Science
Fiction, Fantasy,
and Legend Area
2011 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular
Culture/American Culture Association
Western Connecticut State
University (Danbury, CT), November 11-12, 2011
Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend I: Science Fiction (Session I, Friday, 4-5:30 PM, Warner
320)
Presider:
Michael A. Torregrossa, The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture
and the Middle Ages
Paper
1: “Surviving The Night of the Comet:
Zombies, Space, and the 2012 Hysteria”
Kristine Larsen, Physics and Earth Sciences
Department, Central Connecticut State University
Paper
2: “Ain’t I a Xenomorph?: Representations of Post-Feminist Identity in the Alien Films”
Randy Laist, Goodwin College
Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend II: Legends Old and New (Session II, Saturday,
8:30-10 AM, Warner 320)
Presider:
Brian Clements, Western Connecticut State University
Paper
1: “Robin Hood in Ballad and Film”
Kerry R. Kaleba, George Mason University
Paper
2: “What Do Vampires Have to Do with the Holy Grail?: The Transformation of the
Grail Legend in Undead Arthuriana”
Michael A. Torregrossa, The Virtual Society for the
Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Paper
3: “Vampires in Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire novels and the Twilight
Saga”
Andrea Siegel, Graduate Center/CUNY
Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend III: Fantasy (Session III, Saturday, 10:30 AM – 12
PM, White 023)
Presider:
Faye Ringel, United States Coast Guard Academy, retired
Paper
1: “ ‘Epic’ in Epic-Fantasy Literature”
Robert Luce, Independent Scholar
Paper
2: “Who Is Afraid Of Merlin? The Darkening of Merlin in Modern Arthurian
Fiction”
Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut
Paper
3: “ ‘Close This Book Right Now’: The Writer-Character in Children’s Fantasy”
Amie A. Doughty, SUNY Oneonta
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