Thursday, 4 October
	Registration: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Foyer
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. Panels
(1) Floridaze: Life and Culture of the Host State (Prologue) (Island C) Chair: Harriette Dodson	"Not Yo' Daddy's Restrooms Anymore: A Review of the Bodily Comforts and Aesthetic Delights of Beaches Facilities in the 21st Century." Steve Piscitelli & Sally Nielsen, Florida C.C. "Laughing to Keep from Dying: Crime and Comedy in the Novels of Florida Writers Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey." Sarah Fogle, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. "Apocryphal American History: Washington Irving's True Account of the Tall Tale That Was Told All Floridians for Two Hundred Years about William Pope." Harriette Dodson.
(2) From Harriet Nelson to Claire Huxtable and Beyond: Images of American Women in Television (Island B) Chair: Vivia Fowler, Columbia C.	Panel: Kendra Stewart, Columbia C.; Joyce Fields, Columbia C.; Vivia Fowler NOTE: This panel discussion examines women's roles in the family and related issues of education, economics, and women's rights as depicted in sitcoms; it also suggests pedagogical uses of these issues in various courses.)
3) American Film from the "Golden Age" (Plantation N) Chair: J. Dennis Bounds, Regent U.	"Bing Did It, Fred Did It, Even Mickey and Judy Did It: Blackface Numbers in Hollywood Musicals." Michael Dunne, Middle Tennessee State U. "The Prisonhouse of the Studio: The Hollywood Classic Style as Total Institution." Chris Barnes, Middle Georgia C. "'Say It isn't So': Voice-over As Narrative Qualifier in Film." Leonard Heldreth, Northern Michigan U.
(4) ) Witchcraft and the Unreal in Culture and Literature (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: William Badley, Middle Tennessee State U.	"Witches, Women, and Feminists, Oh My!: The Evolution of Witches in Pop Culture." Cathy Colton, C of Lake County. "Making Magic Real: The Rhetoric of Harry Potter." Erin Gallagher, Ohio U. "Writing against the Fans: Writers' Antagonism for the Audience in The X-Files, Roswell, and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer." Linda Howell, U of North Florida.
(5) Testing Relations: The Question of British Neutrality and the Confederate Navy in the Civil War (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Alan Down, Georgia Southern U.	"Bulloch at Birkenhead: The 'Trial Run' of No. 290." Cory Andrews, Tulane U "One Last Poke in Brother Jonathan's Eye: The Collusion of the Royal Yacht Deerhound in the Escape of the Officers of the CSS Alabama." Donald Rakestraw, Georgia Southern U. "When is a Prize Not a Prize?: The CSS Alabama off Capetown." Charity Rakestraw, Berry C. Comments. Alan Down.
(6) Questions of Race & Gender (Fernandina - VCR/TV; Slide Projector/Screen) Chair: Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern U.	"Unpacking the Backstory: From Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy to Darryl Zanuck's Pinky." Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken. "Beyond Love and Theft? New Orleans' White Negroes." Helen Regis, Louisiana State U. "In the Heart of the Darkness, Does Gender Matter?" Nancy Parker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. "'Man! I Think I Feel Like a Woman!'--The (Re)Making of Meaning for (Post)Modern Women." Catherine Greene, Auburn U.
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Panels
(7) The 1950s on Film, Then and Now: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Escaping the 1950s (Island C) Chair: William Jones, Virginia Wesleyan C	"Mickey Mouse Speaks: Interviews with Walt Disney in the 1950s." Kathy Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan C. "Technicolor Objects and Technicolor Aesthetics." Christine Sprengler, Birbeck C. "Reconstructing Patriarchy: Psychoanalysis of American Psycho and the Social Legacy of the 1950s." Cary Jones, Smith C. "It Came From Under the '50s: The Rejection of Nostalgia in Pleasantville, October Sky, Blast From the Past, and Other Films About the ‘50s." William Jones.
(8) (Post)Identity Culture: Desire, Vampires and Science Fiction (Island B) Chair: David Dudley, Georgia Southern U.	"Desire and Power: Deleuze and Dracula." William Reynolds, Georgia Southern U. "Vampires and Youth Culture(s)." Marla Morris, Georgia Southern U. "Donna Haraway and Science Fiction." John Weaver, Georgia Southern U
(9) Film 101: Critical Views of Film I (Plantation N) Chair: Michael Dunne, Middle Tennessee State U	"The Sentient Computer in Science Fiction Film" Viewing Society's Acceptance of Technology as Reflected in Popular Culture". Mary Lopez, U of New Orleans. "Where the Beat Sounds the Same: What the U2 Concert Reveals about Patrick Bateman in Ellis' American Psycho." Gwen Hale, East Tennessee State U. "Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Hollywood-Style Murder of History". Jid Lee, Middle Tennessee State U
(10) Wrestling and Its Impact on Today's Youth (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Donna Harper, Antioch, TN	"Developing and Organizing Backyard Wrestling Tournaments." Jimmy Ruderer, Nashville, TN. "Wrestlers Role Models: A Look at the Pros and Cons." Melissa Saliba, Nashville, TN. "Creating the Amazon Woman: Women in Professional Wrestling." Gillian Miller, Nashville, TN.
(11) Captain America" Changing Country, Changing Culture, Changing Hero (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon C.	Panelists: James Carter, U of Tennessee-Knoxville; Mark Bernard, U of Tennessee-Knoxville; Brannon Costello, U of Tennessee-Knoxville
(12) Getting Along Together (Fernandina - VCR/TV) Chair: Leonard Heldreth, Northern Michigan U.	"Race Relations and Religion in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." Similih Cordor, Florida CC at Jacksonville "All Out of Love: Assimilation and the 'Rehabilitation' of Tennessee Williams." Darryl Haley, East Tennessee State U. "'Cunnilingus and Psychiatry Brought Us to This': The Mob Mother Issues of The Sopranos." Mailin Barlow, Valencia C.
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Panels
(13) Southern Literature: The Joys and Difficulties of Teaching What We Love (Island C) Chair: Robert Doak, Wingate U.	"William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying." Larry Vonalt, U of Missouri-Rolla. "Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern U. "Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter." Robert McDonald, Virginia Military Institute. "John Grisham's The Painted House." Robert Doak. (Note: This session is a special interest caucus on Southern Literature; all persons interested in Southern Literature topics and issues are invited to participate in the discussion following the presentations.)
(14) Eating the Other in an Age of Post-progressive Politics (Island B) Chair: Deborah Covino, Florida Atlantic U	"The Cryptic Agenda in Boys on the Side: A Black Feminist Reading." Angelique Nixon, Florida Atlantic U. "The Queen Becomes King: Paternalism in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." Elena Ryan, Florida Atlantic U. "Radical Rap Presents That Old Time Religion: The Strange Case of Eminem." Lynda Koemm, Florida Atlantic U. "Making Over Blackness: 'Passing' and the Hidden Body on the Oprah Winfrey Show." Deborah Covino
(15) Transcendentalism Revisited (Plantation N) Chair: John Davis, Chowan C.	"Privileging the Future and Reinventing the Self in Emerson, Whitman, and Who Moved My Cheese?" Bennett Kravitz, U of Haifa. "Masquerade, Satire, and the Popular Figure of Melville's Con Man." John Zubizarreta, Columbia C. "’Green Spirituality,’ Transcendentalism, and Sisterhood: Environmentally Activist Women in Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer." Pamela Thomas, Wingate U.
(16) Students Analyze Hollywood's Teachers v. the Real Thing (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Donna Harper, Antioch, TN	Mr. Holland's Opus. Paige Duhl, Nashville, TN. Dangerous Minds. Cathryn Graf, Nashville, TN. "Boston Public v. Nashville High Schools." Emily Grace, Nashville, TN. Dead Poet's Society. Lesley Hodge, Nashville, TN.
(17) Apotheosis of Public Figures (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Sara Dunne, Middle Tennessee State U.	"St. Kate of Sarasota: The Canonization of Katherine Harris." James Brock, Florida Gulf Coast U. "St. Elvis: Redemption at the Shrine." Teri Mason, Christian Brothers U. "’I've Got You Under My Skin': The 'Americanization' of Frank Sinatra." Michael Frontani, Elon C.
(18) Film 102: Critical Views of Film II (Fernandina - VCR/TV) Chair: Jid Lee, Middle Tennessee State U.	"Sons of Celluloid: Recent Movies about Making Horror Movies." Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State U. "Western Parody / American Satire: Shanghai Noon, Blazing Saddles, and Cat Ballou." Mary Money, Gordon C. "Irreconcilable Differences: When East Meets West in David Lean’s Films". Sharon Robbins, U of North Florida. "The Edge of Detection: A Look at Wim Wenders's The Million Dollar Hotel." J. Dennis Bounds, Regent U
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Panels
19) Eating and Consuming in Literature and Film (Island C) Chair: Stephanie Gordon, U of Georgia.	"To Eat or Not to Eat: That Is the Digestion." Maryhelen Harmon, U. of South Florida. "You Are Not What You Eat (But What You Excrete): Fight Club, Cloaca, and the (Scato)Logic of Late Capitalism." Joe Flowers, U of North Florida. "Consumer Economics: The Postmodern Grotesque in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch." David Summar, Middle Tennessee State U.
(20) The First-Year Experience at Hogwarts (Island B) Chair: Shelley Aley, James Madison U.	"Hop on the Hogwarts Express: Bringing Imagination Back to the Masses". Ellen Hendrix, Georgia Southern U. "Moving Past the Muggles: Harry Potter's Progressive Education". Neal Saye, Georgia Southern U. "That Which Shall Not Be Named: First-Year Students Defining a Canon". Kathy Albertson, Georgia Southern U
(21) Human Development in Literature (Plantation N) Chair: Mary Marwitz, Georgia Southern U.	"Geopolitics and Gender-bending with Good Ol' Boys and Little Girls: Gibson's Virtual Light and Stephenson's Cyptonomicon." Emory Maiden, Appalachian State U. "Neal Stephenson's Science Fiction Women." William Badley, Middle Tennessee State U. "Ursula K. Le Guin: The Human Need to Forgive (Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995)." Elizabeth Cummins, U of Missouri-Rolla.
(22) Shakespeare: Hamlet, Richard III, and the Muppets Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Hugh Davis, Hertford HS	"Re-Drowning Ophelia: The Representation of Female Disintegration in Recent Films of Hamlet." Joanne Gates, Jacksonville State U. "Hamlet and the Self-Reflective Eye: Showing the Inner Hamlet in Film Versions of the Play." Richard Vela, U of North Carolina - Pembroke. "Popular Villainy: The Problem of Constructing British National Identity in Olivier's Richard III." Jared Johnson, U of Tennessee. "This Earth, This Realm, This Sesame Street: The Muppets and Shakespeare." Hugh Davis.
(23) The Body Politick: Remaking the Human Form (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Dennis Hall, U of Louisville	"My 'charming trademark'": Prosthetics and the Technology of the Self in Thomas Harris's Red Dragon." Alexander Menocal, U of North Florida. "Wearable Cinema: The Body in Theory--The Screen of Skin." Sharon Waters, Regents U. "Victoria's Secret: Is It Underwear or Is It Lingerie? Unraveling the Secret of 'Victoria's' Appeal to the Prurient Puritan Ethos in American Society." Marie Smith, Florida Community College at Jacksonville. (NOTE: This session is a special interest caucus on the body, clothes, and appearance. All persons in these matters are invited to participate in a discussion of topics and issues following the panelists’ presentations.
(24) Film 103: Critical Views of Films III (Fernandina - VCR/TV) Chair : Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State U.	"Poking Holes in Private Ryan: The Defiance of Genre Expectations in The Thin Red Line." Jay Smith, Florida Community College at Jacksonville. "Collision of Hierarchies in Ousmane Sembene's Camp de Thiaroye." Jeri King & Karen Carmean, Converse C. "Postmodernism in the Independent Films of Jeffrey Arsenault". Jeff Thompson, Tennessee State U.
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Panels	NOTE: STATE COORDINATORS MEETING (ISLAND C, BACK CORNER)
(25) Tony Soprano and Friends (Island B) Chair: William Jones, Virginia Wesleyan C	"Lost in the Funhouse: Talking Fish, Prozac Nightmares, and the Dream-Life of The Sopranos." David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State U. "The Sopranos and the Narratology of Food." Sara Dunne, Middle Tennessee State U. "'Psychoanalysis and Cunnilingus Have Brought Us to This': Livia and the Logic of False Hoods." Joseph Walker, Auburn U. "'What, No Fucking Ziti?' The Rhetoric of Narrative in The Sopranos." Michael Strickland, Elon C.
(26) New Directions in Literature (Plantation N) Chair: Robert Sandarg, U of North Carolina-Charlotte.	"Reading Hannibal through Rousseau's Critique of Bourgeois Liberalism." Catherine Connors & Tamara Lenard, U of Toronto. "Hegemony Cricket: James Hynes' Tales of Academic Horror." Jack Slay, Jr., & Dale Bailey, LaGrange C. "The Martial Arts in Literature." Robert Sandarg, U of North Carolina-Charlotte.
(27) It's a Man's World--Or Is It? (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Gary Harmon, U of North Florida	"Reverend Mary Erwin: Woman in the Pulpit." Lisa C. LeBleu, U of Tennessee-Martin; Teresa Collard, U of Tennessee-Martin. "The Breakdown of the Masculine Consumer: David Fincher Exposes Contemporary Men in Fight Club." Dava Simpson, U of South Florida. "Uh-Oh, White Guys as Victims? What's Happening?: Masculinity in American Film and Culture." Gary Harmon, U of North Florida.
(28) Popular Culture in Other Lands and Times (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair:	"The Rhetoric of a Radical: Understanding Paulo Freire's Preface to Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Marcela Chavan de Matviuk, Regent U. "Religious Celebrations in Segovia, Spain, 1613-1680." Michael McGrath, Georgia Southern U.
(29) Socialization Skills (Fernandina - VCR/TV) Chair: Lawrence Mintz, U of Maryland.	"College Student Subculture in the Late 19th Century Upper South." William Ellis, Eastern Kentucky University. "The End of Innocence: Changing Nature of Childhood." Lillian Daughaday, Murray State U. "Dude, Where's My...: Geezer Surfing and Immortality." William Klink, College of Southern Maryland.
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m	(30) Reception on Verandah (Island C, if weather is inclement