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
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 BroderickTransreal 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
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
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