1. Deep in the Heart: The Vast Multicultural Spaces of Texas ( 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.)
    Room 123A
    Moderator: Theresa Thompson, Valdosta State University

• Matthew Hearn, Valdosta State University, "Post-Western Texas: The Meaning of Texas as Setting"
• Theresa Thompson, Valdosta State University, "The Final Frontier: Border Crossings in Lone Star"
• Patricia Ann Miller, Valdosta State University, "The Race to Settle America: Nice Guys Do Finish and Last"

• Teresa Santerre Hobby, Southwest Texas State University, "Birth, Sex and Death: The Art of Seduction in Science Fiction Film"
• William Miller, Ohio University, "Perspectives on Race in Blade Runner"
• INTERMISSION
• Eddy Von Mueller, Emory University, "The Eartheman's Burden: Hegemonizers vs. Homogenizers in Contemporary Science Fiction Films"
• Brian O'Leary, University of Texas, "The Four Texts of Metropolis (1926)"

• Paul Pilger, Florida State University, "Poe's 'single effect' and Political Films"
• Ronald E. Chennault, Independent Scholar, "Race, Reagan, Education and Cinema: Hollywood Films About Schools in the 1980s and 1990s"
• Marshall Deutelbaum, Purdue University, "The American President as a Gendered Reworking of the Political Impasse in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
• Eric Faden, University of Florida, "The Mass Ornament Revisited: Crowds, Individuals and Technology"
•  INTERMISSION
• Gary Grizzle, Barry University, "Racism in the Cinema and the Legitimation of Inequality"
• Howard A. Myrick, Temple University, "Film, Television, Race and Reconciliation"
• Michelle Spinella, Florida State University, "Retooling the Mind: Cognitive and Capitalist Processing of Stereotypes"

• Stelio Cro, Valdosta State University, "Dialetto e letteratura nazionale nei romanzi di Pier Paolo Pasolini"
• William E. Leparulo, Florida State University, "Il paese nativo e le donne nei romanzi di Piero Chiara"
• INTERMISSION
• Franco Zangrilli, Baruch College, "L'animale nei mondo primitivo di Luigi Pirandello"
• Andrea Guiati, Buffalo State College, "L'ebraicita' di 'Una lapide in via Mazzini, 'e degli 'Ultimi anni di Clelia Trotti'"

• Rafael Courtoisie, Universidad Catolica del Uruguay, Uruguay, "Poesia Uruguaya reciente: El silencio habitado"
• Alex Fleites, Instituto Cubano de Arte Cinematografico, Cuba, "Angel Escobar ve proyectarse su silueta en el asfalto, mientras Raul Hernandez juega a la ruleta rusa en la sombra"
• Rafael del Castillo, Corporacion Artes y Letros de America, Colombia, "Aproximacion a la poesia Columbiana contemporanea"

• Paul A. Griffith, Lamar University, "Mimicry and Mamaguying: Text and Countertext in Derek Walcott's Pantomime"
• Elizabeth Hamilton Hardaway, University of Georgia, "The Crossing of the Return Threshold: The Incomplete Journey of the Marginalized Hero"
• Patricia A. Young, Western Illinois University, "Act of Terrorism: Or Violence on a Sunday Morning"
• INTERMISSION
• Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, "Mapping the Global Body"
• Joseph M. Viera, Nazareth College, "Piecing the Puzzle: The Reconstruction of Race in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters"
• Dara D. Winfield, Florida State University, "The Nervous Conditions of Nyasha: Anorexia Nervosa and the Displaced Self"

• Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Allentown College, "La Havane: Merlin's View of Blacks and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Cuba"
• Michael G. Paulson, Kutztown University, "Race and Prejudice in Sab and Georges"
• Debra L. Anderson, East Carolina University, "Race, Gender and Politics in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem"

• Debbie Hall, Florida State University, "American Tourist Portrayals in Salaam Bombay"
• Faith Eidse, Florida State University, "Sex-Crazed Americans in Women of Sand and Myrrh"
• Grace Jaye, Florida State University, "The Gullible American Male in Jasmine"

• Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University, "Confronting the Viewer: Racial Fractures in Visual Paradigms"
• Madhu Dubey, Northwestern University, "Race and Urban Order: The Crisis of Visuality in Reading Rodney King and John Edgar Wideman's Reuben"
• Jennifer E. Henton, University of Delaware, "Representing Visual Whiteness in Pudd'nhead Wilson"

• Ann M. Landis, Florida State University, "Postmodern Sentimentality: Self and Reflection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club"
• Edward Lessor, Florida State University, "Finding Your Feet in Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston and the Experimental Ethnography"
• David McWilliams, Ohio University, "Racial Identity in Two Unpublished Novels by Charles Chesnutt"
• Christopher N. Okonkwo, Florida State University, "Defilement of Sacred Spaces: Resistance and Redemption in Linden Hills"
• INTERMISSION
• Michael Schroeder, Savannah State University, "Ambiguities of Identity and Racial Conflict in James Alan McPherson's A Loaf of Bread"
• Sylviane Townsel, Albany State University, "A Rose With Another Name"
• John T. Wright, University of South Carolina at Union, "Race and the Femme Fatale in Salome: Moreau, Wilde and Strauss"

13. Race/Gender/Ideology in Film Genres 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
    Room 123A
    Moderator: Frank P. Tomasulo, Georgia State University

• Karla Fuller, Columbia College, "Borders, Boundaries and Islands: The Performance of Race and Racial Integration in South Pacific (1958)"
• Jim Potter, Northwestern University, " 'Forget the Alamo!': John Sayles's Lone Star (1996)"
• Jan Loveland, Wayne State University, "Topsy and Eva in 1927: The Influence of Flapper Films on Harry Pollard's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Del Lord's Topsy and Eva"
• Rebecca L. Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University, "Morphing, Sacrificing and Engendering in Apocalypse Films of the 1990s"
• INTERMISSION
• Nina K. Martin, Ithaca College, "Spectacles of Otherness: Generic Tension in Bound"
• Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College, "Strange Ideological Bedfellows: Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox"
• Evan Lieberman, Georgia State University, "The Reconstruction of Harold Lloyd: Ideology and the Star System in Hollywood Silent Film Comedy"

• Patrick Gerster, Century College, "The Cultural Texture of Violence: Carl Franklin's One False Move"
• Mary A. Gervin, Albany State University, "Rooted Against the Wind: Mosley's Sense of Place in Devil in a Blue Dress"
• Sally Hirsh, University of New Hampshire, "Dames in Distress: In a Lonely Place and the Female Gothic"
• INTERMISSION
• Laurence Miller and Lisbeth Wheelehan, Western Washington University, "The Representation of African-Americans in Film Noir"
• Donald E. Staples, University of North Texas, "Key Largo--The Play, the Film, and the Native Americans"
• John S. Turner II, Ohio University, "Jazz Noir: 'Race Music' in the Shadows"

• Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Vietnamese Immigrants' Perceptions of Americans' Attitudes Toward Them in Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"
• Carole Gerster, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, "Ethnic Aesthetics and Identity from Oral Traditions: A Usable Past in Independent Films"
• Mara Lynn McFadden, SUNY at Brockport, "Mississippi Masala: The Discovery of a Place From Which to Speak a New Kind of Subject"
• Jacqueline Reich, State University of New York at Stony Brook, "Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Italian American Film Studies"
• INTERMISSION
• Karen Svenningsen, City University of New York-College of Staten Island, "Sterotypes of the Latino Image in American Film's Silent Period to 1945"
• Jane Hill, State University of West Georgia, "Narrative Technique and the Representation of Multicultural Communities in Contemporary American Films"
• Richard Vela, University of North Carolina-Pembroke, "The Translator Device in Films About Native Americans"

• Nicolas P. Gross, University of Delaware, "Kubrick on Evil: Crassus in Spartacus"
• Jeffrey L.L. Johnson, College of Charleston, "But Mr. Griffith Always Loved the Negro: D.W. Griffith and the Curse of Race"
• Stephanie Ricker, University of Arkansas, "A Genre Analysis of Race in Contemporary American Buddy Films"
• David C. Simmons, Florida State University, "The Apocalypse of Racial Segregation in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds"
• INTERMISSION
• Jeffrey Vasseur, Valdosta State University, "Non-Serious Seriousness: The Semiotics of Race and Post-modern Play in George of the Jungle"
• Wendy Wasserman, George Washington University, "Picturing Paradise: Hawaii and Hollywood During the 1950s"
• David Hatch, Florida State University, "Mignon and Giggles: The Liminal Figure as a Rhetorical Device in Multicultural Film"

• Patrick Brennan, University of Florida, "Andy Warhol's Celluloid Closet"
• Jason M. Berry, Clemson University, "Flamingly Gay: Comic Relief or Archetypal Injury?"
• Miles Rosenberg, Ohio State, "Queering the Peace: Race, Sexuality and Authorship in A Separate Peace"
• INTERMISSION
• Melissa Riley, University of California-Berkeley, "Toward a Racialization of Lesbian Vampires: Figures of Abjection and Alterity"
• Paige Schilt, University of Texas at Austin, "Queering Lord Clark: Diasporic Formations and Traveling Homophobia in Isaac Julien's The Darker Side of Black"

• Ann Harris, Lincoln University, "The Postcolonial Letter"
• Jarret Keene, Florida State University, "Supernatural Imperialism, Voodoo McBeth and The Emperor Jones"
• Binnie Brook Martin, Purdue University, "Image Otherness in the Invisible: Filmic Tears in Image-Perception from Desiré Ecaré's Faces of Women"
• INTERMISSION
• Sheila Smith McKoy, Vanderbilt University, "Interlocking Bodies: Hollywood and the Essentialization of Diaspora Identity"
• Janice Morgan, Murray State University, "The Space of the Other: The Spatial Politics of Racial and Cultural Identity in Chocolat by Claire Denis"
• Josette Hollenbeck, Appalachian State University, "Reflets de politique et de culture sociale en Afrique"

• Alan P. Brown, University of Southwestern Louisana, "The Eternal Return of Fear: The Myth of Tristan and Iseut, From Béroul to Cocteau"
• Brendan Calandra, University of Florida, "Guilt as the Driving Force: Ernst Toller's Masse Mensch"
• Joyce L. Cherry, Albany State University, "Mella Larsen's Indebtedness to Marmaduke Pickthall and Anatole France"
• INTERMISSION
• Jane K. Gardner, Florida State University, "Miss Goodwin . . . is . . . the genteelest shaped child: Illegitimacy, Race and Imperialism in Samuel Richardson's Pamela"
• Jennifer A. Law, Florida State University, "The 'Naturalistic' Representation of Women in Nana"
• Ann McCullough, Emory University, "Life and Death: The Effects of Time in the Novels of Nina Bouraoui"

• Ellen Wright-Vance, Miles College, "(Dis)Closure and (Dis)Unity: Self-Authoring in Adrienne"
• Margaret Davis, Spring Hill College, "The Failed Promise of the Southern Land: Mark Ward Brown's Stories of the South in Transition"
• Dorothy Grimes, University of Montevallo, "Praying for Sheetrock: Prayers and Predators Wrecked in a Promised Land"
• INTERMISSION
• Winifred Cobbs, Judson College, "Coming of Age Yet Again: Encounters Between the Races in the Fiction of Mary Ward Brown"
• Glenda B. Weathers, University of Montevallo, "Trees of Knowing, Trees of Saying: The Literary Landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison"

• John Ravage, University of Wyoming, "The Black Western"
• Dennard K. Clendenin, Independent Scholar and Historical Re-enactor, John Forbes' 1960 movie, Sergeant Rudledge, starring Woody Strode.

• Dierdra Brown, Florida A&M University, "Negotiating the Terrain of Theoretical Discourse and the Space of Black Popular Fiction: A 'Black Feminist Thinking' About Bebe Moore Campbell's Fictional Work, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine and Brothers and Sisters"
• Darryl Dickson-Carr, Florida State University, "Reflections From a Distorted Mirror: The New Romanticization of Identity in Contemporary African American Film"
• Shirley A. Jackson, Bowling Green State University, "The Social and Political Context of Black Nationalism in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
• INTERMISSION
• Richard Marshall, University of Indianapolis, "Stowe's Tom Is Not an Uncle Tom: Re-evaluating Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin"
• Kenneth Slack, University of Maryland, "Black Scars/White Stars: The New Blackface in Hollywood Films"
• Desmoine West, State University of West Georgia, "Three Dimensional Stereotypes in Black Film"

• Krin Gabbard, SUNY at Stony Brook, "Someone is Going to Pay: Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom"
• Mike Jarrett, Pennsylvania State University-York, "Racing: A Few Parables at 45 RPM"
• Peter Lehman, University of Arizona, "'He Was at the Time of His Death the Finest White Pop Singer on the Planet': Discourses of Race in the Music of Roy Orbison"
• INTERMISSION
• Bonnie Braendlin, Florida State University, "Single[d], White Females: The First Wives Club and Unhook the Stars"
• Christine Holmlund, University of Tennessee, "Exploring the Heart of 'Whiteness': 'Swede' as 'Other'"
• Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona, "Neighbors and Servants: Racial and Ethnic Difference in 1930s Films Set in the Depression Economy"

24. Race and the Western (9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
    Room 123B
    Moderator: Warren French, Independent Scholar

• Claire Lewis, Georgia State University, "Over the Water: Leaving the West Behind in Dead Man"
• Peter Limbrick, La Trobe University-Melbourne, Australia, "Home on the Range: Locating White Masculinity in Hollywood Westerns"
• Jason E. Miller, University of Denver, "The Western: Reflection of American Social Conscience"
• INTERMISSION
• Barbara Mortimer, DeKalb College, North Campus, "Fantasies of Racial Identity in the Revisionist Western"
• Judy L. Page, Independent Scholar, "Race and Gender in Dances With Wolves"
• J. P. Telotte, Georgia Institute of Technology, "A Fate Worse Than Death: Racism, Transgression and the Western Film"

• Christine A. Acham, University of Southern California, "Televising Uprising: The Political Landscape of Civil Rights Documentaries?"
• Deborah Kay Ferrell, Finger Lakes Community College, "All Wrapped up In a Pretty Package: Avoidance and Tokenism in Ken Burns's Thomas Jefferson"
• Richard D. Freed, Eastern Kentucky University, "George Wallace: Great American Hero???"
• INTERMISSION
• Phillip Gentile, University of Southern Mississippi, "Eyes on the Crown: The Voice of the White Intellectual in When We Were Kings"
• Kole Kleeman, University of Central Oklahoma, "In Honor of the African-American Documentarian Marlon Riggs and His Contemporaries"

• Sheril D. Antonio, New York University, "New Spaces and Places in Black Film: Daughters of the Dust"
• Amy Hartlaub, Florida State University, "Representation, Objectification and Denigration: Images of African-American Women in Film"
• Sharon Jones, Clemson University, "On Common Ground: Representations of Black Womanhood in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust"
• INTERMISSION
• Beverly D. Miller, Fayetteville State University, "Master and Slave Morality: Fathers and Sons in Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger"
• Mary M. Wiles, University of Florida, "Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust: The Gendering and Genesis of a Black Cinematic Aesthetic"
• Gladstone L. Yearwood, University of Central Florida, "Vernacular Structures and Narration in African American Film"

• Tracy L. Banis, University of West Florida, "Suit the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action: Zefferelli's Triumphant Presentation of Oliver's Premise"
• J. Darryll Dockstader, Florida State University, "Homeric Dislocations and Alienation in Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold"
• Sarah McKee, University of North Carolina, "Black and White Womanhood in Imitation of Life (1934) and How to Make an American Quilt (1995)"
• INTERMISSION
• Hugo N. Santander, Temple University, "Bunuel: The Existencialist Filmmaker"
• Elizabeth Wardle, University of Louisville, "Touched by God: Bess as Modern Mystic in Breaking the Waves"
• Christopher Ames, Agnes Scott College, "Men in Black and Racial Otherness"

• Onofrio Cerbone, University of Bucharest, Hungary "Tolleranza multietnica come paradigma fondamentale per il cittadino del villaggio globale del XXI secolo"
• Neria De Giovanni, Association Internationale des Critique Litteraires, "Umanesimo globale verso il duemila: Karen Blixen e Grazia Deledda"
• INTERMISSION
• Alberto Secci, Univesita' di Cagliari, "Il problema della tolleranza raziale nella letteratura per l'infanzia"
• Vincenzo Carbone, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma, "Spiritualita' e mito nel cinema di Antonioni"

• Jeffery B. Knapp, Florida State University, "Sing, Muse, the Wrath of the DJ: The Heroic Code of Gangsta Rap"
• James Maynor, Florida State University, "Jazz in Words: A Literary Medley"
• Niyi Oladeji, Albany State University, "Language Use in the Literature of Colonialism"
• INTERMISSION
• Beth Raps, Florida State University, "Dormitory Semiotics: How F.S.U. and F.A.M.U. Came to Be"
• Kathleen Roddy, DeKalb College, "Language as as Vehicle to Sacred Places in N. Scott Momaday's The Man Made of Words"
• Deborah Thompson, Florida State University, "Name Matters: Racial Identities in the Autobiographies of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Hettie Jones, and Lisa Jones"

• Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University, "The Contending Literary Forces in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces"
• Isabelle White, Eastern Kentucky University, "From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Beloved: Morrison's Re-visioning of Stowe's Slave Novel"
• INTERMISSION
• Barbara Hussey, Eastern Kentucky University, "Significant Brothers: Self and Other in Recent African-American Autobiography"
• Bonnie C. Plummer, Eastern Kentucky University, "Genre Transforming: The Impact of Race in the Detective Novels of Walter Mosley and Barbara Neely"

• Yamile Regalado, Florida State University, "Myths in Soviet Propaganda (1918-1939)"
• Laurie Semmes, Florida State University, "Sovetization of Ukrainian National Identity Through the Bandura"
• Alexander Nikolaev, Florida State University, "Euphemisms in Russian International Journalism"
• Shelbie Legg, Indiana University, "The Image of the Caucasian in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time"
• INTERMISSION
• Valentina Pichugin, Florida State University, "Cultural Stereotypes in Russian Ethnic Anecdotes"
• Alla Baeva, Florida State University, "Myths and Reality in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker"
• Stephen Charles Olbrys, Indiana University, "Rethinking Vladmir Propp: The Myth of Structure"

• Neerja Chaturvedi, University of the South, "American Image of Colonial India: 1920s to 1940s"
• Gary D. Keller, Arizona State University, "Cinema in 1898: The Depiction of Cubans and Filipinos During the Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath"
• Pamela Paine, University of Florida, "Crossing the Mangrove: Toward a 'Post Mortem' of the Postcolonial Condition in Guadeloupe"
• INTERMISSION
• Levilson C. Reis, Florida State University, "Hélène Cixous's Rootprints: From Racist, Colonial Spaces to the Utopia of Writing"
• Don Russ, Kennesaw State University, "Puppets: Objectification and Manipulation of People in the Post-Colonial Indonesia of The Year of Living Dangerously"
• Christy Sheffield Sanford, Independent Scholar, "Ocean Crossing: Nancy Cunard (The Heuristic Method and the World Wide Web)"   

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• William Rothman, University of Miami, "Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the 'Melodrama of the Unknown Woman'"
• Diane Stevenson, Hunter College, "Race and Community in The Searchers"
• Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College, "The Comedy and the Tragedy of Racism: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Albert and Allen Hugues's Menace II Society"

• Robert Eberwein, Oakland University, "Three Counties Against Syphilis: Race and Sexuality in a Public Health Service Documentary"
• William Luhr, St. Peter's College, "Out of the Past"
• Robert T. Self, Northern Illinois University, "The Racial Other in the Films of Robert Altman"

• Julie Buckner Armstrong, Valdosta State University, "Lone Star: An American Romance"
• Aaron Baker, Arizona State University, "Sports Films, Identities and History"
• Carol Colatrella, Georgia Institute of Technology, "John Sayles's Lone Star: American Myths, Cinematic Allusions and the Future History of Diversity"
• INTERMISSION
• Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina Aiken, "The Inside Outsider: John Sayles and The Brother Work It Out"
• Tim Libretti, Northeastern Ilinois University, "John Sayles's Lone Star and the Regressive Postmodern Politics of the New U.S. Nationalism"

• Gwen Bergner, West Virginia University, "Wounds of War: Historical Trauma and Racial Masculinity"
• Thomas F. Cohen, University of Florida, "Recollection, Repetition and Working-Through in Shohei Imamura's Black Rain"
• INTERMISSION
• Alan Farrell, Virginia Military Institute, "A Personal Notion of Honor: Viet, French, American Special Forces on Film 1950-1970"
• Gary D. Keller, Arizona State University, "Cinema in 1898: The Depiction of Cubans and Filipinos During the Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath"
• Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Black Male Psychosis or White Male Fantasy: An Examination of Home of the Brave"

• Gylbert Garvin Coker, Florida A&M University, "Missing in Action: The African American Female Actor, Wherefore Art Thou"
• Charles Dove, University of Houston, "Stop Acting: Stereotype, Performance and Stardom in Imitation of Life"
• Gwendolyn Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Dorothy Danridge and Pam Grier: Constructing Black Female Agency Within Colonialist Discourse"
• INTERMISSION
• Ann Harris, Lincoln University, "Partners: Sidney Poitier's Vision of the 'Buddy' Movie"
• Allen H. Stein, Newberry Library, "Humphrey Bogart Meets the Grand Dragon: The Black Legion in Film and Literature"
• Clif' Warren and Kole Kleeman, University of Central Oklahoma, "What a Tragedy the African-American Actress: Dorothy Daindridge and Ethel Waters"
• Haseenah Ebrahim, Northwestern University, "Rebellious Goddesses, Science-Women and Other Womanish Behaviors: Toward a Pan-African Feminist Criticism"

• Nitzan Ben-Shaul, Tel-Aviv University, "Israeli Cinematic Correlations of Antisemitism and Inter-Ethnic Tensions Among Israeli Jews"
• Steven Alan Carr, Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne, "Reading Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) as Holocaust Melodrama"
• Scott Gregory Cook, Tulane University, "Language and Identity in David Mamet's Homicide"
• INTERMISSION
• Chris Ellery, Angelo State University, "Wo[o/r]dy Allen: Jadaism and the Power of Words in Manhattan"
• Walter Metz, University of Texas at Austin, "A Very Notorious Ranch, Indeed: Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952), Allegory, and the Holocaust"

• T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Purdue University, "Josephine Baker: Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient"
• Antonio J. Tamburri, Purdue University, "Race, Sexuality and Gender in Maryrosa Calleri's Uncovering and Tom DeCerchio's Nunzio's Second Cousin"
• INTERMISSION
• Valerie Orlando, Purdue University, "Feminine Identity and Agency in Gillo Pontecorvo's La Bataille d'Alger: Political Reality or Neorealist Subversive Intent?"
• Ben Lawton, Purdue University, "The Truth About Race in the Films of Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee"

• Enrique Herrera, Florida State University, "Don Quijote and José Arcadio Buendía; Construction of Their Own Realities"
• Carmen Huaco-Nuzum, University of California, Santa Cruz, "The Hermeneneutics of Mi Familia/My Family (Orale Patriarchy: Hasta Cuando Corazon Seguiras Siendo El Macho De Mi Familia)"
• Erica K. Kratzer, Florida State University, "Crisis of Cubanidad: The Search For Identity in Contemporary Cuban-American Novels"
• Humberto López-Cruz, University of Central Florida, "Virgil Suárez' Going Under: Rupture in the Assimilation Pattern?"
• INTERMISSION
• Johnnie M. Stover, Florida Atlantic University, "Race and Sensuality through Character Development in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye"
• Sixto E. Torres, Appalachian State University, "Power, Control and the Struggle for Autonomy in Two Works by Martín Recuerda"
• Julia Quiñones, University of Puerto Rico, "Usmail, or the Search for Identity"

• Elizabeth Trelenberg, Florida State University, "The Devil's Dimension: Space and Time in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita"
• Brad Hocevar, Florida State University, "Andrei Sinyavsky: Artist and Politician"
• David Bueherer, Valdosta State University, "Protests from the Torn Heart: Akhmatova, Voznesensky and Russian Dissident Poetry Before the Fall"
• Nick Hodge, Florida State University, "The Master and Margarita: A Comedy of Justice"
• INTERMISSION
• Jeff Gilbert, Florida State University, "Can the Novel be Killed? How the USSR Nearly Did It. (Sinyavsky, Solzhenitsyn, Kundera)"
• Felix Mackh, Florida State University, "The Passion Play in The Master and Margarita"
• John Sanders, Florida State University, "Doctor Zhivago: Film and Novel"
• Garth Erteling, Florida State University, "Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog"

• Ceron L. Bryant, Florida A&M University, "Getting Comfortable: Cross/(Dressing) Racism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe"
• Emma Waters Dawson, Florida A&M University, "'Love, or the Lack Thereof': Miscegenation, Mixed Blood, and 'Marriage' in Three Selected Films"
• Yakini Kemp, Florida A&M University, "Still No Welcome Wagon: Black and Lesbian in The Serpent's Gift and Set It Off"

• Leah Lowe, Florida State University, "Who's Leading Whom?: Gender Play in Screwball Comedy"
• Stacy Wolf, George Washington University, "The White Governess and the Jewish Burlesque Performer: Envoicing Queer-Lesbian Desire"
• INTERMISSION
• Kristina Schriver and Donna Nudd, Florida State University, and Terry Galloway, Artistic Director and Founder of Mickee Faust Club, "Is This Theatre Queer?: The Mickee Faust Club and the Performance of Community"

• Rebecca Aanerud, University of Washington, "Heroic Whiteness: The Construction of the White Liberal in To Kill A Mockingbird"
• Karen Backstein, College of Staten Island, "Tents of Miracles: Adapting the Literature of Jorge Amado"
• Janice Heber, Inter American University of Puerto Rico/Metro Campus, "Doctorow's Ragtime Revisited: Strategies of Discontinuity and Racism in Novel and Film"
• INTERMISSION
• Jody Malcolm, Augusta State University, "Smoke: Family Photographs in Black and White"
• Lloyd Michaels, Allegheny College, "Beyond Bluestone: New Directions in the Study of Film Adaptation"
• Bryan D. Slattery, Clemson University, "Sacrificing the Journey Towards Self: Steven Spielberg's Adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple"

45. Liminality, Deviance, Violence  (9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
    Room 123A
    Moderator: Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University

• Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Community College-Palm Bay Campus, "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Female Writers and Serial Killers"
• Mark Pizzato, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Brechtian and Aztec Violence in Valdez's Zoot Suit"
• Jack Boozer, Georgia State University, "Swimming Against the Current?"
• INTERMISSION
• Karen Helgeson, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, "Liminality Modern and Postmodern: Ingmar Bergman and David Cronenberg"
• Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University, "The Wild Boys: Batman's Codpiece and Neurasthenic Armature"

• Nancy Applegate, Floyd College, "Race and Language in the Film, Pulp Fiction"
• William R. Davie, Jung-Sook Lee and Timothy Dee, University of Southwestern Louisiana, "Paradise Lost or Regained? Louisiana's Racial Heritage in Film"
• Veronica Freeman, University of Florida, "Hearing Films: Underscoring the Psychological Dimension"
• INTERMISSION
• Kirsten E. Ogden, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, "The Women of Pulp Fiction: A Force to Be Reckoned With"
• Kirsten Moana Thompson, New York University, "Strange Fruit: Trauma, Historical Memory and Race in Candyman"
• Judy Hale Young, University of Florida, "The Tingler: Horror Film as Race Commentary"

• Nezih Erdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey, "Violent Images: Hybridity and Excess in the Turkish Film"
• Rima S. Gulshan, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, "Film and Literature in Transition: From Hemingway's Catherine Barkley to Demi Moore in Disclosure - A Study of Love, War, Sexual Politics and Virtual Reality"
• Cynthia R. Kasee, University of South Florida, "Speaking with the Enemy's Voice: The Emic and Etic in Films About Native Americans"
• INTERMISSION
• Norbert H. Mills and David E. Tucker, University of Toledo, "The Image of Terrorism and Ethnicity as Depicted in Selected American Films"
• Yolanda Molina and Tom Di Salvo, Eckerd College, "The Ill-fated Awakening of Sleeping Beauty: The Fairy Tale Demystified in Carlos Saura's Outrage (Dispara)"
• Gabriele Weinberger, Lenoir-Rhyne College, "Urban Warfare: Race and Violence in Wim Wenders's 1997 Film The End of Violence"

• John Anderson, University of Southern California, "Within the Gates: Mass Culture, the Frontier Myth and the Assimilation of Oscar Micheaux"
• Susan Courtney, University of South Carolina, "Jack Johnson and the Cinematic Production of 'Great White' Masculinity"
• Helen O'Hara Connell, Barry University, "The Last 'Race' Movie?: A Discussion of Spencer Williams's Blood of Jesus"
• INTERMISSION
• Kara Keeling, University of Pittsburgh, "'An Unfinished Revolution': Contemporary Collisions with 'the Sixties'"
• Michael Meadows, Wayne State University, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Hollywood, Independents and the Future of African American Cinema"
• Kimberly R. Moffitt, Howard University, "The Contradictions of a Man: Paul Robeson and His American Films"

• Rebecca Cisneros, University of Vermont, "Sex Acts: Mirroring Our Place In Society"
• Janelle Collins, Arkansas State University, "Dissimulations of Black Life: The 1959 Remake of Imitation of Life"
• Diane Shoos, Michigan Technological University, "Martha and Ethel: In Search of a Mother"
• Diana George, Clemson University, "The Politics of Race, Sex and Class in Girls Town"
• INTERMISSION
• Jid Lee, Middle Tennessee State University, "Film, History and Literature: An Asian-American Woman's Perspective"
• Lizanne Minerva, Florida State University, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Sisterhood and Cooking in Soul Food and A Thousand Acres"
• Ellen Schendel, University of Louisville, "Gendered Performance and Technologically Constructed Identity: A Postmodern Face/Off"

• Joseph W. Drew, Jersey City State College, "Film and Human Values: The Employing of Film to Stimulate Discussion of Human Conflicts and Human Values"
• Richard Jurasek, Earlham College, "An Empirical Study of Audience Response to Last Year at Marienbad"
• Kelly Madison, California State University, "The Reproduction of White Supremacy Through Revisionist Narratives of Struggles for African Peoples Equality: A Textual Analysis and Audience Study"
• Patrick Thomas McCord, University of Georgia, "Tracking Ideology in Point of View: The Searchers, Black Robe and Tracks"
• INTERMISSION
• Malgorzata Grabowska, University of Rochester, "Himatsuri: A Shinto-analysis"
• Gerald Sim, Duke University, "Foreign Body Forever?"
• Paul Pilger, Florida State University, "Fictional Film Presidents and First Ladies: The Entertainment Versus Reality Political Gap"

• Fran Chalfont, State University of West Georgia, "Margaret Mitchell's Relations With Afro-Americans and Their Depiction in Her Writings"
• Lisa M. Blair, Shaw University, "The Gender of Destruction in Zola's L'Assommoir"
• David de Posada, Florida State University, "Passion, Madness and Reverie in Annie Ernaux's Passion Simple and in Cocteau's La Voix Humaine"
• Heather Haines, University of Oklahoma, "La Malinche Through a Feminist Perspective"
• INTERMISSION
• Pascale Krumm, North Georgia College and State University, "Sherlock Holmes's Unsolved Mystery or the Case of Female Sexuality in Conan Doyle's Fiction"
• Harry McCandless, Florida State University, "Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Philosophical Reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
• Zoe Randall, Savannah State University, "License, Enigma, Shock"

• A. David Hitchcock, Wesleyan College, "Re-examining the Noble Savage: The Politics of Race in Imanol Uribe's Bwana"
• Michael Mays, University of Southern Mississippi, "Race, Nation and the Terrorist Other: The IRA in Film"
• Bruce Williams, William Paterson University, "Fluid Frontiers: Cinema, Language, National Minorities"
• INTERMISSION
• Robert E. Wood, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Invisible Other: The Depiction of Fascism in Fellini"
• Roman Zylawy, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, "Nature and Nationalism in Renoir's La Marseillaise"

• Barbara Miliaras, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, "Surrealism and Sexuality in Sirens"
• Joseph Garreau, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, "American Twist: 'Remaking' of a Femme Fatale"
• INTERMISSION
• Mario Aste, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, "Italian Cinema Meeting Art: The Invisible Becomes Visible"
• Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, "Ut pictura kinesis: Painting as Film, Film as Painting"

• Genyne H. Boston, Florida A&M University, "Seeing Double: Constant Performance and Twoness, New Notions in Literature and Film"
• Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University, "'A Delicate Lint of Cotton': Race and Ethnicity in Tennessee Williams' Delta Cycle"
• Celia R. Daileader, University of Alabama, "Othellophilia: Black Male Casting in Shakespeare"
• INTERMISSION
• Hugh H. Davis, University of Tennessee, "Shogun in the Saddle: Akira Kurosawa's Samurai Westerns"
• Lynn A. Walkiewicz, Cazenovia College, "Unmasking Hidden Whiteness in White Man's Burden"
• Arthur L. Terry, Wheaton College, "Anticipation/Participation: A Presentation and Discussion of the Multimedia Projects Chemical and M.C. PREZZ"

55. Racing and Erasing Difference  (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.)
    Room 123A
    Moderator: Jeffrey Chown, Northern Illinois University

• Jeffrey Chown, Northern Illinois University, "Cultural Pluralism and Ken Burns's America"
• Lori Liggett, Bowling Green State University, "Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet: Millennial Style, Postmodern Race, and Ethnic Conflict Meets Shakespeare's Classic"
• Laura Vazquez, Northwestern University, "Textual Representations of the Power of Sisterhood Versus the Power of Love in the Adaptation of The Color Purple"
• INTERMISSION
• Lois S. Self, Northern Illinois University, "Flirting with Alterity: Identity and Power in G.I. Jane"
• Gregory W. Lanier, University of West Florida, "#1 Crush: Popular Music in the Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet"

• Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, "Flying Down to Rio: Americanizing Brazilian Race Relations"
• Daniel W. Burns, Clemson University, "William Friedkin's Hollywood: The Happy Homosexual as Gay Corpse in Cruising and The Boys in the Band"
• John Kwist Jr., Clemson University, "Dying for a Private Idaho: Gus VanSant's Veiled Doubling in My Own Private Idaho and To Die For"
• INTERMISSION
• Suzanne Richard, Clemson University, "Nice Girls Do: Adolescent Female Sexuality in the Pregnancy Melodrama"
• Thomas Richards, Clemson University, "The Female as Hooker: Contrasting Views of Prostitution in Film"
• Sonia Ruiz, University of Puerto Rico, "Social Control From the Kitchen"

• William D. Harris, Valdosta State University, "Gangsta-ism and the Masculine Performative"
• Beverly Haviland, SUNY, Stony Brook, "How Does Your Garden Grow?: Miscegenation in D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms"
• Paula J. Massood, New York University, "Which Way to the Promised Land?: The Train Chronotope and Migration as a Primal Site in Clockers"
• INTERMISSION
• William Tolliver Jr., Agnes Scott College, "Paul Cased: The Intersections of Race, Class and Sexuality in Fred Schepisi's Six Degrees of Separation"
• Chrys Kahn-Egan and Seth Kahn-Egan, Florida State University, "Coming Out While Cashing In: Selling Sexual Ambiguity in Top Gun"
• Peter Mascuch, University of New Hampshire, "The Femme Fatale, the Tragic Mulatto, and Neo-noir: Two Films Directed by Carl Franklom"

• Cecilia Heydl-Cortinez, Penn State University-York, "Violence and Goyaesque Tragedy: Emilia Pardo Bazan's Short Narrative"
• Nicole N. Aljoe, University of Vermont, "A Postmodern Creole: A New Muse of History"
• INTERMISSION
• Kelly L. Tompkins, Florida State University, "'Master of My Business': Robinson Crusoe as the Paradigmatic Enlightenment Individual"
• Scott Yarbrough, Charleston Southern University, "Me, Jacques Derrida and a Whole Passel of Connecticut Yankees"

• Mark J. Charney, Clemson University, "The Revenge of the Ballbuster: Exploring the Punitive and the Feminist Elements in Carnal Knowledge and Last Tango in Paris"
• Britta Herdegen, University of Florida, "Marianne and Juliane: A Feminist Perspective"
• Kate Johnson, University of Denver, "You Had Me on Hello: Women's Roles in 'Young' Films of the 90s"
• INTERMISSION
• Jeffrey McQuillen, Clemson University, "From Ann Mitchell to Mary Bailey: Searching for Feminism in the Films of Frank Capra"
• Robin A. Nixon, Florida State University, "'Wagons,' 'Brassers,' 'Rides,' etc.: The Representation of Women in Roddy Doyle's 'The Barrytown Trilogy'"

• Jacqueline Bach, University of West Florida, "The Colonial Cowboy: Third World Intervention in The Magnificent Seven"
• Marilyn Jiménez, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, "The Black Muse: the Neo-colonial Paradigm in Istvan Szabo's Mephisto"
• Jack Simmons, University of North Florida, "Genre Racism: The Colonizing Power of The English Patient"

• Ryan-Scott Bomberger, Regent University, "Transracial Adoption and the Effect of its Depiction on Film and Television"
• Henry B. Chapin, University of Hawai i-West Oahu, "The Local Literature of Hawaii"
• Ray Fleming, Florida State University, "The Politics of Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism"
• INTERMISSION
• Lindsey Mark Jang, University of Southern California, "Through the Mirror, Sideways"
• Ellen Melko, Denver University, "The Characters of Hanif Kureishi: Liberated Hybrids or Titillating Marginals?"

• Graeme Galton, Lincoln University, "Depictions of the Japanese in the Australian Film Paradise Road (1997)"
• Victor Gischler, University of West Florida, "Exalted Among the Heathen: Ethnical Inversion in the Film Zulu"
• Soo-Young Nam, New York University, "Women in Sansho the Bailiff and Ugetsu"
• INTERMISSION
• Anthère Nzabatsinda, Vanderbilt University, "Language and African Identity in Ousmane Sembène's Novels and Films"
• Davinia Jane Thornley, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, "The Repression of Vision: Heavenly Creatures as a Microcosm of New Zealand Society"

• Caroline Joan S. Picart, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, "Race as a Sign in Mann's and Visconti's Death[s] in Venice"
• Paul Scanlon, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, "A Barthes-ian Reading of Race in The Name of the Rose as Novel and Film"

• Stacy Boyd, University of West Georgia, "Jerry McGuire and Rod Tidwell: The Relationship of Huckleberry Finn and Jim Revisited"
• Jimmie E. Cain, Middle Tennessee State University, "Racism and the Vampire: The Anti-Slavic Premise of Bram Stoker's Dracula"
• Corinn Columpar, Emory University, "The Hybrid Body as Spectacle: A Look at Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans"
• INTERMISSION
• William B. Larsen, University of Tennessee, "A Rare and Pleasing Contrast: Crossing Racial Barriers in Catherine Maria Sedgewick's Hope Leslie and Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen"
• Sharon Rooks, Edison Community College, "Carl Sagan's Contact: Literary and Filmic Encounters with the Other"

• Tom Lavazzi, Savannah State University
• Ellen LaForge, Savannah State University
• Zoe Randall, Savannah State University

• Elizabeth Coffman, University of Tampa, "Transformations of Carmen: History, Ethnicity and Nonverbal Signs"
• Kevin W. Sweeney, University of Tampa, "The Dublin Trilogy: Class and Ethnic Identity in Recent Irish Films"
• Thomas Hemmeter, Beaver College, "Race and Irish National Identity: The Possibility of Hybrid Space in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game"