NEPCA Conference Program
NORTHEAST
POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Friday,
Oct. 23 – Saturday, Oct. 24 Queensborough Community College
Please note that this
program is not the final version of papers actually delivered at the
conference. College and University
administrators or others wishing to verify papers actually delivered should
consult the version that will be distributed at the conference in October and
cross check that version with the list of participants that will be posted on
this website in November.
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 23
Registration,
4-6 PM, Student Union
SESSION
I: 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Panel 1:
Location: Medical
Arts MC 21
Chair: Megan Elias,
Thomas Beal, SUNY Oneonta
Mark Bernhardt,
Mark Sullivan,
Panel 2: New
Approaches to Sex Studies
Location: Medical
Arts MC 28
Chair:
Anika Stafford,
Independent Scholar
Megan George, SUNY Fredonia
Sara M. Rofofsky
Marcus,
Panel
3: Student Publication, Pop Culture Intervention
Location:
Medical Arts MC 29
Chair: Carol-Ann Farkas,
Octavia Davis,
Joel Kuszai,
· “No Diff That Makes a
Diff”
Bill
Marsh,
Panel
4: Philosophy
Location:
Medical Arts MC 30
Chair: Susan Jacobowitz,
· “God is Dead, God is
Sidney Crosby (or Lebron James): The Team Franchise Player
as the Embodiment of Friedrich Nietzsche's ‘Will to Power’ and the ‘Higher
Man’”
Elena
Chou,
· “The Daily Show and Television News: Marking Messages in the Medium”
Gerald
Erion,
· “Batman and Godwin:
Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies”
Tim
Madigan,
Panel 5: War and Culture
Location: Medical
Arts MC 31
Chair: David K. Vaughan, Air Force Institute of
Technology
Keith Muchowski,
New York City Institute of Technology
Rose Ethel Althaus
Meza,
Edward R. Schmidke,
Panel 6: Ethnicity
and Identity in Art and Film
Location: Medical
Arts MC 33
Chair: Monica Berger, New York City College of
Technology
· “Coisa Ruim as Gothic Cinema: Folkloric Hauntings and the Portuguese Abhuman”
Juan
Ramos,
· “Learning From
Tijuana: Teaching Experimental Ethnic Arts in the Classroom”
Tony
Ruiz, University of Colorado
· “Intercultural
Performance Conjunto
as a Traditional Narrative of Disidentification”
Yurkia Tamura,
Panel 7: Religion and
Visions of “The End”
Location: Medical
Arts MC 41
Chair: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred
· “Apocalypse After
9/11”
James
Aston and John Walliss,
· “A New Look at the
End Times: Christian Scare Films of the 1970s”
Kurt
Morris,
· “Life after Death in
Jewish Scriptures: Ancient Israelite and Acadian Documents and Customs”
Itah Sneh,
Panel 8: Politics and
Culture
Location: Medical
Arts M 140
Chair: Amy Traver,
Peter Bales,
Jeffrey Gaab,
Andrew Liptak,
Panel
9: Illness Discourses and Modern
Capitalist Societies
Location: Oakland Room
Chair: Alicia Sinclair,
Ron Bishop,
David Alan Rego,
Independent Scholar
Candace Skibba,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 10: Film
Writers and Directors
Location:
Chair: Michael T. Schuyler,
John Luchetti,
University at
Karen Offitzer,
Carl Nabonsky,
University at
Maria C. Lizzi,
SUNY New Paltz
Wine
and Cheese Reception, 6-8, Student Union
SPECIAL
EVENT: Poetry Reading by QCC students, 7-8, Oakland Room. Event part of the Queensborough Celebration of
Faculty & Student Creative Writing Conference, also being held on the QCC
campus.
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 24
Registration
and Coffee, 8-8:30, Student Union
SESSION
II: 8:30 – 10:00am
Panel 11: Fashion and
Body Image
Location: Medical
Arts MC 21
Chair:
Joe Hancock,
Rustum Ertug Altinay,
Monica S. Gallamore,
Benjamin Legg,
Panel 12: Sex and
Sexuality
Location: Medical
Arts MC 28
Chair: Tim Hagopian,
David Palmer,
Elia Eliev,
Eva Kowalska,
Graduate
Robert Scott Stewart, Cape Breton
University
Panel 13: TV
Detectives
Location: Medical
Arts MC 29
Chair:
Jean Murley,
Mary Kirby-Diaz,
Scott Korman,
Independent Scholar
Margaret Tally,
Panel 14: “Take Me
Out to the Ballgame”: Baseball and American Culture
Location: Medical
Arts MC 30
Chair:
Rob Weir,
Kevin Kaufmann, Loyola University of Chicago
Tanya Lovejoy, Southern
Michael Meloy,
Panel 15: World Literature
Location: Medical
Arts MC 31
Chair:
Robert Niemi, St. Michael’s College
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred
Meg Holland,
Lance Eaton, North Shore Community
College/Salem
Panel 16: Race and
Racism in American Culture
Location: Medical
Arts MC 33
Chair:
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson,
Cynthia Bond, John Marshall School
of Law
Darryl E. Graham,
· “Racial Humor, Black
Laughter, and Whiteface in Dave Chapelle's Chapelle Show (2003)”
Maryanne
Pia Rey Hipolito Laurico,
Panel 17: Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend I
Location: Medical
Arts MC 41
Chair:
Michael A. Torregrossa, The
Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Joseph Rainone,
Independent Scholar
Geoff Klock,
Borough of
Marlene San Miguel Groner,
Panel 18: History and Uses of the Past
Location: Medical
Arts M 140
Chair: Howard Wach,
Brian de Ruyter,
Paula Kopacz,
Eastern
Francisco Salvador
Joao Mascarenhas
Mateus,
Panel 19: Cultural Imaginings of Individual and Public
Health
Location: Oakland
Room
Chair:
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman,
Gloria Kim,
Virginia S. Cowen,
Rebecca Howes-Mischel,
Panel 20: Cinema and National Identity
Location:
Chair: Cynthia Miller,
Peter Catapano,
Erin O’Donnell,
Tom Saunders,
·
“Nollywood’s Challenge: Restructuring Sociological
Perceptions of Diasporic Black Life Through Film”
Sharron Greaves, Nyack College
SESSION
III: 10:30 AM – 12:00 pm
Panel 21: Humor
Location: Medical Arts 21
Chair: Michael T. Schuyler,
Evan Cooper,
Joseph Dorinson,
Jeffrey Cain, Sacred
Panel 22: Cultural
Portrayals of the Human Body
Location: Medical
Arts MC 28
Chair: Megan Elias,
Afife Idil Akin, Stony Brook University
Kartik Nair,
Stephane Valognes,
Universite de Caen
Panel 23: Television
Location: Medical Arts
MC 29
Chair: Bruce Cohen, Worcester State College
Roberta Brody,
Kim Kaiman,
Independent Scholar
Ethan de Seife,
Panel 24: Sports and
Cultural Identity
Location: Medical
Arts MC 30
Chair: Simon Davis,
Steve Greenfield & Guy Osborn,
Brian Anse Patrick,
Panel 25: Detective
Fiction
Location: Medical
Arts MC 31
Chair: Ellen Higgins, Independent Scholar
John Athanasourelis,
Suzie Remilien,
Frank Salamone,
·
“The
Original CSI: NY – Anna Katherine Green”
Ellen Higgins, Independent Scholar
Panel 26: East Asian Popular Cultures
Location: Medical
Arts MC 33
Chair:
Tim Hagopian,
Se Young
Chiaoning
Su,
Nogin
Chung,
Panel 27: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend II
Location: Medical
Arts MC 41
Chair:
Marlene San Miguel Groner,
Michael A. Torregrossa,
The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the
Middle Ages
John Sexton,
April Selley,
Panel 28: Religion
Location: Medical
Arts M 140
Chair: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred
· “Outfitting the
Mystical Body, 1940s-1960s”
Sally
Dwyer-McNulty,
· “Selling the Sizzle:
Balancing Innovation and Authenticity in the Packaged Pilgrimage Market”
Hillary
Kaell,
Lisa Stepanski,
Panel 29: Hitting
Rock Bottom: How Popular Culture (Mis)represents Addiction and Mental Illness
Location: Oakland
Room
Chair:
Stacie
Dien Ho,
Carol-Ann Farkas,
Panel 30: The
Workings of the Film Industry
Location:
Chair: Cynthia Miller,
Stephen B. Armstrong,
Colin Helb,
Brian Oakes,
Lunch,
12-1:30 PM, Student Union
SESSION
IV: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Panel 31: Children
and Teens
Location: Medical
Arts MC 21
Chair: Amy Traver,
Beth Anne Cook-Cornell, Wentworth Institute
of Technology
Caitlin O’Neill Gutierrez,
Susie A. Skarl,
Ruth Osorio,
Panel 32: Sexual
Identity in Film and Literature
Location: Medical
Arts MC 28
Chair: John Talbird,
Laura Felschow,
University at
Mo
Clarence W. Tweedy III,
Panel
33: Science and Technology
Location:
Medical Arts MC 29
Chair: Amos St. Germain,
Wentworth Institute of Technology
· “The Folk’s on You
(Tube): American Folk and Popular Music in the New Millennium”
Christopher
Gleason, Wentworth Institute of Technology
· "Please Stand By:
75 Years of Technical Difficulties"
Helen
York, University of Maine
· "New Science,
New Nature: the Wilderness Movement in the Popular
Presses, 1850-1900"
Dale
Potts,
· "Neo-paganism Creeps into Modern Technology."
Joseph
Santacroce, Wentworth
Institute of Technology
Panel 34: Celebrities and Entertainment
Location: Medical
Arts MC 30
Chair: Peter C. Holloran,
Ellyn Lem,
University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
Kathleen Banks Nutter, Stony Brook
University
Michael T. Schuyler,
Panel 35: American Literature
Location: Medical
Arts MC 31
Chair: Mark Madigan,
James R. Belpido,
Lisa Martin, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo
Rose De Angelis,
Panel 36: Irish
Location: Medical
Arts MC 33
Chair: Margaret Wiley,
· “The Irish Bridget,
1840-1930: Behind the Stereotype”
Margaret
Lynch-Brennan, Independent Scholar
· “Carrying the Cross
and the Shamrock: The Famine Generation's Fear of Assimilation”
Zuhal Palabiyik,
· “Miniaturizing Irishness: Kathy Centracchio’s
‘Charming Irish Cottage’”
Maggie
Williams,
Panel 37: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend III
Location: Medical
Arts MC 41
Chair:
April Selley,
Kristine Larsen,
Jenny Abeles,
Derek S.McGrath,
Stony Brook University
John Walliss,
Panel 38: Cartoons, Comics and Graphic Novels
Location: Medical
Arts M 140
Chair: Dien Ho,
Thomas Britt,
Susan Jacobowitz,
Laura Perna,
Independent Scholar
Panel 39: Literature,
Television, and Rock Band Depictions of Illness
Location: Oakland
Room
Chair: Stacie Spencer,
Mary
Joan Dupres,
Christine
Julia Rodas,
Panel 40: Finding the
“Truth” in Film
Location:
Chair:
Cynthia Miller,
Philippe Mathieu, Universite de Montreal
Barbara Roos,
Andrea Siegel,
SPECIAL
PLENARY SESSION, 3:00-5:00 PM, Oakland Room
“Murder and Mayhem in Queens - Panel Discussion and Book Signing with Queens Noir Authors”
Location:
Oakland Room
Moderator: Jillian Abbott
Panelists:
Alan Gordon, K. J. A. Wishnia, Patricia King and
Joseph Guglielmelli
Authors with stories in Queens Noir,
an anthology containing twenty original crime stories set in Queens County, the
largest NYC borough, will discuss their stories and other works contributing to
contemporary popular culture.
Jillian Abbott, a resident of Bayside and a journalist and award-winning short
story writer, is author of the Morgan Blake thrillers and at work on a new
mystery series; Alan Gordon, a resident of Queens’ second oldest co-op and a
lawyer with the Legal Aid Society, is author of the Fool’s Guild Mysteries,
including The Moneylender of Toulouse
and The Lark's Lament; K. J. A. Wishnia, who teaches literature and writing at Suffolk
Community College, once taught at Queens College, CUNY, and created the mystery
series featuring the Equadorian-American PI, Filomena Buscarsela, which
debuted with 23 Shades of Black;
Patricia King, author of the world-wide best-selling Never Work for a Jerk
series, has published her first novel City
of Silver: A Mystery under the name Annamaria
Alfieri (Minotaur Books); Joseph Guglielmelli, an
attorney and former co-owner of the Black Orchid Bookstore, a New York
institution, won the 2008 Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for “Buckner's Error”
in Queens Noir.
Queens Noir, an anthology that
contains twenty original crime stories, is set in Queens county, the largest
NYC borough, and home to two beaches, two airports, Aqueduct Racetrack, and three
elevated train structures. Focused on different neighborhoods, including
Bayside, the stories show the ethnically diverse nature of this “borough of
immigrants,” consisting of 2.2 million residents, forty-eight percent of whom
are foreign-born. In fifty-plus distinct neighborhoods with 140 different
languages spoken, residents include Chinese, Koreans, Indians, Pakistanis,
Bangladeshis, Guyanese, Jamaicans, Haitians, Trinidadians, Colombians,
Ecuadorians, Dominicans, Mexicans, Filipinos, and Greeks.
NEPCA
Executive Meeting, 3-4 PM,
NEPCA
GUIDE TO BAYSIDE
DRIVING DIRECTIONS
From
Upstate
Take
I-87 (
Take
Take
I-95 Northbound to
Take
I-295 Southbound (bear right at fork) to
Take
Take
Route 25A Westbound (Exit 31W; Northern Boulevard). Proceed about 4 blocks.
Turn
Left at
Turn
Left at
Main
campus entrance is on the Left.
From
Central and
Take
I-84 Westbound
Take
I-684 Southbound (Exit 20).
At
Take I-95 Southbound (Exit 4S). Proceed 2 miles.
Take
I-695 Southbound (bear left at fork) to
Merge
onto I-295. Cross
Take
Take
Route 25A Westbound (Exit 31W; Northern Boulevard). Proceed about 4 blocks.
Turn
Left at
Turn
Left at
Main
campus entrance is on the Left.
From
Southern and Eastern
Take
I-95 Southbound.
Take
I-695 Southbound (bear left at fork) to
Merge
onto I-295. Cross
Take
Take
Route 25A Westbound (Exit 31W; Northern Boulevard). Proceed about 4 blocks.
Turn
Left at
Turn
Left at
Main
campus entrance is on the Left.
From
Take
I-95 to the
Take
I-295 Southbound (bear right at fork) to
Take
Take
Route 25A Westbound (Exit 31W; Northern Boulevard). Proceed about 4 blocks.
Turn
Left at
Turn
Left at
Main
campus entrance is on the Left.
From
Take I-495
Westbound
Take Exit 29 toward
Proceed straight to go onto Horace Harding
Expressway Northbound.
Turn Right onto
Turn Right onto
Main
campus entrance is on the Left.
SUBWAY/BUS DIRECTIONS
FROM
Take
the 7 Train at
Get
off at
When
you get off the train follow the signs to the Q27 Bus. Once you walk above ground, the Q27 is just
around the corner to the left. Take the
Q27 Bus heading towards
The
Q27 Bus stops right on QCC’s campus. The
bus will drop you off close to the bookstore on
Once
you get off the bus, you are going to follow the path diagonally to your left
and up the hill. The
COMMUTER RAIL DIRECTIONS
FROM
Another
option if coming from
It
is about a 20-30 min. walk from Bayside Station to the QCC campus. Once you get off the train, walk up the
ramp. Once you get to the street (
You
can also take a taxi from Bayside Station, or use Kelly’s Car Service, which is
right there when you come up the ramp from the train. Their phone number is (718) 229-6161. The fare is $6 per person for the car
service.
AIRPORTS AND TAXIS
Queens
is the home of
Passenger
Information:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rate.shtml
HOTELS
Walking
Distance from QCC
Adria Hotel and
222-17
Northern Boulevard
Bayside, NY 11361
718-631-5900
Ramada Inn
220-33
Northern Boulevard
Bayside, NY 11361
718-631-4900
Anchor Inn
215-34
Northern Boulevard
Bayside, NY 11361
718-428-8000
Other Nearby Hotels
The Andrew
75
North Station Plaza
Great Neck, NY 110221
516-482-2900
Half block to Great Neck rail station, 30
minutes to
Inn at Great Neck
30
Cutter Mill Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
516-773-2000
Two blocks to Great Neck rail station, 30
minutes to
Holiday Inn-Laguardia
Airport
718-651-2100
15 minute drive to QCC
Mariott Laguardia Airport
718-565-8900
15 minute drive to QCC
Crowne Plaza Hotel Laguardia Airport
718-457-6300
15 minute drive to QCC
RESTAURANTS
The
Bayside area (particularly Northern & Bell Boulevards) boasts a wide range
of restaurants; suggestions follow.
Conference-goers interested in traveling outside of the immediate
neighborhood might also enjoy the Indian restaurants of
Avli
718.224.7575
Greek fare
718.224.2200
Pub fare
Cascarino’s
718.229.7433
Italian fare, pizza
Dae Dong Bayside Restaurant
220-15
Northern Blvd
Bayside, NY 11361
(718) 224-1191
Korean fare
Donovan’s Grill &
Tavern
718.423.5353
Burgers, steaks,
American fare
Erawan Seafood and Steak
http://www.erawan-seafoodandsteak.com/directions.html
718.229.1620
Seafood and steak
Fino Wine & Tapas
718.229.1330
Wine bar, European fare
Giardino’s
718.428.1090
Italian fare
Il Bacco
253-08 Northern Boulevard
718.224.7657
Italian fare
718.281.0330
Burgers, chicken sandwiches, salads
Martha’s Country Bakery
718.225.5200
Baked goods
Northern Manor
251-15 Northern Boulevard
718.281-1500
Cantonese fare, dim sum
718.224.5622
Japanese steak house
& sushi
Papazzio
39-38
718.229.1962
Italian fare
Press 195
Panini sandwiches,
extensive beer menu
Thai Eatery
242-03 Northern Blvd.
http://thai-eatery.com/_wsn/page2.html
718.224.8666
Thai fare
Uncle Jack’s
Steakhouse
718.229.1100
American fare
This guide was
prepared by Emily Bodoh, Virginia Cowen, Amy Traver, and Mark D. Van Ells
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