2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

WEDNESDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
Jennie Morton
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
1006 Gender Studies I: Myths, Mysteries and Subversion
Chair: Jackie Amorim, University of Florida
"Out of the Coffin and into the Kitchen: Foucault, Family, and Sexual Subversion in
Alan Ball’s True Blood"
Donna Souder , Colorado State University-Pueblo
Kevin Van Winkle, Colorado State University-Pueblo
"Listen to the Words of the Great Mother: Invoking the Power of the Sacred
Feminine"
Skylar Bre’z, Ohio State University
"The Lilith Spirit: Myth-making and Feminism in The Yellow Book"
Jackie Amorim
Balcony I (4th Floor)
1007 Horror (Fiction, Film) I: Spirituality, Prophecy and Apocalypse in the
Horror Genre
Chair: Jasie Stokes, Brigham Young University
"Horror, Hyperbole, and Prophecy in The Happening"
Tracy Dillon, Portland State University
"Shrouding the Dead: The Hollywood Obfuscation of Eastern Spirituality in
Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend"
Christopher Moreman, California State University, East Bay
"The Zombie Apocalypse: Desecration and Revelation in Zombie Culture"
Jasie Stokes
Preservation Hall Studio 5 (2nd Floor)
1008 Libraries, Archives, Museums, & Popular Research I: Image: Analysis
and Control
Chair: Allen Ellis, Northern Kentucky University
"Beyond the Stacks: Shifting Images of the Librarian in Popular Media"
Jamie M. Graham, New York University School of Medicine
Sara A. Brallier, Coastal Carolina University
"The Image of the Librarian in Advertising"
Kathrin Dodds, Texas Tech University
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