2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
Momaday’s House Made of Dawn"
Billy Stratton, Bowling Green State University
"The Figure of the Indian Cowboy in John Milton Oskison’s Work"
Lionel Larré, University of Bordeaux, France
"Teaching Maurice Kenny’s Fiction: Dislocated Characters, Narrators, and
Readers"
Karen Gibson, SUNY-Potsdam
"The Emergent Indian Whodunit Trope in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and
Frances Washburn’s Elsie’s Business"
Constance Bracewell, University of Arizona
La Galerie 2 (2nd Floor)
3046 Communication & Digital Culture III: Transgression 2.0
Chair: David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University
"Hacking the News: Transgressing Performative Control Systems"
Ted Gournelos, Maryville University of St Louis
"Attention Will Be Paid; Social Media and the Economy of Distraction"
Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine
"Global Capitalism as Art: The Case of Brendan Lott’s Non-memory"
Grant Kien, California State University East Bay
"Breaking Conventions: Political Video Mashups as Transgressive Texts"
Richard L. Edwards, Indiana University
Mardi Gras B (3rd Floor)
3047 Eastern European Studies V: Eastern Europe Studies: Getaways in
Communist Eastern Europe, Part 2
Chair: Cate Giustino, Auburn University
"The Last Refuge: Drinking Cultures and State Power in Communist
Czechoslovakia"
T. Mills Kelly, George Mason University
"Communist Summer Camp: Getting away from it all in the GDR at Camp
Mitschurin"
Catherine Plum, Western New England College
"It’s the Journey, not the Destination: Hitchhiking as Getaway in Communist
Poland"
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