2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
World"
Angelina Karpovich, Brunel University
"Finding Place: WWOOFING & The ‘Care Economy’"
Agata Skorecka, University of Northern British Columbia
"Scaling the Pinnacle of Art: Learning Vacations in Banff National Park, 1940s-
1950s"
Karen Wall, Athabasca University
Balcony K (4th Floor)
2059 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film IV: The Sookie Stackhouse
Novels
Chair: Heide Crawford, University of Kansas
"Casting a Reflection: Vampire as Metaphor for the Changing American Society in
Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse Series"
Eden Leone, Bowling Green State University
"The Vampire Rises . . . Again: True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Novels"
Nicole Burkholder-Mosco, Lock Haven University
"Shades of Bromance between Vamps and Weres: Homoerotics and the Trafficking
of Women in Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight"
Jennifer Moskowitz, Morningside College
"The Vampire Who Loved Me: The Modern Vampire Hero in Stephanie Meyers’
Twilight Series and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse Series"
Heide Crawford
Preservation Hall Studio 1 (2nd Floor)
2060 Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming) II: Monsters, Villains,
Freaks, and Virginia Woolf
Chair: Anna Bennion, University of South Carolina
"Monsters, Villains and Freaks"
Anna Bennion
"Opening the Text of Virginia Woolf: Adaptations in the Classroom"
Brooke Grant, Independent Scholar
"From Egghead to Flathead and Back Again: Frankenstein’s Monster in the
Movies"
Randall Martoccia, East Carolina University
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