Table Of Content2007 Joint Conference of the
National Popular Culture
and American Culture
Associations
April 4 - 7, 2007
Boston Marriott Copley Place
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Editor: Leslie L. Fife, Oklahoma State University;
PCA/ACA Conference Coordinator
Blackwell Editor: Michelle Sathan
Additional information about the PCA/ACA
is available at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PCA AREA CHAIRS FOR THE 2007 CONFERENCE.................V
ACA AREA CHAIRS FOR THE 2007 CONFERENCE............XIV
PCA/ACA CONFERENCE SITES & DATES...........................XVII
2006 PCA OFFICERS.................................................................XVIII
2006 ACA OFFICERS.................................................................XVIII
BUSINESS AND BOARD MEETINGS........................................XIX
SPECIAL CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND EVENTS...........XXIII
CONFERENCE PAPERS FOR SALE......................................XXXI
REGISTRATION & EXHIBIT INFORMATION...................XXXI
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW........................................................XXXII
SCHEDULE.........................................................................................1
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007..........................................................1
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 12:30–2:00 P.M.............................................1
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2:30–4:00 P.M...............................................5
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 4:30–6:00 P.M.............................................14
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 6:30–8:00 PM..............................................24
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007............................................................34
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 7:00–8:00 AM................................................34
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 8:00–9:30 AM................................................34
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 10:00–11:30 AM............................................53
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 11:30–2:00 PM...............................................74
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 12:30–2:00 PM...............................................75
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2:30–4:00 PM.................................................95
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 4:30–6:00 PM...............................................115
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 5:45–6:00 PM...............................................136
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 6:30–8:00 PM...............................................136
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 8:00–9:00 PM...............................................151
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 8:15–9:45 PM...............................................154
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007.................................................................156
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7:00 AM.............................................................156
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7:45 AM.............................................................156
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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 8:00–9:30 AM....................................................156
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 10:00–11:30 AM................................................177
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 11:30 AM–2:00 PM.............................................199
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 12:30–2:00 PM...................................................200
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2:30–4:00 PM.....................................................221
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 3:00–4:00 PM.....................................................241
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 4:30–6:00 PM.....................................................243
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 5:45–6:00 PM.....................................................263
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 6:30–8:00 PM.....................................................263
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7:00 – 8:30 PM...................................................277
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7:00 – 10:00 PM.................................................277
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 8:00 PM..............................................................278
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 8:15–9:45 PM.....................................................279
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2007..........................................................283
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 7:00 – 8:00 A.M............................................283
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 8:00 – 9:30 AM.............................................283
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 9:00–10:30 AM.............................................301
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 10:00–11:30 AM...........................................302
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 10:45 – 11:30 AM.........................................321
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 11:45 A.M. – 1:00 P.M...................................321
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 12:30–2:00 PM.............................................322
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2:30–4:00 PM...............................................339
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 4:30–6:00 PM...............................................351
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 6:30–9:00 P.M..............................................352
INDEX...............................................................................................353
WHERE WE’RE GOING . . ..........................................................423
UPCOMING REGIONAL MEETINGS........................................423
PCA/ACA FINANCIAL INFORMATION....................................423
PRESS/PUBLISHER, JPC, AND JAC ADS..................................423
FLOORPLANS.................................................................................436
NOTES..............................................................................................440
EXHIBITOR ADS AND THE JPC AND JAC
CALLS FOR PAPERS
APPEAR AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM
PCA Area Chairs, 2006–2007 v
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AREA CHAIRS
FOR THE 2007 CONFERENCE
Advertising Automobile Culture
Sammy R. Danna Tom Patterson
Loyola Univ. Shepherd Univ.
[email protected] [email protected]
African-American Culture Baby-Boomer Culture
Katrina Hazzard-Donald James Von Schilling
Rutgers University Northampton Comm. Coll.
[email protected] [email protected]
American Literature Biographies
Sue Richardson Jéan-Paul Benowitz
Univ. of North Carolina- Elizabethtown C
Wilmington [email protected]
[email protected]
Black Music Culture
Animal Culture William C. Banfield
Debbie Phillips Berklee College of Music
Muskingum College [email protected]
[email protected]
and
Arthurian Legends
Angela Nelson
Elizabeth Sklar
Bowling Green State
Wayne State University
University
[email protected]
[email protected]
and
The Body & Physical
Donald Hoffman Difference
Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lori Kelly
[email protected] Carroll Coll.
[email protected]
Asian Popular Culture
John A. Lent Border Culture (Political,
669 Ferne Blvd. Cultural, Geographical)
[email protected] Ray B. Browne
Bowling Green State Univ.
[email protected]
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British Popular Culture Children’s Television
Maureen Thum Richard Graham
Univ. of Michigan University of Nebraska-
[email protected] Lincoln
[email protected]
and
Circuses& Circus Culture
Frank Riga
Robert Sugarman
Canisius Coll.
Shaftsbury, Vermont
[email protected]
[email protected]
Business/Corporate Culture
Civil War & Reconstruction
Diana K Osborne
Randal W. Allred
Spokane Community College
Brigham Young Univ., Hawaii
[email protected]
[email protected]
Caribbean & Latin American
Collecting & Collectibles
Literature & Culture
Ron Bishop
Jorge Febles
Drexel University
University of North Florida
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
and
Collective Behavior:
Patricia Montilla
Panics, Fads & Hostile
Western Michigan University
Outbursts
[email protected]
V.J. Brown
Shepherd College
Celebrity Culture
[email protected]
Michael Brody
Potomac, Maryland
Collegiate Culture:
[email protected]
Higher Ed & Pedagogy
Julie Gochenour
Chicana/o Culture:
James Madison University
Literature, Film, Theory
[email protected]
Scott Baugh
Texas Tech University
Comic Art & Comics
[email protected]
Nicole Freim
[email protected]
Children's Lit. & Culture
Harry E. Eiss
Brighton, Michigan
[email protected]
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Conspiracy Theory / Dime Novels/Pulps/
Claims for the Paranormal Juvenile Series Books
Tamar Gablinger Marlena E. Bremseth
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Howard University
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected]
Creative Fiction Writing
Jerry Bradley Documentary
Lamar University Heather McIntosh
[email protected] The Pennsylvania State Univ.
[email protected]
Cultural Conflict & Women
Cheri Louise Ross Electronic Communication &
Penn State Univ. Harrisburg Culture
[email protected] Mark Nunes
Georgia Perimeter College
Culture & Religion [email protected]
Ingrid Shafer
Univ. of S&A of OK Eros, Pornography &
[email protected] Popular Culture
[email protected] Ken Muir
Appalachian State Univ.
Dance Culture [email protected]
Libby Smigel
George Washington Univ. European Literature &
[email protected] Culture
(excl. UK & Germany)
Detective & Mystery Fiction Elisabeth Donato
Marty Knepper Clarion Univ. of Pennsylvania
Morningside College [email protected]
[email protected]
Fashion, Appearance, &
and
Consumer Identity
Barbara Emrys Joseph Hancock
University of Nebraska- Coll. of Media, Arts & Design
Kearney [email protected]
[email protected]
Fat Studies
Digital Games Stefanie Snider
Nathan Garrelts USC
Saginaw Valley State Univ. [email protected]
[email protected]
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and Gender Studies
Carrie Marjorie Peirce
Lesleigh J. Owen
Azusa Pacific Univ.
Univ. of Cal., Santa Cruz
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gender & Media Studies
Festivals & Faires
Debbie Phillips
Kimberly Tony Korol
Muskingum College
[email protected]
[email protected]
Film
Donald E. Palumbo Geography
East Carolina University Joe Manzo
[email protected] Concord College
[email protected]
Film Adaptation
and
Rebecca Housel
Rochester Institute of Tech. John Morgan
[email protected] Emory & Henry College
[email protected]
Film & History
David Lancaster
German Literature &
University of Leeds
Culture
[email protected]
Claude Desmarais
Mount Allison University
Film & Media Studies
[email protected]
J. Brian Wagaman
Middleton, Pennsylvania
Gothic Literature
[email protected]
Louis H. Palmer, III
Castleton State College
Folklore
[email protected]
Elisabeth Nixon
Franklin University
Health & Disease in Popular
[email protected]
Culture
Food in Popular Culture Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Beverly Taylor Mass. Coll. of Pharmacy
Univ. of North Carolina & Health Services
[email protected] [email protected]
Gay & Lesbian Studies Heinlein Studies
Bruce Drushel Lisa Edmonds
Miami University Wichita State University
[email protected] [email protected]
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Horror (Fiction, Film) Libraries, Archives, &
Philip Simpson Popular Culture Research
Brevard Comm. College Allen Ellis
[email protected] Northern Kentucky Univ.
[email protected]
Internet Culture
George Lewis Literature & Visual Arts
Univ. of the Pacific Rebecca Gorman
[email protected] Metropolitan State College
of Denver
Jack London's Life & Works [email protected]
Louise E Wright:
Philadelphia, PA Local Culture of Boston
[email protected] Jéan-Paul Benowitz
Elizabethtown College
Jewish Studies [email protected]
Barbara Silliman
Providence College Madness in Literature
[email protected] Branimir M. Rieger
Lander Univ.
and
[email protected]
Dan Walden
Masculinities
Penn State Univ.
Hartmut Heep
[email protected]
Penn State University
[email protected]
Journalism
Ken Muir
Medieval Popular Culture
Appalachian State Univ.
K. A. Laity
[email protected]
College of St. Rose
[email protected]
Journalism & Media Culture
James Von Schilling
Memory & Representation
Northampton Comm. College
Rosemarie J. Conforti
[email protected]
Southern Connecticut State
University
Lang. Attitudes & Popular
[email protected]
Linguistics
Patricia Donaher
Men/Men's Studies
Missouri Western State Univ.
Hartmut Heep
[email protected]
Penn State University
[email protected]
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Motorcycling Culture & Philosophy & Popular
Myth Culture
Suzanne Ferriss Timothy J. Madigan
Farquhar Coll. of A&S Rochester, New York
Nova Southeastern Univ. [email protected]
[email protected]
Poetry Studies & Creative
and
Maura Gage Cavell
Louisiana State University
Gary L. Kieffner
at Eunice
U of Texas at El Paso
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politics, Law, & Popular
Music
Culture
Don Cusic
Becky L. Smith
Curb College of Entertainment
York College of Pennsylvania
and Music Business
[email protected]
Belmont University
[email protected]
Popular American Authors
Huey Guagliardo
Musicals, Stage & Film
Lousiana State University
Samuel J. Goldstein
[email protected]
Daytona Beach Community
College
Popular Art, Architecture &
[email protected]
Design
Rett Lorance
Mythology in Contemporary
School of Visual Arts
Culture
[email protected]
Anais Spitzer
College of Santa Fe
and
[email protected]
Derham Groves
and
University of Melbourne
[email protected]
Stephen Wilkerson
[email protected]
[email protected]
Popular Culture &
Non-Fiction Writing
Education/ Teaching &
Dan R. Jones
History
Texas A&M International
Seymour Leventman
University
Boston College
[email protected]
[email protected]
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