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 TonelliTrent 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
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