2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Chair: Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
"Providence’s Sylvester S. Southworth: Editor and Publisher"
Louise E. Wright, Independent Scholar
THURSDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"‘Robbed of Her Virtue, Robbed of Her Money, and Even of the Rings on Her
Fingers’: Maine Factory Girls Fiction as Cautionary Tale"
Elizabeth DeWolfe, University of New England
"The Color of Incest: Sexual Abuse, Racial Anxiety, and Postwar Family in Peyton
Place"
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson, Rivier College
"A Tale of Three City Teams: The Color Line and the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins"
Mark Herlihy, Endicott College
Regent (4th Floor)
2170 Tarot in Culture III: Deck Innovations
Chair: Emily Auger, Independent Scholar
"Ancient Goddesses, Modern Cards: Changing Concepts of Female Figures in
Tarot"
Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U
"Getting the Faeries out of the Baptismal Font: The Faeries Oracle by Brian Froud"
Jessi Wilson, Southern Illinois U
"Pirate Tarot for a Pirate Culture"
Bruce Hersch, Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara
"Examining the Collaboration and Innovation of the Crowley-Thoth Tarot"
Richard Kaczynski, Yale U
Balcony K (4th Floor)
2171 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film VII: Something Wicked?
Hmph—Debatable! What’s Happening to our Vampires?
Chair: Matthew Carter, Auburn University
"Lions, and Tigers, and Vampires?: Wickedness Gets a Facelift"
Matthew Carter, Auburn University
"The Soul of a Vampire: From Carmilla to Edward Cullen"
Jennifer Alberico, Community College of Vermont
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