| The Area |
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| 2006 Conference Presentations |
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| The Science Fiction and Fantasy Area was started by Dr. Richard Tuerk in 1995 for the PCA/ACA SW/TX meeting in Stillwater, Oklahoma. That year, it had three presenters and two people in the audience, all from Texas A&M University--Commerce. As you can see from the number of presentations below, the area has grown considerably since then. |
| SEX, DEATH, AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE WHEDONVERSE "You Made Me the Man I Am Today": Erotic Relationships between the Slayer Vampires Erin Delaney, California State University, Northridge Her Gift is Death: Trauma and Survival in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristie Hernandez Camacho, National University The Point of Faith's Dagger: A Cutting Edge Interpretation of Buffy: the Vampire Slayer J.D. Rabb and J.M. Richardson, Lakehead University Tehcnology Makes the Man, Or Bringing a Pistol to a Laser Fight: The Divide Between Technological Haves and Have-Nots in the Firefly Universe. Cassie Wagner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale LITERATURE AND FILM Awake and Afraid: Gender and the Other in Octavia Butler's Dawn Jessica Chapman, Appalachian State University Science Fiction Poetry: Poetic Authenticity in a Make Believe World Luisa Villani, University of Southern California The Rhetoric of Cyberpunk in Sci-fi Genre: Examples from William Gibson�s Neuromancer and Wachowski Brothers� Matrix Trilogy. Yowei Kang, The University of Texas at El Paso Popular and High Culture in Fantasy Film and Literature: A Look at Willy Wonka /Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Alan Lehman, Georgetown University SUBJECTIVITY, SPACE, AND PERSPECTIVE IN THE WHEDONVERSE She�s Unpredictable: Illyria and the Liberating Potential of Chaotic Postmodern Identity Jennifer Hudson, Southern Connecticut State University �You are the one who sees everything� : Blindness, (Re)Vision and Shifting Perspective in the Interlocutor Aaron Drucker, Claremont Graduate University Serenity Found between The Man and The Monsters Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo LORD OF THE RINGS I�CULTURAL CODES Teaching Etymology in the College Classroom: Creating a Language JoNette LaGamba, University of South Florida, Tampa Slinker and Stinker: The Latent Psychological Effects of Gollum/Sm�agol from J.R.R. Tolkien�s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Cari Crumrine, University of Florida The Iconography of Evil in the Visual Art of J.R.R. Tolkien J.E.D. LaCoste, The University of Western Ontario VIEWING BUFFY Chair: Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento �And You MUST Sing Along�: Buffy�s Rejection of the Passive Watcher Jennifer Malkowksi Perceptions of Race(ism) in Buffy: The Active Viewer Confronts The Vampire Slayer Patrick R. Grzanka, University of Maryland-College Park Buffy at Play: The Deconstructing Trickster at Work in the Whedonverse. Brita Graham, Montana State University |