"The Material World of Jack Spencer," Robert L. McDonald, Virginia Military Institute

"Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachian Scene," Larry Vonalt, University of Missouri – Rolla

"The Incest/Pedophile Sub-Culture of Alamance County, North Carolina: An Ethnography of a Elaborate Hoax or a Frightening Reality," Gordon Neal Diem, Durham, NC

"The Shirt Off Her Back—and Then Some! The Public Debate Sparked by a Charitable Fundraising Project," Trudy Knicely Henson, University of South Carolina-Aiken

"Showtime in Dixie: An Oral History" Kathy Keltner, Ohio University

"Viewing Godzilla: Melancholy and Cultural Memory" Gerald L. Jones, University of West Alabama

"Complex Cultural Landscapes: A Review of Contrasting Contemporary American Football Movies," Scott Crawford, Eastern Illinois University

"You, Too, Can Own Susan Lucci’s Necklace: Taking Product Placement into New Territory," Susan Slavicz and Nancy Smith, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

"Bram Stroker’s Wuthering Frankenstein Turns the Screw, or Haven’t I Heard This Story Somehow Before?: Reflections of Classic Literature in Dark Shadows," Julie Douberly, Georgia Southern

University

"Postmodern Bandstand: TRL and the Creation of Virtual Community," Richard K. Olsen, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

"Images of Shouldering and Unburdening in Robert Welch’s Groundwork," Gwendolyn N. Hale, East Tennessee State University

"Honor, Obligation and Ownership: Jamie Fraser’s Women," Linda J. Holland-Toll, Newberry College

"Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh," C. Ronald Cella, Murray State University

"The Ties That Bind: Tradition in the Works of Jean Battlo," Alma J. Bennett, Anderson Broaddus College

"More Than ‘Once Upon a Time’ Fiction as a Bridge to Knowing," Neal Saye, Georgia Southern University

"Poems," Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University Montgomery

"The Gender Wars: An Update on Research in the Areas of Male-Female Differences," Nancy Eliot Parker, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

"‘We’ll See How Brave You Are’ and Other Cultural Indictments from Tori Amos’ ‘Under the Pink,’" Allison V. Craig, University at Albany, SUNY

"A Different Voice: The Pop Music Gender Reversals of Tori Amos’s Strange Little Girls," Terry Lynn Pettinger, University of South Carolina-Columbia

"Dixon’s Honorable Klan: A Study of Thomas Dixon’s Portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan in The Clansman,"

J. Vincent Lowery, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

"Real or Radical? The Complexities of Radical Politics in the Chronicling of Working-Class Existence in

the 1930s Federal Writer’s Project," Lisa A.Cooper, Texas Christian University

"Resistance to Subject/Verb Agreement and Other Linguistic Collisions in the Classroom," Julia

Klimek, Coker College

"Langue and Parole: The Myth of the Standard Language," Adelheid Eubanks, Coker College

"Andy Taylor’s Tone Shift in The Andy Griffith Show," David McCracken, Coker College

"There’s No Place Like Home Improvement: Real Estate and Reality TV," Deborah Gentry,

Middle Tennessee State University

"Politics of Entertainment: The Triumph of Reality-Based Television," Glenn Geiser-Getz, East

Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

"‘I’m Doing It For Me": The Telemarketing of Aesthetic Surgery," Deborah Covino, Florida Atlantic

University

"Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Metaphors for Nature in a Mixed Use Community," Jane Bloodworth

Rowe, Regent University

"Joan Didion’s Miami and the Political Disconnect," Gerri Reaves, Fort Meyers, FL

"The Orangeburg Massacre: Guilt by Headline," James Christian, University of South Carolina-

Columbia

"Reconciling Femininity: Welty’s Female Characters in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories,"

Bridgitte Arnold, Southern Connecticut State University

"Eudora Welty’s Modernist Vision in Delta Wedding," Julia Stephens Knapp, University of North

Carolina-Wilmington

"Poetic Images in Southwestern Literature and Art: Willa Cather the Writer and Georgia O’Keefe the

Painter," Judith Hebb, Atlanta Christian College

"Only Time Will Tell: Perception vs. the Reality of Wedding Memorabilia," Taylor Shaw, Duke

University Chapel

"A Symbol of Contradictions: The Rhetoric of the Confederate Flag in the Civil Rights Movement,"

Michael Lasley, Syracuse University

"Betty Crocker and the NASCAR Racing Family: Bringing Millionaires and Bisquick Users Together,"

Stephanie Batcos, Berry College

"Death Takes a Holiday: Celebrating Elvis with Light in August," Jennifer Dickey, Georgia State

University

"Waiting for the Bomb: Cold War Films of the 1980s," Aubrey Underwood, Georgia State University

"‘Everybody Knows What a Hooker Is’: Cracking the Morals of Reagan Era Fairy Tales," Peter McDade,

Georgia State University

"Murdering the Myth of the Southern Belle: Anne George’s Southern Sisters Mysteries," Viki Soady,

Valdosta State University

"‘Green Spirituality,’ Transcendentalism, and Sisterhood: Environmentally Activist Women in Kingsolver’s

Prodigal Summer," Pamela Reeves Thomas, Wingate University

"Southern Roots and Sixties Activism in Conflict in Lisa Alther’s Fiction," Harriette C. Buchanan

Appalachian State University

"A Cultural History of Alcohol in America: Sports Illustrated in the Super Bowl Era—1966-2001,"

Frank Dardis, University of South Carolina, Columbia

"Why Worry About Technology? Corporate Advertising Manipulates the Public’s Attitude Toward

Technology," Marilyn Middendorf, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

"Martha Stewart vs. Nigella Lawson": Clash of the Domestic Goddesses," Michael Briggs, East

Tennessee State University

"The Postsouthern Aesthetic of ‘Dirty South’ Hip-Hop," Martyn Bone, University of Copenhagen

"Fair Use and Copyright Abuse in Contemporary Hip Hop & R & B: Why the Business Model is Broken

& How It Should Be Fixed," E. Michael Harrington, Belmont University

"Hip Hop From the Old Antebellum into the New Millennium," Stephanie Howard (Asabi), Regent University

"Tales of the Mammoth Cave: Tourist’s Experiences in the Nineteenth Century," Sara Dykins Callahan,

University of South Florida

"Visitors Say the Darnedest Things: Questions to Interpreters at Historic Sites (Arlington House as a Case

Study), John L. Hare, Montgomery College—Germantown Campus

"Protestant Pilgrims on Holiday: Graceland, Princess Di, and The Dairyman’s Daughter," Alexandra N.

Leach, Columbia College

"Clockwork Storybook: E-Publishing and Pulp Fiction in the South," Carolyn D. Roark, University of

Texas, Austin

"Merlot for the Humanities," Elsa A. Nystrom, Kennesaw State University

"‘Work It Out With Your Wife’: The Rhetoric of Online Parenting Communities," Lisa Rashley, University of

South Carolina, Lancaster

"Women of Independent Means: Five Chopin Heroines Take Charge," Gary H. Mayer, Stephen F. Austin

State University

"Rebecca Harding Davis, Kate Chopin, and the Art of Social Protest," Katy McLaughlin, Columbia

College

"’Cadian Interstitiality: Kate Chopin’s Imagined Freedom," Maria Hebert, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Constructing and Construing the Beast: The Rhetoric of Animality in Popular Culture," Richard

Sanzenbacher, Embry-Riddle University

"The Search for Meaning: Media Coverage and America’s Soul Quest," Cecile S. Holmes, University of

South Carolina, Columbia

"Language as Weapon, Circa 1935: The South Carolina Establishment vs. the Kingfish," Michael

Witkoski, University of South Carolina, Columbia

"Short Story," John Talbird, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Poems," J.C. Reilly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Poems and Essays," Karen Head, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

"Female Relatives and Female Characters in the Short Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason," Wanda L. Jared,

Tennessee Tech University

"The Maternal Grotesque in Faulkner’s Fiction: As I Lay Dying and Marking the Crossroads between

Modernity and Maternity," Katie Berry, University of California at Santa Barbara

"Mixed Sentiments: Motherhood in the Poetry of Sarah M.B. Piatt," Mary McCartin Wearn, University of

Georgia

"Ozzie and Harriet, David, Rickie and Hamlet," Merrilee Cunningham, University of Houston Downtown

"Parody and Pedagogy: Variations on Hamlet," Richard Vela, University of North Carolina-Pembroke

"Hamming It Up: Hamlet in Adaptation and Parody," Hugh Davis, Hertford County High School

"The Gaither Homecoming Videos and The Reconstruction of Southern Gospel Music’s Images,"

Michael P. Graves, Regent University

"‘When Mama Prayed’: Toward Identification of Sustaining Personality Strengths that Preserve

Consistency Between Public Performance Personae and Personal Spiritual Walk Among Female

Mentors in Southern Gospel Family Singing Groups," Darlene R. Graves, Regent University

"Using Writing Assignments to Develop Students’ Appreciation of Film," Christine Hait, Columbia

College

"The Relationship of Music and Image," Rebecca Reynolds, Columbia College

"The Reel Thing: A Guide to Creating a Foreign Language Newspaper in the Class Room," Sue McClam,

Paula W. Shirley, Joanna Vargas, Columbia College

"Regional Pop, Fizz, and Flavor: The Geography of the Regional Soft Drink Industry," William Graves,

University of North Carolina-Charlotte

"Krispy Kreme: From Down Home Doughnuts to Uptown Trend," Jan Rieman, University of North Carolina-

Charlotte

"Food and Family: The Relationship Between Food and Identity in African American Family Reunions,"

Stephen Criswell, Benedict College

"Jed, Lucy, Andy, and Jesus: Bible Study Through TV Reruns," Robert Holtzclaw, Middle Tennessee

State University

"Weather Broadcasting: Science, Presentation and Technology in Barbados and Antigua," Alan Wells,

Temple University

"And the Winner Is: How the Emmy Awards are Judged," Richard J. Knecht, University of Toledo

"Political Payback: The Effects of Republican Reapportionment in Virginia," William E. Hrezo and

Margaret S. Hrezo, Radford University

"‘But All the Pages are Blank": Edmund Morris, Peggy Noonan and Obsessing About Ronald Regan,"

Paul C. Peterson, Coastal Carolina University

"The California Slavery Era Insurance Registry," Edgar W. Butler, University of California-Riverside

"Social Upheaval in Dennis Potter’s Lipstick on Your Collar," Mary Hurd, East Tennessee State

University

"The Postmodernization (Almost) of Star Trek: Political Allegory in the First Three Series," Fred

Thiemann, Pensacola, FL

"‘Time to Lose Faith in Humanity’: The Simpsons, South Park, and the Satirical Tradition," David A.

Jansen, Gordon College

"Stunted Development: Rites of Passage in Stephen King’s The Body and Alice Munro’s Love of a Good Woman," Alan Brown, University of West Alabama

"Stephen King’s The Gunslinger and Robert Browning’s ‘Child Roland to the Dark Tower Came,’" L. Susannah Blanchard, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

"Southern Distinctives and the Southern Literary Renaissance," Robert Doak, Wingate University

"Popularizing the Stereotype: The Comic Strip Pogo and Southern Culture," Eric Jarvis, King’s College

"Cultural Confluence: Vietnam Meets Louisiana in Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange

Mountain," William N. Claxon, Jr., University of South Carolina, Aiken

"Explicit Reflections on World War II in the Late Films of Akira Kurosawa," Bruce G. Nims, University

of South Carolina-Lancaster

"Patriotism and Realities: How War Movies Contribute to Moral and Political Ambiguities," Ruth-Ellen M. Grimes and Christopher J. Cameron, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Austin T. Turk, University of California, Riverside

"Going Backward to Go Through: Allusions, Flashbacks, Symbols, and Wartime Censorship in Passage to Marseille," John H. Davis, Chowan College

"Künstelerroman Meets Trailer Park: The Use of Popular Culture in Harper Stevens’ Frankenstein’s Daughter,"

Amy Watkins, North Greenville College

"Dawson’s Creek Kind of Makes You Think: Watching TV and Critical Thinking," Tracy McLoone,

George Mason University

"Using Human Parables and Paradigms in Teaching and Promoting Ethics Awareness," Paul Alcorn and

Roger Wilbur, Devry University

"A Stone By Any Other Name: Harry Potter and the Unstable Text," Shmuel Ross, University of Michigan

"J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series as Myth," M. Katherine Grimes, Ferrum College

"Persona and Character in Computer Role Playing Games," Jim Coon, Wingate University

"Neither Sustenance nor Sacrament: The Significance of Food in Homicide: Life on the

Street," Mary Beth Carson, ???

"The Strange and Curious Travels of the Godly Bean," Ellen Smith, Stetson University

"Orwell’s Food Writing and Imminent World-Culture," Jimmy Dean Smith, Union College

"Dying Like a Human Being, Not an Animal: Reflections of Death with Dignity in

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, and Ernest Gaines," Raymond Ruble, Appalachian

State University

"A Space of His Own: Ernest Gaines and his Cajun characters," Maria Hebert, Chapel

Hill, North Carolina

"Telling About the South: Reading Southern Literature through Contemporary

Ethnographic Theory," Sean Heuston, The Citadel.

"The Fragmented Soul: The Notion of Loss in Lalita Tademy’s Cane River, Erin

Bumbeloe, Auburn University Montgomery

"Time and Place in Cane River," Ann Depas-Orange, Auburn University Montgomery

"Vamps, Gypsy Tramps, and Jungian Prognostication: Tarot Cards as Psychological Device in Margaret Atwood’s

The Robber Bride," Andrew DeLoach, Georgia Southern University

"The Cook’s Tour and the Hero’s Journey," Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University

‘‘Side by Side’: The Functional Relationship of the Sidekick," Ron Buchanan, Northern Virginia Community

College

"The Film Iconography of the Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene," Richard Vela, The

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

"Orson Welles’s Shakespearean Camera Chimes at Midnight, Thomas E. Jones, Coastal

Carolina University

"A Vision of This Reef: Age of Consent and The Tempest," Hugh H. Davis, Hertford

County High School

"Framing the Depression in America: Photography, Southern Poverty, and the Work of James Agee and Eudora Welty," Angela M. Thompson, University of Oregon

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Bedrooms: The Marriage of Walker Evans’s Photography and James Agee’s Prose," Melanie R. Benson, Boston University

"Dissonant Encounters: Farm Security Administration Photographers and the Southern Underclass, 1935-1943," Stuart Kidd, University of Reading

"Iconic Power in A Beautiful Mind, Erin Brockovich, and Recent Film Biographies," Gary L. Harmon, University of North Florida

"‘He’s a Jerk Even If He Does Look "Just like James Dean"’: The Budding Feminine Conscience of Holly Sargis in Badlands," Claude "Jay" Smith, Florida Community College, Jacksonville

?"Performances of Identity: Genesis, Plato, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Zora Neale Hurston, and Andrea Holander Budy," Josh Brewer, University of South Carolina

"Rags to Riches Once Again: The Horatio Alger Theme in Adolescent Novels," Jeanne McGlinn, University of North Carolina at Asheville

"Ellen Foster and Jim the Boy: Narratives of Childhood," Sylvia Little-Sweat, Wingate University

"Popular Adolescent Novels and Sexuality," Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Technological University

"So You Wanna Be a Cannibal? Desire and Interpretation in Ravenous," Kelly Reames, Western Kentucky State University

"Queering Domestic Spaces: Violence in In the Bedroom and The Deep End," Lorena Russell, University of North Carolina at Asheville

"People Talking Without Speaking, People Hearing Without Listening: Communication Issues in The Graduate," Jackie Knoll, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

"James Ellroy’s White Jazz: A Lacanian Look at L.A. Noir," Richard Fantina, Florida International University

"Bone Island Bloodshed: The Key West Novels of Tom Corcoran," Sarah Fogle, Embry Riddle University

"Hey, Must Be the Money: Hip-Hop, Advertising, and Critical Pedagogy," Julie G. Maudlin, Georgia Southern University [more authors?]

"McJob: Representations of Business and Consumer Culture in the Novels of Douglas Coupland," Michael P. Mazenko, Southern Illinois University

"‘Holy bat syllables’: Eminem, Hiphop, and Kids," Cynthia Fuchs, George Mason University

"‘Don’t Touch That Dial’: Charlotte Radio, 1920-1965," Pamela Grundy, Charlotte, NC

"Putting Film in Context: Joys and Frustrations of a Museum Curator," Tom Hanchett, Levine Museum of the New South

Presenters:

Merrilee Cunningham, University of Houston-Downtown

Colleen Donovan, Athens, Georgia

Hugh Davis, Hertford County High School

Jeff Pietruszynksi, Illinois State University

"Carmen: Libeled Martyr," Evelyn Clary, Columbia College

"‘The opposite of an aerial view’: Steely Dan’s "The Royal Scam" as Rock Noir," Steven Clodfelter, Clemson University

"From the Personal to the Social: Ethel Waters’ and Louis Armstrong’s Performances of ‘(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue,’" Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University

"Making Trash Into Artists’ books: A (Relatively) New Form of Cultural Commentary," Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University

"Reaching the 4^th Dimension: The Graphic Novel and Simultaneous Time," James Bucky Carter and Mark S. Bernard, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"The American as ‘Cultural Other’: An Ethnographic Reading of Safe Area Gorazde and La Perdida," Stephanie Kartalopoulos, University of Florida

"Still Woman Enough: Conflict and Chaos in Loretta Lynn’s Relationships," Teresa Y. Collard and Lisa C. LeBleu, The University of Tennessee at Martin

"The Next Big Parody & Fair Use Trial: How The Dixie Chicks’ ‘Sin Wagon’ Will Extend the U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling on Fair Use, Parody & Free Speech," E. Michael Harrington, Belmont University

"www. Memory: Deleuze, Country Music and Nostalgia," William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

"‘Paternalistic Translation’ in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman and Other Tales," Cindy Spurlock, North Carolina State University

"Piecing Identity: From Character to Collage in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use,’" Erinn Struss, North Carolina State University

Presenters:

Rosalie Lathers, Florida Southern College

Bradley Serata, Florida Southern College

Alexander M. Bruce, Florida Southern College

Presenters:

Cara Belt, Elon University

Joffrey Blair, Georgia College and State University

Mary Jean Land, Georgia College and State University

Connie Ledoux Book, Elon Univeristy

"Ritual Relations in African-American Southern Midwifery," Katherine Broadway, University of Maryland, College Park

"Representations of Southern Womanhood: An Examination of Southern Bridal Magazines," Jessica Karmenzind, University of Maryland, College Park

"White Trash Womanhood in the New South," Nicole King, University of Maryland, College Park

"The Kids Are Alright: Wes Anderson and the Youth Aesthetic," Devin Orgeron, Catholic University of America

"If You Build It, Death Will Come: Poe’s Tomb Versus The Panic Room," John Kitterman, Ferrum College

"Making Bricks Without Straw: The Musical Biopics of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern," Michael Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University

"The Rhetoric of a Kinder, Gentler Society Evident in Today’s Natural Horse-Man-Ship," Shelley Aley and Karen Milne, James Madison University

"A Bug’s Story: Living with the Cockroach in the South," Karen Aubrey and Rick Pukis, Augusta State University

"A Desert Fish Story: The Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in Nevada’s Great Basin," Joan (JoEllen) Broome, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television," Sherry Ginn, Wingate University

"WWXD: Religious Pluralism and Xena, Warrior Princess," David Fillingim, Shorter College

"Remington Steele: A Kept Man and the Woman in Front of Him," Michele Reese, Auburn, AL

"Mississippi Post Office Murals: The Limits of the Artists’ Imagination," L. Marcile Taylor, Wesleyan College

"The Migration Series of Jacob Lawrence," Judy Little and Margaret Duckworth, Virginia Union University

"Christ in Khaki and Feldgrau: Religious Imagery in the Poster Art of World War II," William D. Badgett, Virginia Military Institute

"‘Studying on How to Write You’: Dialect and Epistolary Form in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies," Kasee Clifton Laster, Ashland University

"A Tape Recorder and Ol’ Time Music: The Function of the Artist and Mountain Music in Lee Smith’s Oral History," Elizabeth P. Broadwell, Christian Brothers University

"Loss of Innocence in The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed," Angela Fuhrman, Auburn University, Montgomery

"Sax Rohmer’s Dream Detective," Douglas Carter, Virginia Western Community College

"Sexuality and Diversity in the Modern Hard-Boiled Detective Novel," Lewis Moore, University of District of Columbia

"The Mystery Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Farewell to the private Eye and the ‘Cozy’ Murder," John Teel, Marshall University

"Sex and Self-Creation in the Popular Fiction of Henry Green," John Zubizarreta, Columbia College

"Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff: Gender in Macbeth," Shirley Laird, Tennessee Technological University

"‘[R]ight now body is everything’: Harry Crews’ Representation of Poor-White Culture in Body," Wendy Pearce, University of Mississippi

"The Dilemma of Regional and National Identity in Harry Crews’ Car," Christopher Bundrick, University of Mississippi

"Destined to Die Alone: The Impossibility of Romance in Contemporary Films of Identity Crisis," Cary M. Jones, Norfolk, VA

"Well, She Was Just Seventeen: The May-September Romance and the Construction of the 1950s in Post-World War II Female Coming-of-Age Films," William M. Jones, Virginia Wesleyan College

"A Little Bit of Happiness: Comedies Starring Julia Roberts," Ray Merlock, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg

"The Unpopularity of Recent Woody Allen Comedies," Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan College

"Women Preaching the Word: Reverend Mary Erwin’s Trials and Triumphs," Lisa C. LeBleu and Teresa Collard, University of Tennessee, Martin

"Raging and Ranting: Women Artists and Rockers," Louly Peacock Konz, Warren Wilson College

"Gillian Welch and The Be Good Tanyas: The Pentecostal Look in Contemporary Folk Music," Beckie Flannagan, Francis Marion University

"Public iconic Displays Featuring the American Flag and the U.S.A: Patriotic Etiquette of Post 9-11-01," Ronald E. Ostman, Cornell University and Harry Littell, Ithaca, NY

"Bin Laden vs. Bush: A Dramatic Perspective," James Julian Hare, Longwood University

"An African American Professor Reflects on the Meaning of 9/11 for African Americans," Dwonna Naomi Goldstone, Austin Peay State University

"The New Patriotism: Recognizing Famous and Forgotten World War II Heroes," Carolyn S. Thomas, Georgia State University

"The Sad Shape of Things: A Rhetorical Analysis of Vogue," Tanya Cochran, Gainesville, GA

"Unmentionable Things Unmentioned: The Corset, Femininity, and Race in Antebellum Fashion," Bridget T. Heneghan, Vanderbilt University

"Spears’ Space: The Play of Innocence and Experience in the Bare Midriff Fashion," Dennis Hall, University of Louisville

"The Opening and Closing of the Body in the Films of David Cronenberg," Thomas R. Taylor, Emory University

"A Brief Exegesis on the Impact of Feminism and Marxism in Urban Cowboy," Brian Slais, University of Florida

"Ghost World’s Quest for an Alternative Culture," Roy Flannagan, Francis Marion University

"Life in the Graniteville," Sandra Smith, Newberry College

"Duany Redux: A Reconsideration of New Urbanism," James Brock, Florida Gulf Coast University

"Rediscovering Our Heritage or Remembering the (almost) Forgotten," Sarah Davis, Chowan College

"Jimmy Buffett: A Caribbean Agatha Christie?" Marti D. Lee, Georgia Southern University

"Jimmy Buffett and Literature: Cuba, Comedy, and Carnivale," Katrina Murphy, Georgia Southern University

"Little America: R.E.M. and the Southern ‘Outsider Art’ Aesthetic," Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary

"The Slayer, The Witch, and the Wardrobe: Feminine Influence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Okay, There’s no Wardrobe)," Heather Holloway, Georgia Southern University

"It’s a Femme, Femme World: Forms of Femininity and Power in Buffy the Vampire Slaver," Catherine Siemann, Columbia University.

"’A Religion in Narrative’: Joss Whedon and Television Creativity," David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University

"Blurring the Gender Roles of the Modern Detective: Kellerman’s Novels and the Hard-Boiled Mysteries," Joe Young, Georgia Southern University

"Spenser in Drag: The Faux Feminism of Robert B. Parker," Jack Slay, Jr., LaGrange College, and Dale Bailey, Maryville, Tennessee

"Creating a Stereotype," Donna Waller Harper, Hillwood High School

"Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah," Varnell Badgett, Lexington, Virginia

"The North-South U.S. Border and Underground Railway," Edgar W. Butler, University of California, Riverside

"Silent Night: the Presentation of Self-Image in Health Clubs," William R. Klink, College of Southern Maryland

"The Martial Arts in Literature," Robert Sandarg, University of North Carolina Charlotte

"The Culture of Disease or the Dis-ease of Culture," Bennett Kravitz, University of Haifa

Presenters:

Ann Fleshman, Columbia College

John Zubizarreta, Columbia College

Amanda Anderson, Columbia College

Evelyn Clary, Columbia College

Cynthia DeGroot, Columbia College

Karen Engle, Columbia College

"African American Heterosexual Males: Reality vs. Stereotypes," Miriam Chitiga, Claflin University

"Too Queer for Queer as Folk: Identity, Patriarchy, and the Lesbian Subject," Sharon Bowers, Greenville, South Carolina, and Katherine Monteiro, Warwick, Rhode Island

"Longings for Southern Warmth: Adolescent Estrangement in Recent Gay Narratives of the South," Henry Sandberg, Montgomery County College

"A Contrast of Two Travel Magazines: Conde Nast Traveler and Budget Travel," Linda Null, Tennessee Technical University

"I Was Richard Byrnes’s Critical Whipping Boy; Or, Only a Bourgeois Intellectual Could Be So Mortified to Be Called a Bourgeois Intellectual," Jimmy Dean Smith, Union College

"Marketing Celebrity: Clara Bow and Movie Fan Magazines," Marsha Orgeron, North Carolina State University

"Fragmentation, Unity, and Disintegration of the Self: Buffy the Vampire Slayers (plural is intentional)," Michele Boyette, University of North Florida

"Angel in Pylea: A Fairy Tale for the Buffyverse," Mary Alice Money, Gordon College

"T.S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy’s ‘Restless,’" Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College

"Keeping the Peace: The Reconstructing Detective and the English Country House," Jennifer Halloran, Duke University

"Broken Mirrors: Indian Expatriate Views of Emergency Rule, 195-," Scott Walker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"A Divisible Nation: America During National Prohibition," Kathleen Drowne, University of Missouri-Rolla 

"One of Hitler’s Englishmen, John Amery," Philip J. Harwood, University of Dayton

"Scouse House of Fame: Merseyside Remembers the War," Thomas A. Van, University of Louisville

"Polar Boom," Karen Carmean, Converse College

"Exposing the Third Man in Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz," Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern University

"‘Fragments Shored against My Ruin’: Tennessee Williams’ Dialogic Imagination in Memoirs and Moise," William H. Gilbert, University of Houston-Downtown

"Hiding in the Shadows: Light Imagery as a Reflection of Lupus in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction," Karen Head, University of Nebraska

"Teaching Popular Culture to Graduate Students: A Sample Syllabus," J. Dennis Bounds, Regent University

"14:59, 15, 16 Minutes. . . Perspectives on Teaching Fame and Celebrity Culture," George Plasketes, Auburn University

"Creating an American Success Story Through the Use of (PBS) Positive Behavior Support," Antoinette M. Knecht, Northwest Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center

Presenters:

Elisabeth G. Gumnior, James Madison University

Royce Campbell, jazz guitarist, Harrisonburg, VA

(84) Horror,Funerals, and Wounds in Television

"From Dr. Lucifur to Sir Cecil Creape to Dr. Gangrene: The Funny, Scary Worlds of Nashville’s TV Horror Hosts," Jeff Thompson, Middle Tennessee State University

"Distant Relations: Mothers and Daughters in Six Feet Under," Paula W. Shirley, Columbia College

(85) Performance and Performers

"Performance Pottery: The Raku Magic Show," Elaine Ware, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

"Jumpsuit Gi: Elvis and Karate in Southern Poor White Masculine Performance," Taylor Hagood, University of Mississippi

"Stephen Wade: Performance Artist, Storyteller, Musician, Folklorist, Humorist, and Teacher," Lawrence E. Mintz, University of Maryland-College Park

"More Bowling with Jesus: O Brother Where Art Thou? and Christianity," James M. Wilson, Flagler College

"Of Sins and Sinners: Worship and Morality in Southern Films," Sharon May and Diane Carr, Midlands Technical College

"Family Ties: Hollywood’s Image of Big Daddy in Films about the South," Camille McCutcheon, University of South Carolina

"The Language of Cell Phones," Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University

"Toward an Allegorical Imperative: Aptonyms, Eponyms, and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy," Roger G. Gaddis, Gardner-Webb University

"Carolina Thunder Revisited: Toward a Transcultural View of Winston Cup Racing," Derek H. Alderman, Preston W. Mitchell, Jeff Webb, East Carolina University

"’Wouldn’t You Like to be a Pepper Too?’: An Ideological Analysis of the Social Values Presented in Dr. Pepper Advertising," Larry J. King and Jim Towns, Stephen F. Austin State University

"Ads in Schools: A ‘New’ Kind of Math," Tim Lintner, Columbia College

"Can’t Keep a Good Tale Down: Fairy Tales in Film and Advertising," Tamara Wilson, Flagler College

"’God Made the Pleasures’: Doris Betts’s Sexy Spirituality," Marti Eads, Valparaiso University

"The Cheerleader: Sexual Awakenings in the Fiction of Jill McCorkle," Rhonda Cawthorn, ???

"Oral History: Sex and Salvation in the Novels of Lee Smith (On Reconciling Erotic and Maternal," Linda Byrd Cook, Sam Houston State University

"Southern Comfort: Transsexuals in the Deep South," Lisa Johnson, Lenoir-Rhyne College

"Forcing Readers to Deal with Modern Issues: Ruth Rendell’s Use of Psychology in From Doon With Death, Kirsten L. Boatwright, Middle Tennessee State University

"Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Ruth Rendell," Peter M. McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University

"Michelle Spring: The Female Detective in Cambridge, England," Mary Hadley, Georgia Southern University

"The Continuing Irony of American History," Brian E. Butler, The University of North Carolina at Asheville

"Turner’s Frontier Thesis: From Scholarly Paper to Academic Industry," Tom Frazier, Cumberland College

"2-1: America’s Longest-Running Higher Education Desegregation Case," Clyde V. Williams, Mississippi State University

"Rhetorical Haptics in Musical Aesthesis: Are You Feeling Me?," Jon Radwan, Seton Hall University

"’My Professors Wear Leather in Their Punk Band!’: A Look Through the Johari Window at Discordant Self Identities," Chrys Egan and John Duick Egan, Salisbury University

"Seriously Funny: an Oxymoron to Live by," David Oates, Athens, Georgia

"‘The Cockraoch on My Tounge’: Performance and Analysis of Autobiographical Poems," Dennis Leoutsakas, Salisbury University

"How a Religious Talk Show Moved into Mainstream Cable Programming," Andy Freeman, Regent University

"Can the Mouse Stay Religious," Andrew Quicke, Regent University

"The Clarke County (Alabama) Veterans Memorial: A Reflective Artifact of Five Wars," Alison English, Vanguard University

"The Art of Peacemaking Sculpture: Composition, Format, and Interactivity in Visual Rhetoric," Jonah Rice, Southeastern Illinois College

"The Norfolk King Memorial: Twenty-five Years and Eighty Feet," Ellen Kleiman, Regent University

"Henry James Goes Digital: Latest Film Treatments and Their Web Resources," Joanne E. Gates, Jacksonville State University

"Hegemonic Thinness and the Hollywood Ideal," Michelle Selk, Regent University

"Comparing Two Cultures with French Films and their American Remakes," Jeri DeBois King and Anthony Scavillo, Converse College

"Pooh-poohing the Postmoderns: Frederick Crews and Parody," Larry Gentry, Midle Tennessee State University

"E-Books and Paperbacks: A Model for the Revolution?" Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University

"Electronic Publishing: The Case for Science Fiction Bibliographies," Elizabeth Cummins, University of Missouri – Rolla