Hard copies of the program will be available
in all the rooms at the symposium.
Download a .pdf of the program.
Preliminary Events:
Monstrous Bodies Film Festival
Monday, March 28-Wednesday, March 30, 8:00 pm nightly
Room 368 Skiles Building
Film Festival Host: Andrew Pilsch (STaC)
Monday, March 28
Evil Dead II (1987), dir. Sam Raimi
Tuesday, March 29
The Elephant Man (1980), dir. David Lynch
Wednesday, March 30
Eyes without a Face (1959), dir. Georges Franju
Monstrous Bodies Art Exhibit
Monday March 28-Monday April 4
Wesley New Media Center Gallery, first floor Skiles Building
Photography, Chris Pritchett (INTA)
Artwork, Dave Patty (guest artist)
Graphic Design, Ben Tomassetti (STaC) and James Pittman (STaC)
STaC Coffeehouse: Race, Ethnicity, Bodies
Tuesday, March 29, 5:00 pm
Pandini’s, Stamps Student Center Commons
An open Q&A session with STaC Professors Deborah Grayson and Narin Hassan
Monstrous Bodies Symposium Events:
Session 1: Student Literary Slam
Thursday, March 31, 9:30-11:00 am
Press Room A, Bill
Moore Student Success Center
Session Chair: Amelia Shackleford (STaC)
Seventh World
Kalani Reel (STaC)
Draco: Draco Prodigium
Chris Hundley (Psych) reading as Joshua Faith (STaC)
Double Helix
Amelia Shackelford (STaC)
I Vant to Veed My Vlood
Paul Clifton (ISE)
Working
Undercover for the Man
Matt Jaehn (Math)
Monstrous Burritos: The STaC Society Hosts Lunch with Paul di Filippo
Thursday, March 31, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Skiles Courtyard
Open to all STaC students and all symposium participants.
Session 2: Student and Faculty Presentations
Thursday, March 31, 1:30-3:30 pm
Session 2A: Monstrous Bodies in Literature
Press Room A, Bill
Moore Student Success Center
Session Chair: Dr. Doug Davis (Gordon College)
The Neo-Vampyre Story: The Cyberpunk Movement of the Fantasy Genre
Chris Van Acker (STaC)
The Machine and the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Dr. Doug Davis (Gordon College)
Monstrous Robots: Dualism in Robots Who Masquerade as Humans
Jason W. Ellis (STaC)
Science Fiction in the Eastern World: Exploring the Role of SF in Indian
Culture
Hevil Shah (Bio and Chem)
Session 2B: Monstrous Bodies in Culture
Press Room B, Bill
Moore Student Success Center
Session Chair: Dr. Carol Senf (LCC)
Literary Origins of the Vampire Figures in Castlevania Videogames
Clara Fernandez (IDT)
Extreme Makeover: Reshaping the Body Throughout Time and Culture
Erin Gatlin (STaC)
From Terminators to Synners: The Cyborg as Monstrous Artist
Andrew Pilsch (STaC)
Monstrous Transformations and Female Empowerment: Rosamund Marriott Watson’s
“Ballad of the Werewolf”
Dr. Carol Senf (LCC)
Guest of Honor Session 1: Paul di Filippo
Thursday, March 31, 4:00-6:00 pm
Press Room A, Bill Moore Student Success Center
Award winning science fiction author Paul di Filippo reads, "Harsh Oases," an original science fiction story set in the Ribofunk Universe, written for the Monstrous Bodies symposium.
Reception hosted by LCC to follow.
Session 3: Monstrous Bodies on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Programming
Friday, April 1, 10:00 am-11:30 pm
Press Room A, Bill Moore Student Success Center
An open Q&A session with Adult Swim editor/producers Jay Edwards, Ned Hastings, and others.
Monstrous Bodies Symposium Lunch
Friday, April 1, 12:00 -1:30 pm
President’s Suite C, Bill Moore Student Success Center
Open to all symposium participants.
Session 4: Breaking and Entering: How to Become a Professional Writer in Fiction, Comics, and Movies
Friday, April 1, 1:30-3:00 pm
Press Room A, Bill Moore Student Success Center
Session Chair: Stephen Antczak
Panelists:
Stephen Antczak, independent filmmaker and science fiction author
Bruce Gehweiler, founder of Marietta Publishing
John C. Snider, editors of scifidimensions.com and SESFA award administrator
Guest of Honor Session 2: Rhonda Wilcox
Friday, April 1, 3:30-5:00 pm
Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center
Pop culture scholar and Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert
Rhonda Wilcox closes our symposium with “‘Set on This Earth
as a
Bubble’: Word as Flesh in the Dark Seasons of Buffy."
