Thursday, 4 April Time Event Place 8:00am Opening Remarks Reitz Union, Room 361-3 8:15am to 9:45am Panel: Conceptions of Gender Moderator:Harun Thomas Mrs. Freke and Lady Delacour: Blatant and Latent Cultural Misfits in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda Melanie Bruce, UNC Wilmington The Misplaced Romantics Alicia Skipper, UNC Wilmington Prepucy: Reading Uncircumcised and the Queering Eye Nick Melczarek, University of Florida Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Break - 30 Minutes 10:15am to 12:00pm Panel: Modernizing, Modernism Moderator:Derek Merril Tapping the Noir Shadow: Fred Astaire's Solos of Anger, Angst and Identity Fragmentation Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Florida State University Becoming a misfit: Modernizing the Puerto Rican J�íbaro. Edrik Lopez, University of Florida "Fear Death by Water": Reading Subjectivity and Paranoia in The Crying of Lot 49 Todd Reynolds, University of Florida Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: Christian Agony and the Working Writer Steven Stewart, Florida State University TAPPING THE NOIR SHADOW: Fred Astaire's Solos of Anger, Angst and Identity Fragmentation Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Florida State University Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Lunch - 1 Hour, 45 Minutes 1:45pm to 3:15pm Panel: Pressing and Stressing Boundaries: Panels in Comics and Video Games Moderator: Virginia Agnew Studying Comics: An Examination of Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" Trena Houp, University of Florida Retraceable Readings: Video Game and Comic Composite Laurie Taylor, University of Florida A Tale of Two Pleasures: Interactivity and Narrative in Computer Games Sean Fenty, University of Florida Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Break - 30 Minutes 3:45pm to 5:45pm Special Event: Film Roundtable Moderator: Brian Doan Scott Nygren Robert Ray Maureen Turim Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Dinner - 1 Hour, 45 Minutes 8:00pm Special Event:UF Creative Writing Program Reading Andrew Kozma, poet Emily Miller, short fiction Goerings' Bookstore   Friday, 5 April Time Event Place 8:15am to 9:45am Panel: Science Fiction Moderator: Nicole LaRose My Science Fiction Twin: "Turbo-Charged" Dystopias in Amis, Moore, and Sinclair Brian Doan, University of Florida Strategic fitting and 'mis-fitting' in Gibson's Cyberspace Sonya Anderson, University of Florida High-tech Misfits: the Computer User in Recent Hollywood Cinema Brendan Riley, University of Florida Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Break - 30 Minutes 10:15am to 11:45pm Panel: Misfits: Theory and Practice Moderator: Perry Lamson A Theoretical Misfit Looking for a General Theory of Value James Geiger, Stetson University Misfits in Schools: Maverick Pediatrician Seeks to Change Teaching Practices Julia Stephens Knapp, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Architecture of Monsters and Monsters of Architecture Jim Sullivan, Louisiana State University Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Lunch - 2 Hours 1:45pm to 3:45pm Panel: American Pop-culture Misfits Moderator: Patrick Brennan Who is Dawn Wiener? Todd Solondz' Welcome to the Dollhouse Veronica Evans, Florida State University William Daniel Ehrhart: Vietnam Veteran Writer as Misfit Susan Eastman-Decker, University of Tennessee Fisching for Wilde Blumes: Reading Wes Anderson and Owen Wilsons' Rushmore Virginia Agnew, University of Florida Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Break - 30 Minutes 4:15pm to 5:45pm Panel: Race and Female Artists Moderator: Kyeong Hwangbo Where do the misses fit? - Philippe Lejeune's Autobiographical Pact in Two Women's Self-Narratives Jo Ann Griffen, University of Louisville Women in Hip-Hop: Authentic Ghetto Outsiders Kirsten Bartholomew, University of Florida The Plight of the Woman Artist/Genius in Elizabeth Stoddard's "Collected by a Valetudinarian" Alison Larsen, Utah State University Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Dinner - 1 Hour, 45 Minutes 7:30pm Keynote Speech: Weak Theory, Graduate Education, and Other Monstrosities James R. Kincaid Introduction by Julian Wolfreys Reitz Union, 282 Lecture Hall   Reception to follow. (W University Avenue & W 34th Street) Goerings' Bookstore   Saturday, 6 April Time Event Place 9:00am to 10:50am Panel: Adaptations Moderator: Meg Norica Monstrous Mixing: Body and Text in/of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl Lisa Hager, University of Florida Growing Young, Growing Old: A Struggle for Survival in Snow White: A Tale of Terror Julie Sinn, University of Florida Heidi Inverted Charles H. Meyer, University of Florida Reitz Union, Room 361-3 Break - 15 Minutes 11:00am to 12:00pm Panel: Conceptions of Race Moderator: Lorraine Ouimet Jim Thompson. Hardboiled crime fiction writer. Native American author? Craig Rinne, University of Florida AMERICA'S VIETNAM: AFRICAN AND ASIAN DIASPORIC VISIONS OF APOCALYPSE Christopher A. Shinn, Florida State University Reitz Union, Room 361-3 12:00pm Closing Remarks Reitz Union, Room 361-3