2009 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations April 8 – 11, 2009 New Orleans Marriott Delores F. Rauscher, Editor & PCA/ACA Conference Coordinator Michigan State University Wiley-Blackwell Editor: Elna Lim Additional information about the PCA/ACA available at www.pcaaca.org 2 Table of Contents   The 2008 National Conference Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Area Chairs..................................5 PCA/ACA Board Members.........................................................13 Officers........................................................................................13 Executive Officers.......................................................................13 Past & Future Conferences..........................................................14 Conference Papers For Sale; Benefits Endowment.....................15 Exhibit Hours..............................................................................15 Business & Board Meetings........................................................16 Film Screenings...........................................................................18 Tours, Get-Togethers, Receptions, & Dinners............................22 Special Sessions..........................................................................24 SCHEDULE OVERVIEW:............................................................32 DAILY SCHEDULE:....................................................................52 Wednesday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M..........................................52 Wednesday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M............................................59 Wednesday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M............................................70 Wednesday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M............................................85 Wednesday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.........................................93 Thursday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M...............................................95 Thursday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.........................................111 Thursday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M............................................126 Thursday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M..............................................141 Thursday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M..............................................157 Thursday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M............................................173 Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M................................................188 Friday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.............................................203 Friday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.................................................219 Friday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M...................................................235 Friday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M...................................................251 Friday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M..................................................266 Friday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.................................................280 Saturday, 8:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M..............................................283 Saturday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M..........................................289 Saturday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.............................................303 Saturday, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M...............................................317 3 Saturday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M...............................................329 Saturday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M..............................................338 INDEX......................................................................................340 ADVERTISERS...........................................................................405 The New Orleans Marriott Hotel Maps........................................407 4 PCA/ACA AREA CHAIRS The 2008 National Conference Animal Culture Popular Culture Association & Debbie Phillips Muskingum Coll. American Culture Association [email protected] Area Chairs Academics Animation Arlene Caney James A. (Jim) Walker Comm. Coll. Of Philadelphia University College for the Creative Arts at [email protected] Maidstone & [email protected] Julie Gochenour Appalachian Studies James Madison University [email protected] Leslie Harper Worthington Gainesville State College Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic [email protected] Gaming) Art, Architecture, & Design Dennis Cutchins Loretta Lorance Brigham Young University [email protected] School of Visual Arts, New York [email protected] Adolescence in Film & Television & Kylo-Patrick R. Hart Derham Groves University of Melbourne Plymouth State University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Arthurian Legends Sammy R. Danna Elizabeth Sklar Loyola Univ. [email protected] [email protected] & Donald Hoffman African-American Culture Katrina Hazzard-Donald [email protected] [email protected] Asian Popular Culture John A. Lent Age of Theodore Roosevelt & Popular [email protected] Culture Daniel Murphy Automobile Culture Hanover College. Tom Patterson [email protected] Shepherd University [email protected] American Indian Literatures & Cultures Constance (Connie) Bracewell Baby-Boomer Culture University of Arizona James Von Schilling [email protected] Northampton Comm. College & [email protected] Richard Sax & Lake Erie College Shawn David Young [email protected] -or- [email protected] Michigan State University [email protected] American Literature Sue Richardson Biographies Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington Susie Skarl [email protected] University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 PCA & ACA AREA CHAIRS [email protected] Celebrity in Culture Michael Brody Black Music Culture [email protected] Including Hip Hop Culture William C. Banfield Cemeteries & Gravemarkers Berklee College of Music J. Joseph Edgette [email protected] Widener University & [email protected] Angela Nelson Bowling Green State University Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, [email protected] Theory & (For Hip Hop) Scott Baugh Crystal Alberts Texas Tech University University of North Dakota [email protected] [email protected] Children’s Literature & Culture The Body and Physical Difference Harry E. Eiss Lori Duin Kelly [email protected] Carroll College [email protected] Children’s Television Richard Graham Border Culture (Political, Cultural, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Geographical) [email protected] Ray B. Browne Circuses & Circus Culture Bowling Green State University [email protected] Robert Sugarman [email protected] Brazilian Popular Culture Civil War & Reconstruction Fernando de Sousa Rocha Randal W. Allred Middlebury College Brigham Young University, Hawaii [email protected] [email protected] British Popular Culture Collecting & Collectibles Maureen Thum Kevin M. Moist University of Michigan Penn State, Altoona [email protected] [email protected] & Frank Riga Collective Behavior: Canisius College [email protected] Panics, Fads & Hostile Outbursts V.J. Brown Business/Corporate Culture Shepherd College Diana K Osborne [email protected] Spokane Community College [email protected] Comedy and Humor & M. Thomas Inge Tony Osborne Randolph-Macon College Gonzaga University [email protected] Caribbean & Latin American Comic Art & Comics Literature & Culture Nicole Freim Jorge Febles Riverside Community College University of North Florida [email protected] [email protected] 6 PCA/ACA AREA CHAIRS Communication & Digital Culture Ecology and Culture Mark Nunes Margaret O’Shaughnessey Southern Polytechnic State University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [email protected] [email protected] Conspiracy Theory / Education, Teaching, History, & Popular Claims for the Paranormal Culture Tamar Gablinger Seymour Leventman Humboldt University Boston College Berlin [email protected] [email protected] Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture Creative Fiction Writing Ken Muir Jerry Bradley Appalachian State University Lamar University [email protected] [email protected] Fairy Tales Cultural Conflict & Women Linda J. Holland-Toll Cheri Louise Ross Mount Olive College Penn State University, Harrisburg [email protected] [email protected] Fan Culture & Theory Culture & Religion Katherine Larsen Ingrid Shafer George Washington University Univ. of S&A, Oklahoma [email protected] [email protected] Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Dance Culture Identity Libby Smigel Joseph Hancock [email protected] Drexel University & [email protected] Deidre Cavazzi [email protected] Fat Studies Lesleigh Owen, PhD Candidate Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books University of California, Santa Cruz Pamela Bedore [email protected] University of Connecticut & [email protected] Julia McCrossin George Washington University Disasters & Culture [email protected] Ann Larabee Michigan State University Festivals & Faires [email protected] Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans Documentary University of Arizona Heather McIntosh [email protected] Northern Illinois University Film [email protected] Donald E. Palumbo Eastern European Studies English Dept. Jeff Johnson East Carolina University [email protected] Michigan State University [email protected] 7 PCA & ACA AREA CHAIRS Film Adaptation Rebecca Housel German Literature and Culture Rochester Institute of Techology Claude Desmarais [email protected] University of British Columbia [email protected] Film & History Cynthia J. Miller Gothic Literature, Film, & Culture Emerson College Louis H. Palmer, III [email protected] Castleton State College [email protected] Film and Media Studies J. Brian Wagaman Heinlein Studies [email protected] Lisa N. D’Amico Texas A&M University Folklore [email protected] Elisabeth Nixon, Ph.D. Franklin University Horror (Fiction, Film) [email protected] Philip Simpson Brevard Comm. College, Palm Bay Food in Popular Culture [email protected] & Beverly Taylor Jim Iaccino University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Chicago School of Prof. Psychology [email protected] [email protected] Game Studies & Tony Avruch Kristopher Woofter Bowling Green State University Dawson Collgee [email protected] [email protected] & Joshua Call Humanities & Popular Cultures University of Nebraska, Lincoln Ray B. Browne [email protected] Bowling Green State University & [email protected] Gerald Voorhees High Point University Internet Culture [email protected] Montana Miller & Bowling Green State University Katie Whitlock [email protected] California State University [email protected] Jack London’s Life & Works Jay Williams Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies University of Chicago Bruce Drushel [email protected] Miami University [email protected] Jewish Studies Fred Isaac Gender Studies Berkeley, CA Carrie Marjorie Peirce [email protected] Azusa Pacific University [email protected] Journalism & Media Culture James Von Schilling Gender & Media Studies Northampton Community College Debbie Phillips [email protected] Muskingum College & [email protected] 8 PCA/ACA AREA CHAIRS Ken Muir University of Colorado Appalachian State University [email protected] [email protected] Literature & Science Ian Roberts Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics Missouri Western State University Patricia Donaher [email protected] Missouri Western State University [email protected] Literature & Society Gary L. Long Latin American Cinema University of Mississippi Melissa Fitch [email protected] University of Arizona [email protected] Local Culture of New Orleans—Special Sessions Latin Americans & Latinos: Jean-Paul Benowitz Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes Lebanon Valley College Eliana Rivero [email protected] University of Arizona [email protected] Mark Twain’s World Ray Browne Latin American Literature & Culture Bowling Green State University Patricia Montilla [email protected] Western Michigan University [email protected] Masculinities & Men’s Studies Hartmut Heep Latin Dance & the Global Economy Penn State University Melissa Fitch [email protected] University of Arizona [email protected] Material Culture Ella Howard Latin American Film & Media Armstrong Atlantic State University Melissa Fitch [email protected] The University of Arizona [email protected] Medical Humanities: Health, Disease & Culture Latin American Performance Studies Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman Elsa Gilmore Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health United States Naval Academy Sciences [email protected] [email protected] Libraries, Archives, Museums, Medieval Popular Culture & Popular Research K. A. Laity Allen Ellis College of Saint Rose Northern Kentucky University [email protected] [email protected] Memory & Representation Literature & Madness Rosemarie J. Conforti Branimir M. Rieger Southern Connecticut State University Lander University [email protected] [email protected] Midwest Culture Literature & Politics Mark D. Van Ells George B. Moore 9 PCA & ACA AREA CHAIRS Queensborough Community College Fran Hassencahl [email protected] Old Dominion University [email protected] Motorcycling Culture & Myth Gary L. Kieffner Politics, Law, & Popular Culture University of Texas, El Paso Becky L. Smith [email protected] York College of Pennsylvania & [email protected] Lisa Garber Psychologist Popular American Authors [email protected] Huey Guagliardo Lousiana State University Music [email protected] Tom Kitts St. John’s University Popular History in American Culture [email protected] Jennifer Stevens Roger Williams University Musicals, Stage & Film [email protected] Samuel J. Goldstein Datona State College Popular History in American Culture [email protected] Jennifer Stevens Roger Williams University Mystery & Detective & Fiction [email protected] Marilyn Rye [email protected] Professional Placement & John Bratzel Karen Waldron Michigan State University College of the Atlantic [email protected] [email protected] Protest Issues & Actions Mythology in Contemporary Culture Lotte Larsen Stephen Wilkerson Western Oregon State College [email protected] [email protected] New England Studies Radio Peter Holloran Frank Chorba Worcester State College Washburn University [email protected] [email protected] Non-Fiction Writing Religion & Culture Dan R. Jones Ingrid Shafer Texas A&M International University University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma [email protected] [email protected] Philosophy & Popular Culture Rhetoric, Composition, & Popular Culture Timothy J. Madigan St. John Fisher College Romance [email protected] Eric Selinger DePaul University Poetry Studies & Creative Poetry [email protected] Maura Gage Cavell & Louisiana State University, Eunice Darcy Martin [email protected] East Tennessee State University [email protected] Politics Portrayed in Electronic Print and Media 10