2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"Books and Articles"
Kristi Ward, Greenwood Press
Deb Carmichael, The Journal of Popular Culture, Michigan State University
Joe Hancock, Guest Editor, Journal of American Culture
Balcony L (4th Floor)
3115 Dance Culture VII: Progressive Traditions
Chair and Respondent: Chair: Kent De Spain, University of Texas Austin
"'Dance from the Exotic Shores of England': Constructions of Englishness in New
English Folk Dance"
Trish Winter, University of Sunderland
“Talent, Technique, and the Virtual Body: Recreating 'So You Think You Can
Dance' Online”
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A & M University
"Omitting the Secret Ingredient: Ritual Dance for Secular Consumption in Cuba and
the Rio Grande Pueblos"
Suki John, Texas Christian University
"Transmitting a New Tradition: Modernity, Contemporaneity, and 'Shankar-style'"
Joan Erdman, Columbia College, Chicago
St. Charles Suite (41st Floor)
3116 Civil War & Reconstruction III: Disability and the Civil War
Chair: John Anthony Casey, Jr., University of Illinois, Chicago
"Contemplating Altered Manhood: Confederate Soldiers, Amputation and Male
Identity in the Civil War Era"
Brian Miller, Emporia State University
"My Hospital Bed Was Not a Bed of Roses: The Grim Reality of Civil War Nursing
in Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches"
Nicole Russo, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Combating Illness in Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty "
John Casey, Jr.
Mardi Gras G & H (3rd Floor)
3117 Television XI: Cops and Hoppers: Characters in Critical Contexts on
HBO’s The Wire
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