PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 20
11:30am to 1:00pm
Sites of Memory
Memory & Representation
Paige Gibson
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Public Memory and Neo-Confederate Kitsch: Understanding Nostalgia for the Confederacy Through Local Memory Sites | Ryan Marie Kor Sins | Paper | |
| Anne-Marie Schwarzenbach’s Trip to Mount Eagle (Tennessee): The Political Geography of America in the 1930’s | Catherine Mavrikakis | Paper | |
| I Wish I Was in Dixie: Mythmaking, Stereotyping, and Nostalgia in the Construction of Southern Identity | Kayli Reneé Rideout | Paper | |
| Imaginative Encounters: An Autoethnography of Memoryscapes in Dresden, Berlin, and Munich | Paige Gibson | Paper |
Shakespeare III
Shakespeare on Film and Television
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “An individual who knows what he is about”: Maurice Evans’ 1953 Live Telecast of Hamlet | Nicholas Utzig | Paper | |
| Don’t Drink the Toxic Masculinity: Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing | Peter Babiak | Paper | |
| Ophelia as an Assertive Victim in Asian Films | Alexa Alice Joubin | Paper | |
| Luke Skywalker as Prospero: Magic as Redemptive Force in The Tempest and The Last Jedi | Jeffrey Paul Pietruszynski | Paper |
Writers and Producers Brannon Braga and Adam Simon join Rutgers-RWJMS for Q&A about hit show Salem Witch Trials
Psychology and Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salem Witch Trials as Physician Teaching Tool | Tracy Martin Anthony Tobia | Creative work |
Fan Fic: Making Meaning
Fan Culture & Theory
Colleen Etman
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fanfic Reading Guide: The Role of Multimedia in Producing Fic and Its Use as a Close Reading Tool | Lauren Rouse | Paper | |
| Death of the Author: On Optimism, Fan Ownership, Community, and the Klancetament | Colleen Etman | Paper |
XIV: Schooling, Teachers, and Teacher Education
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Ludovic Alain Sourdot
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| American by Choice: Life Experiences, Popular Culture and Pedagogy, Reflections on the American Dream. | Ludovic Alain Sourdot | Paper | |
| Using Digital Storytelling as a Reflective Practice and for Developing Academic Language Discourse in Teacher Education | Lisa M Jones-Moore | Paper | |
| Teacher Ed and The “Gram”: What Social Networks and “Influencers” Have to Offer Teacher Educators and Educator Preparation | Haley Ford | Paper |
Fatphobia, Stigma, and Sizeism
Fat Studies
Hannele Harjunen
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Come Esto, no Aquello (Eat This, Not That): Food, Latinidad, and Compliance Within Latina/o/x Cultural and Culinary Productions | E. Cassandra Dame-Griff | Paper | |
| Gender, Class, and Weight-based Discrimination in Finland | Hannele Harjunen | Paper |
Vampire Studies film discussion: The Lost Boys
Vampire Studies
Meeting
Lisa Nevarez, U Melissa Anyiwo
Music 22: Music and Other Media
Music
Megan Woller
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “He’s a Pinball Wizard!”: Pinball’s Magical Connection to Rock Stardom | Alexander Woller | Paper | |
| Interactive and Immersive Music in Video Games | Ian Kelley ODonnell | Paper | |
| Narrative Reliability and Dynamic Diegesis in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Andrew Gades | Paper | |
| “Higitus Figitus”: Magic and Music in Disney’s The Sword in the Stone (1963) | Megan Woller | Paper |
Gender, Race, Social Media, Employee Rights, and the American Dream
Undergraduate Sessions
Channing Porter
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond the Laces: Sneakers and Feminist Expression | Claire Fitzgibbons | Paper | |
| #BlackGirlPower: Black Women and Their Impact on Social Movements through Social Media | Megan Finlan | Paper | |
| Lady Gaga is a fan of her fans | Mónica G Rodríguez | Paper | |
| Employee Social Media Usage: A Discussion about the Limits of First Amendment Rights in the Workplace | Marcus Kennedy-Grimes | Paper | |
| Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Bigfoot | McKenzie Caldwell | Creative work |
Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics II: Language on TV
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
Shirl Hughes Terrell
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Multilingual Laughs in Translation: A Case Study of Humor in Dubbed U.S. TV Series | Justin Paz | Paper | |
| “The One with All the Slang: Understanding Friends’ Ability to Introduce New Language and Popularize Slang” | Kira Dunton | Paper | |
| The Language of Casual Sexual Violence on TV: Evidence from Laverne and Shirley | James G. Mitchell | Paper |