2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Responsibilities Large and Small: Groups, Ethics, and the Transnational in Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
Vivian Kao
Balcony I (4th Floor)
2190 Horror (Fiction, Film) VIII: Poe and Friends: Denial of Death,
Disappearing Women, Monstrous Protagonists
Chair: Carl Sederholm, Brigham Young University
"The Talking Dead: Valdemar's Tongue and the Denial of Death"
Ben Bigelow, Brigham Young University
"The Monstrous Protagonist: Poe, Lovecraft, Matheson"
Bryce Evans, Brigham Young University
"Female Characterization in Poe and Hitchcock"
Dani Smith, Brigham Young University
Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
2191 Ecology & Culture II: Animals and Humans in Literature
Chair: Margaret O'Shaughnessey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Animal Hunger, Human Food: Paradoxical Obsession in Life of Pi and Bridget
Jones’s Diary "
Tessa Brannon, Norhwestern State University
"Intersecting Identities: Hybrids in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Garnett's
Lady Into Fox"
Candice Kent, Clare College, University of Cambridge
"The Animal and the Trace of Morality"
Andrea Spain, University of Buffalo
"Moby Dick's Infinite Bits"
Alan Lovegreen, University of California, Riverside
St. Charles Suite (41st Floor)
2192 Vietnam V: Symbols
Chair: Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University
"Symbols of Pride and the War that Won't End: Part XIV."
Paul Daum, New England College
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