2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

WEDNESDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
Jay Gaspar, Brenau University
Preservation Hall Studio 10 (2nd Floor)
1058 Comedy and Humor II: Varieties of Comedy
Chair: Mark Baumgartner, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
"Screwball with a Twist: Situational Comedies and the Dysfunctional Family"
Elliot Berger, Independent Scholar
"’Rules for the Unruly’: Female Comedians and the View"
Mariam Esseghaier, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
"’Yahoo for School!’: The Lessons of Billy Madison"
Erin Delaney, California State University, Northridge
"Tall Tales and Parenticide: Satire and Black Humor in the Works of Ambrose
Bierce"
Mark Baumgartner
Galvez (5th Floor)
1059 Academics & Collegiate Culture II: Intellectuals, Education and America
Under the Influence
Chair: Betty Ramey
"Popular Culture as a Source of Epistemic Authority in Undergraduate Research"
Doug Downs, Montana State University
"Academics and Intellectuals in Post-Rational America"
Bryn Upton, McDaniel College
"Popular Parodoxes about Higher Education in American Culture"
Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University
"In Agnus Scott We Trust: A Case of Civil Religion in Higher Education"
Katherine Newburg, Agnes Scott University
Preservation Hall Studio 1 (2nd Floor)
1060 Adolescence in Film & Television II: Adolescents and Contemporary
Cinema
Chair: Virginia Gregg, Heidelberg University
"Audiencing Intelligence: How Adolescents Understand Representations of High
School Students in Contemporary American Films"
Jennifer Dorsey, Harvard University
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