2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

SATURDAY
4:30– 6:00 P.M.
Saturday, 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
Bacchus (4th Floor)
4122 Mystery & Detective Fiction XIII: Women Detectives, Women Writers
Chair: William Klink, College of Southern Maryland
"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night and I Didn’t Have a Thing to Wear: Women
Mystery Writers, Serial Sleuths, and the Smoking Gun of Pop Culture"
Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama
"Silent Witness: Body as Site of Community in Charlaine Harris’ Grave Site"
Adrienne Forman, Texas A&M University
"The New Woman and the Lady Detective in Orczy’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard"
Ellen Harrington, University of Southern Alabama
"The Staged Feminism of Grafton’s Kinsey"
William Klink
Galvez (5th Floor)
4123 Undergraduate Session II: Americana and Politics
Chair: Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College
"Homo/genous Territories: Queer Youth and the Struggle for Public Space in
Chicago's Boystown"
John Robert Thompson, Columbia College Chicago
"Beach Postcards in American History"
Rebecca Angelo-Hertzog, Immaculata University
"Historicizing Postcards"
Lindley Rittweger, Rosemont College
"The Economic Dimension of the Phenomenon of Whiteness in The Economist
Print Advertisement"
Agnieszka Smelkowska-Black Wolf, Columbia College - Sonora
Beauregard (5 th Floor)
4124 Science Fiction & Fantasy XXV: Cognitive Estrangement: Language as
Science Fiction's Most Powerful Technology
Chair: Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering
"Language and Hegemony: Three Science Fiction Texts and a Critique"
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