PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 20
8:00am to 9:30am
LeBron James, Australian Moms, Adolescent Bodies, and American Audiences
Undergraduate Sessions
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| What if Joseph Campbell Could Dunk? A Rhetorical Analysis of the Narrative Constructed Around Lebron James | Kristian Bjorn Evans | Paper | |
| Getting Your Body Back: Australian Mom Bodies in Digital and Print Media | Delilah Glidden Jaime DeLuca | Creative work | |
| A Tale of Two Sexes: How Education and Pop Culture Constructs Adolescent Bodies | Lauren Odell Crisp | Paper | |
| An American Occupation: Kyu Sakamoto, an American Audience, and the Cold War Orientalism of “Sukiyaki” | Robyn Paige Perry | Paper | |
| Construction and Destruction of Ideologies in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth | Stacie Doughtie | Paper |
Collage, Influence, Graphics, and Irony
Art & Design Culture
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 |
Heavy Imagery: Fat Representation in Media
Fat Studies
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 |
Science & Pop Culture VIII: Media Representations
Science & Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pseudosciencefiction: the Rise and Range of Docufiction | Jessie Casteel | Paper |
POETRY XIV. The Stories They Could Re-Tell: Poems of Myths & Tales
Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry
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 |
Artificial Intelligence and Biopolitics
Philosophy and Culture
Jason Eberl
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| THE DAWN OF MEN AND THE DIGITAL AGE: 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY REVISED | Shai Biderman | Paper | |
| Awake (and pissed off)—On a productive tension between Westworld’s first and second seasons | Trip McCrossin | Paper | |
| CYLONS ARE PEOPLE TOO: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON PERSONHOOD AND BIOPOLITICS | Jason Eberl | Paper | |
| Replicant Birth; Moral Miscarriage | Brooke Rudow | Paper |
XII: Neoliberal Concepts in Everyday Culture
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
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 |
Film XX–Adaptation: Lassie Come Home, Lolita, and Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Film
McKenzie Caldwell
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LassieCome Homeand its Legacy: Cognition and Ethics | Marwood Larson-Harris | Paper | |
| False Recognition and the Erasure of Dolores Haze from Lolita | Angela Francis | Paper | |
| The Girl on the Swing: An Analysis of Cues and Depression in Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) | McKenzie Caldwell | Paper |
Music 20: David Bowie as Persona
Music
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 |
Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots, Oh My! #2
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Christopher Ketcham
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “It Was Hot the Night We Burned Chrome”: Towards co-existence in the Cyberworld and the Phenomenal World | Christopher Ketcham | Paper | |
| What a Spectacular Westworld: Hyperreality and the Construction of Authentic Sex and Violence in Quality Television | Sau Kuen Lo | Paper | |
| Before Blade Runner: HBO’s Westworld and Čapek’s R.U.R. | T. Ross Leasure | Paper |