Conference Program
THE IMAGE OF THE HERO
in Literature, Media, and Society
Sponsored by the
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
and
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Antlers Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
March 18-20, 2004
Registration:
5:00 - 7:00 p.m., March 17 (Hotel Lobby)
8:30 - 4:00 p.m., March 18-20 (Conference Rooms)
Organizers
Will Wright
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Steven Kaplan
University of Virginia - College at Wise
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Thursday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
coffee, tea, pastries
(at meeting rooms)
Thursday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 1: The Hero in Transition - Fremont
Moderator: Lori Davis Perry, United States Air Force Academy
Artegall and Radigund in Spenser’s Farie Queene
Lori Davis Perry, United States Air Force Academy
Once They Were Sheepherders: The Heroic Transformation of Navajo Code Talkers
Bill Newmiller, United States Air Force Academy
Charisma in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Garcia Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch
Tom Vargish, United States Air Force Academy
Comic Metamorphosis in Roch Carrier’s WWII (Anti) Heroes
Richard Lemp, United States Air Force Academy
Session 2: Film I - Carson
Moderator: Adrian L. Cook, University of Texas - Dallas
The Paradox of Travis Bickle: Suicide Terrorist as Hero in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
Scott Whited, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Heroes in Film Pre- and Post-9/11
Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado
Towards an Exploration of Current Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Oscars
Laura A. Shamas, Pepperdine University
Fearing the Future: The Racial Politics of Heroism in the Matrix Trilogy
C. Richard King, Washington State University
David J. Leonard, Washington State University
Session 3: Popular Culture I - Heritage A
Moderator: Louis Roberts, State University of New York - Albany
The Shining’s Jack Torrance as Western Hero and Villain
Glenn Leinbach, United States Air Force Academy
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From Wild West to Middle East: Gunfighters, Foreign Policy, and National Character in a
Post-9/11 World
Stan Hunter Kranc, Pennsylvania State University
The Cowboy Hero: An Analysis of a Mythical Hero and the Commodification of Culture
Holly Griffin, Colorado State University
Session 4: Reflections I - Heritage B
Moderator: Oralia Preble-Neimi, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
“It Is Our Choices That Show What We Truly Are, Far More Than Our Abilities”: The
Medieval Image of the Hero in the Harry Potter Novels
Bryan Polk, Pennsylvania State University - Abington
Frodo: The Modern Medieval Hero
Paula Persoleo, Pittsburg State University
The Construction of the Hero in Beowulf and the De-construction of the Heroic Concept in
Modern Beowulf-Adaptations
Matthias Eitelmann, University Mannheim (Germany)
Beowulf's Eternal Rewards
Tim Lovelace, University of Virginia - College at Wise
BREAK
(coffee and tea)
Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session 5: Challenges I - Fremont
Moderator: Dennis C. Dougherty, Millersville University
Of Miracles and Pedestals: Helen Keller through German Eyes
Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Oberlin College
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Am Me after All: A Rhetorical Look at the Construction of
Viewpoints about Physical Disability Using Early Media
Terra Ryan, University of Northern Colorado
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
The Heroic Qualities of Extending Education to Adults
Dana Rocha, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
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Image of the STD Epidemiologist as Hero (2004)
Raymond Taylor, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Session 6: Film II - Carson
Moderator: Laura A. Shamas, Pepperdine University
Old Half Head: Fellini and His Heroes, I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma and Intervista
Martha Kennedy, San Diego State University
“What's Going to Happen Next?” The Heroes of Shattered History in the Films of Kevin
Costner
Iris Smith Fischer, University of Kansas
An Anti-Hero of Our Time: An Analysis of the Killer-Hero in Aleksei Balabanov's Film
Brother
Melissa Etzler, California State University - Long Beach
Celluloid Spartacus: From Accidental Revolutionary to Sword-and-Sandal Muscle Man
John Bokina, University of Texas - Pan American
Session 7: Popular Culture II - Heritage A
Moderator: Glenn Leinbach, United States Air Force Academy
Homicidal Heroes: Serial Killers and Popular Culture
Ian Gomme, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Creating Modern Heroes in Country Music
Kelly Jensen, Samford University
Wolverine and X-Men: Beyond Bondage to Freedom
Bonnie Million, University of Utah
Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Reluctant Hero: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the
Construction of Self
Amy Graban Crawford, Youngstown State University
Session 8: War I - Heritage B
Moderator: Donald Anderson, United States Air Force Academy
Frame Analysis of the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Crisis Rhetoric on North
Korea
Oksana Zelenova, State University of New York - Albany (Volgograd State University, Russia)
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Cages in Cuba: Not the “Cakewalk” of Guantanamo Talk
Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado
Angela Koponen, University of Northern Colorado
“Every Man Who Dies, Dies for You and Me. See You Be Worthy”: The Image of the Hero
as Rhetorical Motivation in Unofficial War Propaganda, 1914-1918
Nadine Gingrich, University of Waterloo
The Military Hero as Role Model: Literary Anticipations of a Bush-Era Phenomenon
David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
Thursday, 2:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Session 9: Variations I - Fremont
Moderator: Tim Lovelace, University of Virginia - College at Wise
Different Cultures, Different Heroes
Valentin Potra, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Robin Hood as Inverted Arthur, Jesse James as Perverted Robin Hood
Barry Jean Ancelet, University of Louisiana - Lafayette
French Photographic Images of the Hero in World War I
Don English, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Image of the Hero in the Times of Bush: San Francisco General Hospital
Margaret Mann, University of California - San Francisco
Session 10: “Ursula Discovers America”: German Women Writers and the Heroine’s
Journey to the New World (Part I) - Carson
Moderator: Michelle Stott James, Brigham Young University
Enlightened Exploration: Visions of America in Sophie von la Roche’s Erscheinungen am
See Oneida
Michelle Stott James, Brigham Young University
Gender and the Colonial Fantasy in Henrietta Frolich’s Virginia oder die Kolonie von
Kentucky
Cindy Brewer, Brigham Young University
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“Ach, Pioneer”: Sidonie Grunwald-Zerkowitz’s Die Lieder der Mormonin and the Erotic
Exploration of America
Sarah Clement, Brigham Young University
Session 11: Literature I - Heritage A
Moderator: David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado
The End of Innocence: The Child Protagonist as Hero
Meg Florio, California State University - Northridge
Charlotte Brontë’s Childhood Hero
Katherine Frank, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Detective Hero and the Oedipus Narrative: Family Dysfunction and Crime in Simenon’s
Maigret
Fabrice Leroy, University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Unbearable Heroism: Reading the Falls of the War Veteran, Septimus Smith,
in Mrs. Dalloway and the Aids Victim, Richard, in The Hours
Pam Fox Kuhlken, University of California - Riverside
Session 12: Myths - Heritage B
Moderator: Béatrice Aaronson, University of South Carolina
Ave Maria: History, Mythology, and the Virgin Mary
Melissa Reburiano, Columbia University
The Hero-Saint in Byzantine Iconography: St. George the Dragonslayer
Elizabeth Terzian
Augusto Cesar Sandino: Hero Myth of the Nicaraguan Nation
Sophia Koutsoyannis, Universite de Montreal
Santiago Mayor and Spanish Culture: Creating Reality through Myth
Michael Hasbrouck, St. Cloud State University
Session 13: The Hero Journey: Mythic Reflections on the Visionary and Artistic Work of
Hildegard Von Bingen and Gerald Manley Hopkins - Jackson
Moderator: Johanna Fisher, Canisius College
Johanna Fisher, Canisius College
Dorothy Smith, Canisius College
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BREAK
Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Session 14: Culture - Fremont
Moderator: Jane Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore
Media Heroes and the Socialization of Children
Amy Hutchcraft, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Lawyers as Tainted Heroes in John Grisham’s Novels
Katie Nickelson, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Soldiers without a Uniform: Military Wives and Their Battles during Wartime
Jodee Hankins, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Adelina Wildy, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Scarface’s Tony Montana: Masked Heroism and the American Dream Incarnate
Matthew Garrett, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Video Games: The Digital Hero Sequence and the Consumption of Narrative
Chris Ory, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Evolution of Superheroes in Comics
Dawn Robles, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Session 15: “Ursula Discovers America”: German Women Writers and the Heroine’s
Journey to the New World (Part II) - Carson
Moderator: Robert B. McFarland, Brigham Young University
Ecce America: The Cultural Apologetics of American Correspondent Ann Tizia Leitich in
Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse
Robert B. McFarland, Brigham Young University
Fufilling the American Dream or the Separation of Family and House: The Reception of
America in Irmgard Keun’s Kind aller Lander
Matthew Embley, Brigham Young University
Ursula in America: Introducing and Applying the Real American New Woman
Brooke Wright, Brigham Young University
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Session 16: (Re)Writing Recent German History in Fiction and Non-Fiction - Heritage A
Moderator: Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver
For a Dialectical Treatment of History: The Current Impasse in the German Anti-Semitism
Debate
Gerd Steckel, University of Idaho
The End of a Taboo? Guenter Grass’ Im Krebsgang (Crabwalk) and the Berlin Republic
Andreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Repeating History: Guenter Grass’ Ein weites Feld (Too Far Afield)
Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver
Session 17: Challenges II - Heritage B
Moderator: Oksana Zelenova, State University of New York - Albany (Volgograd State
University, Russia)
Heroic Whispers and Roars: The Contemporary Family in Paradox
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
Heroes and Villains? Domestic Violence in Reality and the Media
William T. Beverly, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Surviving Chronic Pain as a Hero
Melissa Stevens Lockhart, University of Texas Medical Branch
Self Esteem Is Not the Issue: The Cultural Context
Wayne Busby, Pittsburg State University
Session 18: War Stories: True Readings from the Self - Jackson
Moderator: John D. Thomson
What Constitutes the Self of the Combat Veteran?
Jose Barrera, Vietnam War veteran (Dak To, Tet Offensive)
[Reading from his novel, War Stories, addressing the telling of war stories,
the soldiers who tell them, and the revelations of self in the telling]
DINNER BREAK
(on your own)
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The Learning Center
8:00 - 9:30 pm
PLENARY ADDRESS
Rethinking the Hero:
The Case of Curtis Lemay
Donald Anderson
United States Air Force Academy
Author: Fire Road;
aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction.
Editor: War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of Humanities
Reception to follow
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Friday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
coffee and tea
(at meeting rooms)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 19: Differences - Fremont
Moderator: Gregory M. Selber, University of Texas - Pan American
Breathin’ the Sniper’s Breath: Spiritual Folly and the Heroic Image in Rap Music
Sean Allan, University of California - Davis
Tupac Shakur: Hip-Hop Hyperculture and the Postmodern Hero
Charles Stocking, University of California - Los Angeles
Businessman to Baseball Player: The Black Community’s Heroes as Portrayed and
Projected in Black Newspapers of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s
Brian Carroll, Berry College
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Visual Rhetoric: The Images of Blacks in Comics
Renata Harden, Bowling Green State University
Session 20: Personalities - Carson
Moderator: Carol McNamara, Utah State University
Being Saved by Jessica Lynch: The Strategic Necessity of the Hero in the Age of Infowar
Aaron O'Connell, Yale University
Marching Through a Thousand Prints: The Invention of the “Famous” Major Robert
Rogers
Wesley Gustavson, University of Western Ontario
Deconstructing the Heroic Image of Erwin Rommel
Melissa R. Jordine, California State University - Fresno
“Do Recognize Him Some Where & Kill Him”: John Wilkes Booth - the Cult of Celebrity
David S. Heidler
Jeanne T. Heidler, United States Air Force Academy
Session 21: Women I - Heritage A
Moderator: Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Oberlin College
New Role Models? Representations of Typewriter Girls in Gissing and Allen
Veronica Spencer, University of Southampton
The Image of the Heroine in Young Adult Fiction: The Impact of Nancy Drew on Young
Female Readers – a Review of the Literature
Margaret Kleszynski, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Female Private Detective: America’s New Hero
Lisa A. Cook, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Uninvited Heroics: The First Class of American Women Astronauts
Amy E. Foster, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Session 22: Film III - Heritage B
Moderator: Iris Smith Fischer, University of Kansas
Home and Away: The Image of the Hero in 1950s Popular Culture
Dennis C. Dougherty, Millersville University
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Art Deco Hero: The Dandy in High-Style 1930s Hollywood
Drew Todd, Indiana University - Bloomington
The Digital Trickster: Neo and Coyote Are Friends
Adrian L. Cook, University of Texas - Dallas
Revisioning the Science Fiction Heroine: A Textual Analysis of Trinity in The Matrix Series
Elizabeth Story, Trinity University
Session 23: Germany - Jackson
Moderator: Gerd Steckel, University of Idaho
Bertolt Brecht’s Almost Antiheroes: Creation of, Frustration by, and Imperfection of
Brecht’s Negative Protagonists
Kelli D. Barbour, Brigham Young University
Heroic Relevance, Reason of State, and the Autonomy of the Political in the Nineteenth
Century German Reading of Machiavelli
Scott Woltze, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Interior Monologue and the Unheroic Psyche in Schnitzler’s Lieutenant Gustl and Fraulein
Else
Heidi Faletti, Buffalo State College
Possibilities of the Heroic in Alfred Andersh’s Sansibar
Ralph Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
BREAK
(coffee and tea)
Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session 24: Latin America: Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and the Nation-State - Fremont
Moderator: Amy Robinson, Bowling Green State University
Three Nuyorican Heroes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Francisco Cabanillas, Bowling Green State University
The Representation of Black National Heroism in Two Ecuadorian Novels
Federico Chalupa, Bowling Green State University
Fragility of Naked Voices: Images of Anti-heroines in Diamela Eltit’s Narrative
Ana Del Sarto, Bowling Green State University
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All Revolutionaries Have Been Called Bandits
Amy Robinson, Bowling Green State University
Globalization and Its Heroes
Abril Trigo, Ohio State University
Session 25: England - Carson
Moderator: Jack Jordan, Mississippi State University
Coriolanus: The Image of the Hero as a Nameless Entity
Ellorashree Maitra, Rutgers University
The Beautiful, the Base, and the Causes of War in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
Carol McNamara, Utah State University
Predetermined as Anti-Heroes: Muslims in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale
Lejla Tricic
Hamlet and the Heroics of Endurance
William Sheidley, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Session 26: Perspectives - Heritage A
Moderator: Brian Carroll, Berry College
The Making of the Latino Hero/ine
Celia Esplugas, West Chester University
From Golem to Kal-El: Superman - a Marranic Superhero
Béatrice Aaronson, University of South Carolina
The Difficulty of Jewish Heroes
Gregory M. Selber, University of Texas - Pan American
Do Old Ladies Make World History?
Stephen M. Woodburn, Southwestern College
Session 27: Real Men - Heritage B
Moderator: Amy S. Lerman, Arizona State University
H. Rider Haggard’s Heroes in the New World
Luz Elena Ramirez, California State University - San Bernardino
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Manhood Revised: The “New Man” Novel at the Fin-de-Siècle
David MacWilliams, Adams State College
Huesos y Huerfanos: Lost Heroes of McCarthy’s The Crossing
Sandy L. Hudock, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Problematic Construction of the Hero on the Construction of Masculinity within
Conrad’s Lord Jim
Tara Lindis, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Session 28: Issues - Jackson
Moderator: Elizabeth Terzian
“Night, Night, Mother” on The Dangerous River
Richard C. Davis, University of Calgary
Citizen Heroes: The Anonymous Search and Rescue Folks - Professional Volunteers
Mel Druelinger, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Mount St. Helens as Hero
Randall G. Gloege, Montana State University
Can't See the Heroes for the Trees
George A. Benedict, Montana State University
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
Friday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.
Session 29: Spain - Fremont
Moderator: Melissa Reburiano, Columbia University
Configuring the Anti-Hero in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Case of Lazarillo de Tormes
John S. Geary, Northeastern Illinois University
The Penitential Hero in Don Quixote and Amadis of Gaul
James Fogelquist, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Caricaturizing the Anti-Hero in Hurtado de Mendoza’s To Each His Own
Lisa J. Nowak, Aquinas College
Calderón’s Life Is a Dream: A Precursor of the “Postmodern Hero”
Francisco LaRubia-Prado, Georgetown University
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Session 30: The Devil's in the Details, the Devil in the Mirror: the Hero in Film, Fiction, Art,
and Memoir - Carson
Moderator: Tracy Santa, United States Air Force Academy
Drug/War: Anthony Loyd and the Hero(in) Bosnia
Tracy Santa, United States Air Force Academy
The Hero after Life
Kyle Torke, United States Air Force Academy
Self Portraits, Auto Portraits, Autobiography: Excavating the Heroic
Pam Aloisa, United States Air Force Academy
“More Frail and Mortal”: The Wound of Fear in Philip Caputo’s In the Forest of the
Laughing Elephant
Robert Burns, United States Air Force Academy
Session 31: Portrayals - Heritage A
Moderator: Jamie M. Byrne, University of Arkansas - Little Rock
Nine Lives: The Many Uses of Saddam Hussein
Timothy McGettigan, Colorado State University - Pueblo
From Watergate to 9/11: How Images of “the Hero” Undermine U.S. Journalism
Jeanette McVicker, State University of New York - Fredonia
“But in modern war . . . [y]ou will die like a dog for no good reason”: The Killing of
Northern Irish Family Dogs as Emblematic Victims of Terror
Antoinette LoSchiavo, University of Maryland - Baltimore
The Media as Surrogate Shaman: Coverage of the Assassinations of Sadat and Rabin
Salma Ghanem, University of Texas - Pan American
Session 32: Complexities I - Heritage B
Moderator: Nadine Gingrich, University of Waterloo
The Prayer of Authority
Dan Forsyth, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Illusionist as Heroic Mythmaker: The Art of David Copperfield
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College
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Resituating the Postmodern Hero
J. Wyatt Reynolds
The Genesis of Planet Venison: Continuing Tradition and Inventing Genre
Joshua Terry, Utah State University
Session 33: Film IV - Jackson
Moderator: Martha Kennedy, San Diego State University
The War of the Roses: An Essay on Generalized Interactionism
Oksana Zelenova, State University of New York - Albany (Volgograd State University,
Russia)
Intertextuality and Multiple Coding of Cultural Memory in Zhang Yimou’s Hero
Aili Zheng, Johns Hopkins University
“It's Suntory Time!” Bob Harris and His [Non] Heroic Status in Lost in Translation
Amy S. Lerman, Arizona State University
Crime, Violence, and Sensuality - the Good, the Bad and the Queer: Images of the Anti
(hero) in Burnt Money de Marcelo PiZeyro
Percio Castro, University of Dayton
BREAK
Friday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Session 34: Anti-Heroines between Catharsis and Expiation: Prostitutes in the Italian
Cinema of the 1950s - Fremont
Moderator: Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut
The Iconic Violence of Pasolini’s Prostitutes
Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut
Fellini’s Unusual Heroines
Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto, University of Connecticut
The Deliverance of Prostitutes in De Sica: A Case Study of Teresa
Felice Italo Beneduce, University of Connecticut
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Session 35: Variations II - Carson
Moderator: Scott Woltze, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Educating Heroes: Education’s Influence on Hero Image
Michael Nealis
The Function of Heroism: Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death
Wayne Busby, Pittsburg State University
Socrates: The Philosopher as Heroic Master of Death
Joseph R. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross
Toward a Typology of the Hero in Ancient Literature
Damian A. Stocking, Occidental College
Session 36: Literature II - Heritage A
Moderator: Amy Graban Crawford, Youngstown State University
Whatever Happened to Daniel Boone? The “right perilous journey” and American Fiction
Jane Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore
Chivalry, War, and Contemporary American Culture: If Chivalry Is Dead, Then Why Does
the President Ride a White Horse?
Chris Carbone, University of Baltimore
Honoré de Balzac’s Le Colonel Chabert: The Forgotten Hero
Edward C. Smith III, Rowan University
Propaganda of Heroism in America: The Important Vietnam War Literature of Tim O’Brien
Dimitri Bikos, University of Virginia - College at Wise
Session 37: The Hero in War: Early Modern, Modern, and Postmodern - Heritage B
Moderator: John C. Kerrigan, Rockhurst University
Exhausted Heroism: Thomas Boyd’s Through the Wheat
Steven Trout, Fort Hays State University
Multiple “Truths” about Vietnam: Depictions of Heroes and Heroism in Platoon and
Hamburger Hill
Bradley A. Will, Fort Hays State University
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“A Banished Woman from My Harry’s Bed”: Interrupted Heroism and the Drama of
Itemization in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One
Dan Kulmala, Fort Hays State University
Session 38: Poetry - Jackson
Moderator: Bryan Polk, Pennsylvania State University - Abington
Through the Cracked Looking Glass: Evolution of the American Hero through Poetry
David Stevenson
Realizing the Romanticized Hero: The Mentor-Protégé Relationship in Rochester’s The
Disabled Debauchee
Jasmine Mulliken, University of Central Oklahoma
Looking Back on Looking Back: Orpheus as a Model for Creative Writing Pedagogy
David Keplinger, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Burdensome I: The Perversion of the Byronic Hero in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Kathleen M. Baldwin, California Polytechnic State University
DINNER BREAK
(on your own)
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7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The Learning Center
Concert
Juan Carlos Ureña
songwriter/composer/performer
Costa Rica
(Putumayo World Music, First Generation Records, PUP)
www.juancarlos.urena.com
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8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
The Learning Center
Welcoming
Ronald Applbaum
President
Colorado State University - Pueblo
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Genius, the Modern Hero?
Carl Pletsch
University of Colorado - Denver
Author: Young Nietzsche
Reception to follow
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Saturday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
coffee and tea
(at meeting rooms)
Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 39: Confusions - Fremont
Moderator: Luz Elena Ramirez, California State University - San Bernardino
Beautiful Wickedness: The Wicked Witch of the West as a Site of Queer Re-Imagination
Chris M. Stoner, University of North Dakota
Border-crossing and Constructing Commonality in Frederick Douglass’ Heroic Slave
Brian Wagner, Washington State University
Los Comancheros, Heroes and Villains of the Southern Plains: Myth, Reality, and History
Raymond Morris, Colorado State University - Pueblo
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Mascogos, Heroes of the Indian Wars along the Borderlands: Anti-Heroes in Mexican and
American Society
Ramiro R. Rea, University of Texas - Pan American
Session 40: Two Teaching Tools for Introducing the Female Hero in To the Lighthouse
- Carson
Moderator: Anne H. Stark, Utah State University
Anne H. Stark, Utah State University
Tonya Stephenson, Utah State University
Julie Ford, Utah State University
Session 41: Witches and Fairy Tales - Heritage A
Moderator: Barbara S. Morrison, University of North Dakota
The Cinderella Factor
Christine C. Johnson, Pittsburg State University
Marvelous Heroines in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Harold Neemann, University of Wyoming
Stereotypical Yet Effective Images of Hero and Heroine: The Knight and the Gorgeous Gorgon
Louis Roberts, State University of New York - Albany
McKinley’s Deerskin: From Fairy Tale Princess to Independent Heroine
Tamara Paxton, Utah State University
Session 42: Complexities II - Heritage B
Moderator: John S. Geary, Northeastern Illinois University
The Ambiguous Heroism of Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios
Kimberly A. Habegger, Regis University
The Portrayal of Heroic Individualism in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and The Knight of the
Burning Pestle
Yi-Rung Lin, Claremont Graduate University
Hero-Warrior or Hero-Poet? Self-representation of Emperor Maximilian I in his
Teuerdank
Alexander E. Pichugin, University of Pennsylvania
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Refocusing the Heroic Image in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Spain: The Example of Pedro
Meléndez de Avilés’s Exploration of La Florida
Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State University
Session 43: War II - Jackson
Moderator: Melissa R. Jordine, California State University - Fresno
Psychological Construction as Heroic Process in the Literature of the Vietnam War
Nicholas A. Vanover, University of Virginia - College at Wise
Reproaching the Military Hero sans peur
Jim Cook, United States Air Force Academy
The REMF as Vietnam War Hero: The Wit and Wisdom of David Willson
Gary Acton, Montana State University - Billings
Three Hundred Body Bags in the Hot Sun: Thermopylae and Vietnam in American Cultural
Narrative
Tim Blackmore, University of Western Ontario
BREAK
(coffee and tea)
Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session 44: The Image of the Unsung Hero in Latin-American and German Literature
and Song-Writing - Fremont
Moderator: Ingo R. Stoehr, Kilgore College
The Subversion of the Hero as Anonymous Peasant in Latin-American Poetry and Song
Jeana Paul-Ureña, Stephen F. Austin State University
Juan Carlos Ureña, poet and songwriter
Singing the Unsung Hero: German-Hispanic Interconnections in Brecht’s Poem Questions
of a Reading Worker and Ureña’s Song Manos
Louise E. Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University
Rewritng History from Below: The Fall of the Berlin Wall as a Tall Tale of an Unlikely
Hero
Ingo R. Stoehr, Kilgore College
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Session 45: Society - Carson
Moderator: Thomas S. Engeman, Loyola University
Labor Heroes of World War I
Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Images of the Business Hero and Villain
Aimee Wheaton, Regis University
Catharyn Baird, Regis University
First Man as Icon: The Social Image of Neil A. Armstrong
James R. Hansen, Auburn University
Nikola Tesla and the Quest for Wireless Power
S. C. Kranc, University of South Florida
Session 46: Popular Culture III - Heritage A
Moderator: Tamara Paxton, Utah State University
Laying the Smackdown on America's Enemies: The Changing Face of the Villain in
American Professional Wrestling
Ranjan Chhibber, George Washington University
Democracy, Pop Culture, and the Hero
Patrick Fleming, Washington & Lee University
Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Fools: A Look at Television Commercials Directed toward Men
Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado
Wayne Melanson, University of Northern Colorado
Virtue and Moral Responsibility in Recent Television Heroes
Dixon S. Woodburn, Southwestern College
Session 47: Reflections II - Heritage B
Moderator: Ralph Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
“I Am Blest wif This Wound”: The Hero as Sufferer in Derek Walcott's Omeros
Joel Garza, University of Dallas
Cain: There Are No Heroes without Scars
Rodney TGAP Staton
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The Popol-Vuh and the Heroic Cycle: Miguel Angel Asturias’s Men of Maize
Oralia Preble-Neimi, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Goethe’s Faust as a Failed Shaman: The Non-European Roots of Goethe’s Hero/Anti-Hero
Richard Ilgner, Memorial University
Session 48: The Hero in Science Fiction - Jackson
Moderator: Chris Brooks, Wichita State University
When Is a Hero Not a Hero?
Chris Brooks, Wichita State University
Heroism Defined and Mentors Divided: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Wendy C. Donaldson, Wichita State University
Here There Be Monsters: Ellen Ripley Redefines the Science Fiction Hero(ine)
Lisa Edmonds, Wichita State University
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
Saturday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.
Session 49: Film V - Fremont
Moderator: Bonnie Million, University of Utah
Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg
Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Yale University
Agrarian Heroes: Portrayal of the Old Order Amish in Contemporary Film
Jamie M. Byrne, University of Arkansas - Little Rock
“. . . Sometimes There’s A Man -- I Won’t Say a Hero . . .”: Another Look at the Voice-over
in Films
Doug Retinger, Sheridan College
Heroic Lawmen: An Analysis and Critique
Thomas S. Engeman, Loyola University
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Session 50: Genius and Intellectuals - Carson
Moderator: Boyd Littrell, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Dostoevsky and Genius
Stephen M. Woodburn, Southwestern College
The Intellectual as Hero
Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York
Freud and the Intellectuals
Ellen Willis, New York University
Nexus of Genius: Kurosawa, Van Gogh, Chopin, Freud
Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver
Session 51: Women II - Heritage A
Moderator: Kimberly A. Habegger, Regis University
Heroine and Villain in Argentina: Hebe de Bonafini and the Politics of Motherhood at
Plaza de Mayo
Cristina Ortiz, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Women in Their Own Words: Heroine or Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Spanish Women’s
Literature
David L. Coberly, Kennesaw State University
Female Identity Crisis in The South and Bene by Adelaida Garcia Morales
Colleen Sweet, Catholic University of America
Emergence of the Organic Heroine: The Case of Benito Pérez Galdós’ Fortunata y Jacinta
Sarah Sierra, Boston University
Session 52: Tradition - Heritage B
Moderator: Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State University
The Guide as Hero in Fictionalized Literature
Beatrice Spade, Colorado State University - Pueblo
The Bloodthirsty Warrior, the Righteous King, and the Enlightened Striver: Three Heroes
in Sanskrit Court Literature
Steve Adisasmito-Smith, California State University - Fresno
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The Image of Heroes and Villains in Japanese Folktales
Naoko Takemaru, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
The Trouble with Terute: Defining Differences for the Female Hero in the Sermon Ballad,
Oguri
Barbara S. Morrison, University of North Dakota
BREAK
Saturday, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Session 53: Female Agency and Sexual/Textual Discourse: The Dutchess of Malfi, The
Blazing World, and Moll Flanders - Fremont
Moderator: Susan Kendrick, Emporia State University
“It Is Some Sin in Us, Heaven Doth Revenge / By Her”: The Dutchess of Malfi’s Challenge to
Patriarchy
Susan Kendrick, Emporia State University
“I Have Made a World of My Own”: Female Agency and Class Hierarchy in The Blazing
World
Katie Egging, Emporia State University
Defoe’s Monster: Moll Flanders’s Guilt and Agency from a Marxist-Feminist Perspective
Agnieszka Tusyznska, Emporia State University
Session 54: Culture II - Carson
Moderator: Ellen Willis, New York University
Turning Monopoly into Heroics: Bill Gates and Health Care
Brian O’Brien, Santa Rosa Junior College
Firing the Coach: The Athletic Director as Hero
Boyd Littrell, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Manufactured Heroism
Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Louis Cicotello, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Darwin and the Cowardly Lion: Unwitting and Reluctant Heroes
M. E. Pratarelli, Colorado State University - Pueblo
J. F. Fodor, Colorado State University - Pueblo
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Session 55: Dangers - Heritage A
Moderator: Aaron O'Connell, Yale University
Faciality, Temporality, and Images of the Terrorist
James Dutcher, Wayne State University
Terrorists We Like and Terrorists We Don’t Like
Walter B. Jaehnig, Southern Illinois University
Heroes from Terror: A Cluster Analysis of the Memory Foundation and the Ground Zero
Memorial Finalists
Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado
Angela Koponen, University of Northern Colorado
Solider: Hero or Villian - Which War?
Melissa Stevens Lockhart, University of Texas Medical Branch
Henry Osterman, Baylor College of Medicine
Session 56: France - Heritage B
Moderator: Jasmine Mulliken, University of Central Oklahoma
Camus’ Existentialist Hero
Richard Baker, Adams State College
Demasking the Priest: Gide’s La Symphonie pastorale
Walter R. Wall, University of Wyoming
Proust’s Narrator: Portrait of the Artist as Hero
Jack Jordan, Mississippi State University
Villain, Victim, Antihero, Hero: The Image of the Jew in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du
temps perdu
Béatrice Aaronson, University of South Carolina
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Index
(moderators and discussants in parenthesis)
Aaronson, Béatrice - 26, 56, (12)
Adisasmito-Smith, Steve - 52
Acton, Gary - 43
Allan, Sean - 19
Allen, Lin - 8, 55
Aloisa, Pam - 30
Ancelet, Barry Jean - 9
Anderson, Donald - Thurs. 8:00pm, (8)
Aronowitz, Stanley - 50
Baird, Catharyn - 45
Baker, Richard - 56
Baldwin, Kathleen M. - 38
Barbour, Kelli D. - 23
Barrera, Jose - 18
Benedict, George A. - 28
Beneduce, Felice Italo - 34
Beverly, William T. - 17
Bikos, Dimitri - 36
Blackmore, Tim - 43
Blumenthal-Barby, Martin - 49
Bokina, John - 6
Brewer, Cindy - 10
Brooks, Chris - 48, (48)
Buechler, Ralph - 23, (47)
Burns, Robert - 30
Busby, Wayne - 17, 35
Byrne, Jamie M. - 49, (31)
Cabanillas Francisco - 24
Caldwell, David - 8, (11)
Carbone, Chris - 36
Carlyon, Jonathan E. - 42, (52)
Carroll, Brian - 19, (26)
Castro, Percio - 33
Chalupa, Federico - 24
Chhibber, Ranjan - 46
Cicotello, Louis - 54
Clement, Sarah - 10
Coberly, David L. - 51
Cook, Adrian L. - 22, (2)
Cook, Lisa A. - 21
Cook, Jim - 43
Crawford, Amy Graban - 7, (36)
Davis, Richard C. - 28
Del Sarto, Ana - 24
Donaldson, Wendy C. - 48
Dougherty, Dennis C. - 22, (5)
Druelinger, Mel - 28
Dutcher, James - 55
Edmonds, Lisa - 48
Egging, Katie - 53
Eitelmann, Matthias - 4, (27)
Embley, Matthew - 15
Engeman, Thomas S. - 49, (45)
English, Don - 9
Esplugas, Celia - 26
Etzler, Melissa - 6
Faletti, Heidi - 23
Fischer, Iris Smith - 6, (22)
Fisher, Johanna - 13, (13)
Fleming, Patrick - 46
Florio, Meg - 11
Fodor, J. F. - 54
Fogelquist, James - 29
Ford, Julie - 40
Forsyth, Dan - 32
Foster, Amy E. - 21
Frank, Katherine - 11
Garrett, Matthew - 14
Garza, Joel - 47
Geary, John S. - 29, (42)
Ghanem, Salma - 31
Gingrich, Nadine - 8, (32)
Giuliani-Caponetto, Rosetta - 34
Gloege, Randall G. - 28
Gomme, Ian - 7
Griffin, Holly - 3
Gustavson, Wesley - 20
Habegger, Kimberly A. - 42, (51)
Hamilton, Elizabeth C. - 5, (21)
Hankins, Jodee - 14
Hansen, James R. - 45
Harden, Renata - 19
Hasbrouck, Michael - 12
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Heidler, David S. - 20
Heidler, Jeanne T. - 20
Hudock, Sandy L. - 27
Hutchcraft, Amy - 14
Ilgner, Richard - 47
Jaehnig, Walter B. - 55
James, Michelle Stott - 10, (10)
Jensen, Kelly - 7
Johnson, Christine C. - 41
Johnson, Michael - 32
Jordan, Jack - 56, (25)
Jordine, Melissa R. - 20, (43)
Keller, Jane - 36, (14)
Kendrick, Susan - 52
Kennedy, Martha - 6, (33)
Keplinger, David - 38
Kerrigan, John C. - (37)
King, C. Richard - 2
Kleszynski, Margaret - 21
Koponen, Angela - 8, 55
Koutsoyannis, Sophia - 12
Kranc, S. C. - 45
Kranc, Stan Hunter - 3
Kuhlken, Pam Fox - 11
Kumala, Dan - 37
LaRubia-Prado, Francisco - 29
Lawrence, Joseph R. - 35
Leinbach, Glenn - 3, (7)
Lemp, Richard - 1
Leonard, David J. - 2
Lerman, Amy S. - 33, (27)
Leroy, Fabrice - 11
Lin, Yi-Rung - 42
Lindis, Tara - 27
Littrell, Boyd - 54, (50)
Lockhart, Melissa Stevens - 17, 54
LoSchiavo, Antoinette - 31
Lovelace, Tim - 4, (9)
MacWilliams, David - 27
Maitra, Ellorashree - 25
Mann, Margaret Marrow, Sherilyn - 5, 17
McFarland, Robert B. - 15, (15)
McGettigan, Timothy - 31
McNamara, Carol - 25, (20)
McVicker, Jeanette - 31
Melanson, Wayne - 46
Michel, Andreas - 16
Million, Bonnie - 7, (49)
Morris, Raymond - 39
Morrison, Barbara S. - 52, (41)
Mulliken, Jasmine - 38, (56)
Nealis, Michael - 35
Neeman, Harold - 41
Newmiller, Bill - 1
Nickelson, Katie - 14
Nowak, Lisa J. - 29
O’Brien, Brian - 54
O'Connell, Aaron - 20, (55)
Orsitto, Fulvio - 34, (34)
Ortiz, Cristina - 51
Ory, Chris - 14
Osterman, Henry - 54
Paul-Ureña, Jeana - 44
Pawlowski, Cheryl - 2, 46
Paxton, Tamara - 41, (46)
Perry, Lori Davis - 1, (1)
Persoleo, Paula - 4
Pichugin, Alexander E. - 42
Pletsch, Carl - 16, 50, Fri. 8:00pm, (16)
Polk, Bryan - 4, (38)
Potra, Valentin - 9
Pratarelli, M. E. - 53
Preble-Neimi, Oralia - 47, (4)
Ramirez, Luz Elena - 27, (39)
Rea, Ramiro R. - 39
Rees, Jonathan - 45
Reburiano, Melissa - 12, (29)
Retinger, Doug - 49
Reynolds, J. Wyatt - 32
Roberts, Louis - 41, (3)
Robinson, Amy - 24, (24)
Robles, Dawn - 14
Rocha, Dana - 5
Ryan, Terra - 5
Santa, Tracy - 30, (30)
Sassower, Raphael - 54
Selber, Gregory M. - 26, (19)
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Shamas, Laura A. - 2, (6)
Sheidley, William - 25
Sierra, Sarah - 51
Smith, Dorothy - 13
Smith III, Edward C. - 36
Spade, Beatrice - 52
Spencer, Veronica - 21
Stark, Anne - 40, (40)
Staton, Rodney TGAP - 47
Steckel, Gerd - 16, (23)
Stephenson, Tonya - 40
Stevenson, David - 38
Stocking, Charles - 19
Stocking, Damian A. - 35
Stoehr, Ingo - 44, (44)
Stoehr, Louise E. - 44
Stoner, Chris M. - 39
Story, Elizabeth - 22
Sweet, Colleen - 51
Takemaru, Naoko - 52
Taylor, Raymond - 5
Terry, Joshua - 32
Terzian, Elizabeth - 12, (28)
Thomson, John D. - (18)
Todd, Drew - 22
Torke, Kyle - 30
Tricic, Lejla - 25
Trigo, Abril - 24
Trout, Steven - 37
Tusyznska, Agnieszka - 53
Ureña, Juan Carlos - 44, Fri. 7:00pm
Vanover, Nicholas A. - 43
Vargish, Tom - 1
Wagner, Brian - 39
Wall, Walter R. - 56
Wheaton, Aimee - 45
Whited, Scott - 2
Wildy, Adelina - 14
Will, Bradley A. - 37
Willis, Ellen - 50, (54)
Woltze, Scott - 23, (35)
Woodburn, Dixon S. - 46
Woodburn, Stephen M. - 26, 50
Wright, Brooke - 15
Zelenova, Oksana - 8, 33, (17)
Zheng, Aili - 33
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