the 2011 sla conference program
university of maine
orono, maine
scott peterson & judy hakola, hosts
john slack & dennis gildea, program chairs
wed 6.22 thurs 6.23 fri 6.24 sat 6.25
WEDNESDAY 22 June 2011
The SLA all together on the Maine coast
Registration in Woolley Room, DTAV Community Building (follow signs from campus entrances): Tuesday: noon to 11 pm, Wednesday: 8 am to 5 pm
8:00 am: Woolley Room, DTAV Building: Registration and light breakfast for dorm residents and early arrivals
ALL DAYTIME SESSIONS AND BREAKS TODAY IN HILL AUDITORIUM, BARROWS HALL
8:45-9:00am: Welcoming remarks: Dean Jeff Hecker, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
9:00-10:15 am
SESSION I: TOP OF THE ORDER—BASEBALL
Chair: Julian Meldon D'Arcy
Tim Morris (University of Texas, Arlington), 21st Century Baseball Fiction: Where (or, Whither?)
Henry Garfield (University of Maine), Kinsella, McAlpine and me: How Baseball's Open-Ended Structures Lend Themselves to Science Fiction
Rus Bradburd (New Mexico State University), Sport and Social Progress: The Nolan Richardson Story
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-Noon
SESSION II: KNIGHTHOOD AT THE RACE TRACK
Chair: Don Johnson
Jeff Segrave (Skidmore College), The knighthood of nothingness (Chevalerie du neant): Henry de Montherlant, Pierre de Coubertin and the Olympic Games Movement
Fred Mason (University of New Brunswick), Sporting at the apocalypse: On the Beach and at the race track with Nevil Shute
Dick Stull (Humboldt State University), Sports Today and In the Day – A Moment of Reflection or a Sound Bite Connection: Creative Strategies for the Discussion of Sport, Society, History and Popular Culture in Short Radio Scripts
LUNCH: Hilltop Dining Commons 12:00-1:30
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1:30 - 2:45pm
SESSION III: FOOTBALL HEROES
Jay D'Arcy, Dick Stull, and Tim Morris: never a lousy moment
Chair: Joyce Duncan
David Vanderwerken (Texas Christian University), Boys to Men or Boys to Boys? Biff Loman and Brick Pollitt: Surviving Football in Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Julian Meldon D'Arcy (University of Iceland), Captains of Sports as Captains of Industry: Football in the Fiction of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Kyle Belanger (Springfield College), Blind Spots on Michael Oher's Blind Side: Exploring Opposing Sides of the Racial Divide
2:45-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15-4:45pm
SESSION IV: FICTION READING I
Chair: Duncan Jamieson
Holly Rose Hansen (Oklahoma State University), sleek curve pushing
Bruce Pratt (University of Maine), City Water
Dennis Gildea (Springfield College), Charlie: A Tribute and a Prayer.
5:00pm
Games/BBQ Cookout/ Readings at Stillwater Riverside (Steamplant parking lot; Wells Commons if rainy)
Jeremy Larance coached by croquet guru Eric Solomon
7:00pm
SESSION V: POETRY AND FICTION
(after cookout)
Chair: Mark Noe
Don Johnson (East Tennessee State University), Look Away
H.R. Stoneback (SUNY-New Paltz), Sports Poems: Old and New, Lost and Found
Dick Stull (Humboldt State University), Two poems and Wake-Up Call from Coach Mephisto in One's Mid-50s
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THURSDAY 23 June 2011
8:00 am: Woolley Room, DTAV Building: Light breakfast for dorm residents and early arrivals
ALL DAYTIME SESSIONS AND BREAKS TODAY IN HILL AUDITORIUM, BARROWS HALL
9:00-10:15am
SESSION VI: CLEMENS, BUKOWSKI, AND SOLOMON
Chair: Susan Bandy
Craig Riordan (Humboldt State University), "Between Innings" and New Adventures in Baseball Tourism
Duncan Jamieson (Ashland University), Samuel L. Clemens and the Bicycle
Eric Solomon (San Francisco State), "Gino Cimoli"
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-Noon
SESSION VII: HEMINGWAY AND BOXING
Chair: Dick Stull
Jeremy Larance (West Liberty University), Muhammad "Übermensch" Ali: Depictions of "The Greatest" as a Black Superhero in the Popular Culture of the 1970s
Matthew Nickel (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), "Then I began to love him more than anything on earth": Hemingway's Fishing and Hunting Meditations
H.R. Stoneback (SUNY-New Paltz), Hemingway, Mailer and Boxing: "Oohh Normie—You're So Hemingway"
"Stoney" Stoneback remembers Mailer, Dylan, Floyd Patterson, and the 1980 US hockey team
Noon: Box lunch (eat in Hill or take with you)
PLAY DAY: Day trip to the coast; hiking; golf; what you will (see Scott and Judy about arrangements)
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
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FRIDAY 24 June 2011
8:00 am: Woolley Room, DTAV Building: Light breakfast for dorm residents and early arrivals
ALL DAYTIME SESSIONS AND BREAKS TODAY IN HILL AUDITORIUM, BARROWS HALL
9:00-10:15am
SESSION VIII: SPORTS, COLD AND HARDBOILED
Chair: Jeremy Larance
Angie Abdou (College of the Rockies), Trekking up the Cunterbury (cq) Trail: Pilgrimage as Sport
Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Hockey as a Sign of the Real: Or, Alice Munro and Slavo Zizec Drop Gloves at Centre Ice
Sylvester Frazier (University of Texas, Arlington), Myron Bolitar: Culture and the Hardboiled Sports Agent
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45-noon
SESSION IX: GENDER, RACE, AND ART
Chair: Craig Riordan
Susan Bandy (Ohio State University), Reconsidering Gender Differences: Literary Treatment of Vulnerability and Sport
Scott Peterson (University of Maine), The Post and the Busher: Building a Better Average American
Michael Oriard (Oregon State University), Harper's Weekly, the Poster Craze, George Bellows, and the Ashcan School: The Beginnings of Football Art
noon-1:30pm LUNCH: Hilltop Dining Commons
1:30-2:45pm
SESSION X: DOGS AND MULES: FICTION AND NONFICTION
Melissa Whitney on the coast
Chair: Angie Abdou
Dennis Gildea (Springfield College), Charlie: A Tribute and a Prayer
Melissa Sue Whitney (University of Texas, San Antonio), Mule Skinner
Henry Garfield (University of Maine), from Tartabull's Throw
2:45-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15-4:45pm
SESSION XI: BASEBALL AND PURGATORY
Chair: Kyle Belanger
Richard McGehee (University of Texas, Austin), El Jardinero Solitario: Abel Quezada, Vicente Lenero, and El Filder del Destino [The Fielder of Destiny]
Will Bishop (University of Kansas), From `Have faith in the Yankees my son' to "Damn Yankees": The Bronx Bombers in Mid-Twentieth Century Fiction
Greg Thomas (Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School), Pleasurable Pastimes in Purgatory
6:00pm: Dinner: Bear Brew Pub, downtown Orono (rides provided)
7:00pm
SESSION XII: FICTION
Bear Brew Pub (following dinner)
Chair: Mark Noe
Ron Smith (St. Christopher's School), New Sport Poems
G. Louis Heath (Ashford University), Female Wrestler
Cliff Robinson (Ashford University), Chasing the American Dream: A Chubby Fan(atic) Recalls His Top Ten Favorite Professional Wrestlers
Craig Riordan (Humboldt State University), Diamonds in the Night
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SATURDAY 25 June 2011
8:00 am: Woolley Room, DTAV Building: Light breakfast for dorm residents and early arrivals
Dick and Manel McGehee
ALL DAYTIME SESSIONS AND BREAKS TODAY IN HILL AUDITORIUM, BARROWS HALL
9:00-10:15am
SESSION XIII: BOXING ON THE GRIM SIDE
Chair: Dennis Gildea
Richard McGehee, Samuel Feijoo and El Gran Golpe [The Big Punch]
Christopher Fahy (Boston University), Towards Bloody Redemption: Sacrifice in the American Boxing Film
Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana), Writing Grimly about the Joyful World of Sports
10:15-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-noon
SESSION XIV: NEW VOICES IN FICTION
Chair: Joyce Duncan
Michael Fournier (Middlesex Community College), from Zachariah Tietz
Katie Lattari (University of Maine), from Zembla vs. American Vaudeville