2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Chair: Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College
FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
"'There's No Such Thing as the West Anymore!': The West in Sam Shepard's True
West"
Carol Westcamp, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
"Elmer Kelton's Hispanic Texas in Massacre at Goliad"
John Donahue, Concordia University
"The Bride, the Cowboy, and Dame Shirley: Three Views of the Nineteenth
Century West"
Kathy S. Mason, The University of Findlay
"From 'Soiled Doves' to Outlaw Queens: Those B-Western Girls You Don't Take
Home to Mother!"
Cynthia J. Miller
Preservation Hall Studio 10 (2nd Floor)
3010 Children's Literature & Culture V: Disney
Chair: Jessica McKee, University of South Florida
"Stars versus Rainbows: Walt Disney’s and Jim Henson’s ‘Philosophies of
Childhood’"
Brenda McDermott, University of Calgary
"Disney's Deception: Representing Gender and Nature through Film and Song,"
Liz Kickak, University of South Florida
Taylor Mitchell, University of South Florida
Jessica McKee
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor)
3011 Sports V: Baseball I
Chair: James Vlasich, Southern Utah University
"DC: Baseball’s First Family"
Brett L. Abrams, Washington, D.C.
"Maud Nelson – Baseball’s Forgotten Pioneer"
John Kovach, Saint Mary’s College
"Mel Ott of Gretna"
Pete Williams, County College of Morris
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