2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
Janice Morris, University of British Columbia
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor)
2070 Film Adaptation IV: From Utopia to Dystopia
Chair: Nat Hardy, Savannah State University
"Utopia Achieved: Romantic Comedies"
Erin Miller, Penn State Harrisburg
"Spaces, Times & Images of Hell"
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Northwestern University
"Tinseltown Rebellion: Moore’s V for Vendetta "
Nat Hardy
Napoleon Suite (41st Floor)
2071 Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics II: Border Crossings
Chair: James G. Mitchell, Salve Regina
"PSYCH, You Thought This Show Was in English!"
James G. Mitchell, Salve Regina University
"Frederick, MD: The Hispanic Press and the Hispanics in the Press"
Agnes Ragone, Shippensburg University
"Vecturism and Sociolinguistics"
Alan Libert, University of Newcastle
"Speaking of Bollywood"
Catherine Bowers, University of Southern Mississippi
Regent (4th Floor)
2072 Mythology in Contemporary Culture III: Literature, Drama, and
Mythology
Chair: Stephen Wilkerson
"Aristotelian Poetics/Dionysian Liberation: Myth, Fate, and Becoming in Philip
Roth’s The Human Stain and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History "
Sarah Scheiner-Bobis, Cardiff University, UK
"His Dark Secularism: Mythology and Apocalypticism as Secularist Rhetoric in
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy"
Cory Lockhart, University of Montevallo
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