| The Area |
| History |
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| 2005 Conference Presentations |
| There's no place like |
| 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. |
| "What Happens When Your Daughter Dates a Demon?: Buffy, Angel, and American Anti-miscegenation Rhetoric
."--Allison Burkette, University of Mississippi
�'We Stay Local, But We Live Global': The African/American Threat in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3." --Laurie MacDiarmid, St. Norbert College "Which World Does She Save?: Constructing Gang Violence and Response in Buffy: the Vampire Slayer." --Steve Bellin, St. Norbert College "Hearts and Bones: the Dialogic Nature of Reality in Patricia A. McKillip's In the Forests of Serre ." --Sarah E. Gibbons, Michigan State University "Women, Gender, and Symbolic Sexuality in Fantastic Fiction ."--Sarah Joseph, University of Dayton "Philip Roth as Science Fiction Writer?: Negotiating (Alternate) Histories in The Plot Against America ." --Derek P. Royal, Texas A&M University-Commerce "Pillaging Keats: Dan Simmons� Hyperion Cantos as a Test of Keats� Theories on the Poet ."--Susan Johnson, California State University Fullerton "Genre-Bending Fantasy Detectives: Jasper Fforde�s Thursday Next, Douglas Adams�s Dirk Gently, and Neil Gaiman�s Shadow." --Victoria Gaydosik, Southwest Oklahoma State University "Electronic Duppies, the Burden of Dry-Bone, and Native Survivance: Nalo Hopkinson�s Midnight Robber, 'Ganger (Ball Lightning),' and Diane Glancy�s 'Aunt Parnetta�s Electric Blisters'." --Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University "Women in the Void: Lovecraft, Alien, and the Futures of Feminism ."--Robin Andreasen, South Texas College "A Cyborg Manifest: Haraway�s Hybrids, Feminism, and the Alien Tetralogy." --Jennifer Perrine, Florida State University "Where is the Truth? Saving What�s Human in The X-Files." --Joe Bisz, CUNY-Brooklyn College "Secular Scoobies: Trouble at the Boundaries of the Buffyverse ."--Christopher Pizzino, Union College �'She Saved the World. A Lot': Buffy as Apocalyptic Hero." --Mara E. Donaldson, Dickinson College "Moral Choice in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly: Ethics in the Buffyverse ."--J.M. Richardson, Lakehead University and J.D. Rabb, Lakehead University "Reflection of Victorian Society in Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland ."--Seungwon Kim , University of Texas at Arlington "'Playful Subversion': Fairy Tales in Terry Pratchett�s Witches Abroad ."--Richard Tuerk, Texas A&M University-Commerce "Feminist Community in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ."--Tisha Turk, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Getting to Know the Monster in Buffy and Angel ."--Kevin Piper, University of Wisconsin-Madison �'Not One Thing or the Other' � The Productivity of Passing in Buffy and Angel ."--Katie Lynch, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Alien Race: Blackness as Affirmative Distraction in SF Cinema ."--Ximena Gallardo C., CUNY--LaGuardia "Fantasy and Fetish: The SF&F Online Role-playing Game."-- C. Jason Smith, CUNY�LaGuardia �'So How Do You Know She's A Witch? She Looks Like One!': A Survey of Art, Movies, and Visual Representations of Witches & a New Theory of the Third Wave." --Kim Wells, Southwest Texas State University |
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