2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

"Deathdream’s’ Hybrid Horror: The Soldier as Vampire and Living Dead"
Joyce Thomas, Castleton State College
"Conservative Gothicism: The Effect of Creolization"
James Callahan, Northwestern State University
Balcony N (4th Floor)
3015 Music XI: Rap and Hip-Hop
Chair: Linta Varghese, Vassar College
"Australian Hip Hop and Contemporary Political Activism"
Alex Kaiser, University of Melbourne
"Exploitation or Agency: Women, Sexuality, and Hip Hop"
Jessica Parker, Metropolitan State College of Denver
FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
"’I’ve got the bombs to make you blow / I’ve got the beats to make you bang’: The
Hybrid Aesthetic of M.I.A and Her Cultural Political Practice "
Yiorgos Boudouris, University of Calgary
"’They Wanna Check My Papers, See What I Carry Around’: M.I.A., Bird Flu, and
Fear of a Global Planet"
Linta Varghese, Vassar College
Preservation Hall Studio 1 (2nd Floor)
3016 Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming) IV: What Cowboys
and Murderers Can Teach Your Students
Chair: Lynnea Chapman King, Butler Community College
"‘What you got ain’t nothing new’: Intertextuality, the Western, and the Problem of
Resolution in No Country for Old Men "
Jimmy Gilmore, University of South Carolina
"What Film Adaptation Can Do that Literary Criticism Can, too (and Vice Versa)"
Glenn Jellenik, University of South Carolina
"Simple Plans in the Bedroom: The Pedagogy of Murder in Films by Sam Raimi
and Todd Field"
Jim Everett, Mississippi College
"Parody, Homage, and the Kitchen Sink: Adapting Genre in Ed Harris' Appaloosa"
Lynnea Chapman King
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