Thursday 10:30–12 Noon

54 ACA Room 307
CEMETERIES & GRAVEMARKERS
Chair: Laurel K. Gabel, 205 Fishers Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534.
“The Cult of Personality in Hungarian Cemetery Gravemarkers.” Joyce Corbett, ETC/SD, Ethnic Textile Council of San Diego, PO Box 34502, San Diego, CA 92103.
“Greeks Abroad.” Cornelia Paraskevas, Western Oregon U, 345 N. Mon-mouth Ave., Monmouth, OR 97361.
“Reflections of Feng-Shui in Korean Cemetery Location and Morphology.” Thomas J. Hannon, Geography & Environmental Studies, Slippery Rock U, Slippery Rock, PA 16057.
“Burial Practices in Argentina.” Thomas E. Graves, 100 Pollack Dr., Orwigsburg, PA 17961.

55 PCA Room 308
BUSINESS/CORPORATE CULTURE: Inside America’s Corpora-tions
Chair: TBA
“Datapoint and the Lost ARC.” Stephen A. Crandall, David N. Myers College, 112 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115.
“The Iacocca Myth: Perspectives on the 1980 Chrysler Bailout.” Ella Howard, American & New England Studies, Boston U, Boston, MA.
“Satanic Symbols: Corporate Wars, Religion, and Free Speech.” Marc R. Sykes, History, Van Dyck Hall, Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
“Inside the Home Depot: Customer Service in an Entrepreneurial Culture.” Lawrence W. Hugenberg, Comm. & Theater, Youngstown State U, Youngstown, OH 44555.

56 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Baseball
Chair: Bruce Rubenstein, History, U of Michigan, Flint, MI 48502.
“The Place of the Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant in Modern Baseball Fiction.” Allen Hye, Modern Lang., Wright State U, Dayton, OH 45435.
“Baseball as Reflection of the Changing Times in Japan.” Roy Hana-shiro, History, U of Michigan, Flint, MI 48502.
“Connie’s Sunny Series: The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics—Chicago Cubs World Series.” Bruce A. Rubenstein.

57 PCA Room 310
DIME NOVELS
Chair: J. Randolph Cox, St. Olaf College/Editor of the Dime Novel Round-Up.
“American Imperialism, Technology, and the Representation of Speech in the Dime Novel during the McKinley-Roosevelt Era.” Michael Carroll, English, Highlands U, Las Vegas, NM 87701.
“Adventures in the Foreign Service: Harrie Irving Hancock’s Dime Novels about China.” J. Randolph Cox.
“How Frank A. Munsev Evolved the Dime Novel Golden Argosv into the First Pulp Magazine Argosv.” Al Tonik, Electrical & Computers, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“The Doc Savage series as a Gauge of 1930s and 1940s America.” Ron Capshaw.

58 PCA Room 401
TWO-YEAR COLLEGES: Innovative Teaching Methods
Chair: Lynn Bartholome, English/Philosophy, Monroe Comm. College, Rochester, NY 14623.
“Creative Learning Activities for Farmers, Fathers, and Factory Workers: Teaching Literature at the Two-Year College.” Nancy L. Chick, U of Wisconsin–Barron County, Rice Lake, WI 54868.
“Performance Art in the Classroom: A New Approach to Teaching!” Rosemary Gallick, Art History/Speech, Northern Virginia Comm. College, Woodbridge, VA 22191.

59 PCA Room 402
HEALTH & DISEASE: Discourses Connecting Society & the Body
Chair: Stephen Dougherty, Elizabethtown Comm. College, Elizabeth-town, KY 42701.
“Technology Discourses in Cyberpunk Fiction: DNA and Computers.” Katharine Charlton, English, Queen’s U, Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6.
“The Immune System Body and Global Capitalism.” Susan M. Yadlon, English, Ohio State U, Columbus, OH 43210.
“Popular Science and the Viral Metaphor of Language.” Stephen Dougherty.

60 PCA Room 403
POPULAR CULTURE, RHETORIC, & COMPOSITION: Pedagogy
Chair: Christopher L. Schroeder, 22 Firwood Rd./First Floor, Port Washington, NY 11050.
“The Summer of My Purple Hair: Urban Cultures In and Out of a Philadelphia Classroom.” Susan Bernstein, 246 W. Upsal St. #G303, Philadelphia, PA 19119.
“Inheriting a Popular Culture of Mourning.” Beth Jacobs, 1604 S. Walnut Ave. Unit One, Des Plaines, IL 60016.
“No Longer Alien: Using Advertising to Teach Academic Discourse.” Christopher L. Schroeder.

61 PCA Room 404
PROTEST ISSUES & ACTIONS
Chair: Lotte Larsen, Hamersly Library, Western Oregon U, Monmouth, OR 97361.
“Remembering Mobilization and Opposition: Collective Memory and the Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936.” Derwin Munroe, Political Science, U of Michigan, Flint, MI 48502.
“Monkey Business in Union Square: Competing Dramas during the Klein’s-Ohrbach’s Strikes of 1934-35.” Daniel Opler, 4848 Broadway, #1D, New York, NY 10034.
“The Block Island Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Quilt of 1931: A Cultural Analysis.” Sarah Rose Dangelas, American Studies, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20904.
“Resisting Americanization: The Destruction of Marshall Plan Exhibits in France, 1948-1952.” Brian A. McKenzie, Research & Learning Comm., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794.

62 PCA Room 405
WORLD WAR II: Stories & Song
Chair: Kathleen Smith, Social Sciences, Northwestern State U of Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA.
“The ‘Atrocious Privilege’ of Remarque, Levi, and O’Brien: Obstacles to Bearing Witness in Narratives of War and Atrocity.” Christine Daley, Grad. School, City U of New York.
“Telling War Stories: War Reenactors and the Uses of War’s Legacy.” Jenny Thompson, American Studies, U of Maryland, College Park, MD.
“The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Christina Jarvis, English, SUNY, Fredonia, NY 14063.
“‘There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere’: Country Music Goes to World War II.” Kathleen Smith.

63 PCA Room 406
MADNESS IN LITERATURE
Chair: Branimir M. Rieger, Humanities, Lander U, Greenwood, SC 29649.
“The Mad Scientist, or the Paradox of Science, Art and Literature.” Antonia Lima, Lit. & Ling., U of Evora, Portugal.
“The Evil Genius.” Barry Morris, Comm. Study, Pace U, New York, NY 10038.
“‘A Pebble of Efficiency’: Madness and Productivity in The Bell Jar.” Mercy Cannon, English, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
“Technology as Illness or Illness as Technology? Murder in Haupt-mann’s ‘Gatekeeper Thief.’” Robert P. Bareikis, International Studies, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA 71104.
64 PCA Room 407
AUTOBIOGRAPHY & BIOGRAPHY: Examining the Self
Chair: Cherie Ann Turpin, English, U of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.
“Art in the Absence of Self: Bio of Andy Warhol.” Sarah A. Samson, Georgetown Public Library, Georgetown, TX 78626.
“A Look at Women Depressives through the Journals of Sylvia Plath.” Kimberly D. Parsley, English, Texas A&M U, College Station, TX 77843.
“The Paradox of Alienation and Privilege as an Actor in Gabriel Byrne’s Autobiographical Works.” Cherie Ann Turpin.

65 PCA Room 408
LESBIAN & GAY: Queer Sexualities on TV & in Film & Lit.
Chair: Scot Guenter, American Studies, San Jose State U, San Jose, CA 95192.
“Narrative, Deception, and Transgender Identity on Jerry Springer.” Stephen Hocker, Comm., U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
“Representations of Homosexuals in Mainstream Contemporary Film.” Dan Keller, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville, IL 62026.
“Domesticating Desire: Redemption through Mediocrity or a Becoming Queer Aesthetic.” Mary Conway, English, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA.
“Gay Stereotyping and the Accelerating Significance of Reality TV.” Scot Guenter.

66 PCA Room 409
ADVERTISING: International
Chair: Robert M. MacGregor, Bishop’s U, Williams School of Business & Economics, Lennoxville, PQ Canada JIM 1Z7.
“The Presentation of Scottish National and Regional Identity in Biscuit Manufacturers’ Christmas Catalogues: The Case of Shortbread.” Heather Holmes, Napier U, Edinburgh, Scotland.
“Confusing Exotica: Producing India in Advertising.” Sanjukta Ghosh, Comm., Castleton State College, Castleton, VT 05735.
“Drawn to Sell: Cartoons in German and American Advertisements.” Thomas Knieper, Comm. & Media Studies, U of Leipzig, 04109 Leip-zig, Germany; and Birgit Wassmuth, Advertising, Drake U, Des Moines, IA 50311.
“The Gay Gordon: No Perfumed, Pampered, Jewel Lordy This Celebrity Endorser.” Robert M. MacGregor.

67 PCA Room 410
WESTERN FICTION: Wister, Allende & McCarthy
Chair: John Donahue, Classics Modern Lang. & Ling., Concordia U, Montreal PA H4G 1M8 Canada.
“A Foreign Land Where Death Awaits: Allende’s and McCarthy’s View of the West.” Mary Sheldon, English, Washburn U, Topeka, KS 66621.
“Performing Race and Gender in Pauline Hopkins’ ‘Winona’ and Owen Wister’s ‘The Virginian.’” Michael K. Johnson, Humanities, U of Maine, Farmington, ME 04938.
“The West of Frederick Jackson Turner in Three American Plays.” Don Anderson, History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
“Don Segundo, the Virginian and the Law.” John Donahue.

68 PCA/ACA Room 411
RADIO: War of the Worlds, the Shadow, & 1930s Texas Radio
Chair: John Beatty, English, LaSalle U, Philadelphia, PA 19141.
“The War of the Worlds: From Novel to Radio Drama.” Virginia Pruitt, English, Washburn U, Topeka, KS 66621.
“The Shadow.” David Haus, History, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403
“How Murray, Kentucky, Almost Became ‘The Birthplace of Radio.’” Bob Lochte, Journalism & Mass Comm., Murray State U, Murray, KY 42071.69

PCA Room 412
HORROR: Cinema of the 1990s
Chair: David Tietge, Long Island U, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Witch? The Blair Witch Project as Seen through a Feminist Lens.” Pam Kincheloe, Rochester Inst. of Tech., Rochester, NY 14607.
“Off the Trail: The Blair Witch Project and the Postmodern Journey Narrative.” Brett Riley, English, Allen Hall, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
“The Gospel of Thomas: A Stigmatized Text.” David Barnes, Integrative Arts, Pennsylvania State U–Scranton, Dunmore, PA 18512.
“Seeing the Dead for Idiots, or, Why Are Children Always the First to Know? Skepticism in the Sixth Sense and a Stir of Echoes.” David Tietge.

70 PCA Room 413
WOMEN’S LIVES & LIT.: Reconsidering “Women’s Work”
Chair: Diane Prenatt, English & Comm., Marian College, Indianapolis, IN 46222.
“Sweeping Change? Domestic and Gardening Writing of the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Lori Allen, Tech. Comm., Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 80217.
“A Woman’s Work Is Never Done, Except in Literature.” Margaret Baker, BYUH, Box 1904, Laie, HI 96762.
“Sew On and Sew Forth: Subversive Iconography in Contemporary American Quilting.” Diane Prenatt.

71 PCA Room 414
MUSICALS
Chair: Richard M. Goldstein, Fine Arts, Michigan Tech. U, Houghton, MI 49931.
“Philadelphia: The ‘Tryout’ Town.” Zelda Provenzano, Humanities, Drexel U, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“Grand Broadway: The Opera-tization of Musical Theater.” Ronald W. Bukoff, Music, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA 71134.
“Fosse Goes Italian: A Comparison of Sweet Charity and The Nights of Cabiria.” Samuel Goldstein, Comm. Arts, Daytona Beach Comm. College, Daytona Beach, FL 32120.72

PCA Room 415
CHILDREN’S LIT. & CULTURE: Realistic Fiction
Chair: Joyce A. Litton, 64 Eden Pl., Athens, OH 45701.
“The Captive Adoptee: A Quest for Identity.” Kim Gainer, English, Radford U, Radford, VA 24141.
“Walk Two Moons through the Grieving Process.” Sue Harris, 1430 Fix Rd., Monroe, MI 48162.
“From Katherine Paterson’s Novel Jacob Have I Loved, Laurie Bradshaw as Whining Freminist.” Nancy Hammond, 11375 Norborne, Redford, MI 48239.
“Gaia Moore Is Fearless.” Joyce A. Litton.

73 ACA Salon A
AMERICAN ART & ARCH.: Late 19th-Century & 20th-Century American Art
Chair: Jo-Ann Morgan, Art, Coastal Carolina U, Conway, SC 29526.
“Serving Witness: How Uncle Tom Sustained Employment beyond the Gilded Age.” Jo-Ann Morgan.
“Impotent Afffluence: Edward Penfield, Harper’s Monthly, and Leisure Class Masculinity.” Jennifer Greenhill, Williams College, 2009 N. Oakland St. #4, Arlington, VA 22207.
“Secret America: Ekphrastic Responses to Edward Hopper’s Night-hawks.” Stephen F. Criniti, Humanities, U of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469.

74 PCA Salon B
MYSTERY & DETECTIVE: Can Detectives Learn to “Play Nicely?”
Chair: Paula M. Woods, English, Baylor U, Waco, TX 76798.
“Not So Sure: Patterns of Relationships in the Liam Campbell Series.” Jennifer Viereck, English, Aiken Tech. College, Aiken, SC 29802.
“Female Academic Detectives: Bridging the Border between Individualism and Community.” Katja Hawlitschka, Humanities, Wayne State College, Wayne, NE 68787.
“Sheriff Knows Best: The Paternalistic Montana Sheriff in Bowen, Watson, and Harrison.” Rachel Schaffer, English/Philosophy, MSU, Billings, MT 59101.
“Nevada Barr’s Community of Women.” Paula M. Woods.

75 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Early Fictional Representations
Chair: Edward F. Palm, Lang. & Lit., Glenville State College, Glen-ville, WV 26351.
“Indochinese Women/European and American Men: Gender Colonialism in Early English-Language Novels.” Walter Jones, J. Willard Marriott Library, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 48112.
“Graham Greene’s The Quiet American: Cold War Liberalism and the Vietnam Novel.” Joseph McGeary, 121A Lebanon Circle, Durham, NC.
“My Lunch with Lederer: The Ugly American Revisited.” Edward Palm.
“Two Views from 1965: Fictionalizations of Diem Regime by Morris West and Tran Van Dinh.” Michelle Janette, English, Kansas Sate U, Manhattan, KS 66506.

76 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: Critiquing the U.S. Civil/ Human Rights Movements
Chair: W.F. Santiago-Valles, Inst. for the Study of Race & Ethnic Relations, Western Michigan U, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
“The Politics of Place: Material Transformation and African American Identity at the National Civil Rights Museum. Bernard J. Armada, Comm., U of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 55105.
“Black Monstrosity as a Permanent Solution to American Racism.” J. Rafiki Jenkins, Lit., U of California–San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
“Fluid Bodies and the Limits of Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture: From Black Blondes to ‘Black’ Asians.” Jerry Persaud, 875-515 Kennedy Rd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1K 2G1.
“A Critical Evaluation of the Civil/Human Rights Movement in Canada.” Leander C. Jones, Black Americana Studies, Western Michi-gan U, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
“The Popular as Racialized Communication Practices of Self-Emancipation.” W.F. Santiago-Valles.

77 PCA Salon E
TELEVISION: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age
Chair: Peter Rollins, English & American/Film Studies, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater, OK 74078.
“Television as Historian: A Different Kind of History Altogether.” Gary Edgerton, Comm. & Theatre Arts, Old Domion U, Norfolk, VA 23529.
“Profiles in Courage: Televisual History in the New Frontier.” Daniel Marcus, Comm. Wayne State U, Detroit, MI 48202.
“Contested Public Memories: Hawaiian History as Hawaiian or American Experience.” Carolyn Anderson, Comm., U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
“Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic.” Peter Rollins.
please finish the session by 11:45 am. thank you.

78 PCA Salon F
FILM: Cinematic Adaptations
Chair: Natasha Whitton, English, Southeastern Louisiana U, SLU 10861, Hammond, LA 70402.
“Play On: Adapting Shakespeare for the MTV Generation.” Ann Kneavel, Goldey Beacom College, 4701 Limestone Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.
“Dickens on Film.” Scott Alt, 49 Shady Dr. East, Newark, DE 19713.
“In Country: An Examination of the Vietnam Conflict in Fact and Fiction.” Natasha Whitton.
“Multiple Interactions between Literature and Film in The Sweet Hereafter.” Agnes A. Shields, Chestnut Hill College, 9601 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118.
79 PCA Salon G
SF/F: The Modern & the Postmodern
Chair: Anca Rosu, Gen. Ed., DeVry Inst., North Brunswick, NJ 08902.
“Apocalyptic Narrative and the Popular Imagination.” David W. Bottorff, English, Brandeis U, Waltham, MA 02454.
“Ideological Apocalypse in H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and ‘At the Mountains of Madness.’” Paul Brian McCoy, Lit. & Criticism, Indiana U of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705.
“The Great War and Tolkien’s Memory: World War I themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.” Janet Brennan Croft, Library, Martin Methodist College, Pulaski, TN 38478.
“Blade Runner—Postmodernism Revisited.” Anca Rosu.

80 PCA Salon H
COMIC ART & COMICS: The X-Men on Film, on the Web, & in the Toy Store
Chair: Rebecca Sutherland Borah, Lang. Arts, U of Cincinnati– University College, Cincinnati, OH 45221.
“Anger and Assimilation: Identity Politics, Queer Theory, and the X-Men.” Jonathan Alexander, Lang. Arts, U of Cincinnati—University College, Cincinnati, OH 45221.
“The Incredible Shrinking X-Women: Characterization in Media Exchange.” Julie Ratliff, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, IL 62958.
“‘Storm’s Hair Sucks!!!’: Fan Culture and the Making of X-Men: The Movie.” Rebecca Sutherland Borah.

81ACA Salon I
LIT. & POLITICS: Images of African Americans in Popular Culture
Chair: Eve Davis, Lang. & Lit., Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23608.
“Erasing the Old and Reconstructing the New: E. Lynn Harris’ Perfect Black Male.” Deborah Goodwyn, Lang. & Lit. Virginia State U, Petersburg, VA 23608.
“From the Invisible to the Invincible: Terry McMillan’s Super Woman.” Valena Randolph, English, Wilberforce U, Xenia, OH 45385.
“Didn’t We Almost Have It All: Incarceration, Solitude, and New Images.” Bertha Escoffery, English, Norfork State U, Norfork, VA 23504.
“Stephen King’s Black Messiah Complex.” Eve Davis.

82 PCA Salon J
MEMORY & REPRESENTATION
Chair: Arthur G. Neal, Sociology, Portland State U, Portland, OR.
“Afterwards: Narrative Ghosts and the Belatedness of Understanding.” Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, English, Wesleyan U, Middletown, CT 06457.
“The Chosen One.” Patricia Reynaud, French & Italian, Miami U, Miami, OH 45056.
“An Inquiry into Agrarian Memory.” Walter F. Utroske, English & Philosophy, Montana State U, Billings, MT 59101.
“Memory and Representation: The 1973 Chilean Cup as Reflected through Selected Examples in Literature and the Performing Arts.” L. Terry Brusstar, Dramas, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

83 ACA/PCA Salon K
Tribute to Agnes Nixon, Part 2: Three Fans’ Appreciations
Chair: David Feldman, New York, NY.
“‘History’ and Agnes Nixon.” Diane Calhoun-French, Academic Affairs, Jerrerson Comm. College–Southwest, Louisville, KY.
“Story and Agnes Nixon.” Carol Traynor Williams, Manset, Me.
“Friendship and Agnes Nixon.” David Feldman.
Agnes Nixon will be on hand to comment on the presentations and answer questions.

84 PCA Salon L
ELECTRONIC COMM.: Religion & the Digital Age
Chair: Samuel R. Smith, Center for Digital Culture.
“Local Church Pastors’ Goals for Attitudes toward an Involvement with Religious Cultures of the Internet.” J.D. Keeler, Comm. & Arts, Regent U, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
“Young People, Religious Identity and CMC: Where do we go from here?” Mia Lövheim and Alf Linderman, Sociology of Religion, Uppsala U, PO Box 1604, SE-751 46 Uppsala, Sweden.
“Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul: Media Theory and Criticism from Opposing Christian Theological Perspectives.” Peter K. Fallon, Public Comm., Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY 11571.

85 PCA Room 501
BRITISH POPULAR CULTURE: Cinematic Perspectives of Thomas Hardy
Chair: Winona Howe, English, La Sierra U, Riverside, CA 92515.
Discussant: Philip Momberger, English & Foreign Lang., U of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514.
“Gazing at Tess: Gender and Class in Two Film Versions of Hardy’s Novel.” John Greenfield, English/Humanities, McKendree College, Lebanon, IL 62254.
“Identifying Bathsheba Everdene: Pastoral Heroine, Late Victorian New Woman, and Swing ‘Sixties Mod Girl.” Robert R. Watson, English, Saginaw Valley State U, Allendale, MI 49401.
“Will the Real Sue Bridehead Please Stand up? Revisioning Hardy’s Conflicted Heroine.” Marilyn Button, Taylor U, 6761 Point Inverness Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46804.

86 PCA Room 502
ARTHURIAN LEGEND
Chair: Kevin Harty, English, La Salle U, Philadelphia, PA 19141.
“Iris Murdoch’s Arthurian Retelling: The Green Knight.” Robert K. Phillips, Humanities, Lander U, Greenwood, SC 29649.
“Reconstructing Palomydes.” Alan Lupack, The Robbins Library, U of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.
“Absent Presences: Race Issues in Erskine.” Donald Hoffman, English, Northeastern Illinois U, Bryn Mawr at St. Louis, Chicago, IL 60625.
“Not What We Usually Mean by Arthurian Romance.” Ann F. Howey, English, 3-5 Humanities Center, U of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5 Canada.