2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

WEDNESDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
Audubon (5th Floor)
1086 Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory II: (Against) Types &
(Political) Identity
Chair: Scott Baugh, Texas Tech University
"Ugly Betty Revises Telenovela Genre to Accommodate Gender Queer Identities"
Amara Graf, University of Texas at Austin
"The Token Ethnic Girl: Playing Against Type in Ugly Betty"
Laura Valdez-Pagliaro, Marymount
"SiTV: After the Brothers Garcia"
Henry Puente, California State University-Fullerton
"Meddling Mothers: Machismo Political Identity Interrupted in Latino Culture"
Rosa Soto, William Paterson University
Mardi Gras G&H (3rd Floor)
1087 Television III: Ward, Something’s Wrong with the Beaver: Mad Men, the
American Dream, and TV’s Depiction of the Fifties and Sixties
Chair: Sandra Sprows, Suffolk County Community College
"Beaver Noire: The Darker Side of Leave It to Beaver and the Middle-Class in Late
Fifties/Early Sixties America"
Peter Seely, Benedictine University
"Breaking Containment: Contemporary Media’s Depiction of the 1950s and 1960s"
Kyra Glass von der Osten, Michigan State University
"Being Don Draper: AMC’s Mad Men as Time Machine"
Sandra Sprows
Balcony J (4th Floor)
1088 Stephen King II: The King of Potpourri—Names, Death, Fairy Tales, and
Time
Chair: John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University
"Playing the Name Game with Stephen King"
Jay Nelson, Monroe Community College
"The Purloined Terror: Death in Stephen King's Pet Sematary"
Joseph Holmes, San Francisco State University
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