2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
"White News in Indian Country: Objectivity and the Subtle Preservation of Power"
Martin Lang, Gustavus Adolphus College
Lafayette Suite (41st Floor)
2009 Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics I: Makin’ and Breakin’ the
Rules
Chair: Patricia Donaher, Missouri Western State University
"Authorial Anonymity: First Person Plural Pronouns and Collective Identity in
Alcoholics Anonymous "
A. Abby Jones, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Old Whine Online: Prescriptive-Grammar Sites on the Internet"
Deborah Schaffer, Montana State University-Billings
"’Say it ain't so!': A Corpus-based Analysis of Ain't in Recent Spoken Media"
Patricia Donaher
Audubon (5th Floor)
2010 Latin American Literature & Culture I
Chair: Patricia Montilla, Western Michigan University
"Globality in Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s La Orilla Africana "
Marcie Noble, Western Michigan University
"Boyerismo, erotismo y la experiencia estética en ‘El gato’ de Juan García Ponce"
Hallie E. Savage, University of Wisconsin
"Marketing Memory in Argentina: On account of testimony and Holocaust, the case
of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number by Jacobo Timerman"
Djurdja Trajkovic, University of Wisconsin
Regent (4th Floor)
2011 Literature & Madness I: Existential, Water, Hare, and Mad Men-Women
Chair: Branimir M. Rieger, Lander University
"Existential Anomie Madness in the Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There "
Branimir Rieger
"Water and Madness in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Day "
Russ Pottle, Regis College
John DiGaetani, Hofstra University
"Mad Men-and Women-in Battlestar Galactica "
Eugene Miller, Appalachian State University
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