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Thirty-Ninth International Conference on the in the Arts Conference Program

No taping of sessions may take place without signed permission from an elected officer of the IAFA Executive Board and from all individuals participating in the session.

Wednesday, March 14

11:00am-6:00pm 9:00am-6:00pm Registration Desk IAFA Book Exhibit and Sales Main Floor Augusta A/B Coordinator: Karen Hellekson Director: Mark Wingenfeld Audio-Visual Acrobatics coordinated by the incomparable Sean Nixon

2:30-3:15 p.m. Pre-Opening Refreshment Ballroom Foyer

3:30-4:15 p.m. Opening Ceremony Ballroom Host: Donald E. Morse, Conference Chair Welcome from the President: Sherryl Vint Opening Panel: Mary Shelley’s Legacies Moderator: Gary K. Wolfe Nike Sulway, , Fred Botting

Wednesday, 4:30-6:00pm Sessions 1-11

C 1. (IF/SF/VPAA) and from the Perso- 2. (FTFN/CYA) Constructing Identity in Wonder Tales P O Arabic World and Lovecraft Chair: Linda J. Lee I V N E Chair: Debbie Felton University of Pennsylvania E University of Massachusetts-Amherst Navigating Enfreaked Disabilities in the Realms of Victorian Orange Princesses, Emerald Sorcerers and Dandy : Tales The Fantastic in Persianate Miniature Painting and Epic Victoria Phelps Zahra Faridany-Akhavan Saginaw Valley State University Independent Scholar With Eyes both Brown and Blue: Making in Lost Girl The Vault of Heaven: Science Fiction’s Perso-Arabic Origins Jeana Jorgensen Peter Adrian Behravesh Indiana University/Butler University University of Southern Maine The Dark Arts and the Occult: Magic(k)al Influences on/of H. P. Lovecraft Andrew Seeger Illinois Valley Community College

ICFA 39 — 35 Wednesday, 4:30pm

O 3. (FTV/SF) Manufactured Women and Female Humanoids 7. (FTV/HL) The Births and Brides of C A Chair: Valérie Savard Chair: Louis Di Leo A K P University of Alberta Florida Southern College T I V Manufactured Women and Duplicated Brides: A Frankensteinian Whose Bride Is She Anyway? Developing the Monstrous A Feminine in Frankenstein Adaptations Aline Ferreira Kyle William Bishop B University of Aveiro Southern Utah University Believing in the Future Eve: Ex Machina’s 19th Century Sources Unbridling the Bride: Feminism and Patriarchy in Penny Ana Oancea Dreadful’s Frankenstein Narrative Ohio Wesleyan University Jude Wright Quinnipiac University The Problematic Feminism of Rebuilding Seven of Nine’s Humanity Exploring the Wound: Fecund Women and Monstrous Wombs Sarah Canfield in Fantastic Horror Shenandoah University Patricia L. Grosse Drexel University D 4. (VPAA/HL) What Scary Games are Made Of O Chair: Tom Reiss 8. Author Readings I V G Independent Scholar Host: Greg Bechtel I W S O T O Cosmic Terror:Ffrom Literature to Video Games A Bryan Camp D Alina Corral & Elisabet Zúñiga A University of Monterrey Nicola Griffith

How to Create a ? (from a Game Design Perspective) 9. Author Readings II V I Sylvain Payen Host: Michael Hyde S Concordia University, Champlain College Vermont T Will Ludwigsen A Playing with Vision: Sight and Seeing as Narrative and Game Alethea Kontis B Mechanics in Gregory Norman Bossert Mads Haahr Trinity College Dublin 10. (FL) and Liminality V I Chair: Andrew Barton S M 5. (HL/FTV/VPAA) Frankenstein’s Other Faces Texas State University T A Chair: Eric G. Anderson A G At the Threshold: Spatial Liminality in The Lord of the Rings N George Mason University C O Andrew Barton L It Takes a Village to Teach a Monster: Teaching Frankenstein Texas State University I and its Descendants A Rhonda Brock-Servais Odysseus is a Nobody: Modern Epic Retelling in Gaiman’s Longwood University The Graveyard Book Caroline Kidd On the Affect of Frankenstein Masks Texas State University Taylor Hagood Florida Atlantic University Totems of a Discarnate History”: Disruptions of Liminal Space in B. Catling’s The Vorrh Madness, Distortion, and Witness: The Rhetorics of Horror Levi Herrera in Frankenstein Films Texas State University Sheri Nicole Sorvillo George Mason University 11. (CYA/SF/HL) It’s Aliiiive?: Limitations on the Monstrous B E in YA Literature L C 6. (SF) Fantastic Animals Chair: Wendy Fall L A Chair: Katherine E. Bishop Marquette University E P T Miyazaki International College I I Stories are the Wildest Things of All: Arborescent Wisdom S V The Alien at Home: Interspecies Communication in Hao and Monstrous Truths in Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls L A E Jingfang’s “Invisible Planets” and Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree A Emily Olive Moore Franziska Burstyn Brigham Young University University of Siegen Mammoth Speculations Creating a Monstrous Storyteller: Fear, Grief, and Catharsis Matthew Chrulew in A Monster Calls Curtin University Sarah Reanna Fish Collin College, Central Park Campus Dreaming of Liberation: Animals and Capitalist Modes of Exploitation in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Frankenflirters: Mad Scientist for Today’s Female Teen of Electric Sheep? Readers Skye Cervone Farran Norris Sands Florida Atlantic University San Jacinto College

36 — ICFA 39 Wednesday, 8:30pm

6:00-8:00pm IAFA Board Meeting Maple

8:00-8:30pm Newcomer Meet-up Captiva A/B Hosted by the Student Caucus

8:30-11:00pm Opening Reception Capri

Regina Hansen and Lynette James, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

Gary K. Wolfe, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

Daniel Creed and Skye Cervone, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

Caroline M. Yoachim, Charlie Jane Anders, Marianne Mohanraj, Nisi Shawl, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

ICFA 39 — 37 Thursday, 8:30am Thursday, March 15

8:00am-12:00pm and 2:30-6:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm and 2:30-6:00pm Registration Desk IAFA Book Exhibit and Sales Main Floor Augusta A/B Coordinator: Karen Hellekson Director: Mark Wingenfeld Audio-Visual Acrobatics coordinated by the incomparable Sean Nixon Thursday, 8:30-10:00am Sessions 12-22

C 12. (IF/SF) Frankenstein’s Step(ford) Daughters: Sirens, Sex 15. (HL/FTV/FL) Vivisecting the Creature(s) M O Dolls, and Cyborgs in German and Latin American Chair: Shannon Scott A V P E Narrative and Film University of St. Thomas L Chair: Dale Knickerbocker E Eastern Carolina University “Abhorred monster”: Naming the Creature in Frankenstein Jim Casey Frankenstein Fatale: Alraune and the Flaw of Fate Arcadia University Sharon Diane King UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Mapping the Collective Body of Frankenstein’s Brides Carina Bissett Mail-Order Brides of Frankenstein: Building Artificial Women Stonecoast/University of Southern Maine in Latin American Sf (Sponsored by Plastisex©) Rachel Haywood Ferreira “Brides never fare well in stories” – Representations Iowa State University of Authority and Difference in Frankenstein Rewritings and Adaptations Sex and the Single Cyborg: Rewriting the Bride of Frankenstein Anya Heise-von der Lippe in Brazil Universität Tübingen / Freie Universität Berlin M. Elizabeth Ginway University of Florida 16. (HL/VPAA) Horror and/as Biological Adaptation] M Chair: Sydney B. Duncan A O G 13. (HL) Panel: and the Evolution of Frostburg State University N A Moderator: Sean Moreland K O University of Ottawa Gothic Precursors: The Satiric Uncanny in the Early Eighteenth L Century I Jeffrey Shanks, Southeast Archeological Center William J. Hamilton A John Glover, Virginia Commonwealth University Neumann University Tracy Stone, New Mexico Military Institute Nike Sulway, Guest of Honor Parasites of the Mind: The Horror of Ecological Adaptation Per Israelson D 14. (VPAA) Politics in Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University O Chair: Paweł Frelik G Creatures of Science and Horror: How Frankenstein-Inspired W Maria Curie-Sklodowska University O Graphic Novels Portray Monstrosity O Moral Dimensions of Political Agency: Lessons from Ocarina Essi Varis D of Time for the Trumpian Era University of Jyvaskyla Christopher Schmersahl Palm Beach State College 17. (SF/IF) 19th-Century Science Fictions C A Chair: Brian Attebery P Monstrous Memory: To the Moon’s Digital Masculinity, Selective Idaho State University T History, and Politics of Nostalgia I Justin Cosner Humor in Jules Verne’s SF V Arthur B. Evans A /DePauw University A All the Men are Dead: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Science Fiction Taryne Taylor Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Follow the IAFA on Twitter! @IAFA_TW #ICFA39

38 — ICFA 39 Thursday, 10:30am

C 18. Panel: African Science Fiction The Old Gods and the New: Functionality of Religions A Moderator: Amy J. Ransom of Westeros in the World of George R. R. Martin P T Cathy Leogrande I , Attending Author Le Moyne College V Alexis Brooks de Vita, Attending Author A Ian Campbell, Georgia State University (De) Colonizing Fairy Land: George MacDonald’s Phantastes B Hugh C. O’Connell, University of Massachusetts, Boston John Pennington St. Norbert College V 19. Author Readings III I Host: Nick DiChario S 22. (CYA/SF/VPAA) Remodified and Reimagined: Monstrosity B T and the Posthuman E A Lara Elena Donnelly L Rick Wilber Chair: Emily Midkiff L E A J. M. Sidorova Independent Scholar I V 20. Words and Worlds Children of Monsters: Interpreting Dr. Frankenstein and His S Monster in the YA Posthuman Age L I Host: Francis B. Auld E S Gretchen Hohmeyer T A Don Riggs Simmons College Sandra J. Lindow B Gina Wisker Of Monsters and Transplantation: Renegotiating Frankensteinian Marilyn Jurich Motifs in Young Adult Fiction Bernadette L. Bosky Ruth Gehrmann Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany V 21. (FL) Religion and Fantasy I “A Man Chooses, and a Slave Obeys”: Mutant Children S Chair: Eric Reinders T Emory University and Moral Choices in Videogames A Emma Joy Reay University of Cambridge C The “Shape” of the Imagination, in Chinese and English, in Religion and Fantasy Eric Reinders Emory University

Coffee Break 10:00-10:30am Mezzanine and Ballroom Foyer

Thursday, 10:30am-12:00pm Sessions 23-33

C 23. (IF/SF) Blurry Memories: The Fantastic Dystopias of Rosa Made Men Undone by the Word: Frankenstein’s Creature O Montero and Pinocchio V E Chair: Dale Knickerbocker Frances B. Auld East Carolina University State College of Florida Blurring the Lines of Memory in Temblor The Brambles, the Spinner, and the Ungrateful : Anti- Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Semitism in Early English Translations of the Grimms’ University of Kentucky Kinder- und Hausmärchen Veronica Schanoes The Colonization of Personal and Collective Memory in Rosa Queens College-CUNY Montero’s Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011) Jacob Neely 25. (FTV) Responsible Reading: Appropriations of Mary O University of Kentucky Shelley in Frankenstein, I Am Legend, and Stranger Things A Chair: Sean Nixon K Are You My Mother: When Goddess and Cyborg Collide Independent Scholar Karisa Shiraki Brigham Young University On Being Mary Shelley’s Last Man: Radical Hospitality and the Face of the Other P 24. (FTFN) Frankenstein and Retelling Fairy Tales Chase Pielak I Chair: Abigail Heiniger Auburn University N Bluefield College E Scientists and Monsters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Why is Dr. Frankenstein on Once Upon a Time? and ’s I Am Legend Christy Williams Angela Tenga Hawai‘i Pacific University Florida Institute of Technology Promethean Misconduct: Rebellion and the in Stranger Things Deborah G. Christie Bryant & Stratton College

ICFA 39 — 39 Thursday, 12:15pm

D 26. (VPAA/HL) Playing Frankenstein 29. (SF) Roundtable: Donna J. Haraway Staying with the Trouble: C O A Chair: Concetta Bommarito Making Kin in the Chthulucene P G Independent Scholar Moderator: Rebekah Sheldon T W I O Indiana University, Bloomington V O The True Monster: A Frankensteinian Undertale A D Jeffrey S. Bryan 30. Author Readings IV V University of California: Irvine A I Host: Mike Smith S T Moral Evaluations of Gothic, Frankensteinian Monsters Kathleen Ann Goonan A in Gameplay Videos of Fallout 3 Sari Piittinen Jacob Weisman A University of Jyväskylä 31. Author Readings V V M I 27. (HL/FL/SF) The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovecraft Host: Alethea Kontis S A Chair: Andrew P. Williams T P North Carolina Central University A L Arin Greenwood E B Reanimator: H. P. Lovecraft’s Modern Update of Victor Shveta Thakrar Frankenstein 32. (FL) Re-examining William Morris V Tracy Stone I New Mexico Military Institute Chair: Benjamin Robertson S University of Colorado, Boulder T Queer Mathematics: Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Fiction A of H. P. Lovecraft Morris’s The Earthly Paradise and the Fantasy of Escape C Daniel M. Look Mark Scroggins St. Lawrence University Florida Atlantic University Lies, Damned Lies, and Eldritch Statistics: Toward a Quantitative William Morris and the Counter-Tradition of Materialist Fantasy Analysis of Lovecraft’s Literary Reputation Timothy Murphy John Glover Oklahoma State University Virginia Commonwealth University William Morris and the Rediscovery of the North M 28. (HL/FTV) Reimagining Frankenstein in the Nuclear Age C. W. Sullivan III A Chair: Rhonda Brock-Servais Hollins University G Longwood University N 33. (CYA/SF/FL) Gender, Sexuality, and Monstrous YA B O E L The Nuclear Gothic of Ishiro Honda’s “Frankenstein Versus Chair: Rodney Fierce L I Baragon” and “Frankenstein’s Monsters” Sonoma Academy L A Rebecca Stone Gordon E “I Truly Had The Best Time Ever Creating This New Version”: I Stephanie Meyer’s Controversial Gender-Swapped Book Life S “‘Amnesty,” “Speech Sounds,” and American Monstrosity and Death L E in the Nuclear Age Amanda Firestone Amanda Hollander The University of Tampa Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Our Monstrous Selves: Queer Potential in Lee’s This Monstrous More than Just North Korea’s “Godzilla”: Juche Ideology in Shin Thing and Spangler’s Beast Sang-ok’s “Pulgasari” (1985) Bryanna Tidmarsh Alexandra Leonzini Illinois State University Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

12:15-2:15pm Guest of Honor Luncheon Grand Ballroom “Gather My Bones; or, Dead Women Dancing on your Grave” Nike Sulway Host: Brian Attebery

40 — ICFA 39 Thursday, 2:30pm

Thursday, 2:30-4:00pm Sessions 34-45

C 34. (IF/FTV) Border Crossing and Branding in Global 37. (VPAA) Sinister Sounds D O Film, TV and Literature Chair: Renee T. Coulombe O V G E Chair: Karen Dollinger Banshee Media/Improvised Alchemy W University of Pikeville O Magical Melodies and Hexatonic Harmonies: The Musically O Mary Shelley’s Monster Goes South: Masculinity, the Male Uncanny in Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Nocturnes D Gaze, and Modern Mexican Film Ann M. DuHamel Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer University of Minnesota - Morris University of Rochester Monstrosities of Voice The Productive Force of Spiritual Labor within Extractive Malte Kobel : Resistance Tactics of Indigenous Teleplay-Writing Kingston University London Auteurs in the Global Market for “Innovative” Fantastic Genre Brands Diabolus in Machina: Bruce Haack’s Electric Lucifer Ida Yoshinaga Nicholas C. Laudadio University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa UNC Wilmington

Cannibalism and Biofobia: Not Only in the Movies, the Horror 38. (SF) Frankenstein Radiating M Wave in Contemporary Brazilian Literature Chair: Robert Cape A P Gabriela Andrade Austin College L UCLA/Universidade Federal de Bahia E Children of Frankenstein: The Utopian Dream of “The Modern P 35. (FTFN/CYA/IF) Reinscribing Folk Narratives Prometheus” I Chair: Veronica Schanoes David Farnell N Fukuoka University (Fukuoka, Japan) E Queens College-CUNY Necessary Baggage: Pinkney’s Retelling of Sam’s Wardrobe The Reluctant Utopianism of Kurt Vonnegut; or, Frankenstein’s Gloria Respress-Churchwell Kinder, More Public-Spirited Monster Simmons College Jeffrey R. Villines University of Houston John Henry, Mo’olelo Ko’olau, and Embodied Redemptive Violence Greater Than His Nature Will Allow: A Survey of Reanimation, Derek J. Thiess Resurrection, and in Fiction since Frankenstein University of North Georgia Jeanne H. Griggs Kenyon College Adapting Oceanic Stories for Oceanic Youth: Bringing Hi|story into the Present to Negotiate Indigenous Futures 39. (HL/FTV) The House on Horror Street: Domestic Horror M Caryn Lesuma and the Menace of Genre A G University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Chair: Matthew Masucci N State College of Florida, Venice Campus O O 36. (FTV/VPAA) The Veil is Lifted, and We Behold the Bare L A Pillars of the World: Exposing the Principles of World- “I can get you anytime I want”: Complicating “Disability” I K Building in SF in Flanagan and Siegel’s Hush A Chair: Haley Herfurth Amy Branam Armiento at Birmingham Frostburg State University

Challenges to Infinite Diversity, in Infinite Combinations, “….This gloomy kind of story:” ’s House Stories in Star Trek’s World-Building: Parodic Miscarriage, Fan Film and the Literary Tradition of the Contes Cruels Crackdown, and Complex Kevin Knott Stefan Rabitsch Frostburg State University University of Graz Architectural Horror: Mormama and Wylding Hall “This is not how it happened”: Narrative Forking Paths, Sydney B. Duncan Paratextual Inconsistencies, and the Canon in Mass Effect Frostburg State University Michael Fuchs University of Graz Chalmun’s Cantina: Transmedia Collaboration and the IP Farm in the Star Wars Franchise For engaging conversation Sean Guynes and to stay up-to-date on IAFA news Michigan State University all year long, join our listserv! http://lists.iafa.org/listinfo.cgi/iafa-l-iafa.org

ICFA 39 — 41 Thursday, 4:15pm

C 40. (SF) (Re-)Reading Frankenstein 44. (FL) Of Gods, Death, Gladstone, and Morgan V A I P Chair: Terry Harpold Chair: Cathy Leogrande S T University of Florida Le Moyne College T I A V A Frankenstein and/as Dream Research Unconscious Gods and the Return of Belief in Max Gladstone’s C Brian Attebery Craft Sequence A Idaho State University Peter Melville University of Winnipeg Frankenstein and Me, an Academic Memoir John Rieder More Trouble Than They Were Worth: Three Examinations University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa of Deicide in Charles Allison Publishing Without Patriarchal Influence? An Examination Freelance Writer/Editor of the Earliest Drafts of Frankenstein Amy L. Kozina “Now there was only Death”: The Aftermath of Fantasy in Indiana University of Pennsylvania A Land Fit For Heroes Benjamin J. Robertson C 41. Panel: Teaching Genre Fiction (SCIAFA) University of Colorado, Boulder A P Moderator: Sarah Reanna Fish T 45. (SF/FTV/HL/FL) Colonialism and the Patriarchy in YA B I A.P. Canavan, Independent Scholar Narratives E V Daniel Creed, Florida Atlantic University L A Chair: Christyl Rosewater L Valorie Ebert, Broward College Hollins University E B Kij Johnson, Attending Author I Penny Dreadful’s Victor Frankenstein as Patriarchal and Colonial S V 42. Author Readings VI Oppressor L I E S Host: Mari Ness Joseph Schaub T Virginia Commonwealth University A Nisi Shawl A Sam J. Miller The Euphemism of Rebellion: Ally Condie’s Matched Trilogy and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal, Heteronormative Structures Jaime DeTour V 43. Creative Panel: What can SFWA do for you? Kansas State University I S Moderator: Terra LeMay T History of Magic in North America and Wizarding Schools: A Kate Baker, Attending Author Reproducing British Imperialism and the Colonial Attitudes Cat Rambo, Attending Author B in J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Texts Andy Duncan, Attending Author Roxana Loza Suzanne Church, Attending Author University of Texas , Attending Author Thursday, 4:15-5:45pm Sessions 46-57 C 46. (SF) New Frankensteins The Beauty of Feminism, the Beast of Patriarchy: Investigating O Chair: Stina Attebery Subversive Retellings V E University of California, Riverside Nivair H. Gabriel Simmons College Anne McCaffrey’s Frankenstein:Restoree Audrey Taylor Bluebeard or Beast?: Gothic and Influences on Popular Midway University / Eastern Kentucky University Romance Linda J. Lee Reckoning with Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein University of Pennsylvania and Jeff VanderMeer’sBorne Jason Embry 48. (FTV) Queer SF / Performing Gender O Georgia Gwinnett College Chair: Patricia L. Grosse A Drexel University K “A creature built […] from shadow and hardware”: Peter Watts’s Frankensteinian Figures Frankenstein’s Monster Swipes Right: Homosociality Dominick Grace and Collaborative Masculinity in The Librarians Brescia University College Chelsea Clarey Clemson University P 47. (FTFN) Revisiting the Monster Bridegroom and Female I Agency Testosterone Overdose: Grendel as Monstrous Masculinity N Chair: Kacey L. Doran in Beowulf Films E Rutgers University – Camden A. Keith Kelly Georgia Gwinnett College Revival and Reversal: The Rise of America’s Robber Bridegroom Abigail Heiniger Queer Futures in a Black Mirror: Reality, Sexuality, and Technology Bluefield College in “San Junipero” Rory Sharp New College of Florida

42 — ICFA 39 Thursday, 4:15pm

D 49. (VPAA/FTV) Fan(tastic) Fics 54. Author Readings VII V O Chair: Eden Lee Lackner Host: F. Brett Cox I G S University of Calgary T W John Chu A O Albert Wendland O (Re)Figuring the Heroic Body: Disability, Trauma and Autonomy A D in Fanfiction of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Steven Erikson Nicola R. Govocek 55. Creative Panel: Gender and Sexuality in V Temple University I Moderator: Eugene Fischer S Who Should Queen Elsa Love? Frozen Fanfiction and the (Queer) T Romance Plot Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Attending Author A Eva Wijman David D. Levine, Attending Author B Umeå University Isabel Yap, Attending Author

They Went There: Penny Dreadful as Fan Fiction, Fan Service, 56. (FL) Robert E. Howard’s V Fan Text Chair: Matt Oliver I S Sarah G. Carpenter Campbellsville University T George Mason University A Gods of the North: Nordicist Mythology and Racialist C M 50. (FL) Curating Frankenstein Anthropology in the World-Building of Robert E. Howard A Moderator: Valorie Ebert Jeffrey Shanks P L Broward College Southeast Archeological Center E J. J. Jacobson Cosmic Dimensions and Ancient Times: H. P. Lovecraft’s University of California, Riverside Library Influence on Robert E. Howard’s Concept of ‘Time’ and its Peter Balestrieri Depiction in Robert E. Howard’s Fantastic Stories University of Iowa Library Dierk Günther Tokushima University, Japan M 51. (HL/IF/FL) Horror without Borders A Chair: Alexandra Leonzini G Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 57. (CYA/SF) Panel: Mary Shelley’s Inheritors: Modern B N E O Representations of Speculative Fiction’s Gendered History L L Reimagining Colonized Spaces: Decolonial Queer Ecologies Moderator: Amanda Firestone L I in Fantastic Fiction The University of Tampa E A Luke Chwala I Duquesne University Kate L. Fedewa, Michigan State University S Sarah E. Gibbons, Michigan State University L Bodies and Borders: Postcolonial Horror and Ideological E Decolonization Wesley Tyler Johnson Pasco Hernando State College Ghosts and Monsters: The Arctic in Speculative and Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden

C 52. (VPAA) Panel: Frankenstein in Two Dimensions: Artificial A P Humans in Comics T Moderator: Kevin J. Maroney I New York Review of Science Fiction V A Bernadette L. Bosky A P. Andrew Miller

C 53. (FL) Panel: Theorizing the Genre - Fantastic Memories A P Moderator: Daniel Creed T Florida Atlantic University I V Fred Botting, Kingston University London A Jennifer K. Cox, University of Idaho, Pocatello B Stefan Ekman, University of Gothenburg Ian Cameron Esselmont, Attending Author Regina Hansen, Boston University

A.P. Canavan and Valorie Ebert, ICFA 35, 2014; photo by David G. Hartwell

ICFA 39 — 43 Thursday, 11:00pm

6:00-7:00pm IAFA Business Meeting Captiva A/B Open to all; please attend.

7:15-8:15pm IAFA Division Heads Meeting Boardroom B

8:30-9:30pm Address from our Guest of Honor “Mary, Jane, and Me” by John Kessel Host: Andy Duncan

Capri

9:45-10:45pm Reception for Guest of Honor John Kessel (Remember to use your ticket for one free drink.)

11:00pm-12:30am SF Short Film Block

Selections curated by Ritch Calvin and Pawel Frelik

Copyright law does not permit publication of titles in the program.

44 — ICFA 39 Friday, 8:30am Friday, March 16

8:00am-12:00pm and 2:30-5:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm and 2:30-6:00pm Registration Desk IAFA Book Exhibit and Sales Main Floor Augusta A/B Coordinator: Karen Hellekson Director: Mark Wingenfeld Audio-Visual Acrobatics coordinated by the incomparable Sean Nixon 9:00am JFA Business Meeting Boardroom B Friday, 8:30-10:00am Sessions 58-69 C 58. (IF/H) (Post-)Colonialism and Patriarchy in Non-Western 61. SCIAFA Writing Workshop D O Science Fiction Host: Paweł Frelik O V G E Chair: Sharon Diane King W UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 62. (FTV/SF) Star Wars and Star Trek M O Chair: Charles Cuthbertson A O The Lingering Effects of Colonialism on Modern Philippine P D Palm Beach State College L Speculative Fiction E Lew Andrada “I find your lack of faith disturbing”: Lessons on Law and Religion University of Southern Maine from a Galaxy Far, Far Away Louis Di Leo Non-conquering Explorers: Space Travel in Indian Science Florida Southern College Fiction Suparno Banerjee Star Trek after Discovery Texas State University Gerry Canavan Marquette University A Picnic by the Artificial Womb: The Estrangement of Patriarchy through Reproduction in Three Arabic Sf Novels Noonian Soong; or, the (New) Modern Prometheus: Star Trek: Ian Campbell The Next Generation’s Data and Lore and the Definition Georgia State University of Monstrosity Haley Herfurth P 59. (FTV) Spider-man: Homecoming and Science as Magic University of Alabama at Birmingham I Chair: Kyle William Bishop N E Southern Utah University 63. (HL/VPAA) Blood in the Gutter: Horror and/in Comics M Chair: Jeffrey Shanks A G Ragged Peter; or, Repurposing Horatio Alger’s Wealthy Mentor Southeast Archeological Center in Spider-Man: Homecoming N O Mark T. Decker Carl & Lydia: A Posthuman Love Story in The Walking Dead L Bloomsburg University Anelise Farris I Idaho State University A As Not Seen On TV: Science’s New Role in Popular Media Clair McLafferty Apocalypse and Murder Mysteries: Gothic Re-Imaginings Independent Scholar of the Archie Comics Universe Enrique Ajuria Ibarra O 60. (FTV) Disability in Marvel Films and Dystopian Television Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) A Chair: Kayley Thomas K University of Florida “...And you bastards ain’t never gonna break me”: Feminist Subversions of Abjection and Exploitation in The Handmaid’s How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up? The Marvel Universe’s Tale and Bitch Planet Disappearing Disabilities Cailin Flannery Roles Kelly Kane Kansas State University Iowa State University The Redefinition of Fertility as Disability in The Handmaid’s Tale Jordan Meyerl Arcadia University Like the IAFA on Facebook! as a Metaphor for Disability in BBC’s In the Flesh Jennifer Brown Arcadia University https://www.facebook.com/ FantasticArts/

ICFA 39 — 45 Friday, 10:30am

C 64. (SF) Frankenstein Rippling 68. (FL) A Song of Liberation and Fire V A I P Chair: Sandra J. Lindow Chair: Kim Wickham S T Independent scholar University of Rhode Island T I A V A Ripples and Rebounds—Tracing the Influence ofFrankenstein I Should Like to See a ; Modality and Dispossession C Alison Bedford in A Song of Ice and Fire A University of Southern Queensland Joseph Young University of Otago The Offspring We Don’t Talk About: Enlightenment and Gothicism in James Morrow’s Frankenstein Narratives, “The Silver Queen”: U.S. Imperialism and A Song of Ice and Fire The Last Witchfinder and The Philosopher’s Apprentice Rachel Hartnett Simone Caroti University of Florida Full Sail University The Fantasy of the American Liberator: Neocolonialism Prometheus, or the New Frankenstein in Science Fiction in Graceling Realm Trilogy Robert Cape Samantha Baugus Austin College University of Florida

C 65. (SF/VPAA) Panel: Franken-Fashion 69. (CYA/FTV/FL) Agency and Childhood Identity in the Long B A Moderator: Emily Jiang 19th Century E P L T Attending Author Chair: Rodney Fierce L I Sonoma Academy E V Kathryn Allan, Independent Scholar I A Stina Attebery, University of California, Riverside Everyone is Watching, Act Normal: Panopticism in the Works S B Jaymee Goh, Independent Scholar of Carroll and Barrie L E Fran Wilde, Attending Author Kathryn Hall Kansas State University V 66. Author Readings VIII I S Host: Jean Lorrah Santa for Children in the Long Nineteenth Century T and Today A Nick DiChario Eugene Giddens Joyce Chng Anglia Ruskin University A Judith Berman “This Only Goes to Show What Little People Can Do”: Childhood V 67. Artistic Presentations I and Agency in Les Miserables S Host: David M. Higgins Olivia Bushardt T A University of Southern Mississippi Tenea D. Johnson B lewis lain

Coffee Break 10:00-10:30am Mezzanine and Ballroom Foyer

Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm Sessions 70-79

C 70. (IF) Panel: Decolonizing Fantastic Storytelling: A Cross- 72. (FTV) The Feminist Legacy of Frankenstein O O Genre Discussion and Workshop Chair: Clair McLafferty A V K E Moderator: Ida Yoshinaga Independent Scholar University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Time Will Tell: 12 Monkeys and Echoes of Frankenstein Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University Lisa Macklem Lynette James, Independent Scholar The University of Western Ontario Caryn Lesuma, University of Hawai`i-Mānoa Taryne Taylor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University “Crazy for the Flesh”: Love, “Mad Science,” and Monstrosity in The Fly P 71. (FTFN) Panel: Frankenstein and Kathryn Allan I Moderator: Cristina Bacchilega Independent Scholar N University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa E Freak Show Frankenstein: American Horror Story’s Elsa Mars Brittany Warman, The Ohio State University as Palimpsestuous Icon of Monstrosity Jeana Jorgensen, Butler University Jennifer K. Cox Veronica Schanoes, Queens College-CUNY Idaho State University Jared Jones, Ohio State University Nike Sulway, Guest of Honor

46 — ICFA 39 Friday, 10:30am

D 73. (VPAA) Game Theory Deluxe: Neocolonialism, Lovecraft 78. (FL) Genreflexive Feminism in Fantasy V O I and Russian Formalism Chair: Dennis Wilson Wise S G Chair: Kenton Taylor Howard University of Arizona T W A O University of Central Florida O “Other things I know”: Metafiction and Supernaturalism in Jean C D “All your base are belong to us”: Neocolonialism and New Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea Empire in Science Fiction Video Games Alexandra Oxner Paweł Frelik Vanderbilt University Maria Curie-Sklodowska University “Roads were made for Young Men”: The Female in Lois “I am not your legend. Your legend does not exist”: The Unlikely McMaster Bujold’s Paladin of Souls Lovecraft in Shadow of the Colossus and Doki Doki Literature Club Kim Wickham Concetta Bommarito University of Rhode Island Independent Scholar “And Others”: Women, Science, and History in Marie Brennan’s It’s not Easy Having a Good Time: Video Games, Difficulty A Natural History of and Russian Formalism Megan Suttie Tom Reiss McMaster University Independent Scholar 79. (FL) Crafting the Fantastic Experience B M E 74. (SF) Utopias and Dystopias Chair: Stefan Ekman L A Chair: Kristina Baudemann University of Gothenburg L P E L University of Flensburg E “What I Do Not Recall I Shall Invent”: Frame Narratives, Literal I “Dancing for Death: Sterilization as Apocalypse in Roger Zelazny’s Metaphors, and Irony in Epic Fantasy S “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” Matthew Oliver L E Rebecca McNulty Campbellsville University University of Florida Transgressing the Inevitable Present: Confabulation and Discovery Anthropological/Science/Fiction: ’s Transfigurations in Fantasy Joe Sanders Daniel Creed Shadetree Scholar Florida Atlantic University

M 75. (HL) Mary Shelley’s Precursors and Other Progeny A Chair: Mark A. Fabrizi G N Eastern Connecticut State University O L “Pizarro” as a Gothic Villain I Jun Ichikawa A Nippon Sport Science University Gothic Deformations: The Dwarf as Horror in Mary Shelley’s “Transformation” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Curious if True” Matthew Masucci State College of Florida, Venice Campus French Connections for Mary W. Shelley’s The Last Man Amy J. Ransom Central Michigan University

V 76. Author Readings IX I S Host: Neil Clarke T A Madeleine E. Robins Jaymee Goh A Maurice Broaddus

V 77. Creative Panel: How Adaptation Transforms Narratives I S Moderator: James Patrick Kelly T A Therese Anne Fowler, Attending Author , Attending Author B John Kessel, Guest of Honor , Attending Author Kelley Eskridge, Attending Author

Peter Hunt, giving his salacious Guest Scholar address on food and sex in children’s literature, ICFA 16, 1995; photo courtesy of FAU Library Special Collections: Robert A. Collins Collection

ICFA 39 — 47 Friday, 2:30pm

12:15-2:15pm Guest Scholar Luncheon Grand Ballroom “Humanism to Trashumanism: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) in Frankenstein (Bernard Rose)” Fred Botting Host: Anya Heise-von der Lippe

Friday, 2:30-4:00pm Sessions 80-89

C 80. (IF) Spanish and Cuban Takes on Fantastic 83. (VPAA) Dark and Broken Beats D O Chair: Ian Campbell Chair: Nicholas C. Laudadio O V G E Georgia State University UNC Wilmington W O A Tale of Two Spains: Eduardo Vaquerizo’s Minds of Night Dark O and Ice Isabella van Elferen D Dale Knickerbocker Kingston University London East Carolina University “We are not a conquered people:” Broken Beats and Indigenous Daína Chaviano’s Gata Encerrada as Portal Fantasy Futurologies in A Tribe Called Red’s Halluci Nation Karen Dollinger Renee T. Coulombe University of Pikeville Banshee Media/Improvised Alchemy

Lazarillo de Tormes and Rhetorical Paradox 84. (SF) Panel: Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction M Robin McAllister Moderator: Katherine E. Bishop A Sacred Heart University P Miyazaki International College L E P 81. (FTFN/FL) Fiction Roundtable: Theodora Goss’s The Strange Graham J. Murphy, Seneca College I Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Brittany Roberts, University of California, Riverside N Moderator: Sara Cleto Alison Sperling, Santa Clara University E The Ohio State University Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University

Theodora Goss, Boston University 85. (HL) Horror and the Medicalization of the Body M Chair: Amy Branam Armiento A O 82. (FTV) The Intertextual Legacy of Frankenstein Frostburg State University G A Chair: Chase Pielak N K O Auburn University Stitched: Frankensteinian Explorations of Medicine in Tanya L Huff’sBlood Pact I Promethean Pairings: Scientific and Creative Vision inFrankenstein Derek Newman-Stille A and Jurassic Park Trent University Cassandra Bausman Trine University “Female Freaks: Gendered Monstrosity in the Hands of Science” Shannon Scott Beyond Adaptation: Unpacking the Frankenstein Mythos University of St. Thomas in The X-Files Episode “The Post-Modern Prometheus” Sarah Bea Milner Trent University “Strangely are our souls constructed”: Frankenstein, Intertextual Identity, and Michael Fassbender’s David and Magneto Kayley Thomas Follow the IAFA on Twitter! University of Florida @IAFA_TW #ICFA39

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V 86. Author Readings X Lord of the Rings: The Binding Power of the One Ring I S Host: Jeanne Beckwith through Anglo-Saxon Hierarchy T Lauren Schopf A Anna Kashina Arcadia University A Ben Loory Paul Tremblay “It is difficult to blame it, unless it fails”: Escapism and Dismissal in Speculative Fiction V 87. Author Readings XI Liamog Drislane I S Host: Brooke Bolander Fairleigh Dickinson University T Geoff Ryman A 89. (CYA/FTV/FL) Who’s This Made For?: Audience, Interaction, B B E Ann Leckie and Relationships in Children’s Entertainment L Chair: C. W Sullivan III L Hollins University E V 88. (FL) Escaping the Inklings I Chair: W. A. Senior I S Toying with Monsters: Adult’s Play in Childhood Culture S T Independent Scholar Zoe Jaques L A E University of Cambridge C at Work: The Shared Universe of Lewis and Tolkien Elisabeth Wilk Trauma and Restorative Power of the Feminine in Moana, Hollins University Maleficent, and Frozen Jessica Stanley Neterer John Tyler Community College

Friday, 4:15-5:45pm Sessions 90-101

C 90. (IF/SF/VPAA) Revenants International: Representing 92. (FTV/SF) Theories of the Real and Ideal in SF Film O O Unsettled Bodies across Time and Space and Television A V K E Chair: Karin Myhre Chair: Stefan Rabitsch University of Georgia University of Graz Science and the : Restoring Life in Paul Féval’s “How can I go back to pretending…?”: On the Fictional La Ville- and the Real in Westworld (2016) W. Bradley Holley Grant Dempsey Georgia Southern University University of Western Ontario Female Bodies and Unearthly Thieves: Changing the Context Documenting Utopia: The Nonfiction Films of Defa-Futurum of Spain’s Early Twentieth-Century Gender Debates in Fiction Simon Spiegel by Angeles Vicente and Rafael López de Haro University of Zurich James A. Wojtaszek University of Minnesota-Morris The Real Thing, the Movie Thing, and the Cinematic Gaze: Kuttner, Barnes, and the Movies The Erotic Dead: Archipelagic Identity, Cyborgs and Living J. P. Telotte Death in Walcott and Heaney Kristy Eagar Brigham Young University 93. Panel: In Memoriam: Ursula K. Le Guin D Host: Brian Attebery O The Fantastic in Twilight: Japanese Ghost Stories and Western G in Kyoka Izumi’s Literature Theodora Goss, Attending Author W Masaya Shimokusu Charles Vess, Attending Artist O O Doshisha University, Kyoto , Attending Author D Joe Haldeman, Attending Author P 91. (FTV) Making SF and I Chair: Gerry Canavan N E Marquette University Weirding the Outside: The OA and the Steen Christiansen Aalborg University Let Me Tell You a Story: Mr. Nancy’s Narrative Therapy and Critical Pedagogy in Starz’s American Gods Brooks de Vita Texas Southern University

Joe Haldeman, Donald E. Morse, Andy Duncan, Sydney Duncan, Gay Haldeman, ICFA 22, 2001; photo courtesy of FAU Library Special Collections: Robert A. Collins Collection

ICFA 39 — 49 Friday, 4:15pm

M 94. (SF) Science Fiction and Politics 98. Author Readings XII V A Chair: Hugh C. O’Connell Host: Paul Tremblay I P S University of Massachusetts Boston T L E A Bizzaro Victimhood: Reverse Colonization and Imperial Fantasy Michael Arnzen A David M. Higgins Max Gladstone Inver Hills College 99. Creative Panel: Power, Politics, and Speculative Fiction V I Catching the “Fallen” Demos: Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Moderator: Stephanie Feldman S and Decadent Democracy in Morrison and Porter’s JLA T Joshua Danley Pearson Fran Wilde, Attending Author A University of California, Riverside Sam J. Miller, Attending Author B Sally Wiener Grotta, Attending Author What Women Do Is Survive—Revisiting Tiptree, Russ, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Attending Author and Atwood in the Era of Trump, Cosby, and Weinstein Alayne Peterson 100. (FL) Reasoning with Donaldson and Drinking with Kay V I University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac Chair: Joseph Young S University of Otago T “What is?”: Gold Fame Citrus’s Climate Crises of Language A Terry Harpold Reasoning with Evil: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Covenant Novels C University of Florida W. A. Senior Independent Scholar M 95. (HL) Theorizing Horror and Monstrosity A Chair: Eric D. Smith Gender Violence and Feminist Thought in Stephen R. Donaldson’s G University of Alabama-Huntsville “Reave the Just” N Dennis Wilson Wise O L “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch”: Mary Shelley’s University of Arizona I Frankenstein and the Trend of the Sympathetic Monster A Nicole Aceto “It’s the Black Boar Tonight, My Friends”: Drinking and Drinking Duquesne University McAnulty Graduate School of the Liberal Arts Places in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Mark Buchanan Supernatural Horror and Religious Experience: An Historical York University Sketch 101. (CYA/HL/FL/FTFN) The Monstrous Feminine: Gender, B James C. McGlothlin E Bethlehem College & Seminary Sexuality, and the Body in YA Fantasy and Horror L Chair: Susan M. Strayer L Transcending the Metaphor of Horror: Teaching Critical Ohio State University E through Horror I Mark A. Fabrizi “You Had Milk; I had Science”: Gender Resistance, Reanimation, S L Eastern Connecticut State University and the Fantastic in Seanan McGuire’s Down among the Sticks E and Bones C 96. (SF) Frankensteinian Monsters Megan MacAlystre A Clemson University P Chair: John Rieder T University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa I London as Frankenstein, Monster and Inventor: The Feminine V Frankenstein’s Legacy: The Nature of Monster Versus Man Monstrosity of London in YA Fiction A in Science Fiction Madison McLeod A Brandy Eileen Allatt University of Cambridge Independent Scholar The Monsters among Us: Alternatively Rejecting, Embodying, “For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words and Overcoming Monstrosity in Frankenstein, “The New you will be condemned”: Monstrous Self-Disclosure in Mary Boyfriend,” and Nimona Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Gardner’s Grendel and Octavia Jeannie Coutant Butler’s Fledgling Simmons College David G. Schappert Director of Library Services, Marywood University Frankenstein’s Monsters’ Monsters Stan Hunter Kranc Pennsylvania State University

C 97. (VPAA) Roundtable: How to Present the History A of Digital Games: Enthusiast, Emancipatory, Genealogical, P T and Pathological Approaches I Moderator: Tom Reiss V Independent Scholar A B

Taryne Jade Taylor, Karen Hellekson, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Jennifer Cox, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

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6:00-7:00 pm Student Caucus Meeting Captiva A

7:00-8:00 pm Lord Ruthven Assembly Captiva B

8:00-9:30 pm Lord Ruthven Assembly Film Presentation: Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein Captiva B

8:30-9:30

Guest of Honor Readings: Nike Sulway and John Kessel

Host: Sydney B. Duncan

Capri

9:45-10:45 ICFA Flash Play Festival III: Unfashioned Creatures...Half Made Up

Host: John Kessel Directors: Carrie J. Cole and Kelli Shermeyer Written and performed by the authors, editors, and scholars of the ICFA Capri

ICFA 39 — 51 Saturday, 8:00am Saturday, March 17 8:00am-12:00pm 8:00am-6:00pm Registration Desk IAFA Book Exhibit and Sales Main Floor Augusta A/B Coordinator: Karen Hellekson Director: Mark Wingenfeld Audio-Visual Acrobatics coordinated by the incomparable Sean Nixon

8:00am “Clone with Joan” Breakfast Restaurant

From spider silk Adidas shoes, to Zika virus treating brain tumors, we discuss the latest real biology too bizarre for science fiction. Join us for a breakfast discussion with award-winning SF author and biologist Joan Slonczewski (Participants are responsible for their own breakfast costs.) Limited spaces are available; please sign up at the registration desk.

Saturday, 8:30-10:00am Sessions 102-113

C 102. (IF) Fantastic Motifs and Monsters in Eastern and Western 104. (FTV/SF) “I’ve seen things, now let’s talk about them”: O O Classics A Roundtable Discussion on Blade Runner and Blade A V K E Chair: Suparno Banerjee Runner 2049 Texas State University Moderator: Rebecca Stone Gordon American University Embodying the Demonic and the Divine in Chinese Painting Karin Myhre Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside University of Georgia Simon Spiegel, University of Zurich Paweł Frelik, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University The Fairy-Tale Motif of “The Animal Left Behind” in Classical Amy J. Ransom, Central Michigan University Literature Debbie Felton 105. (VPAA) Graphic East/West D University of Massachusetts-Amherst Chair: Eva Wijman O G Umeå University W Unhelpful Monsters: Designed Beings and Unforeseen O Consequences in Stanslaw Lem’s Cyberiad Out and Super: Fifty-Five Years of Inconsistent LGBT O Andrés García-Londoño Representation in Marvel Comics D University of Pennsylvania Sean Robinson Plymouth State University P 103. (FTFN/CYA) Examining Childhood through Folk Narratives I Chair: Gloria Respress-Churchwell Lovecraft Whirling into Ito: Spirality and Cosmic Horror N Simmons College in Uzumaki E Sean Moreland Know Your Enemy: Contradictory Elements Find Synthesis University of Ottawa in The Kingdom of Little Wounds Cora Jaeger The Fantastic Origins of Odilon Redon Kansas State University Natalie Deam Stanford University Little Red Riding Hood and Her Fellow Wolves: A Classic Story Exposes Fears around Children 106. (VPAA) Panel: Podcast Revolution: Audio M Kacey L. Doran as a Re-emergent Literary and Performative Format A P Rutgers University - Camden for Speculative Fiction L Moderator: Marco Palmieri E “The on the Shelf” and the Commodification of Imagination / Tor Labs Regina Hansen Boston University Jennifer Gunnels, Tor Books Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Karen Hellekson, Transformative Works and Cultures Andrea Hairston, Chrysalis Theatre

52 — ICFA 39 Saturday, 10:00am

M 107. (HL/FL/FTV) Beyond the Monstrous Feminine 110. Author Readings XIII V A Chair: Amanda Hollander Host: Lisa Lanser Rose I G S Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY T N Eileen Gunn O A L “Not your Creature”: Celebrating Rebellious Puppets, Dolls, Arthur Davis A I Fictional Figures and Monstrous Energies in ’s A “The Loves of Lady Purple” (1974),The Magic Toyshop (1967) 111. Creative Panel: Brave New World 201 (Speculative V and Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr Fox (2011) and “Is Your Blood I as Red as This?” (2016) Publishing) S Gina Wisker Moderator: Jennifer Stevenson T A University of Brighton Cecilia Tan, Attending Author B Independent America has Mommy Issues: A Study of Shirley Julia Rios, Attending Author Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Black Mirror’s “Playtest” Michael Damian Thomas, Attending Editor Noran R. Amin Sandra McDonald, Attending Author Idaho State University 112. (FL) Frankly Milton V I Monsters, Feminism, and the Horror Boom of the 1970s Chair: John Pennington S St. Norbert College T Andrew P. Williams A North Carolina Central University Faith: Milton::Doubt: Shelley—Paradise Lost in Frankenstein C C 108. (SF/IF) Indigenous Futures Scott D. Vander Ploeg A : Graham J. Murphy Madisonville Community College P Chair T Seneca College Romantic Sympathies: Frankenstein’s Creature as Satan, Adam, I V “Being a isn’t just teeth and claws”: Indigenous and Eve. A Futurisms and the Monstrous Eric Riddle A Kristina Baudemann Oklahoma State University University of Flensburg 113. (CYA/SF) Science Fiction as Children’s Educational B Teaching Tool E Oil, Water, and Lightning: Theorizing Indigenous New L Materialisms in Thunderbird Strike Chair: Amanda Firestone L Stina Attebery The University of Tampa E University of California, Riverside I The Race for the Moon: Space Race Childhood in Highlights S for Children Magazine L C 109. (SF) Robots E A Chair: Jason Embry Susan M. Strayer P The Ohio State University T Georgia Gwinnett College I V The Influence of Early Science Fiction on Cultural Views “Unless They Put a BRAIN Inside Its Head”: Robots and Al A and Portrayals of Robots in Children’s Fiction Emily Midkiff B Joelle Renstrom Boston University Independent Scholar Atom, Baymax, Colossus, Data: Bringing Order to Robot Stories Robots and Al in Middle-Grade Science Fiction Lauren Liebowitz Eric Otto Bucknell University Florida Gulf Coast University Artificial Eloquence: Computer-Based Analysis of Human and Robotic Dialogue in Classic Science Fiction Claire Cahoon Ithaca College Like the IAFA on Facebook!

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Coffee Break 10:00-10:30am Mezzanine and Ballroom Foyer

ICFA 39 — 53 Saturday, 10:30am

Saturday, 10:30am-12:00pm Sessions 114-125 C 114. Coping in Today’s Job Market: How to Find a Job 118. (FL) History, Adaptation, and Golems M O Part 1: Preparing your Documents Chair: Samantha Baugus A V P University of Florida E Kathryn Hume, Penn State University, emerita: L E Applying at large research-focused universities “Master, Command Me”: Golem and Creator in Chabon, Mark T. Decker, Bloomsburg University: Wecker, and Almond Applying at teaching-focused universities Jonna Gjevre Author P 115. (FTV) Stranger Things, Orphan Black, and Female POV I in Horror Cinema History with Magic…and the Patriarchy: An Examination N E Chair: Lisa Macklem of Female Empowerment in Historical Fantasies of the British The University of Western Ontario Regency Era Kelsey Olesen Stranger Things on Riemann Surfaces Stonecoast Sean Nixon Independent Scholar 119. (HL/VPAA) Transmedial Horrors! M Chair: Rebecca Stone Gordon A Poor Copies: The Violent Creatures of Orphan Black American University G Kathleen Kellett N Independent Scholar O LaValle’s “Destroyer”: A Creature for Today L Robert Lynch and Sonja Lynch I Returning Their Gaze: The Need for More Horror Media Longwood University, Wartburg College A from a Female POV Elsa M. Carruthers and Rhonda Jackson Joseph Literary Demons: Unraveling Julian Karswell’s Bookish Curse Lone Star College in Night of the Michael Furlong O 116. (FTV) (Not)Seeing and (Not)Hearing on Film University of Central Florida A Chair: Steven Holmes K University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Undead on Life Support: Patchwork Girl, Airship Dracula, and New Media Obsolescence Deckard’s Piano: The Use of Diegetic Music in the Blade Runner Robin Whittle Films Independent scholar Charles Cuthbertson Palm Beach State College 120. (SF) It’s Alive: Non-Human Modes of Being C Chair: Paweł Frelik A “I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe”: Sight P Maria Curie-Skłodowska University T and Blindness in Blade Runner and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein I Christian Dickinson Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir V Baylor University Katherine E. Bishop A Miyazaki International College A Silent Symphonies of the Fantastic: Silence and Sound in the Films of David Lynch The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Queen Sven Raeymaekers City Jazz Kingston University London Graham J. Murphy Seneca College D 117. (VPAA) All the World’s an Evolving Retro-Futuristic O Posthuman Stage Two Vitalisms: On Clifford Simak’s “Shadow Show” G W Chair: Daryl Ritchot Steven Shaviro O University of British Columbia Okanagan/Okanagan College Wayne State University O D The Future is Fey: Towards a Posthuman Dramaturgy in Caryl 121. (SF) Science Fiction and Philosophy C Churchill’s The Skriker Chair: Alayne Peterson A Kelli Shermeyer P University of Wisconsin - Fond du Lac T University of Virginia I The Cognitive Fiction of John Kessel V Tor Lab’s Steal the Stars and Speculations on the Retro/Future Don Riggs A of Podcast Theatre and Publishing Drexel University B Carrie J. Cole Indiana University of Pennsylvania Reality as a Belief System: A Philosophical Examination of Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Giving Ariel Back her Voice: The Little ’s Evolution Jess Flarity from Film to Stage Stonecoast MFA Charles J. Yow University of Southern Mississippi

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V 122. Author Readings XIV 125. (CYA/SF) Mary Shelley Derivatives: Frankenstein in YA B I E S Host: Usman Malik Adaptation L T Chair: Nivair H. Gabriel L Alexis Brooks de Vita A Simmons College E Matthew Sanborn Smith A I K. Tempest Bradford Alive and Enmagicked: Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank S the Moon as a Feminist Frankenstein Narrative L V 123. Poetry Readings E I Christyl Rosewater S Host: Owl Goingback Hollins University T Marge Simon A “It’s Alive!”: YA Adaptations of Frankenstein Mary A. Turzillo B Beth Feagan Berea College V 124. (FL) Magic, Metamorphosis, and Metaphor I Chair: Brittani Ivan S Gothic Transgressions: Realities and Fictions in Mary Shelley’s T Kansas State University Frankenstein and Mackenzi Lee’s This Monstrous Thing A Wendy Fall From Textile Worker to Silkworm: Grotesque Metamorphosis Marquette University C in “Reeling for the Empire” Mark Heimermann Silver Lake College For engaging conversation Not Just a Cool Gadget: The Intention Craft as Metaphor for Creativity and Intention in His Dark Materials and to stay up-to-date on IAFA news Jamie Teixeira all year long, Kansas State University join our listserv! Fireballs, Shapeshifters, Artifacts, and : A Study of Magical Origins and Archetypes http://lists.iafa.org/listinfo.cgi/iafa-l-iafa.org K. R. Branch University of Southern Maine Stonecoast

12:00-12:15pm Locus Photograph Poolside

12:30-2:00pm Open Lunch A limited number of boxed lunches will be available at a fixed price.

12:30-1:45 Reception University of Illinois Press Modern Masters of Science Fiction Series Vista D Hosts: Marika Christofides and Gary K. Wolfe Chat with series editor Gary K. Wolfe and acquiring editor Marika Christofides. Coffee and refreshments will be available. Pitches welcome.

ICFA 39 — 55 Saturday, 2:00pm

12:45-1:45 To See the Universe Unseen Magnolia Geoffrey A. Landis, Invited Author and Scientist Host: Jean Lorrah Slideshow and presentation on art and science

Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm Sessions 126-136 C 126. Coping in Today’s Job Market: How to Find a Job 129. (VPAA) Don’t Hate the Player Character, Hate the Collectible D O Part 2: Interviewing and Negotiating Card Game O V Chair: Christopher Schmersahl G E Kathryn Hume, Penn State University, emerita: W Palm Beach State College O Applying at large research-focused universities O Mark T. Decker, Bloomsburg University: Links, Shepards, and Adventurers Like You: Player-Characters D Applying at teaching-focused universities and Immersion in Role-Playing Video Games Charlotte Reber P 127. (FTFN/HL/FTV) The Horror of Fairy Tales Independent Scholar I Chair: Jared Jones N E The Ohio State University Going Beyond the Player-Character: Clementine as Protagonist in Tell-Tale Games: The Walking Dead series “Spooky Action at a Distance”: Fairylore’s Intrusion on Vampiric Cole Atcheson Tradition in Only Lovers Left Alive Independent Scholar Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman The Ohio State University Magic and Hearthstone: Remediating Collectible Card Games Kenton Taylor Howard Fairy-Tale Horror as Representation, Rupture, and Affect University of Central Florida Cristina Bacchilega University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 130. (HL/SF) Panel: Frankenstein, Bodily Assemblages, M and Disability A P The Fascination of Horror: On Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard Moderator: Derek Newman-Stille Lewis C. Seifert L Trent University E Brown University Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Universität Tübingen/ O 128. (FTV) Historicizing Body Snatching and Body Ownership Freie Universität Berlin A after Frankenstein Matthew Masucci, State College of Florida, Venice Campus K Chair: Jennifer K. Cox Sarah Bea Milner, Trent University Idaho State University Ashley Morford, University of Toronto

From The Day After to The 100: Nuclear Weapons on Television 131. (HL) Early 20th-century Masters of Literary Horror: M and in the Public Sphere Blackwood, Endore, de la Mare A Steven Holmes Chair: William J. Hamilton G University of Hawai‘i at Manoa N Neumann University O L From Monster to Slave: The Horror of Capitalism in the Con- “A Tremendous Muchness Suddenly Revealed:” Consciousness, I temporary Body-Transplant Film Terror, and Devolution in Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” A Valérie Savard Kay Chronister University of Alberta University of Arizona Hammer-Time for Frankenstein: Examining the Presence Homo Homini Lupus: Human Nature and the Politics of Realism of the Body-Snatcher in the Hammer Studio’s Frankenstein in Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris Movie Cycle Eric D. Smith Charles Hoge University of Alabama-Huntsville Metropolitan State University of Denver A Visit to All Hallows Stan Kranc Follow the IAFA on Twitter! University of South Florida @IAFA_TW #ICFA39

56 — ICFA 39 Saturday, 4:00pm

C 132. (SF) Things Cyber 135. (FL) Weirdly Urban V A I P Chair: Steven Shaviro Chair: Paul Williams S T Wayne State University Idaho State University T I A V From Neuromancy to Fiscalmancy: as Speculative Modernity Meets Magic in the of Ben Aaronovitch A Financial Fictions Stefan Ekman C B Hugh C. O’Connell University of Gothenburg University of Massachusetts Boston From New Weird to New Humanism: Responses to the Limits The Iterated Shells of Motoko Kusanagi: Cyborgs and Citation of Horror in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and Kelly in Ghost in the Shell Link’s “The New Boyfriend” Alexander Sherman Kelly Budruweit Independent Scholar University of Iowa Spiritualizing Techno-Culture: Decoding Mystical and Mundane Magic and Liminality in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Hacker Representations in G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen Steven Gores Edward Ardeneaux IV Northern Kentucky University University of the Ozarks 136. (CYA/FL/FTV) Panel: Teen , Witches, B V 133. Author Readings XV and with Souls! Oh My!: Youth and Monstrosity E I L S Host: Matthew Sanborn Smith in L Moderator: Beth Feagan E T Sarah Pinsker A Berea College I Caitlín R. Kiernan S A James Morrow Justin Cosner, University of Iowa L Rodney Fierce, Sonoma Academy E V 134. Creative Panel: The Frankenstein Meme Patricia L. Grosse, Drexel University I S Moderator: David Sandner T A John Kessel, Attending Author Theodora Goss, Attending Author B Eileen Gunn, Attending Author Kathleen Ann Goonan, Attending Author

Saturday, 4:00-5:30pm Sessions 137-148 C 137. (VPAA/FTV) Pop Culture and What People Make of It 140. (VPAA) Performing Gender D O Chair: Natalie Deam Chair: Kelli Shermeyer O V G E Stanford University University of Virginia W O “Try the Grey Stuff, It’s Delicious”: Food and Fandom at Disney “It Could Be You:” Joseph the Amazing Technicolor Queer Hero O Theme Parks Catharine Kane D Daryl Ritchot Illinois State University University of British Columbia Okanagan/Okanagan College The(y’)re No Heroes: Qui Nguyen’s Men of Steel and Toxic The Author, the Audience, and the Almighty: Supernatural’s Masculinity in Video Game and Comic Book Culture Chuck Shurley as Metatextual Mirror Scout Storey Eden Lee Lackner University of Georgia University of Calgary 141. (SF/IF) M P 138. (FTV/SF) Annihilation: The (New) Weird on Film Chair: Dominick Grace A I Moderator: Benjamin J. Robertson Brescia University College P N L E E Katherine E. Bishop, Miyazaki International College Motherless Monsters, Science Astray: The Promethean Kinship Jason Embry, Georgia Gwinnett College of Shelley’s Frankenstein and Okorafor’s Book of Phoenix Siobhan Carroll, University of Delaware Sandra J. Lindow Bethany Doane, Pennsylvania State University Independent Scholar Alison Sperling, Santa Clara University “But all we really know that we have is the flesh”: Body- O 139. Author Readings XVI Knowledge, Mulatto Genomics, and Reproductive Futurities A Host: Sherryl Vint in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis K Karina A. Vado Carmen Maria Machado University of Florida Kate Baker David D. Levine Breaking the Frame: Reimagining Genre via Form in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon Kylie Korsnack Vanderbilt University

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M 142. (HL) Contemporary Masters of Literary Horror: King, 147. (FL) Labyrinths, Love, and Landscapes V A Malerman, Smith Chair: Charles Allison I G S N Chair: Sean Moreland Freelance Writer/Editor T O University of Ottawa A L “A Kind of Cold, Monstrous Love”: Motherhood and Resis- I “You’ll Float Too”: ’s It as Modern Frankenstein tance in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy C A James M. Curtis Corinne Matthews College of St. Joseph University of Florida Imagination, Fear and Narrative Constriction in Josh Malerman’s Going In and Moving Back: The Chronotope in the Mythago Cycle Bird Box Paul Williams Van Leavenworth Idaho State University Umeå University Across the Wall: Limitations, Landscapes, and Heroic Identity Human Trespass, Inhuman Space: Monstrous Vegetality in Scott in Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Series Smith’s The Ruins Brittani Ivan Brittany Roberts Kansas State University University of California, Riverside 148. (CYA/HL/FL) The Politics of Diversity in YA Fiction B C 143. Author Readings XVII Chair: Jessica Stanley Neterer E A L P Host: Judy Collins John Tyler Community College L T E Kelly Robson “The World is So Much Worse Than I Ever Imagined”: Shame, I I V A. T. Greenblatt Surprise, and Awakening to Privilege in The Black Witch S A J. R. Dawson Graeme Wend-Walker L E A Texas State C 144. (SF/VPAA) Science Fiction as a Culture A P Chair: Joshua Danley Pearson Still Our People: The Fantastic Dead in African-American T University of Brighton Horror for Young People I Lynette James V Science Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, and the Evolution Independent Scholar A of the Digital Humanities B Lisa Swanstrom To Be Young Forever: How The Hunger Games Predicts Our University of Utah Shortened Lifespan in Trump’s America Danielle Doherty FrankenTexts: The “Bermuda Triangle” of Collaborative Literary University of Tampa Writing Corwin R. Baden Old Dominion University Prestige, Pay, and Publicity in the Fields of the Fantastic: The Functions of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prizes and Awards Jerry Määttä Uppsala University

V 145. Author Readings XVIII I S Host: Max Gladstone T A Ilana C. Myer Caroline M. Yoachim A Fran Wilde

V 146. Words and Worlds I S Host: P. Andrew Miller T A Derek Newman-Stille Guest of Honor Tom Stoppard, ICFA 3, Regina Hansen 1982; photo courtesy of FAU Library Special B Gina Wisker Collections: Robert A. Collins Collection Doug Ford John Glover

Guest of Honor Isaac Bashevis Singer, ICFA 1, 1980; photo courtesy of FAU Library Special Collections: Robert A. Collins Collection

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7:00-8:00pm Wine and Beer Reception Grand Ballroom Foyer Hosted by the Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside

8:00-11:00pm IAFA Annual Awards Banquet Grand Ballroom

11:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. All Conference Farewell Party (Cash bar) Poolside

Janny Wurts and Don Maitz, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

Baria Ahmed, Sarah Pinborough, Jennifer K. Cox, ICFA 35, 2014; photo by Bill Clemente

Margaret Carter, Jean Lorrah, and Kaisa Kaukiainen, ICFA 38, 2017; photo by Bill Clemente

Judy Collins presenting the Stephen R. Donaldson Award to Carol McMullen-Pettit, Donald E. Morse and Judy Collins, ICFA 33, 2012; ICFA 33, 2012; photo by Bill Clemente photo by Bill Clemente

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