2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

SATURDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"Sunshining: Danny Boyle’s Existential Response to the Science Fiction Genre"
Jim Dalrymple II
Mardi Gras G&H (3rd Floor)
4088 Television XV: Power or No Power? That is the Postfeminist Question
Chair: Trenia Walker, Washington State University Vancouver
"Wicked: Witchcraft and Feminism"
Andrea Campbell, St. Thomas University
Mary Carter Waren, St Thomas University
"You Want Me To Be Rough?: The Deterioration of Female Power in
Contemporary Television"
Erin Smith, University of Southern Mississippi
“The Male Gaze, Female Spectatorship and The Golden Girls”
Gary Fayman, Emerson College
"Postfeminist Men and the Women Who Love Them[selves]"
Trenia Walker
Mardi Gras F (3rd Floor)
4089 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film--Buffy: Roundtable
Discussion 3 Angel
Chair: Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College
"The highly successful spin-off, Angel, is often read as a coda to the original Buffy
the Vampire Slayer. This discussion seeks to analyze Angel as either spawn of or
superseding its originator. "
Sarah Pierce, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Joy Sperling, Denison University
Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College
La Galerie 5 (2 nd Floor)
4090 Religion & Culture IV
Chair: Ingrid Shafer, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
"Through Hazel Eyes: Introducing Hazel Brannon Smith, The First Woman to Win
the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Who Preached in the Front Page of Her
Newspaper"
Wendy Reed, The University of Alabama
315