2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Bacchus (4th Floor)
1044 Mystery & Detective Fiction I: Reading and Decoding Narratives
Chair: Andrew Phelps, University of Connecticut
"The Mystery Writer as Criminologist"
Frankie Bailey, University at Albany School of Criminal Justice
WEDNESDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
"Laying Traps for Fools: How J.K. Rowling, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, and
Sophocles Manipulate Narratives to Surprise and Empower Readers"
Marty Knepper, Morningside College
"Dark Doubles in the Crime Fiction of Peter Abrams "
Michael Larsen, Saint Mary’s University
"Questions of Faith: Inquiries into the Spiritual Dimensions of Ian Rankin’s John
Rebus Series"
Andrew Phelps
Balcony I (4th Floor)
1045 Horror (Fiction, Film) II: Horror Genre Aesthetics
Chair: Jim Iaccino, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
"Darkly Deciphering Dexter: The Successful Marriage of Horror and Detection in
Showtime’s Dexter Series"
Heidi Berkowitz, Burlington College
"Sound and Simulacra in American Horror Films"
Jeffrey Bullins, The Art Institute of Atlanta
"The Ghost Hunters Strategy: Searching for Ghosts in All the ‘Right Places’"
Jim Iaccino
Napoleon Suite (41st Floor)
1046 Film & History I: Imagining the 1960s
Chair: Kevin Flanagan, North Carolina State University
"Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Web of Racial, Class, and Gender
Constructions in late 1960s America"
Anne Gray Perrin, Western Kentucky University
"Hurry Sundown: Otto Preminger, Baton Rouge, and Race, 1966-1967"
Thomas Aiello, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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