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| 2006 Conference Presentations |
| There's no place like |
| GAMING I "PHAT LOOT FOR TEH WIN!!!": Questing for a False Virtual Utopia Robin Andreasen, South Texas College Post-Borgesian Virtualities in the Desert-ed Carnival of the Real Joe Haske, South Texas College Fluid Identities in the Virtual Reality of the Classroom Liana Andreasen, South Texas College Interpreting Tolkien and Customizing Roles in the Middle-Earth Collectible Card Game Joe Bisz, CUNY Borough of Manhattan RELIGION IN THE WHEDONVERSE Whedon's Biting Wit: Parodies of Religion in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer Mara E. Donaldson, Dickinson College The Shepherd�s Crook: An Examination of the Enduring Power of Rejected Faith in Joss Whedon�s Firefly and Serenity K. Dale Koontz, Cleveland Community College �I offer her an apple. What can she do but take it?�? Caleb�s Evangelical Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tammy A. Kinsey, University of Toledo What Would Joss Do? And Would Anyone Care? Religion and Audience Response in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer Asim Ali, University of Maryland- College Park LORD OF THE RINGS III �CULTURAL CONTEXTS The Myth of History: Intertexuality and the Historical Narrative of The Lord of the Rings Jason Burnett, Indiana University Graduate Center The Lord of the Rings: Myth, Faerie, and Modernity Julie Redekopp, University of New Mexico In Defense of Arwen Mark Lewandowski, Indiana State University Bored With the Rings: Non-Fans and the Cultural Reception of The Lord of the Rings Margaret J. Tally, Empire State College OTHERING Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the Digital Divide in Film and Art Janell Hobson, University at Albany, SUNY R is for Race not Rocket: Black Representation in American SF Cinema Adilifu Nama, California State University, Northridge �Rise My Friend�: Homoerotic Subtext in Star Wars Lindsay Ludvigsen, California State University, Fullerton A Fantastic Re-articulation: Carlos Avila�s Foto-Novelas Janani Subramanian, University of Southern California LITERATURE Samuel R. Delany's Allegory of Reading Gary Lim, CUNY Graduate Center ]Fatal Fallout and the Rise of the Machines: Science and Technology in H.G. Wells�s Tono-Bungay Charles Harding, University of Colorado, Denver Deep Space and Deep Ecology: Justifications for Population Control in the Science Fiction of L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Rob Brault, Winona State University �To Love That Well Which Thou Must Leave Ere Long�: Kate Wilhelm�s Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and the End of History. Paul Q. Kucera, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi |
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