2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
Victoria Somogyi, Independent Scholar
"Here Be Dragons: Structural Ambiguity in Interactive Dark Rides"
Randy Nichols, Clemson University
"In Space, No One Can Let You Pause: Dead Space and Diagetic Gameplay"
Nicholas Ware
Mardi Gras C (3rd Floor)
3132 Subcultural Style & Identity II:
Chair: Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
"Suicide Girls and Subcultural Style"
Jennifer Waluta, University of Wyoming
"The Fracture of Counterculture"
Michael and Van Dyk Gluck and Lewis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
"The Style of Ultra Violence: Youth Subcultures and Style in Anthony Burgess: A
Clockwork Orange"
Emily Carpenter, University of Southern Mississippi
"Queer Sensibilities and Subcultural Style"
Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney Australia
Regent (4th Floor)
3133 Romance III: The Politics of Romance 1: Sex, Class, Race, Place
Chair: Darcy Martin, East Tennessee State University
"Complicating the Capitalist: Money and Marriage in Judith McNaught’s
Contemporary Novels"
Jayashree Kamble, University of Minnesota
"Georgette Heyer v. Cathy Maxwell: A Comparative Discussion of Class in the
Regency Romance"
Maryan Wherry, Black Hawk College
"Contemporary Black Romance Novels and the Politics of Representation"
Julie Moody-Freeman, DePaul University
"Rip My Bodice: Sex-Positive Culture and the Romance Novel Today"
Catherine Roach , University of Alabama
Preservation Hall Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
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