Friday, 5 October
	Registration: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Conference Foyer
8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Panels
(31) Beyond Bond: Heroism in the Postmodern Universe of Spy Kids (Island C) Chair. Mary Pharr, Florida Southern C.	"The Old and the New: Epic Elements in Spy Kids." Sarah Lanius, Florida Southern C. "Not Cool Enough? Adults in Spy Kids." Danielle Whaley, Florida Southern C. "Floop's World: Spy Kids and Its Postmodern Universe." Lisa Reynolds.
(32) Spin City: Current Writers Re-visit/Re-vise Great Art (Island B) Chair: Salome Nnoromele, Eastern Kentucky U.	"Defender of the Faith: John Garner's Grendel." Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky U. "Foe, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Mary Reilly: Who is the Madwoman in the Attic?" Deborah Core, Eastern Kentucky U. "The Object of the Gaze Finds a Voice: Recent Fiction on Paintings by Vermeer." Barbara Hussey, Eastern Kentucky U.
(33) The Printed Word—with Pictures (Plantation N) Chair: Sarah Davis, Chowan C.	"Journeying to the Present Through the Past: The Levels of Story in Passage to Marseille." John Davis, Chowan C. "'O See the People!' Elements of Carnival in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madame Knight." Stephanie Gordon, U of Georgia. "Picturing Lives: Early Use of Visual Images in American Autobiography." David Dudley, Georgia Southern U
(34) Contemporary Presidents and Public Discourse (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Milford Jeremiah, Morgan State U	"The Department of Defense and Hotel Warriors: A Different Persian Gulf Conflict." Oscar Patterson, III, U of North Florida. "Goodbye to the Good Life: A Rhetorical Analysis of Clinton's Farewell Address." Richard Knecht, U of Toledo. "President Bush and Syntactic Structures." Milford Jeremiah.
(35) Place and History (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Dan Miller, U of South Carolina-Aiken.	"Founding and Early Life: Graniteville Mill of Aiken, SC." Sandy Smith, Newberry C. "History for Hire: Sam Swint's Search for a 'Popular' History of Graniteville." Calvin Smith, U of South Carolina-Aiken. "Mountain View, Arkansas: Holding on to History and Culture." Teresa Collard & Lisa LeBleu, U of Tennessee-Martin.
(36) The Other in Popular Culture (Fernandina - Slide Projector/Screen) Chair: Michele Boyette, U of North Florida	"Representing Otherness in American Movies About AIDS: The Cinematic Tradition of Otherness in Melodramas Meets HIV/AIDS." Kylo-Patrick Hart, UVA-College at Wise. "Gendering 'The Thing on the Doorstep': Racial and Sexual Others in the Late Work of H. P. Lovecraft." James Hissom, West Virginia U Institute of Technology. "'Roswell' Redux: From Myth to Melodrama." Rhonda Wilcox, Gordon C. "Oklahoma Post Office Murals: Home of the 'Other.’" L. Marcile Taylor, Wesleyan C.
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Panels
(37) Spin City: Current Writers Re-visit/Re-vise Great Art (cont'd.) (Ponte Vedra) Chair: Salome Nnoromele, Eastern Kentucky U.	"Re-writing Cinderella Stories and Empowering Girls." Isabelle White, Eastern Kentucky U. "Sherlock in Love and the Subversion of the Male Paradigm." Bonnie Plummer, Eastern Kentucky U. "'Rather a widow with her husband alive': Restoring Female Presence in Melville's Absence." Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky U.
(38) New Waves in Detective/Mystery Fiction (Plantation N) Chair: Lewis Moore, U of the District of Columbia	"Recreating Spenser: Autonomy in Robert B. Parker's Newest Detective: Sunny Randall." Donna Harper. "'In Country': Samantha Hughes, Girl Sleuth." Mary Marwitz, Georgia Southern U. "Cat in a Flurry of Forms: Genre Blending and Bending in Carole Nelson Douglas's Midnight Louie Series/Serial." Lillian Heldreth, Northern Michigan U. NOTE: This session is a special interest caucus in detective and mystery fiction; all persons interested in this genre are invited to participate in a discussion of relevant topics and issues following the panelists’ presentations
(39) The Contemporary Music Scene (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Paul Peterson, Coastal Carolina U.	"Postmodern Bandstand: TRL and the Creation of Virtual Community." Richard Olsen, Jr., U of North Carolina-Wilmington. "Rags to Riches: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Ironies of Capitalism in the Lyrics and Music Videos of Hip-Hop Music." Gabriel Dobson, Berry C. "Igor Got Game: A Musical and Legal Comparison of The Beastie Boys and Igor Stravinsky." E. Michael Harrington, Belmont U.
(40) Presidential Images from the Past (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: George Hopkins, C of Charleston	"Ulysses S. Grant: Photography and the Transparency of the Image." Carole Adams, U of Central Florida. "A 'Bully' Time with the Press: Theodore and Edith Roosevelt's Use of the Press and Family Life in the White House." Tom Lansford, New England C. "'Thomas Jefferson Still Lives': Representations of Thomas Jefferson in Public, Popular, and Educational Culture." John Hare, Montgomery C-Germantown
(41) Popular Pastimes (Fernandina - Slide Projector/Screen) Chair: William Klink, C of Southern Maryland	"'Is It All a Game?' The Folklore Aspects of Role Playing Games." Paul Pittman & Jason Whisnant, Shelby, NC "Arcade Skill Cranes: The Plush Animal Trap." Elaine Ware, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "Boys, Build Your Own Monster." Thomas Graham, Flagler College.
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
(42) Luncheon on the Verandah (Island B & C, if weather is inclement)	"The Art of the Writer." Bob Stanton, Jacksonville University, speaker.
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panels
(43) Teaching Shakespeare (Ponte Vedra) Chair: Emily Miller, Virginia Military Institute	Panelists: Margaret Oakes, Furman U; Merrilee Cunningham, U of Houston-Downtown; Hugh Davis, Hertford County HS; Emily Miller. (Note: This session is a special interest caucus on Shakespeare as part of the secondary and post-secondary curriculum; all persons interested in Shakespeare are invited to participate in a discussion of issues following the panelists’ comments.
(44) Caroliniana (Plantation N - screen only) Chair: Ron Buchanan, Northern Virginia C.C.-Manassas	"The Lost Colony: Perennially Popular Carolinian Culture." Sarah Davis, Chowan C "You Betcha Bible: Gambling and Changing Cultural Conflicts in South Carolina." Carol Botsch, U of South Carolina-Aiken & Robert Botsch, U of South Carolina-Aiken. "Women as Sources in Weekly Newspapers in South Carolina: Opportunities for Diversity?" Kenneth Campbell, U of South Carolina.
(45) Feminism (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Karen Carmean, Converse C	"The Dead Horse that is Still Kicking" Feminism in the Twenty-first Century." Tamara Wilson, Flagler C. "Alice Guy Blache's The Making of an American Citizen: Ideologies of Gender and Nationalism." Christina Bucher, Berry C. "The Neutral Zone." Julie Douberly & Heather Holloway, Georgia Southern U.
(46) Women, Violence & Alien Abductions (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Beckie Flannagan, Francis Marion U.	"Domestic Violence in the Disco Era: The Portrayal of Domestic Violence in 1970s Films." Christine Hanlon, U of Central Florida. "Women's Lives in the Context of Violence." Lorraine Gilpin, Georgia Southern U. "What Women Want: The Female Abduction Narrative." Angela Hague, Middle Tennessee State U
(47) Metaphor & Myth (Fernandina - Slide Projector/Screen) Chair: Alan Brown, U of West Alabama.	"The Tar Baby on the Big Road in Popular Culture and Southern Literature." Bruce Bickley, Jr., Florida State U. "Inferring the Past: Memory and Imagination in the Poetry of Eavan Boland." James Earnest & James Cohen, Murray State U. "The Influence of Contemporary Myths on the Sub-structure of Our Social Intercourse." Patricia Walker, Georgia Southern U
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Panels
(48) Infusing the Curriculum with Popular Culture (Island C) Chair: John Zubizarreta, Columbia C.	Panel: Christine Hait, Melissa Heidari, & Maria Lamonaca, Columbia C. (NOTE: This session is a special interest caucus devoted to teaching popular culture as part of various curricula. All persons interested in the teaching of popular culture are invited to participate in the discussion.)
(49) Contemporary South(west)ern Humor (Island B) Chair: Ed Piacentino, High Point U.	"Southern Humor on the Electronic Frontier." Derek Alderman, East Carolina U. "Donald Harington and Old Southwest Humor." Larry Vonalt, U of Missouri-Rolla. "The Enduring Trickster Tradition in African-American Literature." Winifred Morgan, Edgewood C. "Intersecting Paths: William Price Fox and the Legacy of Southwestern Humor." Ed Piacentino.
(50) Laid-back Humor in Word and Music (Plantation N) Host: Lawrence Mintz, U of Maryland	"A Modern Woman in Conservative Dress: The Songs of Amy Rigby". Paul Peterson, Coastal Carolina U. "Friedman’s Humor, Kinky and Straight, Song and Story". Lawrence Mintz, U of Maryland. (NOTE: Weather permitting, this session will meet on the Verandah)
(51) Religion, Politics, and Popular Culture (Island A - VCR/TV) Chair: Thomas Van, U of Louisville	"Competing Fictions: The Uses of Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Contemporary Popular Fictional Works". Thomas Doyle. "Undoing the Eucharist: Abjection and the Mouth of God from Jonathan Edwards to 'Terminator 2,' 'The Matrix,' and 'Alien Resurrection'". Sam Kimball, U of North Florida. "Slobodan Milosovic and the Field of Blackbirds: Myth and Epic Tradition in Kosovo". Thomas Van.
(52) African-American Literature (Amelia - Overhead projector/screen) Chair: Sally Nielsen, Florida C.C. at Jacksonville.	"Langston Hughes's 'Don't You Want To Be Free?': How Long Will It Take?" Page Richards, U of Hong Kong. "'Like Chromosomes': Marianne Moore's Syllabic Poems." James Smith, Jr., Armstrong Atlantic State U. "Lessons Before Dying: Socrates and Ernest Gaines' Jefferson Compared." Raymond Ruble, Appalachian State University.
(53) Public Arguments (Fernandina - Slide Projector/Screen) Chair: Douglas Carter, Virginia Western C.C.	"Food Fight: Bias, Censorship, and Fear Appeals in 'Genetically Modified Food' Reporting." Chris Egan & John Egan, U of Georgia. "Nature as a Home and Resource: Conflicting Metaphors in a Rural Community." Jane Rowe. "Warrior Saints, Covert Crucifixions and Succoring Angels: Religious Imagery in the Poster Art of the Great War." William Badgett, Virginia Military Institute. "Toward an Allegorical Imperative: Aptonyms, Eponyms, and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy." Roger Gaddis, Gardner-Webb C.
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
	(54) Business Meeting (Island C)
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m
	(55) Reception - cash bar - on the Verandah (Island B, if weather is inclement)