2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
"Negotiating Identity, Space, and Place: Alienation and (Sexual) Dislocation in
Totally F***ed Up"
Kylo-Patrick Hart
Iberville (4th Floor)
2132 American Literature III: Language, Narration, and Discovering Truths
Chair: Sue Richardson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
"A Regime of One: Appropriating Truth and Power in Winesburg, Ohio "
Garrett Nichols, Illinois State University
"Schizophrenia and Naked Lunch "
Luke Pruitt, Virginia Technological University
"’The Act of Terror May Be the Only Meaningful Act’: Obsession and Meaning in
Don DeLillo's Falling Man "
Mari Ramler, Clemson University
"Elegies for Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner: Forty-five Years After Freedom
Summer"
Jeffrey Coleman, St Mary's College of Maryland
Preservation Hall Studio 4 (2nd Floor)
2133 Fan Culture & Theory IV: Academics in the Middle: Fan/Creator
Interactions
Chair: AmyLea Clemons, Purdue University
"Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Sub-Cultural Politics of an Unwanted
Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers"
Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth
"Paralyzed from the Start: Changing Dialogs Between Creators and Viewers in the
Third Season of LOST"
Meredith King, Bowling Green State University
Allison King, University of Texas at Austin
"Popular and Permanent: The Myth of Transience in Fandom Studies"
AmyLea Clemons
"‘Are We Still ‘Trapped in Space?’: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its Current
Day Offshoots"
Bryce McNeil, Georgia State University
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