Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
2008 Annual Conference -- Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Official Conference Program

Thursay October 30
Hennepin South – Ground Floor -- 7:00-9:00 pm
Reception
Check in, meet with your panelists and area chair, network, relax a little.

Friday October 31
Session F1 – 8:30-9:45

F1.1 Auditorium – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Sexuality and Erotica
Area Chair: Gary Earl Ross, University at Buffalo
***I’m Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility"
Christopher Michael Bell, Syracuse University
***Testing the Waters of Autonomy: Reflections on Emmanuelle
Zorianna Zurba, Brock University
***BBC’s Torchwood: Mainstreaming Uninhibited Sexuality
Victor Evans, Thiel College

F1.2. Ontario – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Religion and Popular and/or American Culture 1: Belief
Area Chair: Pam Detrixhe, Temple University
***"Fiction" and Evangelical Prophetic Fiction
Ken Paradis, Wilfrid Laurier University
***Leave Doubt Behind and Believe the Code! An Analysis of
Belief Constructions Popularized by Left Behind and The Da Vinci Code
Anthony Zias, Coppin State University
***"I Want to Believe": Religion and Belief in Contemporary American Television
Anne F. MacLennan, York University

F1.3. Haida – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Urban Culture 1: Public Spaces in the City: Democratic, Commodified, Everyday, Lost
Area Chair: Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University
Panel Chair: Lois Ascher, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***Enacting Democracy: Public Space: Theater of Discourse
Lois Ascher, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***Lost Sidewalks/Lost Sidewalk Talks in Post-Communist Sofia, Part II
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University
***Inch by Inch: Engineering Standards and the Mass Commodification of the Public Realm
Charles Starks, Urban Planner

F1.4. Cree – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Children and Childhood Studies: Children in Literature and Art
Area Chair : Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Rutgers—The State University
***Victorian Values In Modern British Teenage Fiction
Ronald Paul, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
***Youth and the Question of Hopeful Failure: Karl Rossman in Kafka’s Amerika
Hans Skott-Myhre, Brock University
***The Big-Eyed Art of Walter and Margaret Keane in the Age of Nuclear Anxiety
Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Rutgers University Libraries

F1.5. Oneida – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1 : Bardic Voices
Area Chair: Diana Vecchio
***Shuffled Shakespeare: Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain
Peter Hyland, Huron University College, The University of Western Ontario
***Christian Misrule and Shakespeare’s Unpopular Henry VI
Thomas J. Moretti, University of Maryland College Park
***The Political Adaptation of Hamlet in the 1980s in Korea
Kang Kim, Honam University, Gwangju Korea
***The Case Against Natural Magic: Shakespeare’s Friar Laurence as Romeo and Juliet’s Near-Tragic Hero
Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University

F1.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Native American Studies
Area Chair: Ron Denson, Ithaca College
***"I Think About This Dream Often": Nostalgic Imperialism and Ethnopoetic Decolonization
Kelley Rowley, Cayuga Community College
***Embracing Womanhood: Episodes of Change in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Carla L. Verderame, West Chester University
***Crossing Borders in Tony Hillerman's Fiction: Transcultural Appropriation or Intercultural Communication?
Marlene Kobre, Ithaca College

F1.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
Internet Culture 1: Media and Media Consumption Online
Area Chair : Mary Lou Nemanic, Penn State University, Altoona
***Lessons from the Facebook Frontier
Tracey Bowen, University of Toronto
***YouTube and Nation-State Censorship
Bryce Renninger, New York University
***Citizen Photojournalism and Online Newspapers
Mary Lou Nemanic, Penn State University, Altoona

F1.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Friday
No session in Hennepin South this hour.

Session F2 – 10:00-11:15

F2.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Film Studies 1: Retrospectives: War, Andy Hardy, and 2001
Area Chair: Ralph Donald, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
***The Rhetoric of Masculinity and Democracy in the Andy Hardy Series
Judy Beth Morris, Marymount University
***"And the Women Who Loved Them": Feminine Roles in American War Films
Ralph Donald, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
***Forty years and 28 Centuries On: Looking Back at 2001: a Space Odyssey
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College

F2.2. Ontario – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Technology and Culture 1
Area Chair: Lois Ascher, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***Culture and Technology: Culture as Costume
Frank Rooney, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***Mundis Imaginalis—The Metamorphosis of Body in Internet Culture
Mona de Vestel, SUNY Institute of Technology
***Does the Rise of Bloggers Mean the Death of Journalism?
Riley Maynard, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
***Defending Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf: An Inventive Marriage of Art & Technology
Marilyn Stern, Wentworth Institute of Technology

F2.3. Haida – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Urban Culture 2: Rezoning, Gentrifying, Re-urbanizing, and Re-using the Urban Space and Self
Area Chair: Blagovesta Momchedjikova
***Production and Consumption of Urbanity in Bloomberg’s New York: The Rezoning Plan for 125th Street in Harlem
Alessandro Busa, GSAPP Columbia University New York, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin
***106th Street and Me
Rafaela Santos, City University of New York
***Reverse Suburban Flight: Re-urbanization in Post-Industrial Detroit
Sherry Lynn Holland, Wayne State University
***The Grand Lady in Niagara Falls, NY: Adaptive Reuse of the Niagara Falls High School into the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, established 2001
Katherine Johnson, Niagara County Community College, SUNY

F2.4. Cree – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Women and Popular Culture 1: Playing Princess
Area Chair: Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Panel Chair: Carolina Núnez Puente, Universidad de La CoruZa
***From Fantasy to Reality: A Disney Princess Grows Up
Laura Dugan, Independent Scholar
***Abstinence-Only Sex Education, Tiaras and White Roses: Fort Wayne Purity Ball Planners Explain their Project
Jamie Schmidt Wagman, Saint Louis University
***Dual Identities: The Princess as Subversive Alter Ego in Preschool Girls’ Media and Toys
Aidan Smith, University of Hawaii

F2.5. Oneida – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Horror 1: Gothic Apocalypse: Politicizing Space in Popular American Fiction
Area Chair: Lisa Miller, Pace University
***The Return of The Wendigo: Genre Shapeshifiting and The Haunting of The American Landscape
Ben Joplin, Buffalo Seminary
***A Dead Man's Party: Necropolitical Space and The Possibility of Community in The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy and Poppy Z. Brite
Patrick Walter, University at Buffalo
***"It Can Get Awful Lonely Out There in The Black": Savagery and Civilization in Joss Whedon's Gothic Future"
Marla Wick, University at Buffalo

F2.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Food and Culture: From Production to Consumption: Food and Wine in Popular Culture
Area Chair : Jill Nussel, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
***Put a Cork in It: The Battle over the Bottleneck
Jay E. Nussel, Manchester College
***Cooking Up Culture: How Immigrant Women Defined America Through Cookbooks
Jill Nussel, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
***A Math Problem, a One Pass System, an Aesthetic Consideration: An Exploratory Look at Grocery Shopping Experiences in St. John's, Newfoundland
Virginia Fugarino, Memorial University of Newfoundland
***Synaesthetics and Site Visits : Engaging Culinary Students in the Act of Writing about Food, Culture, and the Human Experience
Andrea Sciacca, The Culinary Institute of America

F2.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
No session in Hennepin North this hour.

F2.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Friday
Death in American Culture 1
Area Chairs: J.Joseph Edgette, Widener University, and Richard A. Sauers, Lenape Investment Corp.
Panel Chair: Annette Stott, Denver University
***"In the Shadow of His Son": David Ochterlony’s Caribbean Grave and the Spread of New England Tombstone Iconography
Alan E. Nash, Concordia University
***The Sacred Abject in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man
Robin C. McCullough, York University
***Inventors in the Cemetery
Annette Stott, Denver University

Session F3 -- 11:30-12:45

F3.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Film Studies 2: Hollywood vs. Video Games, Voyeurism and the Silents
Area Chair: Ralph Donald, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Panel Chair: Gary Earl Ross, University at Buffalo
***Hollywood Fights the Gaming Empire: the Incorporation and Rejection of New Media in Blockbuster Films
Emily Wilkins, SUNY Brockport
***They Were Never Really Silent: Social Commentary in Early Films
Barry John Capella, Farmingdale State College
***Voyeur Cinema: Secret Joys and Moral Dilemmas
Gary Earl Ross, University at Buffalo

F3.2. Ontario – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Travel and Tourism 1: The Re/Presentation of Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and the Sacred
Area Chair: Jennifer Erica Sweda, University of Pennsylvania
***"IndigiDisneyland": The Presentation of Chinese Minority Cultural Tourism in Yunnan Province
Shelley Rabinovitch, University of Ottawa
***Reinventing the Chinese American Other: Cultural Tourism and the Formation of Community Identity
Rebecca Burdit, University of Rochester
***Touring Sacred Space: Religious Aspects of Visits to Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birth Home
Ben Brazil, Emory University

F3.3. Haida – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Urban Culture 3: Writing Workshop
Please, bring a pen, some paper, and your urban enthusiasm
Area Chair: Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University

F3.4. Cree – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Women and Popular Culture 2: Expanding Their Roles
Area Chair: Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Panel Chair: Erin Brown Bell, Marygrove College
***Yehudit Hendel: Life in the Shadow of a Painter
Dina Ripsman Eylon, University of Toronto
***A Journey East: How Three Writing Women Brought Eastern Philosophy to Canada
Shoshannah Ganz, Laurentian University
***Common Ground: Edith Wharton and Emma Goldman’s Writings on Marriage and Love
Kim Vose, SUNY Binghamton

F3.5. Oneida – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Science Fiction 1: Postmodern(izing) SF: What Theory Tells Us About Science Fiction
Area Chair: Cathy Leaker, Empire State College
***The Future Cities of Fahrenheit 451 and We: "Junkspace"
Jacqueline Spencer, Brock University
***Showdown at the Café ‘80’s: The Back to the Future Trilogy as Baudrillardian Parable
Randy Laist, Independent Scholar
***"How Do I Look?": Construction of Identity in Science Fiction Films
Mariam Esseghaier, Brock University

F3.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Special Session: The Harry Potter Phenomenon and Popular Literary Landscapes
Potter Chair: Richard Currie, The College of Staten Island
Landscapes Chair: Bill Mistichelli, Penn State Abington
Panel Chair: Phyllis Pustilnik, Independent Scholar
***Fated Hero or Ambitious Individual? Fate and Free Will in the Harry Potter Series
Julia Pond, Illinois State University
***The Genesis and Miltonic Paths of the Seven Harry Potter Books
Phyllis Pustilnik, Independent Scholar
***Bruce Chatwin Explores Patagonia
Richard Kane, Penn State Mont Alto
***Memorial Landscapes: Reconstructing the Trenches of World War I
Trevor Dodman, Wake Forest University

F3.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Rock & Roll Culture 1: Influences and Tributes
Area Chair: Thomas M. Kitts, St. John’s University
***Selling "Road Maps for the Soul": Dylan in Concert and in the Classroom – Special extended joint presentation.
Paul Almonte, St. Peter’s College
Lisa O’Neill, St. Peter’s College

F3.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Friday
Religion and Popular and/or American Culture 2: Religious Exchange in Colonial Spaces
Area Chair: Pam Detrixhe, Temple University
***Making Fictional Space for a Multiracial America—Or Not: Lydia Sigourney, Lydia Maria Child, and James Fenimore Cooper
Cheryl C. Boots, Boston University
***Varieties of Popular Civil Religion in post-9-11 Artifacts
Pam Detrixhe, Temple University
***Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham: Sometimes Hindu, Sometimes Muslim
Dinah Holtzman, University of Rochester

FRIDAY LUNCH BREAK 12:45-1:45

1:30-4:15 P.M. Special Double Session: Death in American Culture 2 & 3
This is a DOUBLE-SESSION tour of Niagara Falls cemeteries. We will meet in the hotel lobby and car pool to Drummond Hill Cemetery and Fairview Cemetery.

Session F4 – 1:45 – 3:00

F4.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Travel and Tourism 2: Wasteland and Wilderness: Mythologizing Place
Area Chair: Jennifer Erica Sweda, University of Pennsylvania
***Mechanizing Pleasure: Railroads, Tourism, and Niagara Falls, 1820-1845
Richard Gassan, American University of Sharjah
***Sunset and Arizona Highways: Tourism and Modernism in Two Popular Regional Magazines
Stephen Brown, Rhode Island College
Kelly Dennis, University of Connecticut

F4.2. Ontario – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Architecture & Built Environment 1: Memories, Bona Fide & Otherwise
Area Chair: Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts and Fordham University
***Navel of the Earth: Understanding a Late Archaic Shell Ring on Saint Catherine’s Island, Georgia
Andrea Cakars, Camden County Historical Society
***Putting History in its Place: A Functional Theory of the Rhetoric of Place & Public Memory
Linda Brigance, SUNY Fredonia
***Is There More to Learn From Las Vegas? History & Popular Culture in Thematic Architecture
Alison Fleming, Winston-Salem State University

F4.3. Haida – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Design and Decorative Art 1: Interiors and Objects
Area Chair: Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons The New School for Design
***Between Lived and Unlived: Exhibiting Art Nouveau Interiors
Sarah Schaefer, Columbia University
***Framing the Fireplace
Ezra Shales, Alfred University
***The Culture of Consumption in the Domestic Interiors of Clueless and Legally Blonde
Andrea Lenci-Cerchiara, Parsons The New School for Design
***Ergonomics at the Office: Television, Popular Culture, and the Comfortable Chair
Erin Leary, University of Rochester

F4.4. Cree – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Women and Popular Culture 3: Women Writing and Written
Area Chair: Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Panel Chair: Carolyn F. Lighthart, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario
***"Whose side are they on?": Ariel through the fictions of Sylvia and Wintering
Dustin Wittenmyer, The University of Toledo
***"I like your speech:" Grace Paley’s Politics and the Metafictional Moment
Erin Brown Bell, Marygrove College
***The Black Shepherdess: Ecofeminism and Pastoral in Zora Neale Hurston
Carolina Núnez Puente, Universidad de La Coruna

F4.5. Oneida – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies: The Queer and the Dead: Resisting the Heteronatural in American Popular Culture
Area Chair: Cathy Leaker, Empire State College
***Skin Speak: Vampiric Sexualities and Hypernatural Humanities in Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories and Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
Heather Bidell, University at Buffalo
***Haunted by Desire: Queer Black Spectrality in Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits
Jeffry J. Iovannone, University at Buffalo
***Spelled Out: Melodrama and the Magic of Queer Erotics on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cait Keegan, University at Buffalo
***Bloody Veils: Theda Bara’s Silent Legacy of Queer Deviance
Jessica Wilkie, University at Buffalo

F4.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
No session in Chippawa this hour.

F4.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Music and Culture 1: Identity and Place in Popular Music Culture
Area Chair: Scott Henderson, Brock University
***Themes of Escape, Being on the Road, and Returning Home in Rock Music Lyrics
David C. Wright, Jr., Misericordia University
***The Duke Steps Out of the Jungle- Race, Minstrelsy, and Activism in Duke Ellington’s "Reminiscing in Tempo"
Kevin Strait, George Washington University
***The Exemplarity of an Award Ceremony: The Montréal’s MIMI and its Totalization of all Québec’s "Emergent Musics"
Martin Lussier, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Université de Montréal

F4.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Friday
Visual Culture: Re-negotiating Social Viewing Practices: How Are We Looking at Each Other?
Area Chair: Tracey Bowen, University of Toronto
***The Everyday Celebrity in the 19th Century
Mary Keczan-Ebos, York University
***Negotiating Grievability: Visual Representations of Vancouver’s Disappeared Women
Amber Dean, University of Alberta
***Who’s Who of the Hairy Who?
Thea Liberty Nichols, The Art Institute of Chicago
***Small Fry: Visual Culture and Children’s Studies
Krys Verrall, York University

Session F5 – 3:15-4:30

F5.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
No session in Chippawa this hour.

F5.2. Ontario – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Architecture & Built Environment 2: (Re)presentations
Area Chair: Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts
***Contemporary Native Architecture in Humboldt County, California
Julia Alderson, Humboldt State University
***Turning the Page: Structures and Structuring in House of Leaves
Jennifer D. Ryan, Buffalo State College
***The World in Miniature: Practices of Spectacle & Display in the Casino Hotel Architecture of the Las Vegas Strip
Thomas Beachdel, CUNY Graduate Center

F5.3. Haida – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Art 1: In/Visible Identities
Area Chair: Janna Eggebeen, Ontario College of Art & Design
***Ideal Averages: Pictorial Portraiture and Statistics c. 1900
Adam Greenhalgh, University of Maryland, College Park
***A Monument to Muscle: George Grey Barnard’s The Builder and the Physical Culture Movement
Brian E. Hack, City University of New York, Kingsborough
***Elevating Art: Considerations and Controversies of Art at the Airport
Janna Eggebeen, Ontario College of Art & Design

F5.4. Cree – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Environment and Culture 1
Area Chair: Tara Weiss, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
***Consuming Resistance: The Appropriation of the Environmental Movement in Dana Spiotta’s Eat the Document
Elise A. Martucci, Westchester Community College
***Humanity and the Environment: Intrinsic Connections and Ontological Reorientation
Joseph Terry, Kingsborough Community College/CUNY
***The Environmental and Economic Geography of Popular Biosphere Representations: Silko’s Alternative Earth Units and the Biosphere 2 Project
Ericka Wills, Illinois State University

F5.5. Oneida – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 2
Area Chair: Diana Vecchio, Widener University
***Decoding the Legible Image: Iconophobia in Contemporary Readings of Renaissance Art
J. D. Wright, University of Pittsburgh
***Queen Elizabeth I…Barbie®!? Why Not?
Rhea Emery-Morris, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
***Piling on the Guilt: Howard Pyle’s Portrayal of Violence in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Dana Symons, Buffalo State College

F5.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Assorted Issues in Contemporary Culture: Appearance, Activism, and Disability
Panel Chair: Zachary Snider, New York University
***The Millennial Manhattan Metrosexual Anti-Hero
Zachary Snider, New York University
***The Autobiography as Novel: Dramatic Elements in the Memoirs of Black
Power Activists
Chloe Avril, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
***Scaling Adversity: Cole Porter and the Empowerment of Disability
Katherine McMahon, University at Buffalo

F5.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Rock & Roll Culture 2: Influences and Tributes
Area Chair: Thomas M. Kitts, St. John's University
***Reaping Strange Fruit: Grizzly Bear, The Twilight Singers, and the Appropriation of "African American" Music
Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University
***The Romantic Period Influence on the New Romantics
Lorrie Carano, University of Missouri-Kansas City
***Being Moz: Smiths/Morrissey Tribute Culture in Baltimore
Richard E. Otten, George Mason University

F5.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Friday
Theater 1: Opera and Popular Culture
Area Chair: Jason Davids Scott, UC, Santa Barbara
***Hoe at Last: The Canadian Opera Company’s Role in Shaping Canada’s National Identity
Elizabeth Godo, York and Ryerson Universities
***Dramatizing Popular History: A Rhetorical Analysis of Evita
Jason M. Varner, Duquesne University
***Listen to the Pictures: Image Schemas in the Work of Robert Wilson
Grant Williams, University of Pittsburgh

Session F6 – 4:45 – 6:00

F6.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
Television 1
Area Chair: Scott Ash, Nassau Community College
Panel Chair Marie Warmbold, Hunter College
***The Influences of Talent Show Programs on Youth Popular Culture – A Comparative Study between American Idol and Super Girl
Yin Song, University at Buffalo
***Cranford: Elizabeth Gaskell Gets the Masterpiece Makeover
Marie E. Warmbold, Hunter College
Roundtable discussion.

F6.2. Ontario – Third Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
No session in Ontario this hour.

F6.3. Haida – Third Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
Art 2: Viewpoints
Area Chair: Janna Eggebeen, Ontario College of Art & Design
***New Angles on Praying at Home in the Italian Renaissance
Martha Dunkelman, Canisius College
***Jasper Johns, Live!
Madison Moore, Yale University
***Landscape in Turmoil: Photographs in Provoke in the Late 1960s
Yuko Teshima, CUNY Graduate Center

F6.4. Cree – Third Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
Detective Fiction 1: Disfigured Detectives: Scars and Screens
Area Chair: Alexander Howe, University of the District of Columbia
Interrogating Masculinities in The Shield
Pricilla Walton, Carleton University
***Fritz Lang’s Crimes of Space
Isa Murdock-Hinrichs, University of California, San Diego
***A Moral Duty of Solving Crime in (Anthropological) Forensic Crime Fiction
Ingrida Povidisa, University Bayreuth, Germany
***Frontiers and Boundaries: Spatial Images in 19th and 20th Century Detective Fiction
Lewis Moore, Independent Scholar

F6.5. Oneida – Third Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
Fashion, Appearance and Material Culture
Area Chair: Aeran Park, Marymount College
***Women's Social Trends and Fashion Advertisement
Aeran Park, Marymount College
***Wishing on a Star – Promoting and Personifying Designer Collections and
Fashion Brands
in Hong Kong and Australian Commercial Relations
Anne Pierson-Smith, City University of Hong Kong
Roundtable Discussion

F6.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
Sports 1: Sports, Storytelling, and Gender
Area Chairs: Robert Trumpbour, Penn State Altoona, and Ron Bishop, Drexel University
***Sport as Performance Art: The Bodily Poetics of the Female Triathalete
Suzanne Zelazo, Ryerson University
***Is It Swimming or Is It Sex?: The Sexual Objectification of Female Swimmers in Magazine Photographs
Marifaith Schweitzer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
***Robo-Brady versus Underdog Eli: Super Bowl XLII and a Conflict in American Mythology
Matt Ventresca, Brock University
***He’s a Cad, But He’s Our Cad: Exploring News Media Coverage of the Birth of Tom Brady’s Baby
Ron Bishop, Drexel University

F6.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
War: Yesterday and Today
Area Chair: Andrew Schopp, Nassau Community College
Panel Chair: Matthew B. Hill, Coppin State University
***Woman O' War: Women in Winslow Homer Illustrations and Civil War Duties
Layla Bermeo, Williams College
***The Iraq War: A Clash of Civilizations?
Farzana Bhatty, Ryerson/York University
***"I Am a Leaf on the Wind": Cultural Trauma and Mobility in Joss Whedon’s Firefly
Matthew B. Hill, Coppin State University

F6.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 4:45-6:00 Friday
No session in Hennepin South this hour.

Saturday November 1

Session S1 -- 8:30-9:45

S1.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Academic Career Development Panel
Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Gary Earl Ross, University at Buffalo
Tara Weiss, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Thomas Kitts, St. John’s University

S1.2. Ontario – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Urban Culture 4: The City in the Visual Imagination and as a Virtual Product
Area Chair: Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University
Panel Chair: Tara Milbrandt University of Alberta
***Criminalizing the ‘Hood’: The Death of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination
Nicola Mann, University of Rochester
***Incriminating Scenes, Cinematic Moments, and Cameo Appearances: Intensification and Visual Recordability in/of the City
Tara Milbrandt, University of Alberta
***An Insight of George Perec’s Work
Samuel Neural, Universite Paris Sorbonne and Universite Lyon II Louis Lumiere

S1.3. Haida – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Theater 2: Theatre from Unlikely Places
Area Chair: Jason Davids Scott, University of California, Santa Barbara
***Performing Poetry: The Dream Songs
Brian Desmond, Pacific Lutheran University
***Satyagraha at The Met: Improbable’s Most Improbable Work Yet
Marc Shaw, Hartwick College
Roundtable discussion

S1.4. Cree – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Education and Social Change
Area Chair: Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons The New School for Design
***"We’re all going to learn together:" The Curricula of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Citizenship Education Program, 1957-1970
Clare Russell, The University of Nottingham
***A Diverse Education for a Diverse Learner
Seymour W. Pustilnik, Independent Scholar
***‘Growing’ Social Change: Oaksterdam University
Alan R. Lehman, University of Maryland

S1.5. Oneida – Third Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Horror 2: Vampires and Dolls
Area Chair: Lisa Miller, Pace University
Panel Chair: Marie Warmbold, Hunter College
***The Impaling of Vlad: Dracula, Literary Tourism and National Identity
Tony Giffone, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
***"The Dolls Are Real, But Not That Real": Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted and Postmodern Horror
Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College and State University
Roundtable discussion

S1.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Sports 2: Sport and the Political Realm
Area Chairs: Robert Trumpbour, Pennsylvania State, Altoona, and Ron Bishop, Drexel University
***Little League Parents: The Fine Line Between Healthy Obsession and Unhealthy Behavior
Jessica Skolnikoff, Roger Williams University
Robert Engvall, Roger Williams University
***Underdogs or Ideologues: Mexico’s Presentation of Self in the 1968 Olympics
Julia Sloan, Cazenovia College
***The Roots of Major League Baseball's Globalized and Increasingly Latino Work Force
Joseph Trumino, St. John's University
***Integration of Sports into the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign
Bob Trumpbour, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College

S1.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
No session in Hennepin North this hour.

S1.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 8:30-9:45 Saturday
Death in American Culture 4
Area Chairs: J.Joseph Edgette, Widener University, and Richard A. Sauers, Lenape Investment Corp.
***Creating a Database of Important Monuments at Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh
Elisabeth Roark, Chatham College
***Murderous Mothers, Nasty Nurses, and Villainous Others: Depictions of Infanticide and Child Murder in America, 1850-1910
Janet McShane Galley, University of Guelph
***Better to Forget?: Infamous Residents of Holy Cross Cemetery
J. Joseph Edgette, Widener University

Session S2 --10:00-11:15

S2.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Film Studies 3: Close Readings of Vanilla Sky, Blood Diamond and Summer Heights High
Area Chair: Ralph Donald, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
***"It Seemed Like Science Fiction to Me": Illusion and Allusion in Vanilla Sky.
Sara Hosey, Nassau Community College
***"T.I.A. This is Africa": Blood Diamond as Neocolonialist Discourse
Diana Mafe, McMaster University
***Adolescent Resistance Narratives in a Satirical School Yard: The case of Summer Heights High
Jacqueline Wilson, University of Ballarat, Australia

S2.2. Ontario – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Urban Culture 5: Public Art, Hair Salons and Giggle Water Define and Defy the Urban
Area Chair: Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University
Panel Chair: Ines Rae, University of Central Lancashire, UK
***Reflecting Urban Space: The Social Mirror at the First New York City Art Parade, 1983
Emily Black, University of North Texas
***Shear Class: An Ethnographic Study of the British Hair Salon
Ines Rae, University of Central Lancashire, UK
***Giggle Water on the Mighty Niagara: Rum Runners, Homebrewers, Redistillers, and the Changing Social Fabric of Drinking Culture During Alcohol Prohibition in Buffalo, 1920-1933
Tim Olewniczak, University at Buffalo

S2.3. Haida – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Technology 2: Identity
Area Chair: Lois Ascher, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***Technology Students and Alzheimer’s Patients: A Vibrant Exchange: Opening Minds
Elaine Slater, Wentworth Institute of Technology
***The Effects of Social Networking Websites on Human Development
Jonathan Howard, University of Rochester
***Digital Secrets and the Looping Self
Meghan Rosatelli, Virginia Commonwealth University
***Stuff White People Like: Bloggers Deconstruct White Authenticity
Beth Anne Cooke-Cornell, Wentworth Institute of Technology

S2.4. Cree – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
No session in Cree this hour.

S2.5. Oneida – Third Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 3: Medievalia
Area Chair: Diana Vecchio, Widener University
***Yeoman, Knight, or Earl: the Socio-Political Co-opting of Robin Hood
Catherine Akel, Farmingdale State College
***The Waiting Game: Medieval Allusions and the Lethal Nature of Passivity in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
Mary Behrman, Morehouse College
***The Consexualization of Beowulf for the Modern Audience
Diana Vecchio, Widener University

S2.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
No session in Chippawa this hour.

S2.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Music and Culture 2: Subcultures, Meaning and Community
Area Chair: Scott Henderson, Brock University
***Heavy Metal: A Meaningful Reflection of Society During the 1980s and early 1990s
Ed Hornback, Baker College of Owosso
***‘I Don’t Want to Be Friends With You’: Rethinking Subculture in the Digital Age
Scott Henderson, Brock University
***Lists and Lolz: Virtual Sub-cultural Capital and the ateaseweb Message Board Community
Matt Masters, York University

S2.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 10:00-11:15 Saturday
Death in American Culture 5
Area Chairs: J.Joseph Edgette, Widener University, and Richard A. Sauers, Lenape Investment Corp.
***Bishop Hopkins' Burial: The Ecclesiastical Cemetery at Rock Point, Vermont
Kathie A. Schey, California State University at Long Beach
***The Mystery of the Inevitable: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Adams Memorial
Ellen Lippert, Thiel College
***Roebling: A Family of Bridge Builders
Richard A. Sauers, Lenape Investment Corp.

Session S3 -- 11:30-12:45

S3.1. Auditorium– Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Film Studies 4: Myths, Memories, Interpretations and Methodologies in Film
Area Chair: Ralph Donald, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
***It Ain’t Me: Myth, Memory and the Invention of Self in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There
Elizabeth Finnegan, University at Buffalo
***Contemporary Interpretations of "Classic" Film Noir: The Long Goodbye and Brick
Anna Daley, Independent Scholar
***Talking Objects: Methodology for Film Analysis
Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Concordia University

S3.2. Ontario – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Architecture & Built Environment 3: We Are as We Build
Area Chair: Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts
***When Having the Majority Does Not Count: The Women’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition and Its Effect on Women in Architecture
Johanna Hays, Appalachian State University
James V. Strueber, Appalachian State University
***Do Your Own Thing: American Pop Culture & the Built Environment During the 1970s & 80s
Mark Braun, SUNY Cobleskill

S3.3. Haida – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Art 3: The Aging of Aquarius: Forty Years of Post-Sixties Art and Culture
Area Chair: Janna Eggebeen, Ontario College of Art & Design
Panel Co-chairs: Cary Levine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Philip Glahn, Temple University
***On Man and Nature and a Model of Politics in 1970s America
Alexander Dumbadze, George Washington University
***Neo-Cons and Rear-Guards: Art and Politics after the Sixties
Gregory Williams, Boston University
***Reterritorialized Radicality: 1960s Argentine Art Today
Daniel R. Quiles, Independent Scholar

S3.4. Cree – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Women and Popular Culture 5: Women’s Bodies/Women’s Power?
Area Chair: Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Panel Chair: Kathryn L. Mahaney, Rutgers University
***"And nothing she needs": Victoria’s Secret, and the Gaze of "Post-Feminism"
Marc A. Ouellette, McMaster University
***The Victorian Barmaid: Agent or Victim?
Carol Ann Reader, University of Windsor
***'Delfina, mas tacos!' Food, Culture, and Motherhood in Denise Chavez's A Taco Testimony
Cristina Herrera, California State University, Fresno
***Justice or Just Us!
Carolyn F. Lighthart, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario

S3.5. Oneida – Third Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Science Fiction 2: Science Fiction’s Selves and Others
Area Chair: Cathy Leaker, Empire State College
***The Corporate Challenges to Recovery of the Individual and History in Rollerball (1975)
Michael Berman, Brock University
***The Paradox of the Self in Star Trek: Voyager
Susan Bernardo, Wagner College
***Star Trek: The Hiatus Years
Jeffrey Bass, Marist College
***'Grandly Other': Art and Intersubjectivity in C.J. Cherryh's Wave Without a Shore
Jake Casella, Independent Scholar

S3.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Special Session: G.K. Chesterton: Speaking To and About the World, Yesterday & Today
Area Chair: Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University
***G.K. Chesterton and the Philosophy of Surprise
Robert MacArthur, Center for the American Idea
***A Tale of Emptied Hells: The Philosophical Journey of G. K. Chesterton in The Man Who Was Thursday
Jon Coutts, Briercrest Seminary
***Revolution, Paradox, and the Christian Tradition: A Chestertonian Debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek
Aron Dunlap, Temple University
***Tourist Imaginaries: Chesterton and Bauman on Engaging and Understanding the Other
Jessey Gilley, University of Kansas

S3.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Latino/a Studies
Area Chair: Randolph Ortiz, St. John’s University
Panel Chair: Isabel A. Millán, University of Michigan
***Chicana/Latina Children’s Literature as Sociopolitical Texts
Isabel A. Millán, University of Michigan
***Sylvia Rivera’s Military "Excess": "Domestic" Transgender Memorials and the Destabilization of U.S.
Multicultural Citizenship
Jessi Gan, University at Michigan
***"La bandera de muchos jóvenes latinoamericanos:" Mascu-latinidad and Afro-centrism in the Reggaetón of Don Omar
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, Colby College
***Creating Communal Memory in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo
Asli Degirmenci, Yesilyurt Mah, Adana, Turkey

S3.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 11:30-12:45 Saturday
Religion and Popular and/or American Culture 3: Religion as Cultural/Civic Resource, Or Not
Area Chair: Pam Detrixhe, Temple University
***Twin Messiahs: Capitalist and Socialist Jesus in the American Popular Press, 1916-1925
Tim Bryant, University at Buffalo
***Biblical Updates: Christ in the Modern Musical
Christopher Innes, York University
Brigitte Bogar, York University
***Thou Shall Not Inhibit Academic Freedom
SPeter Buckland, Pennsylvania State University

SATURDAY LUNCH BREAK 12:45-1:45

12:45-1:45: Hennepin North – Ground Floor – MAPACA Board Meeting

Session S4 – 1:45 – 3:00

S4.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Television 2
Area Chair: Scott Ash, Nassau Community College
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Sullivan, Farmingdale State College
***The Era of TV Newfilm: 1940s-1980
Doug Nemanic, Independent Scholar
***Brownshirts in the Twilight Zone: Internationalist and Exceptionalist Antifascism in Early Cold War Television
Chris Vials, Buffalo State College
***The Alchemy of Seinfeld: The Seinfeld TV Comedy Series and the Comedies of Ben Jonson
Elizabeth Q. Sullivan, Farmingdale State College

S4.2. Ontario – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
No session in Ontario this hour.

S4.3. Haida – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Design and Decorative Arts 2: Identity and Graphics
Area Chair: Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons The New School for Design
***The Role of Graphic Design in Framing Place Brands
Alex Bitterman, Rochester Institute of Technology
***What Does Your Refrigerator Reveal About You? Refrigerator Advertisements and the Shifting Roles of American Women in the 1950s and 1960s
Laura L. Camerlengo, Parsons The New School for Design
***Commodifying Orphans: Abortion, Adoption and Popular Culture
Neeve Kelly, Parsons The New School for Design

S4.4. Cree – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Women and Popular Culture 6: Women and/in Power
Area Chair: Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
Panel Chair: Catherine Akel, Farmingdale State College
***Anne and Elizabeth: Media Portrayals of English Queens
Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
***Reel Silence: The Female Voice in Patriarchal Law as Represented in A Question of Silence and The Accused
Meg Holland, Rider University
***Engineering Peace: Women and World Government in Early Twentieth Century America
Kathryn L. Mahaney, Rutgers University

S4.5. Oneida – Third Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
No session in Oneida this hour.

S4.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Special Session: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
Chair: Bill Mistichelli, Penn State, Abington
***Murakami and the Inklings
Judith Caesar, American University of Sharjah
***Tolkien and Faerie
Gerald V. Gillespie, Stratford Library Association
***Reclaiming Middle Earth: The Rhetoric of Tolkien’s Illustrations
Susana Brower, University of California, Riverside
***The Reclamation and Reconstitution of Myth in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
Bill Mistichelli, Penn State, Abington

S4.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Rock & Roll Culture 3: Analyzing the Live Concert Experience
Area Chair: Thomas M. Kitts, St. John's University
***"Was It Good For You Too?" - Analyzing the Live Concert Experience
Nick Baxter-Moore, Brock University
***Eric Clapton in Concert, 2008: A Reading in the First Person
Terrance Cox, Brock University
***Anti-Flag: Politics on Stage
Thomas M. Kitts, St. John's University

S4.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 1:45-3:00 Saturday
Travel and Tourism 3: Strategies for Alternative Learning
Area Chair: Jennifer Erica Sweda, University of Pennsylvania
Come on and Put Your Toe In
Sue Rumbaugh, Carlow University
Judy Kavulic, Carlow University
Janelle Crisp, Carlow University
Elizabeth Gowers, Carlow University
Margaret Swick, Carlow University

Session S5 – 3:15-4:30

S5.1. Auditorium – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Violence
Area Chair: Gary Earl Ross, University at Buffalo
***Violence and Society in Griselda Gambaro’s Theatre
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt, Rider University
***The American Cultural War: An Introduction on the Production and Circulation of Political Propaganda Through Animated Cartoons in the US, Canada and Brazil During World War II
Alexandre Busko Valim, Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
Roundtable discussion

S5.2. Ontario – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Architecture & Built Environment 4: Ways of Shaping the World Around Us
Area Chair: Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts
***Freedom & the Endless Townscape: Popular Culture as Reflected in Broadacre City & Zelony Gorod
Alexandra Staub, Penn State University
***Architecture & Identity in Lowell, MA: Making a City Out of A Mill Town
Marie Frank, University of Massachusetts Lowell
***Inwood – Not Washington Heights, Not the Bronx
Loretta Lorance, School of Visual Arts

S5.3. Haida – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Theater 3: Theatre and Identity
Area Chair: Jason Davids Scott, UC, Santa Barbara
***The Indian Noble Savage: Patriotism vs. Mercy
Maria Staton, Ball State University
***Bard Barkers: Dario Fo, Tom Waits, and Eddie Izzard, Voices of the Disenfranchised and Powerless
Rick DesRochers, Long Island University CW Post
***"Oh, Dad, Poor Dad": Mental Illness & Patriarchy in American Drama
Jason Davids Scott, University of California, Santa Barbara

S5.4. Cree – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Environment and Culture 2
Area Chair: Tara Weiss, Kingsborough Community College/CUNY
***The Ecology of Domesticity: Gender and Nineteenth-Century American "Nature Writing"
Jane Weiss, Kingsborough Community College/CUNY
***Finding Light in Darkness: Prisons, Nature, Containment and the Environment
Laura Shields, Saint Louis University
***Protecting a Great Lakes Gem: The U.S. Army and Mackinac National Park
Kathy S.Mason, The University of Findlay

S5.5. Oneida – Third Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Internet Culture 2: Subcultures & Social Networks in Cyberspace
Area Chair: Mary Lou Nemanic, Penn State, Altoona
***Cybertypes and Marriage on Shadi.com
Naveen Joshi, York University
***Punk Touring and the Internet
Aaron Furgason, Monmouth University
***Reclaiming Authenticity Through Historical Roleplaying in Virtual Worlds
Dave Lester, George Mason University

S5.6. Chippawa – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
American Studies
Area Co-Chairs: Caterina Y. Pierre, Kingsborough Community College CUNY and Brian Hack, Kingsborough Community College CUNY
Panel Chair: Annie Dell’Aria, CUNY Graduate Center
***The Struggle to Preserve the Bond between the Statue of Liberty and Minerva
Caterina Y. Pierre, Kingsborough Community College
***"Insupportable Impatience at Confinement": Stephen Burroughs, the Uncontrollable Prisoner, and Incarceration in the Early National U.S.
Jonathan Nash, University at Albany
***The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Species Caught in the Culture Wars
Annie Dell’Aria, CUNY Graduate Center

S5.7. Hennepin North – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Detective Fiction 2: The Construction of Space in Detective Fiction / Female Sleuths & Snoops
Area Chair: Alexander Howe, University of the District of Columbia
***Frontiers and Boundaries: Spatial Images in 19th and 20th Century Detective Fiction
Lewis Moore, Independent Scholar
***Donna Leon’s Venice: Putting Murder on the Map
Cecilia Macheski, LaGuardia Community College
***Detection and Domesticity: Striking a Balance in the Female Detective Novel
Robin Gray Nicks, University of Tennessee
***Little Murderers: Louisa May Alcott’s Thrillers
Alexander Howe, University of the District of Columbia

S5.8. Hennepin South – Ground Floor 3:15-4:30 Saturday
Travel and Tourism 4: The Dialectical Process of the Travel Writer/Tourist
Area Chair: Jennifer Erica Sweda, University of Pennsylvania
***Travel Writer as Social Critic: Harriet Martineau and America in the 1830s
Saundra Norton, Independent Scholar
***Trains That Talk: Henry James’s American Journey
Hannah Wells, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday 4:30 – 5:30: Hennepin North – Ground Floor – Area Chair Meeting
For discussion: Review of existing areas. Proposals for new areas. Review of submission format. Review of new conference format. Suggestions for the board.

DINNER PROGRAM -- 6:00 PM OAKES GRAND BALLROOM
President’s Remarks
Election of Officers and Other Business
Special Presentation: Sherman Zavitz on The History of Honeymooning

Official Historian of the City of Niagara Falls, Sherman Zavitz has been actively involved in Niagara heritage organizations for thirty years. He is an accomplished and popular local history tour guide and is frequently in demand as a speaker on the complex web of histories of Niagara Falls. He has written several illustrated books about the Falls, writes two weekly history columns for the Niagara Falls Review, and presents a series of historical vignettes on the radio station CJRN. His books include Niagara: Then and Now, Niagara at the Turn of the Century and How It Has Changed and It Happened at Niagara. Of the many histories of Niagara Falls how the city evolved into the honeymoon capital of the world – drawing all kinds of grooms and their brides — is indeed the most fascinating . . .