PCA/ACA in SA, April 2011

Thanks for stopping by and giving me homework!

For an explanation of what this is all about, read my PCA/ACA homework blog post. Then scroll on down this list and start assigning me panels!

Below, I’ve listed all the time slots I’m undecided on. You’ll notice not every time is listed — some times have panels I simply have to attend (including the one I’m reading in), which knocks out other options. But every time slot that offers more than one choice appears below, and beside each list of possible panels is a poll. Vote for the option you would most like me to attend, and I’ll do my best to get there!

A couple of notes:

• Can’t tell which panel you’d prefer? No worries! For each time slot, I’ve listed the options above the poll. Each option is linked to the online description of the panel, complete with presenter names and paper abstracts. (In some cases, I’ve added a quick summary of my own, just to make things easier, but check out the links anyway. There are some awesome papers slated this year.)
• And you aren’t limited to my shortlist. Each poll includes an “Other” blank; you can vote for that one and fill in an option I haven’t listed. To find out what other options are available on the program, go to the online schedule and filter for that time slot, then just copy and paste the panel title into the blank. (And yes, Mom, “Come back home to visit the family” is an acceptable write-in option.)
• Also, I might not make it to all the top picks. Between now and then, something might come up that dictates I attend a different panel, or that I skip that time altogether (you’ll notice, for example, that I currently have no time at all for lunch–or the usually awesome bookfair–on any of the main conference days, and I’ll need to eat and browse the bookfair at some point). But in general, I’m going to try to stick to everyone’s recommendations. I just wanted to give a heads-up in case I missed your pick.
• Have any other comments or requests? By all means, leave me a comment! I’d love your feedback!

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Wednesday

April 20, 1:15 – 2:45 pm

• Horror 2: Traumatic Sights and Sounds
• Religion and Culture I (spirituality and spiritualism)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 20, 3 – 4:30 pm

• Appropriating “Inappropriate” Texts: Popular Culture in the Rhet/Comp Classroom
• Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture 1: Special Topic Alan Moore
• Horror I. Zombies, Pop Culture and Pedagogy
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 20, 4:45 – 6:15 pm

• Comics and Real Life Problems
• Cormac McCarthy III: The Road
• Fresh Blood Indeed: The Vampire in Pop Culture
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 20, 6:30 – 8 pm

• Comics and Some Old Fashioned Ideas (medieval, Renaissance, & Shakespearean themes in comics)
• Gothic III: Vampires and the Gothic (vampires in medicine & myth; duMarier and Meyers)
• Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture 3 Special Topic: Gender Issues
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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Thursday

April 21, 8 – 9:30 am

• Fiction 3 (authors reading their original short fiction)
• Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture 4: Special Topic Teaching With Comics and Graphic Novels
• Music: Metal Culture (all papers based partly on recent, original field research in heavy metal culture)
• Religion and Culture IV (modern presentations of heaven, Knights Templar, and religion on the road)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 21, 1:15 – 2:45 pm

• Creative Writing Pedagogy I
• Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture 8: Adaptation and Narrative Structure
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 21, 3 – 4:30 pm

• Creative Writing Pedagogy II
• Fiction 4 (authors reading their original short fiction)
• Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture 10: Miscellaneous (Vietnam, Captain America, the death of the comic book, and Madame Bovary)
• Pedagogies and the Profession 1: Deep in the Heart of Texas: Writing about Place in the Composition Classroom
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 21, 4:45 – 6:15 pm

• Composing Culture: Using Popular Culture to Teach Freshman Composition
• Connecting via Popular Culture (connecting pop culture to education; includes three library papers)
• Fiction 5 (authors reading their original short fiction)
• Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture 7: Race and Other Issues
• The Vampire Up Close and Personal: Analyzing the Vampire and Vampirism (pardon my bias, but for vampire geeks, this one looks really cool!)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 21, 8:15 – 9:45 pm

• Documentary Film: The Other Side of the Track (film about the history of segregation in Commerce, TX)
• Re-Reading Harry Potter
• Roundtable Discussion: Presentations of Libraries in Popular Culture
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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Friday

April 22, 8 – 9:30 am

• Arab Culture in the U.S. I
• Collecting Popular Culture (pop culture collectors and collections)
• Comics: Not Just for Kids
• Film X: Deconstructed Genres I–Noir, Westerns, Serial Killers
• Horror and Composition Pedagogy (teaching comp through horror)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 9:45 – 11:15 am

• Arab Culture in the U.S. II
• Horror VII. Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson (not comparative–they’re just lumped together)
• Pedagogies and the Profession 4: Unlearning Educational College Pedagogical Stupidity (deals mostly with some of the weird/idiotic practices we find ourselves doing in a corporatized, assessment-focused educational culture)
• Technical Communication IV: Technical Communication and Imagery (visual tech comm from 17th-century military manuals to Facebook)
• Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity: Ethnic & Eccentric (death, Lady Gaga, and African fashion)
• Film Adaptation V: Socio-political Smoke & Mirrors in Film Adaptation (a wide gamut–check the link)
• Film XI: Deconstructed Genres II–Mise-en-scene, Apocalypse, Superheroes, Translucent Perception (another mixed bag that includes Jane Austen and Children of Men, if you can believe it; check the link)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 11:30 am – 1 pm

• Adventures (fiction and nonfiction set at sea–this one’s for you, Grandpa!)
• Celebrating Six Seasons of LOST? (that question mark is there for a reason)
• Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies VIII: Bodies of Resistance (focusing mostly on the body and its relationship to gender identity)
• Roundtable: Men’s Studies: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (“Male Bodies in `80s Entertainment”)
• Television XI: Visions of Heroism (LOST, superhumans, geeks, and Scrubs)
• War After 1945 III: Iraq and Afghanistan (women in war, families of veterans, and anti-war protests)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 1:15 – 2:45 pm

• Fiction 6 (authors reading their original short fiction)
• Academics and Collegiate Culture I: Classroom Issues
• LOST’S final season: Heavenly, Hellish, or Just Plain Purgatory? (a roundtable discussion)
• Revision and Memory (all about the Civil War; I’m revising a Civil War novel right now, so this could prove really useful for me)
• 2011 SWTX Graduate Student Awards – and Keynote Presentation by Kent Worcester (this one is problematic, because it lasts till 3:15 pm, which would cut into the next time slot)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 3 – 4:30 pm

• Fiction 7 (authors reading their original short fiction)
• Academics and Collegiate Culture II: Teaching the Harry Potter Series at the College Level
• Horror IX. H. P. Lovecraft: New Perspectives
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 4:45 – 6:15 pm

• Academics and Collegiate Culture III:Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age: An Open Forum on What’s Now and What’s Next
• Teaching Composition with Popular Culture
• Texas: Women, War, and Race (bias warning: one paper is on Texas women at the end of the Civil War, which I’d LOVE to hear about, and another is about German immigration, which is important to the history of my own Hill Country)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 22, 6:30 – 8 pm

• Internet Culture V: Literary Culture And Practice On The Web (blogs, author websites, etc)
• SuperBodies That Matter: GenderQueer Superhero Cyborgs, Monsters, and Mutants (really interesting abstract–check the link)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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Saturday

April 23, 11:30 am – 1 pm

• Popular Culture and the Classroom I: Pop Culture Across the Campus
• Teaching Transgression Transgressively—Comedy and Pedagogy
• Vampires and Heroes (mostly about romantic, “Byronic” vampire “heroes”)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 23, 1:15 – 2:45 pm

• Popular Culture and the Classroom II: New Technologies and Teaching Composition (Facebook, Google, and ESL)
• Sacred Spaces, Joyous Places: The Contemporary American Renaissance Festival
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 23, 3 – 4:30 pm

• Horror XIV. Mothers and Motherhood in Horror
• Popular Culture and the Classroom III: Studying Gender in Literature, & Television
• Teaching With Comics (a really interesting mix–check the link)
• Twilight and Literary Culture (I’ve been doggedly avoiding Twilight panels, but this one definitely looks worth attending)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)

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April 23, 4:45 – 6:15 pm

• Horror XV. Cannibals, Vampires and Slayers
• Popular Culture and The Classroom IV: Film, Graphic Novels, & Student Performance (developmental comp, novel adaptations, Maus & Persepolis, etc)
• The Future of Comics (scholarship-as-comics, digital comics, and more adaptations)
• Other (browse the schedule and write in an option)