Schedule

REGISTRATION

CONFERENCE WELCOME

CONCURRENT PANELS: 1A, 1B, 1C

PANEL 1A: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• “A regular kid and her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend”: The Trouble with Normal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Gregory L. Bagnall, University of Rhode Island
• The Re-imagining of Fairy Tales in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Kerry Boyles, Rutgers University
• “What’s In the Basket Little Girl?”: Reading Buffy as Little Red Riding Hood
  Kim Snowden, University of British Columbia
• Drusilla, Kendra, & the Role of Agency in Vampire Literature
  William Patrick Wend, Burlington County College

PANEL 1B: Women in Comic Books

• Drawn from Old Margins to New Centres: An Analysis of Feminist Comic Books
  Ali Versluis,, University of Western Ontario
• The Absence of the Black Superwoman Model in the Comic Book Universe
  Danielle Carr, City College of New York
• Feminine Mystique: Superman as Lois Lane’s Alter-Ego in the “Silver Age” of Comics
  Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Rutgers University

PANEL 1C: Cyberpunk, Cyborgs and Atypical Female Bodies

• From “Manifesto” to Mainstream: The Evolution of “Cyborg” Gender Performance in Contemporary Science Fiction
  Caitlin Corrigan, Rutgers University
• Embracing Body Difference: Female Superheroes with Atypical Bodies
  Lydia Fecteau, Richard Stockton College
• Brands Make Me Sick: Deconstructing Globalization and the Female as Materialist Myth Through Cayce Pollard in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition
  M. Ryan Tsapatsaris, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Transforming Urban Space and Female Bodies in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Chaos
  Siobhan Carroll, University of Delaware

CONCURRENT PANELS: 2A, 2B, 2C

PANEL 2A: The Constructed Modern Woman

• The Evolution of Lois Lane: Tracing Her Journey from Sidekick to Independent Woman
  Sandra Eckard, East Stroudsburg University
• Female Protagonists in Bluebeard: The Constructed Modern Female And Her Bloody Chamber
  Tiara DeGuzman, Rutgers University
• Alternate, Not Arrested Development: Bryan Fuller’s Female Protagonists
  Trinidad Linares, Independent Scholar
• Seizing the Wonder from the Women? Birds of Prey and the Patriarchal Hegemony
  Robert Repici, Arizona State University

PANEL 2B: Media, Gender, and the Devaluation of Women’s Culture

• Using the Animator’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House: The Subversive Socialization Potential of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time
  Alessandra Valentin, Rutgers University
• The Female Identity According to Disney: Negative Messages within Childhood Classics
  Amanda Lutz, William Paterson University
• Breaking Dawn in the Boys’ Club: Women’s Culture and the Everyday in the Twilight Franchise
  Caolan Madden, Rutgers University
• The Men and the Girls: Fans, Feminism, and My Little Pony
  John Bailey, Rutgers University

PANEL 2C: Doctor Who

• Clara & Merry: Examining the Role of Companion & Child in Doctor Who
  Cyndi Maurer, Rutgers University
• Heart, Strength, and Wit: The Companions of Russell T. Davies’ Doctor Who
  Elizabeth Welch, City College of New York
• I Create Myself: Doctor Who and the Female Coming-of-Age
  TK Cvetkovic, Rutgers University

LUNCH BREAK

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Feminist Science Fiction Scholar Marleen Barr
Hillary Orbits an Alternative Universe Earth: Interpreting the USA Network’s Political Animals as Science Fiction

CONCURRENT PANELS: 3A, 3B, 3C

PANEL 3A: “Cripping the Comic”

• A panel discussion on the intersection of popular culture and mental, physical, and gender atypicalities.
  Diane Wiener, Syracuse University
  Lydia Fecteau, Richard Stockton College
  Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri, Syracuse University
  Ethan Lewis, Syracuse University

PANEL 3B: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Real World

• Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Teaching Creativity as an Essential Skill for Social and Political Theorists
  Leah Gates, American University
• Reading at an Angle: Science Fictional Reading and the Female Science Fiction Reader in Among Others
  Tili Sokolov, Harvard University
• Hey, Presto! Women in Stage Magic
  Fred Siegel, Drexel University

PANEL 3C: Warrior Women and Women at War

• Warrior Women of the 1980s
  Matthew Sorrento, Rutgers University
• Women Warriors Break the Mould: Kara “Starbuck” Thrace versus the Gender Binary
  Haviva Avrom, Independent Scholar
• Heroine as Huntress: Images of Female Archers in Comics, Fantasy and Science Fiction
  Katie Anderson, Rutgers University
• Red Am I In Battle: Gender and the Female Coming-of-Age in Shining Knight
  Jared Axelrod, Independent Scholar

FILM SCREENING: Wonder Woman: The Untold Story of American Superheroines

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CONCURRENT PANELS: 4A, 4B, 4C

PANEL 4A: Bending Gender in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• The Masculinization of the Modern Romance Heroine in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
  Jennifer Jacobs, Radford University
• The Voiceless Void?: Mother Earth and Evolution as Dancing with Death in Cuarón’s Gravity and Kubrick‚s 2001
  Christian Jimenez, Rutgers University
• Founding Sister: Deconstructing Gender & the Wonder Woman Movie that Never Was
  Brett Stumphy, Harrisburg Area Community College

PANEL 4B: Young Adult Fantasy Literature

• Gaining the Power of Choice: Women, Agency, and Magic in Young Adult Fantasy
  Carrie Haase, Ithaca College
• Witches and Daemons and Bears, Oh My!: Pullman’s Employment and Subversion of Fantasy Tropes in The Golden Compass
  Kathleen Comber, Ithaca College
• The Struggle for (and Against) Achieving Womanhood: Female Agency in Fantasy for Younger Children
  Kelly Kane, Ithaca College
• Flexing Gender and Ringing Down the Dead: Heroic Young Women in the Abhorsen Trilogy
  Taylor Greenwood, Ithaca College

PANEL 4C: Firefly

• The Average Female in the Futuristic World: Kaylee and Feminism in the Masculine Verse of Firefly
  Alejandra Ortega, Wake Forest University
• Firefly’s “Heart of Gold”
  Gerard Breitenbeck, Rutgers University
• “All of them wish you were in their bed: Inara's Sexuality in Joss Whedon's Firefly as a Tool of Empowerment”
  Patricia Schumacher, Leipzig University

CONCURRENT PANELS: 5A, 5B, 5C

PANEL 5A: The Female Body in Science Fiction and Horror

• Haunted Wombs: The Gynecological Gothic in American Horror Story: Murder House
  Faye Ringel, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
  Jenna Randall, Independent Scholar
• Barbarella’s Sexual Liberties and Constraints: An Analysis of Visual Subjugation
  Jeorg Ellen Sauer, University of Kentucky
• Reproductive Horror: Conception, Pregnancy, and Maternity in Horror
  Joey Ciurlino, Rutgers University
• Engendering Equality: The Female Body in Science-Fiction Action Cinema
  Rachel Katz, Independent Scholar

PANEL 5B: Girl Rebooted

• Female Malleability in Mitchison and Cadigan
  Don Riggs, Drexel University
• The Evolution of Sarah Jane Smith in the Doctor Who Universe from Girl Friday to Warrior
  Sheila Sandapen, Drexel University
• Uhura and Changing Politics of Race & Gender
  Vincent Williams, Drexel University
• Surviving Stepford: Cybernetic-Fantastic and “Real” Women
  William Hamilton, Neumann University

PANEL 5C: Feminism and Postfemnism

• Misbehaving Women: Feminism in Joss Whedon’s Firefly
  Natasha Gatian, Rutgers University
• Postfeminist Appropriation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Shyla Foster, Cornell University
• Fantasy Feminists: From Belle to Buffy, Raising the Stakes in Third-Wave’s Female Protagonists
  Riley Wilkins, Independent Scholar
• ‘Little Geisha Dolls:’ Postfeminism in Joss Whedon’s Firefly
  Peregrine Macdonald, Rutgers University

LUNCH BREAK

CONCURRENT PANELS: 6A, 6B, 6C

PANEL 6A: Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comics

• Love is an Open Door: The Busted Monomyth and Japanese Heroines
  Eleanor J. Hogan, Gettysburg College
• Pretty Warriors of Justice: A Magical Girl’s Guide to Saving the World
  Harley Emmons, Gettysburg College
• International Relations and the Feminine in Japanese Comics and Cartoons
  Michael Oeckel, University of British Columbia

PANEL 6B: Queer(ing) Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Bat Cowls and Red-Haired Wigs: Male Approximations of Lesbian Identity in Batwoman
  Tom Powers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• The 21st Century Anonymous Epic: Subverting the Limitations of Televised Morality Through G.L. Dartt‟s Fan Fiction
  Pamela Morris, Independent Scholar
• Katniss’s Survivalist Queer versus Capitol Dandyism in The Hunger Games
  Kathleen Esling, Independent Scholar
  Lisa Manter, Saint Mary's College of California
• “There is No Hope for Any of Us”: Affect, Sideways Growth, and the (Queer) Child in The Walking Dead
  Stephen Bernardini, Rutgers University

PANEL 6C: Depictions of Female Characters

• Loving Pains: Why Being a Girl in Love is the Biggest Obstacle in YA Literature
  Celina Williams, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Changing Stereotypes of Women Through Science Fiction
  Jaimie Yakaboski, Rowan University
• Whedon’s Women and the law: Buffy, Willow, May and Skye
  Gail D. Rosen, Drexel University

CONCURRENT PANELS: 7A, 7B, 7C

PANEL 7A: Girls and Women at the End of the World

• The “Future Girl” at the End of the World
  Monica Swindle, University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Selfish Girls: An analysis of selfishness as strength in the Divergent series and the Tiffany Aching books
  Alice Nuttal, Oxford Brookes University
• The Eleusinian Mysteries of Octavia E. Butler: The Mother-Daughter Struggle in Parable of the Talents
  Jennifer Marie Brissett, Independent Scholar
• “I do not see a girl, or even a woman, but some unearthly being”: Gender and Genre in Jane Austen and The Hunger Games
  Chris Koenig-Woodyard, University of Toronto

PANEL 7B: Witches and Wicked Women

• Something Wicked This Way Comes?: Power, Anger, and Negotiating the Witch in Contemporary Television
  Alissa Burger, SUNY Delhi
  Stephanie Mix, Independent Scholar
• Rehabilitating the Child-Stealing Witch: Motherhood and Magic in ABC’s Once Upon a Time
  Linda Lee, University of Pennsylvania
• Sex, Power, and the Occult: A Look at Morgan in STARZ’s Camelot
  Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University

PANEL 7C: Religion, Race, and Gender

• Islamic Superheroes?: The Rise of the Muslim Feminist in Comic Books
  Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth University
• “I Am a Superhero Because I Have Superpowers. They Are Superheroes Because They Do Not:” Qahera and the Fight Against Street Sexual Harassment in Post-Mubarak Egypt
  Susana Galán, Rutgers University
• Psychoanalytic Study of the Representation of Trauma in the Works of Zeina Abirached
  Joelle Hageboutros, Swarthmore College