Areas & Chairs
The Popular Culture Association & American Culture Associations 2009 National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana Information:- At the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, located at 555 Canal Street
- Begins on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at 12:30 p.m.
- Ends on Saturday, April 11, 2009, with last of the panel sessions and films ending around 8:00 p.m.
- Deadline for proposal submissions:
30 November. EXTENDED to 15 December, 2008
(Except for areas as noted in the list below.)
- Submit a proposal to only one area at a time.
- General instructions for submittng a proposal appear at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/papers.php
Academics & Collegiate Culture
Arlene Caney
Comm. Coll. of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA 19130
(215) 751-8305
Fax: (215) 751-8248
acaney@ccp.edu
&
Julie Gochenour
Institute for Innovation in Health & Human Services
Virginia Center for Health Outreach
James Madison University
MSC 9009
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-6058
Fax: (540) 568-6374
gochenjx@cisat.jmu.edu
Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming)
Dennis Cutchins
English Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-9042
dennis_cutchins@byu.edu
Adolescence in Film & Television
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Plymouth State University
Department of Communication & Media Studies
17 High Street, MSC 60
Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
(603) 535-3122
krhart@mail.plymouth.edu
Advertising
Sammy R. Danna
Comm. Dept.
Loyola Univ.
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 915-6554
Fax: (312) 915-8593
sdanna@luc.edu
African-American Culture
Katrina Hazzard-Donald
5011 Catharine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19143-1627
(856) 225-6470
Fax: (856) 225-6435
hazzard@camden.rutgers.edu
Age of Theodore Roosevelt & Popular Culture
Daniel Murphy
History Dept.
Hanover Coll.
Hanover, IN 47243
(812) 866-7222
Fax: (812) 866-7229
murphy@hanover.edu
Aging & Senior Culture
Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Ph D
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
faug@loc.gov
American Art & Architecture
Robert Sheardy, Jr.
Kendall College of Art and Design
17 Fountain Northwest
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
(616) 451-2787
sheardyr@ferris.edu
robertsheardy@att.net
American Indian Literatures & Cultures
Constance (Connie) Bracewell
Department of English
University of Arizona
conniejb@email.arizona.edu
&
Richard Sax
Lake Erie College
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 375.7151
rsax@lec.edu -or- durangosax2@hotmail.com
American Literature
Sue Richardson
Film Studies Dept.
Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington
601 S. College Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28403-5950
(910) 962-3326
Fax: (910) 962-7678
richardsongr@uncw.edu
Animation
James A. (Jim) Walker
University College for the Creative Arts
at Maidstone
Oakwood Park
Maidstone, Kent
United Kingdom
ME16 8AG
Tel: +44 (0) 1622 620000
Fax: +44 (0) 1622 621100
jwalker4@ucreative.ac.uk
Appalachian Studies
Leslie Harper Worthington
Gainesville State College
Oakwood, GA 30566
lworthington@gsc.edu
Art, Architecture, & Design
Loretta Lorance
School of Visual Arts
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034
ljlorance@gmail.com
&
Derham Groves
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning
Univ. of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
derhamgroves@hotmail.com
derham@unimelb.edu.au
Arthurian Legends (No deadline extension.)
Elizabeth Sklar
English Department
5057 Woodward
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-7714
Fax: (313) 577-8618
e.sklar@wayne.edu
&
Donald Hoffman
1808 N. Larrabee St.
Chicago, IL 60614
dhof635094@aol.com
Asian Popular Culture
John A. Lent
669 Ferne Blvd.
Drexel Hill, PA 19026
(610) 622-3938
jlent@temple.edu
Automobile Culture
Tom Patterson
Sociology Dept.
Shepherd Univ.
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
tpatters@shepherd.edu
Baby-Boomer Culture
James Von Schilling
Humanities & Soc. Sciences
Northampton Comm. Coll.
Bethlehem, PA 18020
(610) 861- 4178
Fax: (610) 861-5877
jvonschilling@northampton.edu
&
Shawn David Young
Michigan State University
235 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1033
youngs21@msu.edu
Biographies
Susie Skarl
Urban Studies Librarian
LLB 1174
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-2141
Fax: (702) 895-2147
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
Black Music Culture
Including Hip Hop Culture
William C. Banfield
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St.
Box 369
Boston, MA 02215-3693
(617) 747-8371
wbanfield@berklee.edu
&
Angela Nelson
Popular Culture
108 Popular Culture Bldg.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0190
(419) 372-0284
anelson@bgsu.edu
& (For Hip Hop)
Crystal Alberts
Dept. of English
University of North Dakota
276 Centennial Dr.
110 Merrifiel Hall, Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58201
(701) 777-2393
crystal.alberts@gmail.com
crystal.alberts@und.nodak.edu
Body and Physical Difference
Lori Duin Kelly
English
Carroll College
100 N. East Avenue
Waukesha, WI 53213
(262) 524-7263
Fax: (262) 524-7083
Lkelly@cc.edu
Border Culture (Political, Cultural, Geographical)
Ray B. Browne
PCA/ACA
Bowling Green State Univ.
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-7861
rbrowne@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Brazilian Popular Culture
Fernando de Sousa Rocha
Department of Portuguese
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont
(802) 443-5000
rocha@middlebury.edu
British Popular Culture
Maureen Thum
English Dept.
Univ. of Michigan
Flint, MI 48502
(810) 762-3285
mthum@umflint.edu
&
Frank Riga
English Dept.
Canisius Coll.
Buffalo, NY 14208
rigaf@canisius.edu
Business/Corporate Culture
Tony Osborne
Gonzaga University
tonyaubg@yahoo.com
Caribbean
Literature & Culture
Jorge Febles
Department of World Languages
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
(904) 620-2283
Fax: (904) 620-2288
jorge.febles@unf.edu
Celebrity in Culture
Michael Brody
10412 Crossing Creek Rd.
Potomac, MD 20854
(301) 585-1703
Fax: (301) 299-8962
mikebro@erols.com
Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
J. Joseph Edgette
Center for Education
Widener Univ.
Chester, PA 19013
(610) 499-4241
Fax: (610) 499-4605
jedgette1@widener.edu
Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory
Scott Baugh
Dept. of English, Box 43091
Texas Tech Univ.
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
(806) 742-2500, ext. 244
Fax: (806) 742-0989
scott.baugh@ttu.edu
Children's Popular Culture
Harry E. Eiss
4967 Aljoanne
Brighton, MI 48116
(810) 229-5845
harryeiss@comcast.net
Circuses & Circus Culture
Robert Sugarman
PO Box 407
Shaftsbury, VT 05262
(802) 447-7179
Fax: (802) 447-2611
robsugar@comcast.net
Civil War & Reconstruction
Randal W. Allred
English Dept.
Brigham Young Univ., Hawaii
Laie, HI 96762
(808) 293-3633
Fax: (808) 293-3662
allredr@byuh.edu
Collecting & Collectibles
Kevin M. Moist
Communications
Penn State Altoona
101D Cypress
3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona, PA 16601
(814) 949-5779
kmm104@psu.edu
Collective Behavior:
Panics, Fads & Hostile Outbursts
V.J. Brown
Dept. of Business & Social Sciences
White Hall Room 102B
Shepherd Coll.
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
(304) 876-5302
vbrown@shepherd.edu
Comedy and Humor
M. Thomas Inge
Humanities Department
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland, VA 23005-5505
(804) 752-7282
Fax: (804) 752.7231
tinge@rmc.edu
Comic Art & Comics
Nicole Freim
English Department
Riverside Community College
4800 Magnolia Ave.
Riverside, CA 92506-1299
nfreim@charter.net
Communication & Digital Culture
Mark Nunes
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of English
Technical Communication and Media Arts
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 S. Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060
(678) 915-7209
Fax: (678) 915-7425
mnunes@spsu.edu
Conspiracy Theory /
Claims for the Paranormal
Tamar Gablinger
Institute for Social Sciences
Humboldt University
Berlin
gablingers@gmail.com
Creative Fiction Writing
Jerry Bradley
College of Graduate Studies
Lamar University
P. O. Box: 10078
Beaumont, TX 77710
(409) 880-8229
jerry.bradley@lamar.edu
Cultural Conflict & Women
Cheri Louise Ross
Humanities/American Studies Dept.
Penn State University Harrisburg
Middletown, PA 17057
(717) 948-6727
Fax: (717) 948-6724
Clr5@psu.edu
Dance & Culture
Libby Smigel
1120 Meurilee Ln.
Silver Spring, MD 20901-2111
(301) 681-9845
DanceAndCulture@gmail.com
&
Deidre Cavazzi
DanceAndCulture@gmail.com
Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books
Pamela Bedore
1084 Shennecossett Rd
University of Connecticut
Groton, CT 06340
(806) 405-9135
pamela.bedore@uconn.edu
Disasters & Culture
Ann Larabee
Michigan State University
235 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
517/355-2400
Fax: 517/353-5250
larabee@msu.edu
Documentary
Heather McIntosh
Communications
Northern Illinois University
208 Watson Hall
DeKalb IL 60115
815.753.7108
hmm160@gmail.com
Eastern European Studies
Jeff Johnson
American Studies Dept.
Michigan State University
phoboes2000@yahoo.com
Ecology and Culture
Margaret O'Shaughnessey
CB#3520 Greenlaw Hall
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
meo@email.unc.edu
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Seymour Leventman
Sociology Dept.
Boston Coll.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
(617) 552-4152
Fax: (617) 552-4283
sylev@rcn.com
Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture
Ken Muir
Dept. of Sociology and Social Work
Appalachian State Univ.
(828) 262-6388
muirkb@appstate.edu
Fairy Tales
Linda J. Holland-Toll
Language and Literature
Mount Olive Coll.
634 Henderson St.
Mount Olive, NC 28365
lholland-toll@moc.edu
Fan Culture & Theory
Katherine Larsen
The George Washington University
Rome 561
Washington D.C. 20052
(202) 994-3941
klarsen@gwu.edu
Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity
Joseph Hancock
Drexel University
Dept. of Design
Coll. of Media Arts & Design
Nesbitt Hall Room 601
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA. 19104
(215) 895-6993
Cell: (610) 564-6200
Jhh33@drexel.edu
Fat Studies
Lesleigh Owen, PhD Candidate
University of California, Santa Cruz
P.O. Box 61071
Pasadena, CA 91116
goddess_les@yahoo.com
&
Julia McCrossin
Graduate Teaching Assistant
English Department
The George Washington University
Rome Hall
801 22nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
jmccross@gwu.edu
Festivals & Faires
Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre History
University of Arizona
DrKTKorolEvans@yahoo.com
Film
Donald E. Palumbo
English Dept.
East Carolina Univ.
Greenville, NC 27858
(252) 321-1522
donaldpalumbo@earthlink.net
Film Adaptation
Rebecca Housel
Department of English
Rochester Institute of Tech.
92 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
(585) 475-4422
Fax: (585) 475-7120
housereb@rochester.rr.com
Film & History
Cynthia J. Miller
Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Emerson College
120 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
(781) 828-9389
cymiller@tiac.net
James Brian Wagaman
Area Chair
Film & Media Studies
H-PCAACA
Senior Listserv Moderato
rwagaman@mail.H-net.msu.edu
Folklore
Elisabeth Nixon, Ph.D.
Franklin University
201 S. Grant Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 263-4077
Fax: (614) 224-4025
nixone@franklin.edu
Food in Popular Culture
Beverly Taylor
English CB#3520
Univ. of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 544-1943
Fax: (919) 962-3520
btaylor@email.unc.edu
Game Studies
Katie Whitlock
Theatre Department
California State University, Chico
klwhitlock@csuchico.edu
&
Gerald Voorhees
Nido Qubein School of Communication
High Point University
gvoorhee@highpoint.edu
&
Joshua Call
Department of English
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
jcall2@bigred.unl.edu
&
Tony Avruch
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University
avruch.pca@gmail.com
Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies
Bruce Drushel
Mass Communication Area
Dept. of Communication
Miami Univ.
Oxford OH 45056
(513) 529-3526
drushebe@muohio.edu
Gender Studies
Carrie Marjorie Peirce
Global Studies & Sociology
Azusa Pacific Univ.
Azusa, CA 91702-7000
(626) 815-6000 x3487
Fax: (626) 815-3871
cpeirce@apu.edu
Gender & Media Studies
Debbie Phillips
Speech & Theatre Dept.
Muskingum Coll.
New Concord, OH 43762
(740) 826-8180
dphillip@muskingum.edu
German Literature & Culture
Claude Desmarais
Reichwald Professor in Germanic Studies
Department of Critical Studies (German)
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
(250) 807-8635
Fax: (250) 807-9900
claude.desmarais@ubc.ca
Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture
Louis H. Palmer, III
English Dept.
Castleton State College
6 Alumni Drive
Castleton, VT 05373
802.468.1341
Fax: 802.468.6045
louis.palmer@castleton.edu
Heinlein Studies
Lisa N. D'Amico
Department of English
Texas A&M University
Blocker 227
TAMU 4227
College Station, TX 77843-4227
pca@rahstudies.org
Horror (Fiction, Film)
Pedagogy of Horror--Roundtable
Philip Simpson
Brevard Comm. Coll.
Palm Bay Campus
250 Community College Parkway
Palm Bay, FL 32909
(321) 433-5194
Fax: (321) 433-5317
simpsonp@brevardcc.edu
&
Jim Iaccino
The Chicago School of Prof. Psychology
jiaccino@thechicagoschool.edu
Kristopher Woofter
Dawson C
hauntologist@gmail.com
&
Kristopher Woofter
Dawson C
hauntologist@gmail.com
Humanities & Popular Cultures
Ray B. Browne
PCA/ACA
Bowling Green State Univ.
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372.7861
rbrowne@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Internet Culture
Montana Miller
Bowling Green State University
(419) 372-0184
montanm@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Jack London's Life & Works
Jay Williams
Area Chair, Jack London's Life and Works
5435 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60615
jww4@midway.uchicago.edu
Jewish Studies
Fred Isaac
Berkeley, CA
(510) 525-8449
Fax: 510-525-3440
Fredisaac@aol.com
Journalism & Media Culture
James Von Schilling
Humanities & Soc. Sciences
Northampton Comm. Coll.
Bethlehem, PA 18020
(610) 861- 4178
Fax: (610) 861-5877
jvonschilling@northampton.edu
&
Ken Muir
Dept. of Sociology and Social Work
Appalachian State Univ.
(828) 262-6388
muirkb@appstate.edu
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
Patricia Donaher
English Dept.
Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Dr.
St. Joseph, MO 64507
(816) 271-5964
Fax (816) 271-4543
donaher@missouriwestern.edu
Latin American Cinema
Melissa Fitch
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 626-7647
mfitch@email.arizona.edu
Latin Americans & Latinos:
Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes
Eliana Rivero
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 621-5240
eliana@email.arizona.edu
Latin American Literature & Culture
Patricia Montilla
Dept. of Spanish
Western Michigan Univ.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
(269) 387-3040
patricia.montilla@wmich.edu
Latin Dance & the Global Economy
Chair: Melissa Fitch
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 626-7647
mfitch@email.arizona.edu
Latin American Film & Media
Chair: Melissa Fitch
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 626-7647
mfitch@email.arizona.edu
Latin American Performance Studies
Elsa Gilmore
Language Studies Department
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5030
(410) 293-6350
elsa.gilmore@usna.edu
Libraries, Archives, Museums,
& Popular Research
Allen Ellis
Steely Library
Northern Kentucky Univ.
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
(859) 572-5527
Fax: (859) 572.5390
ellisa@nku.edu
Literature & Madness
Branimir M. Rieger
Humanities Div.
Lander Univ.
Greenwood, SC 29649
(864) 388-8389
Fax: (864) 388-8890
brieger@lander.edu
Literature & Politics
George B. Moore
Sewall Academic Program
Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 823-6453
mooreg@colorado.edu
Literature & Science
Ian Roberts
English Department
Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Dr.
St. Joseph, MO 64507
(816) 271-5810
Fax (816) 271-4543
robertsi@missouriwestern.edu
Local Culture of New Orleans
Special Session
Jean-Paul Benowitz
Lebanon Valley College
101 North College Avenue
Annville, PA 17003
benowijp@etown.edu
Mark Twain’s World
Ray Browne
PCA/ACA
Bowling Green State Univ.
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-7861
rbrowne@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Masculinities in Popular Culture
Hartmut Heep
German Dept.
Penn State Univ.
Schuykill, PA 17972-2208
570.385.6298
Fax: 570.385.3672
hxh17@psu.edu
Material Culture
Ella Howard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, GA 31419
(912) 344-3349
ella.howard@armstrong.edu
Mathematics & Popular Culture
Jessica K. Sklar
Department of Mathematics
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
Office: MCLT 261
(253) 535-8341
Fax: (253) 535-8700
sklarjk@plu.edu
Medical Humanities: Health & Disease in Culture
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Pol. Sci. & Amer. Studies
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 732-2904
Fax: (617) 732-2801
jennifer.tebbe@mcphs.edu
Medieval Popular Culture
K. A. Laity
Department of English
College of Saint Rose
432 Western Avenue
Albany NY 12203
laityk@strose.edu
Memory & Representation
Rosemarie J. Conforti
Media Studies Department, TE6
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
(203) 392-5379
Fax: (203) 392-5242
confortir1@southernct.edu
Men/Men's Studies
Hartmut Heep
German Dept.
Penn State Univ.
Schuykill, PA 17972-2208
(570) 385-6298
Fax: (570) 385-3672
hxh17@psu.edu
Midwest Culture
Mark D. Van Ells
Queensborough Community College
The City University of New York
222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside, NY 11364
(718) 631-6291
mvanells@qcc.cuny.edu
http://www.vanells.com
Motorcycling Culture and Myth
Gary L. Kieffner
Dept. of History
U of Texas at El Paso
500 W. U Ave.
El Paso, TX. 79968-0532
(915) 747-5875
Kieffner@miners.utep.edu
&
Lisa Garber
Psychologist
Garberwwr@earthlink.net
Music
Tom Kitts
Division of English/Speech
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Kittst@stjohns.edu
Musicals, Stage & Film
Samuel J. Goldstein
Humanities and Communications
Datona State College
1200 International Speedway
Daytona Beach, FL 32120
(386) 506-3617
goldsts@DaytonaState.edu
Mystery & Detective Fiction
Marilyn Rye
Fairleigh Dickinson U
Mrye@fdu.edu
&
Karen Waldron
College of the Atlantic
waldron@coa.edu
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
Stephen Wilkerson
11 Timber Park Drive
Black Mountain, NC 28711-9460
(828) 664-0518
Sywilkers@aol.com
New England Studies
Peter Holloran
Worcester State College
Department of History
Worcester, MA 01602
pholloran@worcester.edu
Non-Fiction Writing
Non-Fiction Writing