2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
Mardi Gras G&H (3rd Floor)
3017 Romance II: Romance Authorship 2: Theories and Practices
Chair: Darcy Martin, East Tennessee State University
"Romancing History, Historicizing Romance: The Practice of History through
Romance Fiction"
Lauren Willig, Harvard University
"Don’t bother me! I’m living MY Happily Ever After: A Heuristic Inquiry into the
Experience of Personal Happiness for Career Romance-genre Writers"
Karen Henry, Capella University
"Romance Divas: Understanding an Online Romance Writing community"
Crystal Goldman, University of Utah
"The Transition from Reader to Writer: Romance Fiction Authors’ Organizations"
Glen Thomas, Queensland University of Technology
Preservation Hall Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
3018 Women's Studies IX: Reconciling the Gendered Body/Identity
Chair: Pamela B. Rodgers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"The Letter 'S' Around Her Neck: The Paradox of Shame and Pride in the Novels of
Cisneros, Danticat, and Allende"
Ginny Mercier, William Carey University
"Reading Lucy Grealy: Authenticity and Survival in Women’s Narrative"
Sarah Carnahan, Ohio State University
"Bodily Fragmentation and Matrilineal Healing in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora"
Pamela B. Rodgers
Mardi Gras E (3rd Floor)
3019 Popular Art, Architecture & Design VIII: The Art of ...
Chair: Ann-Sargent Wooster, School of Visual Arts
"Curating Kinkade: The Ballad of Jeffrey Vallance"
Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Emporia State University
"Human Likeness: The Portrayal of the Taboo and Strange"
Elaine A. King, Carnegie Mellon University
"The Moral Imperative of Looking in the Paintings of Winslow Homer"
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