2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
"’I think you’re kind of missing the whole ‘Poop-Head’ principle here’ or Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Superhero of the Status Quo"
Jenny Caneen, Florida State University
"I Date Dead People: Buffy, Bella, and the Lure of the Dead Boyfriend"
Ruth Caillouet, Clayton State University
Napoleon Suite (41st Floor)
3036 Film & History V: Politics and Culture of the Cold War Era on Film
Chair: Shawn Selby, Walsh University
"Generation Hughes: How 1980s Teen Films Shaped the Minds of Reagan Era
Youths"
MaryAlice Adams, Louisiana Tech University
"Varsity Visigoths in a Stucco Rome: Where the Boys Are, Fort Lauderdale, and the
Making of Spring Break"
Meeghan Kane, University of South Carolina
"Chilly Cinema: Critical Response to Four Cold War Films"
Shawn Selby
Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
3037 Ecology & Culture III: Dogs and Humans in Literature
Chair: Margaret O'Shaughnessey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Snarling Rhetoric: Sport Hunting and Heretic Hunting in Thomas More's
Polemical Works"
Andrew Smyth, Southern Connecticut State University
"Virginia Woolf's Flush: Collared and Chained in the City"
Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University
"Levinas in Saramago's CAVE: Animal Recognition and Human Being"
Ziba Rashidian, Southeastern Louisiana University
Bacchus (4th Floor)
3038 Mystery & Detective Fiction VII: Noir and Social Commentary
Chair: Lesley Anne Jennings, Florida State University
"Punishment and its Effects: Poe, Doyle, and the Early Hard-Boiled Detective
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