2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"The Japaneseness of Manga: Exploring Common Ground between American and
Japanese Comics"
Elizabeth Marks, Columbia College
"Cyborg for Sale, Slightly Used: The Commoditization and Mapping of
Technophobia upon the Female Cyborg Body in Sky Doll and Chobits"
Jillian Burcar, University of Southern California
"What Kinds of Manga Translate in the United States?: Fan Decisions Versus
Industry Decisions"
Kristin Anderson Terpstra, University of Iowa
Mardi Gras A (3rd Floor)
2108 Southern Literature & Culture IV: Journalism of the South
Chair: Christopher Bloss, Georgia Gwinnett College
"Fear and Loathing in Dixie: Hunter S. Thompason's Southern Roots"
Jason Mosser, Georgia Gwinnett College
"The Reign of Terror: Journalistic, Literary, and Filmic Representations of
Reconstruction Rule from the Postwar to the Present"
Katie Woolsey, University of California Santa Cruz
“Finding Friendship in the Company of Women: Reading Beyond Stereotypes in
Designing Women and Steel Magnolia”
Allison Chestnut, Iris Easterling, Thomas Richardson, William Carey University
"Toomer, Obama and the New American"
John Haydock, Georgia Gwinnett College
Lafayette Suite (41st Floor)
2109 Creative Non-Fiction Writing I: Creative Non-Fiction Writing I
Chair: Dan R. Jones, Texas A&M International University
"When Memory Fails: My Mother, Myself and Alzheimers"
Jeanette Regan, Truman State University
"Divisions"
Brandon Henderson, University of Montana
"Skinwalker"
Amber L. Watson, Utah Valley University
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