WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Arlington

001  Gender & Media I:  Gender, Television, & Popular Culture

Chair:  Kelly Watson, Bowling Green State University

The Reality of Teaching Feminist Television Criticism

Jennifer Snyder-Duch, Carlow University

America’s Next Top Role Model?

Laine Goldman, Winston-Salem State University

Feminism:  “The Space Between the Two Cats,” or, Decoding

Television's Depiction of Two Extreme Views of Women

and Their Communities

Melissa Ames, Wayne State University

You Are NOT the Father?:  Maury Povich

and the Normality of Gender

Kelly Watson

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Berkeley

002  The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film I: 

Genre Hybridities, Trans/Nationalities & Victimology: 

Profiling Dracula(ness) and Identity

Chair:  John Browning,  Cumberland University

Blood of Hybridity in Postmodern Cinematic Asian Vampires

Wayne Stein, University of Central Oklahoma

The Borg Queen as Vampire in Star Trek:  The Next Generation: 

An Uncanny Reflection

Justin Everett, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Imag(in)ing Vampire Blood-Transfer:  Ethnically, Socially,

and Sexually Impure (Anti) Bodies in the Dracula Cinemyth

John Browning

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Falmouth

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Hyannis

003  Southern Literature & Culture I:  Crossroads: 

Recently Published Works

Chair:  Joe Samuel Starnes, St. Joseph’s University

Roads Taken

Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, Xavier University

The Story of Huggin’ Molly

Nancy McLendon, Auburn University/Wallace

Sidney Lanier’s Nightmare Realized in James Dickey’s Deliverance: 

The Destruction of Georgia’s Rivers

Joe Samuel Starnes

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Maine

004  Television I:  Comedy

Cancelled; panelists moved to 042

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Nantucket

005  Film I:  Foreign Films:  Venezuela, Austria, & Bollywood

Chair:  Jennifer M. Najarian, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Gente de Color y el Imagen Nacional (People of Color

and the National Image):  A Look at Cinematic Race Representation

in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Secuestro Express

ShaDonna Crosby, Miami University (Ohio)

Disturbance, Subversion, and Provocation: 

The Cinematic Philosophy of Michael Haneke

Dennis Russell, Arizona State University

Bollywood Marriages:  Portrayals of Matrimony

in Hindi Popular Cinema

Rekha Sharma, Kent State University

A Musical Meta-Narrative:  Bollywood and Its Influence

on Films of the Indian Diaspora

Jennifer M. Najarian

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

New Hampshire

006  Popular Music I:  Stephen Foster

Chair:  Jennie Lightweis-Goff, University of Rochester

A Call of Vandalism and Suspicion:  The Forgery

of Stephen Foster Manuscripts

Jessie Crabill, University of Rochester

Doing Their Listening For Them:  Theodor Adorno,

Stephen Foster, and the Standardization of the Sentimental

Corinne Martin-Rice, Syracuse University

Foster on Film

Kathryn Miller Haines, University of Pittsburgh

“Long Time I Trabble on De Way”:  Stephen Foster's

Conversion Narrative

Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Orleans

007  Popular Art & Architecture I:  Good Sports

Chair:  Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts

Inside Out:  Ballpark Design in the Twin Cities, 1880s-1910s: 

The Case of Cass Gilbert

Kristin Anderson, Augsburg College

Inside Out: Ballpark Design in the Twin Cities, 1880-1910s: 

The Case of Harry Wild Jones

Chris Kimball, California Lutheran University

The Good Life:  The Image of Downhill Skiing

in American Popular Culture

Margaret Supplee Smith, Wake Forest University

Festive Resistance:  Freerunning as Urban Spectacle

Jordan Simms, Concordia University

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Regis

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Suffolk

008  Film Adaptation I:  Postmodern Angst I

Chair:  Justine Kemlo, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles

Monstrous Multiplication

Almut Weitze, Trinity College of Dublin

Contemporary Western Revenge and Postmodern Identity Crisis

Crystal Hicks, Texas Tech University

Different Voices:  Film and Text or Film as Text

Justine Kemlo

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Vineyard

009 

Wednesday, April 4, 12:30–2:00 p.m.

Wellesley

010  Masculinities I:  Political Masculinities

Chair:  William C. Harris, Shippensburg University

Daddy’s Been Bad:  Republican Sex Scandal Hits Home

in the Nation as a Family Metaphor

Dawn M. Vernooy-Epp, Shippensburg University

What Hip Hop Wants:  The Construction of Masculinity

in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Craig Brewster’s

Hustle and Flow

Kate Fourchy, Reedley College

“You Can’t Fight in Here:  This is the War Room”: 

Political Masculinity in Dr. Strangelove

Angela Farmer, Auburn University

The IMs are Coming from Inside the House:  Recruitment

and the Right from Anita Bryant to Mark Foley

William C. Harris

Yarmouth

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Arlington

011  Women’s Studies I:  Gendered Object/ification/s

Chair:  Amy Beaudry, Quinsigamond Community College

Little Girls in Media Boxes:  35 Years of Gymnastics Glory,

Abuse, and Exploitation

Michelle Niestepski, University of Rhode Island

Cover to Cover:  Contemporary Issues in Popular American

Women’s Magazines

Debbie Danowski, Sacred Heart University

The Cookbook Memoir as a Construct of Identity: 

Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava

Larisa Schumann, Brigham Young University Hawaii

Fastening the Fabric of Women’s Lives:  An Historical View

of the Safety Pin as a Gendered Object

Amy Beaudry

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Berkeley

012  The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film II:  A Crypt with

a View:  Landscapes & Realityscapes in Vampire Fiction & Film

Chair:  Mary Brodnax, University of Central Oklahoma

Return Ticket to Transylvania:  Relations Between Reality

and Vampire Fiction

Santiago Lucendo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Dracula and its Filmic Legacy:  Eros, Thanatos, and Mystified

Sexual Liberation

Carl Stewart, Missouri State University 

From the Graveyard to the Upper West Side:  Habitations

of the Undead and the Changing Cemetery Landscape

Joy Giguere, University of Maine

Landscape in Vampire Films:  Location, Location, Location

over Nine Decades

from Nosferatu to Van Helsing

Mary Brodnax

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Clarendon

013  Caribbean & Latin American Literature & Culture I: 

Between Myth & Marginality

Chair:  Patricia Montilla, Western Michigan University

The Relation of Mayan Mythology to Modern

Psychoanalytic Thought

Graciela Rosenberg, The University of Texas, Brownsville

       /Texas Southmost College

Uncanny Encounters:  New World Animals

in The Road to El Dorado

Stacy Hoult, Valparaiso University

The Caribbeanness on the Move:  Un-Tracing Identity

in the Narrative of Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez

Karina A. Bautista, Wake Forest University

Marginality and Survival in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s

The Meaning of Consuelo

Patricia Montilla

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Dartmouth

014  Asian Popular Culture I:  Sailormoon and Shoujo Anime

Chair:  Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy

Mighty Morphin Sailor Scouts

Jennifer deWinter, University of Arizona

“Sailor Moon Made Me a Third Wave Feminist!”: 

How a Group of Magical Girls Were in the Right Place

at the Right Time for the Start of a New Feminist Identity

Stacy Rue, Independent Scholar

Sailormoon’s Legacy:  The Impact on Shoujo Anime

Wendy Goldberg

Seeking Amae:  Motherhood in Fruits Basket

Heather Nabbefeld, Independent Scholar

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Exeter

015  Food & Popular Culture I:  Quirky Wieners,

Mythical MREs, and Old Cheese

Chair:  Netta Davis, Boston University

Cheese in 18^th-Century Massachusetts:  Methods, Techniques,

and the Challenges of Researching Popular Culture

Kristina Nies, Boston University

A True Rhode Island Original:  The Invented Identity

of New York System Weiners

Ilona Baughman, Boston University

From Bad Bacon to MRE’s:  The Meaning, Making,

and Maligning of Military Portable Foodways

Netta Davis, Boston University

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Fairfield

016  Civil War & Reconstruction I:  Re-Reading the War

Chair:  Pamela Venz, Birmingham-Southern College

Three and Out:  The Consequences of of the Battle of Monocacy

Colin Alexander, John Carroll Catholic High School

Soldier and Slave:  The Question of the African-American

Soldiers in the North and in the South

Bryna O’Sullivan, Tufts University

“Corydon Loves to be Conquered”:  John Hunt Morgan's “Great” Raid

of 1863 and the Process of Commercial Commemoration

Stephen Rockenbach, Virginia State University

Posed and Propped:  Civil War Photography as Narrative

Pamela Venz

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Falmouth

017  Romance I:  Regional & Global Perspectives

Chair:  Emily Haddad, University of South Dakota

The Descent of Romance:  Madeleine Brent, Modesty Blaise,

and the Imperialist Adventure

Christine Bolus-Reichert, University of Toronto

Inverting the Southern Belle

Glinda Hall, Arkansas State University

Postmodern Victorianism and the Romance of India

Emily Haddad

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Hyannis

018  Southern Literature & Culture II: 

Revisiting the Percys and their Legacy

Chair:  Christopher R. Bloss, Columbus State University

Photographic Automatism in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer

Jeremy Cagle, University of South Carolina

Life After Death:  Reflections of William Alexander Percy

in Contemporary Southern Literature

Ben Wise, Harvard University

I Summon up the Remembrances of Things Past: 

Will Barrett as Narrator

Sarah Chism, University of St. Thomas

The Northern Transformation of a Southern Writer: 

Dr. Walker Percy’s The Gramercy Winner

Jean Mason, Ryerson University

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Maine

019  Television II:  History

Chair:  Thomas Parham, Azusa Pacific University

They Shall Be Heard:  Teenagers, Television,

and Education in Early-1950s Philadelphia

Matt Delmont, Brown University

“Progressive Mayberry”:  Modernist Thinking

in America’s Favorite “Old-Fashioned” Town

Mary E. Clater, Penn State Harrisburg

Cinematic Television:  Maturation of a Medium

Thomas Parham

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Nantucket

020  Film II:  Sites of Desire, Spaces of Grief

in Contemporary Film

Chair:  John Toth, Antelope Valley College

“Getting him ready for his real first fuck”:  Jarhead

and Contemporary American War Narratives of Unsatiated

Desire and Traumatic Displacement

Scott Covell, Antelope Valley College

Keeping Jack in the Box:  Sites of Desire, Spaces of Grief

in Apartment Zero and Brokeback Mountain

Mark Hoffer, Antelope Valley College

Reversion, Subversion, and Perversion: 

The Landscape of Desire and Loss in Chinatown

John Toth

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

New Hampshire

021  Popular Music II:  UK Is OK

Chair:  Mark Bates, Quinsigamond Community College

Led Zeppelin:  Sound, Lyric, Myth, and the Exacerbation

of Gender

Kirstin Ruth Bratt, Penn State Altoona

U2 1980-1983:  Portrait of the Artists as Young Men

Arlan Elizabeth Hess, Washington and Jefferson College

“Yesterday”:  Narrative, Memory, and The Beatles

Robert McParland, Felician College

The Grey Album, A 2-Disc Retrospective:  The Spectacular Success

of the ’Sixties “British Invasion” and the Subsequent Woeful Failure

of “Brit Pop” to Find a Platinum Audience Across the Pond

Mark Bates

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Orleans

022  Popular Art & Architecture II:  Shopping Malls Past,

Present and Future

Chair:  Edward J. Streb, Rowan University

Shopping Mall Genesis:  The Evolution of American Shopping

Centers in the Automobile Age, 1900 to 2000

Emil Pocock, Eastern Connecticut State University

The Future of Shopping Malls:  An Industry Insider¹s Point of View

John T. Riordan, International Council of Shopping Centers

The Shopping Mall:  From American Icon to Endangered Species?

Edward J. Streb

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Provincetown

023  Mystery/Detective Fiction I: Detective Fiction Writers

and Their Craft: Ross Macdonald, Dick Francis,

Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolrich

Chair:  Linda R. Harris, University of Maryland-Baltimore Campus

The Holy Trinity Drives a Hearse

Andrew D. Phelps, University of Connecticut

Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American

Crime Fiction

Christine Photinos, National University

Red Harvest and Dashiell Hammett’s Butte Experience

Jack Crowley, Montana Tech

Dick Francis Revisited

Linda R. Harris

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Regis

024  Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies I: 

Representation in Four Films

Chair:  Rebecca Gavrila, University of Maryland College Park

“There’s Nothing’s Wrong with Any of Us”: 

Homophobia & Self-Loathing in X3:  The Last Stand (2006)

Nicholas Giannini, Emory University

Mixing Satire with Sincerity Reinforcing Religion-Based

Homophobia in Saved!

Kari Ratliff, Miami University

Revisiting Queer Spaces:  Cruising the Past

Rebecca Gavrila

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Salon A

025  Science Fiction & Fantasy I:  The Dark Side

of Harry Potter

Chair:  Glenna Andrade, Roger Williams University

Do Children Count?:  How the Death of a Child is Treated

in Harry Potter

Angela Thompson, Brigham Young University

Me and My Shadow Selves:  The Many Shadows

in the Harry Potter Novels

Roberta Lynne Staples, Sacred Heart University

Wizards and their Wards:  A Comparative Study of Merlin,

Gandalf, and Dumbledore

Antoinette Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake University

“Only When None Are Loyal”:  Dumbledore’s Death

as Mentor in the Harry Potter Series

Glenna Andrade

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Salon B

026  Horror in Fiction/Film/Culture I:  Horror Games & Magic

CANCELLED:  Beth Kattelman moved to panel 430;

                          Dodd Alley moved to panel 049

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Salon C

027  Gothic I:  Film

Chair:  Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona

“Herbert West – Reanimator”:  The Aesthetic Bridge

between Gothic Tradition and the Zombie Mythos

Kriscinda Meadows, Gettysburg College

Issues of Spectatorship in Stalker/Slasher Films

Yang Lin, National Taiwan Normal University

The Career-Woman-in-Peril Thriller and the Female Gothic

Monica Soare, University of California, Berkeley

“Lovelier the Second Time Around”:  Divorce, Desire,

and Gothic Domesticity in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jennifer Jenkins

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Salon D

028  Sports I:  Embedded Culture:  Instructional Media

in Fishing, Hunting, and Golf

Chair:  John Bratzel, Michigan State University

Embedded Culture in Instructional Media:  Trout Fishing

Jeff Charnley, Michigan State University

Embedded Culture in Instructional Media:  Big Game Hunting

Jeff Cain, Sacred Heart University

Embedded Culture in Instructional Media:  Golf

Michael Schoenecke, Texas Tech University

Embedded Culture in Instructional Media:  Bass Fishing

John Bratzel

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Simmons

029  Literature & Visual Arts I:  Pictures and Poets

Chair:  Carol Samson, University of Denver

Modern Photography and the Poetry of Marianne Moore

Sharla Hutchison, Fort Hays State University

“Because I’m Not Myself, You See”:  A Photo-biography of Alice

Vincent Livoti, Lesley University

The Dialectics of Seeing in Orhan Pamhuk’s Istanbul

Carol Samson

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Suffolk

030  Film Adaptation II:  Pop-Cultural Film/Adaptation

Chair:  Deborah Kaplan, Brandeis University

Wes Anderson vs. J.D. Salinger in Film Adaptation

Brian C. Seemann, Wichita State University

The Coen Brothers

Ryan Doom, Butler & Cowley County Community Colleges

The Da Vinci Code – Novel into Film:  New Popular Gospel

Joseph Ceccio, The University of Akron, and

Diana Reep, The University of Akron

Twenty Pages Left and Can’t Wait:  The Young Adult Novel as Adaptation

Deborah Kaplan and

Amy Stern, Simmons College

Wednesday, April 4, 2:30–4:00 p.m.

Vineyard

031  Composition & Rhetoric I:  Popular Rhetorical Technologies

Chair:  Kristina Fennelly, Lehigh University

DIY Snark:  The Rhetoric of “Bad Craft” Blogging

Priscilla Perkins, Roosev