the 2010 sla conference program
pennsylvania college of technology
williamsport, pennsylvania
mark noe, host
jay d'arcy, program chair
As young as you feel: the spirit of Williamsport
wed 6.23 thurs 6.24 fri 6.25 sat 6.26
WEDNESDAY 23 June 2010
8:00 am, Registration & Coffee at Professional Development Center (PDC)
8:45-9:00am, Welcoming remarks: President Gilmour & Dean Coppersmith.
9:00-10:15 am
Football & Boxing
Chair: Joyce Duncan
Julian Meldon D'Arcy (University of Iceland): Holding the Line: Willa Cather, Football and Fiction of the First World War
Sylvester Frazier (University of Texas, Arlington): Coolnerd: My Semi- Secret Life on Fantasy Football Message Boards
Rebeccah Dawson (UNC, Chapel Hill): 'Caution is the mother of the K.O.': The Tragedy of Athletic stardom in Bertolt Brecht's 'The Uppercut.'
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-Noon
Gambling & Religion
Chair: Don Johnson
Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University): Raisers and Razors: 'Darktown' Poker Stories from Life to Jerry Reed
Joyce Duncan (East Tennessee State University): Money Talks and Bullshit Walks: Confessions of a Casino Dealer
Greg Thomas (Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School): Playing with the
Souls: The Sport of Religion in Dante's Divine Comedy
LUNCH 12:00-1:30
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1:30 - 2:45pm
Baseball I
Chair: Scott Peterson
Tim Morris (U of Texas, Arlington): The Cultural Work of Baseball Joe
Alexander Truncale (Oklahoma State U): Game of Shadows
2:45-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:30pm
Fiction Reading I
Chair: Julian M. D'Arcy
Dennis Gildea (Springfield College): Still Working on the Third Side
Rick Paar (Springfield College): Shiner
Chris Risker (Webster University): Top Water Running
Marjorie Maddox (Hafer) (Lock Haven U): Baseball poetry; For Real (fiction)
Scholars of different footballs:Sylvester Frazier and Lee McGowan
EVENING: BASEBALL GAME at Bowman Field, Williamsport
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THURSDAY 24 June 2010
[Note: All Thursday sessions will be held in Penn's Inn, on the 2nd floor of the Campus Center.]
9:00-10:15am
Sport & Poetry
Chair: Tim Morris
Don Johnson (East Tennessee State U): Fishing for Aesthetics in John Gay's Rural Sports
Dave Hutter (Case Western Reserve U): Losing Exposed in the Poetry of Sport
Dave Vanderwerken (Texas Christian U): Don Johnson's Here and Gone: New and Selected Poems
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-Noon
Soccer
Chair: Julian Meldon D'Arcy
Lee McGowan (Queensland U of Technology): Marking Out the Pitch: Defining the Football Fiction Genre
John Turnbull (Editor, The Global Game): 'Into the woods': The Goalkeeper's Life of Isolation, Risk, and Metamorphosis
Richard V. McGehee (U of Texas, Austin): 'Net-Puncher and Rotten-Hands': Jorge Amado's A Bola e o Goleiro
Noon-1:30pm LUNCH
1:30-2:45pm
Fiction Reading II
Eric Solomon models scholarly practices for Duncan Jamieson
Chair: Duncan Jamieson
Scott D. Peterson (University of Maine): The Journeyman's Tale
Angie Abdou (College of the Rockies): selections
Fiction Writers' Panel
REST OF AFTERNOON & EVENING FREE
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FRIDAY 25 June 2010
9:30-10:15am
Female Authors & Sport Fiction
Chair: Jeff Segrave
Frank P. Fury (Monmouth U): 'The Courageous Soul That Dares and Defies': Sporting Moments in The Awakening
Chris Risker (Webster U): Running as a Literary Device in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
Angela Abdou (College of the Rockies): 'Dreamers and Desperados': Sport as Subversive Space in Three Contemporary Swimming Novels
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45-noon
Movies / South African / Canadian
Chair: Frank Fury
Douglas Sherry (Pennsylvania College of Technology): The Crisis of Authority in Sport Films of the 1970s
Don Morrow (U of Western Ontario): From the Ribald to the Profound: Paul Quarrington's Lens on Sport
Duncan Jamieson (Ashland University): The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cyclist: Coetzee's Slow Man
noon-1:30pm LUNCH
1:30-2:45pm
Baseball II
Dick Crepeau and Eric Solomon in Williamsport
Chair: John Slack
Michael Brittain (U of Texas, Arlington): 'A Heap of Arms, Feet, and Legs': The Body, Dismemberment, and Aesthetics in Civil War Baseball Fiction
Scott D. Peterson (U of Maine): High Meets Low: Heywood Broun's Triple Bildung Narrative in The Sun Field
Justin Burton (Rutgers University): Women and Wax: The Misogyny of Collecting in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity
2:45-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15-4:45pm
Fiction Reading II
Chair: Dennis Gildea
Shelly Sanders (Abilene Christian U): Bodies in Accelerated Motion
Jason Roberts (Oklahoma State U): Approach Shot
Lee McGowan (Queensland U of Technology): Tragic Greeks
EVENING: BBQ at 6:00 at the Victorian House
Mark Noe greets the crowd at the BBQ
POETRY READING after the BBQ in the PDC
Ron Smith (St. Christopher's School)
Don Johnson (East Tennessee State U)
Linda Kittell (Washington State U)
plus fiction: John Morefield (East Tennessee State U): Old Hippy Mountain
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SATURDAY 26 June 2010
9:00-10:15am
French Literature
Chair: Susan Bandy
Jeffrey Segrave (Skidmore College): 'A hundred cows are more trouble than a thousand bulls': Henry de Montherlant and Women in Sport
Julie Gaucher (France): Football and Sport Literature in France: The Literary Contest of the French Federation of Football (1928 - )
Thomas Bauer (French National Institute of Sport): The View of a Catholic Writer on the Winter Sportswoman: Henry Bordeaux in the 1920s
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-noon
Young Adult / Crime
Chair: Sylvester Frazier
Dennis Gildea (Springfield College): 44: The Intersection of Coaching and Writing
John Slack (Florida Memorial U): Jackie, the Dodgers, and the Impending Storm: Detecting Race in Robert B. Parker's Double Play
Phil Wedge (Kansas U): Hercule Poirot and the Sport of Crime
12:00–1:15pm LUNCH
1:15–1:30pm Remembering Ed Sims (led off by Dennis Gildea)
1:30–2:00pm SPORT LITERATURE ASSOCIATION: BUSINESS MEETING
2:00–2:45pm
Baseball III
Eric pursued by his doppelgänger
Eric pursued by his doppelgänger
Chair: Michele Schiavone
Eric Solomon (San Francisco State U): Baseball Haiku
Linda Kittell (Washington State U): Love Reports to Spring Training
2:45-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15-4:30pm
Creative Nonfiction Reading
Chair: Shelly Sanders
Richard V. McGehee (U of Texas, Austin): The Sacred Fire
Frank P. Fury (Monmouth U): The Tennis Balls in My Kitchen
Paul 'Babe' Mayer (Pennsylvania College of Technology): Babe Ruth, 'An American Icon,' Played at Penn College
6:00–??? SLA BANQUET at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant
GUEST SPEAKER: Sarah Freligh
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