Son John and the Move Against the Educated Left in the 1950s
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, University of NebraskaA Gender History of Milk and Alcohol Drinking in West-German and US Film Comedies of the 1950s
Massimo Perinelli, University of CologneDreams of Childhood: 1950s Science Fiction Television
Wheeler Winston Dixon, University of Nebraska
Panel Chair: Gerald Duchovnay
"More Than This": The Dialogic Adaptation of Soundtrack in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation
Daniel Ragussa, Texas A&M University-CommerceGoing in Reverse?: Adapting from Film to Television
Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Panel Chair: Mario Montano
Food and Power in the Home Space: The Reconfigured Border in Ana Castillo's So Far from God
Rosalinda Salazar, University of California, Davis
Palate to Palette: An Examination of Two Chicano Artists, Rolando Briseño and Carmen Lomas Garza
Norma Cárdenas, University of Texas, San AntonioFood, Farm, and Gardens in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, 1920-1960
Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University
Panel Chair: Barry Barnes
"Is Destruction Loving's Twin?": The Grateful Dead Pharmakon
Elizabeth Carroll, Appalachian State University"Please Forget You Knew My Name": Secretly Influenced by the Dead
Christian Crumlish, Independent Scholar, Oakland CAThe Evolution of the Structural Techniques of the Two-Drummer Tandem as Practiced by the Grateful Dead
Steven Cook
Panel Chair: Paula Kopacz
Reading Daniel Boone/Daniel Boone Reading: Literacy in Three Historical Novels by Women
Hope Howell Hodgkins, University of North Carolina-Greensboro"The Authenticity of the Outline": Historical Fiction and Intellectual Property in The Scarlet Letter
Geoffrey Ruelland, University of Western OntarioIl Principe Americano: The Machiavellian Historical Fictions of Norman Mailer
John Tiedemann, University of DenverHistorical Fiction/Cultural Work/Nation Building: Herman Melville and Slavery
Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University
Panel Chair: Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University
La frontera como "cruce" y "crucero" en tres textos literarios
Lupe Cárdenas, Arizona State University WestMy World is Changed: A Perspective from Esmeralda Santiago
Iván Figueroa, Oklahoma State UniversityDeveloping Awareness of U.S. Mainstream and Traditional Hispanic Worldviews through Literature
Barbara González-Pino, University of Texas at San Antonio
Frank Pino, University of Texas at San AntonioLa tristeza, la soledad, y el consuelo del amor: el poeta explica
Mario A. Herrera, Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: L. Rain Cranford, Michigan State University
Setting the Record Straight: The Impact of American Indian Ways on the Development of Western Political Thought
Stephen M. Sachs, IUPUIAlexander McGillivray's Letters: An Epistolary Accounts of a Creek and his Nation
Nancy Call, Oklahoma State University"The Door of the Tomb Opens and Metamora Appears": Resurrecting King Phillip in John Augustus Stone's Metamora and William Apess' Eulogy
Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State UniversityMany Faces, Whose Heart?: Disrupting Popular Heritage Representations of First Nation(s) People
Angela Specht, Athabasca University
Panel Chair: Erik Walker, Plymouth South High School
Myspace as an Analytical Text: Myspace in the Composition Classroom
Anne Cong-huyen, California State University-San Marcos
Denise Crlenjak, California State University-San MarcosMulti-User Virtual Environments in the Classroom
Gregory Ryan, Baylor UniversityImplementing Peter Elbow in the Computer Age
Flurije Salihu, University of South CarolinaTechnologies of Personal Performance: Critically Engaging Popular Personal Writing in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom
Melissa Tombro, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel Chair: Wes Bergen, Wichita State University
Crying in the Wilderness: Penthos in Red Rock Country
Robert W. King, Utah State UniversityJoseph Campbell Meets Matthew Fox: Reflections on Deep Ecumenism and the American Southwest
L. Keith Williamson, Wichita State UniversityDefining God or Not-God: The Rhetoric of the Scientific Debate
Carol Lea Clark, University of Texas at El PasoFeeling Left Behind: Christians and Jews in Children's Television
Wes Bergen, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Susan J. Wolfe, University of South Dakota
"You're Part of my Crew": The Constructed Family in Firefly
Victoria Large, Bridgewater State College"Needing the Know the Plural of Apocalypse": Buffy's Lessons in Creating Meaning
Brita M. Graham, Montana State UniversityRace and Hybridity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Asim Ali, University of MarylandMonstrous Appetites: Television Vampires, Consumption, and Postmodern Cultural Malaise
Susan J. Wolfe, University of South Dakota
Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: James Welsh
"Tones that Sound and Roar": Rock Music, the '70s, and Shakespeare in Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA
Christine Norquest, University of Texas, Pan AmericanTeaching Trash: The Highs and Lows of ShaXXXspeare
Heather Richardson Hayton, Guilford College
Rachael Marks, Guilford CollegeA Thousand Acres and a Moo! Or What Would Shakespeare Say or Do?
James Welsh, Salisbury University
Panel Chair: Rob Weiner
Recent Silent Foreign Films on DVD
William Parrill, Southeastern LouisianaGuy Maddin's Twenty-First Century Silent Films The Heart of the World and Dracula: Notes from a Virgin's Diary
John Bloomfield, University of New MexicoCarving the Rooster: The Last Years of the Pathe Exchange
Richard Ward, University of South Alabama
Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University
A Messy Approach: The Racialization of the Sesame Street Muppets
Heidi L. Cooper, University of Wisconsin MadisonBrought To You In Living Color: Color Television Programming, Its Impact and Importance in the Transition from Black and White Television
J. Kim McNutt, Arizona State UniversityTelevision and Football: The Dynamics of an Ever-Evolving Relationship
Jacqueline Vickery, The University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Kimberly Selber
Marketing to the Masses: Reeves Lewenthal and Associated American Artists
Tiffany E. Washington, Case Western Reserve UniversityPrecisionism in American Advertising, 1920-1930: Philosophical and Moral Connections to Modern Art
Kimberly Selber, University of Texas-Pan American
Panel Chair: Patrice E. Olsen, Illinois State University
Nuclear Proliferation and ABMs, Pre-and Post-9/11
Mark Bunting, Illinois State UniversityI Got Them Homeland Security Blues: Selections from Dr. Strangelove's iPod
Patrice Olsen, Illinois State UniversityThe Bomb and Technology: The Culture of Secrecy
T.J. Urbanski, Illinois State University
The Nuclear Movie, Pre-and Post-9/11
Rob Witt, Illinois State UniversityDiscussant: Joshua Larson, Illinois State University
Panel Chair: Kris Sutliff
This Stubborn and Polluted Soil: Twentieth Century East Texas Memoirs and Landscape as Wasteland and/or Challenge
Jeff Crane, Sam Houston State UniversityWriting as Production of, not Expression of, Knowledge: Unconscious Testimony and the Teaching of Writing
Kate Schmitt, University of HoustonYou Lied: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey, and the Confessional Market
Stephanie Youngblood, University of Wisconsin-MadisonFacebook et. al. and the Phenomenon of Social Networking in Cyberspace
Kris Sutliff, Missouri State University
Panel Chair: Diana Dominguez
Science, Billiards, and the Unplayful Child: Great Expectations, What Maisie Knew, and The Secret Garden
Michelle Beissel Heath, The George Washington UniversityScribblers and Story-Tellers: Künstlerroman Issues in Girls' Books
Dawn Sardella-Ayres, University of California-Riverside/Hollins University"Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls": Blurring the Margins of Gender in Baum's The Enchanted Island of Yew
Diana Dominguez, University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Panel Chair: Kirsten Day
Sophocles Meets YouTube: Oedipus on the Internet
Howard Mayer, University of HartfordMarvel Comics' Ares: Bloodthirsty Justice
Daniel Bellum, University of New MexicoHypatia in Eco's Baudolino
Albert Watanabe, Louisiana State University, Baton RougeClassics Rewritten in Stone: The Art of Anita Huffington
Kirsten Day, Creighton University
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
Gnarly Computation in Life and Fiction: What Rudy Rucker Can Teach Us about Computer Culture
John Johnston, Emory UniversityHow Are the MSM Framing Popular Computer Cultures?: Using Wikipedia as a Case Study
Mary-Louise Craven, York UniversityInside-Outsiders: The Reach of the Political Blogging Community
Philip Baruth, University of Vermont
Panel Chair: Gemma Glackwood
Bawdy to Body: Comic Discourse and Abject Bodies
Tara Atluri, York University, TorontoCinema, the Widescreen Aesthetic and the Invention of Mass Tourism
Gemma Blackwood, University of Melbourne
Join us for a screening of the documentary Touched by Fire: Bleeding Kansas, a film which follows the inevitable path to civil war and the role Kansas plays, as individuals like John Brown rise to local and national prominence. The screening will be followed with a discussion with filmmaker Ken Spurgeon.
Iconographic Analysis of the Armadillo and Cosmic Imagery within Art Associated with the Armadillo World Headquarters, 1970-1980
Jennifer Richmond, North Texas State UniversityThe Numbers in the Texas Culture Elections
Martin Gil
Panel Chair: Felicia Mitchell
The Historical Novel and Nation Building
Prithviraj Thakur, Independent Scholar, IndiaReunion and Reconciliation: Ambrose Bierce's Contribution to American Memory in His Civil War Writings
Barbara Hussey, Eastern Kentucky University
Russell Banks, Jane Smiley, and the Great American Novel
John Mead, University of Illinois-ChicagoSaints at the River: Polemical, Historical, or Just Plain Novel?
Felicia Mitchell, Emory & Henry College
Panel Chair: Ana Palmore
El callejero popular: el caso de Nacogdoches
Carmen Parrón, Independent ScholarInnovaciones estilísticas de Carmen Naranjo en Responso por el niZo Juan Manuel
Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State UniversityNo olvidemos que son niZos
Ana Palmore, University of Central Oklahoma
Moderators:
Lee Francis, IV, National Director, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Kimberly Roppolo, Co-Director, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Sara Sutler-Cohen, Editor-In-Chief, Native Realities
Panel Chair: Erik Walker
The Pearls and Perils of Teaching Tolkien
Leslie A. Donovan, University of New MexicoThe Real World: Using Pop Culture as a Vehicle for Critical Thinking in the Composition and Literature Classroom and Beyond
Katie Egging, University of Kansas-LawrenceReality Television Aids the Students: Using The Apprentice, Project Runway, and Top Chef to Enhance Communications Courses
Diana R. Thompson, Touro CollegeTranscendentalism, Naturalism, and the American Dream: Using Reality TV and Television Dramas in American Literature Courses
Erik Walker, Plymouth South High School, Plymouth, MA
Panel Chair: Marcia Morgado
Rap as a Site of Struggle
Patricia Burns, University of Texas at AustinBlack and Brown in Hip Hop: Tenuous-Solidarity
Robert Tinajero, University of Texas at El PasoThe Hip Hop Aesthetic: A Cultural Revolution
Jessica Parker, Metropolitan State College of DenverThe Semiotics of Hip Hop Style: A Structural Analysis
Marcia A. Morgado, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Panel Chair: Wes Bergen, Wichita State University
The Passion of the Christ and the Teaching of Contempt
Rebecca Kuhn, Florida Atlantic UniversityParable and Allegory in Robin Hardy's Fiction
Mimosa Stephenson, University of Texas at BrownsvilleReligious Addiction in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
Jillmarie Murphy, Schenectady County CollegeEvangelical Protestantism and the Rise of American Culture
Gregory Scott Evans, Texas State University
McFarland Publishing, the publisher of several books on the works of Joss Whedon, will host an informative roundtable on publishing in the realm of science fiction and fantasy.
Panel Chair: David Kranz
Shakespearean Tragedy and Hindi Cinema: A Blissful Union!
Rahul Sapra, Ryerson University
Narrative Interludes: The Music of Omkara
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Colorado College
India's Shakespearean Auteur: Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool and Omkara
Hillary Fogerty, Maryhurst College
Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool (2003) and Omkara (2006): Bollywood Sophistication and Shakespearean Reduction
David Kranz, Dickinson College
Continuation of Silent Film Panel I
Panel Chair: James R. Knecht, Oklahoma State University
Wanna-Blessed-Bes and Fluffy Bunnies: The Culture Industry's Co-optation and Commodification of Neo-Pagan Representation
Geneva Canino, University of OklahomaA Woman of Stature: A Queer Reading of Firefly's Inara Serra
Susan Broyles, The University of Texas at AustinFirefly and Serenity: A Comparative Analysis of Narration in Television and Feature Film
Jason Gendler, University of California, Los Angeles
All new and current SW/TX area chairs are encouraged to attend this important business meeting. Featured is our "Special Guest" of honor Dr. Michael Schoenecke, who has recently announced his retirement as Executive Director of the National PCA/ACA. With "Special Invited" guests, please join us as we celebrate Michael's contributions as one of the founding members of the organization.
Panel Chair: David Greven
Separating the Visual Elements and the Dialogue in Bon Voyage
Friedrich von Petersdorff, University of MarburgCruising and Knowledge in The Man Who Knew Too Much: Cold War Homophobia, Travel, and American Manhood
David Greven, Connecticut College
Panel Chair: Albert Watanabe
Queering the Epic Cycle: Simile and (Straight) Mythology in Mark Merlis' An Arrow's Flight
John Paul Christy, University of PennsylvaniaStefano Benni's "Swift-footed Achilles": How Homeric Heroes Live Our Everyday Modern Life
Giovanni Migliara, James Madison UniversityThe Influence of Homer's The Odyssey on Canadian Literature
Shoshannah Ganz, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaAtwood's The Penelopiad and the Sirens' Songs
Mary Economou, Seneca College
Panel Chair: Philip Baruth, University of Vermont
Introduction: "Standards and Practices of Online Journals in the Liberal Arts Fields"
Thomas Drew Philbeck, Florida State University; Editor, InterCultureDiscussants:
Diana Fox, Bridgewater State College; Editor, Journal of International Women's Studies
Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine; Editor, Postmodern Culture
Heewon Chang, Eastern University; Editor, Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
Panel Chair: Cyndy Hendershot, Arkansas State University
Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University
L. Luis Lopez, Mesa State College
Diana R. Thompson, Touro College
Jerry Bradley, Lamar University
Panel Chair: Kenneth Hada
Willa Cather's Flora and Fauna World
Ping Zhou, University of Illinois at SpringfieldNature, Religion, and the Visual Imagination in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Amanda Toronto, New York UniversityEven the Snow Is White: Displacement in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear
Kenneth Hada, East Central University
Panel Chair: Scott Wilkerson
The Nonconformist in Blackface: Jazz and Jack Keroouac's Mexico City Blues
Jeremy Stewart, University of Northern British ColumbiaDecadent Intertextuality and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood
Moriah Hampton, SUNY-BuffaloWords Got Me the Wound and Will Get Me Well
Laura Winton, University of MinnesotaRadical Similitude: Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino's Logoclasody and the Substance of Language
Scott Wilkerson, Georgia Military College
Panel Chair: Susan Buzzelli
Western Imaginings and Regional Absolutes: Finding the "Real" Paris, Texas
Noah Mass, University of Texas, AustinBull Chic: Urban Cowboy, Dallas, and the Cultural Politics of Realignment
Jason Mellard, University of Texas, AustinContagious Disease, Diseased Governments: Depictions of Government in Post-9/11 Disease Films
Susan Buzzelli, University of Michigan
Panel Chair: Polly Adema
The Interdisciplinary within the Interdisciplinary: Chasing Cohesion in Food Studies
Anne E. McBride, New York University
Damian M. Mosley, New York UniversityFood Mappings: Tracing the Boundaries of Food, Memory, and Home Among Immigrant Communities
Lidia Marte, University of Texas at AustinFoodways as Theory and Method: Folklorists Approach
Lucy M. Long, Bowling Green State UniversityTheorizing Foodways: Folklore, Foodways, and Food Events
Polly Adema, Independent Scholar
Panel Chair: David Malvinni
Dark Star and Echoes: The Dead, Pink Floyd, and Improvisation
David Malvinni, University of California at Santa BarbaraBefore The Flood: Robert Hunter, Bob Dylan, and American Modernism
Chris Norden, Lewis-Clark State CollegeThe Lie Breathed Through Silver
Kent Elliott, Lesley University
Panel Chair: Mark Wegley
Negotiating the Boundary between Genre and Mainstream in Contemporary Horror Fiction: Stephen King, Brett Easton Ellis, and Chuck Palahniuk
Steffen Hantke, Sogang University, SeoulPoe's Excess: Horror and the Search for American Identity
Cristine Soliz, Diné College at Tuba City"A Deception in Real Life": The Role of Popular Culture in H. P. Lovecraft's Canonicity
Mark Wegley, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Panel Chair: Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University
Immigration-Noah Webster and its Social Construction
Neil Larry Shumsky, Virginia TechThe Border Language and Education
Javier V. Urbina, New Mexico State UniversityEthnic Discourse and Ethnic Conflict in Kenya: An Historical Perspective
James Ogola Onyango, University of ViennaValidating the Vernacular: Making the Case for the Multidialectal Classroom
Abbey Kanzig, Bowling Green State University
Moderator: Kimberly Roppolo, University of Lethbridge
Panel Chair: Sara Sutler-Cohen (Jewish/Irish/Cherokee Descendant), Bellevue Community College
White Women's Perceptions of Native People in the Early Years
Pauline G. Woodward, Endicott CollegeNaturalizing American Indians
Margaret Vaughan, Metropolitan State UniversityStaging the Southwest: Train Tracks, Indians and Destinations "Unknown"
Jane Sinclair, University of New Mexico
Panel Chair: Rebecca McCarthy
Humorous Challenging Power Relations: A Critical Look at the 2006 White House Press Correspondents' Association Dinner
Rebecca McCarthy, Florida Atlantic University
Agenda Setting and Samuel Alito: An Analysis of Five Networks' News Coverage
Lindsey A. Harvell, Wichita State University
Teaching Evolution in Kansas Schools: What Were They Saying about Us before and after the November Election?
Les Anderson, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Erik Walker, Plymouth South High School
A Day Without Media: Freaking Out Students Who Take Technology For Granted
Dan Close, Elliot School of Communication, Wichita State UniversityI Am My Media: Students' Reflections on Being "Unplugged"
Barbara Zang, Worcester State CollegeReading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic: Common Problems in Today's Culture and Classrooms
Betty F. Ramey, Francis Marion University
James T. Ramey, Francis Marion University
Panel Chair: Joanne Washington
Hip-Hop Adds Energy to Psychology
Marité Rodriguez Haynes, Clarion University of PennsylvaniaThe Ethics of Hip-Hop
Jamie Phillips, Clarion University of PennsylvaniaEconomics and Hip-Hop Culture
Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of PennsylvaniaHip-Hop: Cultural Change within the Academy
Joanne Washington, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Panel Chair: Dale Koontz, Cleveland Community College
From Scrooby Group to Scooby Gang: Buffy Takes Thanksgiving On
Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo
"The Definition of a Hero": How Serenity Challenges the Myth of the Taming of the West
Tim Prchal, Oklahoma State University"Standard Perpetuity Clause": Contracting with the Devil in Season Five of Angel
Sharon Sutherland, University of British Columbia
Sarah Swan, Harper Grey LLPNo Girls Allowed: Caleb and the Evils of Misogyny
Dale Koontz, Cleveland Community College
Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
From Pioneer Picnic to San Marino Hall School for Girls: Portrait of the West
Ruben A. Alcolea, School of Architecture, University of Navarra, SpainFrom Microbe to Vista: The Depiction of the American Southwest in Max Ernst's Late Landscape Paintings
Stephanie L. Taylor, New Mexico State UniversityPerceptions of the Great Plains: Regional Identity in New Deal Murals
Sally Bradstreet Soelle, Cameron UniversityRoaming Free: Artistic Portrayals of New Mexican Wild Horses and their Current Struggle for Survival
Ola Charlotte Robbins, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
Panel Chair: Debopriyo Roy, University of North Texas
Designing Hypermedia Employee Training Modules: A Case Study with Sabre Airlines Solutions
Joseph Liechty, University of North TexasE-Learning and the Technical Communicator: A Powerful Tool for Keeping up With the Joneses
Gordon Scott Gehrs, Illinois Institute of Technology
Panel Chair: Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego
Love as a Dangerous Thing: Reflections on Adoption, Race, and Privilege
Eileen Razzari Elrod, Santa Clara University
Christine Lupo, University of California, Santa CruzFrom the Age of Aquarious to the Mapping of the Human Genome: The Changing Emotion Climate of the Family Created by Adoption
Wendy Hanevold, Psychologist, Atlanta GA
Panel Chair: Raymond Hall, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
The Stono Rebellion and the Culture of Resistance in Colonial South Carolina, 1700-1740
Perry Kyles, University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleThe Bonds of Slavery and Freedom: Native American and African American Relations in the 19th Century
Ko'Ann Brass, University of Central MissouriCalled to Plead Our Cause: Lucile Bluford and Ida B. Wells-Barnett Fulfilling the Prophesy of Black Feminist Activism through the Power of the Pen
Keana Jarvis, University of Central Missouri
Panel Chair: Richard L. Allen, Cherokee Nation
The Great American Indian Urban Diaspora: The Nuts and Bolts of Twentieth Century American Indian Migration and Relocation
Patti Jo King, University of OklahomaCherokee Literacy and Identity: Internet Technologies for Cultural Preservation
Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University
Panel Chair: Kosta Hadavas
Tragedy in the Caribbean: Adaptation of the Classic Text and the Critique of Universality
Jaime Rodriguez-Matos, Washington UniversityViolent Language and the Language of Violence: Kane's "Phaedra's Love" and Seneca's "Phaedra"
Christopher Trinacty, University of ArizonaFrom Lysistrata to Zetterling's The Girls (or Was Aristophanes Really a "Highly Problematic Closet Feminist"?)
Kosta Hadavas, Beloit College
Panel Chair: Joe Chaney, Indiana University South Bend
My Life Is an Open Show: Videoblogs and the Personal Media Revolution
David Huth, Houghton CollegeMashup Memory: The Visual Culture of Digital Storytelling via Interactive Social Media
Sidney Eve Matrix, Queens UniversityUnpacking "Citizen Vayne": Aleksey Vayner's "Impossible is Nothing," the Performance of Masculinity, and the Implications of Viral Media Distribution
Carly A. Kocurek, University of Texas at Austin
Panel Chair: Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University
Steve Glassman, Embry-Riddle University
Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College-Port Arthur
Phil Heldrich, University of Washington-Tacoma
Matthew Bauman, University of South Dakota
Panel Chair: Joshua Grasso, East Central University
Understanding the Adirondack Wind Energy Park Debate: The 19th Century Literary and Historic Roots of the Beauty vs. Utility Debate in the Adirondack Region
Erica Morin, Purdue UniversityHistory and Environment: The "Eco-Criticism" in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought
Richard Cooper, East Central UniversityBuild Your Own Insect: Artificial Life in the Home Workshop
David Mazel, Adams State College
Panel Chair: Steph Ceraso
Ghost Writers: Poetry, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of Structuralism
Ann Aspell, University of VermontSurvivors' Tales: Cultural Trauma, Post-memory, and the Role of the Reader in Art Spiegelman's Visual Narratives
Steph Ceraso, University of VermontWhen Art Plays in the Grays: Ludology, Narratology, and the Hermeneutics of Game Texts
Corey Christman, University of VermontAnd This Is Not True, Either: A Query into the Question of Truth in Narrative
Rae Muhlstock, University of Vermont
Panel Chair: Tom Prasch
Smoke to Blood, Portrait to Pan: Cinematic Styles of War from Birth of a Nation, to the Bard, to Black Hawk Down
Michael W. Young, La Roche College, PittsburghKubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Theory
Phillip Sipiora, University of South FloridaA Heavenly Kingdom in a Time of War: The Delicate Balancing Act of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven
Tom Prasch, Washburn University, KS
Panel Chair: D.K. Peterson
Hybrid Genre as Adaptation: Self-Reflexivity in Marker's La Jetee
Matthew Culler, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThe Interface of Theatre and Film: The "Classic" Shakespeare Films of Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh
Vivian Ching-Mei Chu, National Taiwan UniversityPirates of the Caribbean: Theme Parks and Cross-Media Adaptation
D.K. Peterson, North Dakota State University
Panel Chair: Melissa Salazar
Food Voice and Testimonios
Carole Counihan, Millersville UniversityFrom Voices in the Kitchen to Voices in the Classroom: How the Study of Food Interconnects the Ethics of Methodologies and Pedagogies
Meredith Abarca, University of Texas, El PasoFood Narratives as Performance: Performance Ethnography, Orality, and the African Diaspora
Myron Beasley, Art Institute, Chicago
Olga Davis, Arizona State UniversityChildren's Food Voice: Visual Studies of Immigrant Children's Food Lives
Melissa Salazar, University of California, Davis
Panel Chair: Barry Barnes
Discussants:
Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus
Rebecca Adams, UNC-G
Barry Barnes, Nova Southeastern University
Panel Chair: Anthony Hernandez
Demons, Duty, and the Family: The Values at Stake in Little Women and Dracula
Rebecca Adams, Rollins College
Jill C. Jones, Rollins CollegeRules, Secrets, Lies and the Quest for Truth in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Camille L. Cortés, University of Puerto Rico-MayagüezResistance, Transformation, and Heroism in Blade
Anthony Hernandez, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Panel Chair: Sara Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
"Wide-Eyed and Radical": The Founding of the National Indian Youth Council, 1961-1964
Bradley G. Shreve, University of New MexicoNative American Rock Music in Popular Culture: Resistance and Healing
Janis Johnson, University of IdahoLaura Tohe: A Voice for Navajo Nationalism
Michael C. Carroll, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Panel Chair: Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw
Women in Oklahoma Territory: A Collective Autobiography
Terri Baker, Northeastern State University
Connie Henshaw, Northeastern State UniversityUniting a Subculture: The Impact of Okie Noodling
Samual M. McMillen, Northeastern State University
Criticizing Critical Pedagogy: "If I Said That, They'd Call Me Racist!"
Anna Gurley, Northeastern State University
Jenny Stephens, Northeastern State University
Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Northeastern State University
Panel Chair: David W. Moore
The Louisiana Lottery: Is a Hundred Years Long Enough to Wait?
David W. Moore, Loyola UniversityThe Breakdown of the Political and Philosophical Machine and the Beginnings of Modernism in the American 1880s
John Samson, Texas Tech UniversityThe Rhetoric of Suppression: McCarthy and Ashcroft's Stifling of Dissent
Cade Hamilton, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Sharon Moore
Hip Hop: Break' in into the Traditional Curriculum
Jessie Adolph, University of Missouri-Columbia"Are You Down or Not?": The Challenge of Pedagogy and Publishing as Part of the Hip-Hop Generation
Sharon L. Moore, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panel Chair: C. Jason Smith, CUNY-LaGuardia
Visions of the Outsider: Cassandra, Witches, and Mad Appetites in Hex
Karin Beeler, University of Northern British ColumbiaNo Female Born: The Mutual Exclusivity of Sexual Reproduction and Artistic Creation in The Golden Key
Suparno Banerjee, Louisiana State UniversitySexing the Cyborg: Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex, the She-borg Body, and the Female Gaze
Kathryn Dunlap, North Dakota State UniversityTruth and Testimony in Butler's Kindred
Kara E. Jacobi, University of Miami
Panel Chair: Brad L. Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Deconstructing the Pin-Up Girl
Darenda DeLoach, University of Texas at Permian BasinNarrating the Homefront: Domesticating WWII in Radio Soap Opera
Jennifer Parchesky, Arizona State UniversityJim Crow at America's Bowling Alleys during World War II
Patricia L. Dooley, Wichita State University
Panel Chair: Cher Holt-Fortin, SUNY Oswego
"Absolute Violence": In the Best Interest of the Child
Daniel Cidrelius, Stockholm UniversityThe Uncharted and Sometimes Uncomfortable World of an Adoptee
Lidia Hanevold, Independent Scholar, Roswell GATransracial/national Asian Adoption Fiction and the Quest Narrative: Examining Gish Jen's "The Love Wife" and Larissa Lai's "When Fox is a Thousand"
Jenny Hai Jun Wills, Wilfried Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Panel Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg College
The Comanche Nation College Annual Invitational Film Festival
Annette Arkeketa, Hokte Productions"Without Hesitation" Wiping the Red Lens Clean Native Music Videos: An Active Deconstruction
Alan Lechuzsa, University of California, San Diego
Panel Chair: Sally MacEwen
Helen of Troy
Ruby Blondell, University of Washington"Belief" in the Gods: The Theology of Jason and the Argonauts (Columbia Pictures, 1963)
Betty Rose Nagle, IndianaWhat Happened to Electra When She Got to the Movies?
Sally MacEwen, Agnes Scott CollegeReopening the Hot Gates: New Spartan Ideals in the 21st Century
Jonathan David, California State University, Stanislaus
Panel Chair: Lawrence Morgan
The Tree of No
Sandy Florian, University of DenverThe World Beyond the Page: The Ideal Marriage of Optimism, Pessimism, and Ecological Criticism in The River Why
Cristin Davis, East Central UniversitySex, Death, and Flies: Nature Writing in John Gierach's Fly Fishing Essays
Lawrence Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Panel Chair: Misty Whitaker
A Dream within a Dream: Mapping the Multiple (Un)realities within Oldknow's Invasions
Cheryll Hendershot, Eastern New Mexico UniversityJourney of a Madman: The Uncanny Psychological Connection between Dr. Raymond Forrester, the Character, and Antony Oldknow, the Writer
Samantha Piper, Eastern New Mexico UniversityUnintentional Intertextualities: Exploring the Violation of Barbara Pym and Other Familiar Stories
Tasha Vice, Eastern New Mexico UniversityRereading the Author: Breaking the Rules of Narration
Misty Whitaker, Eastern New Mexico University
Panel Chair: Jim Welsh
Jim Welsh, Founding Co-Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Professor Emeritus, Salisbury University; Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware, Newark; Founder, Literature/Film Association
Gerald Duchovnay, Founding Editor, Post Script, Texas A&M University, Commerce
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Gary Hoppenstand, Editor, The Journal of Popular Culture, Michigan State University
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Editor, Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk, Virginia
Peter C. Rollins, Editor-in-chief, Film & History, Founder, Film and History League, Oklahoma State University
Ron Briley, Pedagogy Editor, Film & History, Sandia Preparatory, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Richard Vela, Associate Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly, UNC PembrokeW. Clark Whitehorn, Editor-in-Chief, University of New Mexico Press
Panel Chair: Richard Berger
Graphic Novel Adaptations as 9/11 Trauma Films
D.A. Hassler-Forest, University of AmsterdamThe Cinematic Reboot Batman Begins and the Reinvention of a Franchise
Kimberly Owczarski, The University of Texas at AustinTrue Lies: The Path to 9/11
Ernest Giglio"Are there any more at home like you?": Rewiring Superman
Richard Berger, Bournemouth University
Panel Chair: Louis Grivetti
Doing Chocolate History in Europe: Sources and Methods
Bertam Gordon, Mills CollegeSignificance of 19th Century American Cookbooks in Recording History
Deanna Pucciarelli, University of California, DavisShip Wrecks, the Internet, and the Price of Cocoa in Boston. Electronic Data Bases and Historical Research
Kurt Richter, University of California, DavisSynopsis of the Panel: Organization and Management of a Food History Project
Louis Grivetti, University of California, Davis
Panel Chair: Amy Shinabarger, California State University Northridge
Doing Feminine Rhetoric in Advertising Discourse
Vincent Taohsun Chang, National Chengchi UniversityThe Survey Says: Lesbian Lingo in Context
Brandy Wilson, Florida State UniversityConstructing Identity with Language
Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University
Panel Chair: Joyce Moser
Nasty, British, and Short: The Enlightenment of Cynicism in the Hardboiled Detective
Stephen MacEachern, University of AlbertaWhen the Clues Lead Us Astray: In Search of the Origins of the Anti-Detective Story
Greg Shaya, Wooster CollegeLizzie Borden and The Long Arm
Joyce Moser, Stanford University
Writers published in this anthology will be reading their work during this special session
Jumping through the Hoops of History (for Columbus, Custer, Sheridan, Wayne, and all such heroes of yesteryear)
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee), The Morning Star InstituteWashita: A Slaughter, Not a Battle: A Cheyenne Survivor's Perspective (translation)
Kimberly Roppolo, University of LethbridgeNicaragua: "What's Ward Churchill Got Against You?"
David Seals, Independent ScholarAll My Ancestors Have Blisters on Their Toes
Sara Sutler-Cohen (Jewish/Irish/Cherokee Descendent), Bellevue Community CollegeInvisibility Lessons #1 and #2
Drucilla Mims WallLooking to the Past For the Future
Yufna Soldier Wolfe (Northern Arapahoe), Project Director, Littlecheif's Reburial ProjectMajesties Lost
Alfred Young Man (Cree)
Panel Chair: Alfred Young Man, University of Lethbridge
Indigenous Internet Representation: Potentials and Perils for Nordic Sámi
Jeff Taylor, University of LaplandPost(?)-Colonial Discourses and the Re-invention of the Indian as Savage: Makah/Nuu-chah-nulth Whaling in the 20th Century
Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth), University of WashingtonDouble-Minority: Being a Two-Spirited American Indian While Living in the Midst of Intolerance Throughout Indian Country
Karen Brioso (Cherokee), Northwest Film Center
Panel Chair: Leah A. Murray
A Few Children Stayed Behind
Tony ZurloAnalysis of Mass Communication Technologies Effects on Presidential Rhetoric
Kathryn Kelly, Texas A&M UniversityLaunching a Bid for the Presidency: An Analysis of Barack Obama's 2004 Keynote Address and the Ensuing Media Coverage
Montana Hisel, West Texas A&M
Panel Chair: Joe Bisz, CUNY-Borough of Manhattan
Epistemology and Ontology in Battlestar Galactica (Original Series) and Mormon Theology
Ivan Wolfe, University of Texas-AustinNow They're Babes, But Is the Change Good?: Implications of Feminizing Characters in Battlestar Galactica
Lauryn Angel-Cann, Collin County Community CollegeThe Female Trickster in Battlestar Galactica
Audra Heaslip, Collin County Community College, University of Texas at Dallas
Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
"Those Eastern Men of the West": Frederic Remington's The Fall of the Cowboy and the Aesthetic Reconstruction of the American West
Stefan L. Brandt, Freie Universitat Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Westward Ho and the Pioneer Madonna
Marianne Berger Woods, University of Texas at the Permian BasinLuis and Jo Mora, Competing Visions of Spain and the American Southwest
M. Elizabeth Boone, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Panel Chair: Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico
In the Name of the Savage: Appropriation and Naming in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man and Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves
Sara J. Cohen, University of MinnesotaWhen the Legend Dies, Shoot it! The Making and Unmaking of Mythos in The Last Movie and Don't Come Knocking
William Lansing Brown, Mesa State CollegeFrom West to Western in Silent Films
William Hagen, Oklahoma Baptist UniversityGeronimo versus the American Legend: Combating the "White Eye"
Sandra Walsh, University of North TexasThe Intertextual Philosophical Origins of John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dennis Rothermel
Panel Chair: Mary-Kay Gamel
"Si Lucretia es...": Strategies of Rape in the Foundation Myths of Rome and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Frances Kern, University of California Los AngelesCaesar defixus: Graeco-Roman Magic and Cinematic License in the HBO Series Rome
William J. McCarthy, Catholic University of AmericaProducing Violence in HBO's Rome
Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California Santa CruzLindsey Davis and The Course of Honours
Geraldine Thomas, Saint Mary's University, Halifax
Panel Chair: Philip Walsh
Rachel Carson and the Evolution of the "Domestic" in American Women's Nature Writing
Carson Bennett, University of New Mexico, AlbuquerqueEco-Politics and Subversive Poetics: The Evolution of Adrienne Rich
Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State UniversitySelf-Relinquishment in Anzaldua's Borderlands/La frontera
Philip Walsh, California State University-Northridge
Panel Chair: Stefanie Sobelle
Losing Ground: Beckett's Structures of Getting Lost
Ondrea Ackerman, Columbia UniversityAllegorical Spaces in Postmodern Poetic Form
Michael Golston, Columbia UniversityThe Puzzling Passages of George Perec's Narrative Construction Sites
Stefanie E. Sobelle, Columbia University
Panel Chair: Jana Kelly
Punk Rock Movie: DIY and Documentary Film
Noah Cooperstein, University of New MexicoBritish Docu-Soaps
Jana Kelly, University of North Texas
Panel Chair: Matthew George
What Does Hollywood Show: Jesus Is White or Black?
Mitra Naeimi, Glasgow UniversityTheories, Practices, and Methods: Rey Chow on Transnational Exchanges, Experimental Cultural Production, and the Turn to Asian Cinema
Tony Ruiz, University of ColoradoAmerican Nazi's: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat
Matthew R. George, University of MassachusettsMeditations on the Poetics of Experimentalism
Mary Rising Higgins, Independent Scholar, NM
Panel Chair: Antoinette Winstead
Werewolf of London: The Other Universal Werewolf Film
Robert Spadoni, Case Western Reserve UniversityMonstrous Kinships: The Terrible Mother and Childhood Angst in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Jillmarie Murphy, Schenectady County CollegeThis House is not a Home . . . For the Living: The Haunted House in Literature and Film
Antoinette Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake University
Panel Chair: Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University
Mental Representation and the Evolutionary Genesis of Language
Majid Amini, Virginia State UniversitySign, Thought, and Activity in Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto, San Andres
John Unger, Northeastern State University
Karla Kingsley, University of New MexicoA Clockwork Orange: A Journey through Language
Ksenja Bogetic, Belgrade UniversityThe African American Oral Tradition
Justin De Senso, New Mexico State University
Panel Chair: Kristen Abbey
Twentieth Century British Mystery Novels and Bakhtin's "Carnival"
Pam Sawyer"The Hound of the Baskervilles": From Multiplicity to Singularity
Katherine Voyles, University of California IrvineThe Secret Name of God and Other Ontological Mysteries: Jorge Borges's "Death and the Compass" and the Postmodern Metamorphosis of Detective Fiction
Lexey A. Bartlett, Fort Hayes State UniversityCulinary Mysteries: Nourishment and Death
Kirsten Abbey, Felician College
Panel Chair: Jaime Eyrich, University of Arizona
Native American Voters: An Analysis of the Four Pillars of Persuasion
Lindsey A. Harvell (Osage), Wichita State UniversityNavajo Male Views on Life "What Does Manhood Mean for You?"
Lloyd L. Lee (Diné), Arizona State University, West"We Don't Need No Stinking Badges": Methods of Indigenous Native American Social Control
Mike Osborne, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel Chair: Paul S. Goggi
A Faith Unyielding: Conservative and Liberal Philosophies in the Post-9/11 World, as Depicted by the Television Shows Battlestar Galactica and 24
Hugo TorresWar of the Words: The Debate over Steven Spielberg's Munich
Tim Peoples, Texas State University-San MarcosPost-Apocalyptic Government
Leah A. Murray, Weber State UniversityLaura Roslyn: A Neustadtian Look at Her Presidency
Paul S. Goggi III, University at Albany
Panel Chair: Barbara Stock
"We're All Just Floating": The Use of Existentialism in "Objects in Space"
Megan J. Stoner, Mississippi University for Women"Do You Have To Be, Like, Super-Religious?": Institutional Christianity vs. Private Spirituality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Daniel Joslyn, Baldwin Wallace CollegeRiver and Her Apostles: Serenity and the Influence of the New Testament
Lindsay Coleman, University of MelbourneOf Monsters and Men
Barbara Stock, Gallaudet University
Panel Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
The Other and Otherness in the West: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Post-Colonialism in the West
Jeeheey Kim, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New YorkRemembering to Forget: Re-enactments on the Mormon Trail
Carolee Klimchock, The College of William and MaryOff The Books: Art Between the Lines
Bryce Brimer, Rogers State University
Panel Chair: Brad L. Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
The Image of War Nurses in Film and TV: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam
Dianna L. Rivers, Lamar UniversityThe Myth of the Addicted Army in Popular Television and its Contribution to the War on Drugs
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Bucknell University
Thanks for participating in this year's conference. See you next year!