PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 20
1:15pm to 2:45pm
Cinematic Vampires
Vampire Studies
Duncan Hubber
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nosferatu: A Symphony of Inspiration | Caden Parker Berry | Paper | |
| Italian Feasts: Devouring the National Body in Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust | Duncan Hubber | Paper | |
| Vampiric Absences: The Decentering Vampire Narratives of Dreyer’s Vampyre and Brite’s “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood” | James Robert Pate | Paper |
Capitalizing on Fan Labor
Fan Culture & Theory
Staci Shultz
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Technically Fandom: Exploring the Pitch Perfect Fandom and Fan-shaped Desires | Theresa Shim | Paper | |
| Capitalizing on Fandom: the Reciprocal Ecosystem of Online Fan Media Movie Pilot | Chih Ju Lin | Paper | |
| Everything is Capitalism: Appropriation of Fan Creative Labor in The LEGO Movie | Mandy Elizabeth Moore | Paper | |
| “This Woman’s Work”: Examining the Emotional and Political Labor Practices of The Handmaid’s Tale Fanfic Participants | Staci Shultz | Paper |
Freud is Back: Repression, Melancholia and The Uncanny.
Psychology and Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “When the Melancholy Fit Shall Fall”: Melancholy and Depression in John Keats’s Poetry | Vashti N. Tacoronte Cruz | Paper | |
| Exploration into the psychology of the uncanny: Lovecraftian horror and the boundaries of Reality | Dan Carrero | Paper | |
| Altered Soul in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone | Almaris Rios | Paper |
Fat Femininities and Sexuality
Fat Studies
Brittany Lockard
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constructions of Beauty, Health, and Femininity in an American Plus-Size Pageant | Ariane Prohaska | Paper | |
| Infinifats Doing Infinifatshion | Calla Evans | Paper | |
| I Would Not Have Sex with That Woman: A Personal Narrative Meditation on Heteronormativity, Beauty Standards, and Sexual Assault | Brittany Lockard | Creative work |
XV: Combatting the Standardization of Education
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Richard Hartsell
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pardon My Lack of Standards: The Rhetorical Triumph of School Accountability | Richard Hartsell | Paper | |
| Standardization as the Serum: Education, Critical Thinking, and Anti-Individualism in Divergent | Yaritza Sánchez Silva | Paper | |
| Royal Mistreatment of Elizabeth and Charles on Netflix Drama The Crown | Chad Everett Harris Elizabeth Currin | Paper | |
| Hitting a High Note in the History of Education | Hallie Baker Sternberg | Paper |
Comics and Comic Art 18: Comics in Performance
Comics and Comic Art
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Korvac Saga: The Avengers Teach Writing, Defeat the Supervillains, and Save the Universe and the University (A Live Comic Book Performance)! | Gian Stefan Pagnucci Chauna Craig Darius M Cureton Brandon J Galm Julia Galm Nicol Michelle Epple Sandra Eckard | Paper |
3:00pm to 4:30pm
An Afternoon with Doug Jones–the Most Famous Person You’ve Never Seen
Special event
Terrence Wandtke
4:00pm to 6:30pm
Punk Rock Community Walking Tour
Punk Culture
Field trip or other outing
Punk Rock Community Walking Tour
Field trip or other outing
4:45pm to 6:15pm
Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics IV: Language Teaching and Learning
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
Deborah Schaffer
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Interlanguage Pragmatic Competency of International University Students | Nicole Yu-lang Gostanian | Paper | |
| Teaching phraseological units in ESL classes | Roza Ayupova | Paper |