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2008 Conference

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Sunday Detail Schedule

7:00-8:00 a.m.

  • Area Chairs Breakfast. 7:00-8:00. Clearwater Ballroom A. Open only to Area Chairs.
  • Continental Breakfast. 7:00-8:00. Rotunda. Free admission to conference registrants, but you must wear your badge.

8:00-9:30 a.m.

3101. Myth vs. Reality: The Place of the Rock Documentary in Rock Music. Area: Music. Suite 11.

  • "From Rock 'n' Roll to Rockumentary: The Origins of the Music Video Concept," Matthew Gladman, History, Ohio University
  • "We Are Trying to See You a Myth: Wilco and the Authenticating Rockumentary," James Paasche, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
  • "That Was This Is Spinal Tap: The Place of the Mockumentary in Rock Music," Colin Helb, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
  • Chair:MaryAnn Janosik, Dean, Ohio University Lancaster

3102. The Black Press, Orature, and Legal Perspectives. Area: African-American Popular Culture. Suite 12.

  • "Black Women Threaten the Status Quo Through the Spoken Word: Twelve Women's Orations, 1833-2005," Robin Balthrope
  • "The Supreme Court and Identity Theft," W. Sherman Jackson, History, Miami University
  • "'We Join a Sorrowing Nation': Franklin Roosevelt and the Constitution of Liberalism in the Black Press," Keith Eberly, History, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "B(l)ack Talk in the Y2K: Signifyin in Jay-Z's '99 Problems' and Kanye West's 'Jesus Walks,'" Debra C. Smith, Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Chair: Brandon K. Wallace, American Studies, Purdue University

3103. Television and Radio: Text and Context. Area: Television and Radio. Suite 13.

  • "From Two Become One: An Analysis of WB/ UPN CW Transformation Pre/ Post Image Production Collateral," William Anderson, Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan University
  • "Re-Articulation, Gender, and Excess on HBO's Deadwood," Laura Vazquez, Communication, Northern Illinois University
  • "High School Is Hell: The Legacy of Beverly Hills 90210 and Buffy the Fearless Vampire Slayer on Today's Teen-Based Television Programs," Sara Magee, Communication, Ohio University
  • Chair: William Anderson

3104. Past, Present, and Other: Multiple Perepectives on Photography's Future. Area: Photography. Suite 14.

  • "From Image to Access: Generalizing the Individual Vision with the Horrell Digital Image Archive," Joseph Ripp, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and Randy Bixby, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
  • "Exposure: (Per)forming Photography," Amy Darnell, Humanities, Columbia College
  • "Motion Blindness," Emily Smart
  • Chair: Amy Darnell

3105. Directors, Genres, and Techniques in Film. Area: Film. Suite 15.

  • "Monstrous Inscriptions: Discussing Synecdoche in the Film Monster," Kristopher Cannon, Communication, Northern Illinois University
  • "Team Zissou's Psychoanalytic Marxism: Reading Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic Through Zizek and Jameson," Kirk Boyle, University of Cincinnati
  • "Articulating Anxiety: Addressing Post-Genre Film with Garden State and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," Alissa Burger, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
  • "Give Me a Second Grace: Music as Absolution in The Royal Tenenbaums," Carole Piechota, Communication, Wayne State University
  • Chair: Carole Piechota

3106. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Endowment Council Oversight Committee Meeting. Plaza Boardroom

  • Meeting of members of the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Endowment Council Oversight Committee
  • Endowment Council Oversight Committee members: John Bratzel, Kenneth R. Dvorak, Michael T. Marsden, and Mike Schoenecke
  • Chair: Michael T. Marsden

3107. Enemies and Allies: The Politics, Policies, and Policing of Gender and Girlss. Area: Girls' Culture/ Girls' Studies. Crosspointe Suite.

  • "'Tank Tops Should Be OK But I Don't Want to See Her Thong': Girls, Dress Codes, and the Regulation of Femininity," Rebecca Raby, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
  • "'She's All That': Relational Aggression and the Politics of Girl Hate," Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies and Women's Studies, State University of New York College at Cortland
  • "Performing Race, Class, and Gender: Mexican American Girls and the Adoption of Chola Identity," Ana Perez, University of Maryland
  • "Another Girlhood Is Possible: Teenage Girls at the World Social Forum," Jessica Karen Taft, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Chair: Miriam Forman-Brunell, History, University of Missouri-Kansas City

3108. Gendering Childhood in Victorian/ Edwardian England. Area: Children's Literature and Culture. Keystone Boardroom.

  • "The Victorian Fantastic: Soiled Fairies, Lost Boys, Drowned Boys, and the Making of 'Tiny Muscular Christians,'" Jennifer Ash
  • "Gendered Spheres in the Secret Garden," Abigail Heller
  • "Keeping the Time: Femininity, Memory, and Storytelling in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan," Catherine England
  • Chair: Jennifer Ash

3109. Superheroes as Cultural Touchstones. Area: Comics. Haverstick Boardroom.

  • "Science, Superpowers, and Guilt: A Burkean Analysis of Spider-Man," Michael Kramer, Communication and Performance Studies, Saint Mary's College
  • "Trauma in Tights: Critiquing the Binaries of Good and Evil Through Trauma Studies in The Ultimates," Kelli Muzzy, English, North Dakota State University
  • "Infinite Crisis: The DC Universe Reshapes Itself...Again," Charles Coletta, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
  • Chair: Paul R. Kohl

3110. Irish Literature. Area: Irish Studies. Woodfield Boardroom.

  • "When in Doubt Persecute Bloom," Shannon Hays; Comparative Literature; University of California, Davis
  • "Jack B Yeats's A Broadside: Images of Orality," Jennifer McCarthy; Center for Irish Studies; National University of Ireland, Galway
  • "Balancing Act: J.S. Le Fanu and the Mixing of Cultures in Uncle Silas," Catherine Sudol, City University of New York
  • Chair: Cahterine Sudol

9:45-11:15 a.m.

3201. Who Gets to Decide What's Normal? Social and Cultural Analyses of Fat Issues and Their Consequences. Area: Fat Studies. Suite 11.

  • "BMI Testing in Schools: Weighing In on the Implications," Melissa Rivers, Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University
  • "Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Fat-Positive Aerobics for Women," Jennifer Ellison, History, York University, Toronto
  • "A Sociological Analysis of Anti-Fat Hysteria," Sherie Sanders, Independent Scholar
  • "Women, Representation, and Resistance: Disordered Eating as Prison/ Eating Disorders in Prison," Suzanne Bouclin, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
  • "Fitting In: The Relationship Between Morbid Obesity and Academic Achievement in Colleges and Universities in the United States," Susan L. Gaffney, Business and Public Administration, Governors State University
  • Chair: Susan L. Gaffney

3202. Suite 12.

3203. Fiction and Social Values. Area: Adaptations. Suite 13.

  • "Consolidating the Myth of the 'Dark Continent' in H. Rider Haggard's and Compton Bennett's King Solomon's Mines," Okaka Opio Dokotum, English, Northern Illinois University
  • "The Wiz: American Culture at Its Best," Rhonda C. Williams, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • "Brokeback Mountain from Story to Screenplay," Sarah E. Boslaugh, School of Medicine, Washington University
  • Chair: Rhonda C. Williams

3204. Intersections of Music, Popular Culture, and Spirituality: Gospel Brunch, Ray Davies, Rock 'n' Roll. Area: Religion and Popular Culture. Suite 14.

  • "Atheists, Evangelicals, and Beer, Oh My! 'Secular' Gospel Music in Austin, Texas," Jamie Freedman, University of Texas at Austin
  • "'Falling Upward Into the Great White Blue': Redemption Through Disorientation in Recent Songs of Ray Davies," David Schimpf, Arts and Humanities, Marian College
  • "Keepin' the Faith: The Catholic Imagination and Rock 'n' Roll," MaryAnn Janosik, Dean, Ohio University-Lancaster
  • Chair: David Schimpf

3205. Social Issues in Film. Area: Music. Suite 15.

  • "'I've Had a Really Bad Semester and I Hate the Eagles, Man': What The Big Lebowski Has to Teach Us About taste Versus Talent, the Modern Archetype, and Genre," Colin Helb, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, and Mark Bernard, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
  • "Critiquing the Patriarchal Society of the '50s and Today Using Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice and the Films All That Heaven Allows and Far From Heaven," Ali McGinnis, Northern Illinois University
  • "'Our Shit's on Pause': Carnival, Violence, and the Destabilization of Borders in Richet's Assault on Precinct 13," Donald Levin, Marygrove College
  • Chair: Donald Levin

3206. Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Endowment Council Meeting. Plaza Boardroom.

  • Meeting of members of the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Endowment Council
  • Endowment Council members: Lynn Bartholome, John Bratzel, Ray Browne, Gary Burns, Kenneth R. Dvorak, Gary Hoppenstand, Fred Isaac, Michael T. Marsden, Mike Schoenecke, David Sokol
  • Chair: Michael T. Marsden

3207. Issues of Psychology and Popularity in Women's Mystery and Detective Fiction. Area: Mystery, Thrillers, and Detective and Crime Fiction. Crosspointe Suite.

  • "From Detective Fiction to Detective Literature: Psychology in the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margaret Millar," Kelly Connelly, Temple University
  • "Alias Grace: Alias Murderer, Alias Author," Lisa Wellinghoff, West Virginia University
  • "An Unsuitable Woman/ an Unsuitable Job: P.D. James's Cordelia Gray," Sue Matheson, Red Deer College
  • Chair: Sue Matheson

3208. "Einmal gepoppt--nie mehr gestoppt!"--Recent Pop(ular) Literature. Area: German Popular Culture. Keystone Boardroom.

  • "A Queer Eye for Crime: Lesbian Detective Novels," Faye Stewart, Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "'Chris & die Kleine': Gender and Sexuality in Alexa von Hennig Lange's Relax," Corinna Kahnke, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "The End of the GDR as the End of Adolescence: Sven Regener's Herr Lehmann as Bildungsroman," Donald E. Backman, University of California, Berkeley
  • Moderator: Renee Barlow, Indiana University
  • Chair: Corinna Kahnke

3209 Containers of Treasures and the Treasure Itself: Individualizing Material Culture. Area: Material Culture. Haverstick Boardroom.

  • "Rural Mailboxes as Containers of Treasure and as Personal Statement," Elizabeth Vallance, Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "Mine's Bigger Than Yours: Tales from the Material Culture Stash," Theresa M. Winge, Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design, Indiana University Bloomington, and Marybeth Stalp, Sociology, University of Northern Iowa
  • Chair: Michael B. Kassel, History, University of Michigan-Flint

3210 Narrative Technique in Irish Literature. Area: Irish Studies. Woodfield Boardroom.

  • "The Narrative Potential of the Imagination in Angela's Ashes," Grace Waitman, English, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "Phantom Limbs/ Fenian Bodies: Sentimental Politics in Charles Kickham's Knocknagow," Ken Monteith, English, Fordham University
  • "Portraits of the Artists as Young Wackos: Dark Comedy in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory," Lynne Maes, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Chair: Lynn Maes

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

3301. New Directions in New Media Research. Area: New Media. Suite 11.

  • "The Small Screen Getting Smaller: Network Television on the Web," Brian Ekdale, Waubonsee Community College/ University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • "Silicon Salesman: The Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Persuasion," Matt Kneller, Aurora University
  • "Digital Burke: Reinterpreting Burke in an Online Context," Paul Booth; Language, Literature and Communication; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Chair: Paul Booth

3302. Suite 12.

3303. Case Studies in Popular Culture. Suite 13.

  • "Rushdie, Cinema, and the 'Chutnification' of National Culture: A Close-Up of Midnight's Children," Krishna Manavalli, English, Michigan State University
  • "Ben-Hur: An Avatar of the Synergy Between Popular Culture and American Consumerism," Jon Solomon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
  • "'It's Now or Never America!': Propaganda and Advertising in Valparaiso, Indiana, During World War II," Alan Bloom, History, Valparaiso University
  • "Gender Role Reversal and Social Disorder in Univisión's Soap Opera La Otra," Darlene M. Lake, Modern Languages, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  • Chair: Darlene M. Lake

3304. Strategies for Teaching Art Composition and Rhetoric Composition. Area: Teaching Popular Culture. Suite 14.

  • "Teaching Stepford Wives in a Rhetorically Based Composition Classroom," Stacy Weida, Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
  • "Teaching Art Composition Through the Vernacular: Shopwindow Design," Elizabeth Vallance, Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Chair: Elizabeth Vallance

3305. Varieties of Political Action. Area: Politics. Suite 15.

  • "Those Progressive Republican Women Reformers from Chicago: Addams, Abbott, and Andrus," Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Social Sciences Cataloging Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC
  • "Media's Coverage of Global Warming: Is It One-Sided?" John R. Fisher; Communication, Theatre and Languages; Northwest Missouri State University
  • "Form as Freedom and Social Resistance: Gwendolyn Brooks's Transformation of the Romance Genre in 'A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon,'" Ruth Crego-Ulvin, English, Miami University
  • "A Nod to Eric Hoffer: A Rhetorical Perspective on the Impact of The True Believer in the World of Political Action," Richard D. Hess, Communication, Indiana University-Purdue University
  • Chair: Frederick J. Augustyn Jr.

3306. Sexual and Ethnic Identities in Superhero Narratives. Area: Heroes in Popular Culture. Plaza Boardroom.

  • "The Superman in the Grey Flannel Suit: Normative Masculinity and the Superhero in the 1950s," Mark Best, English Literature, University of Pittsburgh
  • "Reactionary Sexual Politics in the X-Men's 'Dark Phoenix Saga,'" Dharmini Patel, English Literature, Purdue University
  • "Inking Over the Past: Revisionist Racial Politics in 'The American Way' and 'Truth,'" Corey Alerdice, English Literature, Western Kentucky University
  • "From Super to X: The Jewishness of the American Superhero," Joshua Moss, Critical Studies, University of Southern California
  • Chair: Terrence Wandtke, Literature and Media, Judson College

3307.Food and Festivals. Area: Food and Festivals. Crosspointe Suite.

  • "Coming Out of the Closet: The Diffusion of Fine Food Into English Popular Culture, 1550-1700," Laura Shumar, History, Purdue University
  • "Edible Art: Food and Post-War German Class Consciousness in Edgar Reitz's Heimat II," Brandon Vezmar, Cultural Studies, Columbia College Chicago
  • "The Chicago Blues Festival: A Case of Pimping the Blues," Caleb Dube, Sociology, Regis University
  • "Handoff--How One Immigrant Group Steps Into the Footprint of Another as Seen Through "The Feast" in Melrose Park, Illinois," Christina Gilleran, English, Northern Illinois University
  • Chair: Christina Gilleran

3308. History and Popular Culture. Area: History and Popular Culture. Keystone Boardroom.

  • "Don't Know Much About History: What The Amazing Race Reveals About Americans," Christine Myers, Bowling Green State University
  • "Melville's Civil War Battle: Making History Popular," Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University
  • "Making Biscuits in the Morning: The Sound and the Fury of Confederate War Memorials," Richmond B. Adams, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
  • "After the Deluge: Hollywood Assesses the Fate of Sixties Activism in the Age of Reagan and Bush," Christopher Stone, Indiana University
  • Chair: Jennifer L. Stevens, History and American Studies, Roger Williams University

3309. Irish Women. Area: Irish Studies. Haverstick Boardroom.

  • "What's the Story? Maeve Binchy, Edna O'Brien, and Contemporary Writers in Irish Studies," Sarah Nestor, English, c/o Dr. Drake, University of Indianapolis
  • "Her Own and Her Children's Share: Burdens and Opportunities for Women in Understandings of Luck in Twentieth-Century Irish Folklore," Christina Brophy, Social Sciences, Triton College
  • "Depiction of the Irish and Scots in Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature," Lynn Ramert, English, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Chair: Lynn Ramert

3310. Adolescent Fictions. Area: Children's Literature and Culture. Woodfield Boardroom.

  • "Are You My Mother? The Absenting of Parents in Adolescent Fiction," Jennifer Moskowitz, English, University of South Dakota
  • "'Naming the Monster': Rape, Redemption, and A Room of One's Own in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak," Courtney Huse Wika, English, University of South Dakota
  • "Fantasies of Globalization: Clive Barker's Abarat," Skip Willman, English, University of South Dakota
  • Chair: Jennifer Moskowitz

 

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