2008 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture - PCA/ACA

410 Pages·2009·1.91 MB·English

by  Cal User

2009 Joint Conference of the
National Popular Culture and
American Culture
Associations

April 8 – 11, 2009

New Orleans Marriott
Delores F. Rauscher, Editor &
PCA/ACA Conference Coordinator
Michigan State University

Wiley-Blackwell Editor: Elna Lim

Additional information about the PCA/ACA
available at www.pcaaca.org
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Table of Contents

The 2008 National Conference Popular Culture Association &
American Culture Association Area Chairs..................................5
PCA/ACA Board Members.........................................................13
Officers........................................................................................13
Executive Officers.......................................................................13
Past & Future Conferences..........................................................14
Conference Papers For Sale; Benefits Endowment.....................15
Exhibit Hours..............................................................................15
Business & Board Meetings........................................................16
Film Screenings...........................................................................18
Tours, Get-Togethers, Receptions, & Dinners............................22
Special Sessions..........................................................................24
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW:............................................................32
DAILY SCHEDULE:....................................................................52
Wednesday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M..........................................52
Wednesday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M............................................59
Wednesday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M............................................70
Wednesday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M............................................85
Wednesday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.........................................93
Thursday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M...............................................95
Thursday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.........................................111
Thursday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M............................................126
Thursday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M..............................................141
Thursday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M..............................................157
Thursday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M............................................173
Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M................................................188
Friday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.............................................203
Friday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.................................................219
Friday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M...................................................235
Friday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M...................................................251
Friday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M..................................................266
Friday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.................................................280
Saturday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M..............................................283
Saturday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M..........................................289
Saturday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.............................................303
Saturday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M...............................................317
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Saturday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M...............................................329
Saturday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M..............................................338
INDEX......................................................................................340
ADVERTISERS...........................................................................405
The New Orleans Marriott Hotel Maps........................................407

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PCA/ACA
AREA CHAIRS

The 2008 National Conference Animal Culture
Popular Culture Association & Debbie Phillips
Muskingum Coll.
American Culture Association
[email protected]
Area Chairs
Academics Animation
Arlene Caney James A. (Jim) Walker
Comm. Coll. Of Philadelphia University College for the Creative Arts at
[email protected] Maidstone
& [email protected]
Julie Gochenour
Appalachian Studies
James Madison University
[email protected] Leslie Harper Worthington
Gainesville State College
Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic [email protected]
Gaming)
Art, Architecture, & Design
Dennis Cutchins
Loretta Lorance
Brigham Young University
[email protected] School of Visual Arts, New York
[email protected]
Adolescence in Film & Television &
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart Derham Groves
University of Melbourne
Plymouth State University
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected]

Advertising
Arthurian Legends
Sammy R. Danna
Elizabeth Sklar
Loyola Univ.
[email protected] [email protected]
&

Donald Hoffman
African-American Culture
Katrina Hazzard-Donald [email protected]

[email protected]
Asian Popular Culture

John A. Lent
Age of Theodore Roosevelt & Popular
[email protected]
Culture

Daniel Murphy
Automobile Culture
Hanover College.
Tom Patterson
[email protected]
Shepherd University
[email protected]
American Indian Literatures & Cultures

Constance (Connie) Bracewell
Baby-Boomer Culture
University of Arizona James Von Schilling
[email protected]
Northampton Comm. College
&
[email protected]
Richard Sax
&
Lake Erie College
Shawn David Young
[email protected] -or- [email protected]
Michigan State University

[email protected]
American Literature

Sue Richardson
Biographies
Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington
Susie Skarl
[email protected]
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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PCA & ACA
AREA CHAIRS

[email protected] Celebrity in Culture
Michael Brody
Black Music Culture [email protected]
Including Hip Hop Culture
William C. Banfield Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
Berklee College of Music J. Joseph Edgette
[email protected] Widener University
& [email protected]
Angela Nelson
Bowling Green State University Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film,
[email protected] Theory
& (For Hip Hop) Scott Baugh
Crystal Alberts Texas Tech University
University of North Dakota [email protected]
[email protected]
Children’s Literature & Culture

The Body and Physical Difference Harry E. Eiss
Lori Duin Kelly [email protected]

Carroll College
[email protected] Children’s Television
Richard Graham
Border Culture (Political, Cultural, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Geographical) [email protected]

Ray B. Browne
Circuses & Circus Culture
Bowling Green State University
[email protected] Robert Sugarman
[email protected]

Brazilian Popular Culture
Civil War & Reconstruction
Fernando de Sousa Rocha
Randal W. Allred
Middlebury College
Brigham Young University, Hawaii
[email protected]
[email protected]

British Popular Culture
Collecting & Collectibles
Maureen Thum
Kevin M. Moist
University of Michigan
Penn State, Altoona
[email protected]
[email protected]
&

Frank Riga
Collective Behavior:
Canisius College
[email protected] Panics, Fads & Hostile Outbursts
V.J. Brown
Business/Corporate Culture Shepherd College
Diana K Osborne [email protected]
Spokane Community College
[email protected] Comedy and Humor
& M. Thomas Inge
Tony Osborne Randolph-Macon College
Gonzaga University [email protected]

Caribbean & Latin American Comic Art & Comics
Literature & Culture Nicole Freim
Jorge Febles Riverside Community College
University of North Florida [email protected]
[email protected]

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PCA/ACA
AREA CHAIRS

Communication & Digital Culture Ecology and Culture
Mark Nunes Margaret O’Shaughnessey
Southern Polytechnic State University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
[email protected] [email protected]

Conspiracy Theory / Education, Teaching, History, & Popular
Claims for the Paranormal Culture
Tamar Gablinger Seymour Leventman
Humboldt University Boston College
Berlin [email protected]
[email protected]
Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture
Creative Fiction Writing Ken Muir
Jerry Bradley Appalachian State University
Lamar University [email protected]
[email protected]
Fairy Tales
Cultural Conflict & Women Linda J. Holland-Toll
Cheri Louise Ross Mount Olive College
Penn State University, Harrisburg [email protected]
[email protected]
Fan Culture & Theory
Culture & Religion Katherine Larsen
Ingrid Shafer George Washington University
Univ. of S&A, Oklahoma [email protected]
[email protected]
Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer
Dance Culture
Identity
Libby Smigel
Joseph Hancock
[email protected]
Drexel University
& [email protected]
Deidre Cavazzi

[email protected] Fat Studies
Lesleigh Owen, PhD Candidate
Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books
University of California, Santa Cruz
Pamela Bedore [email protected]
University of Connecticut &
[email protected] Julia McCrossin

George Washington University
Disasters & Culture
[email protected]
Ann Larabee

Michigan State University
Festivals & Faires
[email protected]
Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Documentary University of Arizona
Heather McIntosh [email protected]

Northern Illinois University
Film
[email protected]
Donald E. Palumbo
Eastern European Studies English Dept.
Jeff Johnson East Carolina University
[email protected]
Michigan State University

[email protected]

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PCA & ACA
AREA CHAIRS

Film Adaptation
Rebecca Housel German Literature and Culture
Rochester Institute of Techology Claude Desmarais
[email protected] University of British Columbia
[email protected]
Film & History
Cynthia J. Miller Gothic Literature, Film, & Culture
Emerson College Louis H. Palmer, III
[email protected] Castleton State College
[email protected]
Film and Media Studies
J. Brian Wagaman Heinlein Studies
[email protected] Lisa N. D’Amico
Texas A&M University
Folklore [email protected]
Elisabeth Nixon, Ph.D.
Franklin University Horror (Fiction, Film)
[email protected] Philip Simpson
Brevard Comm. College, Palm Bay
Food in Popular Culture [email protected]
&
Beverly Taylor
Jim Iaccino
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Chicago School of Prof. Psychology
[email protected]
[email protected]
Game Studies &
Tony Avruch Kristopher Woofter
Bowling Green State University Dawson Collgee
[email protected] [email protected]
&
Joshua Call Humanities & Popular Cultures
University of Nebraska, Lincoln Ray B. Browne
[email protected] Bowling Green State University
& [email protected]
Gerald Voorhees
High Point University Internet Culture
[email protected] Montana Miller
& Bowling Green State University
Katie Whitlock [email protected]
California State University
[email protected] Jack London’s Life & Works
Jay Williams
Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies
University of Chicago
Bruce Drushel [email protected]
Miami University
[email protected] Jewish Studies
Fred Isaac
Gender Studies
Berkeley, CA
Carrie Marjorie Peirce [email protected]
Azusa Pacific University
[email protected] Journalism & Media Culture
James Von Schilling
Gender & Media Studies
Northampton Community College
Debbie Phillips [email protected]
Muskingum College &
[email protected]
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PCA/ACA
AREA CHAIRS

Ken Muir University of Colorado
Appalachian State University [email protected]

[email protected]
Literature & Science

Ian Roberts
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
Missouri Western State University
Patricia Donaher
[email protected]
Missouri Western State University

[email protected]
Literature & Society

Gary L. Long
Latin American Cinema
University of Mississippi
Melissa Fitch
[email protected]
University of Arizona

[email protected]
Local Culture of New Orleans—Special

Sessions
Latin Americans & Latinos:
Jean-Paul Benowitz
Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes
Lebanon Valley College
Eliana Rivero
[email protected]
University of Arizona

[email protected]
Mark Twain’s World

Ray Browne
Latin American Literature & Culture
Bowling Green State University
Patricia Montilla
[email protected]
Western Michigan University

[email protected]
Masculinities & Men’s Studies

Hartmut Heep
Latin Dance & the Global Economy
Penn State University
Melissa Fitch
[email protected]
University of Arizona

[email protected]
Material Culture

Ella Howard
Latin American Film & Media
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Melissa Fitch
[email protected]
The University of Arizona

[email protected]
Medical Humanities: Health, Disease &

Culture
Latin American Performance Studies
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Elsa Gilmore
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health
United States Naval Academy
Sciences
[email protected]
[email protected]

Libraries, Archives, Museums,
Medieval Popular Culture
& Popular Research
K. A. Laity
Allen Ellis
College of Saint Rose
Northern Kentucky University [email protected]
[email protected]

Memory & Representation
Literature & Madness
Rosemarie J. Conforti
Branimir M. Rieger
Southern Connecticut State University
Lander University [email protected]
[email protected]

Midwest Culture
Literature & Politics
Mark D. Van Ells
George B. Moore
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PCA & ACA
AREA CHAIRS

Queensborough Community College Fran Hassencahl
[email protected] Old Dominion University
[email protected]
Motorcycling Culture & Myth
Gary L. Kieffner Politics, Law, & Popular Culture
University of Texas, El Paso Becky L. Smith
[email protected] York College of Pennsylvania
& [email protected]
Lisa Garber
Psychologist Popular American Authors
[email protected] Huey Guagliardo
Lousiana State University
Music [email protected]
Tom Kitts
St. John’s University Popular History in American Culture
[email protected]
Jennifer Stevens

Roger Williams University
Musicals, Stage & Film [email protected]
Samuel J. Goldstein

Datona State College Popular History in American Culture
[email protected]
Jennifer Stevens

Roger Williams University
Mystery & Detective & Fiction
[email protected]
Marilyn Rye

[email protected] Professional Placement
&
John Bratzel
Karen Waldron
Michigan State University
College of the Atlantic
[email protected]
[email protected]

Protest Issues & Actions
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
Lotte Larsen
Stephen Wilkerson
Western Oregon State College
[email protected]
[email protected]

New England Studies
Radio
Peter Holloran Frank Chorba
Worcester State College
Washburn University
[email protected] [email protected]

Non-Fiction Writing
Religion & Culture
Dan R. Jones Ingrid Shafer
Texas A&M International University
University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
[email protected]
[email protected]

Philosophy & Popular Culture
Rhetoric, Composition, & Popular Culture
Timothy J. Madigan

St. John Fisher College Romance
[email protected]
Eric Selinger

DePaul University
Poetry Studies & Creative Poetry
[email protected]
Maura Gage Cavell &
Louisiana State University, Eunice Darcy Martin
[email protected] East Tennessee State University
[email protected]
Politics Portrayed in Electronic Print and

Media
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