2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
Bonaparte (4th Floor)
3012 Arthurian Legends IV: Refiguring Arthurian Personae
Chair: Jo Goyne, Southern Methodist University
“Quest of the Eternal Adolescent: The Percival of Chrétien de Troyes and Jim
Hunter”
Jane Minogue, California State University, Northridge
“Percival Munn's Grail Quest: Robert Penn Warren and Arthurian Literature”
Leverett Butts, Georgia Military College
“‘Tis Folly to be Wise’: Merlin and Vivian in E.A. Robinson's Merlin”
Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University
“Bearing the Royal Seed: The Body of Mordred's Mother in Feminist Fiction”
Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College
Preservation Hall Studio 8 (2nd Floor)
3013 The Body and Physical Difference V: Image and Body Function(s)
Chair: Lori Duin Kelly, Carroll College
"Eating Disorders are Vain: A Feminist Perspective"
Natasha Synicky, Connecticut State University
"An Ethics of Smell: Revelations of the Bodies of the Other in Faulkner's Light in
August\ and Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera"
Terri Ruckel, William Carey University
"Chamber Pots, Close-Stools and Commodes"
Danielle McGeough, Louisiana State University
"The Furnaces of Life: Metaphor and the Body in 19th Century America"
Skylar Harris, SUNY-UB
Regent (4th Floor)
3014 Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture II: Contemporary Stylings
Chair: Richard Keitel, Point Park University
"Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein: The Musical"
Richard Keitel, Point Park University
"The Gothic Subtext in Housseini's The Kite Runner"
Rehana Whatley, Oakwood University
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