2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

SATURDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Lions and Hobbits and Science: Oh My! Using J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in
the Science Classroom"
Kristine Larsen
Iberville (4th Floor)
4136 Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books IV: Marriage, Biography and
Detectives
Chair: Pamela Bedore, University of Connecticut
"Marital Meanderings, Illicit Affairs, Murder and Mayhem! Real Life Stories from
the Dime Novel World"
Lydia Schurman, Emerita, Northern Virginia Community College
"Becoming American: Alger’s Treatment of Marriage"
Kyoko Amano, University of Indianapolis
"Piety, Politics, Pathos: The Life and Works of Phebe Harris Phelps "
Deidre Johnson, West Chester University
"Stealing a White Elephant: Mark Twain's Response to Dime Novel Detectives"
Pamela Bedore
Balcony I (4th Floor)
4137 Horror (Fiction, Film) XII: Horror Responds To Issues of Class
Chair: Michele Braun, Northeastern University
"It's So Hard to Get Good Help These Days: Zombies as a Culturally Stabilizing
Force in Fido (2006)"
Michele Braun
"Headcheese and a Side of Benjamin: Aura and (Mis)Representation in The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre (1974)'s Working-Class Gaze"
Jerry Metz, University of Maryland, College Park
"The Fangs of Aristocracy: Dracula & the Great Depression"
Robert Wilson, Cedar Crest College
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
4138 Gender & Media Studies XII: Gender, Television and the Internet in
Popular Culture
Chair: Lauren, B. Kulesza, Ohio State University
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