Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses 3

Thursday Evening, June 3, 2010

700 pm: Reception: Virginia Room, Ringhaver Student Center

815: Featured Speaker: David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University)—Joss Whedon, Conversationalist

Friday, June 4, 2010

900-1030—Opening Session (Auditorium)

Keynote A: Janet K. Halfyard (Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England)—Listening to Buffy: Music, Memory, Meaning, and Moping

Friday 1045-1215

[1A] Session 1 [Ringhaver 202]

Dollhouse I. Chair: Andrew Aberdein

Mike Starr (U of Northampton)—An Echo in the Shell: Identity and Becoming in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

Cait Coker (Texas A&M U)—What Her Language-Language Tells You: A Radical Feminist Reading of Dollhouse

Andrew Aberdein (Florida Institute of Technology)—The Apocalyptic Bordello

[1B] Session 2 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Shelley Rees

Vampires and Other Monsters I

J. Bowers (U of Missouri)—British Vampire, ‘American Disease’: William the Bloody as 19^th Century Neurasthenic

Shelley Rees (U of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) and Tom Connelly (Independent Scholar)—Robots, Zombie Slaves, or Liars: Identity and Labor in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

[1C] Session 3 [Ringhaver 213]

The Whedonverses and Other ‘Verses I]. Chair: Jennifer F. Stuller

Jennifer K. Stuller (Independent Scholar)—The Ink-Stained Amazon Presents: A Brief History of the Best, Worst, Known, and Not So Known Pop Culture Influences on the Whedonverses

Hugh Marlowe (Flagler College)—Buffy & Aang: Modern Heroes Tussle with Angst

Friday 1215-145 Lunch: Bugg's Bistro

Friday 145-315

[2A] Session 4 [Gamache-Koger Theater] ]. Chair: Vivien Burr

Buffy the Vampire Slayer I

Vivien Burr (U of Huddersfield)—Buffy as Role Model: Her Significance for Female Viewers

Ensley F. Guffey (Cleveland Community College)—“We Just Declared War”: Buffy as General

Neil Lerner (Davidson College)—A Musical Alpha to Omega: Comparing Musical Languages between the First and Final 150 seconds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[2B] Session 5 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Alysa Hornick

Characters I: Faith, Willow, Dr. Saunders, Illyria

Virginia Grant (Independent Scholar)—Faith in Feminism

Heather M. Porter (Independent Scholar)—“If you could be ... you know, plain old Willow super Willow, who would you be?”: Examining Willow’s Use of Intelligence and Violence in BtVS.

Alysa Hornick (Independent Scholar)— "There Is No Cure For That: Illyria, Dr. Saunders, and the Gendered Body in Angel and Dollhouse"

[2C] Session 6 [Ringhaver 213]

Teaching and Learning in the Whedonverses]. Chair: Elizabeth Rambo

Elizabeth L. Rambo (Campbell U)—Teaching Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7.16 “Storyteller” as Metafiction

Molly Oberlin (U of Cincinnati)—Writing Echoes: Dollhouse in the Composition Classroom

Christine Jarvis (U of Huddersfield)—“I’m Cookie Dough”: Viewers and Personal Development

Friday 330-500

[3A] Session 7 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Stacey Abbott

Angel

Sara Freeman (Independent Scholar)—His Girl Doomsday: The Professionalism of Lilah Morgan

Natalie Stevens (Independent Scholar)—Objectification and Power in Season 5 of Angel

Stacey Abbott (Roehampton U)—“Enough of the Action, Let’s Get Back to Dancing”: Joss Whedon directs Angel

[3B] Session 8 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Ian Klein

Dollhouse II

David Fritts (Henderson Community College)—Science, Religion, and Magic in Dollhouse

Kevin Oberlin (U of Cincinnati)—Winning at Dolls: Dollhouse as a Zero-Sum Game

Ian G. Klein (Columbia U)—“You don’t get the girl”: The Fairy Tale Delusion of Paul Ballard in Dollhouse

[3C] Session 9 [Ringhaver 213].

Beyond the Buffybot: Joss Whedon’s Posthumanism

Julie Hawk Vickie Willis Casey McCormick (Georgia State U)

Friday 515-645

[4A] Session 10 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Katheryn Wright

Firefly and Serenity I

Adele H. Bealer, (U of Utah)—Treatise on Fireflyology: The Rhizomatic Whedonverse

Emily Carroll Shearer (Middle Tennessee State U)—Malcolm Reynolds: Campbellian Hero

Katheryn Wright (Florida State U)—River's Gift: The Production of the Affective Body in Firefly and Serenity

[4B] Session 11 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Erika Johnson-Lewis

Memory in Dollhouse

Laura ten Thije Boonkkamp (Leiden U), “We are not anybody because we are everybody”: Identity without Memory in Whedon’s Dollhouse

Erika Johnson-Lewis (Florida State U)—"I'm awake now. I don't want to go back to sleep." Memory and Experience on Dollhouse

Katie Whitlock (California State U, Chico)—Imprinting Gender: The Collision of Memory and Body in Dollhouse

[4C] Session 12 [Ringhaver 213]. Chair: Tamara Wilson

Power and Passion in the Whedonverses

Elizabeth Story (Ohio U)—Foucault and the Dollhouse: Examining Joss Whedon's Dollhouse through the Work of Michel Foucault

Tracy L. Bealer (The Citadel)—Who Watches the Watchers?: Gender and Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse

Tamara Wilson (Flagler College)—“Don’t Know Much About Chemistry”:” Attraction and Delayed/Denied Passion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse

Friday Evening

Conference Banquet (Ponce de Leon Dining Hall)

Banquet Speakers—Nikki Stafford and Matthew Pateman

Saturday, June 5, 2010

900-1030—Opening Session (Auditorium)

Keynote B: Lorna Jowett (University of Northampton)—Stuffing a Rabbit in It: Character, Narrative, and Time in the Whedonverses

Saturday 1045-1215

[5A] Session 13 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Shiloh Carroll

Buffy the Vampire Slayer II

Ryan Warden (Northwestern U)—Dead and Still Pretty: The Subversion and Subsequent Elimination of the Final Girl in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Shiloh Carroll (Middle Tennessee State U)—“Maturity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

[5B] Session 14 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Cynthia Burkhead

Narrative

Cynthia Burkhead (U of North Alabama)—Sometimes “A dream is a wish your heart makes,” and sometimes it’s a necessary nightmare: The narrative function of dreams in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Marc McKee (U of Missouri)—“You’re Not Crazy”: The Use of Meta-Fiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

David Kociemba (Emerson College)—From Beneath You, It Foreshadows: Why the First Season Matters

[5C] Session 15 [Ringhaver 213]. Chair: Linda Jencson

The Whedonverses and Other ‘Verses II

Linda Jencson (Appalachian State U)—Brilliant Insights and Tired Stereotypes: Hellmouth and Apocalypse in the Buffyverse through the Lens of Disaster Studies

Jennifer Bar Lev (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel), Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

[5D] Session 16 [Ringhaver 214]. Chair: AmiJo Comeford

Characters II: Cordelia, The Nerds, Dr. Horrible, Penny

AmiJo Comeford (Dixie State College of Utah)“‘I think it, I say it. That’s my way.’: Cordelia Chase, Finding the Tact in the Tactless Approach”

Jennifer Butler Keeton (Independent Scholar)—Aspiring to Evil: Buffy's Three Nerds and Dr. Horrible

Evelyn Fisher (American U)—“The Perils of Penny: Subverting Genre in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

1215-145 Lunch: Bugg's Bistro. First Meeting of the Whedon Studies Association [Part I]

Saturday 145-315

[6A] Session 17 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Alyson Buckman

Firefly and Serenity II

Alyson Buckman, California State U, Sacramento—“Always ... in an Alliance-friendly bar come U-Day”: Gaining Agency

B. J. Keeton (Martin Methodist College), Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Death: Exploring the Reasons and Purpose in Wash’s Demise

Mary Alice Money (Gordon College)—Firefly’s “Shindig”: Clashing Cultures in the 26^th-century West

[6B] Session 18 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Joanne Detore-Nakamura

Vampires and Other Monsters II

Kristin “Cheyenne” Riggs (Texas State U)—“Him” and “It”

Sabrina Boyer (U of North Carolina Greensboro)—“The girl needs a little monster in her man”: Riley Finn, Angel and Spike

Joanne Detore-Nakamura (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U)—Vampires & the Human Women Who Love Them

[6C] Session 19 [Ringhaver 213]. Chair: Lisa K. Perdigao

Whedonbots

Alan Rosiene (Florida Institute of Technology)—Little to No ‘Bots: The Limits of AI in Firefly

Matt Ruane (U of Central Florida)—Metal Love: Dolls, Robots, Cyborgs, and Cylons in the Whedonverse and Beyond

Lisa K. Perdigao (Florida Institute of Technology)—“This one’s broken”: Rebuilding Really Real Bots in the Whedonverse

[6D] Session 20 [Ringhaver 214]. Chair: Ananya Mukherjea

Sexuality in the Whedonverses (II)

Hélène Frohard-Dourlent, Buffy/Satsu: Pure Genius or Out Of Character? Complicating Fan Responses to Modern Narratives of Sexuality

Kai Shuart (San Jose State University), I Kissed a Boy: Depiction of Male Fluid Sexuality in the Buffyverse

Ananya Mukherjea (City University of New York, College of Staten Island), Men are Beasts, Women are Pussycats: Gender, "Nature," and Animal References in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Saturday 330-500

[7A] Session 21 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Tami Burnett

The Whedonverses and Other ‘Verses III

Erin B. Waggoner (ITT Technical Institute)—Rebel With/Out a Cause: Angel as Beatnik in “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?”

Melissa Miller (Georgia State University), We Can't All Be Slayers: A Comparative Analysis of Buffy Summers and Bella Swan as Feminist Icons

Tami Burnett (U of Nebraska, Lincoln)—“A Stunning Revelation of My True Path in Life”: The American Captivity Narrative from Mary Rowlandson to Fred Burkle

[7B] Session 22 [Ringhaver 213]. Chair: Jesse James Stommel

Buffy the Vampire Slayer III

Malgorzata Drewniok (Lancaster U, UK)—‘I feel strong. I feel different’: Transformations, Vampires and Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Jesse James Stommel (University of Colorado at Boulder), “The Ecstatic Corpse: The Buffyverse and What Becomes of Bodies Once They’re Dead”

Jennifer Baldwin (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago), Going Crazy in the Buffyverse: Mental Illness, Trauma and Femininity

[7C] Session 23 [Ringhaver 213].

Flagler Student Group

Chair: Tamara Wilson

Victoria Warenik—The Secret's Out: Defying Archetypal Archetypes in Joss Whedon's Firefly

Samantha Holcomb—Exploring the Fantastic Mundane: A Comparison of the Works of Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman

Kaitlyn Ryan—Echo's No Echo: Building Herself in the Process of Searching for Caroline

[7D] Session 24 [Ringhaver 214]. Chair: Jeff Bussolini

The Laws and “Mind” of Joss Whedon [Gamache-Koger Theater]

Sharon Sutherland (U British Columbia) and Sarah Swan—“It’s not Council Policy to Cure Vampires”: The Watchers Council as Lawmakers and Judges

Sherry Ginn (Rowan-Cabarrus Community College), Joss’ Brains: Exploring Neurological Tampering in Firefly and Dollhouse

Jeffrey Bussolini (CUNY)—Joss Whedon’s Technologies of the Mind

Saturday 515-700

[8A] Session 25 [Auditorium]

Featured Speakers

Cynthea Masson (Vancouver Island U)— Who Painted the Lion?— Dollhouse’s “Belle Chose”

Tanya Cochran (Union College)—xxx

Rhonda Wilcox (Gordon College)—“Let it simmer”: Tonal Shift in “Pangs”

Sunday, June 6, 2010

900-1030—Opening Session (Auditorium)

Keynote C: Dale Koontz (Cleveland Community College)—Twelve Steps Forward, One Step Back: Redemption Through Recovery in the Works of Joss Whedon."

Sunday 1045-1215

[8A] Session 26 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Richard S. Albright

The Whedonverses and Other ‘Verses III

Sharon Mastracci (U of Illinois at Chicago)—The Political Economy of Sunnydale

Mary Ellen Iatropoulos (State U of New York at New Paltz)—Orwell and Angel: (Re)Negotiating the Dystopian Dilemma

Richard S. Albright (Harrisburg Area Community College)—Superstars, Buffybots, and Cylons, or “I Was Made to Kill You”: Jane Espenson’s Parallel Universes

[8B] Session 27 [Ringhaver 202]. Chair: Sarah Jacknis

Actors, Production Design, Wardrobe

Sarah Jacknis (U of Pennsylvania)—The Whedonverse as a Doppelgangland: The Repercussions of Recycling Actors

Clare Floyd DeVries (Independent Scholar)—“I Ate A Decorator Once”: Production design in the Whedonverses

Mary Kathryn Williams (Independent scholar)—Sociopath in a Sweater Vest: What Clothing Tells Us About the Dollhouse

[8C] Session 28 [Ringhaver 213]. Chair: Lauren Schultz

Gender in the Whedonverses II

Soniyma Munshi (Graduate Center, City U of New York)—“You faced the monster inside of you and you fought back”: Masculinity, Violence, Accountability and Transformational Politics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Lauren Schultz (Montgomery College), “It’s Showtime”: The Spectacle of the Female Body in Joss Whedon’s Work

Candra K. Gill (U of Michigan)—On Soldiers and Sages: Problematizing the Roles of Black Men in the Whedonverses

1215-145 Lunch: Bugg's Bistro. First Meeting of the Whedon Studies Association [Part II]

Sunday 145-315

[9A] Session 29 [Gamache-Koger Theater]. Chair: Madeline Muntersbjorn

Religion and Philosophy

J. Douglas Rabb & J. Michael Richardson (Lakehead U)—Memory and Identity in Whedon’s Narrative Ethics: Reading the Whedonverses Through Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible

Marcus Recht (Goethe U Frankfurt / Germany)—Gender and Christian iconology in Angel’s & Spike’s visualization.

Madeline Muntersbjorn (U of Toledo), Disgust, Difference, and Displacement in the Dollhouse

[9B] Session 30 [Ringhaver 202].

Slaying with Pedagogy: Teaching Buffy to the Millenials (A Roundtable)

Meghan K. Winchell (Nebraska Wesleyan U)

David Kociemba (Emerson College)

Kristopher Woofter (Dawson College)

Rod Romesburg (Rollins College)

Jodie A. Kreider (U of Denver)

Sunday 330-500

[10] Session 31 [Auditorium]

Closing Session: Buffy Bookers: David Lavery, Rhonda Wilcox, Dale Koontz, Stacey Abbott, Lorna Jowett, Matthew Pateman, Tanya Cochran, J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb, Nikki Stafford, Steve Halfyard, Cynthia Burkhead, Beth Rambo, Erin Waggoner, Jennifer Stuller, Tamy Burnett, AmiJo Comeford

Abbott, Stacey (7, 31)

Aberdein, Andrew (1)

Albright, Richard S. (26)

Baldwin, Jennifer (22)

Bealer, Adele H. (10)

Bealer, Tracy L. (12)

Boonkkamp, Laura ten Thije (11)

Bowers, J. (2)

Boyer, Sabrina (18)

Buckman, Alyson (17)

Burkhead, Cynthia (14, 31)

Burnett, Tami (21, 31)

Burr, Vivien (4)

Bussolini, Jeffrey (24)

Carroll, Shiloh (13)

Cochran, Tanya (25, 31)

Coker, Cait (1)

Comeford, AmiJo (20, 31)

Connelly, Tom (2)

Detore-Nakamura, Joanne (18)

DeVries, Clare Floyd (27)

Drewniok, Malgorzata (22)

Fisher, Evelyn (20)

Freeman, Sara (7)

Fritts, David (8)

Frohard-Dourlent, Hélène (20)

Gill, Candra K. (28)

Ginn, Sherry (24)

Grant, Virginia (5)

Guffey, Ensley F. (4)

Halfyard, Janet K. (Keynote A, 31)

Hawk, Julie (9)

Hornick, Alysa (5)

Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen (26)

Jacknis, Sarah (27)

Jarvis, Christine (6)

Jencson, Linda (15)

Johnson-Lewis, Erika (11)

Jowett, Lorna (Keynote B, 31)

Keeton, B. J. (17)

Keeton, Jennifer Butler (20)

Klein, Ian G. (8)

Kociemba, David (14, 31)

Koontz, Dale (Keynote C, 31)

Kreider, Jodie A. (30)

Lavery, David (Reception, 31)

Lerner, Neil (4)

Lev, Jennifer Bar (15)

Marlowe, Hugh (3)

Masson, Cynthia (25)

Mastracci, Sharon (26)

McCormick, Casey (9)

McKee, Marc (14)

Miller, Melissa (21)

Money, Mary Alice (17)

Mukherjea, Ananya (20)

Munshi, Soniyma (28)

Muntersbjorn, Madeline (29)

Oberlin, Kevin (8)

Oberlin, Molly (6)

Pateman, Matthew (Banquet, 31)

Perdigao, Lisa K. (19)

Porter, Heather M. (5)

Rabb, J. Douglas (29)

Rambo, Elizabeth L. (6, 31)

Recht, Marcus (29)

Rees, Shelley (2)

Richardson, J. Michael (29, 31)

Riggs, Kristin “Cheyenne” (18)

Romesburg, Rod (30)

Rosiene, Alan (19)

Ruane, Matt (19)

Schultz, Lauren (28)

Shearer, Emily Carroll (10)

Shuart, Kai (20)

Stafford, Nikki (Banquet, 31)

Starr, Mike (1)

Stevens, Natalie (7)

Stommel, Jesse James (22)

Story, Elizabeth (12)

Stuller, Jennifer K. (3, 31)

Sutherland, Sharon (24)

Swann, Sarah (24)

Waggoner, Erin B. (21, 31)

Warden, Ryan (13)

Whitlock, Katie (11)

Wilcox, Rhonda (25, 31)

Williams, Mary Kathryn (27)

Willis, Vickie (9)

Wilson, Tamara (12, 23)

Winchell, Meghan K. (30)

Woofter, Kristopher (30)

Wright, Katheryn (10)