Saturday 4:30–6:00 PM

435 PCA Room 309
CULTURE & RELIGION
Chair: Ingrid H. Shafer, U of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK 73018.
“Jimmy Swaggart’s ‘I Have Sinned’ Speech: Born-Again Repentance and Public Relations Savvy.” Richard Keenan, Comm., Wayne State College, Wayne, NE 68787.
“‘Give Me That Old-Time Religion’: Christian Doctrine in Southern Literature.” Joe Mandel, English Theatre & Lang., UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372.
“Angels in the Marketplace: Commodification, Consumption, and the Study of Contemporary Popular Religion.” Meredith Underwood, Iliff School of Theology/U of Denver, Denver, CO 80210.
“Images and Uses of Religion in the Humor of Garrison Keillor.” Anthony Hatcher, Comm., Pfeiffer U, Misenheimer, NC 28109.

437 ACA Room 401
WOMEN’S STUDIES: Undergraduates View the Cultural Roles of African-American Women
Chair: Simona J. Hill, Sociology & Anthropology, Susquehanna U, Selinsgrove, PA 17870.
“Does the World Really Need Another Booty Music Song? Nicole Dagenhart, Susquehanna U.
“Don’t Hate Me Cause I Am Beautiful.” Venus Ricks, Susquehanna U.
“R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Amy Getz, Susquehanna U.
“Happy to Be Nappy.” Sarah Franklin and Amy Getz, Susquehanna U.

442 PCA Room 406
AMERICAN LIT.: American Romantics
Chair: Jill E. Anderson, American Studies, California State U, Fullerton, CA 92835.
“‘Be Up and Doing’: Poetic Labor and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Psalms.” Jill E. Anderson.
“Candid Cooper: Names, Things, and Democratic Literature.” Richard Prud’homme, Yale U.
“A Telephone Trilogy in Mountain Interval: Dead Trees Disrupt Human Understanding.” Drew Giorgi, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Chalfont, PA 18914.

443 ACA Room 407
POPULAR AMERICAN AUTHORS
Chair: Priscilla Leder, English, Southwest Texas State U, San Marcos, TX 78666.
“Crossing Bounderies: Exploring the Animal Other in Rafi Zabor’s The Bear Comes Home.” William Major, English, Hillyer College, U of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117.
“Connie Mae Fowler’s Before Women Had Wings and Contemporary Southern Girl Culture.” William Chernecky, English, Louisiana State U, Eunice, LA 70535.
“Dead Letters: The Limits of Regionalism in Chopin’s ‘Elizabeth Stock’s One Story.’” Priscilla Leder.

445 PCA Room 409
ASIAN POPULAR CULTURE: Filmic Dimensions
Chair: John A. Lent, Temple U, Philadelphia, Pa.
“Director Cao Xiaohui and Beijing Animation.” Xu Ying, China Film Archive, 4871 N.W. 97th Pl., Miami, FL 33178.
“Like Father, Like Son: Iron Monkey and the Evolution of Wong Feihung.” Lisa Odham Stokes, Humanities, and Michael Hoover, Social Sciences, Seminole Comm. College, Sanford, FL 32773.
“New Techniques in Hollywood’s Recent Asian Martial Arts Films.” Faye Zhengxing, Voice of America, 330 Independence Ave. S.W., Wash-ington, DC 20237.

446 Room 410
previous session, culture & environment, may continue into this time slot if needed.

447 PCA Room 411
RECORDED SOUND: Principles, Politics, the North, and Life
Chair: Stan Harrison, English, U of South Florida, Sarasota, FL 34243.
“Five Principles of Recorded Sound Art Research. Stan Harrison.
“Treacherous Laughter: The Politics of the Spoken Word.” Tyler Hoff-man, English, Rutgers U, Camden, NJ 08102.
“The Northern Thing.” Ann McKinnon, Women’s Studies, U of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., Canada V6T 1Z3.
“The Life of ‘This American Life.’” Edward Sheer, English, U of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.

448 PCA Room 412
GOTHIC: 19th Century British
Chair: Sandi Reynolds, English, Speech & Foreign Lang., Texas Women’s U, Denton, TX 76204.
“‘To dally with wrong that does no harm’: Coleridge’s Use of the Gothic Romance in Christabel.” Sandi Reynolds.
“Sexual Difference and the Gothic Sublime.” Ed Cameron, English, George Washington U, Washington, DC 20052.
“Degendering the Sublime: Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Claire Lawrence, Bloomsburg U, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
“Jane Eyre’s Transformations: The Remaking of a Classic Victorian Gothic Novel.” Bansari Mitra, Humanities & Comm., Drexel U, Phila-delphia, PA 19104.

449 Room 413
ADVENTURE/THRILLER: A Roundtable Discussion of the Prentice Hall Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Moderator: Gary Hoppenstand, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Presenter: Garyn G. Roberts, Northwestern Michigan College, Comm., Traverse City, MI 49686.

450 PCA Room 414
MUSIC
Chair: James Elliott, Belmont U, Nashville, TN 37212.
“Love and Relationships in Popular Songs Sung by ‘Boy Bands’ from 1950 to 1999.” Richard D. Waters, 106 Ashley Circle #5, Athens, GA 30605.
“B-Girl Feminism and the Diversification of Rhythm and Blues.” Charla Ogaz, 455 East San Salvadone St., San Jose, CA 95112.
“Co-Writing Issues for Songwriters.” James Elliott.

451 PCA Room 415
GEOGRAPHY
Chair: Joseph T. Manzo, Geography, Concord College, Athens, WV 24712.
“Changing Collard Culture.” John Morgan, Edward Davis, Geography, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA 24327.
“GPS and the Hand-held Construction of Space.” Barton C. Keeton, English, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 27807.
“Mudcats, Sand Gnats, and Crocs, Oh My! The Vernacular Zoo of Minor League Baseball Logos.” Patrick May, Social Science, Plymouth State College, Plymouth NH 03624.
“The Changing South: A Vine for Postmodern Times, An Update on Kudzu at the Beginning of the 21st Century.” David Alderman, Geography, East Carolina U, Greenville, NC 27858.

455 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Biblical Hermaneutics
Chair: Christopher Devron, S.J., 80 Lexington Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138.
“I’ll Conjure Me a World: Biblical Imagery and Figures in the Work of Saul Stacey Williams.” Frank L. Samson, New Testament, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138.
“Way Over in Egypt Land: Salvation History in the Spirituals.” Mitzi J. Smith, New Testament, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138.
“And Remember Me in Paradise.” Erik J. Williams, New Testament, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138.
“The Lament Psalms of Israel and the Spirituals in the Antebellum South.” Christopher Devron.
456 PCA Salon E
FILM: The Construction of Female Identity in Hollywood Film
Chair: Kim Simms, 28 Old North Rd., Kingston, RI 02881.
“Queering the Mainstream: Constructions of Lesbian Identity in Stella Dallas.” Theresa DeFrancis, U of Rhode Island.
“The Three Faces of Sabrina: Revisioning the Feminine in a Hollywood Classic.” Greta Methot, U of Rhode Island.
“‘We Oughta Be in Pictures’: Audience Perspectives of Female Identity in the Movie within a Movie.” Kim Sims.

457 PCA Salon F
SLAPSTICK COMEDY/EARLY TELEVISION PANEL
Chair: Ben Urish, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Why the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers Are Six Comedy Teams—At Least!” Ben Urish.
“The Three Stooges: So Sue Me!” Frank Reighter, 10220 Calera Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19114.
Stooges Symposium and a special posthumous award by PCA to the Three Stooges, presented to Ms. Lyla Budnick.

458 PCA Salon G
SF/F: FARSCAPE
Chair: James F. Iaccino, Psychology, Benedictine U, Lisle, IL 60532.
“Hynerian Modules and Other Uncharted Delicacies: Food, Eating, and Culture in Farscape.” Debbie Danowski, Media Studies, Sacred Heart U, Fairfield, CT 6432.
“Searching for the Best of All Possible Universes: Farscape as Today’s Candide.” Michael W. Young, Comm., Robert Morris College, Moon Township, PA 15108.
“Farscape’s John Crichton and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Displaced Astronauts Finding Their Identity in Time.” James F. Iaccino.

459 PCA Salon H
Comic Art & Comics: Comics Research & Academic Careers—A Roundtable Discussion
Mark C. Rogers, Comm. & Fine Arts, Walsh U, North Canton, OH 44720; Charles Hatfield, English, U of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; Amy Kiste Nyberg, Comm., Seton Hall U, South Orange NJ 07079; Joseph Witek, English, Stetson U, DeLand, FL 32720.
Studying comics can present a number of obstacles for scholars pursuing an academic career. Comics research often contains an inter-disciplinary component, and lacks a departmental home at many universities. Scholars often have to explain the nature of their work, and negotiate a path that lets them pursue their work while fitting into a more traditional academic framework. The panelists, all of whom make comics their primary area of research, will briefly discuss strategies for dealing with the job market, tenure and promotion, publishing, and other issues.

460 PCA Salon I
GERMAN CULTURE: Food, Fabrics, Funk
Chair: John L. Plews, Mod. Lang., U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2I6.
“German Fashion for German Women: The Rise and Fall of the Flapper Dress.” Maria Makela, 1851 West Berenice, Chicago, IL 60613.
“A Spaniard in the Attic: The Texture of Gender in Friederike Helene Unger’s ‘Rosalie and Nettchan.’” Elizabeth Krimmer, German Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01750.
“Stories of Food: Recipes of Modernity, Recipes of Tradition.” Cecilia Novero, German, Penn State U, University Park, PA 16802.
“Eurovision? Gender, Race, and Place in 50 Years of German Schlager.” Sunka Simon, German, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.

461 PCA Salon J
WORLD’S FAIRS: Hanover 2000
Chair: Martin Manning, Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, DC 20547.
“Hanover 2000: The Last of the Great World’s Fairs.” John E. Findling, Indiana U, Southeast, New Albany, IN 47150.
“Past, Present and Future at International Expositions: U.S. Participation at World Fairs.” Martin Manning.

462 Salon K
previous session may run over.

463 ACA Salon L
LAW & AMERICAN CULTURE: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue
Chair: Timothy Hoff, U of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
“Refracting the Tablets: Reflecting on Kieslowski’s The Decalogue: Part I. Leonard V. Kaplan, U of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI 53706.
“Refracting the Tablets: Reflecting on Kieslowski’s The Decalogue: Part II. Vincent Rinella, Esq., 8320 Childs Rd., Windmoor, PA 19038.
“Refracting the Tablets: Reflecting on Kieslowski’s The Decalogue: Part III. Leonard V. Kaplan and Vincent Rinella.

464 PCA Room 501
SHAKESPEARE & POPULAR CULTURE: Reconfigurations
Chair: Kim Fedderson, English, Lakehead U, Thunder Bay, ONT P7B 5E1.
“What’s New?: Racial Representation in William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Frankie J. Petrosino, Afro-American Studies, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA.
“Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark/New York.” Meera Tamaya, English, Mass. College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA 01247.
“‘Bring out your dead’: The Reanimation of the Shakespearean Body in Julie Taymor’s Titus.” Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson, English, Lakehead U, Thunder Bay, ONT P7B 5#1.