2012 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York
26-27 October 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend I: Visions of the Future
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Cory Matieyshen (National University): “Bert the Turtle Won't Save You: American Science Fiction Prose and Criticism of Nuclear Civil Defense During the 1950s”
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University): “Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl In The Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place”
Özüm Ünal (Bahçeşehir University): “Mothering the ‘Other’: Representation of the Decentered Bodies in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men”
Shannon Tarango (University of California Riverside): “Dystopia in The Hunger Games”
Saturday, October 27, 2012: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend II: Old Legends, New Stories
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Mary Bridgeman (Trinity College Dublin): “Complex subjects in Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood”
Laura Wiebe (McMaster University): “Witches, Elves, and Bioengineers: Magic and Science in Kim Harrison’s The Hollows”
Kathleen Mulligan (Providence College): “Robin Hood: from ‘History’ to Folklore and Back Again”
Michael Torregrossa (Independent Scholar): “Once and Future Kings Revisited:The Theme of Arthur Redivivus in Recent Arthuriads of the Comics Medium”
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