ICFA 26 Schedule

This is how the schedule will appear in the conference program.

Any changes will now be listed in the errata sheet included in the registration package.

 

Wednesday March 16, 2005 4-5:30 PM

 

1. (CYA) Ordering Systems, Disordering Worlds                                Hatteras

Chair: Alaine Martaus

Florida State University - London Study Center

 

Beyond Belief, Defying Doubt: Indirect Use of Maps to Produce Convincing Realism in Fantasy

Betsy Stefany

Hollins University

 

Striking asn Androgynous Balance in the Universe: Parent, Child and Spiritual Guides in Madeleine L'Engle's Work

Amie Rose Rotruck

Hollins University

 

Dispelling Truths in the Versions of L.A.

Bridgid Shannon

Hollins University

 

2. (IF) Blurring Borders and Boundaries I: Cross-Cultural Pollination in the Fantastic                                               Bertram

Chair: Dale Knickerbocker

East Carolina University

 

The Brazilian Fantasy Genre 2001-2004: Globalizing and Brazilianizing Lord of the Rings

Elizabeth Ginway

University of Florida

 

The Werewolf in the Crested Kimono: Japanese Werewolves and Other Shape-Shifters in Anime and Manga

Antonia Levi

Portland State University

 

The Hawk, the Nightingale, the Blue Bird and the Falcon: The Evolution of Tale Type AT 432

Helen Pilinovsky

Columbia University

 

3. (IF) Fantasy, Society, and Identity                                          Hunter

Chair: Steve Adisasmito-Smith

California State University Fresno

 

Yo soy Godzilla!: The Possibilities and Futilities of Cuban Horror

Rafael Miguel Montes

St. Thomas University

 

Childhood Revisited: The Adolescent Phantom in Anne Hebert's Les Fous de Bassan, Neil Jordan's Shade, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones

Virginia Harger-Grinling

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

Doll's Dream, Human Desire: "Ghost in the Shell 2"

Hiroko Chiba

DePauw University

 

4. (H) Nineteenth-Century Presentiments                          Donzi

Chair: Jim Holte

East Carolina University

 

Invisibility in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Jeri Zulli

George Washington University

 

A Little Death: The Fantastic Deathwish and the Victorian Fear of Death

Samantha Holcomb

Independent Scholar

 

The Latest Version of Dracula Park at Snagov

Radu Florescu

Boston College

 

5. Author Readings I                                     Boardroom

Host: Gary Wolfe

Daniel Keyes

F. Brett Cox

P. Andrew Miller

 

Wednesday March 16, 2005 6:00-8:00 p.m.

 

IAFA Board Meeting                                     Eighth Floor Suite

 

Wednesday March 16, 2005 8:30-11:00 p.m.

Opening Reception                                         Regatta (formerly Doubles)

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

6. (FE) Chaos, Recontextualization and Fuzzy Sets in Fantasy Literature                                      Hatteras

Chair: Sydney Duncan

University of Alabama

 

Chaos and Order in the Recluse Cycle

Norman Peercy

University of Northern Colorado

 

The Recontextualization of Finn MacCool in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Donald Barthleme's The Dead Father

Gary P. Walton

Northern Kentucky University

 

An Experimental Investigation of the Mimetic/Fantasmatic Axis

Greer Watson

University of Toronto

 

7. (SF) Culture, Conflict, and Controversy in Sixties and Seventies SF                                            Bertram

Chair: Amelia Beamer

Michigan State University

 

New Worlds and Old Guards: Towards an Anatomy of the New Wave Controversy

Rob Latham

University of Iowa

 

Awakening from Dreams toward Dreams of Awakening: Philip K. Dick and the Fluidity of the Real

David M. Higgins

Indiana University, Bloomington

 

Subject of/to Knowledge: The Female Body and Mind as an Epistemological Battleground in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and The Two of Them

Jenny Bonnevier

Uppsala University

 

8. (FFM) Is it Real or is it Cinematic Artifice?                                          Hunter

Chair: Farah Mendlesohn

Middlesex University

 

Memories Make the Man: Clones, Memory & Nostalgia in SF Film

Susan A. George

University of California, Davis

 

The Original Rocky Horror Picture Show: the 1914 "Florida Enchantment"

Lokke Heiss

Independent Scholar

 

What is the Matrix?: The Interactive Landscape and the Social Imaginary

Kim Knight

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

9. (FE) Dyadic Worlds and Feminine Identity in the Fantasy Stories of Patricia McKillip, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Peter Straub                         Gulfstar

Chair: Sondra Swift

Old Dominion University

 

Color Me Insane: The Effects of Color and Design on the Women in Gilman and Straub

Lynn Kramer

University of South Carolina

 

Straddling Genres: McKillip and the Landscape of Identity

Sharon Emmerichs

University of Missouri-Columbia

 

Bridging World and Story: Patricia McKillip's Reluctant Heroes

Christine Mains

University of Calgary

 

10. (CYA) Villainy                                             Intrepid

Chair: Marietta Frank

University of Pittsburgh, Bradford

 

Revealed and Re-Masked: The Adolescent Face of Traditional Adult Villains

Alaine Martaus

Florida State University - London Study Center

 

Who Are They Playing Against? The Hidden Villains of Children's SF Real Game Stories

Madeline Smoot

Hollins University

 

Synergy of Female Spiders and Their Male Counterparts

Stella Williams

Texas A&M -Commerce

 

11. (H) Virtual Landscapes, Deadly Diseases, and Erotic Transgressions                                        Donzi

Chair: Franc Auld

University of South Florida

 

Suddenly Sexual Revenants and Aliens

Margaret Carter

Independent Scholar/Author

 

From the Virtual to the Real: The Construction of Landscape in Anne of Green Gables and Dracula

Jason Nolan & Yuka Kajihara

University of Toronto

 

Fright of the Living Dead: How our Fear of Contagious Disease and Death is Evident in Horror Movies

Cecilia Petretto

Tidewater Community College

 

12. (FE)/(FFM) Panel: Beyond Lord of the Rings:                                  Atlantic

Moderator: Robin Anne Reid

Lorraine S. Lipoma

Charles W. Nelson

Elizabeth Whittingham

Don Riggs

Tom Shippey

Joseph Pearce

 

13. Author Readings II                                Boardroom

Host: Brian Attebery

Candas Jane Dorsey

Judith Berman

Elenora Sabin

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 10:30-12:00 a.m.

 

14. (SF) Feminist Fabulations                                      Hatteras

Chair: Carl Freedman

Louisiana State University

 

Feminist Fabulation: Women and the Science Fictional Across Time, Space, and Genre

Audrey Johnson

Washington State University

 

New Approaches to Feminist Fabulation

Marleen Barr

Fordham University

 

Reflections on the Languages of Rights and Religion: Human and Alien Dialogics in Tepper’s Recent Fiction

Janice M. Bogstad

UWEC McIntyre Library

 

15. (PCVA) Holy Seeing: Art and the Fantastic                                      Bertram

Chair: Joe Sanders

Independent Scholar

 

Dominican Carnaval: An Eruption of the Fantastic

Judith Kerman

Saginaw Valley State University

 

Melting Watches in the Wardrobe: Synchronicity in Works by Salvador Dali and C. S. Lewis

Michael Johnson

Buffalo State College

 

Breaking the Boundaries: The Sea-Change in the Figure in Twentieth-Century Art

Chris Hassold

New College of Florida

 

16. (FFM) Virgins & Divas: Genre Bending In Fantastic Film                                               Hunter

Chair: Carrol L Fry

Northwest Missouri State University

 

Undoing the Maiden: The Female Victim-Hero and Patriachy in David Fincher's Alien 3

Ximena Gallardo C.

City University of New York-La Guardia

 

Virginal Fears and Wicked Desires in Dario Argento's Suspiria

Douglas Keesey

California Polytechnic State University

 

Gender, Genre and Techno-Divas: Robotic Femme Fatales in Metropolis, Bride of Frankenstein, and Blade Runner.

Sheri Chinen Biesen

Rowan University

 

17. (FE) Hidden Powers, Doubles, and Alternatives                         Gulfstar

Chair: Charles W. Nelson

Michigan Technological University

 

Making Magic: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Authority of the Theater

James Casey

University of Alabama

 

Double or Phantom?: Transgenerational Haunting in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Boyd Petersen

Utah Valley State College

 

Philip Roth's The Plot Against America

Ed McKnight

Anderson College

 

18. (SF) Philosophy, Aesthetics and the Fantastic                               Intrepid

Chair: Grace Dillon

Portland State University

 

Perceived Perceivers Perceiving: Fantastic Literature and the Philosophical Novel

John Garrison

The Speculative Literature Foundation

 

The Wit, Perception and Husbandry of Brian Aldiss

Donna Ross Hooley

Ogeechee Technical College

 

Ingressive Inhalations: Sound Singing and the Fantastic

Chris Tonelli
Trent University

 

19. (H) Lost, Forgotten, or Dead? The Search for Complex Identity in Contemporary Horror                               Donzi

Chair: Kathy Davis Patterson

Kent State Tuscarawas

 

Seeing is Believing, Desire and Demonstration of the Monstrous in Frailty

Franc Auld

University of South Florida

 

Humor and the Dead in Kamau’s Flickering Shadows

Patricia Nickinson

University of South Florida

 

Taking Care of Business: Heroism, Identity and Horror in Bubba Ho-Tep

Michelle Lattanzio

University of South Florida

 

20. (CYA) Panel: Lion and the Unicorn Special Issue                             Atlantic

Moderator: Mary Harris Russell

Brian Attebery

C. W. Sullivan III.

Michael M. Levy

 

21. Author Readings III                             Boardroom

Host: Christine Mains

Beth Adele Long

Niklas Krog

Theresa Crater

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 12:15-2:15 p.m.

 

Guest of Honor Lunch                                Ballroom

Rudy Rucker

Seek the Gnarl

Introduced by Rob Latham

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 2:30-3:30 p.m.

 

22. (CYA) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Fantasy Fiction                                  Hatteras

Chair: Mary Harris Russell

Indiana University Northwest

 

Alice and Wendy: Adolescent Journeys Through Language and Lacan's Mirror Stage

Samantha Cox

East Carolina University

 

Magic Realism in Children's Literature: A Psychoanalytical Approach

I. Rudge

University of Warwick, UK

 

23. (H) Sorcerers, Women, and Their Weird Bodies                          Bertram

Chair: Steve Brown

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Bodily Subjects and Feminine Horrors: Shelley Jackson and the Weird Body

Darja Malcolm-Clarke

Indiana University-Bloomington

 

Following the Man in Black: Merlin in Arthurian Legend and Stephen King's Dark Tower Series

Kelly Averett

University of Maryland

 

24. (PCVA) Warriors and Wights: The Fantastic in Popular TV and Film                                      Hunter

Chair: Rhonda Brock-Servais

Longwood University

 

From Warrior to Wimp?: An Analysis of Violence and Subjectivity Transformation In Xena, Warrior Princess and Fan Fiction

Rachel McGrath-Kerr

Australian National University

 

"I See Dead People": Spiritualism in the Ghost Film

Carrol L Fry

Northwest Missouri State University

 

25. (SF) SF Theory Round Table.                             Gulfstar

Justine Larbalestier’s The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

 

Moderator: Len Hatfield

Moderator: Joan Gordon

Presenter: Robin Anne Reid

 

26. Publishing Opportunities                                     Intrepid

McFarland Press Presentation

C. W. Sullivan III

Donald Palumbo

 

27. (H) Women, Witches, and War                         Donzi

Chair: Michelle Lattanzio

University of South Florida

 

The Witches’ Curse: Vera Brittain and the Shadowed Beard of War

Deborah Bacon Noonon

University of South Florida

 

From Private Practice to Public Coven(ant): Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic and its Hollywood Transformation

Kathy Davis Patterson

Kent State Tuscarawas

 

28. (SF) Panel: Science Fiction and Poetry:                           Atlantic

Moderator: Bryan Dietrich

Albert Goldbarth

David Lunde

Judith Kerman

Joe Haldeman

Michael Arnzen

 

29. Author Readings IV                             Boardroom

Host: John Kessel

James Morrow

Peter Straub

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 4:00-5:30 p.m.

 

30. (PCVA) Grave New Worlds: Comics and the Transreal                              Hatteras

Chair: Javier Martinez

University of Texas - Brownsville

 

Outer Space, Superheroes, and Planetary: Three Aspects of the Sublime

Albert Wendland

Seton Hill University

 

Girls In Gotham, Or, Why It Doesn't Pay To Be a Woman In a (Super)Man's World

Sherryl Vint

St. Francis Xavier University

 

Drawn to Marvel: Neo-Romantic Pop-Classicism and the Poetry of Comics

Bryan D. Dietrich

Newman University

 

31. (FE) China Miéville and Radical Fantasy                                              Bertram

Chair: Bernadette Bosky

Independent Scholar

 

From Cacotopias to Railroads: Transrealist Rebellion in Iron Council

Nicholas Birns

New School University

 

Political Strategy and Social Struggle in China Miéville's Perdito Street Station: The Dynamics of Radical Fantasy

William J. Burling

Southwest Missouri State University

 

To The Perdido Street Station: The Literary Politics Of China Miéville's Iron Council

Carl Freedman

Louisiana State University

 

32. (FFM) TV Guides: Vision, Citizenship & Advertising                                 Hunter

Chair: J. Robert Craig

Central Michigan University

 

As Seen on TV: SF Film Advertising and the Blurring of Narrative Boundaries

Craig B. Jacobsen

Mesa Community College

 

"Want to know more?": Media Integration and Social Division in Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers

Jeffrey Smith

Central Michigan University

Donald Rottenbucher

Independent Scholar

 

Here's Looking at You: Television as Machine Age Fantasy

J. P. Telotte

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

33. (SF) Blurred Boundaries and Slipstreams                                           Gulfstar

Chair: Bill Clemente

Peru State College

 

Swords and Spaceships: Medievalism and Science Fiction in the New Millennium

Faye Ringel

U.S. Coast Guard Academy

 

The Slipstream of Theory

Steen Christiansen

Aalborg University

 

Transnational Imaginaries: Native Giveaways, Neotribalism, Scarification,and Tales of Survivance in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Diamond Age, China Miéville’s The Scar, and Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57

Grace L. Dillon

Portland State University

 

34. (SF) Postcolonialism, Cyber-subjectivity, and Afrofuturism                                        Intrepid

Chair: David M. Higgins

Indiana University, Bloomington

 

Humans from Earth: Colonialism, Anthropology, and the Emergence of Science Fiction

John Rieder

University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa

 

I See You Watching: Gender, Race and Cyber-subjectivity in Atwood's Oryx and Crake

Larissa Lai

University of Calgary

 

Crossing Color Lines: David Brin’s Kiln People and Walter Mosley’s “Angel’s Island”

Isiah Lavender III

University of Central Arkansas

 

35. (CYA) Harry Potter, Semper Struggle                                Donzi

Chair: Madeline Smoot

Hollins University

 

Harry Potter as the Ever-Diminishing Hero

Cody Lumpkin

Purdue University

 

Harry Potter and the Textbooks of Doom: What Hogwarts Can Teach the Muggles

Michael Young

LaRoche College

 

Mudbloods and Muggles: Racial Prejudice in Harry Potter

Michelle Coburn

Hollins University

 

36. (FFM)/(FE) Panel: Fan(dom) Methodology                                           Atlantic

Moderator: Eden Lackner

Rebecca Bley

Elizabeth Guzik

Karen Hellekson

Barbara Lucas

Cynthia Walker

Shannon White

 

37. Author Readings V                                Boardroom

Host: John Clute

Joe Haldeman

Eileen Gunn

Rick Wilber

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 6:00-7:00 p.m.

 

IAFA Business Meeting                            Atlantic

Open to all. Please attend.

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 7:00-8:00 p.m.

 

IAFA Division Head Meeting                                     Eighth Floor Suite

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 8:30-9:30 p.m.

 

Guest Author’s Reading                           Ballroom A

John Kessel

Introduced by Candas Jane Dorsey

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 9:30-10:30 p.m.

 

Play: “The Vipers of Milan”                                         Ballroom A

Host: Jeanne Beckwith

 

Thursday March 17, 2005 11:00-1:00 p.m.

 

Late Night Video Extravaganza                                Hunter

Sponsored by the Student Caucus

Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut

 

Friday March 18, 2005 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

38. (IF) Ethics, Morality, and Spirituality in Fantasy and SF                         Hatteras

Chair: Elizabeth Ginway

University of Florida

 

The New "Baby H.P.": On Fiction, Reality and a few Ethical Questions

Pablo Brescia

University of South Florida

 

Real Choice in an Unreal Situation: Vasistha's Teaching on Yoga and Philip K. Dick's Novels

Steve Adisasmito-Smith

California State University-Fresno

 

A (Martian?) Apocalypse: Science, Spirituality, and the Grotesque in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua

Dale Knickerbocker

East Carolina University

 

39. (FE) Interstitial and Liminal Fantasy                                Bertram

Chair: Jeffrey Weinstock

Central Michigan University

 

Liminal Spaces and Liminal States in John Crowley's Little, Big

Bernadettte Bosky

Independent Scholar

 

A Lull in the Conversation: Embedded Narrative in the Fiction of Kelly Link

Jason Erik Lundberg

North Carolina State University

 

Beautiful Wickedness: Elphaba's Interstitial Identity in Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Melissa Reen

Central Carolina Technical College

 

40. (PCVA) Origin Stories: Tracing the Evolving Characterization of Comic Book Heroes                                        Hunter

Chair: Laurie Cubbison

Radford University

 

Goku's Journeys: The Monkey King in DragonBall and Saiyuki

Laurie Cubbison

Radford University

 

Holy Fascism, Batman!: The Dark Knight Returns and Comic Books in the Classroom

Scott McDarmont

Radford University

 

Becoming Plant: Identity Formation in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

Shaun Corley

Radford University

 

41. (FE) Boundaries and Borders in Modern Fantasy                                              Gulfstar

Chair: Arthur Hlavaty

Independent Scholar

 

Indigenous Mythworlds and Fantastic Literature: Some Thoughts on the Persistence of Boundaries

Judith Berman

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

 

Safe Cities and Urban Jungles: Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide in Modern Fantasy

Stefan Ekman

Lund University

 

Wildness and Wilderness: Postcolonial Themes of Space and Place in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Rider

Breken Rose Hancock

University of New Brunswick

 

42. (CYA) Genres and Boundaries, When and Why                                                 Intrepid

Chair: Alaine Martaus

Florida State University - London Study Center

 

"Shall I Never Get Any Older?" The Immortal Child in Children's and Young Adult Fantasy, Or, Where Are All of the Immortal Children?

Marietta Frank

University of Pittsburgh, Bradford

 

Robert A. Heinlein: Reinventing Series SF in the 1950s