2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Friday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
St. Charles Suite (41st Floor)
3158 Non-Fiction Writing I: Non-Fiction Writing: Telling Lives
Chair: Dan R. Jones, Texas A&M University-Commerce
FRIDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Autobiographical Impulse: Contemporary Memoirs, 19th Century Sketches, and
the Bounds of Non-Fiction"
Michael R. Dressman, University of Houston-Downtown
"Breathless into the Water: William Cowper's Repudiation of Captain Cook"
Philip D. Castille, University of Hawaii at Hilo
"Tina Fey as Avatar: How Saturday Night Live Redefined the Campaign"
Dan R. Jones
Mardi Gras A (3rd Floor)
3159 Border Culture (Political, Cultural, Geographical) II: Public History:
The Dutch Reception of an American Idea
Chair: Mike Marsden, Saint Norbert College
"The panel will look at the ways that the American idea of Public History has been
received and implemented among professional historians in the Netherlands."
Rob Kroes, Universities of Amsterdam/Utrecht
Hendrik Henrichs, University of Utrecht
Marja Roholl, MIT/ University of Amsterdam
Herman Belien, University of Amsterdam
David Thelen, University of Indiana
Preservation Hall Studio 10 (2nd Floor)
3160 Comedy and Humor V: Meta-Comedy
Chair: Angela Farmer, Auburn University
"Transformational Irony: The Humor of Over-Voicing, Dubbing, and Photo
Manipulation"
Bruce Goebel, Western Washington University
"Does Humor Belong in Music? The Carnivalesque in Frank Zappa"
Sarah Antinora, University of California Riverside
"Jokes, Imaginative Topography, and the Play of Wit"
Chloe Chard, Independent Scholar
"Talk to the Hand: Ventriloquism and the Real"
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