Schedule for Saturday, April 20

Heavy Imagery: Fat Representation in Media

Areas: Fat Studies

Session chair: Jeannine Gailey

	Presenters	Presentation type
Of Gloops and Goldbergs: An Analysis of Class and Fatness in American Children’s Films	Rachel Guldin	Paper
Fat Revenge: How Plus-Sized Women are Represented in Popular Television	Claire Elise Uhl	Paper
The Objectification of Fat Bodies through Stock Photography	Bobbi Reidinger	Paper
Fiction Meets Reality: Fat Representation in Dietland	Jeannine Gailey Hannah R Taylor	Paper

POETRY XIV. The Stories They Could Re-Tell: Poems of Myths & Tales

Areas: Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry

Session chair: Sarah Ann Winn

	Presenters	Presentation type
Of Gods and Superheroes: Myth Wherewith We See the World	Marissa Glover	Creative work
The Stories They Could Tell: Reimagining Mother Goose	Karen Bjork Kubin	Creative work
In the Witch’s Wet Pines: Poems from Says the Forest to the Girl	Sally Rosen Kindred	Creative work
We Join These Myths Already in Progress	Sarah Ann Winn	Creative work

XII: Neoliberal Concepts in Everyday Culture

Areas: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

Session chair: Alyssa Jayne Martin

	Presenters	Presentation type
Seizing the Supernatural: Seizures as Narrative Devices Representing the Supernatural Body in Penny Dreadful and The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Alyssa Jayne Martin	Paper
Logical Revenge in Everyday Arguments of Privilege	Eric David Berg	Paper
The Erotics of Constructed Violation: Fangirls and the Profitability of Dubious Consent	Madison Hyman Maya Josepha Dworsky	Paper
Purity Equals Death: Undoing the Unified Field Theory of Purity Politics	Keridwen Luis	Paper

Music 20: David Bowie as Persona

Areas: Music

Session chair: Aaron Michael Kerley

	Presenters	Presentation type
Bowie’s Ch-Ch-Changes: From Persona-User to Persona-Critic Bowie’s Ch-Ch-Changes: From Persona-User to Persona-Critic	Garrett J Cummins	Paper
David Bowie 1980: Rock and Roll Suicide	Susan Naomi Bernstein	Paper
At The Center of It All: Life, Death and the Thematic Re-Intergration of David Bowie	kathleen c johnson	Paper
David Bowie IS Ziggy Stardust (?): The Art of Eliding and Eluding Persona	Aaron Michael Kerley	Paper

XX. Analyses of Get Out

Areas: Horror (Text, Media, Culture)

Session chair: Cassandra S Reid

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Sunken Place Massacre: Abjection, Black Trauma, and The Final Boy in Get Out	Mikal Gaines	Paper
Psychological Horror and the Consequences of Fulfilled Violence	Marissa A Maldonado	Paper
“I want those things you see through:” Voyeurism as Prejudice and Oppression in Jordan Peele’s Get Out	Cassandra S Reid	Paper

Cozy Mysteries: Community and Catharsis

Areas: Mystery & Detective Fiction

	Presenters	Presentation type
Complicating Ideas of Community in Today’s Cozies	Marilyn Rye	Paper
Arts-Based Research and Mysteries: querying trauma, gender and genre	Susan Rowland	Paper
Cozy-Noir and Trauma in Riverdale Season 2	Deborah Leiter	Paper
Gender and Nostalgia in Agatha Christie’s Representation of War	Monica Lott	Paper

Collage, Influence, Graphics, and Irony

Areas: Art & Design Culture

Session chair: J Ken Stuckey

	Presenters	Presentation type
Where and When I Labor: The Black Worker in the Collages of Romare Bearden	J Ken Stuckey	Paper
Sideshow Acts and Queasy Invitations: Ironic Titles in the Work of Francis Picabia and Kara Walker	Hannah W. Wong	Paper
A Call to Presses: The Collective Graphics Workshop of the Creative Women’s Collective	Jennifer Noonan	Paper
Craft, Color, & Contours: The Influence of Pop in Contemporary Art	Meganne Rosen	Paper

Masculinities, Stereotypes, and Violence

Areas: Men and Men’s Studies

Session chair: Merry G Perry

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Big Sick: The Misrepresentation of Arranged Marriages in Middle Eastern Culture	YOUSEF Alhamoudi	Paper
*Phantom Pains: Metal Gear Solid V–A Model for Contemporary Masculinity*	Ryan James Wasser	Paper

Science & Pop Culture VIII: Media Representations

Areas: Science & Popular Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
Pseudosciencefiction: the Rise and Range of Docufiction	Jessie Casteel	Paper

GAME STUDIES 20: Constructing Community Through Play

Areas: Game Studies

Session chair: Matthew Schmalzer

	Presenters	Presentation type
What’s the big deal about Ninja? A Starting Point for Examining Rhetorical Power on Twitch	Alexandra Salome Cata	Paper
Gamifying the Asynchronous Online Classroom: Practice, Community, and Outcome	Beth Greene	Paper
We’re All Soldiers Now (Unless We Aren’t): Discourse Formation in Competitive Overwatch Communities	Matthew Schmalzer	Paper

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