Wednesday March 19, 2008 3:00-4:15 p.m.
Pre-Opening
Refreshment Capri
foyer
Opening Ceremony
Capri
Host: Donald E. Morse, Conference Chair
Welcome from the President: Farah Mendlesohn
Opening Panel: The
Language of the Sublime in the Fantastic Capri
Moderator: Farah Mendlesohn
Greer Gilman
Brian Aldiss
John Clute
Roger Luckhurst
Gary K. Wolfe
Wednesday March 19, 2008 4:30-6:00 p.m.
1. (H) The Collective Sublime Oak
Chair: Lokke Heiss
University of Missouri
Toward an Aesthetics of Horror: The Sublime Horror of Québec
Amy J. Ransom
Central Michigan University
Figuring the Proustian Sublime: The Fantastic & the
Privileged Moments of A la Recherche
Stephen G. Brown
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Burke's Sublime and The Monk
Rhonda Brock-Servais
Longwood University
2. (SF) Uncertain Ontologies Maple
Chair: Charles Herzek
Florida Atlantic University
The Alien as the Lacanian Other in Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris and Gregory Maguire’s Mirror Mirror
Sandor Klapcsik
University of Minnesota
All Good Poets Improve on What They’ve Stolen, as T.S. Eliot Said to Dan Simmons
Neil Easterbrook
Texas Christian University
“Details Plucked Unhesitatingly from the Real”: Kantian Sublime in Joanna Russ’s We Who Are About To…
Nathaniel Underland
University of Maryland
3. (CC) Playing with Darkness: Video Games and Horror Cypress
Chair: Randall Hill
St. Lawrence University
An Exploration of Darkness: Monsters and Masochism in the Silent Hill Series
Mads Haahr
Trinity College Dublin
Rendering Virtual and Real Life Fear: Structuring Play, Performance, and Horror via Game Interface in Manabu Nishizawa’s Lifeline
Josef Nguyen
University of California, Irvine
4. (SF) The Sublime in Alien Circumstances Palm
Chair: David Higgins
Indiana University
A Culture of Sublimity: Fremen Society in Frank Herbert’s Dune
Tuomas Kuusniemi
University of Oulu
Genre Conventions and Gender in Frank Herbert's Dune
William Senior
Broward Community College
Literary Influences on Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Michael Furlong
Florida Atlantic University
5. (FE) Mervyn Peake, Fuzzy Sets, and Superheroes Captiva A
Chair: Marie Nelson
University of Florida
The Late Modern Semiotics of Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan
Carl A. Stewart
Madison Area Technical College
The Origin of (Sub) Species: Coalescent Fuzzy Sets
Greer Watson
University of Toronto
Superheroes Used Symbolically in Novels
Karen Burnham
Independent Scholar
6. (IF) Writing the Gap: Language, Reality, and the Fantastic Captiva B
Chair: Kevin J. Maroney
NYRSF
Deconstructing the Sublime: Or, the Romantic Agony in 20th Century Italian Literature of the "Fantastic"
Stefano Lazzarin
Université de
Saint-Etienne, France
Language as a Function of the Fantastic in Tommaso Landolfi’s Narrative
Simone Castaldi
Hofstra University
Italy is magica: Italian Fantastic and French Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s
Beatrice Sica
New York University
7. So You Want to Write a Super-hero Pine
Host: P. Andrew Miller
Bryan Dietrich
Stephen Leigh
Stefan Högberg
Wednesday March 19, 2008 6:00-8:00 p.m.
IAFA Board Meeting Boardroom B
Wednesday March 19, 2008 8:00-8:30 p.m.
Newcomer Meet-up Captiva A/B
Hosted by the Student Caucus
Wednesday March 19, 2008 8:30-11:00 p.m.
Opening Reception Capri
Thursday March 20, 2008 8:30-10:00 a.m.
8. (VPA) The Plastic Sublime Oak
Chair: Jeri Zulli
Independent Scholar
Promethea Unbound: Alan Moore's Vision of Wonder
Bryan D. Dietrich
Newman University
The Hidden Mystical Sublime: The Poetry of Algernon Swinburne
Dramatized in Aleister Crowley's Rite of Venus
Curtis Scott Shumaker
Cal Poly University - Pomona
9. (FE) The Incredible Shrinking, Pastoral and New Sublime Maple
Chair: Sydney Duncan
Frostburg State University
The Incredible Shrinking Sublime: the Battle of the Quotidian and the Spectacular in the War for the Cultural High Ground
R. Scott Bakker
Author
The Pastoral Sublime
Howard Canaan
Mercy College
21st Century Stories
Amelia Beamer
Locus
Gary K. Wolfe
Roosevelt University
10. (IF) The Sublime Body Cypress
Chair: Sharon Sieber
Idaho State University
Violence and the Sublime Fantastic in Anne Hebert and P. Susskind
Virginia Harger-Grinling
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Insects and Automatism: Angela Carter, ETA Hoffmann, and Guillermo del Toro
Eric White
University of Colorado
The Minute Sublime: The Case of Bio Art
Aline Ferreria
University of Aveiro
11. (CC) Tolerance and Technology: Race and Culture in Fantastic Spaces Palm
Chair: Karen Hellekson
Independent Scholar
Tolerating the Unreal: Examining Anglo and Latin Representations of Fantastic Intrusions
Manuel Tejeda
Barry University
"Harshin Ur Squeez": Visual Rhetoric of Racisms in
LiveJournal Fandoms
Robin Anne Reid
Texas A&M – Commerce
Digital Metaphors for Phantom Selves: Computation, Mathematics, and Identity in Speculative and Fantastic Fiction and Gaming
Fox Harrell
Georgia Institute of Technology
12. (H) Lovecraft and the Atavistic Magnolia
Chair: James Craig Holte
East Carolina University
"The Fixt Mass Whose Sides the Ages Are": The Sublime in Lovecraft and Lovecraftian Fan Culture
Tim Evans
Western Kentucky University
The Question of the Sublime in Lovecraft’s "Cosmic Horror"
Vivian Ralickas
University of Toronto Scarborough
Becoming the Other in White's"Lukundoo" and Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulhu"
Christy Hicks
Manatee Community College
13. (FE) A Short Guide to Fantastic Places Dogwood
Chair: Charles W. Nelson
Michigan Technological University
Exploring the Maps of Secondary Worlds
Stefan Ekman
Lund University
Wondrous Agency: Water as Force and Symbol in Herbert Read’s The Green Child
Michael Fournier
Georgia Institute of Technology
Structures of Enclosure: Walls and Forts in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction
Brecken Rose Hancock
University of New Brunswick
14. (FM) Panel: Uh oh, They're Learning: The New Dangers
and Heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse Captiva
A/B
Moderator: Susan A. George
Rikk Mulligan
Chun Lee
Leisa Clark
Mary Pharr
Kenneth Jurkiewicz
15. Author Reading
I Pine
Host: Amanda Cockrell
P. Andrew Miller
Elizabeth Hand
Ellen Klages
Thursday March 20, 2008 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
16. (CYA)
Children Crossing Worlds Oak
Chair: Amie Rose Rotruck
Hollins University
Cosmopolitan Childland: Victorian Fantasy and the Cosmopolitan Child
Chamutal Noimann
Hunter College, CUNY
The Sublime and the Transcendent in David Almond's Wild Girl, Wild Boy
Michael M. Levy
University of Wisconsin-Stout
17. (SF) Interrogating Gender and Sexuality Maple
Chair: Grace Dillon
Portland State University
Twisting the Other: Using a "Third" Sex to Represent Homosexuality in Science Fiction
Traci N. Castleberry
Seton Hill University
The Price They Pay: Violating Gender Stereotypes in C. L. Moore’s “Shambleau” and Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”
Skye Cervone
Florida Atlantic University
The Limits of the Sublime in Science Fiction: Tanith Lee and M. T. Anderson
Ritch Calvin
SUNY Stony Brook
18. (H) Death and Transfiguration Cypress
Chair: Kathy Davis Patterson
Kent State Tuscarawas
The Uncontrolled, the Sublime, and the Loss of Self: Confronting the Other in C.L. Moore’s Werewoman
Leila Soikkonen
University of Oulu
The Everyday Sublime in Peter Straub's Fiction
Bernadette L. Bosky
Independent Scholar
The Un-Aesthetic of the Interior: Representations of Death in the American Horror Film, the Gallery, and the Funeral Home
Joel Seeger
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
19. (FM) Cinematic Technological Advances and the Sublime:
Sound, Animation, and CGI Palm
Chair: Andrew Gordon
University of Florida, Gainesville
Sound and Silence in the City: Early Science-Fiction Film
Kyle D. Stedman
University of South Florida
Man and Superman: The Fleischer Studio Negotiates the Real
J.P. Telotte
Georgia Tech
20. (FE) Shakespeare and More: The Works of Greer Gilman Magnolia
Chair: Greer Watson
University of Toronto
Transporting Language: The Sublime in Greer Gilman’s Moonwise
Christine Mains
University of Calgary
My Own Teapot Tempest: Gilman Takes on Shakespeare
Faye Ringel
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Hallows as Singular, Plural, Greeting, and Indeed as All: Contextual Definitions of Vocabulary in the Work of Greer Gilman
Lila Garrott
Independent Scholar
Special Respondent
Greer Gilman
Guest of Honor
21. (IF) Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Ideologies Dogwood
Chair: Robin McAllister
Sacred Heart University
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Silence, Slippage and Subversion
Suparno Banerjee
Louisiana State University
Apocalypse and Postmodern Counternarrative: Trujillo Muñoz’s Laberinto (as time goes by)
Dale Knickerbocker
East Carolina University
"The World is My Idea:" Encrypting the Sublime and the Hispanic Fantastic
Sharon Sieber
Idaho State University
22. (CC) Panel:
Theorizing an International and Interdisciplinary Fan and Audience Studies Captiva A/B
Moderator: Eden Lee Lackner
Barbara Lucas
Robin Anne Reid
Vera Cuntz
Mads Haahr
Bryn Neuenschwander
23. Author Reading
II Pine
Host: Charles W. Nelson
Stefan Högberg
Steven Erikson
F. Brett Cox
Thursday March 20, 2008 12:15-2:15 p.m.
Guest of Honor
Luncheon Grand
Ballroom
"What Future for Fantasy?"
Vernor Vinge
Host: Joe Haldeman
Thursday March 20, 2008 2:30-3:30 pm.
24. (CC) Roundtable
Reading Oak
“One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance” by Catherine Driscoll
Moderator: Barbara Lucas
Lakeland Community College
25. (SF) The Lighter Side of SF Maple
Chair: Loren Means
Independent Scholar
“No, Really, What do you teach?”: Using Science Fiction as a Tool in Teaching Traditional Rhetoric
Jennifer Gunnels
Independent Scholar
The Intimately Human and the Grandly Cosmic: Humor and the Sublime in the Works of Robert J. Sawyer
Fiona Kelleghan
University of Miami
26. (CYA) The Return of the Repressed in Children’s Literature Cypress
Chair: Amanda Cockrell
Hollins University
’The Cask of Amontilla-D’Oh!’ and other Comic Fantasies: Parodies of Poe and the Use of the Gothic in Youth Culture
Cari Keebaugh
University of Florida
The Multiculturalized Monkey King and Identity-building of Jin in American Born Chinese
Min Su
Penn State University
27. (FM) Goddesses and Monsters: Heroic Adventures and the Transforming Goddess in Popular Culture Palm
Chair: Susan A. George
University of California, Davis
Monstrous Matches: Heroic Encounters in The Niebelungen, Lang’s Siegfried, and Edel’s Dark Kingdom
Hannah Means
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Kali in Different Forms: A Look at the Goddess in Religious Texts and Popular Culture
Stephanie Vianelli
California State University, Long Beach
28. (CYA) Seeing the Ordinary Anew Magnolia
Chair: Elizabeth Hoiem
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ted Hughes' Tales of Iron Giants: From Global Fragmentation to Ecological Regeneration
Bill Clemente
Peru State College
A Dangerous Sublimity: Infinity and Identity in Michael Lawrence’s Withern Rise Trilogy
Alaine Martaus
Hollins University
29. (IF) Sublime Transcendence Dogwood
Chair: Alexis Brooks de Vita
Texas Southern University
Italo Calvino as a Model for the Pan-Sublime
Michaela Roessner-Herman
University of Southern Maine
Imminent Revelation, Sublimity, and Borges’ “El Aleph”
Robin McAllister
University of the Sacred Heart
30. Panel:
Publishing for Graduate Students and Others Captiva
A/B
Moderator: Brecken Rose Hancock
Kevin J. Maroney
Brian Attebery
Sherryl Vint
Mike Levy
Karen Hellekson
31. Author Reading
III Pine
Host: Jeanne Beckwith
Brian Aldiss
Christopher Barzak
Patrick O'Leary
Thursday March 20, 2008 4:00-5:30 p.m.
32. (CYA) Place and Gender in Children’s Literature Oak
Chair: Bill Clemente
Peru State College
Candy across the Hours: Blurring Genres to Create Space for
the Fantastic Heroine
Jennifer Goodhue
Eastern Michigan University
From Heroes to Wonder: Portrayals of Boys in Literature, Mirrors of Society
D. Rachael Bishop
Hollins University
Supernatural Visions: The Spiritual Landscape of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Katie Posey
Penn State University
33. (SF) More Than Human Maple
Chair: Michael Furlong
Florida Atlantic University
I, Human 2.0: Finding the Posthuman in the Death of Science Fiction
Liam R. Watts
Missouri State University
Man Modified: When Does Man Become Something Other Than Man?
Charles Herzek
Florida Atlantic University
34. (H) Dracula, Dracula, and – Dracula Cypress
Chair: Douglas Ford
Manatee Community College
Challenging and Revising Normalcy in Stoker's Dracula and Matheson's I Am Legend
Sarah Benton
Manatee Community College
The Victorian Era Sucks: Dracula as Cultural Emblem
Jude Wright
Quincy College
The Limits of the Human: Human Monsters and Monstrous Humans in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Paulina Michalewicz
University of South Florida
35. (CC) Audience, Adventure, and Archetype: Performance and Participation in Fantastical Texts Palm
Chair: Barbara Lucas
Lakeland Community College
Puck You, Shakespeare: Gaiman and Vess’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jim Casey
Allegheny College
So You Want to Be a Dragon Slayer? Character Creation in RPGs and Genre Fantasy
Aidan-Paul Canavan
The University of Liverpool
Tags and Testimonies: The Personal Narratives that Link Us to Myth
Brian Attebery
Idaho State University
36. (IF) The Romantic Sublime Magnolia
Chair: Elizabeth Ginway
University of Florida
The Crevice: The Sublimation of the Shoah in Primo Levi’s Fantastic
Felice Italo Beneduce
University of Connecticut
Luck Be a Lady Tonight; Or Rather, a Gentleman: The New French Crime Novel and the Personification of Fate in the Work of Thierry Jonquet
Lindsay Farah Kaplan
New York University
Agustín de Rojas and the Cuban “New Man”
Juan Carlos Toledano
Lewis and Clark College
37. (FM) Wrestling with and for the Truth, the Parent, and
the Self in Fantastic Film and TV Dogwood
Don Riggs
Drexel University
Authority & Obedience in Guillermo Del Toro’s El Laberinto del Fauno
Noelle Bowles
Kent State University
“Don’t Look Any Further”: Gender and the Sublime in The X-Files
Lacy Hodges
University of Florida
Last Summer and Self-Deception—or What Does It Mean if Shrek and Spidey Act like Jack Sparrow?
Mary Pharr
Florida Southern College
38. (CYA) Panel: “The World Opens Up”: Children’s
Literature Brushes the Sublime Captiva
A/B
Moderator: Joe Sutliff Sanders
Amanda Cockrell
Elizabeth Hoiem
Jackie C. Horne
Michael M. Levy
39. Author Reading IV Pine
Host: Gary Wolfe
Andy Duncan
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Peter Straub
Thursday March 20, 2008 5:45-6:45 p.m.
IAFA Business
Meeting Captiva A/B
Open to all. Please attend.
Thursday March 20, 2008 7:00-8:00 p.m.
IAFA Division Heads
Meeting Boardroom B
Thursday March 20, 2008 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Cultural Identities Caucus Captiva A/B
Thursday March 20, 2008 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Special Panel: Politics and the Singularity Capri
Moderator: John Fast
Joe Haldeman
Robert J. Sawyer
Vernor Vinge
James Patrick Kelly
Cristopher Hollingsworth
Thursday March 20, 2008 9:30-10:30 p.m.
As the Wyrm Turns:
Disreputable Dragons and Dirty Damsels: Readings, Music, and Visual Images of
Dragons in an Unorthodox and Irreverent Light Capri
Hosts: Mary Turzillo and Marge Simon
Sandra Lindow
Joe Haldeman
Barbara Lucas
Bruce Boston
Patricia McKillip
Thursday March 20, 2008 11:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
Late Night Video Extravaganza Cypress
Sponsored by the Student Caucus
Friday March 21, 2008 9:00 a.m.
JFA Business Meeting Boardroom B
Friday March 21, 2008 8:30-10:00 a.m.
40. (SF) Ecocriticism and SF Oak
Chair: Brian Cotts
University of Saskatchewan
Science Fiction and the Myth of Control
Tonia L. Payne
SUNY-Nassau
Recapturing Science Fiction's "Sense of Wonder" in the Environmentalist Age
Eric Otto
Florida Gulf Coast University
The Sublime Challenge of Climate Change: Terraforming the Planet, Terraforming Ourselves
Patrick D. Murphy
University of Central Florida
41. (CYA) More Than Is Seen Maple
Chair: Helen Pilinovsky
California State University – San Bernardino
Finding Clues in the Pictures: A Close Reading for Science Fiction Elements of The Watertower
Chieh-Lan Li
Penn State University
What God Reigns in Your World? Understanding the God of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis as Seen in Their Fantasies for Children
Melissa Adams
Hollins University
The Interiority of Evil in The Chronicles of Narnia: Reading Aslan’s Supremacy over the Northern Witches through the Discourse of the Sublime and the Beautiful
Daryl Ritchot
Trinity Western University
42. (FM) Cylons, Clones, and Simulacra of Various Kinds:
Issues and Problems in Cinematic (Cyborg) Identity Cypress
Chair: J. P. Telotte
Georgia Tech
No Utopia Here: Failed Representations of the Cylon, the Cyborg, or the "Postbiological"
Susan A. George
University of California, Davis
From Toaster to Goddess: The Path of Sharon “Athena” Agathon
Michael Underwood
Ivy Tech Community College
The Ending of Spielberg’s A.I.
Andrew Gordon
University of Florida, Gainesville
43. (H) Horrifying Lessons Palm
Chair: Elizabeth Miller
Professor Emerita, Toronto
Teaching Horror: Subversion, Sublimity, and SO MUCH BLOOD!
Franc Auld
University of South Florida – St. Petersburg
The Sublime Trials of Jack Ketchum: Teaching The Girl Next Door in the Era of Torture Porn
Douglas Ford
Manatee Community College
The Unlearning: Horror and Transformation Theory
Michael A. Arnzen
Seton Hill University
44. (IF) Time, Space, and Sublime Sexualities Magnolia
Chair: Paula M. Bruno
St. Edwards University
Transgendered Characters in Brazilian Speculative Fiction: from the Sublime to the Absurd
Elizabeth Ginway
University of Florida
Life, Death, Sexuality, and Resurrection: The Transcendent Transsexuality of Children in Literature
Novella Brooks de Vita
Houston Community College, Central Campus
Space and Time Anomalies in Nox Perpetua, Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre, and “Serenity”
Matt Hoge
Idaho State University
45. (FE) Seeking, Healing and Finding: Fantasy Paradigms Dogwood
Chair: Brecken Rose Hancock
University of New Brunswick
The Word for World is Story: Fantasy as Healing Ritual in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water
Greg Bechtel
University of Alberta
(De) Valuing Race and Species in Butler’s Lilith’s Brood
Glenn D. Jackson
University of Kentucky
Looking for Love Across Time & Space: The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lake House, and Griffin & Sabine
Andrew Seeger
Auburn University-Montgomery
46. (SF/FE) Panel: WWII and SF Captiva A/B
Moderator: Kathleen Ann Goonan
Joe Haldeman
Gary Wolfe
Andy Duncan
Ellen Klages
Eileen Gunn
Donald Morse
47. Author Reading V Pine
Host: Farah Mendlesohn
Alexander C. Irvine
Judith Moffett
Marie Brennan
Friday March 21, 2008 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
48.
(CYA) Science and Knowledge in Children’s Literature Oak
Chair: Michael M. Levy
University of Wisconsin-Stout
The Utopian Function of Memory in Lois Lowry's The Giver
Carter F. Hanson
Valparaiso University
Tying the String Theories of Life: The Bartimaeus Trilogy and Modern Science
David Whitehead
Buffalo State College
Impertinent Miracles at the British Museum: Egyptology and Edwardian Fantasies for Young People
Karen Sands-O’Connor
Buffalo State College
49. (FE) Eschatology and Mythology: The Works of Wolfe & Tolkien Maple
Chair: Stefan Ekman
Lund University
Gene Wolfe’s Use of Popular Fantasy Motifs
Edgar L. Chapman
Bradley University
The End of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Three Eschatological Tales
Elizabeth Whittingham
SUNY Brockport
Margins of the Outsider: Infinity, Subjectivity,
and Deferral in Gene Wolfe's Sun
Sequence
Brian Cotts
University of Saskatchewan
50. (SF) Negotiating Otherness Cypress
Chair: Monty Vierra
Idaho State University
Doris Lessing’s Transitions
Sharon DeGraw
Michigan State University
Alternate Realities, Alternate Minds: Human-Alien Relations in C.J. Cherryh’s Wave without a Shore and Voyager in Night
Bridget Whelan
University of Louisiana
The Imperial Sublime: Inner-Space Frontiers in 1960s Science Fiction
David Higgins
Indiana University
51. (CC) Capitalism, Control, and Connotation: Fan
Fictions and Fan Economies Palm
Chair: Robin Anne Reid
Texas A&M - Commerce
Unnatural Little Beasts: The Possibility of Twincest from the Perspective of Fannish Reception of the Harry Potter Series
Vera Cuntz
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Dollars and Scents: The Collision of Fandom and Economics in the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Community
Barbara Lucas
Lakeland Community College
Selling Shakespeare’s Sister: Commodification and Control of the Fan Fiction Economy
Eden Lee Lackner
Independent Scholar
52. (H) Zombies and Wanderers Magnolia
Cancelled
53. (FE) The Fantastic in Classic British Literature Dogwood
Chair: Faye Ringel
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Negotiable Identity in G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday
Lucas H. Harriman
University of Miami
Yeats, Stoker, and "English" Modernity: Reading Dracula Against the Irish Revival
Paul Saunders
Queen's University
Atavism and the Misbegotten in Robert Louis Stevenson's The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rebecca Surovik
Texas Tech University
54. Panel: Poetry from Mayapple Press Captiva A/B
Moderator: Judith Kerman
Brian Aldiss
Tenea Johnson
Marilyn Jurich
David Lunde
Don Riggs
Lorraine Schein
55. Author Reading VI Pine
Host: James Patrick Kelly
John Kessel
Rick Wilber
Joe Haldeman
Friday March 21, 2008 12:15-2:30 p.m.
Guest Scholar’s
Luncheon Grand
Ballroom
"Contemporary Photography and the Technological
Sublime or, Can There be a Science Fiction Photography?"
Roger Luckhurst
Host: Sherryl Vint
Friday March 21, 2008 2:45-3:45 p.m.
56. (SF) SF Theory Roundtable Reading Oak
"The Science Fiction Sublime" from The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
Moderator: Sherryl Vint
Brock University
57. (CYA) Findings from the Survey on SF Fans' Childhood Reading Habits Maple
Chair: Joe Sutliff Sanders
California State University, San Bernardino
Farah Mendlesohn
Middlesex University
Zara Baxter
Independent Scholar
58. (CC) Intersections: Video Games, Film, and the Gothic Novel Cypress
Chair: Kirk Fuoos
St. Lawrence University
How I Progress the Gothic Tale: Super Paper Mario and the Sublime
Tiffany Teofilo
Ohio University
Instances and Representations of Roleplaying Games in Film
Gérard Kraus
Aberystwyth University
59. (VPA) Shadows Cast by Outward Things Palm
Chair: Bryan D. Dietrich
Newman University
Sublime Dreamscapes
Cat S. Marshall
Louisiana State University
Laurie Hassold's Strange Attractors: Fantastic, Sublime, and Horrific
Cris Hassold
New College of Florida
60. (FE) Meet Me at The Mead Hall: The Fantastic Elements of Beowulf Magnolia
Chair: Elizabeth Whittingham
SUNY Brockport
Deconstructing Grendel: A Reinterpretation of the Christian
Element in Beowulf
Christopher Corbin
Florida Southern College
Gaiman’s Beowulf: A Semiotic Analysis
Scott D. Vander Ploeg
Madisonville Community College
61. (FE) Medieval Mysteries and Modern Fantasies Dogwood
Chair: John Pennington
St. Norbert College
Mystery 1 Mystery 2: A Search for the Sublime in the Cadfael Chronicles
Marie Nelson
University of Florida
Tidings of Discomfort and Joy: Neil Gaiman’s "Murder Mysteries"
Joe Sanders
Shadetree Scholar
62. (H) Panel: Teaching Horror Captiva A/B
Moderator: Gina Wisker
Franc Auld
Douglas Ford
Michael A. Arnzen
Rhonda Brock-Servais
63. Author Reading
VII Pine
Host: Randall Hill
Dennis Danvers
Vernor Vinge
Robert J. Sawyer
Friday March 21, 2008 4:00-5:30 p.m.
64. (H) Glamorous and Unrepentant: The Undead Oak
Chair: Franc Auld
University of South Florida – St. Petersburg
Zombies: Can the Even the Most “Ordinary” Monster Become Sublime?
Kim Paffenroth
Iona College
There Are Other Ways To Be What We Are: Development of the Repentant Vampire Antihero in Modern Television
Samantha Holcomb
Independent Scholar
65. Poetry Readings Maple
Host: Judith Kerman
Gina Wisker
Patricia Harkins-Pierre
Sandra Lindow
Michael A. Arnzen
Joe Haldeman
Fox Harrell
66. (FM) (Post) Medieval Monsters, Monstrous Bodies and
Delicate Palates: Marking the Other in Dr.
Who, Babylon 5 and 300 Cypress
Chair: Brian Rapp
Full Sail Real World Education
“Who” is the Monster?: Medieval Literature’s Influences on Modern Sci-Fi
Tim Shorkey
Wayne State University
Coffee, Spoo and Things that Wiggle on the Plate: Food as
Identity, Belonging and Alienation in Babylon
5
Leisa Clark
University of South Florida
From Thermopylae to Ground Zero: Distorted Representations of the "Other" in 300
Melissa Elston
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
67. (SF) Posthumanism Palm
Chair: Arthur D. Hlavaty
Independent Scholar
Radical Transformations: Transhumanism as an Ideological Response to Technological Issues
John Fast
Florida Atlantic University
Vernor Vinge’s Conception of “Group Mind” As It Pertains to Contemporary Robotics Applications
Loren Means
Independent Scholar
A Man’s Mind is his Castle: Memory Manipulation in Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember it for you Wholesale” and Spider Robinson’s Deathkiller
Rebecca Testerman
Ohio State University
68. (CYA) Ethics in Reading Magnolia
Chair: Bridgid Shannon
Hollins University
How to Read a Dangerous Book: Supervising Child Education in an Age of Revolution
Elizabeth Hoiem
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Daoist Reading of The Little Prince
Hsiao-Hui
Yang
Penn State
University
Stepping-Blocks in Neverland
Jamie Kinsley
University of South Florida
69. (FE) Encounters With the Dead Including Irish Wakes Dogwood
Chair: Adam Guzkowski
Trent University
Realms Apart? Sacred Ontology and Desacralized World in Wideman’s The Cattle Killing
Luminita Dragulescu
University of West Virginia
J.M. Synge and the Irish Wake Tradition: Revenants and Resurrections in Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen
Craig Morehead
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Popular Encounters with the Dead: Necromancy, Knowledge and The Sublime in Narrative Media
Nickianne Moody
Liverpool John Moores University
70. (SF/FM) Panel: SF and Pedagogy Captiva A/B
Moderator: Doug Davis
Lisa Yaszek
Craig Jacobsen
Neil Easterbrook
J. P. Telotte
71. Author Reading
VIII Pine
Host: Judith Moffett
Suzy McKee Charnas
Gregory Wilson
Jennifer Stevenson
Friday March 21, 2008 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Student Caucus
Meeting Captiva A/B
Friday March 21, 2008 6:45-8:00 p.m.
Lord Ruthven
Assembly Captiva A/B
Friday March 21, 2008 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Guest of Honor
Reading Capri
Greer Gilman Reads from Cloud and Ashes
Host: Faye Ringel
Friday March 21, 2008 9:30-10:30 p.m.
Special Panel:
Global Fantastique Capri
Moderator: James Morrow
David Hartwell
Kathryn Morrow
Stefan Ekman
Brian Aldiss
Javier Martinez
Friday March 21, 2008 10:30 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
Smut and Nothing
But Cypress
Host: Jennifer Stevenson
Saturday March 22, 2008 8:30-10:00 a.m.
72. (CYA) Dreams of the Present and Past Oak
Chair: Joe Sutliff Sanders
California State University – San Bernardino
Milagros — Miracles and Wonders: Zorro, Juan Diego, and the Deadly Sublime in Old California
Amanda Cockrell
Hollins University
Fantasies of Desire in Children’s Literature
Jackie C. Horne
Simmons College
The Swift and the Fowl
Shannon Stanton
Hollins University
73. (FE) The Lost, the Dark and the Woods Maple
Chair: Scott Vander Ploeg
Madisonville Community College
Equipoised at the Ausible Chasm: The Liminal Kelly Link
Sydney Duncan
Frostburg State University
In the Dark of the Knight: Chaucer’s Meditation on Death, Dying, and Acceptance
Stacie Hanes
Kent State University
Profusion Sublime and Fantastic: Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood
Marek Oziewicz
University of Wroclaw
74. (FM) A Tangled Web: Deception in Contemporary Film and
Television Cypress
Chair: Mary Pharr
Florida Southern College
Magical Misdirection: An Ethical Analysis of Lying and Deception in the Harry Potter Films
Kurt Poland
Florida Southern College
Deceit and the Mob: American Obsession in The Sopranos and The Departed
Jessica Balfour
Florida Southern College
Playing at Survivor: Lies and Self-Preservation in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Raquel Encalada
Florida Southern College
75. (FM) Evoking the Sublime through Dreams and Music in
the Works of David Lynch and Peter Jackson Palm
Chair: Stephanie Vianelli
California State University, Long Beach
The Sublime Uncanny: Music, Transgression, and Circular Time in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks
Isabella van Elferen
Utrecht University
Apollo, Dionysos, Tolkien, Jackson: The Nietzschean Sublime
in The Lord of the Rings 1: The
Fellowship of the Ring
Don Riggs
Drexel University
76. (VPA) The Play's the Thing Magnolia
Chair: Brad Klypchak
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Waiting for Equus
Graham Wolfe
University of Toronto
Recontextualizing Night of the Living Dead: How Lori Allen Ohm's Stage Adaptation Troubles Current Society
Rob Connick
Bowling Green State University
The Mind's Eye: Amusing and Grotesque Self-Portraiture in
Tennessee Williams' The Gnadiges Fraulein
Adrian L. Cook
University of Texas at Dallas
77. (FE) The Sublime and the Not-so-Sublime of the Feminine Dogwood
Chair: Jeffrey Weinstock
Central Michigan University
The Only One of Her Kind?: Alterity and The Female Werewolf In the Work of Kelly Armstrong and Sparkle Hayter
Adam Guzkowski
Trent University
The Dispossessed: Feminine Dystopia
Janet A. Little
Radford University
78. (SF) Panel: Technoculture and SF Captiva A/B
Moderator: Sherryl Vint
Roger Luckhurst
Lisa Yaszek
Doug Davis
Fox Harrell
Rob Latham
79. Author Reading
IX Pine
Host: Rick Wilber
Jean Lorrah
Bruce Boston
Stephen Leech (Dell Award Winner)
Saturday March 22, 2008 10:30-12:00 p.m.
80. (H) Vampiric Points of Departure Oak
Chair: Michael A. Arnzen
Seton Hill University
Citizen Dracula: The Orson Welles Version of Bram Stoker's Novel
Lokke Heiss
University of Missouri
From Notes to Novel: An Illustrated Examination of Stoker's Dracula Papers
Elizabeth Miller
Professor Emerita, Toronto
Alexander Dumas’ Vampire Story
Radu Florescu
Boston College
81. (CYA) A Sense of Place Maple
Chair: D. Rachael Bishop
Hollins University
Myse en Abime and Sensawunda: Ideations of Interdependence between Character and Setting in Children’s Books--Dominance, Synergy, and Reflexivity
Bridgid Shannon
Hollins University
Fighting Green: Two Different Approaches to the Ecosublime in Tamora Pierce and Robin Hobb
Michael Hancock
University of Saskatchewan
Flying into an Other World: David Wiesner's Fantasy Picturebooks
Xu Xu
Penn State University
82. (CC) Participation and Personalization: Constructing
Fan Communities Cypress
Chair: Eden Lee Lackner
Independent Scholar
Fan Culture and Emily Bronte
Clayton Wyatt
Murray State University
Reading Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
Eve Smith
Liverpool John Moores University
History and Fandom Wank
Karen Hellekson
Independent Scholar
83. (SF) The Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Palm
Chair: Winter Elliott
Brenau University
Becoming Old Music: Aging and Generativity in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Sandra Lindow
Independent Scholar
Combating Cultural Extinction in Le Guin's The Telling
Monty Vierra
Idaho State University
84. (FE) The Light and Dark in Classic Fantasy Magnolia
Chair: Joe Sanders
Shadetree Scholar
The Waves: Virginia Woolf’s Mysterious Universe
Sounds of Sublimity: Auditory Images and the Evocation of the Sublime in Hawthorne’s Sketches, Tales and Romances
Alan Tack
DeVry University-Phoenix
Minds of Winter and the Polar Sublime: Spofford’s Rewriting of Poe’s Pym in the "Moonstone Mass"
Jeffrey Weinstock
Central Michigan University
85. (IF) Fantastic Prophecy, Myth, and Song Dogwood
Chair: Juan Carlos Toledano
Lewis and Clark College
The River Runs to the Road and Returns: The Circle and the Cross in Prophetic African Literature
Alexis Brooks de Vita
Texas Southern University
The Ungodly and the Absurd: Two "Fantastic" Chapbooks from the Eighteenth Century and Other Frivolous Ruminations
Marilyn Jurich
Suffolk University
Mythology in Modern Fantasy
Colin Meldrum
Idaho State University
86. (SF) Panel: Cyberpunk and Beyond Captiva A/B
Moderator: Sherryl Vint
John Kessel
Ted Chiang
James Patrick Kelly
Ellen Datlow
87. Author Reading
X Pine
Host: Christine Mains
Gregory Frost
Mary Turzillo
Patricia A. McKillip
Saturday March 22, 2008 12:00-12:15 p.m.
Locus
Photograph Poolside
Saturday March 22, 2008 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Special Panel: To the Axis Mundi: ICFA in the Pull of the
Magic Kingdom Captiva A/B
Karen Hellekson
Independent Scholar
Craig Jacobsen
Mesa Community College
Saturday March 22, 2008 2:00-3:30 p.m.
88. (FM) “Satan, Syphilis, and Vampires, Oh My!”: Dracula
Comes to Masterpiece Theatre Oak
Chair: Tim Shorkey
Wayne State University
Adapting to the Adaptation: Stoker’s Women and the Emasculation of Van Helsing in Bill Eagles’ Dracula
J. Robert Craig
Central Michigan University
Syphilis Nation and Globalisation: The Once-and-Future Curses of Two Post-Modern Draculas
Kenneth Jurkiewicz
Central Michigan University
Primal Screams and the PBS Satanic Sublime in Dracula
Carrol L. Fry
Professor Emeritus, Northwest Missouri State University
89. (FM) Zombies, Machines, and War: Shifting
Representations in the Post-Modern Era Maple
Chair: Leisa Clark
University of South Florida
I’m here to Save You: Criticism of the Role of the Military in the Films Inspired by the Novel I Am Legend
Rikk Mulligan
Michigan State University
The Evolution of the Shambling Hordes: The Zombie from Mindless Servant to Raging Revolutionary
Chun Lee
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Embodied Technology and the Sublime: Transformers Bring the War Home
Jason W. Ellis
Kent State University
90. (VPA) Music of the Spheres Cypress
Chair: Stefan Hall
Bowling Green State University
Dancing the Numinous: Embodying and Performing Fantasy and Mystery in Contemporary American Belly Dance
Jeana Jorgensen
Indiana University
"He played it left hand": Ziggy Stardust, The Elephant Man, and David Bowie's "Otherness"
Stephen Harrick
Bowling Green State University
The Vile Delinquents: Sublimity and Noise in Dødheimsgard's Supervillain
Outcast
Brad Klypchak
Texas A&M University - Commerce
91. (H) Sublime Women and their Ghastly Houses Palm
Chair: Bernadette Bosky
Independent Scholar
Sex and the Single Witch: Gender, Power, and Transformation in Bell, Book & Candle
Kathy Davis Patterson
Kent State Tuscarawas
To die for: Celebrating the Body Beautiful in Women’s Horror: Elizabeth Baathory, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s "The Good Lady Ducayne" (C19th), Nalo Hopkinson’s "A Habit of Waste" (C21st)
Gina Wisker
University of Brighton
92. (SF) The Sublime and SF’s Sense of Wonder Magnolia
Chair: Skye Cervone
Florida Atlantic University
Sense of Wonder: an sf mode
Sha Lar
University of California – SC
The Slipstream Sublime: Between Sense of Wonder and Feeling Very Strange
David Sandner
California State University, Fullerton
Description on the Edge: The Rhetorical Sublime in Science Fiction
Albert Wendland
Seton Hill University
93.
(CYA) Troubling Traditional Forms Dogwood
Chair: Alaine Martaus
Hollins University
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Subverting Whom?
Rebecca Ann Anderson
Illinois State University
Iterations of Alice
Helen Pilinovsky
California State University – San Bernardino
94. (IF) Panel: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Humor
and the Sublime Captiva A/B
Moderator: Dale Knickerbocker
Virginia Harger-Grinling
Elizabeth Ginway
Michaela Roessner-Herman
Graham Wolfe
Paula M. Bruno
Heidi Faletti
95. Author Reading XI Pine
Host: Bryan Dietrich
Marge Simon
David Lunde
Sonya Taaffe
Saturday March 22, 2008 4:00-5:30 p.m.
96. (SF) Science and the Sublime Oak
Chair: John Fast
Florida Atlantic University
The Sublimity of Technological Spatial Artifice: The Carrollian Fantastic in H. G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, and Rudy Rucker
Cristopher Hollingsworth
University of South Alabama
The Scientific Sublime: Constructing a Scientific Philosophy
in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Winter Elliott
Brenau University
Asimov’s Psychohistory and the Representation of Technologically Sublime Intellectual Landscapes
Jari Käkelä
University of Helsinki
97. (FM) Camp, Nostalgia, and Ecopolitics on the
Silverscreen Maple
Chair: Carrol L. Fry
Professor Emeritus, Northwest Missouri State University
Dr Phibes and the Theatre of Blood: The Camp Horror of Vincent Price
Ronald C. Thomas
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide
Populist Kills and Esoteric Thrills: Exploring the Ambivalent and Paradoxical Messages in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse
Brian Rapp
Full Sail Real World Education
98. (CC) Interface and Immersion: Closure, Control, and the Digital Sublime Cypress
Chair: Tiffany Teofilo
Ohio University
Digital Games and the Technological Sublime
Eugenie Shinkle
University of Westminster
Scalpel Control: Images, Code, and the Sublime in Metal Gear Solid and Bioshock
Scott Reed
University of Georgia
Video Games and Sequential Art: The Sublime Experience of the Gamer In Earthbound
Concetta Bommarito
Florida Atlantic University
99. (FE) Space, Time and Power: Aspects of the Fantastic Palm
Chair: Andrew Seeger
Auburn University-Montgomery
Octavia Butler’s Religious Politicizing of Frederick Douglass: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents as Feminist Neo-Slave Narratives
John Pennington
St. Norbert College
Beyond Eucatastrophe: Journeying Through the Sublimity of Charles de Lint’s Widdershins to Otherworlds of Possibility
Taryne Jade Taylor
Florida Atlantic University
100. (SF) The Specifics of SF’s Worlds Magnolia
Chair: Jennifer Gunnels
Independent Scholar
“Outrunning that monster revenge”: Flight and The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto
Grace L. Dillon
Portland State University
Warfare and the "Landscape of Consciousness" in Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing and Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After
Patricia A. Evans
Texas State University-San Marcos
The Evolution of the Science Fiction Pastoral: The Scarlet Plague, Earth Abides, and The Wild Shore
Alexandre Donald
NYRSF
101. (IF) Sublime Otherness Dogwood
Chair: Virginia Harger-Grinling
Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Overdetermined Sublime in Dostoevsky’s The Double and Kafka’s The Trial
Heidi Faletti
Buffalo State College
The Sublime and its Others: Explorations of Short Fiction and the Fantastic in Spain
Paula M. Bruno
St. Edwards University
The "Other" Science: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Calcutta Chromosome
Mayurika Chakravorty
University of London
102. (H) Panel: Canonical Vampire Captiva A/B
Moderator: James Craig Holte
Stephanie Moss
Lokke Heiss
Elizabeth Miller
103. Author Reading XII Pine
Host: Gregory Frost
James Morrow
James Patrick Kelly
Guy Gavriel Kay
Saturday March 22, 2008 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Wine and Beer
Reception Grand
Ballroom Foyer
Saturday March 22, 2008 8:00-11:00 p.m.
IAFA Awards Banquet Grand Ballroom
Saturday March 22, 2008 11:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
All Conference
Farewell Party Poolside