PCA/ACA

Schedule for Saturday, April 20

9:45am to 11:15am

Shakespeare II

Shakespeare on Film and Television
PresentersPresentation type
“You see, it’s all just theatre”: Religion and the Stage in Craig Pearce’s Will (2017) 
Michael D. Friedman
Paper
A Curtain for the People: Popularizing Theater and Redeeming Popular Culture in Shakespeare in Love
Emily Gruber Keck
Paper
The American Dream through a Shinebox: Shakespeare in Goodfellas and The Sopranos
Michaela Anna O'Toole
Paper
The Shakespeare Effect:  Putting the Classroom on Film
Richard Vela
Paper

GAME STUDIES 21: At The Gaming Table

Game Studies
Nicolas James LaLone
PresentersPresentation type
Remediating Collectible Card Games: From Magic to Hearthstone
Kenton Taylor Howard
Paper
Values at Play in Three Analog Games: Spirit Island, Nyctophobia, and Holding On
Neil Baird
Paper
Dungeons and Dragons: The First Platform
Nicolas James LaLone
Paper

(Re)Considering Research Methods

Fan Culture & Theory
Maura Grady
PresentersPresentation type
To auto-ethnography or not to auto-ethnography: Navigating Methodologies in the Study of Fan Pilgrimages
J Caroline Toy
Paper
“Way-Out” Stories vs. “Normal Situations”: Fan Debates in K/S Letterzines 
Heather Powers
Paper
The Shawshank Trail & Fan Pilgrimage: Following up five years later
Maura Grady
Richard D. Roberson
Paper

VII. Historical Aspects: Hong Kong, Japan, Korea

Asian Popular Culture
John A. Lent
PresentersPresentation type
Chindonya: Japan’s Unique Subcultural Tradition
Yasue Kuwahara
Paper
Copying Reality: Portraiture in Meiji Japan and the Proliferation of Tourism Images Masquerading as Truth
Megan Elizabeth Beckerich
Paper
Cultural Politics of Reading Epitaphs in the May 18 Gwangju National Cemetery in Korea: Microscopic Approaches to Modern Korean History of democracy and Politics
Kang Kim
Paper
Affective Politics in Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching
Mannhi Nguyen Tran
Paper

Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics I: Signs and Visions

Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
James G. Mitchell
PresentersPresentation type
The Arbitrariness of the Sign: Self-Generating Pop Linguistics in Pop Culture
Keely Durkin
Paper
  “A linguistic lesson in the middle of Hollywood sci-fi “Arrival”(2016)”
Maryna Mazur
Paper
Lost and Found in Translation: Comparing Verisimilitude in the Nonverbal Language of Cindy Sherman’s Photography and the Modern-Day Selfie  
Shirl Hughes Terrell
Paper

Role-playing, Superheroes, Sci-fi, and Animal Representations

Undergraduate Sessions
kira jefferson
PresentersPresentation type
Women We See But Don’t Play: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Role-Playing, and Adventure Games 
Brianna Nichols
Paper
Female Superheroes’ Pedagogical (Super)Powers: Using the Marvel vs. DC Comics Box Office Battle to Explain the Feminist Gender Difference vs. Equality Debate
Giannina Ong
Paper
Digital Fan Fiction Archives and the Value of Fan Production
Annika R Gidley
Paper
The Elephant in the Room
Bailey Birtchet
Paper
“She Comes Apart”: Rereading V.
Melissa Fisher
Paper

Archives & Memory

Communication & Digital Culture
Mark Nunes
PresentersPresentation type
Becoming an Archivist in a Classroom: Digital Archive and Counter-memory
JeongHyun Lee
Paper
The Location of the “Story”: the Media Integration and Copyright Protection of Tourism Resources
Xiaochun Chen
Paper
Your Memory’s on Facebook: Image, Archive, and Affect
Mark Nunes
Paper

Fat Studies, Disability Studies

Fat Studies
April Michelle Herndon
PresentersPresentation type
Fatness as/and Disability: Articulating Fat Studies Challenges to Ableism
Allison Taylor
Paper
Freaks, Fatness, Disability:   Bodies and Policies in the U.S. Immigration Debates
April Michelle Herndon
Paper

Comic Philosophy in The Good Place

Philosophy and Culture
Steven A. Benko
PresentersPresentation type
The Good Place and Authenticity: Being Yourself Before You Can Be For Others
Steven A. Benko
Paper
You Gotta be Bad if You Want to Make it into The Good Place
Rebecca Shearer
Paper
Et tu Chidi?
Kirsti Ringger
Paper
It’s a Comedy About People Being Tortured for Centuries: Why The Good Place Works
Andrew Pavelich
Paper

POETRY XV. The Origen of Shrinking: Poems of Love & Lineage

Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry
Joanne L DeTore
PresentersPresentation type
“The Art of Shrinking”
Peggy Miller
Creative work
Henceforth
Ryan Gabriel Wilson
Creative work
The Color of Olives: Italian American Poetry
Joanne L DeTore
Creative work

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