1. Negotiating Masculinity I: Political/Personal Identities, Reversals, and Tattoos
Room 244 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: David Swanson, Florida State University

Scott R. Thomas, Florida State University, "Proving Grounds: Warfare, Gendered Nationality and the Coming of Age of American Masculinity"

Dennis, Jr. Miller, Florida State University, "What Gender am I?: Gender Construction in Por los caminos van los campesinos"

Megan Abbott, New York University, "Nothing You Can't Fix: Screening Chandlerian Masculinity"

Lars Peterson, University of Iowa, "Living with Lack: Antifascist Masculinity in Andre Malraux's Novel and Film L'Espoir"

Phebe Shih Chao, Independent Scholar, "The Pentimento of Queequeg's Tattoo in Once Were Warriors"

Gwen H. Stickney, Indiana University - Bloomington, "The Trickster Tricked: Storytelling and FemalePresence in Don Juan DeMarco"

Larry Johns, Florida State University, "Tragic Love Triangles and Tangled Webs: A Comparative Analysis of Othello and A Streetcar Named Desire"

Jimmie E. Cain, Middle Tennessee State University, "Where Novels Conjoin: Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line"

Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College, "Meeting Murnau Halfway: The Case of Four Sons"

Belkis Vega, , "The Misread Muse: Analogy and Creativity in the Translation of Literary Work to Cinema"

Jane Hill, State University of West Georgia, "Ambition and Ideology: Intertextual Clues to A Simple Plan's View of the American Dream"

Roger Sorkin, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, "In Bugsy, Warren Beatty Is (Shakespeare's) Antony Again?"

4. Modes and Strategies of Making and Viewing Film I: The Invisible, Aesthetics, Screen Time
Room 123B 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Vall Richard, Florida State University

Sandy Camargo, University of Missouri, "Horror Films at the Millennium: The Fantastic Effect, Nostalgia and the Return of the Invisible"

Jonathan Frome, University of Florida, "The Invisible Style and Supernatural Film"

Dan Jones, Truman State University, "Notes on Lancelot du Loc"

Charles Tryon, Purdue University, "Screen Time: Walter Benjamin and the Time Travel  Film"

Fran Chalfont, State University of West Georgia, "Charlton Heston"

Christina Ball, Wake Forest University, "The Slowness of Seeing"

5. Cultural Identities: African, Caribbean, and African American
Room AUD 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Faith Eidse,

Paul A. Griffith, Lamar University, "Art as Transformational Desire: Afrocentric Perspective in Henry Dumas' The University of Man"

Jean Oue'draogo, Shepherd College, "From Word to Image: Dani Kouyate' and Euzhan Palcy as Cinematic Griots"

H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "A Double Modernity: The French Caribbean at the Fin-de-siecle"

Monifa Love, Florida State University, "Transfer to Blackness: Bulworth, Nigger Heaven, and American Africanism"

Christopher Okonkwo, Florida State University, "The Seamless Politics of Name, Face, and Power: the Africa Question and the Black Identity Crisis"

6. Russian Literature and Film: History, Philosophy, Myth, and Intertextuality
Room 107 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Nina Efimov, Florida State University

Frank Pfost, Florida State University, "Tolstoy on the Edge: War and Peace, History, and Individual Free Will"

Nina Efimov, Florida State University, "Feminist Reading of Blok's Intertext in Vasily Aksenov's novel Dolce Stil Nuovo"

Stephen Anderson, Florida State University, "The unOrthodox Dostoevsky" [sic]

7. Italian Literature and Film: Utopia, Humor, and History
Room 116 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: William E. Leparulo, Florida State University

Remi Lanzoni, Monmouth University, "Life Is Beautiful: When Humor Challenges History"

Antonio Melchor, Eckerd College, "Vico's New World Science: Bacon and Tacitus"

Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia, "Back to the Future: F.T. Marinetti's Futurist

Robert E. Wood, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Tommaso Campanella and Prophetic Utopia"

William Leparulo, Florida State University, "Skarmeta, Troisi, Radford; and Il Postino"

8. Vision and Revision: History, Memory, and Film
Room 117 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Peter Ruppert, Florida State University

James McDonald, Florida State University, "History as Alltagsgeschichte: Edgar Reitz's Heimat"

Carola Perla, Florida State University, "Sexuality in Traumnovelle and Eyes Wide Shut"

Michael Tipton, Florida State University, "Coming to Terms With the Past: Personal and

Political History in von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit"

John Woodward, Florida State University, "Memory and Reality in Eyes Wide Shut"

10. Latino(a) Authors Read Their Work
Room 244 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Florida State University

Juan Carlos Galeano, Florida State University, "Amazonia Revisited"

Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, "Womanproof"

Virgil Suarez, Florida State University, "The Culture of Leaving"

Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Florida State University, "Out/landish"

Roberto Fernandez, Florida State University, "Wrong Channel"

11. Noir(esque): Amnesia and Anamnesis
Room 110 2:00 pm-3:20 pm
Moderator: Peter Stowell, Florida State University

Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, "Into the Past: The Separation of Experience and

Understanding in Film Noir"

Jay P. Telotte, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Memory and Simulation-Noir and Its Uses"

Jason Paul, Emory University, "Lyotard Can Fly: Brazil's Anamnestic Appeal"

12. After a Century: Classical, Post-Classical, Alternative Cinema
Room 110 3:40 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Robert T. Self, Northern Illinois University

Jeffrey Chown, Northen Illinois University, "Visual Coding and Social Class in Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront"

Catherine Doederlein, Northern Illinois University, "Adapting Oscar Wilde in Cookie's Fortune"

Robert Self, Northern Illinois University, "Adapting Oscar Wilde in Cookie's Fortune"

Laura Vazquez, Northwestern University, "Time, Technology and Reality: Run Lola Run and Blair Witch"

13. Postmodern Narratives: Incoherency, Nonlinearity, Diminishing Referentiality
Room 123A 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Joseph Allaire, Florida State University

Karen Morian, Florida State University, "The Measure of Love: Amorous Issues of Modernist

Gender in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body"

Julian Bukalski, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, "Time as Mental Elusive Blending Reincarnating Antichronological Illusion In A Child's Night Dream, A Novel by Oliver Stone"

Joseph Tyler, State University of West Georgia, "Jorge Luis Borges' Presence in Mempo Giardinelli's Fiction"

Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University, "Moise at the Millennium"

Bill Van Wert, Temple University, "Recycled Images in the Films of Michael Haneke"

14. Negotiating Masculinity II: Fathers and Family Men
Room 123B 2:00 pm-3:20 pm
Moderator: Megan Campbell, Florida State University

Donald N.S. Unger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "A Father Would Have to be Crazy to 'Mother'"

Gregory J. Thompson, Florida State University, "The Disney Dad: Portrayals of Fatherhood in Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studios"

Leah Lowe, Miami University of Ohio, "Still saving the World for Democracy: Masculinity, Patriotism, and the Action-Adventure Film in the Late-1990s"

15. On the Edge of Gender: Transcendences
Room 123B 3:40 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Megan Campbell, Florida State University

Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan University, "On the Edge of Gender"

Jeongwon Joe, University of Nevada, Reno, "'Is Syberberg's Kundry Rescued from Wagner's Misogyny?' The Dialectics of Voice and Body in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's Parsifal"

16. Colonialism/Imperialism: The Sexual Other
Room AUD 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Leona LeBlanc, Florida State University

Karma Waltonen, Florida State University, "Ethic Sexuality: Examining the Stereotype of the Jewish Temptress in Salome of the Tenements and The Governess"

Katherine M. Gray, Lynchburg College, "Colonial Cheek: Club Juana's Response to Regulating Nudity in Central Florida"

Willie Tolliver Jr., Agnes Scott College, "Schools of Flesh: Neocolonialism and Female Desire in Recent French Film"

Margaret A. McLaren, Rollins College, "Colonial Cheek: Club Juana's Response to Regulating Nudity in Central Florida"

Jacqueline Baker, Florida State University, "Wide Oppressive Sea: Links Between Patriarchy and Imperialism in Wide Sargasso Sea"

Sarika Chandra, University of Florida, "Consuming the Exotic: Mira Nair's Kama Sutra"

18. Adaptations of the Apocalypse
Room 107 3:40 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Catharine Carey, University of the Incarnate Word

Moumin Quazi, University of the Incarnate Word, "Post-Colonial Apocalypse: Novelized Film in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children"

Catharine Carey, University of the Incarnate Word, "A Bitter Reign: Spoiled Children Pay the Piper in Atom Egoyin's The Sweet Hereafter"

19. Alfred Hitchcock: Sexuality, Spectatorship, Nostalgia
Room 116 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: David Kirby, Florida State University

Sarah Witte, Eastern Oregon University, "Rear Window: Projecting Nostalgia"

Lia Steele, Kirkwood Community College, "Nostalgia on the Edge of Time: Vertigo's Plunge to the Past"

Kim Cornish, Cornell University, "Evolution of the Apparatus: Photographic and Cinematic Inscriptions in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear

Peter Nickowitz, New York University, "Bachelor Days"

David Simmons, Florida State University, "The Victim who Refuses to Die in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho"

20. Mythic Quests and Heroes
Room 117 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Brenda Cappuccio, Florida State University

Yvonne McIntosh, Florida A & M University, "The Journey Quest in West African Folktales"

Cecilia Castro Lee, State University of West Georgia, "Cervantes on the Edge of Time in The Garden of Janus by Carlos Rojas"

Susan A. Lichtman, Ball State University, "Hercules With an Attitude: Modern Film and the Archetypal Hero"

Sylvia Little-Sweat, Wingate University, "Revision of Myth and Morality In Unforgiven and

Mary A. Gervin, Albany State University, "A Gathering of Spirits: The Mythopoeic Imagination of Reed, Carpentier, and Marquez"

Judith de Luce, Miami University, "A Hero for the New Millennium?"

Douglas Ford, Florida State University, "Sherman Alexie's Indigenous Blues"

Elaine Dale, Florida State University, "The Hegemonic Role of Flaming Star and Billy Jack within the historical context of the birth of the American Indian Movement"

Susan Lowry, Antelope Valley College, "Pushing Geronimo Over the Edge: A Cinematic Reappropriation of History"

Gerald Sim, University of Iowa, "Mixed-Race in Film and Race: The Postmodern Body and the Multiracial Movement"

Cynthia Crane, Raymond Walters College "History: Insider/Outsider"

Elisabeth Simmons, Old Dominion University, "Writing on the Edge of Her Time--Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Treatment of and Suggested Solution to the 'Indian Problem' in Hope Leslie"