the 2012 sla conference program
springfield college
springfield, massachusetts
dennis gildea, host
duncan jamieson, program chair
wed 6.27 thurs 6.28 fri 6.29 sat 6.30
WEDNESDAY 27 June 2012
8:30-9:00am: Opening remarks
Angie Abdou learns the Rules of Basketball
9:00-10:30am
SESSION ONE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Chair: Julian Meldon D'Arcy, University of Iceland
Philip Wedge, University of Kansas, Saving the Best of the Coveys: Sport in the Novels of Jane Austen
Jeremy Larance, West Liberty University, The Doctrine of [W. G.] Grace: The Sporting World's First International Icon
10:45am-12:15pm
SESSION TWO: PLAYS AND PROSE
Chair: Duncan Jamieson, Ashland University
Jennifer Avila, University of California, Riverside, Boxing, Masculinity and Speaking the Unspoken: An Examination of Oliver Mayer's Play Blade to the Heart
Carina Staudte, University of Flensburg, Sport in Philip Roth's American Pastoral and The Human Spirit
Jason Shrontz, University of Rhode Island, Tickers and Twitters: Sports Media and the Distracted Audience
LUNCH: 12:30pm-1:30pm
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1:45 - 2:45pm
SESSION THREE: FOOTBALL
Chair: Joyce Duncan
Mark Noe, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Shakespeare in the End Zone
Julian Meldon D'Arcy, University of Iceland, The Brute and the Gridiron: Football and the Prescient Fiction of Frank Norris
3:15-4:45pm
SESSION FOUR: FICTION
Chair: Angie Abdou, College of the Rockies
L. Don Morrow, University of Western Ontario, His Majesty
Scott Peterson, University of Maine, The Right Fielder's Mother
Bruce Pratt, University of Maine, Split Ticket
Ron Smith receives poetic inspiration
EVENING COOKOUT
SESSION FIVE: POETRY
Chair: Don Johnson, East Tennessee State University
Shelly Sanders, Abilene Christian University
Ron Smith, St. Christopher's School
Henry Garfield, University of Maine, Marsball (fiction)
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THURSDAY 28 June 2012
8:30-10:00am
SESSION SIX: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Chair: Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick
Michael Brittain, University of Texas at Arlington, The Worldwide Reader in Sports: A Pseudo-Paratextual Analysis of ESPN The Magazine's "The Fiction Issue"
Carolyn Fortuna, Franklin High School (MA) and Rhode Island College, Play Ball! Uncovering social practices and cultural reproduction in sports texts
Richard V. McGehee, University of Texas at Austin, A Feminist's Nightmare? Or not? Lía Schenck's Remate Cruzado [Goal Shot]
10:30am-Noon
SESSION SEVEN: BASEBALL
Chair: Tim Morris, University of Texas at Arlington
Scott D. Peterson, University of Maine, Making It Real: The Influence of Journalism in Early Baseball Fiction
Don Johnson, East Tennessee State University, Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings
Mark Sickman, Writer, Rap Music, the Academy and the Emergency of Baseball Poetry
LUNCH 12:15-1:15pm
1:30-2:30pm
SESSION EIGHT: WINTER SPORTS
Chair: L. Donald Morrow, University of Western Ontario
Richard Parker, University of Gaziantep, The Giants / Tjanting: Ron Silliman's Baseball
Angie Abdou, College of the Rockies, "Skating Against a Ghost": Anxiety of Influence, Women's Hockey, and Cara Hedley's Twenty Miles
1:30-2:30pm
SESSION NINE: TWO AND FOUR LEGGED RUNNERS
Chair: Joyce Duncan, East Tennessee State University
Doug Hochstetler, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley, Once Upon an Amish (?) Runner: Reflections on Yasso, Parker and Thoreau
Rick Paar, Springfield College, Chasing Greyhounds
Joyce Duncan as Thing Three
Tour of Springfield College Museum
Dinner At Basketball Hall of Fame
Speaker: Michael Weinreb, author of Bigger Than The Game
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FRIDAY 29 June 2012
8:30-10:00am
SESSION TEN: BASEBALL AGAIN
Chair: Scott Peterson, University of Maine
Henry Garfield, University of Maine, Jane Leavy, Sandy Koufax, and Freddie Garcia: Baseball's minimalist games and the minimalist requirements of turning a single game into a work of literature
Marty Dobrow, Springfield College, The Strangest Game of the Century at Fenway Park
Robert S. Brown, Daniel Webster College, Nolan Ryan's Self-Description as Financial Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of Ryan's Autobiographies
10:30-noon
SESSION ELEVEN: HEROES
Chair: Jeremy Larance, West Liberty University
Tim Morris, University of Texas at Arlington, Small Balls, Beset Manhood: John Feinstein's Golf Books
Martha Barry-Plotkin, Springfield College, Gentleman Ed and the Gifts of the Game
Thomas Bauer, University of Limoges (with Joris Vincent, University of Lille), Portrait of a Rugby Man With a Broken Face
Michele Schiavone, Marshall University, Father, Son and Baseball in Sarah Freligh's Sort of Gone
AFTERNOON AND EVENING FREE
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SATURDAY 30 June 2012
8:30-9:30am
SESSION TWELVE: DOCUMENTARIES
Chair: Kyle Belanger, Springfield College
Connie Ann Kirk , Writer/independent Scholar, SENNA—Sinner, Saint—or Poet?: The Paradox of Ayrton Senna in Kapadia's Documentary, Hilton's Memories, and the View of Vintage Racers
Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick, "Steel," Real Steel and Stableford: Fighting the Future
Past President Shelly Sanders
10:00-11:45am
SESSION THIRTEEN: ANALYZING BALLGAMES
Chair: Phil Wedge, University of Kansas
Richard V. McGehee, The University of Texas at Austin, To Win or Not to Win: Alejandro Bravo's El Jugador de Pelota [The Ballplayer]
Kyle Belanger, Springfield College, Navigating Between the Lines: Marv Levy's Truth is Better than His Fiction
Dennis Gildea, Springfield College, Ford, Fitzgerald, Schulberg and the Dartmouth Winter Carnival of 1939
Business Meeting
LUNCH 1pm
AFTERNOON FREE
BANQUET
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