the 2015 sla conference program
east tennessee state university
johnson city, tennessee

joyce duncan and don johnson, hosts
kyle belanger, program chair

tues 6.23     wed 6.24     thurs 6.25     fri 6.26     sat 6.27

Unless otherwise noted, all panels will take place in the Millennium Center, across from the ETSU campus.

TUESDAY 23 June 2015

12:00-7:00 Registration Begins, Centennial Residence Hall, ETSU Campus

Dinner for early arrivals at 7 p.m. at Tupelo Honey, State of Franklin

WEDNESDAY 24 June 2015

7:30-8:30 Breakfast, Millennium Center

8:30-8:45 Registration, Millennium Center

8:45-9:15 Welcome
Dr. Gordon Anderson, Dean of Arts and Sciences (East Tennessee State)
Dr. Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), SLA President

9:15-10:30am

Panel I: Head-scratching twosomes

Chair: Kyle Belanger (Springfield College)

Tim Morris (University of Texas at Arlington)
"Bullfighting Fiction for Children"

Dennis Gildea (Springfield College)
"Abbott and Costello meet Frank Deford"

Fred Mason (University of New Brunswick)
"Racing ourselves to death? Death Race and the trajectory of science fiction on sport"

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45am-12:00pm

Panel II: The game never leaves you

Chair, Michele Schiavone (Marshall University)

Matt Tettleton (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Sporting Ethos and the Soccer Fan Memoir"

Richard McGehee (University of Texas at Austin)
"Esse est Percipi: The Truth About Soccer Revealed to H. Bustos Domecq"

Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria)
"Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston's The Divine Ryans"

12:00-1:15 Lunch, Millennium Center

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1:15 - 2:00

Panel III: Creative nonfiction

Chair: Susan Bandy (The Ohio State University)

Rick Paar (Springfield College)
"If You're Ever in the Bay Area"

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15-2:45

Panel IV: Sport and World Literature I

Chair, Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University)

Ken Waldman (Nomadic Productions) with Ira Bernstein, Percussive Step

3:00-4:15

Panel V: We are them. They are us

Chair, Phil Wedge (Kansas University)

Patrick Ridge (Arizona State)

"I Wanna Be Like Mike: Sport and Globalization in Almodóvar's Carne trémula"

Joel Sronce (North Carolina)
"The Lives of Others: The Role of Sport in an Immigrant's Exterior and Interior Space in Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives"

Kyle Belanger (Springfield College)
"#LikeAGirl"

5:00-6:15 Dinner, On Your Own [Suggestions will be offered]

7:30 Evening events, Play "How She Played the Game" by Cynthia Cooper, at Bud Frank Theatre, featuring the ETSU Department of Theatre and co-sponsored by the Departments of Women's Studies and Language and Literature

Post-play gathering at home of Mark Baumgartner

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THURSDAY 25 June 2015

7:45-8:45 Breakfast, Millennium Center

9:00-10:15

Panel VI: Gender matters

Chair: Joel Sronce (North Carolina)

Jennifer Avila (California, Riverside)

"Sport, the Latina/o Literary Canon, and Visual Art: Bridging Dialogues to Cultivate New Perspectives"

Susan Bandy (The Ohio State University)
"The Sporting Woman in Film and Literature: Strategies of Exclusion and the Absence-Presence of the Male Athlete"

Brian Burmeister (Ashford University)
"Pretty and Tough, in that Order: The Ultimate Fighting Championship's Eroticization of Female Athletes"

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:45

Panel VII: Fiction

Chair: Dennis Gildea (Springfield College)

Michele Schiavone (Marshall University)
"Representations and Uses of Boxer Jack Johnson"

Scott Peterson (Wright State)
"Finding Ella"

11:45-1:00 Lunch, Millennium Center

1:00-2:15

Panel VIII: Hemingway and the sea, naturally

Chair, Richard McGehee (University of Texas at Austin)

Hank Garfield (University of Maine)
"Madmen on the Water: The Golden Globe Singlehanded Sailboat Race of 1968-69 and Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach"

H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz)
"Fever and Glory: Or, A Meditation (and Performance) of Sport Songs—From Franklin Field & Penn to Frankie Laine, and—Did I Forget to Mention Hemingway?"

Matt Nickel (Misericordia University)
"Nick Adams, Jake Barnes, and Colonel Cantwell: Hemingway's Sportsmen Sketches"

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-3:45

Panel IX: The great American pastime

Chair, Don Johnson (East Tennessee State)

Will Bishop (Baker University)
"'It's hard not to be romantic about baseball': Narrative Change, Narrative Tradition, and The Business Side of Baseball in Recent Films"

Thomas Alan Holmes (East Tennessee State)
"August Wilson's Fences: Running Foul of Generational Boundaries"

Mark Baumgartner (East Tennessee State)
"Grace on the Diamond: Baseball and Dislocation in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus"

Eric Scribner (Author)
"The Men Higher Up"

3:45-5:30: Break (travel time to Depot Street Brewery)

5:30-to closing Panel X: Poetry, Depot Street Brewery, Jonesborough (Includes Pizza, Bocce, and Petanque)

Chair, Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria)

Danny Caine (Kansas University)
Matt Nickel (Misericordia University)
Bruce Pratt (University of Maine)
H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz)

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FRIDAY 26 June 2015

7:45-9:00: Breakfast, Millennium Center

9:15-10:00

Panel XI: Battle of the Poets Laureate

Chair: Joyce Duncan (East Tennessee State)

Ron Smith, Poet Laureate of Virginia (St. Christopher's School)

Joseph Bathanti, Former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (Appalachian State)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:00

Panel XII: SLA Special Session: Don Johnson, Lifetime Achievement Award
Chair, Ron Smith (St. Christopher's School)

Susan Bandy (The Ohio State University)
Richard Crepeau (University of Central Florida)
H.R. Stoneback (SUNY-New Paltz)

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30

Panel XIII: Rugby, flies and foxes

Chair: Mark Baumgartner (East Tennessee State)

Cory Willard (University of Waterloo)
"On Fly Fishing and Rhetoric: Ethos, Experience, and Fly Fishing's Rhetorical Proofs"

Phil Wedge (Kansas University)
"Sassoon's Fox-Hunting Man: the Sporting Character in The Memoirs of George Sherston"

Thomas Bauer (University of Limoges)
"Rugby, Modernity and Controversy: Le P'tit Parigot (1926) by René Le Somptier" (co-author Joris Vincent, University of Lille 2)

12:00-1:45 Lunch, Business Meeting

Afternoon and Evening Free: Recommendations for activities to come!

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SATURDAY 27 June 2015

7:45-8:45 Breakfast, Millennium Center

9:00-10:15

Panel XIV: The sweet science

Chair, Bruce Pratt (University of Maine)

Rus Bradburd (New Mexico State)
"Satire is a Big Bat"

Richard McGehee (University of Texas at Austin)
"Vicente Leñero's Pelearán diez rounds [They'll Fight Ten Rounds]"

James Holzmeister (Columbus Tech)
"Interpreting an Instance of Boxing in Mid-Victorian Literature: George Borrow's Lavengro "

10:15 -10:30 Break

10:30-11:45

Panel XV: Fame, sport, and the narrative ripples

Chair, Matt Tettleton (University of Colorado Boulder)

Angie Abdou (Athabasca University)
"Olympic Athletes versus Parkour Artists: A Consideration of Sport, Art, and Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project"

Charmayne Mulligan (Davenport University)
"More Questions than Answers: An Examination of The Players' Tribune"

Tristan Ireson-Howells (Canterbury Christ Church University)
"Field of Dreams: Childhood, Memory and the Athlete"

12:00-1:00

Lunch, Millennium Center

1:15-2:30

Panel XVI: A cultural full-court press

Chair, Cory Willard (University of Waterloo)

Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University)
"The Rhetoric and Meaning of Basketball in the Golden Age of Hip Hop"

Donald Risker (Webster University)
"What's Queer about Running? Queering a Queer Novel: The Consequences of Literary Theory and a Wonder Called Fish"

Stefanie Rene Torres (Kansas University)
"The 21st Century's Literary Tourist: The Sports Fan"

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:30

Panel XVII: Creative nonfiction

Chair, Scott Peterson (Wright State)

Jeff Lajoie (Salmon Press Media Group, NH)
"Small Towns, Big Problems"

Jon Billman (Northern Michigan)
"Gone Running, The Distance Runner and the Serial Killer"

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:00 Closing remarks – Don Johnson, East Tennessee State

5:30-? Barbeque, games, poetry/fiction, Don Johnson's house (Watauga River)

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