2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Collette Caton, Syracuse University
WEDNESDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Grassroots and Online Communities: How Obama's Campaign Video ‘Keating
Economics’ Challenges Traditional Grassroots Organizations"
Byron Fong, University of Texas - Austin
"Independent Reflections on Political Elections: Problems of Access"
Brooke Dagnan, Eastern Michigan University
"The Politics of Celebrity or the Celebrity of Politics: The Casting of the 2008 U.S.
Presidential Campaign"
Julie D. O'Reilly, Heidelberg University
Marc J. O'Reilly, Heidelberg University
Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
1066 Poetry Studies II: Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry II
Chair: Danielle Newton, Green River Community College
"Poe's 'Annabel Lee' as a Blues Song"
Jacky Dumas, The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
"Original Poetry"
Michael Dennison, American University of Beruit
"Original Poetry"
Marthe Reed, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Original Poetry"
Amanda Hash, Missouri Western University
"Walk with Me, God: Religiosity as Companion in Mary Oliver's 'The Truro Bear'
and 'Red Bird'"
Danielle Newton
Preservation Hall Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
1067 Comic Art & Comics III: Historical Perspectives Strike Back
Chair: Nicole Freim, Riverside Community College
"Searching for Meaning in ‘The Death of Superman’"
Joseph Darowski, Michigan State University
"The Stunted Evolution of Graphic Storytelling in America"
Alex Alkana, California State University Long Beach
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