2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

“Istanbul Fantasies in A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”
Naz Bulamur, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
FRIDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
“A Flawed Reflection: Victorian Society as Shown in Oscar Wilde's The Happy
Prince and Other Tales"
Emmanuel Sabaiz, California State University, Northridge
"From Helpless Jacky to Plucky Jack: Redefining the Hero in De Lint's Jack of
Kinrowan"
Linda Holland-Toll, Mount Olive College
“'We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?’: Diagnosing
and Examining the Role of Fairy Tale Imagery Within Grey’s Anatomy"
Jennifer Woolston
Audubon (5th Floor)
3110 Latin American Literature & Culture III: Latin American Literature
and Culture III
Chair: Patricia Montilla, Western Michigan University
"Contaminating the Body Politic: Eco-Corporeality in The Guardians and Under
the Feet of Jesus."
Maria Alicia Garza, Boise State University
“Nature and the Discourse of Modernity in Avant-Garde Fiction.”
Adrian Kane, Boise State University
“Coexistence of Folk and Popular Culture as Vehicles of Social and Historical
Activism: Transformation of the Bumba-meu-Boi in Northeast Brazil”
Meredith Watts and Simone Ferro,
“Popular Ecologies of Disaster: Drought and the Culture of Survival in Northeastern
Brazil.”
Mark Anderson, University of Georgia
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
3111 Gender & Media Studies VI: Women, Film and Popular Culture
Chair: Kristen Lambert, Independent Scholare
"Women and Violence in Film and Television Comedy"
Rachel S. Hawley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
"‘I'm A Better Whore than a Secretary’: Gender, Race, Class, and Region in Dolly
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