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26th ANNUAL NEPCA CONFERENCE PROGRAM Sessions last 90 minutes, followed by panel and audience discussion, facilitated by the chairperson.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2003 4:00-6:00 AM Registration and Coffee Student Center (SC) Blue Lounge SESSION I 4:30-6:00 PMPanel 1 Catholicism Room SC 1 Chair: Evelyn Sterne (University of Rhode Island) Bruce S. Cohen (Worcester State College): “The Day of the Lord: Anti-Catholicism in Worcester” Patrick J. Hayes (Quincy University): “Charles Francis Donnelly: The Catholic Advocate of Massachusetts” Carrie T. Schultz (Boston College): “First Communion Customs”
Panel 2 Medievalism, Wizards and Monsters Room SC 2 Chair: Amy West (Higgins Armory Museum) Kathryn L. Lynch (Wellesley College):”Escape to the Middle Ages: Why Tolkien? Why Now?” Michael A. Torregrossa (University of Connecticut-Storrs):”Deconstructing Dumbledore: J. K. Rowling and the Way of the Wizard” Faye Ringel (U.S. Coast Guard Academy): “Cavalier in Clay: The Golem Returns”
Panel 3 American Controversies Room SC 3 Chair: Virginia Metaxas (Southern Connecticut State University) Jennifer E. Smyth (Yale University): “History in the Age of Al Capone” MaryLynn Saul (Worcester State College): “Beware of Hidden Needles” Karen Schmelzkopf (Monmouth University): “Disney Theme Parks”
Panel 4 The National Pastime? Room SC 4 Chair: Judith Hakola (University of Maine, Orono) Edward Rielly (St. Joseph College): “August Wilson’s Fences and Other Inversions of Baseball” John Palencsar (Western Connecticut State University): “Girls Don’t Play Baseball” Bethann Bark (Marist College): “Bases Loaded: Men, Socialization and Broadcast Sports”
Panel 5 Fiction Room SC 5 Chair: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Holy Cross College) Donald Baker (Long Island University): “Popular Novelists in the Progressive Era” Pamela Bedore (University of Rochester): “Kay Scarpetta’s Inside Look” Jennifer MacLennan (University of Saskatchewan): “Canadian-American Differences in the Nonfiction of Margaret Atwood”
Panel 6 On the Buff Room SC 6 Chair: Susan Clerc (Southern Connecticut State University) Oscar De Los Santos (Western Connecticut State University): “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Abbey Zink (Western Connecticut State University):”From Nellie Bly to Buffy the Vampire Slayer” John-James Sargent (Western Connecticut State University):”She Saved the World”
6:00-7:00 PM Welcome to Worcester Reception SC Blue Lounge Greetings from the WSC administration and a wine & cheese reception followed by Sneak Preview and talk with the producer, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt (Blue Hill Films):“On the Making of Tupperware”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2003 8:30 AM -12:30 PM Registration and Coffee Student Center Blue Lounge SESSION II 9:00-10:30 AMPanel 7 How to Get Published: A Roundtable Discussion Room SC 1 Chair: Gary Hoppenstand (Michigan State University), Editor, Journal of Popular Culture Lynn Bartholome, President, Popular Culture Association Margaret Zusky, Blackwell Publishing
Panel 8 Advertising Room SC 2 Chair: Mark Van Ells (Queensborough Community College, CUNY)Molly McCarthy (Brandeis University): “The Daily Diary Meets Mass Consumption” Robert MacGregor (Bishop’s University): “Udderly Phenomenal: Shaina Twain and Bag Balm” David Pierson (University of Southern Maine): “The Role of Television Promotionals”
Panel 9 Sports Too Room SC 3 Chair: Edward Rielly (St. Joseph College)Linda K. Fuller (Worcester State College): “(Un)Necessary Roughness: A Review of Sports Violence” Stephen D. Mosher (Ithaca College):”Media Coverage of the Toni Smith Incident” Doris Schmidt (Fitchburg State College): “Real Women Leave Hollywood in the Dust” Robin K. O’Sullivan (University of Southern Maine): “Ultimate Frisbee”
Panel 10 Antebellum New England Women & Education Room SC 4 Chair: John McClymer (Assumption College) Susan Ouellette (St. Michael’s College): “Female Education in the Journal of Phebe Orvis” Marilyn Schultz Blackwell: “Clarina Howard Nichols & School Suffrage” Deborah Pickman Clifford: “A Vermont Farmer’s Daughter”
Panel 11 City Trash Room SC 5 Chair: James P. Hanlan (WPI) Steven H. Corey (Worcester State College): “Ragpickers, Recycling and Garbage Barges, 1857-1934” Robin Nagle (New York University): “Getting it Up: Municipal Waste in New York” Arthur Holst (Widener University): ”Get Your Ash Outta Here: The Philadelphia Barge, 1986-2002”
Panel 12 Musical Past Room SC 6 Chair: Marc Stern (Bentley College) William Walker(Brandeis University): “African American Folk Music” Frank Cullen: “Vaudeville without Apologies” Judith Musser (La Salle University): “Harlem Renaissance and The Wiz”
Panel 13 Worcester Whirlwinds: Bicycles & Weather Room SC 7 Chair: Dorothy Escribano (Worcester State College) David V. Herlihy: “The Bicycle Boom: Revolution or Revival?” Lynne Tolman (Major Taylor Association): “The Major Taylor Memorial” John O’Toole (Worcester State College): ”The Worcester Tornado of 1953”
Panel 14 Gender Room SC 8 Chair: Kristin Waters (Worcester State College) Sheila McAvey (Becker College): “Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens: Elizabeth Bishop’s Translations” Elif Armbruster (Boston University) “Why We Love to Hate Martha Stewart” Margaret Wiley (Colby-Sawyer College): “Hazel MacKaye” 10:30-11:00 AM Coffee Break and Book Exhibit SC Blue Lounge
SESSION III 11:00 AM -12:30 PMPanel 15 The Medieval and the Modern Room SC 1 Chair: Sharon Yang (Worcester State College) Rebecca Housel (Rochester Institute of Technology):”Arthurian Legend in Popular Culture” Jeanie Wills (University of Saskatchewan):”The Transformative Power of Sasquatch” Alexander Belisle (Becker College): “Joan of Arc in The Messenger”
Panel 16 Expressions of American Literature Room SC 2 Chair: Mark Madigan (Nazareth College) James Brian Wagaman (Penn State University-Harrisburg): “Hawthorne and the Environment” Lori M. Jirousek (New York Institute of Technology): “Anzia Yeziereska and Cahan” Alan MacDonald (Minnesota State University-Moorhead): “The World and Paul Theroux”
Panel 17 Tourism Room SC 3 Chair: Sarah Yuhl (Holy Cross College) Frank Salamone (Iona College): “Tourism on the High Plains” Cllint Richmond (Muddyriver Press): “The Mohawk Trail” Christiana Morgan Grefe (Brown University): “Eastern State Penitentiary Tourism”
Panel 18 Military Images Room SC 4 Chair: Christopher Lovett (Emporia State University) Cord Scott (Loyola University, Chicago): “Propaganda in Comics from WW II and 9/11” Daniel T. Miller (University of Indianapolis): “Unconventional Warfare” Howard Blue (Independent Scholar): “Words at War: WW II Radio Drama and the Blacklist”
Panel 19 Arts in North America Room SC 5 Chair: David M. Sokol (University of Illinois, Chicago) Amos St. Germain (WIT): “Richard Russo’s Mohegan Light: Helga Again” Rhonda Kenneally (Concordia University): “Teaching the Fine Arts in Montreal” Tim H. Blessing (Alvernia College): “Glenn Miller at 100”
Panel 20 Media Room SC 6 Chair: Solomon Davidoff (New England Institute of Art) James R. Belpedio (Becker College): “Rex Beach on Radio: The Lost Episodes” Shannon Nolte (University of Nebraska): “Speaking to the Heroes of 9/11” Jeffrey P. Cain (Sacred Heart University): “Fading Logos: Online Games”
Panel 21 Labor Room SC 7 Chair: Bruce S. Cohen (Worcester State College) Betty Parker Duff (University of Maine, Orono): “Maine Paper Mills” David Broad (Harvard University): “The Stapler as a Symbol of Utilitarian Bondage in the Office” Mary Anne Scholfield (Villanova University): “Miss America of 1943 & Rosie the Riveter”
Panel 22 More Media Room SC 8 Chair: Carol Mitchell (Springfield College) David Sealy (University of Toronto): “HBO and The Oz” David Hecht (Harvard University): “Sitcoms, Cartoons and Political Protest” Tim Shary (Clark University): “Michael Mann’s Crime Films”
12:30-2:00 PM Luncheon and Awards Presentation SC Blue Lounge SESSION IV 2:00-3:30 PMPanel 23 Music 2 Room SC 1 Chair: Amos St. Germain (WIT) Jeff Evans (University of Maine-Orono): “Who Hated Pink Floyd First?” Gill Frank (Brown University): “Anti-Gay Prejudice and Disco” Tim Norris (Boston University): “Pink Who?”
Panel 24 Communications Room SC 2 Chair: Margaret Wiley (Colby-Sawyer College) Julie Frechette (Worcester State College): “Teen Voice On-Line” Michael Williams (University of Rochester): “Internet Fandom and the Last of the Mohicans” Donald Vescio (Worcester State College): “Blogs on the Internet”
Panel 25 Culture in America Room SC 3
Chair: Steve Corey (Worcester State College) Bryan Bademan (Notre Dame University): “A Little Sorry, Scandalous Drove: Congregational Reaction to Anglicanism in Boston, 1719-1725” Elizabeth Kitts (Auburn University): “Patriarchy in the Age of Sail” Krister Knapp (Wellesley College): “William James and New York City Street Life”
Panel 26 Detection? Room SC 4 Chair: Jennifer Tebbe (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) Cheri Louise Ross (Penn State University-Harrisburg): “Nella Larsen’s Passing as a Detective Novel” Arthur Fried (Plymouth State College): “Hardboiled Dreamers: Brown and Bracket in Pulps” Rebecca Wingfield (Harvard University): “Consuming Fictions: The 39 Steps and The Secret Agent”
Panel 27 God and Politics Room SC 5 Chair: Frank Minasian (Worcester State College) Richard Hunt (Worcester State College):”The Political Geography of Massachusetts” Dan Moos (Rhode Island College): “American Evangelicals” Zubeda Jalalzai (Rhode Island College): “Bush, Ashcroft & Puritan America”
Panel 28 Child’s Play Room SC 6 Chair: Vivian Fox (Worcester State College) Bryan Ganaway (UIUC): “Toys, Technology and Modern Germany” David Hamlin (Brown University): “Toy Consumption” Jennifer Mandel (University of New Hampshire): “Sesame Street and Disadvantaged Children”
Panel 29 Anthropology Room SC 7 Chair: Frank Salamone (Iona College) Susan Falls (CUNY): “What Do Diamonds Mean: The Semiotics of Consumption” Susana Maia (CUNY): “Brazilian Experience in the U.S. Through Gisele Bundchen’s Body” Esin Egit (CUNY):”Turkish Women in New York”
Panel 30 Homosexuality & Bisexuality in Film Room SC 8 Chair: Lisa K. Boehm (Worcester State College) Metasebia Woldemariam (Plymouth State College): “African Homosexuality on Screen” Elizabeth C. Powers (University of Michigan): “Crossing Cultural and Sexual Boundaries” Kylo-Patrick Hart (Plymouth State College): “Post-Punk Style Meets New Queer Cinema”
3:30 PM Coffee and Adjournment 4:00 PM Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Business Meeting Room SC 1 ####
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