2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
"A Psychic Journey through the Fantastic: Restituting ‘The-Name-of-the-Father’
and Re-claiming the Mother in Fernández-Cubas’s ‘Los altillos de Brumal’"
Alison Maginn, Monmouth University
"From Courtesan to Companion to Avatar: Sexuality and Divinity in Jacqueline
Carey’s Kushiel Novels"
Janice C. Crosby
Preservation Hall Studio 5 (2nd Floor)
2079 Food in Popular Culture II: Food and Gender
Chair: Beverly Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"’A Problem in Your Cupboard’: Peanut Butter, Contamination, and Gender"
Stephanie Plummer, Bowling Green State University
"Dear Diary: Reading the Work of Female Food Bloggers"
Caroline Smith, George Washington University
"Your Scale Tells the Tale: Reinforcing the Thin Ideal in Good Housekeeping,
1931-1945"
Elise Lake, University of Mississippi
"Purity, Profanity and the Bakhtinian Grotesque in Skinny Bitch "
Rebecca Ingalls, Drexel University
Mardi Gras G&H (3rd Floor)
2080 Television V: American Adaptations of British Television Series
Chair: Carlen Lavigne, Red Deer College
"Steptoe and Son, Sanford and Son, and National Fixations"
James Martens, Red Deer College
"Memories of Mars: Life on Mars and the Function of Memory, Nostalgia, and
Loss"
Heather Marcovitch, Red Deer College
"Blackjack, Poker, and the Roulette Wheel: Why Viva Laughlin Went Bust"
Carlen Lavigne
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