the 2005 sla conference program:
iowa state university
ames, iowa
neil nakadate, host
michele schiavone, program chair
John Slack, Mark Noe, and Ed Sims in Ames
wed 6.22 thurs 6.23 fri 6.24 sat 6.25 sun 6.26
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2005
REGISTRATION Noon-5:00 p.m., Maple Hall (Maple-Willow-Larch complex)
THURSDAY, June 23, 2005
REGISTRATION 7:00-9:00 a.m. Union Drive Community Center (UDCC) 136
BREAKFAST 6:45-8:45 a.m. Union Drive Market Place [UDCC]
WELCOME TO IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 9:00 a.m.
[All sessions except Session 5 will be in UDCC 136]
Session 1 9:15-10:30 a.m.
Sport Literature and Culture
Chair: Dale Ritterbusch
Tim Morris, English, University of Texas at Arlington,
"Young Adult Civil War Sport Fiction"
Michele Schiavone, English, Marshall University, "African-
American Baseball Autobiographies and Slave Narratives"
Duncan Jamieson, History, Ashland University, "The
Bicycle and Vietnam"
Session 2 10:45 a.m.-Noon
Poetry and Birding
Chair: Michele Schiavone
Don Johnson, English, East Tennessee State University,
"Playing Through the Dark: Blindness as a Vehicle for
Transcendence in Selected Sports Poems"
Philip Wedge, English, University of Kansas, "High Island
Blues: the Sport of Birding in the Novels of Ann
Cleeves"
Mark Noe, Communication and Literature, Pennsylvania
College of Technology, "Clare and Play"
LUNCH 12:00-1:00 Union Drive Market Place
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Session 3 1:30-2:45 p.m.
Courts and Channels: Playing Between the Lines
Chair: Judy Hakola
David McNeil, English, Dalhousie University, "David
Foster Wallace and Writing Tennis: Game, Set, Match"
Chris Risker, Management, Webster University, "Is the
Running Literature Losing the Race?"
Session 4 3:00-4:15 p.m.
FICTION I
Chair: Richard Stull
Craig Riordan, Health and Physical Education, Humboldt
State University, "Still the Captain"
Scott Peterson, English, University of Maine, "Into the
Bughouse"
Norman German, Humanities, Southeastern Louisiana
University, "The Havana Home Run"
DINNER 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Session 5 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading Maintenance Shop [Memorial Union]
[Co-sponsored by Writer's Bloc, Iowa State Department of English]
Chair: Don Johnson
Neil Nakadate, English, Iowa State University
Dale Ritterbusch, Languages and Literature, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Luke Southworth, English, Iowa State University
Richard Stull, Health and Physical Education, Humboldt
State University
Marty Gervais, Editor, Black Moss Press
John B. Lee, Poet, Black Moss Press
Ron Smith, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VA
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FRIDAY, June 24, 2005
BREAKFAST 6:45-8:15 A.M. Union Drive Market Place
[All sessions in UDCC 136]
Session 6 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Sport and Play in Film
Chair: Richard Stull
John Slack, English, Florida Memorial College, "Baseball
Diamonds Are Forever: Undying Sports Legends and
Other Folklore in the Film The Sandlot"
Judy Hakola, English, University of Maine, "The Sounds of
'Lights'"
Lee Poague, English, Iowa State University, "The Play of Rhetoric
in Frank Capra and Spike Lee"
Session 7 10:15-11:30 a.m.
Who's on First: A Comic Look at Baseball
Chair: Tim Morris
Gloria Betcher, English, Iowa State University, and Alan
Baragona, English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military
Institute, "The Wife of Bat: Desire and Fulfillment on
The Cranberry Trail"
Eric Solomon, English (Emeritus), San Francisco State
University, "Baseball Anthologized Forever: Boyle's
'The Hector Quesadilla Story'"
Scott Peterson, English, University of Maine, "Lardner to
Harris to Plimpton: The Development of the Postmodern
Comic Voice"
LUNCH 11:30-12:45 p.m. Union Drive Market Place
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Session 8 12:45-1:45 p.m.
Fiction II
Chair: Eric Solomon
Don Johnson, English, East Tennessee State University,
from Blue Winged Olive
Tim Denevi, English, University of Hawaii, "The Creation
of Baseball"
Michael Stephens, English, Camden County High School,
Kingsland, GA, "The Joe Torre Phenomenon"
Session 9 2:30-4:00 p.m.
(Post)modern Sightings: Sports Commentary
Chair: John Slack
Norman German, Humanities, Southeastern Louisiana
University, "Rehabilitating Hemingway"
Julian D'Arcy, English, University of Iceland, "'Glory,
Glory to the Black and Orange!': Princeton, Football, and
the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
Richard Landon, American Studies, University of Iowa,
"Sport Fiction and the Untellable: Cliché and Language
in Don DeLillo's End Zone"
Mindi McMann, English, University of Kansas, "Fighting
Back, Refusing to be Ground Down: Manifestations of
Resistance and Hegemony in John King's The Football
Factory"
Vans leave for I-Cubs game [Maple-Willow-Larch parking lot] 5:30 p.m.
IOWA CUBS GAME (Des Moines) 7:05 p.m.
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SATURDAY, June 25, 2005
BREAKFAST 7:45-8:45 A.M. Union Drive Market Place
[All sessions in UDCC 136]
Session 10 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Women in Sport: Images and Narratives
Chair: Susan Bandy
Kathy Porter, English, University of Texas at Arlington,
"Baseball Babes: How Hollywood Views the Women of
Baseball Literature"
Michelle Sanders, English, University of Texas at
Arlington, "Troubled Bodies: The Construction of
Femininity in Female Athletes"
Kelly Belanger, English, University of Wyoming, and Katy
Brown, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of
Wyoming, "Girls' and Women's Sports Literature as
Title IX Narratives"
Session 11 10:45-noon
Traditions
Chair: Mark Noe
Jaime Schultz, Health and Sports Studies, University of
Iowa (Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Winner), "The
Legend of Jack Trice and The Campaign for Jack Trice
Stadium, 1973-1984"
Susan Bandy, Sports Science, Aarhus University, and Ed
Sims, English (Emeritus), Springfield College,
History of SLA
BUSINESS MEETING AND BOX LUNCH 12:15-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Dale Ritterbusch, SLA President
Session 12 1:30-2:45 p.m.
Place and Story
Chair: Joyce Duncan
Sylvester Frazier, English, University of Texas at Arlington, "I
Can Say We: Sports Stadiums as Public Spaces"
Craig Forney, Religious Studies, Arizona State University,
"Trinity of American Sacred Stories"
Zachary Jack, English, North Central College, "The
Literary Sports Journalist: Genre Collusion in
Community Journalism"
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Session 13 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Original Work
Chair: Scott Peterson
Marty Gervais, Editor, Black Moss Press, Short Film on Ice
Hockey
Richard Stull, Health and Physical Education, Humboldt
State University, "Out on the Wing" (feature cartoon)
Grace Butcher, English (Emerita), Kent State
University, "The Voice"
Tim Morris and Michele Schiavone at the banquet
BANQUET 6:30-9:00 p.m. Cardinal Room [Memorial Union]
Guest Speaker: Michael Gartner,
Majority Owner, Iowa Cubs
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SUNDAY, June 26, 2005
BREAKFAST 7:45-8:45 A.M. Union Drive Market Place
[All sessions in UDCC 136]
Session 14 9:00-10:30 a.m.
In the Margins of Sport Discourse
Chair: Julian D'Arcy
Alan Baragona, English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military
Institute, "The World's Shortest Short Story: A Tale
Without Words"
Craig Riordan, Health and Physical Education, Humboldt
State University, "The Sports Novel and the Creation of
a Tourist Destination"
Kevin Brooks, English, North Dakota State University,
"McLuhanesque Meditations on Sports and Literature"
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