NEPCA Schedule Update (September)

Some major and minor changes to our sessions for next month. The current schedule runs as follows:

Northeast Popular/America Culture Association
2014 Conference
Providence College, 24-25 October 2014
(Current as of 9/18/14)

Friday, 24 October

SESSION II: Friday, October 24, 2:45–4:15 pm
PANEL 13 | HARKINS LL13 | SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND LEGEND: HORROR AND THE FANTASTIC
CHAIR: *Faye Ringel, United States Coast Guard Academy
1. “ ‘You’re a Trickster Singular, Rachel Morgan’: Collective and Individual Magic in Kim Harrison’s The Hollows Series”
*Amie Doughty, SUNY – Oneonta
2. “Just Desserts: NBC’s Hannibal and the Evolution of Cultural Morality”
*Douglas Howard, Suffolk County Community College
3. “ ‘Monstrosity Will Be Called For’: Holly Black and Melissa Marr’s Urban Gothic Fairy Tale”
*Rhonda Nicol, Illinois State University
4. “Horrific Science and the Great Unseen in the Fiction of Francis Stevens”
*Sabrina Starnaman, University of Texas at Dallas


Saturday, 25 October

SESSION IV, Saturday, October 25, 9:00–10:30 am
PANEL 24 | HARKINS 104 | SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & LEGEND: CREATURE FEATURES
CHAIR: *Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
1. “Dracula: Monster of Masculinity”
Michael Paul Pecora, Worcester State University
2. “’Nature Selects the Horla: Darwinian Influences on Guy de Maupassant’s Horror Tale”
*Sharon Yang, Worcester State University
3. “Like Lovecraft for the Little Ones: ParaNorman’s Gothic New England”
*Faye Ringel, US Coast Guard Academy & *Jenna Randall, Independent Scholar
4. “Cyborgs in Western Science Fiction: Triumphs and Tribulations in Human-Machine Relations”
Petra Vannucci-Henkel, University of Denver


SESSION VI: Saturday, October 25, 1:30–3:00 pm
PANEL 44 | HARKINS 330| SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND: MANUFACTURING MONSTERS
CHAIR: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
1. “Harvesting the Little Sisters: Sexualization and the Exploitation of Children in the BioShock Series” [ADDED]
*Ashley Barry, Independent Scholar
2. “Scopophilia and Ocular Mutilation: Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Vision for Pretty Deadly”
* Katy Rex, Independent Scholar [ADDED]
3. “Should Your Car Kill You?”
* Don Vescio, Worcester State University
4. “The Cosmic Gaze: Polyocularity in H.P. Lovecraft-Related Visual Culture”
* Nathan Wallace, Ohio State University


SESSION VII: Saturday, October 26, 3:15–4:45 pm
PANEL 49| HARKINS 331 | SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND: SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION
CHAIR: *Sabrina Starnaman, University of Texas – Dallas
1. “Identifying Frankenstein’s Creature in Nature”
Janna Andrews, Arcadia University
2. “ ‘I Miss Science Class’: Emasculating Scientists in The Walking Dead”
*Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
3. “Did Chris Carter Want to Kill His Franchise? A Feminist Reading of The X-Files: I Want to Believe”
*April Selley, Union College
4. “Echoes of Frankenstein: Recasting the Story”
Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar



OTHER CHANGES:

“Back From the Dead: Premature Burial in Early Modern England”
Nicole Salamone, Independent Scholar [MOVED OUT OF AREA—SEE PANEL 27]

 “Rethinking Edmund Burke’s Sublime in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian”
Michelle Germinario, Montclair State University [WITHDRAWN]