2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
Steve Craig, University of North Texas
Regent (4th Floor)
2097 Literature & Madness II: Urbanity, Spectral, Farm, Delillo
Chair: Branimir M. Rieger, Lander University
"Urbanity and Insanity in John Cheever’s Protagonists"
Bob Beuka, Bronx Community College
"Reaching the Threshold: Spectral Madness in The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the
Madcap"
Lindsay Mayo Fincher, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
"Funny Farm: Agrarian Madness in the Film and Novel Versions of ‘God’s Little
Acre’"
Christopher Rieger, Southeast Missouri State
"Necessary Madness in Don Delillo’s White Noise"
Jonathen Bassett, Lander University
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor)
2098 The Sixties II: Countercultural Music: Accessibility, Commodification
and the Hidden
Chair: Shawn Young Michigan State University
"The Monkees: A Happily but Safely Diverse Portrait for a New America"
J. A. White, Morgan State University
"’Leave Me Alone, Don’t Bother Me’: The Beatles and a Turn Towards Isolation"
Ashley Whitmore, Wayne State University
"’I Give You a Testimonial’: Religious Rhetoric in Representations of the MC-5"
Theodore Louis Trost, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
"Playing the Electric Circus: An Instrument for Social and Artistic Change"
Molly McGlone, University of Wisconsin-Madison
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor)
2099 Game Studies IV: Structures and Identities
Chair: Angela Winand, University of Illinois-Springfield
"Doin’ the (Post-Modern) Dance: Representations of Race and Gender in the
Dances of World of Warcraft"
Regina McMenomy, Washington State University
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