TENTATIVE CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
(9/30/12--Subject
to Change)
Note:
Only those papers designated by an asterisk (*) have been confirmed as of the
press time for NEPCA News (August 1).
Those seeking official confirmation of presentations should pick up the final
conference schedule, which will be distributed upon registration.
Deans,
department chairs, and others seeking to confirm the actual attendance of those
listed on the program should contact Executive Secretary Robert Weir after the conference.
TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, October 26, 2012: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Registration in the Golisano Midway Level, Basil Hall
Friday, October 26, 2012: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
American and English
Literature Basil 118
Chair: Rose De
Angelis, Marist College
Rose De Angelis (Marist College):
“Transforming Womanhood in Louisa Ermelino’s The Sisters Mallone”
Dustin
Hannum (University of Rochester): “Identities
Politics: Sheppard Lee,
Sentimentality, and the Antebellum
Problem of Personhood”
Richard
J. Gerber (Independent Scholar): “Goo Goo Goo Joob!:The
John Lennon/James Joyce Connection Through
Lewis Carroll’s “Looking-Glass”
Comics and Graphic
Novels I: Basil 119
Chair: Charles Natoli, St. John Fisher College
Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (SUNY Fredonia): “When the Abyss Looks Back: Treatments of Human Trafficking
in Superhero Comic Books”
Paul J. Spaeth
and Phillip G. Payne (St. Bonaventure University): “Jack Kirby’s (Captain)
Americans”
Charles Natoli
(St. John Fisher College): “Little Orphan Annie and Conservative Politics”
Global Cultures Basil
206
Chair: Lois Ascher, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Daisy V. Domínguez (The City College of New
York): “Native American Athletes and Sports on Film: Intercultural
Dialogs”
Emma Elise Pierce Schell
(Independent Scholar): “Considering Digital Borders: Online Fans (of Korean
Dramas) and Transnational Identity”
Emma Dassori
(Pine Manor College): “Gozzi and the
Commedia dell’Arte: Salvaging the Sacchi
Company”
Lois Ascher
(Wentworth Institute of Technology): “‘Sharing Strangers’: Strangers in the
Village”
Philosophy I: Ethics
and Popular Culture Basil 209
Chair: Tim
Madigan, St. John Fisher College
Tim Delaney (SUNY-Oswego): “Street Gang Portrayal in Popular Culture”
Gerald J. Erion
(Medaille College): “Through the Fun-House Mirror:
Jon Stewart on TV’s Entertainment Bias”
Tim Madigan (St. John Fisher
College: “‘And Good-Bye to You Too, Old Rights of
Man’: Ethical Dilemmas and Billy Budd”
Religion Basil 210
Chair: Jim Y.
Trammell, High Point University
Tim Davis (Columbus State and Otterbein University):
“Monk’s Bread: The History of the
Commercial Bakery at the Abbey of the Genesee”
Sabatino DiBernardo (University of Central Florida): “A Religion
Problem: Classification and the Pathologizing of the Religio-Political Other”
Jim Y. Trammell (High Point
University): “Selling Entertainment and Salvation: Thoughts Toward
Analyzing Christian Media Marketing”
Visual Culture and
Digital Media I: Basil 211
Chair: Tom Proeitti, St. John Fisher College
Tom Proietti (St. John Fisher
College): “The Social Revolution: The Future of Media”, a Panel Discussion with
4 Rochester Media Experts
Amanda DeVito, Director of Strategy &
Innovation at Butler/Till Media Services
Ray Martino, Partner, Martino Flynn
Julie Goonan,
Director of Advertising, Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Steve Dawe,
Director of Information, Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
War and Culture: When
the Battle is Over: Wars and Their Aftermath Basil 212
Chair: Mark Van
Ells, Queensborough Community College
Kyle Reinson
(St. John Fisher College) and Carolyn Vacca (St. John
Fisher College): “American Hero, Meet Corporate Culture: America’s First
Veteran-Owned Radio Station and the Struggle for Identity”
Ginger Cucolo
(Independent Scholar): “History of Dog Tags”
Steven Gardiner (Zayed
University): “In the Shadow of
Service: Veteran Masculinity and Civil-Military Disjuncture in the United
States”
Friday, October 26, 2012: 5:15 PM-6:00 PM
Wine and Cheese
Reception, Golisano Midway Level, Basil Hall
Friday, October 26, 2012: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Auditorium, Basil 135
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER:
SCOTT
EBERLE
Dr. Scott Eberle is Vice President
for Play Studies at The Strong Museum and editor of the American Journal of Play. He
holds a doctorate in Cultural History from the University at Buffalo, and has developed dozens of
exhibits for The Strong’s National Museum of Play, lectured widely on
historical interpretation, and contributed articles to the American Journal of Play,
the Journal of Museum Education, Death Studies, and History News. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of four
books, including Classic Toys of the
National Toy Hall of Fame: A Celebration of the Greatest Toys of All Time! Currently
he is co-editing Handbook of the Study of
Play, slated for publication in 2014.
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 7:30 AM-8:30 AM
Registration in
Cleary Auditorium – Coffee and Continental Breakfast Provided
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Dance I: Dance in
Popular Culture Kearney 308
Chair: Maura
Keefe, The College at Brockport
Amanda McCullum (The College at Brockport): “American Reality Shows: Bodily
Agency and the ‘Other’”
Oluyinka Akinjiola
(The College at Brockport): “Dancing the Orishas:
Exporting a Constructed Form of Popular Culture from Havana to Arcata”
Kevin S. Warner (The College at Brockport): “The Visible
Effects of So You Think You Can Dance: Reactions to a Popular Culture
Phenomenon in Dance Education”
Janet Schroeder (The College at
Brockport): “Hybrid or Happenstance?: Vernacular Dance Traditions in Mexico and Appalachia”
Ethnic and Race
Studies I Kearney 310
Chair: Mark
Madigan, Nazareth College
Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University):
“’A Rare Bird….’: Race, Masculinity, and the Community
of Pilots in Postwar America”
Nicole Bishop (Niagara University):
“White Masculinity in the 21st Century
Imagination: The Moral Code of the Reluctant Outlaw on Breaking Bad and Sons
of Anarchy”
Gender, Identity, Sex
and Sexuality I: (In)Visible Men: Queer Performativity
and Theatricality Kearney 312
Chair: Donald
Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University
Ryan M. Burns (University of Rhode
Island): “Make a Man Out of You”: Masculine Subjectivities in the Films of the
“New Disney Era”
David B. Green (University of
Michigan): “‘A’Lotta Masculine Guys Like’m with a Tank Full of Sugar’:
Black Guy Male Effeminacy in Noah’s Arc”
Stefanie Goyette
(Harvard University): “Travestied Words, Illegible Genders: Transvestism
and Interpretation in the Old French Fabliaux”
Health, Disease and
Physical Culture I: Contextual Interpretations of Health and Illness Kearney
314
Chair: Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences
Sophie Freestone (University of
Chicago): “the Pestilence of London: Women, Hygiene, Prostitution and
Pollution”
Virginia S. Cowen (University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey): “The War for Health”
Nicole C. Wertz Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania) and Chris J. Minns
(Indiana University of Pennsylvania): “The Framing of Health in Health
Magazines”
Science Fiction,
Fantasy and Legend I: Visions of the Future Kearney 317
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Cory Matieyshen
(National University): “Bert the Turtle Won't Save You:American Science Fiction Prose and Criticism of
Nuclear Civil Defense During the 1950s”
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University): “Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown
Girl In The Ring and the Use of Speculative
Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place”
Özüm Ünal (Bahçeşehir
University): “Mothering the ‘Other’: Representation of the Decentered Bodies in
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children
of Men”
Shannon Tarango
(University of California Riverside): “Dystopia in The Hunger Games”
Sports I: Field of Dreams: Minor League Baseball Kearney 323
Chair: Robert
Weir, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Frank A. Salamone
(Iona College): “Growing Up with the
Rochester Red Wings in the Forties and Fifties”
Joseph Price (Whittier College):
“Out on a Wing: Reading Frontier Field”
Robert Weir (University of
Massachusetts Amherst): “Chicks Dig the Long Ball, but GMS Prefer a High OBS”
Brian P. Moritz (Syracues
University): “PTI and The
Sport Ethic”
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Comics and Graphic
Novels II: Kearney 325
Chair: Lindsey M.
Hanlon, Boston College
Lindsey M. Hanlon (Boston College):
“Picturing the Enemy: The Construction of the Islamic”
Stephanie Mastrostefano
(Rhode Island College): “Bambi, Beast Fables and Judith Butler”
Dance II: Rewriting
Dance’s Recent History: The Performance of American Cultures Kearney 308
Chair: Maura
Keefe, The College at Brockport
Maura Keefe (The College at
Brockport): “Gender Warriors or Dying Swans?: A Historiography of and by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo”
Elizabeth Osborn (The College at
Brockport): “Democracy as Both Noun and Verb: The Explicit Politics of Judson
Dance Theatre”
Karl Rogers (the College at
Brockport): “A Camp Site of Desire: Paul Swan Dances Queerly”
Ethnic and Race
Studies II Kearney 310
Chair: Mark
Madigan, Nazareth College
Samantha Earley
(Indiana University Southeast): “Evangelizing Political and Social Change for
Nineteenth Century African American People: A Reading of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw’s Spiritual
Autobiography Memoirs of the Life,
Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labors of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw”
Stacy Shaneyfelt:
“Beauty and the Beast: An Exploration of the Ugly American Myth and the
Postcolonial Otherness in Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of
Maladies’”
Gender, Identity, Sex
and Sexuality II: Men on the Margins: Masking Sexuality In and Behind the Prose
Kearney 312
Chair: Donald
Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University
Benjamin Welton (West
Virginia University): “Unmasking the Other: Political and Racial Others in
Selected Transatlantic Fiction, 1922-1935”
Ryan Segura (Independent Scholar):
“Detecting The Phallus: Homosocial
Bonding in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ and Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
and A Study in Scarlet”
Heidi Wallace (Buffalo State
College): “The Objective Death of Reinaldo Arenas”
Health, Disease and
Physical Culture II: Kearney 314
Chair: Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy And Health
Victoria Longino
(Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences): “‘The Building’ and God’s Hotel: Contrasts in Modern
Medicine and Lessons in Empathy”
Sandra Dutkowsky (Ithaca College): “The ‘Unpresentable’
in Illness Narratives”
Science Fiction,
Fantasy and Legend II: Old Legends, New Stories Kearney 317
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Mary Bridgeman (Trinity College
Dublin): “Complex subjects in Twilight,
The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood”
Laura Wiebe
(McMaster University): “Witches, Elves, and Bioengineers: Magic and Science in
Kim Harrison’s The Hollows”
Kathleen Mulligan (Providence
College): “Robin Hood: from ‘History’ to Folklore and Back Again”
Michael Torregrossa
(Independent Scholar): “Once and Future Kings Revisited:The Theme of Arthur Redivivus in Recent Arthuriads of the Comics Medium”
Sports II: The
Politics and Economics of Baseball Kearney 323
Chair: Robert
Weir, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Lomax (University of Iowa):
“A Reshuffling Market: The Pacific Coast League’s Efforts to Become a Third
Major League and How the Braves Made Milwaukee Famous”
Michael Haupert
(University of Wisconsin La Crosse): “The Demand for Baseball and the Growth of
the Entertainment Business”
Bradley A. Rogers (LeHigh
University): “Dispatches From the Heart of the
Reagan Era”
Connie Ann Kirk
(Independent Scholar): "Two Guys Racing History at Watkins
Glen"
Saturday, October 27, 2012: Noon-1:15 PM
Buffet Luncheon in
the Cleary Auditorium of Kearney Hall
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 1:15 PM-2:45 PM
Gender, Identity, Sex
and Sexuality III: Nationhood/Personhood: Latino, Latina, and Spaces Between
Kearney 312
Chair: Donald
Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University
Joelle Mann (Buffalo State College): “Women of Epic
Proportions: Speaking from the Borders of a Dominican-American Epic”
Katie Grainger (University of Washington): “A
Discursive Analysis of the Contemporary Representations of the Femme Fatale in
Hollywood and Latin American Film”
Melanie Huska
(University of Minnesota Twin Cities): “Illegitimacy and Redemption: Gendered
Representations of the Nation in Mexican Historical Telenovelas”
Health, Disease and
Physical Culture III: The Writers and
Readers Circle: Vital Signs from Popular Culture and Beyond. Kearney 314
Chair: Christine Parkhurst, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences
The Writers and Readers Circle is an informal session that
anyone attending the NEPCA conference may participate in by reading from their
own or from another author’s creative and expressive writing related to health
care. Attendees are welcome to read and
reflect on their own health care related writing (poetry, excerpts from longer
works such as short stories, memoirs, narratives--published, unpublished, in
progress, incubating, etc.) to an interested, supportive audience. Attendees
may also read and comment on writing by other authors from popular
culture/American culture and beyond and from contemporary and earlier times on
subjects that reflect on health care from such perspectives as those of
patients, caregivers, family, etc. The Writers and Readers Circle Chair will
facilitate the session. Please bring your writing and favorite literature to
the conference.
History and Uses of
the Past I Kearney 317
Chair: Dougie Bicket, St. John Fisher
College
Alyssa Anderson (New York
University): “Nunca Más: The Role
of Narrative in Creating Justice in Post-Dirty War Argentina”
Dougie Bicket (St. John Fisher College): “Staying above the Fray:
The Strange Case of the National Park Service in an Era of Hyper-partisanship”
Allyson Perry (West Virginia
University): “The Woman Question in West Virginia Education, 1863-1917"
Alexander Simmeth
(University of Hamburg Germany): “‘Krautrock’ and the
Transnationalization of Popular Culture”
Philosophy II:
Philosophy and the Zeitgeist Kearney 325
Chair: Tim
Madigan, St. John Fisher College
Patricia
Drumright (Monroe Community College): “The
Phantom of the Opera: Spectacular Musical or Archetypal Story?”
Ryan M. Dahl (Independent Scholar):
“All Joking Aside: Interpreting the Joker as a Sane and Philosophically-Driven
Entity”
Joseph Marren
(Buffalo State College): “The Mertonian Journalist”
David White (St. John Fisher
College): “Philosophy: Popular, Professional, and Curative”
Science and
Technology Kearney 308
Chair: Amos St. Germain, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Dana W. Paxson
(Independent Scholar): “Convergences and Collisions: Literature, Technology, Publishing, Visions, Inventions,
by One Author”
Frank Rooney (Wentworth Institute
of Technology): “The
Betrayal of Technology or the Aphrodisiac of Power: An Essay”
Lita Tirak (College of William and Mary): “The X-Ray Lady:
Surveillance and Identity of the New Woman"
Sports III:
Reinforcing and Challenging Norms Kearney 323
Chair: Nicolas
Baxter-Moore (Brock University)
Laura Troiano
(Rutgers): “Everybody’s Neighborhood Stadium: Memory and Baseball in Newark,
NJ”
Donghyuk
Sin (University of Iowa): “Alone in the Middle of Nowhere: Stories of the
Cultural Plight of Korean Minor League Baseball Players”
Dominic Longo (Independent
Scholar): “The Circus Comes to Town: Hank Aaron and
the Indianapolis Clowns in Buffalo”
Nicolas Baxter-Moore (Brock
University): "It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again:
Another (near?) Lock-out in the NHL"
Visual Culture and
Digital Media II: Kearney 310
Chair: Robert NIemi, St. Michael’s College
Diane Dobry (Independent Scholar):
“Dying to Know: Viewers of Paranormal Reality Television Negotiating Topics of
Death and the Afterlife Online”
Justin LaLiberty (Independent
Scholar): “XXX Parodies, Spectatorship, Fandom and the Public Acceptance
of Eros Iconography”
Robert Niemi (St. Michael’s
College): ““Fascist Kitsch: Reprising the
'Art' of Thomas Kinkade"
Brian Peterson (Shasta College):
“Watching Swing Music: Visual Culture of the American Dance Orchestra,
1935-1941”
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Gender, Identity, Sex
and Sexuality IV: Violence and Gender Issues in Film Kearney 312
Chair: Donald
Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University
Chelsea
Daggett (Boston University): “The Importance of Psychoanalytic Feminism to
Post-feminism: Sucker Punch”
Zehui Dai
(University of Arkansas): “Captivity Narratives and the Positions of Female
Captives in Soldier Blue and Dances with Wolves”
David Tanner (Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences): “Cape Fear and Cuckoo’s Nest: Cultural Discourse on Dangerous Men”
History and Uses of
the Past II Kearney 317
Chair: James R. Belpedio, Becker College
Cynthia B. Ricciardi (Independent Scholar):
“Genealogy in the 21st Century: The Dramatic Potential of Lineage”
Jennifer J. Richardson (SUNY Potsdam) and Brian J. Snee
(Hyperreel: Adapting to Documentary Film Theory”
James R. Belpedio
(Becker College): “Lux Presents Noir: The Presentation of Film Noir Adaptation
to Radio on ‘Lux Radio Theater’”
Thomas Grace (Erie Community College): “Kent State
Revisited”
Marketing and
Advertising Kearney 308
Chair: Robert MacGregor, Bishops University
Robert MacGregor
(Bishops University): “Rat Poison Advertising in America: The First 100 Years”
Christian Nelson (Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences): “Dove and the Beauty Double Bind”
Music Kearney 314
Chair: Christopher
Culp, University at Buffalo
Christopher Culp (University at
Buffalo): “No-place Like Queer Utopia: Failed Optimism in Musical Theatre”
Christine A. Kelly (George
Washington University): “‘A Link in a
Chain:’ An Audiotopic
Analysis of Pete Seeger, 1955 – 1962”
Zachary Richter (Western
Connecticut State University): “Revealing the Spectacle Between
Bass Drops: a Situationist Reading of Nero”
Adam Szetela
(Independent Scholar): “‘I Go to Obama Rallies Screamin'
Out McCain!’: An Exploration of Tyler the Creator and
Post-Race Hip-Hop"
Television Kearney
323
Chair: Carol
Mitchell, University of Massachusetts
Tom Gallagher (La Salle
University): “Leverage and Alcohol
Addiction”
Andrea McClanahan (East Stroudsburg
University of PA): “Is Prince Charming Still a Prince? A Critical Analysis of
the Portrayals of Prince Charming and Masculinity in Current Television
Programming”
Todd Sodano
(St. John Fisher College): "Say It Again: Aaron Sorkin and
Dialogue Repetition on The West Wing."
Amos St. Germain
(Wentworth Institute of Technology): “WOOF:
Rin Tin Tin and the
Hero Dogs”
Visual Culture and Digital
Media III Kearney 10
Chair: Don Vescio,
Worcester State University
Jeremy Sarachan
(St. John Fisher College): “’Missing Daddy’: The Exclusion of Fathers in
Mainstream Parenting Magazines”
Leah Shafer (Hobart and William
Smith Colleges): “I Can Haz
an Internet Aesthetic?!? LOLCats and the Digital
Marketplace”
Don Vescio
(Worcester State University): “Digital Memory Never Forgets”
Diane Williamson (Independent
Scholar): “Children’s Television and
Emotional Literacy”
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Board Meeting (Open to NEPCA Members) Basil 213
NEPCA CONFERENCE INFORMATION
DIRECTIONS TO ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE
Driving
The conference will take place at St. John Fisher College. Those using a GPS system should program it for 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618-3597.
St.
John Fisher College is located 6 miles southeast of Rochester, NY, in the
suburb of Pittsford. The NYS Thruway runs south of the city.
By Car
Those wishing to print a campus map before arriving should
go to: http://www.sjfc.edu/dotAsset/112244.pdf
Estimated driving times from major NEPCA area cites are:
|
Buffalo, NY |
1 1/4 hours |
|
Syracuse, NY |
1 1/2 hours |
|
Albany, NY |
4 hours |
|
Pittsburgh, PA |
4 1/2 hours |
|
New York, NY |
6 hours |
|
Hartford, CT |
6 hours |
|
Boston, MA |
7 hours |
Train
The Rochester Amtrak Station is located at 320 Central Avenue Rochester, NY 14605 and is about 7 miles
(and a 10 minute ride) from the St. John Fisher College campus. Cabs are
readily available outside the train station. Here is the Amtrak website:
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am/am2Station/Station_Page&code=ROC
Air Travelers
The
Greater Rochester International Airport is located at 1200
Brooks Avenue. Rochester, NY 14624 and is about 10 miles (and a 15 minute ride)
from the St. John Fisher College campus. Cabs are readily available outside the
terminal. Here is the Greater Rochester International Airport website: http://www.monroecounty.gov/airport-index.php/
WHERE TO EAT
In your registration packets you will receive a booklet
from the VisitRochester organization listing many
restaurants by location and dining choices. A copy may also be found on their
website: http://www.visitrochester.com/includes/media/docs/2012GRV_unGrrr.pdf
WHERE TO STAY
We have arranged for a special conference rate of $107.00
plus tax at the Brookwood Inn, 800 Pittsford-Victor Road,
Pittsford, New York 14534. The rates will be available from Thursday, October
25th through Sunday, October 28th. You must make your
reservation BEFORE September 26, 2012 to assure receiving the special rate. The
hotel is 6 minutes and a 5 mile drive from the St. John Fisher College campus. Complimentary shuttle service to/from the
Greater Rochester International Airport is provided. To make a reservation,
call 585-258-9000 and be sure to ask for the NEPCA rate. The hotel’s website is
www.thebrookwoodinn.com
Other hotels (including estimated rates and distance from
the campus) in the immediate St. John Fisher College area may be found at the
following website: http://www.hotels-rates.com/hotels/locations/Rochester/NY/usa/1278/
ATTRACTIONS
For those who have time before or after the conference, the following popular culture-related attractions should be of interest. Your registration packet will have discount coupons available, and details will be sent ahead of time as well:
The Corning Museum of Glass: http://www.cmog.org/
The National Museum of Play at the Strong Museum: http://www.museumofplay.org/
Ravenwood Golf Club: http://www.ravenwoodgolf.com/
RockVentures Climbing and Teambuilding Center: http://rockventures.net/
The Susan B. Anthony Museum and House: http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php
For a list of other attractions please see the VisitRochester site: http://www.visitrochester.com/