Thirty-Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic 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, John Kessel, Fred Botting Wednesday, 4:30-6:00pm Sessions 1-11 C 1. (IF/SF/VPAA) Magic and Science Fiction 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 Demons: Fairy Tales The Fantastic in Persianate Miniature Painting and Epic Literature Victoria Phelps Zahra Faridany-Akhavan Saginaw Valley State University Independent Scholar With Eyes both Brown and Blue: Making Monsters 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 Frankenstein 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 Trope 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 Maria Dahvana Headley A Bryan Camp D Alina Corral & Elisabet Zúñiga A University of Monterrey Nicola Griffith How to Create a Monster? (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 Survival Horror Gregory Norman Bossert Mads Haahr Trinity College Dublin 10. (FL) Fantasy 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 Novels 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: Weird Tales and the Evolution of Weird Fiction 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 Play 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 University of Iowa Arthur B. Evans A Science Fiction Studies/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 Geoff Ryman, 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 Poetry 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.