2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Saturday, 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Bonaparte (4th Floor)
4056 Folklore I:
Chair: Lisa Abney, Northwestern State University
SATURDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"‘Back in the woods, over there. . .’: Deixis and Other Discourse Markers in Close
Call and Danger Stories among Louisiana Loggers and Timber Workers"
Lisa Abney
"Barbecue: The (Baby) Backbone of Sociality in the South"
Amanda LaRoche, Northwestern State University
"From Toothache Trees to Castor Oil: A Conversation with Delma Perot"
W. Charlene LeBrun, Northwestern State University
"‘This Was Their Life’: Life Celebrations as a Cultural Trend in Modern American
Deathways"
Shane Rasmussen, Northwestern State University
Galvez (5th Floor)
4057 Undergraduate Session IV: Literature and Visual Media
Chair: Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College
"Discomfort and Empathy in Rineke Dijkstra's Portraits of Adolescences"
Alyssa Ashdown, University of South Carolina Upstate
"Beyond the Gaze: Eroticization and Identification with Lara Croft"
Kaitlin Clinnin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club: Transgressions within Masculinity"
Rebecca Cox, Shawnee State University
"Happy Golden Days of Yore: A Cultural and Thematic Analysis of Meet Me in St.
Louis"
Jessamyn Sudhakaran, Shawnee State University
"Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of
Homosexuality in Transnational Boys' Love Manga"
Neal Akatsuka, University of Hawaii at Manoa
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor)
4058 Sports IX: Sports: Heroes
Chair: D. Gregory Sapp, Stetson University
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