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| 2006 Conference Presentations |
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| 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 LORD OF THE RINGS II �HISTORIOGRAPHY Countries Unknown: Exploring the Roots of Middle-earth Matt Bernstein, California State University, Northridge. Aragorn and the Paths of the Dead: Odysseus Comes to Middle-Earth Daniel Bellum, University of New Mexico A More Perfect Troy: Minas Tirith and Tolkien�s Reimagining of the Trojan War Dawn Catanach, University of New Mexico Aspects of Orientalism in J. R. R. Tolkien�s The Lord of the Rings Astrid Winegar, University of New Mexico FEMINISM AND LABOR IN BUFFY Slaying the Deficit in Disability Cyndi Headley, California State University, San Marcos Her Work Shall Set Us Free: Immaterial Labor, Gender and Bio-politics in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer Susan Shin Hee Park, University of Minnesota The Hellmouth Hath No Fury Like a Willow Scorned: The Feminine Challenge to Patriarchy and Its Limits in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College Images and Metaphor of the Domestic Feminine: Barthes, Buffy, and Joss Whedon Re-Humanize the Traditions of the Mythic Family Donna M. Souder, Texas Woman�s University |