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

C.W. Sullivan III

East Carolina University

 

The Dolphins Still Speak: The Science Fiction of Leo Szilard

Bill Clemente

Peru State College

 

43. (SF) From Cold Equations to Capitalism: Fifties SF                                         Donzi

Chair: Isiah Lavender III

University of Central Arkansas

 

The Laws of the Space Frontier: Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations" and Hard Sci-Fi's Blind Spot

Michael Underwood

Indiana University Bloomington

 

Frederick Pohl's SF: The Globalization of Capitalism

James Landau

New York University

 

Understanding the 1950s SF Magazine Die-off

Amelia Beamer

Michigan State University

 

44. (H) Panel: Blurred Visions: Reviewing the Year in Horror Films                           Atlantic

Moderator: Susan A. George

Kenneth Jurkiewicz

Carrol L. Fry

Jeffrey Smith

Donald Rottenbucher

J. Robert Craig

J. P. Tellote

 

45. Author Readings VI                             Boardroom

Host: F. Brett Cox

Grace Dugan

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Stephen R. Donaldson

 

Friday March 18, 2005 9:00 a.m.

JFA Meeting                                       Eighth Floor Suite

 

Friday March 18, 2005 10:30-12:00 a.m.

 

46. (IF) Transnational Transreal                               Hatteras

Chair: Sharon Sieber

Idaho State University

 

Black Eyes and Overpriced Shoes: The Transreal of Early Protestant Mysticism

Sharon D. King

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

 

Genetic Memory and Hermaphroditism: Trans-Realism in Eugenides's Middlesex

Edith Borchardt

University of Minnesota, Morris

 

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

Michael Johnson

Buffalo State College

 

47. (PCVA) Fantasy and Fan Fiction: Merging Modes and Genres in Appropriated Texts                  Bertram

Chair: Karen Hellekson

Independent Scholar

 

"If I Wasn't a (Celebrity)": Alternate Times/Bodies/Realities in Celebrity Fiction and the Search for Identity

Kristina Busse

University of South Alabama

 

Embodying the Geek Hierarchy: Media Fanfiction and Theatrical Performance

Francesca Coppa

Muhlenberg College

 

"In Real Time": Role Playing Games and the Inflection of Fantasy in the Everyday

Louisa Stein

New York University

 

48. (FFM) Transgressions and Improprieties                                             Hunter

Chair: Kenneth Jurkiewicz

Central Michigan University

 

New Transgressions in Horror Film: Dedales (F/B, Rene Manzor, 2003)

Julie Miess

Humboldt State, Berlin

 

Yearning to Be Real: The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Melancholy of the Exiled Subject

Kim Surkan

Mt. Holyoke College

 

The Soulless Masses: Meditations on Machines and Mechanical Men

Melissa Colleen Stevenson

UC Santa Barbara

 

49. (FE) Savage Humanism and the Limits of Imagination                               Gulfstar

Chair: Noman Peercy

University of Northern Colorado

 

At the Limits of the Imagination: J.G. Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company

Samuel Francis

University of Leeds

 

John Kessel and Tim Sullivan: Savage Humanists

Fiona Kelleghan

University of Miami

 

Blurred Boundaries in W.G. Sebald's Novel Vertigo

David Dickens

Washington and Lee University

 

50. (CYA) Contemporary Fantasists: Philip Pullman and Jonathan Stroud                                  Intrepid

Chair: Len Hatfield

Virginia Tech

 

Exposing the Class System by Magic

A. William Pett

University of Rhode Island

 

"Condemnation and Yearning": The Epic Battle for Embodiment in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy

Laura Gall Meador

Illinois State University

 

Possible Worlds in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy

Tania Gigliotti

University of Alberta

 

51. (H) Will the Real Van Helsing Please Stand Up?                                                Donzi

Chair: Stephanie Moss

University of South Florida

 

Bram Stoker's Van Helsing

Elizabeth Miller

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

Van Helsing: The Formative Years

David Skal

Author/Film Historian

 

A Monstrous Mash, Or Would the Real Van Helsing Swing from a Rope?

Jim Holte

East Carolina University

 

52. (SF) Panel: Queer Eye for the Caped Guy                                           Atlantic

Moderator: P. Andrew Miller

Javier Martinez

Joe Sanders

Kevin J. Maroney

Sherryl Vint

Albert Wendland

Laurie Cubbison

 

53. Author Readings VII                           Boardroom

Host: Charles Nelson

Patrick O’Leary

John Crowley

Brian Aldiss

 

Friday March 18, 2005 12:15-2:30 p.m.

 

Guest Scholar’s Lunch                                Ballroom

Damien Broderick
Transreal Nostalgia in a Time of Singularity

Introduced by Gary Wolfe

 

Friday March 18, 2005 2:45-3:45 p.m.

 

54. (H) Gothic Architecture and the Gothic Novel                            Hatteras

Gothic Architecture and the Gothic Novel: Slides and Commentary

David Van Becker

San Jose State

 

55. (SF) Science Lecture                              Bertram

The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul.

Rudy Rucker

Introduced by Graham Sleight

 

56. (PCVA) Written on the Body: Anatomy of the Fantastic                           Hunter

Chair: Chris Hassold

New College of Florida

 

Modern Primitives: Body Rites, Performance Appropriation, and a Poetics of Pain

Randy Hill

St. Lawrence University

 

Mirror, Mirror on the Stage: The Link Between Posthuman Bodies and the Hypertextual Video

Elizabeth Guzik

University of Southern California

 

57. (FE) Gender Identity Past and Present                           Gulfstar

Chair: Benjamin Jude Wright

Florida State University

 

The Case for Inversion: A 19th-Century Idea Comes of Age

John Garrison

Independent Scholar

 

Ghosts of Desire: Apparational Lesbians and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Jeffrey A. Weinstock

Central Michigan University

 

58. Publishing Opportunities                                     Intrepid

Encyclopedia of Women and Science Fiction

Robin Anne Reid

 

59. (FE) Parody and Queer Theory in the Discworld Novels of Terry Pratchett                                              Donzi

Chair: Joe Sutliff Sanders

University of Kentucky

 

Terry Pratchett : Transcending Parody

Gideon Haberkorn

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

 

Pussycat in Black Leather: Greebo and the Queer Aesthetic

Stacie Hanes

Kent State University

 

60. Poetry Readings                                         Atlantic

Host: Judith Kerman

Brian Aldiss

Stefan Hall

Donna Hooley

Tenea Johnson

Patrick O'Leary

Don Riggs

 

61. Author Readings VIII                         Boardroom

Host: Dale Knickerbocker

Kij Johnson

Larissa Lai

 

Friday March 18, 2005 4:00-5:30 p.m.

 

62. (IF) Fantasy and Ideology                                       Hatteras

Chair: Christine Mains

University of Calgary

 

The Beautiful, the Ugly, and the Divine: Locating Imperial Ideology in Izumi Kyoka's The Saint of Mount Koya

Miri Nakamura

Stanford University

 

Haunting History: The Ghostliness of History in Contemporary "Ethnic" Novels

Sladja Blazan

Humboldt University, Berlin

 

Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s “V sadakh drugikh vozhmozhnostei” and the Textual and Metatextual Use of Liminal Space in the Creation of the Fantastic

Shannon White

University of Michigan

 

63. (PCVA) Heroes & Humanity: Shadows of Salvation                                      Bertram

Chair: Joe Sutliff Sanders

University of Kentucky

 

The Shadow and Redemption

Eric Braun

Central Michigan University

 

Rapture of the Nerds: Millennial Beliefs in the Emerging Transhumanist/Extropian Movement

Amy Hale

St. Petersburg College

 

The Fantastic at War: Representations of the Iraq War in Mainstream Superhero Comics

Mitch Frye

University of South Carolina

 

64. (FFM) Fantastic Family Film Values                                   Hunter

Chair: Jeffrey Smith

Central Michigan University

 

Devilish Creatures, Communist Rabbits: The Fantastic Child

Andrew M. Butler

Canterbury Christ Church University College

 

The Real Jonny Quest: Homoromantic Potential and Heterosexual Distance in Science Fiction Television

Jeffrey P. Dennis

Florida Atlantic University

 

Spielberg's The Lost World: Dinosaur Family Values

Andrew Gordon

University of Florida, Gainesville

 

65. (FFM) Monsters in the Making: Classic Horror Movie Origins                                 Gulfstar

Chair: J. P. Telotte

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Howling at the Moon: Forms of the Origin Story in Werewolf Cinema

J. Robert Craig

Central Michigan University

 

Zombies: The Origin Story in Classic and Contemporary Horror Films

B.R. Smith

Central Michigan University

 

Double Exposures: Jekyll and Hyde at the Movies

Kenneth Jurkiewicz

Central Michigan University

 

66. (SF) Cultural Ideologies and Ambivalence in SF                                                Intrepid

Chair: Robert Geary

James Madison University

 

Jules Verne: Exploring the Limits

Art Evans

Science Fiction Studies

 

The Antiheroes of William Gibson's Sprawl Stories

Carl Yoke

Kent State University

 

Merlin and Stonehenge in Daina Chaviano's Fabulas de una abuela extraterrestre  

Robin McAllister

Sacred Heart University

 

67. (FE) Practical Magic or Imagination?:Blurring the Boundary                                      Donzi

Chair: Joe Sanders

Shadetree Scholar

 

Prospero's Magic: Magia or Goetia?

Regina Cross

University of Missouri-Columbia

 

From Divination to Probabilistic Prediction: The Shift fromThe Symbolic Universe to the Mechanistic to the Chaotic One

Don Riggs

Drexel University

 

The Unstable Liminal in Carlos Castaneda's Genre Ambiguous Works

Robert von der Osten

Ferris State University

 

68. (IF)/(FE) Panel: The Transrealist Writers                                              Atlantic

Moderator: Gary Wolfe

Damien Broderick

Peter Straub

John Clute

Rudy Rucker

Kelly Link

John Crowley

 

69. Author Readings IX                              Boardroom

Host: Javier Martinez

Ellen Kushner

Ellen Klages

Kathleen Ann Goonan

 

Friday March 18, 2005 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Student Caucus Meeting                         Atlantic

 

Friday March 18, 2005 6:45-8:15 p.m.

Lord Ruthven Assembly Meeting                          Atlantic

 

70. (H) Lord Ruthven Society Presents: Forgotten Gems of Horror

Chair: Jim Holte

East Carolina University

 

Margaret Carter

Independent Scholar/Author

 

Kathy Davis Patterson

Kent State Tuscarawas

 

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Author

 

Sharon Russell

Independent Scholar

 

Friday March 18, 2005 8:30-9:30

Cultural Identities Caucus Meeting                                           Atlantic

 

Friday March 18, 2005 8:30-9:30 p.m.

 

Special Guest Reading                                Ballroom

Albert Goldbarth

Introduced by Bryan Dietrich

 

Friday March 18, 2005 9:30-10:30

Peter Straub in Conversation with John Crowley                             Ballroom

Moderator: Gary Wolfe

 

Friday March 18, 2005 10:30 p.m.      Donzi

Myers-Briggs Party

Host: Faye Ringel

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

71. (H) The Boundaries of Horror                          Hatteras

Chair: Elizabeth Miller

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

Crossing Over: Vampires and Horror Fictions Troubling the Boundaries

Gina Wisker

Cambridge University

 

Voices of Complete Alienage: The Transgressive Artistry of H. P. Lovecraft

Marcus LiBrizzi

University of Maine at Machias

 

Greg Bear's Dead Lines: A Ghostly Detective Story

Helen Connell

Barry University

 

72. (SF) William Gibson                             Bertram

Chair: Janice M. Bogstad

UWEC McIntyre Library

 

William Gibson’s Virtual Light: The Conversational Construction of Chevette Washington

Amy E. Eoff

Texas State University, San Marcos

 

Hollow Voices, Haunted Spaces, & the Birth of the Rock Star Bride–Reassessing the Role of the Body in William Gibson´s Cyberpunk Fiction

Lisa Swanstrom

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Raymond Burr Meets Taiso Yoshitoshi: Or, American [Re]-Visions of Japan from Gojira to the Cyberpunks, with a Short Digression on Lost in Translation

Carol McGuirk

Florida Atlantic University

 

73. (FFM) Heroes & Monsters in the (Mono) Myth: Kong, Marty McFly & the Nexus 6                                               Hunter

Chair: B. R. Smith

Central Michigan University

 

King Kong-the Atypical, Amoral 8th Wonder of the World

Tim Shorkey

Central Michigan University

 

Blade Runner: An Immortal SF Classic

Brian Rapp

Central Michigan University

 

The Monomyth as Comic SF Adolescent Wish-fulfillment Fantasy: Zemeckis' Back to the Future

Donald Palumbo

East Carolina University

 

74. (PCVA) Many Meetings: Identity and Community in The Lord of the Rings Fan Fiction                                    Gulfstar

Chair: Kristina Busse

University of South Alabama

 

"In the Darkness Bind Them": The Dark Erotic in The Lord of the Rings Slash Fiction

Barbara Lucas

Lakeland Community College

 

Bound to Their Fate: Character Drift Between Source Texts and Real People Slash Fiction in The Lord of the Rings

Eden Lackner

Independent Scholar

 

Breaking of the Fellowship: Competing Discourses of Archives and Canons in The Lord of the Rings Internet Fandom

Robin Anne Reid

Texas A & M University-Commerce

 

75. (SF) Blurring the Boundaries Between SF and Realism                             Intrepid

Chair: Sherryl Vint

St. Frances Xavier University

 

Crossing Genre Borders: Similarities between Science Fiction and Mimetic Fiction

Wilma Shires

Texas A&M University-Commerce

 

The Desert of the Real & the Waters of the Imagination

Edward Carmien

Rider University

 

Fragmented Roles: The Porcelain Dove as Metafictive Text

Heidi Robbins

Idaho State University

 

76. (FFM) Gods, Grails and Deliverance                                 Donzi

Chair: Andrew Gordon

University of Florida

 

Chretien and Malory's Last Crusade: Indiana Jones in the Grail Tradition

Joanna Beatty

University of Maryland

 

Terrible Deliverance: Christian Horror Fiction

Joe Sanders

Shadetree Scholar

 

77. (IF) Panel: The American Invasion: U.S. Literary Imperialism in Western Europe                           Atlantic

Moderator: Lokke Heiss

Dale Knickerbocker

Gabriel Haberkorn

David Dickens

Stefan Ekman

Niklas Krog

Irma Hirsjärvi

 

78. Author Readings X                                Boardroom

Host: C. W. Sullivan III

Anthony Ha

Jennifer Stevenson

Marleen Barr

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 10:30-12:00 a.m.

 

79. Poetry Readings                                         Hatteras

Host: Don Riggs

Bryan Dietrich

Joe Haldeman

Marilyn Jurich

Judith Kerman

David Lunde

Rebecca Rowe

Gina Wisker

Alistair Wisker

 

80. (PCVA) The Thing Is...: Text and the Transreal                          Bertram

Chair: Albert Wendland

Seton Hill University

 

"Who Goes There?". . . and There . . . and There: Variations on Campbell's Story

Stefan Hall

Bowling Green State University

 

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

Samantha Holcomb

Independent Scholar

 

When the Feminine Meets the Fantastic: Creative Visions in Nelly Kaplan's and Leonor Fini's Works

Lenuta Giukin

SUNY Oswego

 

81. (FE) Dangerous Borderlands: Literary Explorations of Nightmare, Ouija and Sexual Fantasy                                            Hunter

Chair: Donald Palumbo

East Carolina University

 

Poe and the Parasomnias

James Kirkland

East Carolina University

 

The Ouija Board in Cultural and Literary Perspective

Heather Willis

East Carolina University

 

Leslie Silko's "Yellow Woman" as Sexual Fantasy

Karen Beardslee

Independent Scholar

 

82. (FE) Tolkien's Legendarium and his Influences on Gestures and Nostalgia in Fantasy Literature                                    Gulfstar

Chair: Stefan Ekman

Lund University

 

The Medieval Image of Chivalry in the Legendarium

Elizabeth Whittingham

SUNY, Brockport

 

Explanation and Renunciation: Symmetrical Gestures in Fantasy

Graham Sleight

Independent Scholar

 

The Desire for Dragons: Teaching Fantastic Nostalgia

Elizabeth Hoiem

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

 

83. (CYA) More Genres and Boundaries                                 Intrepid

Chair: Amie Rose Rotruck

Hollins University

 

Liminal Space: Crossing Boundaries from Reality to Fantasy

Amanda Ruth Dough

East Carolina University

 

Margaret Mahy's Liminal Spaces: Realism and Fantasy in Memory and The Changeover

Michael M. Levy

University of Wisconsin - Stout

 

Jan Mark's Useful Idiots and the Useful YA Tag in Contemporary Science Fiction

Mary Harris Russell

Indiana University Northwest

 

84. (H) Boundaries of the Unconscious                                    Donzi

Chair: Patricia Nickinson

University of South Florida

 

The Artful Sadist: The Meta-Dramatic Monsters of Marcel Proust

Steve Brown

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Touching the Unconscious Through Doubling in Lesley Glaisler’s “Jennifer Maybee” Novels

Françoise Harvey

University of Wales, Bangor

 

Exhuming the Unconscious from Edgar A. Poe’s “The Black Cat”

Stuart W. Sanderson

University of Wales, Bangor

 

85. (FE) Panel: Cyberpunk and Humanism                         Atlantic

Moderator: Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Rudy Rucker

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Brian Aldiss

David G. Hartwell

John Kessel

 

86. Author Readings XI                              Boardroom

Host: P. Andrew Miller

Nalo Hopkinson

Andy Duncan

Jean Lorrah

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 12:00-1:00 p.m.

 

Open Lunch

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 1:00-2:00 p.m.

 

Guest of Honor Reading                           Brigantine Room

Rudy Rucker

Introduced by Loren Means

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 2:00-3:30 p.m.

 

87. (IF) Blurring Borders and Boundaries II: The Limits of Fantasy, Parody, and Myth                                               Hatteras

Chair: Edward Carmien

Rider University

 

What? Fantasy? Where?

Irma Hirsjärvi

Jyvaskyla University

 

Conversion of Myth, Transformation of Genre: Joyce and Wagner, Stephen as Siegfried

Marilyn Jurich

Suffolk University

 

Baudelaire and the Fantastic: An Anti-Mythical Discourse?

Stephanie Perrais

Penn State University

 

88. (SF) Rudy Rucker and Brian Aldiss                                    Bertram

Chair: Art Evans

Science Fiction Studies

 

Low-Voltage Ontological Currents: An Investigation of the Robot Stories of Brian W. Aldiss and Rudy Rucker

Loren Means

YLEM

 

Beat Zen, Alien Zen: Varieties of Transreal Experience in Rudy Rucker’s Ware Novels

John Roche

Rochester Institute of Technology

 

89. (FFM) Sex, More Sex & Noir in Fantastic Media                          Hunter

Chair: Kimberly Knight

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

"Never Until Now": Technophobia and the Virtual Body in Mainstream Cinema

C. Jason Smith

City University of New York-LaGuardia

 

Fucking Machines: Sex, Technology, Capital and Intersubjectivity in Tsukamoto's Tetsuo and A Snake of June

Mark Bould

University of West England

 

"Guys, where are we?": Reading J.J. Abrams's Lost as Film Noir

Annette M. Pratt

Independent Scholar

 

90. (PCVA) Popular Culture Theory Roundtable                                Gulfstar

Sara Gwenllian Jones’ “The sex lives of cult television characters.”

Moderator: Kristina Busse

University of South Alabama

Moderator: Louisa Stein

New York University

 

91. (CYA) Fantasy Perspectives on Social and Symbolic Realities                                     Intrepid

Chair: Michael M. Levy

U. of Wisconsin-Stout

 

George MacDonald and the Liberation of Christian Symbols

Brian Attebery

Idaho State University

 

A Primer for Princesses: How George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie Depict and Espouse Nobility

Stacy Whitman

Simmons Center for the Study of Children's Literature

 

The Philippines as Cinderella;: Colonialism and Struggle in Nick Joaquin's The Amazing History of Elang Uling

Larisa Saguisag

University of the Philippines and New School University

 

92. (FE) The Songs, Heroes and Races of Middle-Earth                                         Donzi

Chair: Elizabeth Whittingham

SUNY, Brockport

 

Poems/Songs in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Rebecca Ankeny

George Fox University

 

Echoes of Dragon Slaying in The Lord of the Rings: Use of Language to Underscore the Heroes in and out of the Fellowship

Jennifer Lynn Culver

Univesity of North Texas

 

Tolkien and the Shifting Value of Race

Joe Sutliff Sanders

University of Kentucky

 

93. (SF) Panel: PMLA Special Issue                                               Atlantic

Moderator: Graham Sleight

Marleen Barr

Carl Freedman

Jeri Zulli

John Clute

Eileen Gunn

 

94. Author Readings XII                            Boardroom

Host: Eileen Gunn

Kelly Link

Suzy McKee Charnas

Elizabeth Hand

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 4:00-5:30 p.m.

 

95. (FE) In and Out of the Labyrinth: MacDonald Harris, Steven Sherrill, Mark Danielewski, Delia Sherman                         Hatteras

Chair: W.A. Senior

Broward Community College

 

In and Out of the Labyrinth: Myth and Minotaur in MacDonald Harris's Bull Fire and Steven Sherrill's The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

Sondra Swift

Old Dominion University

 

Leaves from the Library of Babel: Jorge Luis Borges in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

Benjamin Jude Wright

Florida State University

 

Fantastic Interpretations of Time in the Work of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, Julio Cortazar's Rayuela, and Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso

Sharon Sieber

Idaho State University

 

96. (FE) Borders of Identity                                            Bertram

Chair: Christine Mains

University of Calgary

 

Plurality in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: Haunted by a Present Past-The Blurred Boundaries of Identity

Nicole M. Coonradt

Central Michigan University

 

"The Sex that Could Never Be Mothers": Sex-Role Reversal Narratives-Katherine Burdekin's The End of this Day's Business and Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women

Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira

Universidade de Aveiro

 

Gender Roles in Andre Norton: Boundaries Transgressed, Boundaries Maintained

Andrea Modarres

University of Arizona

 

97. (PCVA) Lost in Translation: The Transreal in Film & TV                                               Hunter

Chair: Curtis Shumaker

Mount San Antonio College

 

Fantastic Realism: Film Adaptation's Challenge to Literary Realism

Doran Larson

Hamilton College

 

The Search for Truth Amidst a Tangled Web of Lies

Andy Seeger

Auburn University Montgomery

 

A Complex Dance: Subverting the Authoritarian Censorship Processes in M., Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Hero

Curtis Shumaker

Mount San Antonio College

 

98. (SF) Intimate Adventure and Queer Erotica                                    Gulfstar

Chair: Faye Ringel

US Coast Guard Academy

 

Intimate Adventure: The Hidden Genre

Jean Lorrah

Murray State University

 

Alien Desires: Gender and Technology in Queer Science Fiction Erotica

Patricia Melzer

Temple University

 

The Red Violin: An Instrumental Fantasy

Norman Stroh

Angelo State University

 

99. (CYA) Books, Dreams and Games: Fantasy and Metatextual Forms                                             Intrepid

Chair: Stella Williams

Texas A&M University - Commerce

 

Age Means Nothing to the Individual: Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game as Postmodern Transgenerational Literature

Michelle Mahan

Independent Scholar

 

Fair Field Full of Fantasy: The Dream Vision Reinvented for the 21st Century

Kim Gainer

Radford University

 

Using Children's Fantasy to Construct and Validate Community and Identity in Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Lindsay LeClair`

Hampshire College

 

100. (PCVA) Always Already Written: Fan/Fiction                             Donzi

Chair: P. Andrew Miller

Northern Kentucky University

 

Fan Fiction and the Gift: Writer, Reader, Text

Karen Hellekson

Independent Scholar

 

Righteous, Proper and Good: Engendering Honor in Star Trek and Babylon 5

Larisa Mikhaylova

Fulbright scholar at UWEC
 

Fanfiction: An Ethnographic Perspective

Bryn Neuenschwander

Alyc Helms

University of Southern Indiana

 

101. (FE) Panel: Stark Fantasies: The Fiction of John Kessel                           Atlantic

Moderator: Graham Sleight

John Clute

James Patrick Kelly

Fiona Kelleghan

James Morrow

Andy Duncan

 

102. Author Readings XIII                                              Boardroom

Host: Stephanie Moss

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Margaret Carter

Gina Wisker

Alistair Wisker

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Wine and Beer Reception                                                Mezzanine

Hosted by the Wyndham Ft. Lauderdale Airport Hotel

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 8:00-11:00 p.m.

IAFA Banquet                               Ballroom

 

Saturday March 19, 2005 11:00-1:00 a.m.

All Conference Farewell Party                                  Regatta (formerly Doubles)

Dessert Bar Courtesy of the Wyndham Ft. Lauderdale Airport Hotel