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Frederick Law Olmsted Discovers America: Travel Writing, Race, and Territory in A Journey to Texas
James Nichols, Stony Brook UniversityExploring the West in Premier Style: Photographer Maud Lockley Gibson and Early Automobile Tourism
Minie Smith, Independent ScholarService Stations and Free Enterprise Individualism: Mobility, the Idealistic, and the Pragmatic in the 1960s and 1970s
Chris Dietrich, University of Texas, AustinRoman Holidays and Tuscan Suns: American Women Explore Sexual Desire in Italy, 1848-2003
Debra Bernardi, Carroll College
Intellectual Properties: Growth Boundaries in Digital Scholarship and Copyright Law
Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon UniversityRolling the Digital Dice: Vice Laws, Internet Gambling, and International Regulations
Evelyn Bottando, University of IowaOntologically Perverse: The Problem of Proximate-Painting
Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Emporia State University
Playing Lead Body: The Art of Dancing to the Music of the Grateful Dead
Ruth Allison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, NYCSome Rise, Some Fall: Toward an Epistemology of Terrapin
Kay Alexander, Independent ScholarLearning Theory and the Grateful Dead: The Impact of Immersion in the Arts on a Community
B. Kent Elliott, Lesley Graduate School of Education
The Residential Architecture of John Gaw Meem
Audra Bellmore, University of New MexicoRoadside Architecture Along Route 66
Julie McGilvray, University of New MexicoThe Innovative Pottery of William A. Long
Laura Fry, University of DenverCultural Appropriation of Pacific Northwest Rock Art
Caroline Hartse, Olympic College
Staging Kerouac: Countering Broadway Culture with the Beat Generation
Leah Hansen, Illinois State University“Other People Were the Same Way:” Toward a Social History of the Beat Counterculture
Clinton Starr, Texas A&M UniversityNostalgia for Sale: The Meanings of Beat Fashion
Allegra Ceci, Fashion Institute of Technology
Where is the Love? How Parenting Magazines Discuss the Mommy Wars and Why It Matters
Katherine L. Eaves, Wichita State UniversityGardasil: A Feminist Phenomenon?
Sarahjane Macdonald, University of TorontoRedeeming the Un-redeemable: Revisiting Villains
Anne Daugherty, Baker UniversityThe Relationship Between Film and the Law: Women in Prison Films
Suzanne Bouclin, McGill University
Blues and the Abstract Native: Form and Identity in Popular Native Music
Alan Lechusza Aquallo (Luiseno/Maidu), University of California, San Diego42 Indians and 1 Guitar: A Live Performance on the American Sitcom’s “Indian”
Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche Nation Citizen), Minnesota State University, MankatoPoetry, Song and Prose: A Mechanism for Personal and Cultural Survival
Autumn Morning Star, University of Memphis
“Still not convinced it was the wrong one”: Revising the Conventions of the Western in the Post-Apocalyptic Verse
Jordan Dobbs Rosa, San Francisco State UniversityConstruction Space(s) in Firefly and Serenity
Susan Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh, University of South Dakota“A Storied Legacy”: Visual Language and the Hyperion Hotel
Tammy A. Kinsey, University of Toledo
Hip Hop Ethos in Video Gaming
Robert Tinajero, University of Texas, El Paso“Why can’t people see that records can be like movies?”: Eminem and Visual Projection
Donna Cox, Grimsby Institute of Higher EducationClark Kent Comes to the Hood: Secret Identities, Rap Alter Egos, and the Hustler as Ghetto Superhero
Rob Prince, Bowling Green University
There’s Always Some Killing You Got to Do Around the Farm: The Monstrous Hillbilly in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Patrick F Walter, State University of New York, BuffaloAllowing the Animal to see the Open: Horror Films and the Uncanny Primate
Nathan Gale, University of Texas, ArlingtonPrimal Urges: Creating Alternative Representations of Masculinities and Femininities for a Horror Comedy Short Film
Ben O Mara, Victoria UniversityEliciting the Illicit: Drugs, Sex, and Voodoo in The Dope Ticket Seller
Brandon Burrell, Florida State University
Subverting the Popular: Emerging Native and First Nations Women’s Film and Video
Jennifer A. Machiorlatti, Western Michigan UniversityExploring Indigenous Film Aesthetics
Dorothy Christian, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver CanadaSpeaking from the Heart of Collective Memories
Catherine Martin, Mi’Kmaw Filmmaker/Director
The “Star of Evil”: Serial Killer Marc Dutroux as Media Representation
Rob Leurs, University of UtrechtNews from Me, Really? An Examination of CNN’s News to Me
LaChrystal Ricke, University of Kansas
You Never Sit by The Same River Twice: Reflections on the Process of Recording the Life Histories of Three Elders from the Stó:lô First Nation in B.C.
Meagan Gough, University of SaskatchewanSovereign Women: Native Women Speak Out on Tribal Politics
Diane-Michele Prindville, New Mexico State UniversityA Radical Indigenist Reading of Two Penobscot Texts: Learning How to Listen
Michael LeBlanc, University of New Hampshire
Survivor: Reality in Exile
I-Ju Ruby Chen, S.U.N.Y, Stony BrookCelebrity Revelations of Banality: Reviving the Poetic Tradition of the Anti-Sensational Confessional
Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State UniversityMommy Real(ity) TV: Mothers under Surveillance in Supernanny and Crash Test Mommy
Fiona J. Green, University of WinnipegDiscovery Channel’s Nature-Reality Hybrid: (Re)presenting Survival in the Wake of Katrina and the Tsunami
Andrew Goodridge, University of Arizona, Tucson
Scott, Helmes, St. Paul, MN
K. S. Ernst, S.U.N.Y. College, Oneonta
John M. Bennett, Ohio State University
Sheila E. Murphy, Phoenix, AZ
Crossing Societal Boundaries: How Weird Can Children’s Literature Get?
Denver G. Olmstead, Utah State UniversityMother Goose Rhymes: Internalizing and Externalizing Death
Michael Diezmos, Utah State UniversityRace as Initiation into Selfhood: Confronting the Murder of Emmett Till as a Rite of Passage for American Boys in Recent Children's Literature
Myisha Priest, Santa Clara UniversityOedipal Theory in Margaret Wise Brown's Bunny Trilogy
Claudia Pearson, Hollins University
The Novice Journey: A Look at Early Second Life(style) Identity and Acculturation
Beth Davies, Chris Luchs, and Kae Novak, Front Range Community CollegeComplicating Virtual Identity: Anonymity in Virtual Environments and Virtual Space
Stephen Calaway, East Central University, OklahomaDigital Memory: Investigating and Preserving the History of Virtual Communities
Erik Glyttov, San Diego State University
Jamband Fans and Subcultural Borrowing
Christina L. Allaback, University of OregonSearching for “IT”: Cultural Memory and Identity Formation in the Jamband Scene
Elizabeth Yeager Reece, University of KansasDeadheads for Peace: Filling the Void in 1996
Barry Barnes, Nova Southeastern UniversityRemembering Jerry: “Talk of the Nation” and Local Memorials
Natalie Dollar, Oregon State University, Cascades
Things Get in My Way: Images of the Desert in the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood’s Original Meat Puppets
Matt Smith-Lahrman, Dixie State College of UtahGoin’ to California: How the Theme of Starting Over is Used in Rock Music
Richard Stroud, Northeastern State UniversityAn Original Aesthetic: Tracing Lester Bangs’ Influence on Music Criticism
Andrew Burt, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
The Soteriology of Hamburgers: Circumstance and Fate in Richard Brautigan's “So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”
Matt Stefon, Boston UniversityThe Reception of the Hippy Phenomenon in France: A Cross Cultural Transfer Case Study
Elodie Nowinski, Columbia University“Went fast because road is fast”: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and The Original Scroll
David Kopp, Northern Arizona University
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and the New Woman: Feminism, Keats, and Victorian Painters in Nineteenth-Century England
Megan Stoner, Mississippi University for WomenFollowing a Southwestern Trail: Jane B. Evans and the Founding of the Florence, South Carolina Museum
Marie Watkins, Furman UniversityNew Women of the West: How Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham and Lucy Rose Mallory Influenced Late Nineteenth-Century American Society and Their Relationship with Leo Tolstoy
Marsha Silberman, Independent ScholarIllusion/Representation, Truth/Transgression: Exploring Subversion in the Films of Peter Watkins
Nick Muntean, University of Texas
“Racism Redefined?”: Post-“Chief” Discourse at the University of Illinois
Amber M. Buck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“Mascots of Misogyny”: Discourses of Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia in the “Chief” Controversy
Sharon Cabana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“Keeping it Real”: Imaginary Indians and Virtual Violence
Genevieve Tenoso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alien Landscapes: Robert A. Heinlein's Conversation with the American Indian Diaspora in Stranger in a Strange Land
Connie Bracewell, The University of ArizonaTransforming the Space of Science Fiction: H. G. Wells’s Wonderland in the Virtual Age
Christopher Hollingsworth, University of South AlabamaHouse as Celebration and Rejection of Technology in Bradbury and Wylie
Rebecca Devers, University of Connecticut
“It Ain’t Where you From, it’s Where you At”: Navigating the Terrain Between Hip Hop Culture and Local Community
Sean Slusser, University of California, RiversideThe Hiphop Declaration of Peace: A Strategy for Social and Political Empowerment
David "Minister Server" Tavares, Temple of HiphopHip-Hop and Aesthetic Communicative Practice Within Black Public Spheres: Limitations of Common Foundations and Toward a Renewed Emancipatory Potential
Robert Walsh, University of ChicagoSpeaking the Truth: Intersections of Hip Hop and Teen Spoken Word Poetry
Susan Weinstein, Louisiana State University
Chair: Robert G. Weiner
How about: "Ain't Nobody Gonna Pay for 'Mau Mau…" Dan Sonney, Dave Friedman, and Mau Mau Sex Sex
Cynthia Miller, Emerson CollegeStray Cats Rock—Girl Biker Movies from Japan
David Hopkins, Tenri University, Nara, JapanLOVE HURTS: The Disarticulation of Romance in Jane Campion’s In the Cut
Antje Ascheid, University of GeorgiaIllusion/Representation, Truth/Transgression: Exploring Subversion in the Films of Peter Watkins
Nick Muntean, University of Texas
Pirates in the High School English Classroom: Teaching Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean as Heroic Myth
Amanda Ritter, Henderson State UniversitySuperheroics and Men in Tights: Entertaining With Purpose in the Rhetoric Classroom
AmiJo Comeford, Dixie State CollegeComics as Literature: Incorporating Comic Books Into the Classroom for Academic Study
Paul J. Gasparo Jr., Northern Arizona UniversityPop Goes the Classroom
Colleen Thorndike and Rebecca Randall, Francis Marion University
All Around the Watercooler: A Tentative Look At Online Fan Community From The Galactica Perspective
Stephen Michael KellatThe Depiction of War on Television: American Public Opinion in Pop-Culture
Olaf Standley, Northeastern State UniversityThe Cells of 24
Terry Caesar, Crockett College
The Representation of Native Americans in St. Nicholas Magazine
Monica Pombo, Appalachain State UniversityCarl Beam’s Late Constructions: Provocative Images of Pop Stars
Patricia Vervoort, Lakehead UniversityCollecting Indians: Museums and Issues of Self-Representation
Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina, WilmingtonIndigenous Issues, Letters-to-the-Editor, and Dialogic Spaces in Nature Magazines
Margaret Mortensen Vaughan, Metropolitan State University
Where Everybody Knows His Name: Shakespeare, Race and Cultural Memory on Cheers
David Boyles, Arizona State UniversityAnalyzing Macbeth under Capitalism: As Portrayed in the Film, Scotland, PA
Jude Lee, Sungkyunkwan University Graduate SchoolAnchorman and Blair’s Babe: The Characterization of Female Leads in the BBC Shakespeare Retold
Gabrielle Malcolm, Independent Scholar
Conan-Doyle’s “The Speckled Band”: Fiction, Play, and Film
Anthony Oldknow, Eastern New Mexico University12 Good Men: Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Cheryll Hendershot, Eastern New Mexico UniversityDarker Than Night: Noir and Mulholland Drive
Cyndy Hendershot, Arkansas State University
David Goldstein, York University
Mindy Stricke, Toronto, Canada
Nathan Halverson, Tulsa, OK
Seeing the Enchanted Lands of New Mexico in its Literature
Rosa A. Martinez, University of California, BerkeleyThe Dynamics of Chicana/Chicano (Indigenous) Ethnicities
Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Universite de GrenobleNorth American Historians and the Corralitos Land and Cattle Company, 1880-1911
Russ Chace, Southern Arkansas University
How Convergence and Multimedia Brought Life to Student Publications
Regene Radniecki, Minnesota State University MoorheadTechnical Writing, Cyborg Motivation, and the Problem of Desire
Andrew Mara, North Dakota State UniversityThe Database as Technical Communication Tool
Gordon Gehrs, Illinois Institute of Technology
Discussants:
Graeme Boone, Ohio State UniversityJ. Revell Carr, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jacob A. Cohen, University of Washington
Discourse of the Patio: The Vanishing Performance of Patriarchy in the Borderlands of Caballero
Brandi Bingham Kellet, University of MiamiThe Geography of Conspiracy: Almanac of the Dead as a Post-Cold War Conspiracy Narrative
Seunggu Lew, Texas A&M UniversityShowcases of Diversity in the American West: A Multi-sensory, Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Diversity through Willa Cather’s Short Stories
Melanie McCrory, Deer Trail High SchoolFear of Numbers: The Visual and Textual Rhetoric of Immigrant “Masses”
Linda Joyce Brown, Ashland University
The Blueprint to Turn on the World: The Cultural Axis of Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Timothy Leary
Frank Casale, Nova Southeastern UniversityGinsberg’s Indian Journals
Raj Chandarlapaty, University of Texas, Pan American
Teaching Environmental Rhetoric and Research in Freshman Composition Courses
Kamila Kinyon, University of DenverEnvironmental Worldviews in Music: A Multimedia Method for Teaching Human-Nature Relationships
Claudia Hemphill Pine, University of IdahoWriting the Place You Know: Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition and the Creative Writing Classroom
James Engelhardt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Image of American Indians in Popular Culture
Les Hannah (Cherokee Nation Citizen), Kansas State UniversityThe Chickasaw Nation in the 21st Century: Economic and Cultural Revitalization
Jennifer Sanchez (Chickasaw Nation Citizen), East Central University OklahomaRisk and Benefit Analysis of Shipping Port Ownership
Andrew Corban Lara (Juaneno Band of Mission Indians), University of California, Los AngelesGreetings from Indian Country: Contemporary Perceptions of American Indians through Popular Twentieth Century Postcard Images
Patti Jo King (Cherokee Nation Citizen), University of Oklahoma
“Oops, I killed my sister”: Postfeminist Sisterhoods in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bionic Woman
Monique Lacoste, University of WashingtonKissing Men or Men Kissing: Slash Subculture and the Carnivalesque in Buffy Fandom
Jennifer Love, San Jose State UniversityThe Dead and the Frugal: Buffy, Angel, and the Economics of Demon Slaying
Lea Popielinski, Ohio State University
Destroy to Rebuild - A Feminist Funeral Eulogy for the Female Rapper
Tracey Salisbury, Wabash CollegeMiri Ben-Ari’s “Symphony of Brotherhood”: Is it Really about Us?
Ingrid Pruss, Western Connecticut State UniversityFeminists and Femme Fatales: Re-visioning Women’s Agency in Hip Hop
Jessica Parker, Metropolitan State College of Denver
The More You Rape Their Senses, The Happier They Are: A History of Cannibal Holocaust
Andy Devos, Independent ScholarB is for Bile, Blood, and Bones: On Corporeal Bodies in the Films of Peter Greenaway
Eric Levy, Independent ScholarSpace in the Films of Andy Milligan: Towards a Theory of Grindhouse Film Practice
Kevin John Bozelka, University of TexasSure it's Art, But is it Porn?: Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, and the “Limits” of Transgression
John Cline, University of TexasExploitations’ Prince: Dwain Esper
Robert G. Weiner, Mahon Library
Written for Women by Women: Popular Romance and Gender Studies in the Classroom
Flurije Salihu, Arizona State UniversityCombining After-School English Programs in the Border
Javier Ventura Urbina, University of California, Los AngelesOpening the American Mind: Using First-Year Composition to Mitigate the Attack Media
Patrick Phillips, University of KansasPopular Culture in the Developmental Classroom: Learner Centered and Interest-Based Curriculum with Results
Susan Dameron, Oklahoma State University
It’s the Journey that Counts: Sex and the City and Traditional Femininity
Ashley Schoppe, Louisiana Scholars’ CollegeSandra Oh Meets Mao Zedong: Ethnic Slippage, Korean Culture, and (Post)Orientalism in Gilmore Girls
David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
Hye Seung, Chung Hamilton CollegeKarate Chopping Feminism: Miss Piggy, Feminism and The Muppet Show
Brenda McDermott, University of Calgary
The Doctrine of Discovery and American Indians
Robert Miller (Eastern Shawnee), Lewis & Clark Law SchoolSouthwest Tourism: Assimilation, Indians, and Identity
Ken Melichar, Piedmont CollegeWhite Enough to be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Lauren Basson, Ben-Gurion Univeristy, Beersheva
Shakespeare on Film in the Davis County Classroom
Michael Handy, Weber State UniversityShakespeare on Film: Kenneth Branagh’s Direction and Interpretation
Karla Heinen, North Carolina State University“Don’t Call it a Comeback”: Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It
Jessica M. Maerz, Oklahoma State University
Science Fictions of the Present: Narrative Unities and the Utopianism of Film in Shane Carruth’s Primer
Gerald Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDeconstructing Artifice in the Films of Judd Apatow
Duane Vanderveer, Northeastern State UniversityJean Paul Sartre, Lindsey Lohan, and Britney Spears
John Dean, Texas State UniversityThe Native American Elements of Lady in the Water
Christie Daniels and James Soares, University of Texas, El Paso
Shira Dentz, Salt Lake City, UT
Kimberly Lojek, University of Illinois, Chicago
Erica Anzalone, Drake University
Hugh Tribbey, East Central Oklahoma
Discussants:
Shannon Snow, Kilby Smith-McGregor, Kate Doyle, Asetha Power, Pam Klassen, Katherine Yamashita, Ann Silver, Prabha Jerrybandan, Kerri Embrey, Natalie Hemraj, and Rishma Dunlop
Captivity, Sovereignty, and Interracial Friendship in Charles Sealsfield’s Tokeah, or the White Rose
Brian Yothers, University of Texas, El PasoNature’s Captives: “Wild People” Narratives as Captivity Narratives
Erik Anderson, Brown University
Science and Citizenship: Collecting African American and Indian Bodies in Post-Emancipation America
Nancy Bercaw, University of Mississippi“For Preservation in California”: Understanding American Museum Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century: A Case Study of California Indians
Samuel J. Redman, University of California, Berkeley“Scrapping” Feminism?: Collecting Contemporary Images of Domesticity
Rosemary L. Sallee, University of New MexicoKiller Clutter: The Pathology of Consumerism in Make-Over Television
Rafael Miguel Montes, St. Thomas University, Miami
Richard Wright Called It Dynamite: Joe Louis as Folk Hero and Celebrity
Linda Tucker, Southern Arkansas UniversityBack in Her Majesty’s Good Graces: Postcolonial Pandering in American Princess
Anne Zimmermann, Rollins CollegeCo-Heirs of the Natural World: The Tainted Inheritance of Isaac and Boon in William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Paul D. Reich, Rollins College
Masculine Ambivalence: The Role of the Mother Figure in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Letters
Shintaro Mizushima, Doshisha UniversityNorman Mailer: The Existentialist Beyond the Headlines
Gregory Selber, University of Texas, Pan AmericanBeat Girl?: Joyce Glassman and Writing a Female Beat Generation
Gordon Marshall, Halic University
Scattered Learners and the Assembled Educators
Nancy G. Barron, Northern Arizona UniversityHidden Treasures: Chairing Faculty Who Teach Online Courses
Ruth McAdams, Tarrant County College
Marketing the NFL (National Football League) to Women: Selling a “Man’s Game”
Lisa Wagner, University of LouisvilleMainstream Raunch and Foucault’s Biopolitics: Redefining Ideas of Sex Appeal
Marlena Stanford, Colorado State“Dancing Ain’t Sissy Stuff”: Gene Kelly’s Constructions of Masculinity Through Choreography and Character
Ashley M. Caskey, University of ArizonaAmerican Entertainment Reinvented: Cirque Du Soleil, Gender and Masculinity
Michael Johnson, Jr., University of Southern Florida
Walters’ Ghost Singer, Carr’s Eye Killers, the Long Walk, and the Problem of History
Catherine Rainwater, St. Edwards UniversityNative American Oral Stories: The Land as Story and Setting in American Fiction
Anna Walters, Diné College, ShiprockMetahistory and Metafiction in La Casa De Los Espiritus/The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Written as Metaphor of Latin American Political Violence
Guido Arze, Rogers State UniversityTaking Place: Landscape and the Animal Community in the Children’s Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Joanna Dawson, University of Calgary
The Dynamics of Chicana/o Indigenous Identities
Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Universite de GrenobleT.S. Eliot’s Waste Land and the ‘Shakespeherian Rag’: Post-War Fragments and Pop Culture Sutures
Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M UniversityNative Hearing, Native Speech: Sounding the Stolen Voices of Place
Dina Hartzell, Marlyhurst UniversityInfluence of the Media on American and World Culture
Jeremy Cook, North Oklahoma University
IM a Native Librarian: The NSCU Fellow Experience as a Technology Bridge for Native American Librarians
Janelle Feather Sparrow Joseph and Sandra Littletree, North Carolina State UniversityMixing Up Government Information: Web 2.0, Mashups, and Government Data
Annelise Sklar, University of California, San DiegoSocial Networking: A MySpace Page for Stillwater Public Library
Jenneffer Sixkiller, University of Oklahoma
Language of “Gendering War” in President Ellen Sirleaf’s Speeches
Beatrice Russell, California State University, SacramentoFraming African-Americans in Hurricane Katrina
Kathy Grismore, Arizona State UniversitySome Desiderata for a Theory of Filled Pauses in Spontaneous Speech
Ralph Rose, Gunma Perfectural Women’s University
“Driven from the Highways by Locust-Like Swarms of Automobiles”: Suburbanization, the Outlaw Cyclist and the Reconfiguration of Public Space in Post-War America
Randy McBee, Texas Tech UniversityOn Yer Bike! The Work-Style of Dispatch Riding
Eryl Price-Davies, Thames Valley University, Ealing, LondonInternal Graffiti: Why the Walls Speak at Motorcycle Bars
Jacob Caffey and Joshua White, University of ArizonaMotorcycles, Hollywood, and the Post-Fossil Fuel Future: A Fool’s Prediction
Paul Nagy, Clovis Community College, Clovis
Analyzing the Rutles: The Music and Identity of the Pre-Fab Four
Christine E. Boone, University of TexasAlways Moving Forward: Hegemony and the Paradoxes of the Punk Documentary
Evan Thomas Elkins, University of TexasLPs and Maladies: Popular Music and Wes Anderson’s Afflicted Men
Bo Baker, University of Texas
“Memory to All That Howling Space”: DeLillo’s Falling Man and Art in the Post-containment Era
Eunju Hwang, Sogang University, SeoulPostmodernity and the Gashouse Gang: Baseball in Paul Auster’s Mr. Vertigo and City of Glass
Joshua DanielGoing to the Movies: Salving Alienation in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
Charles Parsons, New Mexico Highlands UniversityBlood on the Bookstore Floor: Chuck Palahniuk and the Case of the Fainting Reader
Steffan Hantke, Sogang University, Seoul
“The heavy accent of thy moving tongue,” Speaking Shakespearean Text on Screen
Leslie O’Dell, Wilfrid Lauier UniversityThe Creative Process and the Power of Art in Shakespeare Behind Bars, or So This Is What Looking for Richard Meant to Do?
Kelli Marshall, Texas Christian UniversityScreening Shakespeare Across National Boundaries, Time, and Space: When is an Adaptation a “Translation”? Or, Why Bother to Adapt Shakespeare to Cinema?
Jim Welsh, Salisbury University
Re-imagining Home in Asian American Poetry: An Inquiry into Cultural Dwellings
Benzi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong KongUncovering the Shifting Attitude of Language Learning for Chinese American Youths
YihFang Pan, University of New MexicoImmigration and Class in Contemporary South Asian American Fiction
Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas, El PasoMonkey King vs. Tripmaster Monkey: Chinese vs. Chinese American Culture
Sherman Han, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Fandom Writ Large: Fanfiction Writing Communities on Livejournal.com
Geneva Canino, University of OklahomaBoldly Going: Representation in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Star Trek Community
Erin K. Johns, West Virginia UniversityKeeping Score: Women in Bull Durham
Robert Murray Davis, University of Oklahoma, EmeritusCopyright Protection and Anti-Piracy Action for Content on the Internet
Kathleen Lewis, Henderson State University
“A Lotus From the Swam”: Robert Lepage and the Intimacy of Technology
Patrick Gauthier, University of British Columbia“Hand Me the Key That Unlocks My Front Door”: The Influence of the Blues on the Varied Forms of Sexual Autonomy in August Wilson’s Drama
Allia Homayoun, California State University, Chico“When I’m eating I’m Home”: Food Fantasies in the Plays of Sam Shepard
Deborah Murray, Kansas State UniversityDouble Edged Sword-ComedySportz, Whose Line is it Anyway? and the Selling Out of Improv
Matt Fotis, Shantz Theatre
Grassroots Graffiti
Darren M. Edwards, Utah State UniversityThe Audacity Formerly Known As Hope: Presentations of the Urban Environment in “Hip Hop Literature”
Mia Fiore, Drew UniversityPerforming Wilderness: Rap, “Wilding,” and the Central Park Jogger
Stephen J. Mexal, California State University, FullertonIn the Shadow of the Silk Road: Places and Space of American Rap Music in Kazakhstan
Angelita D. Reyes, Arizona State University
Honoring the Presenters and Guests of the 29th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Associations. Hosted by the Hyatt Regency Hotel
Representations of Sleepwalkers and Zombies as Wartime Social Commentary: From Charles Brockden Brown and the American Revolution to Stephen King and the War on Terror
Valerie Simpson, Northern Arizona UniversityClara’s Fatal Passion: Sinister Attraction and the American Colonial Experience in Charles Brockden Brown’s Novel Wieland
Rebecca Bossie-Pruett, University of Texas, El PasoRadio Jazz Culture of the 1920s
Michele Ferm, Independent ScholarWorking Wonders and High-Class Freaks: Class and Normativity in the Freak Show Carte de Visite
Katie Williams, Indiana University
Starting at the “START”
Steven Conway, University of BedfordshireThe Music of Mario—Space and Nostalgia
Josh Fishburn, University of DenverFrom Schoolgirl to Dominatrix: The Legitimizing Rhetoric of Representation in Girl Gamers’ Online Communities
Amanda Bemer, Utah State University
From Sri Aurobindo to the Grateful Dead: Metanormal States and the Geography of Consciousness
Lynda Lester, Independent ScholarA Super-Metacantric Analysis of “Playing in the Band”
Bob Trudeau, Providence CollegeParadise Waits: In a Banyan Tree?
Mary Goodenough, Independent Scholar
Stargazing in the Atomic Age
Anne Goldman, Sonoma State UniversityCold War Expositions: The World of Tomorrow in the Atomic Age
Lisa D. Schrenk, Norwich UniversityThe Rise and Fall of the Idea of Disarmament
David Tal, Syracuse UniversityNuclear Pathways
Frank Settle, Washington and Lee University
Attack of the Escrow Indians: Will Rogers and the Absurdity of the American Western
Amy M. Ware, University of Texas, AustinA Presidential Crinoline: Will Rogers and the Performance of the Presidency in Twentieth Century Political Humor
Peter M. Robinson, College of Mount St. JosephResearch Opportunities for the Study of Will Rogers at the Will Rogers Memorial
Steve Gragert, Director, Will Rogers Memorial
Roses, Eroticism and the Good Life: The Parallel Roles of Beauty in Plato's Symposium and American Beauty
Maya Alapin, University of OxfordThe Modern Labyrinth
Alison Traweek, University of PennsylvaniaForever Ithaca: What if Penelope Did Recognize Ulysses?
Giovanni Migliara, James Madison UniversityEpic Echoes in High Noon
Kirsten Day, Augustana College
Tribal Museums & Cultural Centers: Learning and Knowing in a Public Context
Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo)
Indian Arts Research Center, School of Advanced Research, Santa FeDisplaying Remains: Exhibiting American Indian and African American Body Parts in Post-Emancipation America
Nancy Bercaw, University of MississippiThe Mars of Monticello: Jeffersonian Anthropology and Early American Indian Policy
Judd Burton, Texas Tech UniversityUsing the Colonizer’s Tools: Archaeology, Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, and the Conflict of Science
Joe Watkins, University of Oklahoma
Dorothy and the Heroic Chicken
Richard Tuerk, Texas A&M University, CommerceBattling Binaries in Harry Potter: Deconstructing Patriarchy in The Deathly Hallows
Debbie Killingsworth, University of Colorado, BoulderThe Education of a Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger, and Gendered Magic in Discworld and Potterworld
Janet Brennan Croft, University of OklahomaGender Matters in Terry Pratchet’s Discworld Series and Beyond
Ximena Gallardo C., City University of New York, La Guardia
Screening: Portrait in Sepia Tone
Nancy J. Membrez, University of Texas, San Antonio
Women’s Earth: Nature as Female Place in Willa Cather and Sarah Orne Jewett
Alison Laurell, Western Michigan UniversityThe Green Ethics of Fantasy: An Ecocritical Approach to Novels of Patricia McKillip
Tonia L. Payne, Nassau Community CollegeThe West as “Dark Menagerie”: Frontier, Performance, and Carnival in Alissa York’s Effigy
Joanna Dawson, University of CalgaryTheoretical Models: Fenceline, Ceremony and Gardens in the Dunes
Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University
Lights, Camera, Science
Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTalking Stories: When the Hidden Becomes Public
Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales, University of Arizona
Reclaiming Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Andy Erish, Chapman UniversityRevealing Self Through Dramatic Choice: Alfred Hitchcock’s Adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds
Holly Anderson, University of Arkansas, Little RockHitchcock and his Audience: Identification and Manipulation of the Viewer
Amanda Salazar, Chapman UniversityThe Consistency of Style: Hitchcock's Rope
Brent Dunham, Chapman University
No More Sioux Than I: Native Representations in “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”
Delores Amorelli, University of FloridaWhy Sherman Alexie Hates Tonto and I Love Vinnetou: Comparison of American and European Cinematic Indians
Alexandra Hubackova, Palacky University, Czech RepublicThe Lure of the Primitive and the Myth of the West: Cultural History Lessons for Television
Heidi Nickisher, Rochester Institute of Technology
Strength is My Weakness: The Fatally Unflawed Heroes of Dick Francis
Sharon Tyler, University of California, Riverside“You are a Good Man, Sister”: The Weakening of Feminist Social Critique in Huston’s The Maltese Falcon
Joe Killiany, New Mexico State UniversityCannibilizing Knowledge: Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man
Thomas Dvorske, Eastern New Mexico State University
Sic Educational Fun: Popular Culture in the Literary Theory Classroom
Cammie Sublette, University of Arkansas, Fort SmithThe Internet, Ideology, and the Classroom: The Cyber World as Window onto Real World Politics
Sean Murray, St. John’s UniversityHangn’ Out: Discovering Cross Generational Connections about “What’s In” Through the Seemingly “Out” Art of Conversation
Ann Phillips, Mooresville (Indiana) High SchoolDeconstructing Celebrity: Teaching Gender Constructions Through an Examination of Popular Culture Icons
Tracy Barton, Millikin University
“In Love there are no Boundaries”: The Cinema’s Map-Making on the Female Body in The English Patient
Tamar Ditzian, University of ManitobaKnocked Up and Big Love: Traditional Masculinities Victories and Defeats
Anastasia Alexopoulos, University of TorontoWriting the Mother, The Mother Writing: Feminine Ecriture in Alien and The Matrix
Eva P. Bueno, St. Mary’s UniversitySadomasochistic Women: Replaying the Politics of Queer Bodies through BDSM in Secretary and The Piano Teacher
Lindsay Greer, Southern Illinois University
Parallelism through Time in Aztec Legend of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl with Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
María C. Ríos, The University of Texas, Pan AmericanIntimacies of Empire: Mistress-Servant Relations in Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Guatemala
Colleen Krushelinski, University of SaskatchewanMapuches en Laguna Blanca, Argentina: mitos y leyendas
Susana Perea-Fox, Oklahoma State UniversityLet’s Talk about Diversity and Inclusion: Some Reactions
Iván Figueroa, Oklahoma State University
The U.S. Media, Global Hegemony, and Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform Vote of 2007
George Hartley, Ohio UniversityReal-time News and Constant Polling
Robert Schaller, Texas Tech UniversityNature vs. Shizen: A Cross-Cultural Comparison and Analysis of Tourism Market Images of Nature and How Nature is Sold
Yuko Nakamura, Rikkyo University, JapanMedia Representations of “Illegal” Immigration in the U. S.
Carlos Salinas, The University of Texas, El Paso
The Mystery of Manhood: Reasserting Masculinity on The Pick-Up Artist
Peter Alilunas, University of Texas, AustinI Love New York: A Reinvention of the Feminine
Eliane Spaar, Northwestern State University of Louisiana“I Am (Multiracial) Woman”: A Case Study of America’s Next Top Model’s Construction of Racialized Beauty
Candice Haddad, University of Texas, AustinLet’s Talk about Sex (Therapy): Reality Television and Scientia Sexualis
Brad Houston Lane, Indiana University
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: The Historical Development and Modern Adaptation of Appalachian Funeral Practices
Deborah Anderson-Silvers, University of South FloridaI See American People: M. Night Shyamalan’s Approach to the Myths and Motivations of the American Utopian Impulse
April Oglesbee, University of West Georgia“The Women, God Bless Them”: Dallas Women of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Laura Mohsene, University of Texas, Dallas
Negotiating Stereotypes in Arab American Women Comedy
Dalia Basiouny, City University of New York, Graduate CenterFrom Rebecca to the “Three Dancing Girls of Egypt”: American Women’s Encounters of Arab Women During the 19th Century
Christine Lindner, University of EdinburghSpace, Identity, and Spirituality: Thirdspace(s) in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz
Sabiha Sorgun, Northern Illinois University
Shamanic Elements in the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
Stanley Krippner, Saybrook Graduate SchoolWearing Simmelian Lenses while Studying the Deadhead Community
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Into the Twilight Zone
Tracie Harris, Georgia State UniversityThe World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Politics of Race and Sex in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Cinema
Stephanie Larrieux, Clark UniversityGender on the Nuclear Frontier: The Science Fiction Films of James Cameron
Patrick B. Sharp, California State University, Los AngelesAt the Frontier of the Apocalypse: Some Thoughts on Atomic Themes in Westerns
Scott C. Zeman, New Mexico Tech
Reading the Contemporary Latino Lesbian in Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls Social Club
Eva Naranjo, St. Louis UniversityGoing South: Land, Roads and Travel in Caramelo, Becoming Naomi Léon, and What the Moon Saw
J.A. Montano, Hope CollegeIn the Driver's Seat: The Open Road and the Written Word in Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.
Regan Rostma, University of Kansas
Feminizing the Forbidden: The Hyper-Violent Re-imagining of Classical Womanhood in Kane's Phaedra
Christina Gutierrez, Independent ScholarCirce’s Stories: New and Old
Mary Economou, Humber CollegeClassical Allusions in Louise Gluck’s Echoes
Mary Azcuy, Monmouth University“Inside a Woman is Always Window”: Persephone as Archetype and Individual in Rachel Zucker’s Eating in the Underworld
Susan Joseph, Catholic University of America
Don’t Call Me a Chick: The Consequences of “Chick-Lit”
Sarah Antinora, California State University, San BernadinoFrom Femme Fatale to Female Eunuch: Lust at Sea in Stacey Richter’s “The Island of Boyfriends”
Nat Hardy, Savannah State UniversityWomen and Body Image in “Chick Lit” Novels
Amanda Runyan, California State University, ChicoGirl and the City: Shanghai Babe as the Chinese Chick Lit
Eva Chen, National Cheng-Chi University
Audiovisual Design of Spacecraft and Space Travel in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars: A New Hope, and Alien
Ally Khalid, University of ManchesterAlienWare: Sexual Surfaces in 2001: A Space Odyssey
C. Jason Smith, City University of New York, LaGuardia College
Discussants:
Cindy Miller, Emerson CollegeDeborah Carmichael, Michigan State University
Peter C. Rollins, Ridgemont Media
Whitman, the Body and Ecocentric Community
Andrew Rose, University of WashingtonMary Oliver’s Ecocritical Corrective
Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Illinois State UniversityDorothy’s Moving Heart: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Ethics Of Writing Nature
John Mark Hussey, Aims Community College“Double meanings are indispensible and reticence, mystery”: Surrealism, Evolutionary Biology and ‘The Sycamore’
Sharla Hutchison, Fort Hays State University
Discussants:
Ernest Whiteman III, Northern Arapaho Filmmaker, Director of First Nations Film and VideoCatherine Martin, Mi’Kmaw Filmmaker/Director
Dorothy Christian, Okanagan & Secwepemc Nations, Filmmaker/Director
Patty Loew, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Filmmaker
Electronic Enlightenment or the Digital Dark Age? Imagining Film Scholarship in an Age without Film
Leo Enticknap, University of LeedsA Home Movie Trip Along Route 66: Kodachrome, 1947
Margie Compton, University of Georgia LibrariesA Home Movie Trip Along Route 66: An Analysis of the Images
Mark Neumann, Northern Arizona UniversityBehind the Celluloid Image: The Often Forgotten Role Paper Based Archives Play in Maintaining Our Cinematic Heritage
Sandra Garcia-Myers, University of Southern California
From Powwow Dancer to Prima Ballerina: How Native Americans Helped Save Ballet
Margaret O’Shaughnessey, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThe Case for an American Indian “Sesame Street”
Hugh Foley, Rogers State UniversitySCANA: History and Formation of the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry
Alfred Young Man (Cree), First Nations University of CanadaAnd Coyote Said, “I won the bones!”: Native American and Traditional Gambling
Edward Wapp, Institute of American Indian Arts
Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewit: Detectives and Patriots
Justin P. Coffey, Quincy UniversityThe Horror Fiction of M.R. James
Charles Wukasch, Austin Community CollegeRethinking the Sequel: Sherlock Holmes, Mrs. Hudson, and Cookery Books
Edelma Hyntley, Appalachian State University
Several panelists from the “Popular Culture and the Classroom” section will discuss how to use popular culture to interest students in the upcoming election. Please join us to share your ideas!
Eckhart Tolle's Concept of the Egoic Mind in Shakespeare's Richard II
John Mercer, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, OKThe American Jesus: Jesus Christ Superstar
Nicole CuUnjieng, University of PennsylvaniaSearching for the New Age Movement: Books, Journals, and Film
Marla K. Roberson, Tri-County Technical College
Moderator: Lynnea Chapman King, Butler College
Joel and Ethan Coen’s most recent film, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, has received much critical praise and a host of nominations and awards. In the wake of this success, this forum will provide an opportunity for discussion of the Coen oeuvre with aficionados and detractors alike.
Slow Food, Slow Film
Dennis Rothermel, California State University, ChicoSex and Candy: Women in Advertising and the Eroticisation of Food
Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne, Australia“It is a Ritual in Intimacy”: Food and Sexuality in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
Rachel Olsen, Kansas State UniversityThe Gendered Palate: The Role of Women in Japanese Culinary Comic Books
Lorie Brau, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Instant Writing Technologies: Tools for Writing
Mandy Kallus, Kingwood CollegeTheoretical Value of Instant Writing Technology Tools in Experiential Learning Contexts
Beth Maxfield, Henderson State UniversityTechniques for Teaching the Importance of Ethics in Instant Writing Technologies
Amelia Keel, Kingwood College
Hosted by the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Associations, this 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 Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau Award for Southwestern Culture and 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 winners! Congratulations to All!
Dis-Illusion of Race in the Secret Chamber: A Lacanian Analysis of Race in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jordana Hall, Texas A&M University, CommerceWho’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Werewoolf: The Shrieking Shack as a Room of Lupin’s Own in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Bryan Jones, Northeastern State UniversityRevealing Discrimination: Social Hierarchy and the Exclusion/Enslavement of the Other in the Harry Potter Novels
Amy M. Green, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
From Sounds of Islam to Worldly Songs: Entry into Arabic Music for Non-Arabs in the U.S.
Kirk-Evan Billet, Lake Forest CollegeLinguistic Deployment: The Militarization of Arabic and the American Academy
Maisa C. Taha, University of ArizonaCulture vs. Technology: Implications for Arab-Americans
Amira Akl, Bowling Green State UniversityTeaching the Struggle: Arab Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Rosina Hassoun, Michigan State University
“Dark Star” Revisited, Revisited
Graeme Boone, Ohio State University“The Compass Always Points to Terrapin”: Harmonic and Geographic Ambiguity in the Grateful Dead’s “Terrapin Station”
Jacob A. Cohen, University of WashingtonUncle Charles’s Band: More on Charles Ives and the Grateful Dead
Shaugn O’Donnell, City University of New York
Laughing All the Way: Growing Up Atomic
William Hagen, Oklahoma Baptist UniversitySynthesizing Protest: The Anti-Nuclear Songs of the 1980s
William M. Knoblauch, Ohio UniversityWe Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming: The Bomb, Death Rock, and the Culture of Interruption in the Atomic Age
Jessica Schwartz, New York University
The Healing Rhetorician: An Analysis of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera through Stanley Fish’s Rhetoric
Vanessa Cozza, Bowling Green State UniversityA New Chicana: Breaking Stereotypes and Asserting Subjectivity
Myrriah Gomez, University of New MexicoAnzuldúa as Nahuala and the Politics of Shamanic Poetry
George Hartley, University of Ohio
Seriality and the Non-Serious
Sasha-Mae Eccleston, University of OxfordSpinning Pilate: Misrepresentation of the Roman Provincial Governor in Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Peggy Maddox, University of ArkansasThe Roman Empire as Public History and the Dominant Paradigm of “Decline and Fall”
Jonathan David, California State University, Stanislaus
Black on Red Minstrelsy?
Sarita Cannon, San Francisco State UniversityLions for Lambs: Understanding Blood and Citizenship in the US and Cherokee Nation
Ellen Cushman (Cherokee Nation Citizen), Michigan State UniversityI am Part White, but I Can’t Prove It: Cherokee Indian Blood Heritage and Identity
Richard L. Allen (Cherokee Nation Citizen), Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK
Effort and Evaluation: Assessing Grading Policies in the Creative Writing Classroom
Eduardo Astigarraga, Florida Atlantic UniversityWhat It Means To Be a Writer: Introducing Beginning Creative Writers to Activity Systems
David McClure, Bowling Green State UniversityThat @!&$#! Opening Scene: Some Advice for Beginning Screenwriters
Lawrence Clark, Houston Baptist University
United 93, World Trade Center and Faith in America
Alasdair Spark and Elizabeth Stuart, University of Winchester, UKHollywood’s Untold Story of Arabs and Camels
Waleed Mahdi, University of New MexicoWorth Pondering: The Cinematic Representation of Terrorism’s Root Causes in The Battle of Algiers (1966) and Caché (2005)
Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque
The Sadist features cult actor Arch Hall Jr. (Eegah!) as half of the homicidal couple. Along with his insane girlfriend, he makes his way across the country picking victims at random. Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old service station and junkyard for repairs. Unfortunately, this is also where Hall has decided to come off the road. This film was a major influence on Quentin Tarantino’s script and Oliver Stone’s 1994 film, Natural Born Killers; the similarities are uncanny. The Sadist is a key text in a modern folktale of a type only exceeded by the Manson murders. With striking cinematography, by Vilmos Zsigmonds, who would later win an Oscar for his camera work, The Sadist provides a glimpse at Trangressive Cinema in its most pure form.
The Literary and Cinematic “Dracula”: Fangs for the Memories
Michelle McCargish, Oklahoma State University
Alone in the Dark: Isolation and Paranoia in Sci-Fi and Horror Film
Mitchell Locke, Kansas State UniversityThe Zombies that Ate My Social Life: A Semester’s Study of the Films of George Romero
Marcus Mallard, University of Central OklahomaBy the Dawn’s Early Fright: Teaching American History with Horror Film
Brad L. Duren, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Found Footage as Imaginative Historiography
Zoe Constantinides, Concordia UniversityRecycling the Real: Found Footage Film as the New Realist Project
Sarah Bishop, University of VirginiaArchive, Ideology and Discourse: An Analysis of the Artbeats Digital Film Library
Nate Harrison, University of California, San DiegoMoving Pictures, Visible Fragrances: Josef Breitenbach’s Odor and Aroma Film
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona
Cedar, Sage, and IV Poles: The Accommodation of First Nations Healing Rituals in Canadian Hospitals
Kathleen Jones, Independent ScholarChronic Renal Failure in the Navajo Area Indian Health Service
Matthew Nelson, University of New MexicoSociopolitical Health Disparities in Indigenous Peoples
Michelle Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw) and Derek Jennings (Sac & Fox and Quapaw), University of Wisconsin, Madison
The North Wind of Fairy Stories Ringing in My Ears: Fairy Tales in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Susan Howe
Jacquilyn Weeks, University of Notre DameFairly Tales in Angela Carter’s “demythologizing business”
Julie Sauvage, University of Nantes, FranceFear and Self-Loathing in Post-Feminist Fiction: The Loathly Lady’s Daughters
Kathyrn Inskeep, Drew University“The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf”: Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica and the Fairy Tale
Suzanne Warren, University of Cincinnati
An Analysis of How Anthropologists and Archaeologists Are Viewed as the Protagonists in Popular Film and Television
Sarah E. Wolff, Pennsylvania State UniversityFaustian Deal-breakers: Man Versus the Prince of Darkness
Amy Frazier, The University of Texas, BrownsvilleThe Fifth Gospel in Film
W. Marshall Johnston, Fresno Pacific University
Frances Asberry, Wright State University
Ryan Neighbors, Northeastern State University
Marcia Kear, University of South Dakota
Robert Johnson, Midwestern State University
Keep Your Chin Up and Your Skirt Down: Examining Feminist Politics in Country Music 1957-1967
Brandy Boyd, Saint Louis UniversityHumor as Change Agent: Exploring the Verse, Songs and Libretti of Henry Carey (1689-1743)
Jennifer Cable, University of RichmondHanns Eisler in Hollywood: Angewandte Musik in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Jennifer Chu, University of Texas, Austin
On Broadway: The Rise and Fall of a Major City Thoroughfare
Les Anderson, Wichita State UniversityGetting Their Kicks (But Anything Else?): Living and Learning Along Route 66
John Mitrano and Bruce Day, Central Connecticut State UniversityFinding Continuity: Teaching Core English Courses at West Point
Nathaniel Redden, West PointThe Department Chair and the Office: Academic Leadership in the Michael Scott Way
Melanie Mock, George Fox University
Anomaly, Norm, Ideal: The (Making of the) Yogi’s Body
Harmony Elizabeth Jankowski, Indiana University“There is no rest for the Wiccan”: How Commercialization Changed the Image of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
Brian de Ruiter, Swansea UniversityThe Electric Priestess, or the Materiality of the Immaterial
Cherie Ann Turpin, University of DC, Washington DCAngels, Witches, and Goddesses: Female Archetypes in the Popular Media
Kris Jones, York Technical College
Becoming a Vampire Is More Than a Bite: Psychological Initiation in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Book Series
Emily Sorensen, Utah State UniversitySex and Vampires: Validating Conservative Sexuality in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series
Elizabeth Benson, Utah State UniversityAbsent and Captive: Dead Girls and Suspense Genre
Jack Kaulfus, Texas State UniversityHealing the Wound: Moving from Patriarchal Curse to Feminine Power in Robin McKinley's Damarian Novels
Diana Dominguez, University of Texas, Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Reality Shows
Kathryn Braun, University of KentuckyResiliency: A Case Study of African-Americans in Waterloo, Iowa
Laura Locher, University of TennesseeAbsinthe: A History and Resurgence
Amy Dennis, University of San AngeloPropaganda and Its Effect on the Future Generation
Jennifer Fuller, Henderson State University
The Grateful Dead and Platonic Philosophy
Julie Postel, Independent Scholar“Wings to Fly”: Love’s Refrain in the Ideational Space of a Grateful Dead Soundscape
Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus“Really Had To Move”: The Grateful Dead As the Quintessential Dance Band
Stan Specter, Modesto College
“The slums are the back-yards of gain”: Rev. Robert Whitaker and the Social Gospel in Progressive Era California
Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edward’s University“To take all the Paines We can Now to Teach Them”: The Politics of Indian Evangelization in Colonial New England
Brandon Vestal, University of Texas, ArlingtonThou Shall Not Work: Religious Accommodation and Labor Resistance in Eighteenth Century Sonoran Missions
Alexander L. Wisnoski III“Sue the Bastard”: Post-Apocalyptic Theodicy in Angels in America
Lee T. Hamilton, University of Texas, Pan American
Why Geography: The Wor(l)d of Gertrude Stein’s Wordscapes
Ondrea Ackerman, Columbia UniversityThe Inscapability of Dwelling in Yoknapatawpha
Stephanie Sobelle, Sarah Lawrence CollegeThe ABC of Landscape Poetry
Michael Golston, Columbia University
Today’s Accountant—Socially Inept or Rhetorically Savvy?
Shane Boyle, University of Texas, El PasoSchruteability: Behavioral Subjectivity and The Office
Wendolyn Rios, University of Texas, El PasoPower and Image: How Technology Influences the Way We Are Perceived
Steven Galvan, University of Texas, El PasoInterpersonal Communication: “It’s simply beyond words. It’s incalculacable.”
Shayne Huffman, University of Texas, El PasoOrganizational Communication and the Entrepreneurial Gaze
Jameson R. Navar, University of Texas, El Paso
Twentieth-Century “Resuscitations” of Averroes, 12th Century Arabic Philosopher
Carol Lea Clark, University of Texas, El PasoNo Self to Help: A Buddhist Analysis of the Misguided American Pursuit of Happiness
Laura Guerrero, University of New MexicoCan a Person Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person?": A Confucian Reading of Music and Moral Development in The Lives of Others
Andrea Taylor, University of Oklahoma
Poems do come, where. Come do from poems.
Mary Angeline, University of Northern ColoradoToward Synesthesia: Further Explorations in Ekphrasis
Tricia Anne Baar, Henderson State UniversityPrescriptive Reading Assignments in the Senior/Grad Fiction Workshop
Karen Stolz, Pittsburg State University
The Clash of Cultures: English-Native American Contact as Portrayed by Disney
Marianne Holdzkom, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityThe Lone Hero: No Longer Alone, No Longer at Home on the Range
Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Texas State University, San Marcos3:10 to Yuma (1957) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Carol MacCurdy, California Polytechnic State University
As a surprisingly accomplished film, it is our hope that The Sadist will provide a springboard for discussion about exploitation cinema, mass murderers as cultural icons, and transgression as a concept, among other related topics.
Discussants:
Rob Weiner, Andy Devos, David Hopkins, Cynthia Miller, John Cline
“The Kids of Today Should Defend Themselves Against the ‘70s”: Simulating Auras and Marketing Nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse
Jay McRoy, University of Wisconsin, ParksideThe Old Dark House and Attraction
Robert Spadoni, Case Western Reserve UniversityStephen King’s Constant Reader: An Insider’s Perspective
Marie Loggia-Kee, California State University, Fullerton
Quiet Revenge: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Response to the Dunciad
Lacie Osbourne, Texas A&M UniversityAlienation, Sexuality and Subversion: Two Cinematic Perspectives
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and Metasebia Woldemariam, Plymouth State UniversityTwisted Gender and Poached Theater
Heather Aziere, Northeastern State University, TahlequahAm I a Woman? A Look Through History at Being Masculine, Being Male
Danae Barnes, University of Maryland
Benjamin H. Colbert: Legend of a Chickasaw Rough Rider
Michelle Cooke (Chickasaw), Chickasaw NationAnchoring and Adaptability: Religion in the Worklife of Navajor Railroad Workers
Jay Youngdahl, The Youngdahl Law FirmThe Impact of Europen Commodities in Pre-removal Choctaw History
Sean Gantt, University of New MexicoLand, Children, and politics: A Comparative Study of the Native American/Australian Aboriginal Experience during the 1920s
John Maynard (Worimi), University of Newcastle
Emerging from Beneath the Victorian Veil: Nesbit’s Reviving of the Fairy Tale and the Re-visioning of the Heroine
Kathleen Miller, Baylor UniversityThe Transformation of Beauty: How Beauty Becomes the Beast in Three Modern Adaptations of “Beauty and the Beast”
Lorena A. Sins, Dalton State CollegeBreaking the Spell: The Wife of Bath and the Modern Fairy Tale
Danielle Magnusson, University of WashingtonLost in the Concrete Forrest: The Fairy Tale Heroine in Modern Urban Landscapes
Melissa Morphew, Sam Houston State University
Drama Offstage: The Politics and Poetics of the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Theater Lounge Murals
Jonathan Walz, University of Maryland, College ParkSanta Fe & Vicinity: William Henry Brown’s Subversive Stereoscopic Series
Heather A. Shannon, Rutgers UniversitySearching for Ray Boynton: A Breast Cancer Narrative
Sandra Maresh Doe, Metropolitan State College of DenverJohn Sloan and New Mexico: Depictions of Spectatorship
Ola Charlotte Robbins, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Never Changing Propaganda: World War I to the War on Terror
Adam Bishop, East Central University, OklahomaJapan and the United States: An Inter-cultural Analysis of Depictions of, and Attitudes toward, War
Michael Kearney and Setsuko Adachi, Kogakuin University, TokyoNormalizing the Unpopular: Government Efforts to Minimize the Effects of Forced Change in American Communities During World War II
Patricia L. Dooley, Wichita State University
Diane Thiel, University of New Mexico
Ralph Carlson, Azusa Pacific University
Annie Christain, University of South Dakota
John Yozzo, East Central Oklahoma University
The Construction of Kitchenspace: Examining Purhépecha Foodways in Michoacán
Maria Harvey, New Mexico State University, Las CrucesMushrooms in the Market: Wild Mushroom Gathering in the Meseta Purhépecha
Aaron Sharratt, New Mexico State University, Las CrucesMezcal de Michoacán
Catarina Illsley Granich, Programa Manejo Campesino de Recursos Naturales Grupo de Estudios Ambientales AC, Mexico DFThe Politics of Exoticizing Indigenous Cuisines
Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Technology and the Classroom: Merging Technology with Existing Curriculum
Mary Kremmer, Northeastern State UniversityThe Writing Process in Action: Processing More Effective Basic Writers
Kathryn White, Henderson State UniversityTeaching Cultural Accountability and Responsibility
Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona UniversityTeaching Native American Literature in the Classroom
Deborah Bailey, East Central University, Oklahoma
Will Rogers’ 1920s: A Cowboy’s Guide to the Times
(1976, Ridgemont Media, 41 min)This historical compilation film is a CINE Golden Eagle winner (the highest award for non-theatrical films) in which historian-filmmakers apply a scholarly method to recreating a turbulent time as seen by Oklahoma’s cowboy savant. After screening the film, the filmmakers, Richard C. Raack (Cadre Films) and Peter C. Rollins (Ridgemont Media) will discuss their research and film methods, a discussion that will include stop-action analysis of film languages and commentary about the legitimate uses of film to “write history” with a caméra-stylo. Come meet two pioneers of the genre and learn from a youthful Will Rogers about the Jazz Age.
“I've Covered Wars, You Know”: Rationalizing Violence in Post 9/11 Video Games
Marc Ouellette, McMaster UniversityInsensitivity and Humanity in the Realm of Pushbutton Warfare
Devin Monnens, University of DenverGovernmentality, Neoliberalism and the Digital Game
Andrew Baerg, University of Houston, Victoria“Far away from the Country of Tortures”: What it Means to Play the Criminal in Contemporary Computer Games
Kevin Moberly, St. Cloud State University
From Hot Rods to Lowriders: The Vehicles of an Emerging Youth Culture in Southern California
Matt Ides, University of MichiganReal Life in Neverland: Anaheim, California and the Rise of the Disney Empire
Kerry Gallagher, Goldsmith UniversityMaking a Mark: Graffiti Art and Identity from Lascaux to Los Angeles
Brendan Gaughen, California State University, FullertonKnitterati: West Coast Knitting Culture
Adrien Lowery, Azusa Pacific University
Constructing Religious Identity or Posing as the Buddha: Buddhist Prayer Beads and American Popular Culture
Mark Toole, University of Colorado, BolderThe Electric Priestess, or the Materiality of the Immaterial
Cherie Ann Turpin, University of the District of ColumbiaIn the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Offensive Coordinator: Prayer and Religion in High School Sports
Miranda Barton, University of Texas, El PasoThe Empire Does Apocalypse, Too: The Transformation of Apocalyptic from Anti- to Pro-Empire Media
Wesley Bergen, Wichita State University
Your Feelings Don’t Mean Jack to My Dialectic
Mary Angeline, Naropa UniversityKenneth Goldsmith and Pipilotti Rist: Digital as Differential/Iterations as Work
Cami K. Nelson, University of UtahWords Got Me the Wound and Will Get Me Well
Laura Winton, University of Minnesota
Comparing Techniques: The Relationship between Rhetorical Analysis and Content Analysis
M. Clare Keating and JoEllen Kaszmaul, Texas Tech UniversityThe Tyranny of Numbers: Reporting the NAS Evaluation of Perchlorate
Margaret Batschelet, University of Texas, San AntonioDeep Mining for Appropriate Genres: Suggesting a New Rhetorical Approach for Evaluating Digital Documents
David Hailey, Jr., Utah State University
The Human Hand in Yup’ik Masking, Folklore and Social Ritual
Kris Belden-Adams, CUNY Graduate Center, New YorkPueblo Dances and Popular Culture: Ritual Drama, Tourism, and the Production of Social Power in the U.S. Southwest
Paul Jay, Loyola University, ChicagoNative Cultural Survival: Making Relatives in the Native American Church
R. Christopher Basaldu, University of ArizonaAltars and Altercations: Contesting Space and Asserting Identity on Yaqui Days of the Dead
Kirstin Erickson, University of Arkansas
Culture, Literature, and Education: The Example of Cocteau’s La Machine Infernale
Audrey Voorhees, Luther CollegeNonsense Club and Monday Club: The Cultural Utopias of Sukumar Ray and His Juvenile Literature
Debasish Chattopadhyay, R.P.M. College, Calcutta University, IndiaThe King of Hearts: The Literary Initiation of Chris Barnard
Anne Reef, University of Memphis
‘Does it end with Gypsy Women?’: Documentary Films on Flamenco as Political Art in Franco's Spain
Rosamaria Cisneros Kostic, University of New MexicoFairies Fighting Fascism: Magic and the Unrepressed in Pan’s Labyrinth
Thomas Prasch, Washburn University, TopekaThe Back of Beyond: The Survival of Non-Theatrical Cinema Exhibition in Rural Australia
Kate Bowles, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Cinema of National Arousal – Filming the Flag in Nazi Germany
Tom Saunders, University of Victoria, Canada
Blogging to Create Gender Safer Spaces in the Writing Classroom
Brittany Cottril, Bowling Green State UniversityRebellion Through Popular Culture
Tiff Henning, University of Texas, AustinSomeday My Prince Will Come: gURLs and the Romantic Narrative
Jacqueline Vickery, University of Texas, Austin
The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly: Sexual Swinging in the Heartland
Gypsey Teague, Clemson University(In)fertile Ground: Infertility Within the Works of Guy de Maupassant
Elizabeth Mlotkiewicz, Wichita State UniversityAssembled Virgin/Hidden Venus – Modern Women in Willa Cather’s My Antonia
Ronja Vieth, Texas Tech UniversityDeveloping Gender: The Path to New Identity in Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child and Eugenides’s Middlesex
Lexey Bartlett, Fort Hays State University
Revenge of Patriarchy: Is Big Love Big Enough?
Liana Andreasen, South Texas CollegeBig Sisters and Big Love: Fantasies of Sisterhood in Popular Culture
Stephanie Oppenheim, City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan, NY“You’re Sealed in this Family for all Eternity”: Navigating Individuality and Familial Expectations in Big Love
Joe Bisz, City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan, NY
Residential Schooling: An Account of a Shameful Part of Canadian History
Susana Amante, University of Salamanca, SpainTeacher to the Indians: Susan Dabney Smedes at the Rosebud Agency, 1887-1888
Mary Faith Pankin, George Washington UniversityThe End or The Beginning?: Time and Narrative in The Bone People
Margaret Morgan, University of New Hampshire“Brave Little Indians Invading White Homes”: Cultural Dissonance and American Indian Domestic Service in the Southwest
Victoria Haskins, The University of Newcatle
The Tiffany West: Cosmopolitan Liberalism in CBS Westerns
Donald Bellomy, Sogang University, Seoul“Here in a Girl's World Diddling Myself”: The Feminine Interpretation of Sex in Deadwood
Jacoba Mendelkow , Utah State UniversityThe Coen Brothers: The Life of the Mind-Western Geography as Mental Geography
Dorothy H. Graham, Kennesaw State UniversityThis is(n't) John Wayne: "Miscasting" the Duke in The Conqueror
Justin Owen Rawlins, Indiana University
“The Imagination contemplates it as the Seat of Supreme Civilization”: Territorial Expansion and National Unity in the Art Galleries of the Sanitary Fairs
Evie Terrono, Randolph-Macon CollegeWhiteward Ho
Samuel M. Schottenstein, Simmons CollegeThe War Captain Paints: Bert Geer Phillips and the Issue of Game Rights in the Taos Pueblo
Doyle L. Buhler, University of Iowa
Teaching the Bond Films: Casino Royale, Culture and the Cold War
Delia Gillis, University of Central MissouriBattle of the Bonds: James Bond and the Problem of Medium Specificity
John Lessard, University of the Pacific007 and M: Agency and Authority in Casino Royale
Brian Patton, King’s University CollegeSomebody Does It Better: Competent Women in the Bond Films
Tom McNeely, Midwestern State University
Ani DiFranco: Embodying Music and Politics
Heather Laurel, Skidmore CollegePoliticizing the Sound of Liturgy: Performing the Third Wave of Jewish Feminism through Jewish-Feminist Music in the USA
Sarah M. Ross, Rostok UniversityContemporary Visions of African-American Ballad Heroes
Jeff Johnson, University of Central Arkansas
Healthseekers and the Popularization of Southwestern Food
Kelly Roark, University of Wisconsin, MadisonWill the Real Lamb Stew Please Stand Up: A Question of Authenticity
Nancy Mae Antrim, Sul Ross State University, AlpineFood and Power in the Home Space: The Reconfigured Border in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
Rosalinda Salazar, University of California, DavisTex-Mex San Antonio: Culinary Aesthetics of Identity, Space, and Place
Norma Cardenas, University of Texas, San Antonio
The Woman Turns into a Blade: The Fragmentation of Women, by Women, within Repulsion, May, and Dans ma peau
Meghan Chandler, State University of New York, Stony BrookThe Influence of Feminism and Hip-Hop Culture
Adriana Irigoyen, University of TennesseeGender-Star Trek
Fay Hughes, University of KentuckyPaul Marshall’s Praisesong
Talia Reed, University of Tennessee
Black Pioneers and the Promise of California: Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy’s They Seek a City
Erin Royston Battat, Harvard UniversityPoker Flat is “Poker Flat”: The Influence of Ina Coolbrith on Bret Harte’s Dream World of the Sierra
Will Lombardi, California State University, ChicoAppropriating Myth: Exoticism, the American West, and the New Woman in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Season Ellison, Bowling Green State UniversityEast of Eating: Cash and Crops in John Steinbeck’s California
Monica Ganas, Azusa Pacific University
Dystopia as Utopia in the Year Zero Alternate Reality Game
Alex Hall, University of ArkansasBeing Two-Thousand Places at Once: The Limitations of 'Context' in New Media Theory
Jennifer deWinter, University of ArizonaBeauty and the Geek: Life Magazine on Video Gaming
Carly Kocurek, University of Texas, Austin
Discussants:
Christian Crumlish, Yahoo.comJesse Jarnow, Relix Magazine
Jacob A. Cohen, University of Washington
The End of Faith or the Beginning of Wisdom: Reflections on the Intersection of Faith and Reason in Popular American Culture
L. Keith Williamson, Wichita State UniversityThere Are Some Atheists in Foxholes: A Theologian Reflects on Religious Feelings from within Operation Iraqi Freedom
Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary’s SeminaryCan Jesus Save Us?: A Christocentric Appraisal of Jesus Camp and Mother Teresa
Kendra Weddle Irons, George Fox UniversityGod in the Machine: Religion in Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games
Deborah Klein, Lubbock Christian University
Poetics of Place: Christopher Dewdney’s Manifold Destiny
Marthe Reed, University of Louisiana, LafayetteAuthority and Hegemony: Power Relations, Petrification, and Dehumanization in Joyce Carol Oates’ Novel The Assassins
Dilek Caliskan, Anadolu UniversityThe Republic of Space in Barbara Guest’s Work
Shira Dentz, University of Utah
Hamlet’s Inconvenient Truth: Technology and Surface in the Post-Modern Environment
Kit Hughes, University of Texas, AustinNo More Yielding but a Dream: Imaging Unreality in Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Zachary C. Hoskins, University of Arizona School of Media ArtsIllustrating Hamlet: From Verbal to Visual Image in Some Recent Films
Richard Vela, The University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Of Nerds and Cyborgs: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Analytic/Continental
Ethan Mills, University of New MexicoVisualizing Marx through Office Space
Karl Anderson, Quinsigamond Community CollegeWittgenstein and Film Noir
Keith Dromm, Northwestern State University
The Importance of Young Adult Literature
Robin Baker, East Central UniversityHayley Mills, Angry Young Woman: Rebellion and Loss in Whistle Down the Wind
James Stone, University of New MexicoRites of Passage in the Young Adult Novels of Joan Bauer
Susan J. Konantz, Western Colorado Community CollegeEmpowering the Child: Passing from Innocence to Experience in Pullman's The Golden Compass
Susan M. Cannata, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Communism, Consumerism, and Romantic Comedy: The Role of Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939) in Creating and Sustaining a Cold War Argument
Rhiannon Dowling, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyApocalypse How? Coppola and the Construction of the Vietnam War
Robert Hamilton, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKScreening the Berlin Airlift in Film and Television: The Big Lift and Die Luftbrücke – Nur der Himmel war frei
Tobias Hochscherf, Northumbria University, UK
Polly Pocket and Performativity: An Analysis of the Like 2 Bike Play Set
Dena Freed, Arizona State University“Meeting the Needs of Today’s Girl”: Negotiations of Youth Culture in Scouting
Jessica Foley, Brown UniversityBabysitters: From Suspect to Witness
Julie Willett, Texas Tech University
Hitchcock and the Women Who Watched Women
Trae DeLellis, University of MiamiHighsmith, Hitchcock, and Homosexuality
Lana Thompson, Florida Atlantic UniversityThe Struggle of Gender in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion
Cara DeLeon, California State University, Chico
Rethinking Macho: Homosocial Relationships and Spaces in HBO’s Entourage
Brian Faucette, University of KansasTucked Away in the Minds of (White) Boys (Men): An Examination of the White Heterosexual Male’s Psyche via FX’s Nip/Tuck
Maurice L. Tracy, Saint Louis UniversityDramas of Beset Manhood: The Influence of American Literature on The Sopranos, Rescue Me, and Deadwood
Brandon Kempner, New Mexico Highlands University
Navigating NAGPRA: The Effect of Federal Recognition on Tribal Cultural Resource Sovereignty
Kari Mans, University of California, Los AngelesReclaiming the West: Looking Towards Western States for Sacred Sites Protection
Nicole Johnson, University of California, Los AngelesWritten in Sand, Taken From The Earth: State Recognized Tribes and the Protection of Their Cultural Sovereignty
Jeffrey Helmkamp (Cherokee), University of California, Los Angeles
Hammett and Peckinpath: 20th Century Realism Revisited
Jeffrey Conine, Northeastern State UniversityWister's Use of Literary Events
Allison Harl, University of Arkansas, FayetvilleDefinitive Texts for Zane Grey: Implications and Reconsiderations
Paul Varner, Abilene Christian UniversityTexas, Louisiana, and Montana: A Sense of Place in the Novels of James Lee Burke
Leonard Engel, Quinnipiac University
Samuel R. Delany’s Novel Biography in the Time of AIDS: Writing the Self into Chaos
Mary Catherine Foltz, State University of New York, BuffaloTelling It like It Is/Isn’t: On Truth, Biography, Folklore, and the Socio-Political Possibilities in the Star Images of Josephine Baker and Bessie Smith
Mark Andrew Hain, Indiana UniversitySeductive Subjectivity and Telling Truth: Fact and Fiction in the Contemporary American Nonfiction Novel
Andrea Laurencell, New York UniversityWriting with Hands of Labor: Writing the Body in The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It by James J. Davis
Caroline Miles, University of Texas, Pan America
Constructing Community in CyberSpace: Indian Women and Food Blogs
Ritu Raju, Houston Community CollegeTranscending/Transgressing Gender Roles: Gender Fluidity in Online Collaborative Groups
William Ritke-Jones, Texas A&M University, Corpus ChristiSecond Life Librarianship and the Gendered Work of Care in Technology
Scout Calvert, University of California, Santa CruzTelling Stories about ‘Bodies Like Ours’: Online Intersex Activism and Community-Building
Brian Still, Texas Tech University
Alienation and Creativity: Latin American Writers in the U.S.
Vincent Spina, Clarion UniversityThe Intersection of Religion, Nature and Culture in Bless Me, Ultima
Barbara González Pino and Frank Pino, University of Texas, San AntonioLa violencia explícita en L.A.: The Sacred Spot de Javier Alva
Lupe Cárdenas, Arizona State University
The San Antonio Spurs: A Case of Leadership in Globalizing the NBA
Pete Arguello, The University of Texas, San AntonioThe Power of Celebrity: The Bittersweet Tale of Fortune
Twambi Kalinga, Wichita State UniversityFlickr, Photosynth, and Strange Loops
Brian Mcnely, The University of Texas, El Paso
Reality TV: Is It Worth Examining?
Janae Dimick, California State University, FullertonLooking through the Screen: The Gaze and the Reality Effect
Sébastien Babeux, University of Quebec, MontrealReading Reality: Reaching an Audience in the 21st Century
Stephanie Dowdle, Salt Lake Community CollegeThe Economic and Business Realities of Reality Television
Richard Crew, Misericordia University
Integration, 50 Years Later
Theman Taylor, University of Central ArkansasRepresenting Ella Watson through American Art: Gordon Parks’ American Gothic, 1942
Lauren LaRocca, University of North TexasDisMantling a Hero: Dan Burley Challenging the Social Construction of Joe Louis
Kimberly Stanley, Indiana University
Preparing for the Singularity: The Transhumanist Vision and Technological Determinism
Ron Scott, Walsh UniversityA Proposed Methodology for Tracking the Influence of Political Memes on the Internet
Andrew Chen, and Barb Headrick, Minnesota State University, MoorheadRe-mixing Cinema: Trailer Mash-ups and the Critical Viewer
Ashley Moss, University of Arizona
“Not Just a Change in Style”: The Americana Commentary of the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
Erin McCoy, University of South Carolina, UpstateThe Sound of San Francisco? The Grateful Dead, Urban Hippies and the Memory of the Sixties
Sarah Hill, Cardiff UniversityResurrecting Winterland: New Year’s Eve, 1978
Scott MacFarlane, Antioch University
What Did They Do to My Nancy Drew? Revisions of the Original Nancy Drews and How That Changed Her Image
Margit Codispoti, Hollins University“The Other Was Whole”: Reader Devotion, Structure and Loss in Anne of Green Gables
Katharine Slater, University of California, San Diego'A Ready Pen': Künstlerroman Issues in Webster’s Daddy Long-Legs
Dawn Sardella-Ayres, University of California, Riverside/Hollins University
A Sword of One’s Own: Eowyn as Gender Free Warrior
Ginna Wilderson, University of South FloridaAnime Meets Middle Earth: Feminization of the Hero in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Miyazuki’s Princess Mononoke
Deborah Scally, University of Texas, DallasVictim Turned Villain: The Evolution of Female Action in Melodrama Genre Films – The Women, Heathers, and Mean Girls
Lindsey Knoedler, Arizona State UniversityMommy Is a Bride With a Hanzo Sword: Quentin Tarantino’s Destabilization of Gendered Identity in Kill Bill
Tracy Bealer, University of South Carolina
Mediated Reality: The Recasting of the “Real” World
Paul Gasparo, Northern Arizona UniversityA Sort of Epistemological Crisis: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as Philosophical Emergency
Justin Pfefferle, Carleton UniversityIllustrating Imagination: The Infringement (and Evolution) of Visual Elements in Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series and The Gunslinger Born
Patrick McAleer, Indiana University of PennsylvaniaThe Perpetuation of Heroic Archetypes from Spenser's Epic to DC Comics
Reggie Allison, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Artists of Oklahoma: Styles of Indian Art as Outgrowth of the Fort Marion Experience
Susan Rollins, Ridgemont Media, Cleveland, OKThe Theology of Lynn Riggs: Codetalking as Mythmaking
W. Douglas Powers, Susquehanna UniversityImagin[ary]ing Oklahoma’s Centennial: Celebrating a Grand Event or the Grand Narrative?
Jeanette Haynes Writer (Cherokee Nation Citizen), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Pre-Reavers: The Science Fiction and Cultural Roots of Joss Whedon’s Version of the Primal, Threatening Mob
Tim Prchal, Oklahoma State UniversityFrom Scrooby Group to Scooby Gang: Buffy Takes Thanksgiving On
Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo[Not] A Class Act, or “Check Out Slut-O-Rama”: Faith and the Polemics of Socioeconomic Class
Alyson R. Buckman, California State University, Sacramento
Filming the Real in the 1910s: Roberto Bracco’s Sperudi nel Buio before Neorealism
Armando Rotondi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, ItalyEndless Cycling towards Reality: A Comparative Study on Cinematic Realism in The Bicycle Thief and Beijing Bicycle
Ji Nian, University of Arizona“Tango One Is Down”: Adapting the Life of Martin Cahill, the Irish Godfather
Betty Bettacchi, Collin College, Plano, TX
Doc Holliday’s Diseased Legend
Rebecca K. Conn, University of KansasThe Social History of the X-Ray in Popular Culture
Kris Belden-Adams, City University of New YorkFictional Medicine and Medical Fiction: Representations of Sexology in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Sharon Larson, Brown University
Presentist Presentation of Sparta and the Comic Book Universe of 300
Bill McCarthy, Catholic University of AmericaThe Guilty Pleasure of the 300
Sally MacEwen, Agnes Scott CollegeXerxes in Drag: Post-9/11 Marginalization and (Mis)Identification in 300
Melissa Elston, University of Texas, Permian Basin
Intersubjectivity and the Ideology of Love in NBC’s Heroes
Jesseca Cornelson, University of CincinnatiHeroes: The Graphic Novel Meets Television
Robin Murphy, East Central University, OklahomaFreud in Space: The Future of Psychoanalysis
Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
N. Scott Momaday in Literature and Film: Non-Indian Student Response
Jim Charles, University of South Carolina, UpstateIn and Out of The Classroom; Defining Popular Culture in Native American Studies
Jane Sinclair, University of New MexicoDeveloping a Native American Studies Program for the Community College Student Body
Sara Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community College
Anne Frank and the Mythic Impulse in Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Andrew Black, University of MemphisUltramodern Fairies: The Marvelous Female in Filmic Transversality
Mike C. Vienneau, Université du Québec à MontrealSurvivable Seas: Myth and Fairy Tales in New Media
Calvin T. Johns, Ohio State UniversityStorytelling Tradition to Reality Show: Transformations of Myth
Jim Webb, Independent Scholar
Kierkegaard, Emotional Punk and the Knight of Faith
Tamar Neuman, Weber State University
Hailey Neumann, University of UtahThe Hero’s Journey and Existenz Philosophy in Serial Experiments Lain
Angela Drummond-MathewsBy What Is Not There: An Epistemology of Identity in Fannie Flagg’s Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! and Isak Dineson’s The Blank Page
Burcu Gurkan, Halic University
An “Invitation to Live” in a Pop Culture: A Study of Lloyd Douglas’s Focus on Women
Sheba Kulothungan-George, Dallas Baptist UniversityTrauma, Identity Politics, and Mixed Race Constructions of Self: Ai and Dread (2003)
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Nicholls State UniversityA “Constricted Gaze”: The Influence of Evelyn Scott on the Poetry of Kay Boyle
Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M University
“To avoid discovery I stay on the run”: Exile and Amnesia in Jeanette Winterson’s Late Fiction
Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University“A sort of epistemological crisis”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as Philosophical Emergency
Justin M. PfefferleLate Jameson, or, after the Eternity of the Present
Alexander Dunst, University of Nottingham
Urban Gardens and Food Cooperatives: A Source of Healthier Foods for Newark
Dawn Diamond, Montclair State University, NJPerspectives on Food Culture, Acculturation and Health among Hmong Women
Keiko Goto, California State University, ChicoFlick Foodmaps: Visualizing the Changing Diets of Immigrant Children
Melissa Salazar, University of California, Davis
From Ethan Edwards to Ben Wade: The Revival of the Classic Western in Wartime America
John Dean, Texas State University3:10 to Yuma
Carol MacCurdy, Cal Poly UniversityHistory Became Legend, Legend Became Myth: Hollywood and the Legacy of Tombstone
Kristin D. Morgan, Oklahoma State UniversityFrom the State of Exception to Permanent Revolution: The Logic of Violence in Hollywood and Spaghetti Westerns
Robert Rushing, University of Illinois,Urbana
Discussants:
Maude Wahlman, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Sun Smith-Foret, Independent Artist
Christina Fay Wahlman, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Student Blogging as Chronicle Histories
Elizabeth Sturgeon, Mount St. Mary’s CollegeWikifying Writing: From the Pseudo-Rhetorical to the Rhetorical
Justin Jory, Colorado State UniversityRepresenting College Writing Programs on the Internet
Joe Erickson, Bowling Green State University
Red Roosters and Wild Horses: The Rarely Acknowledged Influence of the Rolling Stones on the Grateful Dead
Eric Levy, University of Illinois, ChicagoHuman Error and Creative Variations in the Music of the Grateful Dead: “Foolish Heart” (1988-1995)
Mark Mattson, Fordham University“I’d Never Heard Anything Like It”: Scotty Stoneman and the Bluegrass Roots of Jerry Garcia’s Improvisational Approach
J. Revell Carr, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Rewriting Dystopia: Two Versions of The Gnome-Mobile
Martin Woodside, San Diego State UniversityPassing Through the Point: Identity, Self-Worth, and Existentialism in Harry Nilsson’s The Point
Amy L. Hayden, Independent ScholarFrom Sesame Street to the Lifetime Movie: The Afterschool Special as a Playbook for Growing Up in Generation X
Tamra Pica, Hollins UniversityKing Dork and the Postmodern Initiation Ritual
Barbara Tannert Smith, Knox College
Milada Horakova’s Trial through the Lens of Gender: Where U.S. Cold War Comics Intersect with Czech Communist Politics
Simona Fojtova, Transylvania UniversityWe Can Do It—Can’t We?: Rosie the Riveter and Messages of Race, Class, and Gender Since WWII
Donna Knaff, Women in Military Service for America Memorial FoundationThe Civilized, the Market, and the Farmer Women in Liberian Society
Beatrice Russell, California State UniversityWomen’s Recovery Climbs: Narratives of Health in the Himalayas
Lindsey Collins, University of California, Santa Cruz
“The Most Natural Forgery of Ordered Human Experience that Contemporary Pictographic Strategy Will Yield” The Function of Design in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Daniel Ragusa, Texas A&M University, CommercePain as Pleasure: The Power of Sadomasochism in James O' Barr's The Crow
Wade Thompson, Texas A&M University, CommerceComic(s) Relief?: Capturing Mark Twain in Recent Graphic Narrative
Derek Parker Royal, Texas A&M University, Commerce
Magic Realism as an Attempt to Recover Culture in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woo
Christopher Gonzalez, Texas A&M UniversityWho Would Have Thought: An Examination of Irish Presence in Works by Alcott and Ruiz de Burton
Noreen Rivera, University of New MexicoA Conservative Exiled Writer Yearns for Mexico: Nemesio Garcia Naranjo and His Time in the U.S.
Ramiro Jaurez, University of St. Thomas
The Fantasy of Total Truth
Brian Cowlishaw, Northeastern State UniversityThe Company and the Cult: Organized Evil from Gravity’s Rainbow to Heroes
Robin Andreasen, South Texas CollegeThe Feminine and the Masculine: Constructing Masculinity in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Sean George, Texas A&M, Commerce
Silencio Reál: The Historical Voice of Afro-Latinas in I Am Cuba and Anne B. Real
Grisel Y. Acosta, University of Texas, San AntonioAfter the Code: The Sinister Politics of the Sexual Revolution in Carnal Knowledge and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Christie Milliken, Brock University, CanadaHeroic Women and Violent Spectacle: Questions of Visual Pleasure, Gender, and the Foundations of Today’s Violent Women
Tamy Burnett, University of Nebraska, LincolnDecolonization and Women’s Emancipation: Misogynist Violence in Chabrol’s Le Boucher
Jonathan York, South Dakota State University
An Invisible Connection: Information Theory, Cognitive Psychology and Humankind
Chih Wei Hung, Virginia TechThe "Spirit of Science" and Migration: The Intersection of Science, Racism, and Migration in Germany from 1890-1914
Kevin Ostoyich, Valparaiso UniversityGovernmentality and AIDS Analysis
Adam Geary, University of Arizona
Discussants:
Katie M. White, San Diego State UniversityLisa Covington, San Diego State University
Susan E. Cayleff, San Diego State University
Dahlia Peterson, San Diego State University
Burying the Binary: Life/Death Six Feet Under
Jessica Chapman, Caldwell Community College and Technical InstituteSuperhuman Agents: CSI: Las Vegas and Bruno Latour’s Pandora’s Hope
Cathryn Molloy, The University of Rhode IslandNo One Wants to be Un-Anything: Pushing Daisies and a Kinder, Gentler Undead
Scott Rogers, Weber State University
A Lamb Amongst Wolves: A Study of the Elements of “Little Red Riding Hood” Present in the Film Adaptation of Silence of the Lambs
Melissa A. Smith, University of South AlabamaThe Matrix as Folktale
Gina Berend Perkins, University of TulsaWomen, Water, and the Gothic: Writing Sexual Expressions of Resistance in Popular Culture
Tasha Vice, Eastern New Mexico UniversityThe Queer Metamorphosis of Apuleius in Rozema’s When Night Is Falling
Barbara Ellen Logan, University of Wyoming
The Slippery Signifier: Boba and Asian American Youth
Jean-Paul deGuzman, University of California, Los AngelesEating Jim Crow: Food and Segregation Culture
Angela Cooley, University of AlabamaJamaican Ethnic Restaurants in America: A Historical Perspective
Marjorie Gardner, University of Technology, Jamaica“Saving” Soul Food
Kimberly Nettles, University of California, Davis
Native Child’s Best Interest from Two Perspectives: 1950s–1970s
Claire Palmiste, Schoelcher UniversityDeveloping Tribal Community Based Cultural Enrichment Programs for Native American Foster Children
Alisa Dahlberg Lee (Paiute/Shoshone), University of California, Los AngelesA New Home for the Indian Community School of Milwaukee
Chris Cornelius (Oneida), Studio Indigenous and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Route 66: The Mother Road
Shanna M. Wolff, Laramie County Community CollegeThe Anime Trigun: A Modern parable of Cain and Abel
Beth Cochran, Laramie County Community College
Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She has published seven books of acclaimed poetry including She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, and her most recent How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton.
Among her many awards are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the William Carlos Williams Awards from the Poetry Society.
Chair: Jason Landrum, Southeastern Louisiana University
Alma Reville, the Other Hitchcock
Erin Florence Dean, Chapman UniversityHitchcock, the Working Class, and The Wrong Man
Eileen Jones, Chapman UniversityHindi Hitchcock: Bollywood’s 39 Steps
Richard Ness, Western Illinois University
On Betas and Blockbusters: The Changing Roles of Game Authorship
Daniel Griffin, University of ArizonaFilm Play: How YouTube Went From Jester to Monarch
Robert Watkins, Utah State UniversityIdentity Through Machinima: The Expansion of the Ur-Real Rhetorical Identity
Marlin Bates and Kathleen Bruce, University of the Pacific
“I Feel Fine, Why Do You Ask?”: On Autonomy and Utopia in the Sixties Psychedelic Movement
Steve Gimbel, Gettysburg CollegeBears and Lightning Bolts: Citizenship and the Iconography of the Grateful Dead
Jay Williams, University of Chicago“Wind Inside and the Wind Outside”: The Grateful Dead, Deadheads, Postmodern Poetics and Interpretive Practice
Gary Burnett, Florida State University
Performing Nature for Children
Doyle Ott, Sonoma State UniversitySwimming with the Fishes or Protecting Them? Embedding Environmental Messages into Children’s Play Experiences
Laura Vernon, Utah State University
Coping Mechanisms of the Eritrean Diaspora in Germany
Yohannes Woldemariam, Fort Lewis CollegeWeapons for Liberty?! – Propaganda Techniques of Four Belligerent Countries during World War I
Marcel Rotter, University of Mary WashingtonNative Americans as Part of German Mainstream Consciousness: A Closer Look at the Influence of the German Author Karl May
Hillah Culman, Texas Tech University
The Return of the Repressed: Genre, Myth and Authorship in the Blade Films
Michael S. Duffy, Independent ScholarWomen's Gay Men: Representations of Homosexuality in Yaoi Manga
Candie Syphrit, State University of New York, BuffaloShinigami in Japanese Anime
Teresa Steenburgh, State University of New York, BuffaloLegends, Myths and Traditional Oral Narratives in Comics: Identity and Cultural Representation in the Work of Brazilian Artist Flavio Colin
Waldomiro Vergueiro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Quinceañera and Family: Alternative Visions and Recapitulations
Lauren Gantz, University of Texas, AustinKilling Aztlán: The Limits of Identifications in the Teatro of Cherríe Moraga
Armando Garcia, Cornell UniversityGay Men of Mexican Descent From the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas: A Qualitative Look at How the Culture of the Region Influences Thier Lives, Relationships and Identities
Marla CobinMobility, Desire and Space: Luis Meza's Staccatto Purr of the Exhaust and the Performance of Chicano Masculinity in the Post Civil Rights Era
Ernesto S. Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles
Gender Neutrality and a TopGun: What's Technology Got to Do With It?
Tori Sadler, Metropolitan State UniversityMoving Feminisms Forward: Making Feminists into Cyborgs
Courtney Werner, Texas State UniversityThe Technological Play of Gendered Signs on the Body: Ash and the Post-Gender Body Modification
Jason Zeh, Bowling Green State UniversityGendered Language in a Technology-Rich Environment
Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona University
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Melissa Peck, Purdue University, West LafayetteFrom Chariots to Podracers: Space, Spectacle, and Racing in Hollywood
Sara Ekins, University of ArizonaProgressing Towards a Mature Union: Apatow and the Modern Comedy of Remarriage
Chelsey Crawford, Oklahoma State UniversityJoan Crawford: Her Greatest Performance
Julie M. Gale, Arlington Theater School
The Living Dead in the Desert: Healthseekers and the History of the Southwest
Kelly Roark, University of Wisconsin, MadisonThe Legalization of Touch in the “Therapeutic Cultures” of France and Quebec
Florence VinitKeeley Tobacco Cure or Chamomile Flowers: Tobacco Cessation in the 18th and 19th Century
Aukje Kluge, Emory UniversityWater as Medicine: The Cultural Implications of Masaru Emoto’s Work
John Gourlie, Quinnipiac University
Entrapped, Empowered and ‘Mad’ Girls in the Female American Bildungsroman
Mary Lo, University of Hong KongComing-of-Age Novels: Reading, Writing and Rewriting
Elizabeth Whitmore, Loyola Marymount UniversityThe Jouissance of the Adolescent: Irigaray, Lacan, and Young Adult Nonfiction
Barbara Duffy, University of UtahThe Big Momma Alpha Kitty: Atoosa Rubenstein’s Rhetoric of Teen Girl Empowerment
Alexander Cho, University of Texas, Austin
Curved TV: The Impact of Televisual Images on Gay Youth
Victor Evans, Thiel College(Re)Producing Cultural Success: Economic Interests and Youth Identity in the Production of Degrassi: The Next Generation
Errol Salamon, University of CalgaryGeorge Lucas’ The Young Indiana Jones on DVD: The Convergence of Televised Historical Entertainment with the Documentary Tradition
Erwin F. Erhardt, III, Thomas More College
Women Writing Secrets: Memoir and Short Story as Subversive Forms
Sallie Bingham, Fiction Writer and PlaywrightWomen’s Stories of Love, Sex, Crime, Power, and Dead Babies
Susan Koppelman, Independent ScholarMs. Mentor, Kate Chopin, and Britney Spears: Louisiana Women Bare Their Secrets
Emily Toth, Louisiana State University
The Role of Detective Fiction in the Construction of Turkish Identity, 1881-1923
David Mason, McGill UniversityJohn Rebus and the Crisis of Masculinity
Jason Payne, Ohio State UniversityMind the Gap: The Female Inspectors of Jill McGown and Decorah Crombie
Linda Strahan, University of California, Riverside
Ultima, Curandera o Bruja?: The Politics of Spiritual and Sensory Knowledge
Meredith Abarca, University of Texas, El PasoDeath and Commensality in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
Carole M. Counihan, Millersville University, PennsylvaniaFoodways in the Borderlands: A Study of Día de Muertos in Ciudad Juarez
Jesus Tafoya, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX
Toward a Native Holistic Eco-Feminism: Contemporary Native American Women’s Literatures and How They Synthesize Traditional Beliefs with 21st Century Survival
Jeanne Northrop, Western Washington UniversityWhat “Old-time” Muskogee and Oklahoma Seminole Women’s Stories Still Have To Tell Us
Pamela Joan Innes, University of WyomingA Double Minority: Being a Two-Spirited American Indian While Living in the Midst of Intolerance Throughout Indian Country
Karen Brioso, Independent ScholarQuilting a Canon
Bethany Kasik Hundt, University of New Hampshire
Beyond Motifs: Generating a Theory of Magle Objects
Alison Buchbinder, University of DelawareThe Death of Chupucabras: How the Internet Demystified and Poisoned a Cultural Phenomenon
Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College, Denver
Narrative Complexity and Narrative Parsimoniousness in Elizabeth George’s Lynley Novels
Katherine Voyles, University of California, IrvinePhysician Heal Thyself: The Self-Detecting Detective
Terry Spaise, University of California, RiversidePostmodernist Policing in Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next Series
Beverly Six, Sul Ross State UniversityTripping the Light Phantasmic: Humor in the Supernatural Mystery
Viki Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Discussants:
Scott MacFarlane, Antioch UniversityNicholas Meriwether, University of South Carolina
Steve Gimbel, Gettysburg College
Her Vision, Her Voice: Sustainability in Mary Austin’s Land of Little Rain
Shari Childers, University of Texas, DallasThe Numenon of Things: Subject/Object Relations in Leopold’s Sand County Almanac
Suzanne Warren, University of CincinnatiRachel Carson: Beyond Silent Spring
Edy Parsons, Mount Mercy CollegeBeyond Tragedy: Joseph Meeker and Edward Abbey’s Brave Cowboy
Ken Hada, East Central University
Johnny Depp and Silent Films
Will Parrill, Independent ScholarActions Speak Louder than Words: Gesture Language in D.W.Griffith's Broken Blossoms
Carol Scates, Southeast Missouri State UniversityRhythms of Life and Rhythms of Death: The Function of the Apparatus in Man with a Movie Camera, Koyaanisqatsi and Decasia
Tom Brandow, University of ArizonaBringing Light to the Dark: Investigating Education and Early Cinema
Amanda Keeler, Indiana University
“It’s Not Only North Korea’s Fault!”: The Korean War in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
Rona Eun-Kyung Sohn, University of KansasEmbedded Media in the U.S. Military: A 21st Century Department of Defense Official Policy, Rhetorically Speaking
Michele Lockhart, Texas Woman’s UniversityAnalysis of Recent World War II Films and Opera: Their Historical Themes, Accuracy, and Legacy
Nancy R. Bartlit, Los Alamos Historical Society
Creating an Identity of Self and Others: Life Lessons from My Father’s WWII Photos and Stories
Jean DeHart, Appalachian State UniversityText, Context, and Subtext: When Personal Narrative Fails
Patricia Gantt, Utah State UniversityDonner Party Dreams: A Memoir of My Obsession
Diane Bush, Utah State UniversityThe Jerry Springer Show: A Viewer’s Final Thought
Linda Niemann, Kennesaw State University
Roller Derby on Film: Hits! Highlights & Catfights!
Ashley Stinnett, The University of ArizonaFemme Sans Culotte sur le Toilette: What do Filmic Images of Women on Toilets Infer about Contemporary Gender Attitudes?
Teresa Santerre Hobby, Texas State UniversityParallel Worlds: Investigating Gendered Audience Responses to the Double in Parallel World Science Fiction Television
Matthew Jones, The University of Manchester“Must be a Chick Thing”: Development of the Female Community in Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection
Craig McKenney, Highline Community College
The Tortuous ‘Happy Ending’ in Post-Authoritarian Chilean Cinema
Chad Redwing, Modesto Junior College, CA and Harrison Middle University, AlbuquerqueDance of the Dead: Political Allegory in 28 Days Later
Paul Booth, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityHollywood History in the Mythmaking: Mr. Smith (1939) and the “Yellow Brick Road” of Myth-History
Tom Donnelly, Leeds Trinity & All Saints, UK
This panel will screen and discuss a feature-length documentary that explores the impact that increasingly restrictive copyright laws are having on fair use and the creation of culture. More specifically, it explores the ways in which copyright affects the creative process of visual artists, musicians, and documentary filmmakers. The digital film includes interviews with Stanford law professor and Wired magazine columnist Lawrence Lessig, mash up artists A plus D, and Kirby Dick, director of The Film is Not Yet Rated. See more at copyrightculture.com.
Directors/Producers: Rebekah Farrugiia and Jennifer Machiorlatti, 2007
Distributor: copyrightculture.com
No One Ever Sees Indians
Ernest Whiteman III, Northern Arapaho Filmmaker, Director of First Nations Film and VideoSee the Image, Hear the Voices: Non-Native Cross Culture Boundaries through Indian Film
July Bolt, Bronx Community CollegeReal-Life Indians: Modern Portrayals of American Indians in Film
Carlyn N. Perkins, Georgia Southern University
Regal in Texas: A Profile of Presidential Libraries in the Lone Star State
Darrell Cook, Dallas County Community CollegeLibraries and Their Role in Icarian Utopias of the United States
Wayne Sanders, University of MissouriA History of the Library and Reference Services in Allensworth, California
Camille Ray, University of California, Los Angeles
Witchery as Disease: Origins and Function of the Witchery in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony
Robert Nelson, University of Richmond
Culture Clash in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony
Firdes Dimitrova, Temple UniversityThe End or The Beginning?: Time and Narrative in The Bone People
Margaret Morgan, University of New Hampshire“Remember the Last Voice”: Motion and Narrative Flux in Gordon Henry’s The Light People
Jesse Peters, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as a Critique of the Western Genre
Cristina Gonzalez, California State University, BakersfieldManifest Destiny or Will to Power? Cormac McCarthy’s Reimagining of Ideology in the American West
Brendan Van Voris, Texas A&M University, CommerceThey Went On…and On…and On: Southwestern Connections in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Mark Busby, Texas State University, San MarcosFraming the “Outlaw Marriage”: Representing Intermarriage in the Works of Andy Adams and Robert Runyon
Laura Long Scheurer, University of Southern California
Rush v. Bono: The Use of Logos in Popular Depictions of Poverty
Ed Nagelhout, University of Nevada, Las VegasThe Safety Dance: Dueling Subject Positions on the Atomic Frontier
Julie Staggers, University of Nevada, Las VegasUncertainty in Scientific Knowledge-Making: Pop Culture and Global Warming
Denise Tillery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Rhetorical Significance of Hip Hop Culture, Through Its Element of Hip Hop Music
Rabiyah A. Karim-Kincey, Clark Atlanta UniversityMixtapes: Hybrid Hip Hop Cultures
Andrew Daigle, University of Colorado at BoulderWe Make a Mean Team: The Culture of Customized Sneakers in America
Kristin Negele, New York University
Emily Sorum, University of North Dakota
Lowell Mick White, Texas A&M University
Amy Gottfried, Hood College
Larry Harper, Utah Valley State College
How to Consume Literary Food?: Methods of Analyzing and Teaching Food in Literature
Wenying Xu, Florida Atlantic UniversityThe Roles of Nutrition in the Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Food Studies
Keiko Goto, California State University, ChicoCreating an Interdisciplinary Food Studies Program: Reflections on How We Teach Food
Lynn Houston, California State University, Chico
The Bourne Adaptation: A Post-Vietnam Hero for a Post-9/11 World
Brian Hilton, Texas A&M UniversityIntolerable Cruelty?: Adapting Logan's Run from Film to Television
Gerald Duchovnay, Texas A&M University, CommerceExamining Frankenstein 2004: Hallmark’s Attempt to Reanimate Shelley’s Frankenstein
Lance Minor, University of HawaiiMothman is Real: It’s John Keel Who’s Fake: The Mothman Prophecies as Government Propaganda
Antares Russell Alleman, University of Texas, Arlington
Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College, Denver
The Killer Wails Film Series
Reginald Duke Gant, Independent Filmmaker & ScholarBlack Studies USA (45 min)
Niyi Coker, Jr., Independent Filmmaker & Scholar
This film has won the Silver Remi Award (Worldfest Film Festiveal, Houston, 2007) and the award for Best Short Documentary (Berlin Black Film Festival, 2005).
The Role of “the Habit” in the Social Construction of Musicians’ Image
Marianna Strzelecka, University of Illinois, ChampaignThe “Capitol Chirp”: Promoting Wanda Jackson in 1950s Nashville
Tamela Sheree Martin, Oklahoma State University“Ball ‘n’ Chain”: Black Pain and White Melancholia in the Music of Janis Joplin
Jack Hamilton, Harvard University
Religion as Race in John Updike’s Terrorist
Jonne Akens, Texas A&M University, CommerceWoodworm on Trial: Negotiating Territory in Julian Barnes’ “The Wars of Religion”
Brian Willems, University of Split, CroatiaPlaying the Drums and the Damn Kazoo: Death, Heaven, and Wandering Spirits in Louise Erdrich’s Novels
Heather Salter, Northwestern State University, Louisiana
Discussion with Will Rogers as Interpreted by Doug Watson, Oklahoma Baptist University
Our silent film showing this year will be Nosferatu. Each year, at SWTXPCA, we try to show a silent film that has influenced the history of film or provide a unique glimpse into the use of silence as art in film context. This year’s screening is the classic Nosferatu directed by the great F.W. Murnau and featuring Max Shreck as the vampire Count Orlock. This was a very “loosely” adapted version of the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. Nosferatu was almost destroyed by Stoker's widow because of copyright infringement, but this film has outlasted many others of the silent era. Although a number of prints were actually destroyed, thankfully there were enough prints floating around that we can see this classic today. Anyone interested in vampire and Gothic culture, the history of film, or horror in popular culture should come see this film.
The Genealogy of a Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Fragments between Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Marble Faun” and “The Italian Notebook”
Antonio Jocson, Prairie View A&M UniversityWriting the Ethnology of Empire: J.R. Barlett’s Personal Narrative and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Robert L. Gunn, Univerity of Texas, El Paso(Re)membering Past Presences: The “Contact Worlds” of David Albahari’s Bo(a)rder Narratives
Bela Gilgorova, University of LeedsLong Ung: Child Survivor of the Killing Fields
Cheryl Wiltse, Collin County Community College, FriscoSnipping, Cutting, and Slashing: Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors and the Question of Creative Nonfiction
Melinda McBee, Grayson County College
The Reality in Science Fiction: Space and Launch Operations According to Firefly
Maria Baugh, Barrios TechnologyDemons, Reavers and Radical Categories: The Cognitive Science Behind the Whedonverse
J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson, Lakehead UniversityWitchcraft as a Cultural Reaction to Technological Advancement in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Zach Watkins, Independent ScholarOn Growing a Soul: Moral Development on Buffy
Barbara Stock, Gallaudet University
Hitchcock, Wilcox and the Yellow Canary: An Historical Investigation
Douglas Bonner, Fuzhou University, ChinaDreams as Symptom of Historical Trauma in Hitchcock and Crowe
Elizabeth Bilbrey, University of Texas of the Permian BasinPromoting Picture Shows on Main Street: Shifting Gears at the Drive-In
Deborah Carmichael, Michigan State UniversityEvolution of a Cinematic Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s
Horace Fairlamb, University of Houston, Victoria
A discussion of all things related to Chicana/o literature, film, and culture. Everyone is welcome!
Discussants:
Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, Bellevue Community CollegeT'hohahoken Michael Doxtater, McGill University, Montreal
John C. Savagian, Alverno College
James Seelye Jr., University of Toledo
Trends and Patterns of Leisure Reading among Various Population Groups in the United States
Dennis Miles, Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityCommunity Reading Programs: Rock Concerts for Literature Lovers
Karen Neurohr, Oklahoma State University
Performance, Play, and the Pleasures of Splatter: Female Slasher Fans’ Deconstruction of Gender
Michell Ward, University of Southern California“You Can’t kill the Boogieman”: Nostalgia, Terrorism, Femininity, and the Return of the Slasher Film
Christopher G. Goudos, Bowling Green State UniversityFrom Town Squares to Town Multiplexes: Notes on the Political Discourse of the Torture Porn Film Genre
Tim Hetland, Washington State University
“Texas Busters” and “Southern Ladies”: The Humor of Mollie Moore Davis
Judy Sneller, South Dakota School of Mines & TechnologyFamily Style, the Oilfield Fiction of Karle Wilson Baker and Winifred Sanford
Dick Heaberlin, Texas State University, San MarcosSexuality and Landscape in D.H. Lawrence’s St. Mawr
Melissa Molloy, University of UtahMystics of Desolation: Craig Childs and Ellen Meloy
Jan Wellington, Utah Valley State College
Plugged In or Tuned Out: How Do Texas Tech University Students Perceive Podcasts?
Robert Schafer, Texas Tech UniversityA Web Design Case Study: OSU’s Technical Writing Web Page
Laura Dumin, Oklahoma State UniversityImbuing Real Spaces with Simulated Possibilities: The Role of Technical Communication in Virtual Worlds
Rick Mott, Eastern Kentucky UniversityA Comparative Film Based Approach to Teaching Localization and Internationalization
Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University
William S. Burroughs as “Good Ol' Boy”: Naked Lunch in East Texas
Robert Johnson, University of Texas, Pan AmericanBurroughs, the Body and The L Word
Jerianne Williams, Northeastern State University, Broken ArrowWritten on Mirrors with Smoke: Biography, Poetry, and the African Diaspora
Purdom Lindblad, Michigan State University
Cami Nelson, University of Utah
Ken Jones, Art Institute of Houston
Millard Dunn, Louisville, KY
Erika Marie Garza-Johnson, University of Texas, Pan American
El legado mesoamericano: Octavio Paz y Frida Kahlo
Luis Roberto Vera, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla¿Novela, autobiografía o memorias? Quítate de la vía Perico de Umberto Valverde
Lucero Tenorio Gavin, Oklahoma State UniversityElena Garro y los rostros del poder de Susana Perea-Fox
Cida S. Chase, Oklahoma State University
What’s in a Name? The Process of Indigenizing in Higher Education
Matthew J. Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh), Institute of American Indian ArtsNew and Digital Media in Our Communities
Stephen Fadden (Mohawk), Institute of American Indian ArtsDeveloping a Cultural Arts Curriculum: Advantages and Problems
Edward Wapp (Sac and Fox/Comanche), Institute of American Indian ArtsThe Development of Indigenous Liberal Studies
Stephen Wall (Chippewa), Institute of American Indian Arts
All new and current Southwest/Texas Area Chairs should plan to attend this important business meeting.
Come join us for a showing of “Once More with Feeling,”: the Buffy musical episode. Beware: singing assuredly will occur (as will embarrassment and opportunities for blackmail).
We had a great turnout last year and so we’re repeating it!
Art and Anxiety on the Range: Cowboy Erwin E. Smith’s Photographic Portrayal of a Declining Frontier Culture
Bryan Cupp, Texas Christian UniversityHow the Military Shaped the Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies: The Development of Competing National Identities
Ray Dillman, United States Military Academy, West PointSearching for Culture in the Colonial Backwoods: North Carolina in the Seventeenth-Century
Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State UniversityEthnicity on the North Carolina Landscape: Searching for the European Antecedents of Waldensian Housebarns
Frank Ainsley, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Computer Game Archives: An Insider's View of Extant Resources
Judd Ruggill, University of ArizonaPrinciples of New Media Archive Organization
Jason Thompson, University of ArizonaStrategies for New Media Archive Development
Ken McAllister, University of ArizonaArchiving the Real World for Virtual Play: How Much is Enough?
Suellen Adams, University of Rhode Island
Sensitive vs. Stormy: How Recent Film Adaptations of Jane Eyre Adjust Rochester’s Byronic Character in an Era After Feminism and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Paisley Mann, University of VictoriaDionysus and the Hobo: Dylan’s “Splintered” Avatars in Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There
William Lansing Brown, Mesa State CollegeWhen the Writer Has a Say: The Keys to Successful Adaptation of Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia
Eva Kolbusz-Kijne, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
Hurricane Katrina: I Was There!
Ashley Knight, University of Central MissouriApplying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Disaster, Displacement, and Development in New Orleans
Patrice Rose Holderbach, University of EdinburghAfrica & the Red Cross
Jon Hilton, University of Central Missouri
Nostalgia for History?: Imagining Home in Post-Cold War America
Junghyun Hwang, University of California, San DiegoRepresentations of Poets and Poetry in Contemporary American Film
Kristy Teeple Peloquin, Texas State UniversityHags and Whores: Sin from Salem to Springer, from Taylor to Tila Tequila
Jill C. Jones, Rollins College
An “Economy of Scarcity” and the Embarrassment of Riches: Lessons from the Literary Deserts of the American Southwest
Paul Formisano, University of New MexicoThe Thing and the Word: Literature, Science and Eco-criticism
Gioia Woods, Northern Arizona UniversityLocal Action and its Sustainable Effect
John Samadzadeh-Cardenas, University of California, BerkeleyFrom Drama Critic to Naturalist: The Tragic View of Nature in the Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
Barbara L. Scrafford, City College of San Francisco
Problems of American Indian Identity: A Discussion Book-ended by the Voices of Two Sisters (Cherokee)
Jody Kehle (Cherokee Nation Citizen), University of Texas, AustinAfter the Indian Adoption Project: A Search for Identity
Susan Harness (Salish Kootenai), Independent Scholar, Ft. Collins, COAmerican Indian Identity and Institutional Voice: Effects of Identity Politics and Policies
Karen Sunday Cockrell (Cherokee Nation Citizen), University of Missouri
The Power of the Rod: How Wands Function as Phallic Symbols in Harry Potter
Anna Gurley, Northeastern State UniversityOf House-elves and Horcruxes: The Importance of Humility in the Harry Potter Series
Donna Woodford-Gormley, New Mexico Highlands UniversityThe Shadow as Teacher in the Harry Potter Books
Chaz Gormley“Thrown out of the closet”: When Fans Out Their Favorite Characters
Nadine Farghaly, Bowling Green State University
Film Fatalities: Why the Black Man Has to Die in the Movie
Narcel Gerard Reedus, University of Texas, ArlingtonLatino Contributions and Images in the Classic American Film: A Case Study of Dolores Del Rio
Paula Barreiro, University of ArizonaBetween Problems and Hope: Post-colonial Representations of Africa in Contemporary Films
Cheryl Greene, Stanford University
The Warring Tribes Are at It Again: Stereotypes of the Balkan Peoples
Charles Wukasch, Austin Community CollegeGlobalization and its Global Discontents: Greek Director Adapts American Murder Mystery to French Society
Josiane Peltier, Fort Lewis College
Hidden Mythologies in Twentieth-Century Cinema
Kosta Hadavas, Beloit CollegeLive Fast, Die Young: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Myth of Icarus
Valentina DeNardis, St. Joseph’s UniversityTitans Then and Now: Classical and Pop Culture Representations
Betty Rose Nagle, Indiana UniversitySophocles Meets YouTube: Oedipus on the Internet
Howard Mayer, University of Hartford
Culture, Western History, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Walter Hixson, University of AkronBritish-controlled India and America
Karen Almquist, California State UniversityKennedy and Latin America: A Special Relationship?
Deb Wilson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale“Can You Hear me Now?” Cellular Phone Regulation in American Politics and Culture
Robert Hackey, Brown University
The Departure from Our Muskego Stories: The Development of the Cree Territory within the Colonized Context
James L. Queskekapow, University of Manitoba, WinnipegClimate Change, Environmental Decay, and Indigenous People: An Indigenous Approach to Reclaiming the Circle of the World
Stephen M. Sachs, Indiana University-PurdueUniveristy IndianapolisAndean Success Stories
Catherine Joslyn (Kechwa), Clarion University of PennsylvaniaUsing the Global to Support the Local: Community Development at Poplar River and the Proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Manitoba
Agnes Pawlowska, University of Manitoba
Mississippi River Delta Folklore in the Paintings of Alvin Batiste
Joe Cash, McNeese State UniversityCormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, and Tommy Lee Jones: Myth, Motif, and the Hero’s Journey in Cinema of the Southwest
Lois Stevenson, Northwest ISDSouthwestern Lore of the Horned Lizard in Native American Culture
Judith Carter, Amarillo CollegeFrom Tribal Territory to Rapid Settlement
Phyllis Bridges, Texas Woman’s University
The Dialogic Elaboration of the “Jim Comes to Joburg” Label in South African Cultural Production
T. Spreelin MacDonald, Ohio State University“From Water to Stone:” Yvonne Vera’s Re-envisioning of the Nehanda Myth in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe
Marlene G. De La Cruz-Guzman, Ohio State UniversityExposing the Western Syphilizing Mission: BaTswana Discursive Elements as Sources of Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi
Nicholas M. Creary, Ohio State University
James Sanderson, Lamar University
Rayshell Palmer, Seminole State College
Andrew Geyer, Arkansas Tech University
A Culture of Necrophilia: The Rise of the Undead in Film
Lugene Rosen, Orange Coast CollegeExtreme Bodies: Imperiled Consumerism and the Question of Agency in Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Bladerunner, and Serenity
Michael V. DelNero, Bowling Green State UniversityThe Despair of Horror: The Melodramatic Sensibility of Night of the Living Dead
Meghan Boyle, University of Southern California
Lizzie Borden’s Ghost: The Haunting of the Contemporary Psyche
Andrea Cumbo, Cecil CollegeDracula in Space: Techno-Existential Vampirism in C. L. Moore’s Dark Thirst
Hannah Allen, Washington State UniversityLost in Mythy Mazes: The Supernatural and the Unexplainable in Waterland
Sam Huntington, University of HoustonVladimir Propp, Narrative Beginning, and the Onset of the Human Condition: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Reading of Morphology of the Folktale
Roslyn Ko, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
From Black Slavery to White Slavery: Aaron Macy Powell, the Purity Crusade, and the Transformation of Abolitionist History
Raymond Krohn, Purdue UniversityFree with the Past? Cultural Memory and the Portrayal of German-American Abolitionism
Birte Pfleger, California State University, Los AngelesCooks, Cookbooks, and the Contestation of Hegemony: Virginia Plantation Kitchens, 1820-1880s
Christopher Farrish, Claremont Graduate UniversityChildren of Loyalty: Understanding the Divided Family in Civil War America
Dave Wood, United States Military Academy, West Point
Open for Research: The “King of the Hill” Archives
Katie Salzman, Texas State University
Alan Lehman, Georgetown UniversityContext and Popular Media in the Archive: An Analysis of Purdue University’s John T. McCutcheon Collection
Jeanine Wood, Purdue UniversityConsumer Goods as Art: Recent Exhibitions in U.S. Museums
Jennifer Donnelly, Université de Paris
Discussants:
Michael Grabsheid, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBarry Barnes, Nova Southeastern University
Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Reclaiming the Identity of the Traditional African Kitchen
Besi Muhonja, Binghamton UniversityInterrogating the Southwest in Life and Writings of Lillian Bertha Horace (1886-1965), Texas’s Earliest Known African American Woman Novelist, Diarist, and Biographer
Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern UniversityWomen as the “Other” in Igbo Society: Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Ose Ojeahere, West Texas A & M University
Service with a Smile: A Case Study of Starbucks Customer’s Interpersonal Relationships
Niomi Hansen, Wichita State UniversityThe Cowboy Hat: Icon of America and Texas
Melynda Seaton, The Art Institute of DallasFrom Kant to Emerson: A Transcontinental Exploration of the Evolution of Transcendentalism
Kristen A. Bennett, University of Massachusetts, BostonLawrence Welk’s Christmas Specials: An Encounter with an Emergent Postmodernism
Christopher Vondracek, University of South Dakota
The Environmental Ethic of a Conquistador: The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Stephen Spratt, University of South CarolinaTourmaline: A Meditation on Thanatos, Eros and Fertility
David Fonteyn, University of New South WalesDamming the Glen: The Battle over Water in the Southwest
Michaelann Nelson, University of New MexicoAmerica’s First Forester: Reassessing the Work of George Washington, Nature Writer
Kevin A. Wisniewski, University of Pennsylvania
Looking For A Model for Collaborative Life Reports: A Review of Desert Indian Woman
Mascha N. Gemein, University of ArizonaCreating Landscapes of Silence: The Postindian World of Gerald Vizenor’s Interior Landscapes
Corby J. Baxter, University of Texas, ArlingtonThe Center of Indigenous Intellect Is Found in Native American Philosophy
Vivian Delgado, University of Colorado
Conservative Capture of Anti-Relativist Discourse
Hyrum Lewis, Skidmore CollegeWrongful Righteousness
Timothy Baylor, Lockhaven UniversityWhat’s the Matter with Rhode Island? Demonization and Othering in the Popular Culture Debate on Ratifying the U.S. Constitution
Todd Estes, Oakland UniversityFundamentalist Religion
Michael Olubukola Oluwatukesi, Babcock University
The Depiction of the Future through Film Language
Brittany Geldmacher, University of ArizonaBorder Theory and the Politics of Place, Space, and Memory in John Sayles’ Lone Star
Cordelia Barrera, University of Texas, San AntonioFilming Paradise: Winds Across the Everglades and A Flash of Green
Cynthia A. Melendy, University of South Florida
The Cultures of Katyn: Comparisons between Polish and Anglo-American Representations of a War Crime
Daniel Paliwoda, United States Military Academy, West PointReality TV in Modern Russia
Natalya G. Khokholova, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTransgressions: Deconstructing National and Gender Identity in Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
Jack J. Hutchens, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Great Signs There Shall Be from Heaven: Roadside Advertising and the Marketing of American Religion
Bart Dredge, Austin College
Abigail Shaddox, Indiana UniversityMarketing Makeovers and Miracles: The Afterlife of Born-Again Beauty Queens
Karen W. Tice, University of KentuckyRe-envisioning Jesus: From Bobble-heads to Band-aids
Polly Peterson, George Fox University
From “Lazy Bones” to “Space Command”: Automation, Gendering, and Agency in Advertisements of the Remote Control in the 1950s
Laura Simmons, University of Texas, AustinHouse: Exploring How Technology Deals with Society’s Ills
Eden Leone, Bowling Green State UniversityMcDreamy, McSteamy, McSexy: Analyzing the Anatomical Correctness and Popular Appeal of Grey’s Anatomy
Mary Findley, Vermont Technical College
Taking Back My Tongue: Unsilencing Histories and Violence: A Mixedblood Creole Survival Guide
L. Rain Cranford (Choctaw/Mvskoke/Creole descendent), Michigan State UniversityBleeding Words Get Me through the Day: Poetry as Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Sara Sutler-Cohen (Romany/Gypsy, Tsalagi descendent), Bellevue Community CollegeReading in the Moment
Mark Harris (Yoruba/Choctaw), Lane Community College
Harvest Songs of the Field Workers in Kerala, India
Nimmy Nair, Texas Woman’s UniversityThe Historical Significance of Nursery Rhymes
Amanda Reed, Henderson State University“Can I interest you in some nipples of Venus?”: The Function of Magical Cooking in Heroine’s Journey Narratives
Katherine Stout, Utah State UniversityConstant Gypsies
Barbara Witmeyer, University of New Mexico
Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy: All the King’s Men in American Culture
William Palmer, Claremont Graduate UniversityPolitical Alliances and Shared Intimacies: The Fictional Art of Factual Representation in Etorre Scola's A Special Day (1977)
Alison Forsyth, University of Aberystwyth Wales“I’m not drinking Merlot!”: The Hierarchy of Wine Consumption and Remotely Viewing Race and Grapes of Wrath in Alexander Payne’s Film, Sideways
Cristine Soliz, Diné College, Tuba City
Antonio Vallone, Penn State University, DuBois
Phil Heldrich, University of Washington, Tacoma
Citlalin Xochime, New Mexico State University
Jerry Bradley, Lamar University
A Werewolf Playground: Game Spaces and the Creation and Destruction of Borders in Ginger Snaps
Daniel Paul Anderson, Case Western Reserve UniversityThe Construction of Ghost Images in Asian Horror Films: Examples from Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan
Yowei Kang and Kenneth C.C. Yang, University of Texas, El PasoJapanese Horror and the Gaze
Beth Tsai, State University New York, Buffalo
From Green Shores to Green Beers: The Myth-story of Ireland’s St. Patrick
Kevin Michael Visconti, Georgetown UniversityOpening the Gate: The Fairies in Barrie’s The Little White Bird
Sarah Beth Tyler, University of MemphisAt the Crossroads: Philosophy Gets a Workout in Fairyland
Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Linfield CollegeThe Associative Grammar of Fantasy in Literature for Children
Nandan Choksi, American Intercontinental University, South Florida
Analyzing the New Town of “Colonial Williamsburg”: History, Artificiality, Architecture, and American Identity
Eduard Fuehr, Brandenburg Technical UniversityThe Invention of an Imperial Lineage by “Airport Bookstore Historians”: An Analysis of Mass Market History Books in the United States Before and After 9/11
Scott McDermott, Saint Louis UniversityEthnic Monuments in the Landscape: Public History Among the Portuguese in Southern New England
Jim Fonseca, Ohio University, ZanesvilleA Case Study in Contradictions: Representing and Remembering the Matamoros Ritual Murders of 1989
Donald Mrozek, Kansas State University
I Know What You Didn't Do Last Summer: Using Educational Game Development to Motivate Students
Jason Cootey, Utah State UniversityWhat's Fun About Making an Educational Game? Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get Tenure
Ryan Moeller, Utah State UniversityWhere Do We Go From Here, and How do We Get There?: An Update on Looter! and the Looting Crisis in Cambodia
Damien Huffer, Independent Scholar
Cheerleader-in-Chief: Rousing Team Spirit from Andover to Ground Zero
Lori Hall-Araujo, Indiana UniversityRhetoric and the War in Iraq
Dana Smith, Henderson State UniversityThe Postmodern Presidency
John Freie, Le Moyne College
“Opportunity and Respect”: The Impact of Steamboats in the Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Marcos J. Del Hierro, University of Texas, El PasoThe Missouri-Kansas Border War Revisited
Scott Sisemore, University of Central MissouriLocating Literary Blackness in Junot Diaz' “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Jeanelle Guyton Kiley, University of New Mexico
“The Past Imperfect”: Performative Anachronism in Folk Metal Music
Brad Klypchak, Texas A&M University, CommercePsychobilly: “Going Metal” with Upright Basses and Skeletons
Kim Kattari, University of Texas, AustinThe Art of Insanity in Heavy Metal Music
William Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara
An “Invitation to Life” in Pop Culture: a Study of Lloyd Douglas’ Focus on Women
Sheba Kulothungan-George, Dallas Baptist UniversityBabel as Metaphor in Modern and Contemporary Literature and the Arts
Rebekah Hamilton, University of Texas, Pan American"[T]he virus of Evangelism”: Parental Religious Addiction as the Source of Clyde Griffiths' Downfall in Dreiser's An American Tragedy
Jillmarie Murphy, Union CollegeSt. Benedict in the Bunkhouse
Robert King, Utah State University
American Indians Today: Emigrational Conflict and the Jockeying for Cultural Hegemony
Beccie Seaman, Elizabeth City State University
Freeing Our Dreams: Liberating the Fantasy Environment from Corporate Control
Naomi HartCrisis in Orkientalism
Rhiannon Don, Nipissing UniversityDocile Avatars: The Regulation of Bodies in World of Warcraft
Sean Yo, University of Guelph
Using Film to Teach History & Politics
Ernest Giglio, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PATribal Sovereignty and Federal Indian Policy: An Analysis of the Swinging Pendulum Theory
Caroline Williams and Martina Dawley, University of Arizona
Intensive Care: A Query Into the Influence of Central and Eastern European Poetics on American Poetics
Chad Faries, Savannah State UniversityFinally Beyond Borders? The Automobile and Road as Markers of Freedom and Mobility in the Post-1989 Czech Road Movie
Holly Raynard, University of Florida“An invincible Czech horde”: Moravian Folklore, Modernity, Resurgences
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California, San Diego
Sex, Space and Captivity: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexualized Landscape
Lauren Rosewarne, University of MelbourneFilipino and American Television Commercials in their Portrayals of Feminine Beauty
Maria Jessica Castillo Crespo, University of New MexicoShriven into Shape: Fashion Makeover as Normalizing Confessional
Brett Westbrook, St. Edward’s UniversityBreaches and Stereotypes
Dawn Hunter, University of South Carolina, Columbia
The Normalization of Surrogacy in US Television Series
Chloe Avril, University of Goteborg, Sweden“I’m the Worst Mother Ever”: Raising Children on Friends
Eleanor Hersey Nickel, Fresno Pacific University
Discussants:
Mark Harris (Yoruba/Choctaw), Lane Community CollegeClarissa Bertha (Sengalese, Choctaw, Catawba, Cherokee, Scottish), Oregon State University
S/KIN: Father Wrongs and Daughter Rites
Jean Own, University of London
“The interrupted story”: The Fairy Tale and Elizabeth Bishop’s Aesthetics
Jessica R. McCort, Washington University in St. LouisDeath by Extinction: Aliens and Technological Monsters in the Mythologies of Science Fiction
Leah Sadykov, City University New York, New YorkNot “Happily Ever After”: Fairy Tales and Fairy Tale Motifs in The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Susana Brower
“His survival weapon was story”: Scheherazade, Storytelling and Survival in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip
Naomi Craven, University of Texas, San AntonioCaribbean Magic: A Marvelous Real Account
Kellie Roblin, Grand Rapids Community CollegeRudolfo Anaya: Regional History and Epiphany, The Sunny Baca Quartet
Norman D. Smith, University of New Mexico, Gallup
Ed Higgins, George Fox University
Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Zhengzhou University
Louis Lopez, Mesa State College
Barrie Scardino, Houston, TX
Thanks for a great conference, and we'll see you next year for our 30th anniversary!