2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

2185 Mystery & Detective Fiction VI: International Investigations
Chair: John Scaggs, Southwestern College
THURSDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Danger, Eccentricity, and Resolution in the Offbeat Universe of French Crime
Fiction Novelist, Fred Vargas"
Carol Bere, Independent Scholar
"The Outsider in Norwegian Society: The Detective Fiction of Karin Fossum"
Amy Hausser, Midlands Technical College
"Crime and Culture: The New International Police Novel"
Deane Mansfield, University of Texas at El Paso
"More Like a Ghost than a Man: The Liminal World of the Investigator Yashim
Novels"
John Scaggs
Bonaparte (4th Floor)
2186 Medieval Popular Culture II: Transforming the Medieval
Chair: Constance Wagner, Saint Peter's College
"Impure Songs: Music and Morality in Early Medieval Christianity and Islam"
Lisa Nielson, University of Maine, Orono
"Arresting Strangeness: Fantasy Fulfilled in The Lord of the Rings Onstage"
Constance Wagner
"Beowulf and the (Sequential) Art of War"
David W. Marshall, California State University
"Putting the Grail Back in Grrl Power: How a Girl Saved Camelot (without even
getting medieval on anyone’s ass) and Why It Matters"
Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University
Galvez (5th Floor)
2187 Festivals & Faires I: Where There are No Footlights: Participants as
Performers
Chair: Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans, University of Arizona
"Jedi, Trekkers, and Characters-You-Can't-Identify, oh my: Social Identity and the
New York ComicCon"
Jen Gunnels, Independent Scholar
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