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
The
paper by Marlene San Miguel Groner has been withdrawn.
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
The
paper by Barry Hall has been withdrawn.
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: “ ‘Close This Book
Right Now’: The Writer-Character in Children’s Fantasy”
Amie
A. Doughty, SUNY Oneonta
The
paper by Anne Berthelot has been withdrawn, and we believe that paper by Robert
Luce has been withdrawn as well.
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