2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

SATURDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"Rhetorical Roots of Hip Hop"
Judy L. Isaksen, High Point University
Bacchus (4th Floor)
4085 Mystery & Detective Fiction XI: Cross-Genre
Chair: Marja Mogk, California Lutheran
"Re-Envisioning the British Golden Age of Detective Fiction: Jacqueline
Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Series"
Kathy Anders, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Spenser in Spurs: Robert B. Parker’s Transference to Western Novels"
Donna Waller Harper, Middle Tennessee State
"Private Eyes: The Narrative Function of Blindness in Crime Fiction and Film"
Marja Mogk
Mardi Gras B (3rd Floor)
4086 Professional Development V: Differing Institutions, Differing
Expectations
Chair: Gary Burns, Northern Illinois University
"Community Colleges"
Diane Calhoun-French, Provost, Jefferson Community & Technical College,
Kentucky
"Small Liberal Arts"
Joy Sperling, Denison University
"Regional State"
Gary Burns
Balcony L (4th Floor)
4087 Science Fiction & Fantasy XXIII: Religion, Spirituality, and
Existentialism
Chair: Jim Dalrymple II, Brigham Young University
"Witch Trinity Is It?: An Analysis of the Religious Worldviews Imbedded and
Presented in Charmed"
Shawn Krause-Loner, Syracuse University
"Pop Culture as Spiritual Catalyst in Pixar's WALL-E"
Catherine S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh—Johnstown
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