CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference is being held on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Bowling Green is approximately 26 miles south of Toledo and 62 miles south of Detroit on Interstate 75. U.S. Route 6 abuts the south side of the city.

LOCATIONS OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Friday sesions will be held in the University Union on the west side of campus.
Saturday sessions will be held in Olscamp Hall on the mid-north side of campus.

HOUSING
Housing arrangements should be made directly with the motels listed below. Room rates range between $40 and $60 per night. The motels are listed from nearest to farthest from campus, but all are within a 5 to 10 minute walk from the campus shuttle.

University Union Motel (on campus)

419-372-2741

Best Western Falcon Plaza Motel

1-800-528-1234

Days Inn

1-800-DAYS-INN

Quality Inn and Suites

419-352-2521

Buckeye Budget Motor Inn

419-352-1520

PARKING
Registered guests at the University Union's hotel receive free parking along with their room fee. Additional parking for Friday is available in the visitor parking lot located at the Visitors Information Center in Lot 20. The Visitors Center is in front of the football stadium as you exit I-75. A shuttle bus leaves from the Center approximately every 10 minutes and will take you to the Union and to a stop near Olscamp Hall. On Saturday you can park on campus without a permit, but you will need to feed the meters in metered lots.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration fees are as follows:

Professional pre-registration, $40

Professional registration at conference, $45

Student pre-registration, $30

Student registration at conference, $35

Saturday Luncheon (by November 11), $5

Airport transportation, $40

Please be sure to check in at the conference registration tables when you arrive so that you can get your name tag. The registration areas for MPCA/MACA are:

Friday: University Union, third floor lobby (8:00am to 5:30pm)

Saturday: Olscamp Hall, main lobby, first floor (8:00am to 4:00pm)

COMPLIMENTARY REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary refreshments will be served in the MPCA/MACA registration areas in the University Union and Olscamp Hall. On both Friday and Saturday, coffee, decaf, tea, juice, and breakfast niceties will be served from 8:00am to 10:00am. In the afternoons, between 2:00pm and 4:00pm, soft drinks and juices will be served.

Jerome Library’s Reception and Tours
FRIDAY 12-3 p.m.
Jerome LibraryConference Room (150 A)
(Free with conference registration)
BGSU’s Jerome Library is hosting a coffee and fingerfoods reception in conjunction with small-group tours of the Popular Culture Library, the Sound Recordings Archive, and the Center for Archival Collections. Tours are limited. Please sign up for tours at MPCA/MACA’s registration area in the University Union.

Special Guest Artist: VALERIE CARIS

FRIDAY 6-7:30 p.m.
Community Suite, University Union, third floor
(Free with conference registration)
Boston performance artist Valerie Caris will perform her sideshow/striptease work “Hey Mister, Looking for Any Company?” See program for further details.

MPCA/MACA Reception for Valerie Caris

FRIDAY 7:30 - 9 p.m.
Alumni Room, University Union, third floor
(Free with conference registration)
Come meet Valerie Caris and the MPCA/MACA executive staff. Food for every taste and a cash bar.

MPCA/MACA LUNCHEON

SATURDAY 12:30 -2:15 p.m.
Community Suite, University Union, third floor
($5 register by 11/11)
This luncheon/reception offers food for every taste, plus a special discussion by Paul Rich (Chair of the Endowment Committee of the Popular Culture Association), PCA President Nancy Talburt, and PCA/ACA co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer Ray Browne. Please see the program for further details.

Postmodern Television and Film
Alumni Room, Union
Friday 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.
AV: VCR and monitor

Wade Jennings (English-- Ball State University) and Chris Shea (Classics, Ball State University), “Not on the Same Page: Duelling Narratives in the American Films of Paul Verhoeven.”

Chair: Amy E. Shoultz (American Civilization--University of Texas at Austin), “Talk, Talk, Talk: Talkshows, Postmodernism and the Public Sphere.”

Sports I: Baseball

Faculty Lounge, Union

Friday 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

Philip A. Grant, Jr. (Pace University), “The Cincinnati Reds and the World Series.”

Morey Lewis (History--Michigan State University), “The Evolution of the Black Pitcher.”

Chair: Ray Schuck, Jr. (American Studies--Michigan State University), “Albert Belle and the American Public.”

Architecture, Public Space, and Historical Sites

Community Suite, Union

Friday 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Anne Elizabeth Moore (Art History, Theory, and Criticism--School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “Chicago’s Very Own Navy Pier: Public Space and Delayed Gratification.”

Rudolph Alvarado (Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village), “The Henry Ford Birthplace: A Unifying of Interpretive Elements.”

Chair: Michael Alcorn (College of Architecture--University of Nevada Las Vegas), “Building the Nineteenth Century House.”

Women’s Fiction/Culture in the Victorian Age

Ohio Suite, Union

Friday 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

Chair: Tamara Powell (English--Bowling Green State University), “Post-Civil War Feminism in E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the Madcap.”

Anita M. Vickers (English--Penn State University), “Psychological Vampirism or Phantasmagoria: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s ‘Luella Miller.’”

Shawn D. Kimmel (History and Philanthropic Studies--Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis), “Maternal Associations, Domesticity, and Women’s Role in Constructing a Nineteenth-Century Regime of Cultural Discipline.”

Hearts and Hats: Musical Images of Romance and Headgear

Taft Room, Union

Friday 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

Chair: B. Lee Cooper (History--University of Great Falls), “Romance Remembered: Love Songs of the World War II Era.”

William L. Schurk (Sound Recordings Archive--Bowling Green State University), “Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet: Wearin’ Hats in Popular Song.”

Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat Series

Alumni Room, Union

FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Kathy Wasil (Library School--University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Why 1990s Young Adult Novels Need Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat Series.”

Maria Lowe (Ypsilanti Public Library), “Matters of Myth and Mysticism in Francisca Lia Block’s Coming-of-Age Novels.”

Chair: Harry Eiss (English--Eastern Michigan University), “A Comparison of Postmodern Aspects of the Weetzie Bat Series and Pulp Fiction.”

Fashion and Sex Toys

Faculty Lounge, Union

FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

Chair: Mary Alice Adams (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Kick Ass Shitkickers.”

Murray L. Resinski, “Codpieces: Fashion Theory and the Story.”

Carl B. Holmberg (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Sex Toys: The Semiotics of Pleasure.”

Sports II: Scandals

Community Suite, Union

FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Chair: Doug Noverr (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “Playing ‘with the faith of fifty million people’? The Response of the Print Media to the Black Sox Scandal.”

Mark Howell (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “Biting the Hand That Feeds You: Cheating and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.”

Typical Americans and Americanisms in Fiction, Music, and Drama

Taft Room, Union

FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

Chair: Robert W. Hamblin (Center for Faulkner Studies--Southeast Missouri State University), “‘Did You Ever Have a Sister?: Faulkner’s Quentin Compson and Salinger’s Holden Caulfield.”

Denise Pilmer Taylor (University of Michigan), “Jazz à Deux Pianos: Americanisms in the Career of Wiéner and Doucet.”

Thomas E. Jones (Speech-Theatre--Coastal Carolina University), “Lanford Wilson’s America, A View of the Talleys.”

Paradigms and Praxis

Ohio Suite, Union

FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: Overhead Projector

Richard I. Falvo (Indiana University), “Listener Motivation and Central Processing of Persuasive Messages: Revisiting the Elaboration Likelihood Theory.”

Karen L. Braeger (Gannon University), “Popular Culture and Pedagogy: Using Song Lyrics to Teach Critical Thinking and Rhetorical Analysis in the High School and College Classroom.”

Chair: Brett Holden (English--Bowling Green State University), “The Beneficial Role of Department-Based Assignment Manuals in the Humanities Curriculum.”

Racial Representations from the 1960s and 1970s

Taft Room, Union

FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Chair: Michael E. Staub (English--Bowling Green State University).

Linda Rouse (English--Bowling Green State University), “Invisible Object / Visible Subject: Writing Existence in Native American Fiction.”

Jeff Schwartz (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Amiri Baraka’s ‘Slave Ship’: Improvisation, Dramatic Structure, and the Black Aesthetic.”

Scott Michael Walter (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo as Freudian Critique.”

Dolly Parton, Mae West, and Varga Girls

Community Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

eannie Ludlow (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Female Grotesque or Grotesquely Female? Dolly Parton’s Performative Femininity.”

Chair: Kelly Mayhew (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “‘They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk’: Mae West’s Working-Class Roots and the Discourse of Heterosexuality.”

Maria-Elena Buszek (History and Art--University of Kansas), “War Goddess: Investigating the Origins and Wartime Context of Esquire’s ‘Varga Girl’ Pinups.”

Leisure

Alumni Room, Union

FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Chair: Scott C. Martin (History, Bowling Green State University).

Elisabeth A. Nixon (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “That Old Place on Elm Street: Haunted Houses as Public Events.”

ennifer C. Waits (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “MTV’s Road Rules: Leisure Space Goes on the Road.”

Lorena Otero (Sociology--Benemerito Universidad Autonoma de Puebla), “The Culture of Retired North Americans in Chapala, Mexico.”

Creative Musings on the 1960s

Faculty Lounge, Union

FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Melba Joyce Boyd (Africana Studies/English--Wayne State University), Reading from Letters to the Che (poetry).

Christopher T. Leland (English/Creative Writing--Wayne State University), Reading from Letting Loose (novel).

M. L. Liebler (English/Coordinator, The Writer’s Voice--Detroit), Reading from Stripping the Adult Century Bare (performance).

Gay and Lesbian Caucus: Roundtable Discussion

Ohio Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Moderator: Carl B. Holmberg (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University).

Those interested in discussing mutual research interests and publishing venues pertinent to queer studies are invited to attend a roundtable discussion.

Art, Activism, and AIDS

Community Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 1:30 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Chair: Keith Hanson (Clinical Administrator, Rivingtonhouse: The Nicholas A. Rango Health Care Facility), “ Making Art with, by, and about People with AIDS.”

Theresa Smalec (English--University of Western Ontario), “Performance and the Politics of Mourning: Women’s Discourses of HIV and AIDS.”

Discussant: Valerie Caris (Performance Artist, Boston).

Music, Morality, and Utopian Visions

FRIDAY, 1:30 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.

Alumni Room, Union

AV: VCR and monitor

Chair: Jim Miller (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “The Greater Self in American Literature and Popular Culture: From Whitman and Steinbeck to Woody Guthrie, John Ford and Bruce Springsteen.”

Kenneth G. Bielen (Bowling Green State University), “Do You Believe in Magic: A Personal Journey Through Rock Music.”

Thomas E. Jones (Speech-Theatre--Coastal Carolina University), “Music and Morality in the Plays of Terrence McNally.”

The Search for a Midwestern Literary Identity

Taft Room, Union

FRIDAY, 1:30 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.

Bernard Engel (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “A Part of the Main: The Midwestern Poetic Identity.”

William Barillas (American Studies--Rutgers University), “Literary Michigan.”

Chair: David D. Anderson (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow and the Emergence of a Midwestern Literary Identity.”

Revolutionary Women in Popular Culture

Faculty Lounge, Union

FRIDAY, 1:30 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.

Robin Ikegami (English--Xavier University), “Two Women of Color Save the World: Cynthia Kadohata and Octavia Butler.”

Asha Sen (English--University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), “Female Fun Times.”

Paul Rich and Guillermo De Los Reyes (University of the Americas and Hoover Institution--Stanford University), “The Amaranth’s Struggle with the Eastern Star and Television: Sisters but Enemies.”

Occupational Culture

Ohio Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 1:30 P.M. to 2:45 P.M.

AV: Overhead projector and screen

Chair: Rebecca Emlinger Roberts (English--Oakland University), “Standup Comedy and the Prerogative of Art."

Richard I. Falvo (Indiana University), “Towards a Paradigm of Asian-American Cross- Cultural Counseling Effectiveness: An Investigation of Variables in the Therapist- Client Relationship.”

Elisabeth A. Nixon (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “‘And So I Said to Her . . .’: The Performance of Hair Designers.”

A Panel Discussion of Angry Feminist Art: We Have ART and We Know How to Use It!

Community Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

AV=Slide projector and screen

Cassie Carter (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University).

Nicole Demerin, (Photographer--New York City).

Maryellen Croteau (Visual artist--Rutgers University).

Valerie Caris (Performance artist, Boston--MPCA/MACA’s Special guest artist)

Karen Agugliaro (Second Degree Priestess--Mnemosynedes [Children of Memory] Coven, Protean Tradition, Gardenarian Heritage, New York).

Maria-Elena Buszek (History and Art--University of Kansas).

Masculinity in Film

Alumni Room, Union

FRIDAY, 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Lidija Milic and Terri Drasba (English--Oakland University), “Masculine Identity in the Film Mary Reilly.”

John Landlow Smith (English--Boston University), “‘You’re Making Me Come Out Into the Open’: The Confiscation of Bruno Ant(h)ony in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train.”

Jim Roberts (English--Penn State University), “Kids, Power, and State.”

Media Motives & Messages

Taft Room, Union

FRIDAY, 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Sarah A. Goodreau (Communication Studies--Kent State University), “Culture of the 1990s: The Media Hype of Generation X.”

Bradley K. Schumacher (Communication Studies--Kent State University),“Can the Media Really Satisfy Interpersonal Needs?”

Chair: Andrew John Bell (Grove City College), “Talk Radio: Turning Listeners into Callers.”

Theodore A. Avtgis (Communication Studies--Kent State University), “Elderly Viewing Habits: Who Are They? Why Are They Watching?”

Globalism: Ideas for the Millenium

Faculty Lounge, Union

FRIDAY, 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Chair: Vida Penezic (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Global Cultures and Classroom Pleasures.”

Leigh Corrette (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “You Are WHO You Eat: The Constructed Space of Identity In and Through the Ethnic Restaurant.”

Gene Chintala (Higher Education--Bowling Green State University), “Study Abroad: An Introduction to a Third Space and Cosmopolitanism.”

Charlene Blair (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University).

Opening the Acrylic Vault: The Impactof Electronic and Print Media on Teaching and Learning in Schools

Ohio Suite, Union

FRIDAY, 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

AV: Overhead projector

Chair: Evelyn M. Reid (College of Education--University of Toledo).

Dina Bulgakov (Education Research--University of Toledo),"Riding the Last Car of the Train: Feminisms in the Former Soviet Union."

Tom Lietaert (Social Foundations--University of Toledo), "Men in Corsets: Stereotypical Images in Popular Culture and the Construction of the Gay Identity (Ouch, Ooch, Ow!!)."

Piotr P. Paprzycki (Bilingual Education--University of Toledo), “The Grocery Story Syndrome: Challenging the Stereotypical Images of African Americans.”

Susan Talley (Educational Psychology--University of Toledo), “Getting On and Off the Freeway: Cartoons in ESL Instruction.”

Discussant: Lynne Hamer (University of Toledo).

“Hey Mister, Looking For Any Company?” explores the artist’s experience as a dancer at a local strip joint, where many women “drop their shit for a buck.” Her performance as a sex object within the hermetic realm of the nightclub is contrasted with her attendant thoughts and feelings as well as glimpses into her childhood and life outside of “The Zone.”

Valerie Caris is a native of Boston, MA. Over the past 23 years her artwork has involved painting and the making of art objects, performance art, acting for experimental film and theater, and posing for still photography. She has performed and exhibited her work across the USA and Germany, as well as in Peru. Since her diagnosis with HIV in 1989 and the death of her husband and close friends due to AIDS-related complications, the focus of her artwork has shifted to reflecting her life within the context of her illness, the fragile domains of her sexuality and healthcare, and expressing her feelings of grief, anger, hope and self-love.

Playing With Genders, Playing With Genres:Popular Film and the Politics of Respresentation

Olscamp 215

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Chair: Laura Beres (Curriculum--OISE/University of Toronto), “Beauty and the Beast Meets Dracula: The Subtle and Not so Subtle Romantic Portrayal of Men’s Control of Women in Popular Culture.”

Elizabeth Weber (English--University of Indianapolis), “Lost in the Net: The Self-Defined Woman as Heroine.”

Jennifer Hughes Dyer (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Re-Visioning the Western: Women as Bearers of Meaning in John Ford.”

Virtual Communities (Pedagogy)

Olscamp 207 Computer classroom

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

Chair: Alan Rea (English--Bowling Green State University).

Katie Fischer (English--Clarke College) and Stephen Newmann (Rhetoric and Writing-- Mount Saint Mary’s College), “From College Halls to Internet Malls: E-Journals Tearing Down the Walls with Social Construction.”

Fischer’s and Newmann’s students removed bricks from the walls of education by engaging in e-journals over the Internet. In this interactive presentation, audience members will be invited to explore the implications of this curious blend of written and oral discussion via online participation in the discussion.

Dickens: Female Archetypes, Misshapen Identity, and Spectacles of Death

Olscamp 223

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

Michelle McTaggert (English--Oakland University), “The Proverbs Woman and Florence Nightingale: Revisiting Female Archetypes in David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend.”

Winnie Chrzanowski (English--Oakland University),“Misshapen Identity: Imagination in Our Mutual Friend.”

Chair: Natalie Bell Cole (English--Oakland University), “Spectacles of Death in Dickens’s The Uncommercial Traveller.”

Spirituality in Popular Music and Fiction

Olscamp 217

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Kenneth G. Bielen (Bowling Green State University), “One of Us: Rock and Religion in the 1990s”

John Matviko (Communication--West Liberty State College), “From Earth to Morning: Angels in 1950s and 1960s Rock and Roll.”

Chair: James I. McClintock (English--Michigan State University), “‘Soul-making’ in Jim Harrison’s Sundog.”

Medical Discourse, Popular Culture, and Women’s Studies

Olscamp 221

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Moderator: Ann Marie Adams (English--Bowling Green State University).

Angela Athy (English, Bowling Green State University), “Exploring ‘Madness’ in Girl Interrupted.”

Lisa Sewell (English--Tufts University), “‘Exposing the Universal Body’: Louise Gluck and the Poetics of Anorexia Nervosa.”

Anne Elizabeth Moore (Art History, Theory, and Criticism--School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “Abortion and the American Mind.”

Patriotism, Propaganda, and the Production of Culture

Olscamp 219

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Amanda Eubanks (Historical Musicology--University of Michigan), “Edward Elgar and the Spirit of England.”

Don B. Morlan (Communication--University of Dayton), “Pre-WWII Propaganda: Film as Controversy.”v

Chair: Peter Kraemer (History--Indiana University), “Suffering the Commemoration of War: American Memory and Memorials of the Great War, 1919-1932.”

Disco Cultures

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY, 8:00 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

G. Dominique Brégent (George Washington University), “Disco Nights: The Appropriation of Disco Music, Dancing, and Clubs.”

Lori Tomlinson (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Disco Daze: Saturday Night Fever and the Mainstreaming of Marginalized Culture.”

Chair: Carl B. Holmberg (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Disco Era: The Dawn of Disco as Confabulated in Halloran’s ‘Dancer from the Dance.’”

Films of the 1940s

Olscamp 217

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV:VCR and monitor

Chair: Sonya Alvarado (Wayne State University), “Film Adaptation and Cain’s Postman: A Barometer of Change.”

Marty Feeney (Communication Studies--Central College), “Sliding Down the Slippery Slope of Snow Globes and Pleasure Domes--Traces of Rosebud: Fifty-Five Years of Meditations, Ruminations, and Translations.”

Bill Fagelson (University of Texas at Austin), “A Whole Wide Broken World to Mend: David O. Selznick’s Since You Went Away and the Search for a Postwar America.”

Adolescent Gender Interpretations: Fiction, Film, and Videos

Olscamp 215

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Chair: David K. Vaughan (Air Force Institute of Technology), “Girl Fliers in a World of Guys: Three 1930s Girls’ Juvenile Aviation Series.”

Frank Henninger (American Studies, University of Dayton), “The Secrets from Beyond the Garden: What Cinema Stories Forecast for Growing Girls.”

Ann Andaloro (Mass Communications--Bowling Green State University), “An Interpretive Study of Adolescents and Country Music Videos.”

Homophobia

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: VCR and monitor/overhead projector

Stuart Tart (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “‘Walk Like a Man’: Homosexuality as a Threat to Individualism.”

Chair: Carl B. Holmberg (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Watch Your Mouth: Male Bashing as Gay Bashing.”

Leigh Corrette (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University) and Annmarie Pinarski (English--Bowling Green State University), “Caught in a Mousetrap: Rethinking Homophobia in Walt Disney’s Pocahontas and Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.”

The Cold War and After

Olscamp 221

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Steffen H. Hantke, “‘God save us from bourgeois adventure’: The Figure of the Terrorist in Contemporary American Conspiracy Fiction.”

Christy Cousineau (Comparative Literature--Indiana University), “George Washington Meets Godzilla with the Declaration of Independence in One Hand and a Star- Spangled Rosary in the Other.”

Chair: Jennifer Hughes Dyer (University of Illinois at Chicago), “A Criminal of Perception Alone in the Cold War.”

Products and Productions of Popular Culture

Olscamp 219

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Luke B. Howard (Musicology--University of Michigan), “The Role of Popular Culture in the Marketing of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony.”

Timothy K. Winkle (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “The Jersey Devil Hoax: Creating Popular Culture from Folklore.”

Chair: Jeff Gordon (Geography--Bowling Green State University), “From Antiques to Collectibles: Popular Culture’s Influence on Collecting.”

Gender and the Internet/Computers

Olscamp 117 High-Tech Room

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

Moderator: Alan Rea (English--Bowling Green State University).

N. J. Brown (Bowling Green State University), “Gendered Communications on the Internet: Subversive Interactions.”

John Hendricks, “Who’s Who: Gender Switching in an Online Classroom.”

Norma Pecora, “Killer Instinct Guys and Mall-Shopping Gals: Gender Differences in Video Game Interests.”

Exploring the Borderlands: Chicano Women and the Politics of Identity

Olscamp 223

SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M.

AV: Overhead projector and screen

Paul Rich and Guillermo De Los Reyes (University of the Americas and Hoover Institution--Stanford University), “Chicano Women: Identity and Popular Culture in the Borderlands.”

Regina M. Buccola, “‘He Made Me a Hole!’: Gender Bending, Sexual Desire and the Representation of Sexual Violence.”

Reception and Children’s Literature

Olscamp 221

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen / VCR and monitor

Chair: Kristin Ladnier (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University).

Dawn Heinecken (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Representations in the Confrontation of Fear in Children’s Literature.”

Curt Ladnier, “The Americanization of Syn: How Walt Disney Made Britiain’s Scarecrow Suitable for American Children.”

Anne Elizabeth Moore (Art History, Theory, and Criticism--School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “The Star Wars Trilogy and the American Childhood Experience: What The Force Did to Us.”

Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Suspense: The Fiction of Clive Barker and Dean Koontz

Olscamp 219

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Gary Hoppenstand (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “The Grotesque as Metaphor in Clive Barker’s Short Fiction.”

Patricia W. Julius (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “Skipping the Dark Fantastic: The Mis-Labeling of Dean Koontz.”

Chair: Garyn G. Roberts (Communications/English--Northwest Michigan College), “Of Golden Retrievers and Hideous Monsters: An Analysis of Dean R. Koontz’s The Watchers.”

Postmodern/Computer Cultures

Olscamp 117 High-Tech Room

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Chair: Alan Rea (English--Bowling Green State University).

Michael Ierardi, “Acrophobic Cyborgs Crossing Simulated Bridges: the Phobia Project and Its Impact on Our Understanding of ‘Reality.’”

Theresa Smalec (English--University of Western Ontario), “Coming to Terms: Rhetorical Fashioning, Hypertext Theory and the Figure of the Author.”

Judith Tabron, “‘Passing’ in World Zero: Cultural Default Settings on the Internet.”

Producing Culture/Interpreting Culture: Historical Approaches

Olscamp 223

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

AV: Overhead projector and screen

Moderator: Jeff Gordon (Geography--Bowling Green State University).

David A. Hollenback (Communication Studies--SUNY at Cortland), “Where American Television Began: The Jenkins Laboratories.”

Wei Lin (English--Posts and Telecommunications School, People’s Republic of China), “The Popular Culture and Development of the Posts and Telecommunications in China.”

Timothy Kinsella (History--Ursuline College), “A Framework for Understanding the Sixties.”

(Post) Colonialisms

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Renata Britto-Pereira (Rutgers University), “Politics of Colonialism in The Adventures of Tintin.”

John Muthyala (English--Loyola University), “Violence and the Sexualization of Racial Anxiety in Thomas Keneally’s ‘The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.”

Chair: Mary Alice Adams (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Squat for the Right to Part-E: The Characterisation of Clobber in Hanif Kureishi’s London Kills Me.”

American Detective Fiction

Olscamp 217

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

Chair: Nancy E. Talburt (University of Arkansas; President, Popular Culture Association).

Alison Russell (English--Xavier University), “Taking Pot-Shots at Pop Culture: Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music.”

Katherine A. Harper (English--Bowling Green State University), “Unholy Places: The City as Killer in Five Novels of W. R. Burnett.”

Coming Out, Subverting, and Transgressing

Olscamp 215

SATURDAY 11:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor/Overhead and screen

Laura L. Behling (English--The Claremont Graduate School), “Fiction or Flattery: ‘Being Gay’ with Gertrude Stein and Vanity Fair.”

Colleen Coughlin (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “The Popular Culture of Coming Out or Reflections on/of Ellen.”

Chair: Carl B. Holmberg (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Living on the Edge: Sexualized, Transgressive, Interpretive Communities.”

Jim Carroll

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor/overhead projector and screen

Chair: Cassie Carter (American Thought and Language--Michigan State University), “An Unbearably Wholesome Misunderstanding: The ‘Canonization’ of Jim Carroll in Popular Culture.”

Rich Campbell (English--Winona State University), “Hoops, Heroin, and War Baby Blues: Historicizing The Basketball Diaries.”

David Gallant (English--University of Rhode Island), “The Basketball Diaries and the Failure of Adaptation.”

Stephen Perrin (American Studies--Liverpool Hope University College), “Coping with Chaos: Jim Carroll and the Contemporary Search for Ritual.”

Against Erasure: Expressing African American Experience

Olscamp 223

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Gary Totten (English--Ball State University), “Subjectivity, Author-ity, and Autobiography: The Problematic Nature of ‘Author-Function’ in the Slave Narrative and Survivor Discourse.”

Imelda Hunt (English--University of Toledo), “Near Us: Taverns as Nontraditional Theater Space.”

Jacquelynne Modeste (American Studies--College of William and Mary), “Seemingly Secular: An Evolution of African American Christianity as Expressed in Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”

Chair: Debra Benko (English--Bowling Green State University), “‘Where Is Woman’s Home?’: Regionalism and the Critical Reception of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Short Fiction.”

Computer Cultures and Virtual Reality: The Postmodern Amalgam Panel

Olscamp 117 High-Tech Room

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Margaret Ordoubadian, “Conflict and Synthesis in Postings on Religious and Spiritual Lists.”

Scott Rettberg, “Books in Chains: A Survey of Resources for English Studies on the World Wide Web.

Chair: Alan Rea (English--Bowling Green State University).

African American History, Communication, and Culture

Olscamp 215

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor / Overhead projector and screen

Moderator: Tonia K. Stewart (Student Affairs--Bowling Green State University).

Lillian Ashcraft-Eason (History/Women’s Studies--Bowling Green State University), “African Women in 17th-Century British, North American Colonies.”

Debbie Owens, (Journalism--Bowling Green State University), “Picturing the Million Man March: Constructing an Image of the March in News Photographs.”

Tina Maria Harris (Interpersonal Communication--Bowling Green State University), “‘Waiting to Exhale’ or Breath(ing) Again: The Search for Identity, Empowerment and Love in the 1990s.”

Angela M. S. Nelson (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “‘I’m Glad I’ve Got My Girls’: The Portrayal of Black Women in TV Sitcoms and the Case of Living Single.”

Explorations in Popular TV Aesthetics I

Olscamp 217

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor/Overhead projector and screen

Chair: Michael G. Robinson (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University).

Jennifer Waits (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Videodocusoap: Genre-Bending in MTV;s Real World.”

Leigh P. Condon (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Cotton Candy for the Eyes: An Aesthetic Analysis of Aaron Spelling Productions as Represented by Love Boat, Charlie’s Angels, and Fantasy Island.”

Rebecca Zisch (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University), “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

Discussants: Kristin Ladnier and Michael G. Robinson (American Culture Studies-- Bowling Green State University).

Music-Based Criticism and Activism

Olscamp 221

SATURDAY, 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Andrew Austin (Sociology--University of Tennessee) and Jackie Eller (Sociology--Middle Tennessee State University), “Rhetoric of Chaos: Authenticity and Co-optation in Aesthetically-based Violent Countercultures.”

Michael Hoover (Social Sciences--Seminole Community College) and Lisa Stokes (Humanities and English--Seminole Community College), “Pop Music and the Limits of Cultural Critique: GANG OF FOUR Shrinkwraps Entertainment.”

Chair: Arthur Jipson (Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology--Miami University), “Racial Holy War Through Music: The Identity Politics of Rahowa.”

Drag Performances

Olscamp 215

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Theresa Smalec (English--University of Western Ontario), “Disembodying Femininity: The Political Stakes of Men’s Drag Performances in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”

Carmen Vendelin (Art History, Theory, and Criticism-- School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “T.V.’s on T.V.: Depictions of Transgendered Individuals on Talk Shows.”

Chair: Sharon Dean (Language Arts--University of Cincinnati), “‘Once a Pancake Always a Pancake’: The Politics of Makeup in Cinematic Drag.”

Popular Music: Genres, Images, and Impact

Olscamp 221

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

AV: Slide projector and screen

Jay Howard (Sociology--Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis) and John Streck (Communication Studies--University of Iowa), “The Founding of Contemporary Christian Music.”

Anne Elizabeth Moore (Art History, Theory, and Criticism--School of the Art Institute of Chicago), “The Direct Action Politics of Courtney Love, Final Victim.”

Chair: Cynthia Fuchs (English, Film, and Media Studies--George Mason University), “‘I Came to Suck You Down’: Girl-Fronted Bands and Post-Alternative Politics.”

Local Color: Bowling Green and Toledo, Ohio

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

Benjamin Johns (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “The Spaces of Places at Bowling Green.”

Imelda Hunt (English--University of Toledo), “Art Tatum and the Culture of the Blind.”

Chair: Timothy G. Borden (History--Indiana University), “Creating a New Deal Holiday: Labor Day in Toledo, Ohio, 1929-1936.”

Publish and Prosper

Olscamp 219

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

This roundtable forum offers publishing strategies, tips, and options.

Chair: Ray Browne (Popular Culture Association--Bowling Green State University)

Explorations in Popular TV Aesthetics II

Olscamp 217

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor, overhead projector and screen

Chair: Jennifer Waits (Popular Culture--Bowling Green State University).

Kristin Ladnier (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Nothing New Under the Moon: Kolchak: The Night Stalker Creating a New Sub-genre.”

Michael G. Robinson (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “Lois & Clark: What’s New About the New Adventures of Superman?”

Discussants: Leigh P. Condon, Rebecca Zisch, and Jennifer Waits (Popular Culture-- Bowling Green State University).

Postmodern Art, Literature, and Television

Olscamp 213

SATURDAY, 4:15 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

AV: VCR and monitor

Lily V. Chiu (Comparative Literature--University of Michigan), “MiSTing the Postmodern: A Reading of the Postmodern Paratext in Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

Chair: Camilla Elisabeth Groth (American Culture Studies--Bowling Green State University), “The Artistic Apocalypse: Nature, Function, and Justification of Art in Modernism and Postmodernism.”

Steffen H. Hantke, “Reproducing Violence: On Intertextuality in Serial Killer Narratives.’”